Listening to Qiao Bushi's story, Mobi suddenly felt as if he understood what he meant by loneliness...
He didn't speak, filled two cups of tea, and listened to Qiao Fudie's continued chatter.
"Later, I couldn't hide it anymore."
"Whether it's my family or the villagers, they all found out that I don't age... Guess how they treated me?"
Unexpectedly shook his head and said that he didn't know... He just didn't want to guess the result, because since the old liar asked, the result would not be good.
"I was talked about like a monster by them... At first, it was just behind my back. Later, the distrust suddenly amplified."
Qiao's immortal eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the void of time, and he whispered in a low voice while recalling in a trance:
"In that era, people had great faith in the Iron God. The attribute of immortality was only possessed by the Iron God, and this phenomenon appeared in an ordinary person... Haha, he can only be called a heretic."
"I was killed by them... Because of their belief in the Iron God, they attacked me, including my nephew..."
"They drained my blood and used it as a sacrifice to the Iron God. They put my body in a sealed iron hall and buried me underground... In that era, this was how they targeted so-called heretics. of."
Qiao Bushi lit a bag of cigarettes again, exhaled a puff of smoke and continued:
"I'm resurrected, because of the contractor's ability, this is not unexpected...but, I am locked in the iron hall and can't get out."
"I...in the dark, in the coffin, I found a lot of copper coins used for burials, or to seal heretics...using these copper coins, I built the stone hall bit by bit. A chip was created..."
"Don't say it's difficult to achieve. Haha, I have unlimited life and endless time. Even if I suffocate to death in the coffin, I will be reborn soon... just like that, again and again."
"I finally crawled out of the ground..."
Mo Zhi nodded and sighed.
But in his mind, he thought that Qiao had lived for thousands of years, and he didn’t know if that time was before the Federation Era, and he didn’t know if people in that era worshiped the Iron God more strongly than they do now...
It should be, but this is even stranger. What the Iron God is has been known for a few days, and the worship of the Iron God is mainly about "wisdom and science"... Will belief in "wisdom and science" be so fanatical? To the extent that you want to target "heresies" like this?
In a normal impression, in an era of ignorance and barbarism, only people who believed in science would be executed as heretics. Unexpectedly, it was the other way around... People who believed in science executed contractors with extraordinary abilities and called them heretics. .
This is very unbelievable and ironic... Mo Zhi shook his head repeatedly.
Could it be that the so-called belief, no matter what its attributes are, whether it is correct or wrong, is just to bow before the judgment seat in order to accept the whipping of "gods"?
Unaware that Mu Zhi was thinking wildly, Qiao Bushi coughed twice:
"After returning to the ground, I thought about revenge..."
"But what's the point? Living itself is already very hard, unspeakably miserable. The ordinary ironmen who killed me are just ants in the sea. It won't take long for them to grow old one by one. Death cannot escape the reincarnation of fate..."
"They can't escape death, and I don't even need to take action."
"I ended up...leaving the village. To find the meaning of life."
Mobi chuckled twice when he heard this: "Only you are qualified to study this problem. If you don't have the ability to die, I'm afraid I will think you are mentally ill."
Qiao Budie also smiled: "Yes, life is limited, so do you have time to explore these things?"
"But I have to figure it out, because... I'm immortal."
"I have traveled throughout the Rodinian continent and to the hot Southern Province... At that time, it was not called the Southern Province because the federal government had not yet been established. There were just a group of indigenous people there... I After being a chief for a period of time, he later became a person of their faith..."
"Hahahaha... It's not difficult. I am a Tang person with a different skin color from theirs. I am a contractor with immortality. It's easy to become the god of a group of indigenous people!"
Unexpectedly, he opened his mouth and almost bit his tongue off...
The old liar has had enough!
It turned out to be a belief-like existence!
No way!
"Hey, the Hesse people in the south are so fooled... Their belief in the Iron God is not as strong as in other places. They worship elephants and bison more... Elephants can become their gods, let alone me!"
If this experience really happened, if the old liar was not a braggart, he was actually an alien planet version of something similar to what Klein Moretti did in this world.
It seems that everyone likes to show off.
Unpredictable almost wanted to smile and shake his head.
"I have married several wives and had many children..."
