What happened in front of them plunged Sergey and others into panic again.
"Do you still believe in our religion of worshiping God?" Father Mikhail saw this and asked according to the procedure: "If you don't believe it, I don't have to pray for you."
Guo Kang didn't know whether he was deliberately scaring others or if he was being too honest. He grabbed Sergei and pulled him in front of everyone.
"I have a few final questions, and you should understand what this means," he said.
Sergey nodded hastily. When the people below saw him pulling out the first offender again, they became quiet and waited for this time's treatment.
"Tell me the truth." Guo Kang said, "When did you come here?"
"More than ten years ago...about fifteen or sixteen years ago, right?" Sergey quickly replied: "At that time, it was Elder Alexander's brother who went to our place to recruit people. I happened to be picked by them, so I came here. .”
"What are you doing here?" Guo Kang asked.
"Be a hard worker and build the dock." Sergey replied.
"How did the hard laborers hook up with these elders?" Guo Kang immediately asked: "How did you get selected from so many hard laborers and become the leader?"
"I was stronger and bigger than the others at that time. Not only could I contribute when working, but I also often took advantage of me in group fights." Sergey said, "That's when the elders probably took a fancy to me."
"Later, Elder Alexander wanted to extend his influence here, so he supported me in organizing a gang to deal with the disobedient forces that were originally entrenched here. So I didn't have the ability to resist him."
"In other words, you were just an ordinary person originally." Guo Kang said.
"Yes, yes." Sergey nodded quickly.
But before he could continue to explain, Guo Kang made it clear: "Then, in order to gain a higher status, you chose to kill ordinary people like you to please this guy. Relying on the blood of compatriots in your hometown to gain benefits for yourself .Is that so?”
Sergey didn't seem to expect him to say that directly, and couldn't refute it for a while.
The crowd began to whisper.
"Okay, I know how you got started." Guo Kang nodded and continued to ask: "What happens after that? When did you join this sect? And how did you get the task of kidnapping people? "
"It's not what I want to do." Sergey immediately argued: "They forced me."
"You said before, I might still believe it. But now everyone knows what is going on." Guo Kang pointed out: "You said it yourself, you were promoted by those powerful people to become the leader. It was not you who went If you take the initiative to cater to them, are they begging you?"
Sergey was speechless for a moment. But he was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly turned his head to the side and said, "Agelina did it!"
"What?" Guo Kang didn't expect that he could reverse it.
"She chooses everyone! She also told me how to choose these little boys and girls to please the elders!" Sergey told me a series of things without pausing: "I I suspect that she is one of the core figures of that sect, and she was the one who led me to join the sect. Even when attending meetings, she has a higher status than the rest of us..."
Not to mention Guo Kang, the onlookers were very surprised. However, before everyone started discussing, a woman with heavy makeup shouted angrily from the crowd of people being detained nearby.
"Sergey, you idiot!" she screamed and cursed: "Who begged me to seduce that old pervert back then! Wasn't it you? Who said we should find out the preferences of the elders? The one who makes me wake up early and work hard every day to please their wives? Isn't it you too! You used to say sweet words to me every day, but now that you are about to die, you want to pass the blame on others, right? Do you still have a conscience? "
"What, you mean you're a good person?" Sergey was no longer convinced and scolded him tit for tat: "You think I don't know what you, a bitch, want to do? When you hooked up with me, you were just like a few other people. I have never broken off a relationship with a man, so you think I don’t know about it, right? She’s like a prostitute, but she deserves to talk to me about her conscience!”
"Did I ask you to hook up with Alexander, or did you hook up with him yourself? As for other things, how can you blame this on me?" He angrily accused: "Alexander thinks you are old and ugly, and he doesn't even look at you. He fell in love with you, so you couldn't follow him. When it came to your mouth, it turned out that you were selling your sex for me again?"
The two began to quarrel on the spot, making the public trial feel like a shrew cursing in the street. The military judge, Captain Lucas and others had no choice but to look at Guo Kang and wait for him to decide what to do.
"Who is this?" Guo Kang had to ask.
"It's Sergei's mistress." Father Mikhail explained.
