Vol 2 Chapter 32

“So a hundred residents brought baskets full of meat to Gulliver’s mouth. The meat was shaped like lamb chops, grilled shiny, and the smell made people drool. A lark’s wings are even smaller. Gulliver can eat two or three pieces in one mouthful, and they feed him bread, which is like a fingernail…”

Esther was telling a story, and her voice was soft, but coherent and compelling. An Xu and her have been together for so long, and An Xu has always listened to Esther when telling stories. I didn’t expect that she also has a talent for storytelling.

She was talking about Gref’s travels, and she was talking about entering Lilliputian. An Xu came down from the wall, stepped on a stone and made a clicking sound, Gref’s Travel Notes immediately became a small confession, and the pitch did not change.

An Xu looked over from a distance, and there was a group of white robes kneeling in the corner, which looked more like a group of ghosts or a group of jellyfish in a meeting under the night. Esther’s voice read a few lines of the Confession, and presently they all closed and began to recite together. If it wasn’t for the new usage of the ability developed by Anxu that made her more discerning than others, if she hadn’t heard what Esther was saying just now, she would definitely not be able to see the difference between these people and other holy people who knelt down and prayed everywhere.

After a while they ended with “praise the light”, stood up one by one, and left as if nothing had happened. There were five or six people gathered there, all of whom were not tall. An Xu squinted his eyes for a while to distinguish, and found Esther’s figure among them. She took a shortcut and climbed over the wall, whispering the primary school girl’s name.

Before coming here, An Xu planned to cover Esther’s mouth as soon as they met, in case the elementary school girl was too timid to scream and cause trouble. Just now, it seems that there is no need to do so. Esther jumped half a step in surprise, but she didn’t cry out. She covered her mouth and looked at An Xu, her eyes suddenly lit up.

“Shh, I’ll take you out!” An Xu said.

However, Esther actually shook her head.

“You want to stay here?” An Xu exclaimed in a low voice, “Why?”

“Thank you, I won’t go, I want to be with them.” Esther said stubbornly in a soft voice.

An Xu looked at the elementary school girl sadly, as if he saw a line of bright red characters appearing in front of him: [Nurture failed].

Oops, I danced for too long after the dream was interrupted (coma), and as soon as I opened my eyes, the little loli who was raised with one hand was about to go on the road of brainwashed neurosis! Is this force majeure? MLM is too scary, children are too easy to be persuaded, it is because the mother is not good and did not let you mix with normal peers… An Xu recalled the unfortunate experience of Mei Shao ○ Dreamworks data deviations, bankruptcy time and time again, only to be a beggar , when she thought that the ending scene of the little cutie was the fanatic who was hanged by Madam Mary, she felt a burst of depression, so she might as well delete the file.

“Okay, you can stay here if you like.” She waved her hand uninterestedly.

“I don’t like it here,” said Esther.

“Huh?” An Xu looked at her, unable to find any logic.

“I’m not the only one who doesn’t like this, but everyone dare not say it.” Esther said, “But this is not God’s rule, it’s just man’s rule! God never said that we can only be saints or women. You have not decided how everyone will be born, live, and die, otherwise there will not be a country of giants and villains outside the fog of the sea, and even strange beasts with wisdom will become the masters of the country…”

An Xu’s mouth moved, feeling a little guilty. Back then when she had nothing to do, she told Esther about Gref’s Travels and Love Through the Mirror. In order to prevent the audience from being shocked the whole time, she temporarily packed it with the background of this world, saying that she read it from a fragment of a book— The civilization of the dark age is almost broken, and no one can guarantee that there is no such thing in the previous history or in the isolated overseas. Travel notes, you can put anything in it, and then think of any modern allusions as anecdotes and transform them into anecdotes. Women are said to be omega, and great scientists are said to be great supernatural beings. It is quite a magic side for science and history. Do-it-yourself fun.

She spoke casually when she was interested, and Esther listened to every word. Judging from her level of retelling the story, she probably remembered 90% of it.

“…There are omega kings in the country where alpha is in power, and in some countries omega can become a great person like alpha, and they can choose to remain unmarried without taking an oath to become a holy person,” Esther talked a little ramblingly, It seems to be trapped in his own thoughts, “An’s story told last time, the strange beast monkey in the story, ah, is a devil who escaped from hell…”

Just as An Xu was about to complain, “What kind of devil is Sun Dasheng? Our **** and heaven are one institution.” Esther suddenly raised her head, her eyes were frighteningly bright.

“The devil feels it’s unfair, can’t he go to heaven to seek justice? God must allow us to question, otherwise the omniscient and omnipotent God will not let this happen.” She said.

