Chapter 309: The Awakening of the People of Ice City
An Ning's sudden outburst made many people in Ice City wake up.
The Chinese people are not unaware of the perfunctory attitude of other countries. At that time, some people blamed Lin Zhen for offending the Divine Cult, which led to many foreign senior officials standing idly by and watching China's predicament. But now it seems that Lin Zhen was right to offend them. These bastards are really not human beings.
An Ning is right. Who is Bingcheng relying on to survive until now?
The country said that Lin Zhen could make any request he wanted, but Lin Zhen chose to build a city wall for Ice City, and he paid 600 billion yuan out of his own pocket. Not only did he not gain any advantage, but he also suffered a great loss.
Now, tens of millions of people in Ice City are able to survive because of Lin Zhen’s selfless act, otherwise the Ice City would have fallen because of that wave of water monsters.
Look at Lin Zhen’s selflessness, and then look at the performance of the Divine Religion during this monster siege. Is Lin Zhen right, or is the Divine Religion right?
Some people who believed in the religion of God began to waver and struggle in their hearts.
On the front line of resistance against the mutant beasts, the crowd was silent.
A girl's voice, a little hoarse, said, "Sister An Ning, I support your opinion. Brother Lin has done so much for the people of his hometown, and the way the God Cult behaves is disheartening. I have long been fed up with them. From today on, I will no longer believe in that son of a bitch Star God!"
People looked over and found a beautiful girl standing in the crowd. She fiercely tore off the symbol of the Starry Sky Cult on his clothes and then stepped on it.
An Ning glanced at the girl and smiled, "I know you. Your name is Zhao Xiaoman, right?"
"Yes, Sister An Ning, you actually know me. I'm so happy."
Zhao Xiaoman ran to An Ning cheerfully, took An Ning's arm in a familiar manner, and then stretched out a slender jade finger to point at the people around who were confused: "What's wrong with you guys? You still want to defend that damn cult at this time, right? Are you all crazy or something? For that illusory thing, you don't even know who saved your life, right? If you think the cult is more important than your life, then go and die for your cult. Don't stay in the wall built by Brother Lin and curse Brother Lin. I'm ashamed for you! Bah!"
Some of the followers of the Divine Religion immediately became red-faced after being scolded. Meng Dong from the Liefeng Martial Arts School was the first to pull on the shoulder, without seeing clearly what fell down, and then imitated Zhao Xiaoman and ruthlessly kicked with his foot: "Fuck the Divine Religion, I won't serve you anymore!"
Everything becomes much easier when someone takes the lead. The actions of Zhao Xiaoman and Meng Dong resonated with many people and immediately set off a frenzy on the battlefield.
Feng Ni turned around and looked at the people from the Northwest Army: "Who among you still believes in the Starry Sky Religion? Take that thing away for me! We Northwesters have always relied on our own strength to fight. Can faith replace the swords and guns in your hands? "
Many people in the northwest simply tore off the symbols of the cult and trampled them into the dirt.
Tang Wenbo also turned around and looked at the warriors of the Demon City: "Our Demon City is close to the sea, and we may even face sea monsters during the battle. Whoever still believes in that shitty cult, I will throw him to the sharks next time!"
The warriors from the Demon City were also very decisive, and there was a burst of tearing sounds.
Afterwards, people like Zhao Liang and Shi Lei from Bingcheng followed suit. Yang Jianying from Bikong laughed and said, "We at Bikong Martial Arts School have already thrown the Starry Sky Cult's stuff into the garbage dump. We don't need that stuff."
In the end, even Ma Yao, Wei Li and other Fierce Wind Warriors who were originally at odds with Lin Zhen did the same.
When things really reached their climax, the mayor of Ice City Base City, Lu Ming, gave a speech on TV.
"People of Ice City, compatriots from all over the country, our Ice City has experienced a few days of suffering. Facing an unprecedented siege by mutant beasts, we united as one, fought bravely, and defended our city, our home, with our blood and lives."
"But in this battle, we cannot forget Lin Zhen's contribution to our Ice City. Without his precautions, Ice City would no longer exist. To be honest, as the mayor, I am ashamed that I did not pay attention to Lin Zhen's proposal at the time. I have also considered building a city wall along the river, but the cost was too high and I never made up my mind."
"But why did Lin Zhen do this? He even gave up any request he could make to the country, and instead took out 600 billion from his own pocket to build waterways along the river to help us resist this wave of beast tide."
At this point, Lu Ming was a little angry: "Look at the God Religion that we have believed in for thousands of years. What have they done for us? Not only did they refuse to send support, they even used their power to incite the war gods of other countries not to come to support us, and almost completely destroyed our Ice City!"
"What is he doing with such a sect's beliefs? What is he doing with defending them?"
"As the mayor of Ice City, I now suggest that you take off the symbols of the Divine Religion on your body, take out the Divine Religion scriptures in your home, and throw these things into the trash. Our fate is up to us, not some gods!"