Guo Kang thought for a while and remembered that during the search of Sergei's home, a witness said that his mistress was indeed deeply involved in the cult's sacrificial activities and had always been extremely cruel to the people around her, even more so than Sergey himself.
As for whether the two people's accusations against each other are true, Guo Kang is inclined to believe that they are all true. Their rhetoric is just to shift the blame onto the other party, thinking that they can survive in this way.
"Bring that Agelina over here too!" Guo Kang ordered.
Two soldiers immediately grabbed the woman who was still cursing loudly, dragged her out from among the male and female servants, and dragged her to Sergei's side.
"Are you Sergei's mistress?" he asked, "Who is his wife?"
"I don't have a wife." Sergey said directly from the side: "We have never gone to a church to hold a ceremony or receive a blessing."
"I won't bless you when you come to church." Father Mikhail also interjected.
"..."
"She said she has a favor for you, but you don't admit it." Guo Kang ignored their emotions and continued to ask: "There is a problem here: if she brings you a lot of favors, it means she is the main culprit ; On the other hand, if you are not a freeloader, it means that you have to bear the responsibility for these crimes yourself."
"Which one do you choose?" he asked deliberately.
"I, I... I all listen to her..." Sergey immediately changed his mind.
Guo Kang shrugged.
"When did you collude?" He turned to ask the woman, and deliberately reminded: "He said it was all your fault. Could it be that you have been supporting him since he started his career?"
"If you want to climb up in this kind of environment, you probably won't have clean hands. And are you the one who guided him to do this?"
Sergei's mistress has no education, but after so many years, she has developed a good sense of words and emotions. After hearing Guo Kang's words, she immediately confessed: "No! Don't try to put all the blame for that time on me!"
"Sir, since you have been asking him about how he started his career, you must already know something about it and know that I was wronged!" She ignored Sergey's roar next to her and revealed loudly: "He was able to start his career only with help. Kill people from above! What does it have to do with me?"
"I do know something." Guo Kang nodded.
Of course he didn't know - he just speculated that Sergey must have done a lot of dirty work to climb to this position. But he really didn't know what it was.
But before he could speculate, Sergey's mistress yelled: "Look, I'll tell you! You can't hide these things!"
"Do you think people here don't know why Valery died? Do you really think he can't beat you, a loser?" She angrily scolded: "It was obviously you who took the initiative to help Alexander work and got his support. .You don’t recognize it now?”
"What's going on?" Father Mikhail didn't know much, so he asked directly.
"Are you crazy, you bitch! Stop talking!" Sergey panicked and quickly tried to stop him.
But the atmosphere has reached such a point, of course the other party will not stop.
"Didn't he say that he started by repairing docks? It couldn't be that simple." The mistress said angrily: "In order to save money, Alexander did not hire citizens to work in accordance with the contract. He just made a fake list and hired people from his hometown. A group of coolies to save money. The officials here were bribed by him, so they helped him hide it. When higher-level dignitaries came to inspect, they temporarily hired a group of citizens to deal with it. "
"Later, the project was completed, but Alexander still wanted more money, so he thought of a way. At that time, when he recruited people to work here, many people were deceived or even kidnapped. Alexander gave them He said that as long as they worked hard here, they would be able to obtain the qualifications of majority citizens to appease those people. But this promise could not be fulfilled, and some people were still in a hurry, so he had murderous intentions. "
"It just so happened that the construction work at that time was inherently dangerous, and people would die in accidents from time to time during normal construction. Alexander asked him to choose some targets. After killing them, he would say they died in accidents. He would take the bodies to the officials in charge of the project, and he could also exchange for pensions. gold."
"So this is Sergey's first business." Father Mikhail understood.
"Yes, he just rushed to join in!" the mistress said firmly: "Old Valery has a hot temper and a bad mind. He will beat and scold anyone who doesn't listen to him. But he also feels that, The person who paid him the money is his own and no one else can control him, so he stopped Alexander’s plan.”
"But Alexander had great hands and eyes, and he also had connections in the government and the army. Relying on the big shots at the top, he hired a few killers from the legions to kill Valery. Sergei later boasted every day that he was the one who rushed in. Valery was killed in the fight, but he was not there at all at the time - he was just leading the way outside the house. Even if he went in to help, people looked down upon him and thought he was in the way!"