Qiao Budie continued:
"There's nothing I can do. If a person is alone for too long, he can't help but have desires..."
"There's nothing I can do about it. Although I'm old, I'm still a normal man!"
"This is the easiest thing for me, a southern Hesse god, to do. I just ask the believers to sacrifice a few beautiful girls every time."
Unpredictable doesn't want to talk anymore... Although you do the things of a fool, you don't have the character of a fool. It's too low to pretend to be a god just for this matter.
Qiao Bushi curled his lips:
"I was so tired that I could barely get out of bed during that time."
"Finally... Gradually, I got tired of it... Facts have proved that even if you have something you want, as long as it is easily available and you do it every day, you will get tired of it."
"What's even more regrettable is that everyone will still leave me just like they did in the beginning..."
"No one can stand the test of time, including my followers, my women, my children..."
"I finally left the south..."
Qiao Busui was holding his pipe in his mouth, with a lewd smile on his face:
"I then went to the west, to the Black Sea Province, to Qinghu, to the Northern Province..."
"However, I am no longer interested in things between men and women. Maybe because I know that they will not stay with me for a long time, I have remained single..."
"Not only am I tired of it, I even feel a little scared, because no matter how many wives I marry, they will always leave..."
"So, I remained single until that year...the federal government was formed, and at the same time...the Order of Wisdom was renamed Pandora!"
Unpredictable keenly discovered this key point - the old liar was born before the history of Rodinia continent, or in other words, before the history written by the federal government!
In this case, Qiao Bushi should know a lot of secret historical information. This is also the intelligence point that Mozhi felt the need to dig out from the beginning.
Unpredictable and silent, Qiao Budie didn't expect him to think of so many things. He took a sip of tea and continued to tell his story:
"Because of the appearance of the Supervisory Office and because the Punisher filed away contractors everywhere, although I was not caught, I also learned that there were other contractors and what happened to the contractors, so...I After putting on a disguise, he returned to Hot Springs City."
"My original family, the people who killed and buried me, have been dead for who knows how many years... After knowing that I could not upgrade, I decided to hide and live a peaceful life..."
"I no longer take the initiative to pursue the meaning of life, I only hope that time will give me the answer..."
"I am still the same as before, I don't dare or don't want to have emotional entanglements with others, because I know that these things exist for a short time, but they are destined to leave me, and it will make me sad for a long time."
"I lived in Hot Spring City for many years, living in semi-seclusion until... Hot Spring City became bigger and bigger, and it has turned from a small mountain village into a city. Later I opened the Shenghua Hotel... "
"Then...I met Xiaoya's mother, and the wall of abstinence that had been built up for many years seemed to collapse the moment I met her."
As Qiao Bushi spoke, his tone began to turn sad:
"I have lived for more than nine hundred years and met true love for the first time... It was as unstoppable as a flood, leaving me with no choice."
"Love...haha, this is the most terrifying desire! I can't resist Xiaoya's mother's attraction to me..."
"Because of my sixty-year-old body, I tried my best to marry this girl who is only twenty-seven years old."
"The resistance is enough to write a book..."
"This is indeed enough to write a book." Mozhi nodded in agreement... Starting from this plot, Krisna can definitely write the three golden chapters of a female channel - "How the heroine breaks through the fetters of the world" , marry an immortal husband."
Later, the sadomasochism unfolds... With Qiao's immortal golden finger, the heroine's life is extremely exciting... The storyline is quite easy to construct.
Naturally, Qiao Budie didn't know about these fancy thoughts and continued:
"I was lucky enough to win her love...the most cherished relationship I have had in a thousand years."
"That's when I realized I had found the meaning of life... I wanted to be with her forever!"
Unpredictable listened quietly to Qiao Budie's story.
"I don't want this relationship to be lost as she ages. I hope she can be with me forever..."
"So, for ten years, I exhausted all the source words I could find, and then developed this system."
"But Xiaoya's mother refused!"
"She doesn't agree, or in other words, she has different views from you." Mozhi asked softly.
Qiao Budie nodded: "She said she didn't want to live like that. She said the meaning of the Ironborn lies in the final death. Only in this way can she be a real Ironborn, not a monster."
"She said that the Ironborn's life was meant to be incomplete. Without the end of death, existence would be meaningless."
