"To put it simply, Governor Judas is a pleasure demon, and Mr. Jago wants to die because he was tortured by his conscience because he became a spy?"
"I think so," said Governor Prince. "I'm shocked and overwhelmed."
Governor Prince is an honest man and never exaggerates his words. The church leader who had been guarding the Charming Mist State for a long time was now extremely confused and sighed every ten seconds. Gongsun Ce understood his mood very well. At the beginning of noon, the church leaders were still meeting to discuss. After dinner, he looked back and saw that one governor had defected and another had attempted suicide. Everyone would be at a loss what to do.
Judas' real body is not in the Fire Wind State at all, and he has no target for revenge. Now that Jago is in a coma due to serious injuries, everything falls on Governor Prince. The good old man was busy cleaning up the aftermath all night, with a face full of physical and mental exhaustion. Gongsun Ce hesitated for a while and said unbearably: "Actually, I have another big news... How about you calm down and listen to it tomorrow morning?"
"Please tell me, Mr. Gongsun. I don't care to hear one more secret now."
Gongsun Ce advised him five times to be mentally prepared, and then said: "The female ranger Servais on our ship is the one who just fought with Jago. She may be the legendary saint himself."
Governor Prince sat on the spot as if frozen. He waited for almost half a minute, shivered, took out a water bottle, and drank two large gulps of warm water.
"Please forgive me, Mr. Gongsun." He said, "I really need to rest for a while."
Gongsun Ce comforted him with his kind words for a while, and then returned to the Cathedral of St. Revolver while protecting the only remaining top level of the church. The battle dozens of minutes ago did not cause any damage to Molten Valley City. The two fire controllers were extremely skilled, and the minor aftermath was resolved in time by Caldesia who was watching. Servais' magical power made the ordinary citizens forget about the battle, and the few who understood the situation had to stay up late to work.
Judas's betrayal had been planned for a long time. When the Fire Wind State incident broke out, civil strife broke out in many church-governed states. Gaius' men took advantage of the situation and seized control of the three totems that night. This "betrayal" that was bound to fail seemed like a big smoke bomb or a deliberate test by Situ Yi, but Gongsun Ce was too lazy to think about it anymore. Yan Qi was right. There were so many senior officials who knew more about strategic deduction than him. He wanted to focus his attention on the areas where it would work.
He slowly flew up and went straight up along the white outer wall of the Cathedral of Saint Revolver. The shape of this church is traditional and sacred. The rectangular outer buildings protect the central body. The dome in the middle of the church looks even whiter against the night sky, like a bud waiting to bloom.
The female ranger sat on the curved surface of this flower bud, quietly looking down at the city in the firelight. Her sitting posture is very casual, her slender legs are naturally stretched out, and her hands are casually placed on her sides. She does not look like a big shot at all.
Gongsun Ce silently stopped next to the ranger and whistled: "My girlfriend also likes to crawl on the roof, but she always looks at the moon."
The ranger glanced at him: "You have so many girlfriends, I don't know which one you are talking about."
"I said Shigure Rei...well the others also really like heights."
"What, a boatload of idiots."
They laughed a few times together, and the ranger looked back and stared at the church at his feet.
"I built this church with my own hands back then," Servais said. "My first tour was over, and peace returned to the Northern Continent. The guys and I were overjoyed and prepared to find a reason to celebrate. Paul - at that time, Germany The head of the family of Rusus suggested that we build a building. He said that the stories passed down by word of mouth will change as they are passed on, but the building can be preserved for a long time. If people can still see this building hundreds or thousands of years later, they will They will always remember the stories of our group of people, and no one will forget them...
We all thought it was a great idea. Old Slock gave it the name Cathedral of St. Revolver, and from then on we began naming churches after weapons. I was extremely satisfied the day the church was built. I thought there would never be a more majestic or magnificent building than this one. It is as unique as my legend. "
She looked into the distance again. There were many high-rise buildings in the city center of Molten Valley City. Buildings with more than 100 floors were not uncommon. In the steel forest of the 21st century, the cathedral from a thousand years ago appears like a work of art, delicate and fragile.
