Realizing that Chen Fan was itching again, Mordred stretched out his long legs unceremoniously and stepped on the middle of his chest, causing Chen Fan to utter a "croak" again: "Well, don't say it yet, step on it." It feels really good to be on you."
"It's just that the sound is so weird, like a frog being poked by a straw. I don't know what it was doing." Belia commented in passing while sitting on the bed leaning against the wall.
"Tch, pretend like you're shaking. I don't know who was made by Belia last night and couldn't stop babbling. You wait for Mordred. I will definitely make you cry and beg for mercy in the future. ——Pfft!" Before Chen Fan could finish his words, Mordred, who had a stern look on his face, stepped on his foot harder, so that his chest was not dented.
"I think you can do whatever you can. Since you don't want to live so much, I will help you, okay?"
As he spoke, Mordred slowly increased the strength on his feet, not minding Chen Fan's futile struggle while holding on to his ankles but unable to shake them at all.
"Don't, don't, don't, I was wrong. Is it okay to be wrong? Lord Mordred is the best in the world!" Facing the test of life and death, Chen Fan decisively gave in and was about to let Mordred lick his feet.
"Humph, it's all over so easily? I'm not the kind of woman to be convenient, my surname is Chen!" Unfortunately, Mordred didn't take this trick, and simply stepped on Chen Fan's sternum, Taking advantage of the situation, he added a kick to the side ribs, causing one of the ribs to break, and accurately poked into Chen Fan's lungs, making him completely quiet.
"Now your kid is safe, but judging from the previous recovery speed, he probably won't be safe for too long. Belia, remember to remind me to give him a few more blows when the time comes." He continued to put his feet on Chen Fan's chest. As he stepped on it, Mordred, who seemed to have awakened some serious fetish, turned to Belia and gave instructions.
In response to Mordred's instructions, Belia tapped her chin in agreement, and then couldn't help but sigh: "But as I mentioned the abyss, Yun Shang currently only controls the first five floors, and the most vast sixth floor. It’s a pity that we can’t go further.”
"Huh?" Mordred played with the ponytail that reached his shoulders with one hand, and waved it casually with the other hand, "There is nothing we can do about it. After all, Yun Shang currently only has seven heroic spirits above level five. The fourth level of the abyss is okay, one can be stationed at each place, but the nature of the fifth level is too dangerous, and it has not been fully explored yet, so two people have to be stationed, plus the Golden Emperor of Babylon doesn't even bother. Heading to the abyss, the sixth level can only be put on hold for now.”
"Yes, if Tianzhu didn't have another heroic spirit, I'm afraid it would be difficult to control the situation on the fifth floor." Belia sighed helplessly, and shook her head slightly with regret.
"Speaking of which, it seems that the Tower of Babel has recently given a code name to laziness in the seventh level of hell. Do you know about this?" Mordred didn't think it was a pity. He took as much as he could and ate his bowl. Looking at the pot was too boring and not her preferred choice at all.
"I've heard of it. It seems that the code name is 'BE'. Mordred, do you know what it means?" Belia only learned about this situation through the announcement, and looked at Mordred with some expectation, hoping that she could provide Some more detailed intel.
During the conversation between the two, Chen Fan, who was firmly stepped on, kept winking at Ye Yi on the table, but all he got in exchange was contemptuous glances and words that said, "You are asking for your own death, little bastard. As a man, you have to bear the responsibility." The look in his eyes meant that he had caused it.
"This..." After pondering for a moment, Mordred reluctantly remembered some information he had heard while eating, "It seems that there are two ways to say it. The second one is too complicated. Let me tell you the first one first. This is Bongtian. The gossip released by the tower itself says that 'BE' symbolizes Behemoth, a giant beast of the same level as Leviathan."