"I don't understand." Qiao Budie narrowed his eyes in pain.
Mo Zhi sighed: "Xiaoya's mother... seems to be studying philosophy and is very thoughtful."
This was also what he saw in Xiaoya's dream. He vaguely knew why Xiaoya's mother refused. After confirming Qiao Budie's method of "immortality", he really understood why Xiaoya's mother refused.
This is equivalent to abandoning the body and abandoning humanity.
Qiao Busha shook his head:
"She probably didn't trust me and thought I would force her to live forever, so she left... Although she left, I know that she has feelings for me."
"I'm sad... why she refused to be with me forever, why I expected something that couldn't last as long as I did."
"Fortunately... I still have Xiaoya here."
When Qiao Budie said this, his eyes showed an unspeakable complex look:
"But, Xiaoya awakened, she became a contractor, and... the price was unpayable."
"Perhaps it's because she misses her mother too much and wants to go back to the carefree days of the past. Xiaoya's price is... to turn back the clock."
Unpredictable and a little stunned.
"That's right, it means going back in time. If she wants to pay the price, she must go back to a certain point in the past..." Qiao Busui looked at the unpredictable with a gloomy face:
"This is impossible! Who can turn back time?"
"Xiaoya just woke up and turned into a spirit doll because she couldn't pay the price!"
"With the help of my soul system, I had no choice but to save her... However, because this was the first time I practiced it on a spirit puppet, I had to do more verification experiments. It took a lot of time..."
"Xiaoya's consciousness has been sleeping in the soul crystal for more than thirty years!"
It's true... This is a story that turns over and over again. Although it is just a small emotional incident of an old liar and a family of three, it is thought-provoking...
After seeing Qiao Budie finish his story, he stared at the floor in front of him in silence, not even cleaning the ashes from his pipe... He couldn't interrupt him, so he just kept sitting.
Finally, I roughly understand the meaning of Xiaoya to Qiao BuSheng... They, mother and daughter, to a certain extent, are the meaning of "living" that Qiao BuSheng has found after thousands of years of experience.
After being silent for a long time, Qiao Bushit finally came back to his senses, seemed to look at the starry sky outside the window, and said:
"It's getting late, you should go back."
"In other words, let Xiaoya's consciousness come back."
Mozhi nodded and said, "I have one last question."
Qiao Bushi glanced at Mo Zhi angrily: "Ask me quickly."
Mo Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Do you know why the Wisdom Order became Pandora and became the Four Great Councils?"
Qiao Bushi thought for a while and said calmly: "I don't know the specific circumstances, but... Changsheng died in the same year."
Unpredictable was immediately reminded, and his eyes widened in vain.
This detail seems to have been ignored... Chang Sheng, the old liar is actually from the same era as Chang Sheng!
The high-level contractor from thousands of years ago is said to have a gold-level cultivation!
The god who led the Ironborn back to the continent of Rodinia!
The figure who has been enshrined in the form of statues in various cities was the leader of Pandora at that time.
This was what Mozhi had expected. Since the old liar Qiao Bushi had lived for a thousand years, he must be familiar with the history of the mist before the Unified Era.
The old liar was stunned by the unpredictable situation and waved his hand:
"You don't have to be so surprised about Changsheng... It was because of his death that the Wisdom Order at that time was renamed Pandora. At the same time, the federal government was also established that year."
This is another big news.
We were still chatting about this issue in the group today. Ms. Desire revealed information about Pandora and analyzed it.
The Wisdom Religion split into the four major councils of Pandora because of the emergence of the source of symbols, which led to changes in the doctrinal level.
It’s because of a change of faith!
And the old liar Qiao Bushi said personally that the Wisdom Order was renamed Pandora because of Chang Sheng's death. Isn't this... the center point of this change has been found.
Unexpectedly, this change has a more obvious symbolic event-the death of Immortal!
This change is related to the person "Changsheng".
Stunned by the unpredictability, Qiao Bushi certainly knew what he was thinking, and waved his hand to indicate not to be surprised.
Qiao Budie said slowly:
"Indeed, Pandora appeared at that time, but the Pandora we knew at that time was only called the Wisdom Order... The Wisdom Order no longer exists."
No, the Wisdom Order still exists, in the Federal Academy of Natural Sciences... The stiff expression on the unpredictable face has not eased at all.