"But times are changing very fast. Now the Ranger Guilds in some big places are higher than here. Why the hell do these people build buildings so high? They don't know how to save some face for the ancients..."
Servais murmured with a look of resentment, and Gongsun Ce wanted to laugh a little after hearing this. He tried his best to keep a straight face: "So you still remember to do the job of ranger... It seems that you have remembered a lot of things. So are you Servais or the Saint now?"
Servais glared: "I've been called Servais since I was born a thousand years ago!"
"Oh my god, I thought this was your fake name..."
"Who lives incognito on the street all day? Are you tired?" Servais put her hands behind her head, lay down on the roof with her legs crossed, and pointed at Gongsun Ce with her toes. "I don't like looking up at people, so I lie down and talk when I have something to say."
"Can you, a big man like you, be a little reserved and lie on top of the church blowing the night breeze..."
Gongsun Ce distanced himself a little and followed suit, lying down on the roof. The white stone on the roof was warmed by the hot wind, like a primitive furnace.
"How is your current situation?"
"It sucks." Servais smacked her lips, "Memories... memories of a thousand years... are pieced together in my mind. Every time I speak, I have to confirm which year this is, talk to me. It was Gongsun Ce or some young man I knew in the past. I can't remember much, and it took me a lot of effort to figure out what was going on."
"I guess you didn't think about eternal life back then."
"How is it possible? Before I died, I even chose a grave. The location of the former UFO State was called the Saint's Burial Ground. When I died, I used the gun of punishment to punish myself as the end of the entire spell to ensure that the whole thing was foolproof. I just breathed my last." Servais looked at the distant mountains blankly, "But I underestimated too many things. I too underestimated my own influence and the power of people."
Gongsun Ce pondered these words carefully and guessed: "Because of faith?"
"Yeah, damn faith, I really made a big fucking mistake." Servais sighed, "Before I died, I thought that the stories written in the Holy Scriptures would continue to be passed down like this, and the worst case scenario would be that they would be forgotten. . But I didn’t realize that the myth would change! The 2010 Holy Scripture is not the same thing as the version we wrote back then. The Holy Scripture at that time was very thin, just a booklet with a total of 51 chapters. You can take a few minutes on your way to work to read it. I just flipped through it for a few days and finished it. But look at this big book now, what's in it?!"
Servais took out a "Sacred Code" and slapped it beside her. The 32-footprint paperback edition that can be seen everywhere in the Northern Continent condenses the original story of the Holy Code into 468 concise pages. Every word is an essence and every word is a treasure. .
Gongsun Ce reminded him kindly: "This is a condensed version. The total of 51 volumes of the original holy book is almost 1,700 pages."
"Who the hell wrote this crap!" The female ranger patted the book angrily, "I've never heard of most of the stories in it! One Catholic church has divided into four main sects, and there are countless confusions among the people. What a bad version! It’s okay that my adventure story back then was misrepresented, and they started to add fuel to the fire. The Holy Trinity sect said that the Holy Supreme God’s Heavenly Wheel was the Holy Trinity. The death of the saint actually turned back into the Supreme God to rule the world. The Angel Sect It was said that Metatron, the saint and the angel secretary, was originally one person and is now traveling in the kingdom of heaven. The returning sect directly said that I am not dead and still hanging around in the northern continent! My fucking graveyard is in the UFO State. What are these people doing? How can you still be so stupid!?"
“You can’t blame fans for actively creating secondary works because your original work is so good.” Gongsun Ce said, “Besides, you know that the public doesn’t care about the facts. They only care about what they want to believe.”
Servais was deeply shattered: "How could I have imagined this? I am an explorer and a naturalist, not a social, historical and humanistic scholar!"
"Anyway, these miscellaneous beliefs keep your image alive after death...and then you were resurrected because of it? Why?"
Servais was expressionless: "Do you know the heart factor? Oh, it's called the meme heart now."
"I know, a huge amount of complicated thoughts are gathered on cultural memes, making memes the material for weaving techniques..." Gongsun Ce finished speaking subconsciously and was suddenly shocked, "You have become a cultural symbol? The saint is the most famous meme!"
