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Su Yun once again joined the army on the battlefield.
Su Yun has participated in many wars, but his attitude towards human wars has become increasingly indifferent, from curiosity and expectation in the beginning, to personal experience later, and then to indifference now.
Su Yun no longer cared about war, an inseparable event in human history. He could understand intellectually that it was a method and way to plunder resources, but he was not emotionally moved by it. Even if there was blood and corpses everywhere in front of him, he would not even look at it.
Su Yun suddenly found that he was unable to understand the killing.
70
Wars caused by religion and race are the most brutal.
It is impossible for human beings to forgive and understand each other, so the survival and growth of civilization is also to constantly exclude dissidents and plunder resources. Religion divides people into natural factions, and different factions will inevitably fight each other, and then either one side destroys the other, or a compromise is reached.
Su Yun's identity this time meant that he didn't need to pick up a sword or a gun. He was just a priest accompanying the army. All he needed to do was pray for victory and bring peace of mind to the casualties.
It must be said that Su Yun's reputation, which was almost like that of a saint, doubled the effect of his ability to comfort the wounded. All the wounded who saw him seemed to have forgotten the pain. They talked and laughed and sang hymns. The warm atmosphere made everyone smile.
It is hard to imagine that this group of harmonious and friendly people... not long ago they were using swords to chop open another person's stomach or head. They were strangers who had never met each other before, but they deeply hated each other.
Because of her identity, Julia has always been by the side of God the Father. She does not wear a heavy mask, but wears a black robe like her God. Unfortunately, Julia's satin-like silver hair and crystal-like purple eyes seem weird to people. People avoid her, and there are even rumors that Julia is actually a "devil tamed by a saint."
Julia gladly accepted the title.
Su Yun squatted beside a seriously wounded soldier. The soldier looked very young, probably only sixteen or seventeen years old. Due to malnutrition, he looked even younger than his youth. His thin body was like a skinny sapling. A piece of flesh was scraped off his throat. Miraculously, the soldier did not die on the spot, but such an injury could not be cured, and he was still going to die.
The young man's uncle was guarding him.
Everyone looked at the priest, they all knew
No one knew who he was and had heard of his reputation. No one would question his sainthood. Even if there was, the doubt would be dispelled when they met this priest.
The priest's eyes and long hair are both tranquil black. When he looks at you, you will feel an unprecedented tranquility, a sense of happiness as if everything about you is included. His eyes are addictive and make people want to worship. If even he is not the messenger of the Lord, then who is qualified?
The young soldier opened his mouth in vain, looking expectantly at the priest who was squatting beside him. He saw his own reflection in those eyes - he was going to die, he was going to be liberated.
The soldier's throat was broken and he could not make any sound. He just stared at Su Yun. Su Yun initially thought that he wanted to be treated, but he did not expect that the soldier's uncle spoke for his nephew.
"Sir..." his uncle asked hesitantly, "This child, can he go to heaven? He fights for God, so he must be able to do it, right?"
Looking at the dying boy on the ground, Su Yun was silent for a moment: "Okay."
So everyone laughed, including the dying boy.
Soon the young man died. Su Yun closed his eyes and watched his soul slowly fly out of his body.
"Father God is so merciful." Julia looked at the boy's soul and smiled softly, "Being on the verge of death turned out to be the happiest moment in this child's life... Alas, what a pitiful person."
"Yeah?"
Su Yun stood up and walked towards the next wounded person.
The crowd looked at him with longing eyes, eyes that expected to be saved, confused and sincere, ignorant and passionate.
The whispers of the people reached Su Yun's ears, and every word seemed to be filled with devout faith:
"Your Excellency must be the reincarnation of a saint... He brings the gospel of the Lord..."
"The war will be won..."
"They are heretics. Our Lord is omniscient and omnipotent. Our prayers will definitely be heard by Him..."
"Yes...will lead us to heaven..."
Heaven? However, there is no heaven in the sky, only the palace of gods. All the dead souls can get is eternal sleep. They leave the painful and joyful mortal world silently and finally settle into part of the palace of gods.
There is no bliss in this world.
71
Su Yun stayed in the barracks of seriously injured soldiers every day, facing the cruelest scenes of war. Hundreds of years had passed, but the death rate of the wounded was almost the same.
Changed.
Wound infection and blood loss remain the leading causes of death, followed by plague.