Qiao Budie chuckled:
"When I was born, everyone believed in the Wisdom Order. At that time, the entire continent believed in the Iron God, wisdom and science... and the highest authority among believers was the Wisdom Order."
"Isn't this surprising? Because everyone knew at that time that Changsheng was the leader of the Wisdom Religion, the chief priest of the Wisdom Religion, and his position was higher than the eight bishops of the Wisdom Religion..."
"Changsheng is the supreme leader of the Iron God in the world of Rodinia!"
"He has outstanding achievements. He led eight bishops and used divine power to bring the Ironborn from Ayerkula Island to the New World."
Eight bishops? Mobi felt a little dizzy and asked slowly:
"Who are the eight bishops?"
"The Eye of Judgment, the Light of Talisman, the Ax of Punishment, the Shield of Order, the Fang of Shadow, the Staff of the King, the Pendant of the Sage, the Ring of Resurrection...the eight bishops are the arms of Lord Changsheng, He is a senior member of the Wisdom Order... The eight bishops are located in the provincial capitals of the eight provinces in the mainland... and the main altar of Changsheng is in Jiuzhou City. This is the origin of the nine provinces of the federation."
"After Changsheng died, the federal government was established, and the Wisdom Order was renamed Pandora... After that, the federal and Pandora-affiliated inspection agencies were established in various places at the same time."
The titles of four of the eight bishops are the four major councils of Pandora at this time... So, what about the other four?
There are only four major councils among the eight bishops. Adding to this the death of Chang Sheng... there is something unusual about this.
Perhaps, this is not as simple as Ms. "Desire" speculated, but just a difference in doctrine.
Unpredictable couldn't help but ask: "There are only four major councils in Pandora, where are the other four bishops?"
When he was dragged into the memory space by Qiao BuSie, he had heard Qiao BuSie talk about Pandora's secret realm and the Guardian Council. Therefore, Qiao BuSie should know about the four major councils of Pandora.
Qiao Bushi shook his head:
"I don't know. I just live as an ordinary person. I only know this historical information because I have lived a long time. I don't know what happened in Pandora."
"After Pandora was renamed, there was no movement from the bishops, and no one worshiped them like they worshiped the Immortals, so... Thousands of years later, no ordinary ironborn remember them."
"Anyway, Pandora claims to continue the light of wisdom of the Wisdom Order...I really don't know what exactly happened here."
"Only later, because of the establishment of the Supervisory Office and punishers everywhere filing contractors, I took the opportunity to learn the truth about my contract ability, and guessed that Pandora should be a contractor organization."
"I know my own price, I know what the Contractor is, and I know a little more about the inside of Pandora, and I know what the roles of Punisher and Judge are..."
The old liar has experienced that period of history, and he does know some forgotten information in that period of history, but he is from the perspective of an ordinary ironborn, not a person in the game, and he doesn’t know why - just like knowing the eight bishops, but not the wisdom. The real reason why The Order was adapted into Pandora.
Even so, Mo Zhi still wants to dig out more information.
He nodded numbly: "Do you know anything else? About Pandora?"
The old liar thought for a while:
"I've been hiding from the Punisher, so how dare I take the initiative to learn about Pandora?"
"It's just that after living for a long time and knowing more and more information, including getting to know many contractors later, I know what the major councils in Pandora do..."
This is troublesome. The old liar really didn’t know much about this. Unpredictable couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. After thinking about it, he reluctantly continued to ask:
"Do you know the secret realm of Pandora?"
As Pandora's punisher, he didn't even know about the so-called "Pandora's Secret Realm", let alone that the Guardian Council protects Pandora's Secret Realm. How did Qiao Budie know about it?
Qiao Budie nodded: "I know, but only the name. Haha, the Smiling Assassin told me about this."
Unexpectedly, his brows furrowed and he no longer hesitated...
The old liar doesn't know the real situation, so there's no point in asking.
However, after all, Qiao Bushi has lived for thousands of years. There are many details hidden in the history that he has personally experienced. It is useless to ask... It is equivalent to the fact that the historical secrets that Qiao Bushi knows are all fragmented. , he doesn't even know which ones are valuable to the unpredictable.
We have been together for a long time, and we can only slowly discover the unpredictability in the future.
