Chapter 284: Times Have Changed
As soon as Kong Xiyan showed her head, Gwart's face darkened and he immediately ordered: "Kill her!"
The fully armed killer behind him didn't waste any time and pointed the gun directly at Kong Xiyan and shot.
"Xiyan, be careful!" The queen's nervous reminder was drowned out by the gunshot.
Kong Xiyan's figure was like a rainbow of light, passing from the other side at lightning speed. She grabbed the gun with one hand and kicked the other person's jaw at the same time.
The man holding the gun was very strong. Kong Xiyan failed to snatch the gun back in one fell swoop, so she unloaded the bullet from the opponent's hand. After eliminating the threat, she hit the opponent's face with her elbow three times in a row.
After dealing with the two men, Kong Xiyan turned back to look at Gewat: "Yo~"
"You're just hiding your abilities, you gigolo!" Gwart sneered and drew his sword. "I want you to die miserably under my sword!"
Kong Xiyan drew her gun and pressed the muzzle against Gewart's chest: "Times have changed."
"You!" Gwart choked. "You are such a despicable and shameless Chinese!"
"There's an old Chinese saying: A crow perched on a pig can only see the flaws in others, but not in itself." Kong Xiyan smiled. "At least I'm only pointing a gun at you now, but just now you had someone shoot me! If I weren't so wise and powerful, so domineering, I wouldn't be able to stand on top of the world and look down on all the other mountains..."
"It's about time to brag a little!" Mo Ya appeared at the door with her arms folded across her chest. Her eyes were dark, and it was obvious that she hadn't had a good rest.
"Why are you here! Shouldn't you be..." Gwat was also stunned when he saw Moya appear.
"Shouldn't I be what? Being tied up by your people and taken aboard the Aphrodite? You really underestimate me, the Saint!" Mo Ya chuckled. "I am a wise and powerful Saint, with extraordinary dominance. I will rise to the summit of the world and look down upon all the other mountains..."
"Ahem!" Kong Xiyan interrupted her rudely and raised her eyebrows.
She didn't allow herself to boast, but she did use that phrase.
"In short, this Saint has long anticipated that you have ulterior motives!" Mo Ya then looked at Gwart again and said, "Do you think you can slip away from the Church and fake being kidnapped without my permission?
To tell you the truth, this saint has always had spies in the Vatican.
You, Gwat, are a hereditary bishop of the Holy See, but I, the Saint personally chosen by the Star God!" Mo Ya patted her flat chest, chin raised, and spoke with pride: "From the moment you escaped, you fell into our hands!"
"That's called luring someone into a trap!" Kong Xiyan glanced at Mo Ya. How did she say it? Mo Ya's Chinese is extremely poor!
"It's the same thing anyway." Mo Ya waved her hand and was about to say something else when she saw Gwatt showing a sinister smile.
"Do you think this country will be completely peaceful without me? Don't dream. Even if I'm gone, there's still the Viper Gang from China! This country is completely rotten, rotten to the core!"
"Oh? Really?" Kong Xiyan held the gun against Gewat with one hand and raised her other hand to gently press a certain spot on his neck. Her voice became shrill and arrogant, annoying: "Respected Bishop, have you found the heirloom staff?"
"It's you!" Gwart naturally recognized the voice. He instantly became furious and immediately clenched the sword in his hand and slashed towards Kong Xiyan's face.
Even if he dies here today, he will chop this bastard to death as well!
Kong Xiyan did not give him this opportunity. She held the sword with the butt of the gun, and then stretched out her fingertips to lightly flick a certain part of the sword, which made Gwart's palm numb and painful, and he couldn't even hold the sword.
With a "click", the sword fell to the ground. Gwart held his hand which was numb from the shock, his eyes full of hatred.
"Are you angry already? You should have expected this when you held the king and queen hostage, right?" Kong Xiyan spread her hands. "As a bishop of the Xing Ertang Church, you did something like this that stabbed the king and the country..."
"What do you know? This country is rotten to the core! There's no hope! Absolutely no hope!" Gwart waved his hand. "My father spent his entire life trying to save everything, and what happened?"
"What did your father save? He organized a repair team to fix the old circuit, which resulted in the death of thirteen believers near the Vatican. Wow, he worked so hard! He even controlled the number of people just right. It must have been difficult!" Kong Xiyan shook her head, the contempt in her eyes undisguised: "He used the believers' faith in the Star God as a means to manipulate power and disregard human lives. Is such a person worthy of being a bishop?
Gwart, don't tell me you don't know what he did!"
"You don't understand! You don't understand anything! Father had no choice. At that time, due to the impact of technology, religious believers were becoming fewer and fewer, and less and less sincere. The royal family even unilaterally tore up the agreement, and the prince abandoned my sister to marry a Chinese man!"
"Vivian and I are just brother and sister. She doesn't love me at all. This kind of marriage has no meaning except to consolidate the power of the Holy See. Everyone will be miserable!" King Leon looked at Gwart, and at that moment he understood the old king's struggle and pain.
I watched my best friend, who I grew up with, fall into paranoia, go further and further astray, and drift further and further apart, but I felt helpless.
The more I tried to hold on to him, the more I pushed him away.
"That's just your one-sided story!" Gwat glared at King Leon, "You just think the Vatican is getting in the way and slowing down your reforms!
And this time, you clearly knew how important yesterday was to the Vatican, yet you still did it. You destroyed the Vatican and my faith!" Gwart's eyes were red. "From the moment the Star God chose the Chinese, he completely betrayed the Vatican and me!"
"Wasn't it the Church that betrayed the Star God first?" Kong Xiyan looked at Gewart. "You speak as if you were a perfect victim. Which of those thirteen people burned alive by the Church wasn't the most devout believer of the Star God? After such a thing happened, you still expect the Star God to continue to believe in you? Have some shame!"
Hearing about those thirteen people, Gwart's expression froze. That was a memory he didn't want to talk about, but at this moment, he still had a paranoid look on his face: "Since they are followers of the Holy See, they should be prepared to sacrifice their lives for the Holy See at any time!"
"No..." A man's voice came from the door. He looked at Gwart in disbelief, his legs bent and he fell to the ground: "It's not like that! No!"
"Dean..." Seeing Dean being escorted here, Gwart's eyes finally wavered.
At this moment, everything that had been gray in the past was once again painted with a layer of fresh color.
That night many years ago, flames shot up into the sky.
Qiqi has something to say: The temperature in Zhejiang has dropped significantly, and I suddenly caught a cold and had a fever last night. The chapter that was originally scheduled to be updated in the early morning was not finished until tonight. Now the fever has subsided, and I will update as usual tomorrow.
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