After hearing these words, Guo Kang and others just quickly recorded it, but the residents below became excited. Some people shouted, "I knew it was abnormal to have so many people missing at that time!"; some people shouted for Sergey to pay for his life; and some people just burst into tears, maybe because they had relatives or friends who were killed at that time.
"Crazy, crazy, you are really crazy!" Sergey muttered incoherently: "How can you say anything about Alexander? You can't talk about it even to death!"
"Haven't you seen it clearly yet? You are already dead, you fool!" the mistress drank angrily, then turned to Guo Kang and said: "You are here for Alexander, right? Don't worry, he is there I know everything about the situation.”
Guo Kang nodded noncommittally.
From the moment she said that Alexander used corpses in exchange for money, Guo Kang and others stopped asking questions and asked the clerk to quickly record it.
Seeing that she took the initiative to bring up the topic, Guo Kang asked again to confirm: "Theoretically, pensions are only available when citizens die. So, if Alexander can do this, does it mean that he has the ability to make these people without household registration pretend to be citizens?"
"I don't know how he does it, but... it should be like this, right?" The mistress hesitated for a moment, but nodded.
"He can count dead people in the household registration, and then report the death to cancel the household registration, which means that he has already added some people before." Guo Kang turned to others and said: "Or, he could have mastered the rewriting of the household registration. , can put the deaths of normal citizens on these people, and even directly make up some people."
"Actually... it's not too outrageous. The household registration in the slums is of little significance." Guo Ponu shook his head and said.
"I originally thought that even if we here can't ban armor and control long soldiers, firearms, and crossbows like the Central Plains, we should at least make a show of it in critical places. But the people here are better at wearing armor and holding guns. All of them." Guo Kang replied:
"I originally thought that even if we couldn't maintain a strict household registration system like the Central Plains, we should at least be able to clearly manage the household registration of citizens and estimate the overall number of people. As a result, so many years ago, citizens' household registrations could be changed at will. .”
"Then I would like to ask, how many people are not under the control of the imperial court in this city, or in other words, how many armed forces are not included in the military establishment?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, obviously none of them could answer.
"When Sima Yi launched a coup, his main support was the 3,000 loyal soldiers he secretly raised in the capital." He gave an example: "I don't think that old thief Alexander can be Sima Yi, but have you ever thought about it? , his family has been the leader of the Ross gang for generations, and has never held an official position for several generations. Even if he has extraordinary abilities, how can he intervene in household registration and ordnance, and even mobilize veterans of the army to do the work? "
"I don't know who has this ability." He spread his hands: "But I know very well that people who can do these things are not simple. We can already see what he wants from history. .”
"Then do you think this matter has exceeded the scope of violating military discipline?" The military judge was keenly aware of his meaning and confirmed.
"One code equals one code." Guo Kang said: "We must also deal with Sergey and others' flagrant violations of military law. But now, there is a more important danger - it has been latent for at least more than ten years. And based on our common sense, the actual problem will only last longer.”
"This is a fatal problem." Guo Kang characterized the incident: "There is a Sima Yi hiding in our capital!"
"We have already had a similar profound lesson." Guo Kang felt that if Li Xuanying were here, he would definitely agree with him:
"The matter is urgent, and our actions have aroused the enemy's alert. The pursuit attempt on the road and the battle here just now show that the enemy has been armed, completed organizational mobilization, and is conducting an organized military confrontation with the Roman army and church. "
"Should we report it to the superiors quickly?" Captain Lucas asked with a guilty conscience: "Our current military strength is enough to deal with these few thieves. But if it is a bigger problem, we probably can't handle it, and it's not easy to deal with it." Will alert the enemy."
"Our previous actions have already alerted the snake." Guo Kang pointed out: "Our current situation is not the time to stop. Since the environment is like this, then we either don't do it from the beginning, or we have to do it to the end."
"Just now, we have sent people to the Empress Temple to report. The Patriarch's political sense is very keen, and I believe he will detect a problem. As for ourselves, the safest and most secure way, I think, is to continue the fight."