"You're right." Servais said listlessly, "Originally, those ownerless minds would converge on a 'saint' meme that had nothing to do with me, but now that I'm dead, I've made the tomb a stable center for the civilized front. You know that the civilized front is a seal that uses public knowledge. During its operation, these thoughts were concentrated on me... So I lay in the grave for more than ten years. When I opened my eyes, I was surprised to find that I was alive. ”
"Have you transformed into an information life form?" Gongsun Ce asked.
"My aura has been transformed into an information life form." Servais corrected, "But my body has not. Although I now have a physical body that can interact with you, this thing is more like... I think about it, I remember seeing it some time ago. A Lingdao woman..."
"Master Chi?"
"Ah, yes, that's right, she was in that state, with her aura becoming a spirit." Servais couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm telling you, I was quite happy at first, thinking that I, the legendary saint, is worthy of being a legend and can live another life after death. . But then I found that things were not so ideal. Those thoughts not only revived me, they are still affecting me."
Gongsun Ce thought of Alandia's class. When talking about memes, she said that Qiluo's practice of impermanence would be very fast but would definitely become malignant, because she is an information life form and will be directly affected by memes to change her own nature. Servais's situation is similar to Qiluo's. Those thoughts that can resurrect her can also change her existence.
The saint has always been a pure male image in the records for so many years, and the Servais in front of her is obviously not much different from the original, which shows that she has found a way to solve her own problem...the image...the appearance of herself comes from "Knowledge" of oneself...
Gongsun Ce recalled the changed appearance of Qiluo, and thought of the hidden gods on Lingdao who were distorted by their cognition, and he suddenly had a guess in his heart.
"You have an ingenious way of solving the problem. If you erase your memory regularly and give yourself a predetermined false identity, you can isolate your 'self' from your 'saint'. In this way you can Maintaining your understanding of yourself can also prevent you from gradually wearing away your self and becoming a real ghost over a long period of time. Amnesia is not a side effect of resurrection, it is you who made yourself amnesia in order to protect yourself."
Servais stared at him motionless until he felt like he was staring at her.
"Handsome, has anyone ever told you that you are smart?"
"My master always says I'm stupid."
"No way, it's because the man in black is too self-righteous." Servais said, "It's almost as you said. You should have seen the Skeleton King, right? That's the result of being polluted by the minds of all living beings. In order to avoid it, I After I died, I turned into some kind of perverted naked woman who specifically asked them to cremate my body, but in the end I turned into a ghost..."
Servais withdrew her gaze and looked at the stars in the night sky.
"In the past thousand years, I have been a nun, a sailor, and a few times I seem to have been a cowboy and a robber. I remember that I was a traveler before the last time I lost my memory, but this time I became a ranger... Before I became a religious person. I have still been doing this business, but I never thought that after a thousand years I would be back to my original profession..."
She rambled on in a great number of fragments, many parts of which were jumbled together like the delusions of a neurotic, made up of unrelated things. Her name for Gongsun Ce kept changing during this process. At first it was 'handsome guy', then it became 'boy', 'student boy', and later it became 'David', 'Anis' and other unfamiliar names. . Gongsun Ce felt sad as he listened to her narration. He thought that the world in Servais' eyes now was probably the overlapping of countless similar memories. She was telling the past with the friends she met this time, and also with those former friends. the truth.
But those people had left long ago, and she was left alone wandering the land, walking the same pilgrimage that she had repeated countless times. I'm afraid that this behavior, like the amnesia mechanism, is a hint carved for herself by the former Servais...because apart from that, there is nothing else she can do.
"Look, it's already 1674 now... Oh, I made a mistake, it's 2010 now." Servais hammered her head, "That's it anyway. It's a shame I haven't remembered much now, otherwise I'm afraid I'll have to Just go crazy."
"Remember the angels? And the secret laws?"
"I can't remember much, I'm confused myself." Servais couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm such a flamboyant person, and now I have the effect of being invisible and forgetting when I go out..."
Gongsun Ce couldn't help but ask: "What are you going to do next?"
"I don't know." Servais said, "Now that the memory lock is lifted, if I go to the grave and sleep for a while, I might be able to remember more things, and I can also restore more permissions to help - don't expect to have the same memory as before. Power, I've been dead a thousand years ago. But if I get back those long-standing memories, will I still be the ranger Servais I am now?