“If it wasn’t God’s decision…” She paused, and said to herself, “If you don’t really fight, how do you know you can’t fight?”

In the moonless night, the voice of the girl in white robe resounded faintly, very ghostly. Esther’s dreamy voice was calm and determined, and the thoughts she said had lingered in her mind for a long time.

An Xu returned to the room with a stomach full of disbelief. The aboriginal little white rabbit, who was a devout believer two years ago, suddenly burst into super high consciousness. Even An Xu, who has been working hard to guide her, also felt it. Deeply incredible.

She still didn’t bring Esther out in the end, because Esther didn’t want to escape, and this weak and timid little omega sister actually wanted to fight.

“I don’t want to escape alone,” she said, “I want everyone to understand that it is not God that makes us suffer, but the lusts of fools. Thank you, Ann, for telling me so many things. I am honored to be Your Excellency the Favored One taught, now it is my turn to help others.”

Standing there, she was obviously just a thin and thin girl, but it reminded An Xu of the bodhisattva who made the great wish of “Hell is not empty, and I will never become a Buddha”. Human beings are so incredible, there are crazy and ignorant fanatics, and there are also enlightened people who cry out under many obstacles. Those scientists who were burned to death for the truth, revolutionaries who resisted the millennium’s malpractice and folly for the survival of the country, and the weak who were persecuted by the enemy and compatriots in order to obtain a fair opportunity… They are hidden among the mortal beings, like seeds buried in the soil , a ray of sunshine will germinate.

Why do you keep meeting saints, An Xu thought complicatedly.

She couldn’t help thinking of Chris, whether it was Chris or Esther, each of them was full of great determination that was a bit dull. Anxu thinks she is very self-confident, she is moved, but she has no interest in establishing similar goals; she has no interest in dedicating herself, but she sincerely loves and respects these good people, like a nouveau riche who likes cultural people.

Anxu went to Nancy the next day and told her what Esther said. “Too extreme!” Nancy blurted out, “Speaking lies and using violence for the sake of God’s grace, isn’t it putting the cart before the horse?”

“But there is no way without violence.” An Xu asked.

Nancy shook her head and said, “The mercy of the Lord will rest on every righteous man.”

An Xu was not disappointed with Nancy’s answer. After all, her dream is not a black and white story of elementary school students. Whoever stipulates that a good person must have no shortcomings. Nancy was undoubtedly a good person, but at her age, with such a soft heart, and a lifelong churchgoer, it was not surprising that she would hold such a view.

“Well, if Teacher Nancy hadn’t been like this…” An Xu rubbed his face, swallowed “Holy Mother” or “excessive kindness”, “I wouldn’t have helped me back then.”

“Not entirely,” said Nancy, unexpectedly.

Perhaps touched by Esther’s sudden rebellion, Mrs. Nancy was not as smiling and calm as usual. She sighed and said, “I stood up before the execution was over because I thought you were right. I have traveled through most of Yamenan and met all kinds of people, including those who were ashamed of the gods. Priests, there are also pious and kind believers who are congenitally deficient. I think God’s mercy is a gift for every believer, and there are no people born with God’s rejection.”

“On this point, I agree with Esther.” Nancy smiled bitterly, “There is no need for the Holy See to be the middleman between God and the believers. But even if you think this way, what’s the use? I can’t do anything outside, so I have to Going back to the academy that I left decades ago, I want to find the answer here. You have also seen that even children who once had similar thoughts as me have become part of the Holy See in the end.”

Justified by faith.

In the world of Anxu, when the Holy See used the Atonement Roll to plunder the wealth of the country, some believers also stood up and said that faith was born from the heart, and no one had the power to sell it. That man’s claim was the spark that fell into the wilderness, eventually driving the Reformation and the schism of the ancient religions that engulfed the continent. But here, because of the strange beasts and abilities, the situation is different.

In addition to natural disasters, there are also terrifying beasts staring at human beings. Human beings have gained a firm foothold in their own territory, but they are far from regaining their homeland or even developing with peace of mind. The southern part of Yamo is full of wilderness, and the strange beasts are the masters there. The Holy See has the largest number of supernatural beings in the country, and only kings and nobles rely on the blood passed down from generation to generation to rival them. In a world where hundreds of powerless civilians can be easily wiped out, uprisings are never more than a fleeting spark.

What should we do?

What else can I do?

The blood of a newborn calf is still boiling, but an old man like Nancy has been beaten to death and still can’t see the exit. She returned to the college and became a teacher of characters, like an old hen, gathering the chirping birds under her wings.