The other team members, as well as the nearby spectators, felt that what he said was reasonable. Only Guo Ponu looked at him thoughtfully.
"Moreover, we have caused a lot of losses to these people and exposed them essentially. Think about it, what would you do if you were the other party?" He in turn reminded everyone of the disadvantages of not doing this. :
"Don't forget, they have been in business for at least more than ten years. After we go back, no matter how prepared we are, we can't be more prepared than them. When the time comes, once they launch revenge, what should we do?"
"I can hide at home. With my parents and friends, they may not dare to mess with me. But what about you?"
"Many of us are ordinary clergy, ordinary officers, knights and soldiers," he said to his subordinates, then turned to the onlookers: "—and even ordinary residents who have no one to protect them at all."
"We have essentially destroyed the Sergei gang, but will Alexander, and even the people behind him, change their temper and acquiesce in letting this place get out of their control?"
Everyone was silent for a while.
"You know better than me what the environment here is like!" Guo Kang shouted: "Just now, Sergey also said how the former leader Valery ended up: Is Valery a good person? Obviously No. But even in his evil and tyrannical life, he only maintained a little order, kept one promise, and fulfilled the responsibility brought by power, but he was immediately killed by Alexander and the others."
"Everyone, do you know who your enemies are? Do you know their true nature?" He asked everyone loudly:
"I know quite a lot: I know that these people can't tolerate any order! They can't abide by any morality! They can't stand any restraint! They only consider their own interests, and where do their interests come from? Isn't it just you? What?"
"I burned all your debts and deeds, but if I can't completely defeat them, someone will come back soon and make you owe more. Do you still want to live the same life as before? Do you still want to be beaten and scolded at every turn? Do you still want to have your only output stolen by these bullies?"
"No -" someone finally shouted.
"I am different from them. This matter is not your obligation, so I will not force you to obey my orders under the banner of a gang or a township party - even if I think this is better for you." Guo Kang immediately told Them: “But I hope you can consider my suggestion.”
"The household registration system here seems to be no longer worthy of reference. Let's tear it down and start over." He shook his head: "But before all this, we first need to know, who are the Romans?"
"If what Sergei and the others said is correct, then most of you should have been brought here in groups by people like Alexander just like he was. You are not local residents of Dadu, nor are you citizens. Identity - I just called you Romans, but if you count strictly, it can only be regarded as wishful thinking on my part."
He paused and looked at everyone's reactions. However, he may have been used to being despised by Greeks and bullied by local gangs all year round, so these people didn't have much emotion towards his not-so-euphemistic statement.
If they appear excited, Guo Kang can use this to call them into action. But when dealing with people who are already a little numb, you need to say a few more words.
“But on the other hand,” he asked rhetorically, “why are there Romans?”
"I believe Alexander and the others must have told you that you are all fellow countrymen from a certain place and speak Slavic, so you should accept their management. But what have they done to the folks?" He reminded again Everyone.
"I can tell you that your experience is not unique."
"When our country was first founded, we faced the same situation. However, it was the Bulgarian boss who bullied ordinary Bulgarians; it was the Wallachian boss who bullied ordinary Wallachians. People; they are Greek masters bullying ordinary Greeks. Their experiences are exactly the same as yours."
"It was in this hostile environment that my ancestors organized these civilians and established an order that allowed everyone to live. Relying on this order, they turned ordinary residents from different places and speaking different languages into He became a powerful Roman who was feared by the barbarians."
"Are the Romans a specific place? I'm afraid that's not the case." He pointed to his hair: "The statue of Caesar is still preserved in the Empress Temple, and everyone can see it. I and the most famous What do the Romans have in common? Their hair color is similar.”
"As for Emperor Constantine who founded this city, he was simply a man with blond hair and blue eyes. You are more like him than me." He pointed at the crowd, a man with dirty yellow hair. young people.
The young man smiled sheepishly and scratched his head.
"Not just him. And you." Guo Kang pointed to another person: "Your hair also looks like Emperor Constantine - oh, your beard looks like Basil II in the portrait. And you, you His nose is the same as that of Augustus - did you know that? The noses of the statues of Augustus we dug up are almost always damaged and have to be repaired with great effort. It is said that it is because his nose is too big."