To be honest, I'm quite panicked. I can also write down the memory and continue to be the Ranger Servais, which will make me feel much more relaxed... But it will remain as it is now, no more than half a bottle of jealousy. "
The female ranger turned to look at Gongsun Ce, as if she wanted to ask for his opinion. Gongsun Ce felt that his breath was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say anything. He should have persuaded Servais to take back her power, which was undoubtedly the most beneficial to the overall situation, but a thousand years was such a long time, even if she could live to a hundred years, that would be ten lifetimes. She has witnessed many joys and sorrows in the past thousand years, and those memories, whether happy or painful, have long since become the dust of history.
Can she take it lightly? How could she not be sad? Those memories might make her become a completely different person, like a haggard old monk who looked down on time, and the ranger he knew at that time no longer existed, and Servais was really dead.
"From the perspective of the sword holder, I hope you go to the burial ground." Gongsun Ce sat up, "But as your friend, I sincerely advise you to continue to be a ranger. You spent thousands of years fucking for Usters Is it none of your business to end up in chaos after working hard for a thousand years? Just like you said, you died a thousand years ago. Now that you finally have a second life, you can live as happily as you want!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Servais laughed so loudly that she was out of breath. Gongsun Ce looked a little confused: "Why are you laughing?"
"Your tone is really similar to your master! No wonder I liked you from the beginning, you are quite to my liking!"
The female ranger turned over and jumped from the roof. She turned her back to the moonlight and put one hand on her hips. A big smile appeared on her face hidden in the shadow, which was exactly the same as the projection of the former saint.
"But I was an adventurous guy before I hit the millennium. It would be too uncomfortable for me to travel for a thousand years without seeing the whole picture. So I'd better go to the burial ground. I have to satisfy my curiosity. Well……"
Servais suddenly bent down and said softly: "Hey, handsome guy, can you make a commission for me?"
"If you need anything, just ask."
"Ranger Servais has been traveling in the United States for a long time, and you are the last friend she knew." Servais said, "If, I mean if, I become a different person after coming out of the burial ground... then Please tell me at that time what kind of person ‘Ranger Servais’ was!”
The female ranger smiled as lively as ever, but Gongsun Ce saw a thin layer of mist in her eyes. The faint phantom disappeared in just a blink of an eye. It seemed to be an illusion caused by his excessive sentimentality.
"No problem." Gongsun Ce clenched his fists, "I have a good memory. You have many other friends in Hezhong. I will try my best to bring them to you...I promise."
"Thanks!"
Servais straightened up with a smirk, put her fingers on her lips, and blew him a kiss. Gongsun Ce was made to laugh by this nonsensical move: "It's already 2010, why are you still acting like this?"
Servais gave a thumbs up and pointed at herself triumphantly: "Female charm will not be outdated in a thousand years!"
She jumped lightly and jumped into the night of Molten Valley City. Gongsun Ce thought to himself that this guy was really weird, like a wild monkey jumping out of the forest. No one could guess what she would do next. If she commits a crime, even Alandia will have a headache, right? She is the kind of idiot who would carelessly write "Servais the Murderer" on the spot and then walk away. She is so free and easy that it is enviable.
Gongsun Ce flew back to the ground from the church dome and walked alone in Molten Valley City late at night. He was a little melancholy and had nothing to say, so he raised his head and stared at the moon wordlessly until a muffled reminder sounded on his phone.
"Gongsun Ce, it's 1:35 now." Qiluo said, "Go to bed early. There are still a lot of things to do tomorrow."
"I will." Gongsun Ce said, "I still feel a little uncomfortable. I can't help her."
"Jago Drusus probably thinks so too, so he feels very uncomfortable..."
Gongsun Ce nodded silently, understanding the old man's pain a little more. There are still many things waiting for him. The battle for the totem has begun tonight, and the decisive battle plan to break into Meteor City must continue to be discussed. He rested for a whole day, and I'm afraid he would rarely have such free time after that.
The decisive battle is approaching.
(End of chapter)