People have become accustomed to using spiritual comfort to resist physical pain. They long for deathbed confessions from priests, and everyone firmly believes that they can go to heaven and escape from the sufferings of the world.
When the Protestant alliance achieved a phased victory, their front line advanced one step forward. Su Yun followed the army to the land they had just occupied. There were also fortresses and city walls here, but there were piles of corpses on the walls, both enemy and friendly.
The plague struck again, and the mountains of corpses breed the plague. Mosquitoes, snakes, and rats flee among the corpses, carrying the disease to more distant places.
Su Yun stood in a daze for a long time in front of the city wall that seemed to be decorated with corpses, and Isis immediately gave the order to clean it up.
"It's so disrespectful to abandon the dead bodies." Isis was very distressed and a little angry. "They should all be burned or buried. The best way is of course to reuse them... Leaving the bodies exposed will only cause them to rot and then breed insects. This is the most wasteful way!"
Isis's concept of "disrespecting corpses" does not mean exposing the corpses in the wild. His "disrespect" refers to not making full use of them.
So the victorious army began to clean up the fortress that had become a trophy. They burned and buried the rotten corpses. As the plague raged, the army brought by Isis was finally replaced by divine servants.
If Isis was a human lord, then all his subordinates would be dead—perhaps he himself was dead too.
However, in the eyes of humans, Isis's army did not lose a single person from beginning to end, which further established Su Yun's reputation. Moreover, compared with the priests of ancient sects, what he did could truly be regarded as "saving the world."
The status of pastors and priests in the Old Church was extremely high. They stayed in luxurious churches, and all ceremonies, including baptism, worship prayers, weddings, funerals and even deathbed confessions, were charged high fees. There were no priests in the Old Church army.
Su Yun, Isis and Julia walked into the fortress gate together, and everyone bowed to him wherever he passed.
72
The Protestant allies advanced triumphantly and won a series of victories.
Morale was at its highest point at this time, and the old faction was unwilling to accept defeat. They tried every possible means, from on the battlefield to off the battlefield, even including assassinating Su Yun - although those assassins knelt down in submission as soon as they saw Su Yun.
Su Yun didn't feel anything yet, but a few little plagues
They were very dissatisfied with this, so they replaced all those who came with the intention of assassination and finally converted with servants of the gods. As for what would happen to the original humans, Su Yun did not ask.
Alice went straight to killing all the people who gave the orders, and in order to fill in these indispensable roles in the script, Julia had to use the divine servants to replace them again.
The assassin's conversion brought Su Yun's reputation to the highest peak. Now Su Yun has become the spiritual leader of the new sect alliance, but Su Yun has no sense of reality about this. He just feels a little confused.
With a story like this - a story whose final ending and every plot have already been determined, will he continue to play this role?
Yes.
The script was written by Julia, the roles were arranged by Jasmine, Alice and Theresa were forming alliances, and Anita's little snake would quietly crawl up and lick the corners of Su Yun's mouth every night...
His creations love this kind of game.
And when Isis excitedly said that the final battle that would determine the outcome was about to begin, Su Yun looked into those green eyes and thought that he should continue to play the role of this "saint".
He wanted to accompany Isis to the battle and then watch Isis win.
But now it is no longer the little plagues who accompany Su Yun into the mortal world. They have already found their own fun in the mortal world, and it is Su Yun who accompanies them instead.
Maybe it's the same thing from beginning to end and there's never any difference.
73
The decisive battle has finally begun.
Su Yun was not wearing armor, he was still wearing the black robe, following far behind the army, and finally he rode his horse up the hill behind the battlefield.
Here, Su Yun can take in the entire battlefield.
Isis was accompanying Su Yun. The troops under Isis's command were all cavalry. What he had to do was to attack and divide the battlefield from top to bottom when the fighting was at its fiercest, and then reap the lives of the enemies.
The advance troops have already engaged the enemy. Their flags are different, but they are flying the same majestic emblem. Shouts of killing resound through the sky. Stones are constantly thrown from the distant castle, creating bloody pits in the wilderness in front of the city wall.
As arrows rained down, the distant city wall caught fire, and soon, flames also started in the wilderness.
Looking at the hellish scene before her, Isis smiled and said to her father God:
“Father God, I am going.”
Su Yun turned around and looked at him. He was a little surprised to find that Isis's eyes were dyed crimson, which was the reflection of the fire and blood.
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