Everyone also let out a burst of slightly relaxed laughter.
"Look, each of us looks like a Roman, but maybe not in terms of blood or geography. Why is that?" He spread his hands and said, "Because Rome is no longer a geographical term."
"Where the city of Rome was then, there is now the Latin Catholic Church. Do you think they are orthodox Romans, or are our church and us Romans?"
"Of course it's us!" everyone shouted immediately.
They may not know other complex concepts, but their insistence on the orthodoxy of their church is still deep-rooted.
"Yes." Guo Kang agreed: "So, we should be very clear that the so-called Rome can be anywhere in the world. Because Rome itself has exceeded its original meaning two thousand years ago and has become a synonym for civilization and order. "
"My great-uncle 'Old Peter' went all the way to Novgorod, opened up land there, built fortresses, formed an army, and made the local people become Romans. It's all possible there, why can't you?"
"In the past, there were many institutional restrictions here, but since serious problems have arisen in the past system, threatening Rome itself, we must act urgently." He announced.
"Before coming here, I had received an order from the court, requiring me to recruit a group of Russians to join the army. At that time, I had nowhere to start and I didn't know where to choose people. But now, thanks to the courage you showed, I already know , the troops I need are right here!"
"Can we really do it?" someone in the crowd asked guiltily.
"This is not a question of whether it can be done, but we must do it." Guo Kang said categorically: "If we don't establish a new order, the old order here will come back."
"Isn't Sergey an ordinary person in the beginning?" Guo Kang turned around and pointed, giving an example: "If you don't destroy their backstage and destroy this evil order and rules, what's the use of killing him? Of course it will There are others who are willing to step in for him, even more cruelly than him, to show their loyalty to the master!”
"We need a more civilized order, we need to make this a real Rome, and completely destroy these rules full of injustice and sin!"
"So, everyone, let's skip the state and the church for the time being, and think about yourselves first! Think about it, you still want to be like these victims, grieving for what happened to your relatives and children, and fearing for the intensified bullying What? Do you still want Sergey and Alexander to come back?"
"Can we beat him?" someone else asked.
Now that they have begun to care about feasibility issues, it will be easier to handle.
"Haven't we already won several battles?" He asked rhetorically: "And the reason why I am so anxious is because now is the best opportunity."
"The enemy is more chaotic than us!" He reminded loudly: "They are indeed very powerful, and they control a lot of areas and people, but this also means that their organization is complex and management is difficult. If the situation suddenly changes, it is beyond their expectations. , then we are far more proactive than them."
"Not only have you had enough of this matter, but I have had enough as well." He slammed his long ax on the ground: "Today, I am going to wipe out these enemies of Rome! I won't be able to solve all the problems until I solve them." Will go back."
"Before recruiting soldiers, the warmaster and generals told me that new recruits are not suitable for combat, not to mention that you may not be able to meet the qualification standards for new recruits." He looked around at the crowd: "But today, we won't pay so much attention. "
"Everyone who participates in the battle is counted as a soldier of my new regiment - at worst, it will be the same as my great-uncle's regiment, which can only be overstaffed." He stretched out his arms and called on everyone: "If anyone wants to become a real Roman, for If we strive for civilization and order, then consider my invitation!”
"Does this count as a Roman?" someone asked again.
"Those who fight for Rome and destroy Rome's enemies are of course Romans." Guo Kang told him.
"Of course, I won't let you die in vain." He turned and pointed to the corner: "I have hundreds of spears here. Those who are the strongest or have combat experience will get them first. I will let the clerk Register your names, and all you have to do is follow me closely and use your weapons to cover others. Do you understand?"
Everyone responded with a roar. Guo Kang waved his hand and asked the clerk and a few soldiers to distribute the weapons captured here. Many people began to squeeze over there, trying to grab a spot first. The priests who maintained order downstairs could only spend a lot of effort to persuade them to line up and come one by one.
Finally, Guo Kang turned to look at Sergey, who was already stunned.