Lu Ming’s order can be seen not only by the people in Ice City, but also by people across the country and even the whole world.
These words caused a huge wave in Ice City. People took to the streets, tore down churches, and burned everything related to the religion. Occasionally, a few stubborn believers were even beaten to death by the angry crowd.
Afterwards, China's Northwest Base City, Capital Base City, and Magic City Base City took the lead in responding to Bingcheng's call and began a vigorous withdrawal from the religion.
Then the two base cities of Nanfang and Tianfu also started large-scale anti-Cult demonstrations. After all, China is a whole. If the Cult can do this to Bingcheng, it can do the same to other cities in the future.
The people are not fools. As a saying in the AD calendar goes, the eyes of the masses are sharp. Believing in religion is a kind of spiritual sustenance in these last days, and now this spiritual sustenance is about to collapse.
What people believe in more is strength. This is an era of nationwide martial arts training, and people are becoming more and more aware of this.
The Chinese are simple and kind, but also wise. They can be as gentle as sheep, or roar like lions.
Before, China was the country with the largest number of believers in the world. Of the one billion believers of theism in the world, China accounted for 350 million.
After Lin Zhen and the Divine Religion started to confront each other, the number of believers kept declining. Before the Ice City incident, the number of Divine Religions in China had already dropped by 100 million! After the Ice City incident, there was a nationwide wave of people quitting the Divine Religion. Churches were destroyed everywhere, and the number of believers kept decreasing. In just two days, the number of believers in China dropped to 80 million!
Moreover, this number is still declining. As for the Ice City area, it is almost impossible to find true believers of the religion.
The mutant beasts outside, like a tide, gave people too much pressure to survive. Lin Zhen’s incident was a fuse, and the inaction and even hindrance of the cult were the main reasons, leading to the unprecedented unity of the Chinese people.
“A single spark can start a prairie fire.”
An Ning stood on the top of the city wall and spoke softly.
At this time, she missed Lin Zhen very much and wondered how Lin Zhen was doing now.
"My love, our home is still there, you must come back safely."
******** The events in China caught the Holy See off guard.
“Crack!”
Yan Huang threw the white jade wine glass hard onto the marble floor and shattered it into pieces.
"Damn Lin Zhen, he's almost at his wit's end in the City of Ancient Gods, yet he still does this to me. He's really haunting me!"
Yan Huang was extremely furious. It was right to arrest Lin Zhen's parents, but the Chinese government lodged a strong protest against this matter and demanded that the Vatican must guarantee the safety of Lin Zhen's parents and that the situation of Lin Zhen's parents be broadcast live.
If this demand cannot be met, it means that the Holy See is the enemy of China.
Moreover, the Warriors Association also demanded from the Holy See that it must ensure the safety of Lin Zhen's parents, and claimed that the Holy See's actions violated the rules. They could not guarantee that future events would not develop in a direction that was unfavorable to the Holy See.
Facing the pressure from China and the Warriors Federation, although Yan Huang captured Lin Zhen's parents, he did not dare to do anything to them easily. He even had to keep them well fed and well-dressed. After all, they were the ones who did something wrong.
Therefore, Yan Huang had to release a video of Lin Zhen’s parents every day to calm the anger of the outside world.
But this wave of quitting the church was something he had not expected.
Originally, the matter of Lin Liye and his wife had been gradually settled thanks to his mediation. As long as Lin Zhen was captured, everything would be fine. However, he did not expect that mutant beasts would attack Ice City.
However, the two city walls that Lin Zhen spent a huge amount of money to build were of great use, saving Ice City from falling and making Lin Zhen's popularity in China unprecedentedly high.
Now the public opinion of the whole of China is leaning towards Lin Zhen. This kid has once again become a national hero, and his influence is almost comparable to Yan Qiye of China hundreds of years ago.
And some heads of state who are as stupid as pigs made a decision that almost made Yan Huang burst a blood vessel. They actually tampered with the issue of aid to China. Is such a thing possible?
It's fine if you did it, but you should do it cleanly. If things are not done well, the blame will be entirely on the religion.
But Yan Huang had no way back. He had to stick to the end no matter what. He firmly believed that as long as Lin Zhen was killed, there would still be room for maneuver. Slowly, the reputation of the Divine Religion would be gradually restored.
"How's the progress in the City of Ancient Gods? It's been almost two months! Is there still no news about Lin Zhen? There's less than a month left before I announce my wedding, but now there's nothing going on and my planned bride has directly betrayed the cult. Am I supposed to get married to the empty air?" Yan Huang roared angrily.
"Your Majesty, there is news. Adams' team sent back a message saying that they have found Lin Zhen's location and are approaching."
"Tell them to hurry up, otherwise all the believers of my cult will run away!"
Yan Huang stood in front of the window and looked at the night sky, holding the starry crown in his hand. He knew that he had to win the matter between Lin Zhen and Su Mingyue. Once he lost, the Divine Cult would be doomed.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