Belia was a little surprised when she heard this name: "Is that Behemoth that God molded from clay and Leviathan on the sixth day of creation? It makes some sense, after all, it is in the Apocrypha of the Old Testament It is recorded in Chapter 6 of the Book of Israel that God created mountains and seas on the fifth day of creation of heaven and earth, and created Behemoth and Leviathan out of clay on the sixth day. When the end of the world came, Behemoth Moss, Leviathan and Roost will become the food of the Holy One together. Enoch's prophecy book also described these two monsters together: "The two monsters will be separated on that day, and the female will be separated." Called Leviathan, it lives in the abyss of fountains; the male one is called Behemoth, and it occupies the entire Dandeen Desert. ""
"Not only that," Mordred, twisting his braids triumphantly, broke another breaking news, "According to the latest interpretation of the Tower of Babel, Behemoth itself is also very controversial. According to the Book of Job ”, Behemoth was the first creature, but according to the Apocrypha, both Behemoth and Leviathan were born on the fifth day of creation. However, in fact, the Bible’s Book of Job does not say that it was the first creature. A created thing, it just says "He is the chief of the ways of God", that is, "He is the first among God's creatures." ""
By the way, Mordred directly recited the corresponding article: ""On the fifth day, you said to the seventh part where water gathers, that there should be animals, birds, and fish: and so it came to pass. . All must praise you for your great deeds in producing life from dead water according to God's commandments. Then you choose two animals, one of which you call Behemoth and the other Leviathan. And separate them from each other: for the seventh part, that is, the part where the water gathers, there may be no room for them. For you gave a part of Behemoth, the part that was dried up on the third day, and there it dwelt, and there were a thousand mountains there. And to Leviathan you give the seventh part, that is, the moist place; and command it to devour what you despise, at the right time. ""
"He is the leader among the creatures created by God. It is no wonder that after arriving in hell, he became the lowest monster." After pondering the amount of information in this passage, Belia suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Mordred, "But I always feel that the gossip that Babel Tower released on its own initiative is reasonable, but it is a smoke bomb released to cover up the real situation. I would like to ask, what is the second theory that you know of, Mordred?"
"Oh, this," she curled her lips in displeasure, and Mordred stopped playing with her braid, "The female fox said that 'BE' actually refers to 'Beast Eleven', Eleven The beast is also a beast that does not exist.”
Beast Eleven…
With her brows furrowed, she thought about the meaning contained in it. After thinking for a long time, Belia suddenly had a flash of light in her mind: "Is it based on the different interpretations of the ten crowns among the seven horns?"
"Bingo!" Snapped his fingers in appreciation, Mordred was quite surprised, "I didn't expect you, Belia, to have researched this kind of niche theory. It seems that we two have much more in common than imagined. ah."
"What are you talking about?" Chen Fan, who had finally repaired his lungs and originally planned to pretend to be dead until the end, couldn't help but raise his head and asked curiously when he heard this.
Lowering his head and glancing at Chen Fan, who was resurrected with full health, Mordred did not continue the action of finishing the wound: "Well, you are a poor student and you don't know it's normal. The so-called niche theory refers to those who think that ten crowns are not representative of The City of Seven Hills and Nero Opening His Eyes Three Times are ironic, but refer to the ten schools of Beast.”
"What is Beast?" Chen Fan continued to be confused.
"Tsk, you..." Seemingly helpless and bored with Chen Fan's probing behavior, or perhaps because he was not very clear and was afraid of explaining it wrong, Mordred looked at Belia for help.
Belia was also unambiguous. After noticing Mordred's gaze, she took a sip of water from the bedside table and spoke calmly: "The so-called Beast originally means the number of the names of beasts, which is a revelation recorded in the Bible. The special number is related to the "mark of the beast's name." The most well-known number of the beast's name is the number 666."
"Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast over the first beast, and made the earth and its inhabitants Those who were on earth worshiped the first beast, the one whose mortal wound was healed. He also performed great miracles, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in front of everyone. Because he was in the presence of the beast He deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the miracles he performed, and he advised the inhabitants of the earth to make an image of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and was still alive. And he received power and gave life to the image of the beast, and even gave life to the image of the beast. The image spoke, and caused death to those who did not worship the image of the beast. And it gave everyone, both great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads. Seal; so that no one can buy it, and no one can sell it, except he who has the seal, that is, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. There should be wisdom here: whoever has understanding, let him calculate Look at the number of the beast, for it is a human number, and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.”