"You have confessed a lot of information. According to the regulations, I can give you a certain reduction of guilt." He said, seeing that Sergey seemed to be relieved, and added: "But I am not qualified to fully understand this matter." Forgive you."
"Can you return his child to him?" He pointed to Vladimir next to him: "We don't know if his daughter is still alive, and we don't know if his son is safe now. If you can help save If these innocent people seek his forgiveness, then he may be able to spare you."
"Him? Why!" Sergey became anxious: "I am convinced that I lost to you, but why should I ask this old waste to forgive me?"
"That is to say, you also know that based on the things you have done, it is impossible for the victim to forgive you, right?" Guo Kang explained the shallow reason he was looking for.
"I'm much stronger than him, shouldn't he obey me?" Sergey could only argue.
"What is strong?" Guo Kang said with a smile: "I am stronger than you, so now I define him as the strong one and you as the weak one. And you can't beat me, so you can't deny it - well, now you are better than him Weak."
There was nothing Sergei could say about him, so he could only stare blankly for a moment.
"Look, this is how ridiculously powerful you are." Guo Kang shook his head and shouted to the soldier next to him: "Bring the spear, give it to him!"
A guard handed Vladimir a spear.
"We all know what he did, so you have the right to revenge." Guo Kang said.
Vladimir picked up the spear.
"How dare you!" Sergei was about to die, but he risked his life: "Do you really think these people can save you and these Russians? Impossible!"
"No matter how nice they say it, they will leave after finishing this round of work. They can't speak Russian, and they can only express their meaning through a few simple Greek sentences. When the time comes, don't you still have to entrust others to take care of you? ?”
"If I die, I will die. But if you kill me, Elder Alexander and Master Leo will kill you, your whole family, and all of you rebels!"
He didn't say it was okay, but said the whole family, Vladimir's eyes widened. But he still hesitated, not knowing whether he was afraid of Sergei's power or worried about something else, and finally turned to look at Guo Kang.
"Mr. Vladimir!" Guo Kang used his formal title and shouted sternly: "Are you a Russian or a Roman?"
Vladimir roared angrily, holding the spear in both hands, and pierced Sergei's chest.
Sergey showed an incredible expression, then twitched a few times and died without a word.
Guo Kang had someone untie the body and said to the priest next to him: "Put a smaller cross on it."
Then, he swung the ax and chopped off Sergei's head. Just like before, he tied it with a rope and hung it on the cross where the priests were working temporarily.
The residents watching from a distance may not have heard clearly what he just said before, and they were asking each other what he just said. But seeing the hanging head, everyone cheered.
"What to do with the other prisoners?" Captain Lucas asked.
"We don't have time to identify whether they are good or bad, let's leave it to the residents here." Guo Kang said: "I think they are the ones who know the nature of these people best."
He ordered his men to give way to the residents. Everyone followed his instructions and made way. Afterwards, Guo Kang took over all the captured servants and thugs, as well as Sergei's mistress, and the women who seemed to be maids and mistresses.
"If someone kills your relatives and friends on weekdays, stab them with weapons! If someone bullies and beats you on weekdays, beat them with sticks and fists!" Guo Kang shouted: "Anyone who can walk from here to the gate alive , that is, the innocent people will be forgiven. Others - then atone for their previous actions!"
After that, he took a step back and let the soldiers drive the prisoners forward.
The crowds on both sides roared and rushed over, instantly swamping the small team.
The leading thugs were impaled on the spot by spears that had just been issued. Sergei's mistress screamed and tried to escape, and shouted for mercy to Guo Kang and others, but everyone just watched silently. After a few struggles, she was dragged out by the residents. There were so many people who wanted to beat her that the people behind her had to keep asking the people in front to be gentler and not just beat her to death, leaving no one in a position to take revenge.
The male and female servants were no better. Without saying a word, the residents chopped most of them into pieces.
A young maid screamed and crawled out dragging her broken leg. A priest couldn't bear it and stopped the chasing residents.
"Children, stay restrained! Don't get carried away and hurt people who have done no evil!" he advised.
"She is not innocent at all!" shouted a middle-aged man in the lead: "Every time she goes to my stall to buy ingredients, she always gets half as much! And whether I give it to me or not, she always makes excuses to beat me every now and then. ! Just because she is in cahoots with Sergei’s henchman! I want revenge!”
"She also ordered people to steal my wife's clothes!" Another young man shouted: "She called for thugs, and after humiliating my wife, just... she was still laughing next to her!"
"I have to beat her to death today!" He pushed the priest away and punched the maid: "Kill you bitch!"
Everyone's emotions were completely out of control, and they swarmed up and overwhelmed her again.
After half an hour, Guo Kang felt that enough was enough, so he had people knock on the pots and rice bowls brought out from the canteen, stopped everyone, and asked them to disperse.
Sergey's mistress was beaten until she was almost reduced to a pulp. Guo Kang cut off the deformed head and let others hang it on the cross.
Almost all the other thugs and servants were killed, and body parts and blood stains were scattered all over the ground. Even so, many residents have not recovered from their anger and are still sitting on the ground and crying.
Only two people survived. One is an old man who cooks in the kitchen. According to residents, he has always been kind and would secretly bring leftover food out from time to time to share with the hungry neighbors. So at the beginning, everyone pulled him out and pushed him outside. .
There is also a girl who seems to have been plundered recently. The residents didn't know her very well and said she might be the daughter of someone in another area. She has been polite in the past few months and has never deliberately caused trouble for anyone, so she was pushed out. They planned to help her find her home and send her back afterwards.
"Okay, okay." Guo Kang raised his hand and signaled to everyone: "I know everyone is sad, but our time is also limited."
"Now, get your weapons!"
As he spoke, he looked at the sky and found that the sun had already set in the west, so he turned back and said, "Father Mikhail, please lead everyone to say a short evening prayer in advance."
"Okay." Father Mikhail nodded and asked the aide to come over and insert the cross.
"We probably won't have time to pray tonight." Guo Kang said to everyone: "So, let us pray to Heavenly Father for the sufferings that have occurred in the past and for the sacrifices that will surely occur in the future!"
Everyone responded one after another. Those who were still too excited were also persuaded to stand up. Guo Kang hopes that they can use this to stabilize their emotions - although it is a good thing to share the same hatred with the enemy, you also need to be calm when fighting to avoid unnecessary losses.
At this time, someone from afar asked Guo Kang: "Sir! Are you also a clergy member of the church?"
"Me?" Guo Kang shook his head: "I'm not, I'm just a consultant of the church."
"But I think what you said makes sense. And, although what you said was profound, it really spoke to my heart." The man said, "I think you are like...like a patriarch."
"This is too much of a compliment to me." Guo Kang said with a smile: "I have never systematically studied theology. How can I be a patriarch at this level?"
"Don't be too humble." Next to him, Father Mikhail, who had simply washed his hands and was flipping through the Bible, interrupted: "When he said this, I actually think you are quite similar. The Patriarch thinks so highly of you. You may also think that you are a good candidate to be the Patriarch, right?"
"I..." Guo Kang looked at himself, wearing a gray-yellow robe stained with a lot of blood, and said with a wry smile: "The Patriarch should not be so embarrassed before the ceremony."
"No, no." Another priest also commented: "The dignity of the Patriarch should not be based on his wealth or the magnificence of his magical weapons. People wearing brocade and gray clothes are in heaven and earth. In front of my brother, everything is the same."
Residents expressed their justification. At this time, another half-grown child poked his head out.
"Sir, do you know so much that you can lead us to atone our sins so that we can be truly baptized and become members of the kingdom of heaven?" he asked.
"Of course I can't." Guo Kang shook his head without hesitation.
"I just use the blade to help you clear some enemies, use blood to give you some inspiration, and make you real Romans. But the kingdom of heaven is far from arrival." He said.
"We have to go through a long way. I think this is also the test of the Father. We cannot withstand this journey, and we cannot get success."
"Of course, I dare to say that someone will definitely bring the truth in the future. He will baptize you again so that you will be educated and purified from the soul. At that time, you should know Alright."
The crowd was silent for a while, and they didn't know what they were thinking.
"Okay, children." With the simple preparations, Father Mikhail raised his head and interrupted them: "Let's start tonight -and pray for the future."
(End of chapter)