Unexpectedly, Chen Fan directly said the original text. This time, let alone Belia and Mordred, even Ye Yi was stunned for a moment before reacting.
Belia couldn't understand Chen Fan's reaction, but Mordred was not so reserved and said directly: "You guys, if you know, don't pretend to be a noob. Pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger has long been a problem. outdated."
"Mao Yao." Rolling his eyes, Chen Fan said that was not the case, "Your missionaries from the Holy Roman Empire often went to our Central Plains to spread their faith. These contents are what I saw in the Bible translation I got when I was a child. I Dad thought it was a good textbook, both in Chinese and English, so he forced me to read it."
Having said this, Chen Fan sat up angrily and said full of resentment: "He didn't even think about it. English exists because missionaries are afraid that readers will misunderstand its meaning, or there are simply some words that are difficult to translate. Please annotate the original text, it’s not just for use as a teaching material, okay?!”
Listening to Chen Fanren's complaints, Mordred directly stepped on his head and pushed him back: "You can't stop talking nonsense! If you want to complain, find a corner and don't disturb me. Listen to Belia’s interpretation!”
After sighing, Mordred pushed him back again. Chen Fan obediently kept his mouth shut in order to avoid being kicked again and breaking his ribs.
Faced with the strange interaction between the two, Belia coughed in confusion, and waited for Mordred to turn around before continuing: "But the beast in the explanation of the Ten Crowns has two other meanings. One of them is both Contains the meaning of 666 disasters in the original Bible, and also refers to the beast of original sin. It is called "human evil" and is a great disaster that has been rejected by human history. It is a collective name for the ten disasters that harm mankind. It is the same as the number of crowns. Ten heads.
Of course, human evil does not refer to humankind's own malice, but to the various disasters that threaten human history and destroy humanity. They were born from human civilization and became more and more powerful with the development of human beings, but they destroyed civilization from the inside of society. They are cancer-like existences.
Because the so-called human evil literally means the stain on mankind and the various disasters that destroy mankind. The more humans develop, the stronger they become, like a cancer eating away at the body from within society. In other words, it is the silt sedimented in history.
But it should be noted that human evil is not evil that destroys mankind based on hostility, but evil that is destroyed by mankind.
Although human evil is evil, it cannot be eradicated. It will occur as long as humans still exist, but humans must overcome it. The so-called human evil also means "evil that destroys human beings" rather than "evil that destroys human beings".
Because it is a disaster caused by human beings' animal nature, it is called "Beast". "
"What about the remaining one?" Chen Fan continued to be a good student, making Mordred, who wanted to ask but couldn't save his face, nod with satisfaction.
"Another way is to think that the ten-headed beast refers to other religions persecuted by Christianity, or similar indigenous beliefs. This statement has similar cases long before the birth of Christianity.
Legend has it that after humans left the surface and came to Yunshang, the Pelasgoi, an indigenous people in Greece during the Age of Gods, once worshiped a unique Mother Earth Goddess. But as Pelasgi was conquered by other peoples and despised, the Earth Mother was described as a monster in later Greek mythology.
Some people think that this monster is the Hydra that was killed by Hercules, while others think that it should refer to Gaia, the god of the earth, because she is a goddess herself and the first super-primitive god. She is the god of the earth. Deity is the first true creator god and one of the original natural forces (the earth) that can create life. Her appearance marks the beginning of chaos changing from disorder to order, and also marks the beginning of the creation of all things.
However, after the Battle of the Titans (Τιτανομαχία), because his descendants were defeated by the grandsons of the Olympus Protoss, who had won the final victory, they threw themselves into Tartarus and entered Chaos, becoming a villain. From the perspective of mythology and religion, the Battle of the Titans was the result of other nations invading the native indigenous peoples and bringing their religious worship with them. "
