Ember Gun

  Chapter 457 Questions and Answers

  The warm sun rises from the end of the sea level and shines on the devastated ground. People are looking at all of this in confusion. Although seven days have passed since the day of the incident, everyone still feels unreal.

  My familiar homeland turned into scorched earth overnight, with corpses and blood everywhere, like a sudden nightmare, but this nightmare has no end, and there will be no time to wake up from the dream.

  This unexpected incident has not yet been given any official explanation. The atmosphere in the Maruri port has become depressed. The warship unabashedly docked to the side, and the soldiers' gazes cut everyone in the line of sight like sharp knives.

  When the people were panicking, the Orthodox Church appeared in front of everyone. They comforted the people, but they did not deliberately go to preach. The hospital was already overcrowded, and most of the civilians who were not seriously injured were accepted and treated by the Orthodox Church.

  As the core area of ​​the battle, the theater square was sealed off, and it was not reopened until today. Devotees of the Orthodox Church gathered here one after another. They knew exactly what to do today.

Seven days ago, the Orthodox Pope should have enthroned here, but the sudden explosion and fighting stopped all of this. The believers were very worried about the Pope’s situation. There are rumors that the Pope was injured in the chaos, and there are rumors. It is said that what happened on the night of the enthronement is not only known to people, but it seems that believers of the gospel church also appeared here and clashed with believers of the Orthodox Church.

  In short, there are many, many, many strange conjectures. The devout believers call that night the night of misery. In order to calm everyone's suspicion and anxiety, the Orthodox Church will re-enforce the throne ceremony here and give everyone an answer.

  In the Orthodox church, the man is looking at the mirror to organize his clothes. From time to time outside the window, there are painful wailing. The nuns are walking among the buildings with **** bandages, and the smell of blood is reverberating in the air.

  With all the preparations, the man reached out his hand and picked up the dark mask on the side and put it on his face.

  Looking at himself in the mirror, as if facing the abyss in the mirror, his sight did not stay for too long. Lawrence had something to do today, so he turned around and was about to leave the room.

  His movements suddenly stopped. I don't know when the girl has been standing by the door, she seems to have been waiting for herself.

  Liya saw Lawrence looking at her, she lowered her head slightly, as if she was afraid to see Lawrence, her mouth made strange noises, intermittently, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't say anything because of tension.

   "What's the matter? Child."

  A gentle voice rang from under the mask, and Lawrence walked to the girl's side and stroked her head with pity.

Lawrence remembered this child, her name was Liya. Before the night of suffering, she was a lively and cheerful child, but after the night of suffering, Liya was completely silent. She used to be full of light, but now she is a whole person. Swallowed by the shadows.

   Her gaze was swept up and down, the girl was still wearing a bandage, the fireworks burned her body, and the corner of her cheek was bandaged. It seemed that she didn't want to be seen by others. She deliberately grew her hair to block it.

   "I heard everyone say that you are recruiting soldiers, right? They say you want to form an army..."

  Liya’s voice is very timid. Maybe she would say this to Lawrence generously before, but now she is like a frightened little animal, wary of everything.

   looked up slightly, a pair of horrified eyes could be seen in the gap between the head curtain, but Lawrence saw something interesting further down.

"Yes."

  Lawrence moved a chair, brought one for Liya, and motioned her to sit down.

  A warm light fell from the window, Lawrence turned her back to the light, and Liya looked at the somewhat disturbing mask again, but all she could see was the darkness of the backlight, as if Lawrence’s face turned into a shadow in her eyes.

   "I saw anger in your eyes, do you want to join the fighters? Revenge for your friends?"

  Listening to Lawrence's words, Liya was panicked. She did not expect that her thoughts would be so easily seen through by Lawrence.

"Sorry, I……"

Liya apologized at a loss. She began to regret coming to see Lawrence. The so-called courage was not worth mentioning. What she wanted to do was to hold the sword and kill the enemy, but the conversation with Lawrence could not continue normally. .

   "There is nothing I'm sorry, but I want to ask you, is revenge important to you?"

   Lawrence asked.

   "I... they ruined all this and killed my friend. I want revenge. I want to do this. This is very important."

  Liya worked hard to muster the courage.

   "Huh? Then who is your enemy?"

   Lawrence asked again, and he continued.

   "I can tell you who they are. That guy is Lorenzo Holmos, but after all he is not your real enemy."

   "It's not him... who is it then?"

  Lia was overjoyed when she heard Lorenzo's name. The monster in her nightmare finally had a name, but when she heard the second half of Lawrence, she became confused again.

   "I saw it with my own eyes, he killed so many people, he even... even killed you."

Liya's voice became pious. Lawrence's death did not bring panic to the believers. In their opinion, Lawrence was the savior in the night of misery. He saved everyone. His resurrection was the most perfect divine power. reflect.

Within the Orthodox Church, this divine power has been known to a certain extent. The insiders called it secret blood. After the night of suffering, Lawrence announced that he would form an army that is favored by God. The insiders are eager to join the army of God. .

   "So? Actually, I am not opposed to such things as revenge, but I think revenge is a very meaningless thing, no... it can accurately say that it can'change' too few things."

  If it were not for the unknown mask on his face, Lawrence was like a priest who enlightened young people at the moment.

   "What can you do if you kill Lorenzo, he also has friends, and his friends will come to avenge you, and then your friends will fall into this cycle, the cycle of hatred, endless."

   "Then you mean let me forgive him for all this, so that this sinner can live in peace like this?"

Liya's voice rose up, saying that she couldn't help crying here. For the past seven days, she could always dream of Hu Ao's death. He grabbed Lorenzo's feet and prayed for his mercy like a dog. But the devilish guy still lost his sword.

   "No... I just said that there are too few things that revenge can ‘change’. It’s just the anger in your heart. The rest of it can’t ‘change’ anything.”

   Lawrence said softly.

"I always think that holding a sword is a very serious matter. We hold the sword to kill the enemy and kill the lives. This is the most unacceptable atrocities of God. Then we would rather kill the enemy against the will of God, presumably for something greater. Something right.

  What to ‘change’. "

  Liya did not understand Lawrence's words, she was like a confused student, quietly listening to Lawrence's teaching.

   "Who is Lorenzo? He is not your enemy. He is just a person who disagrees with you. The hatred is just a disguise.

  You want me to survive, and he wants me to die forever. After all, these tragic deaths are just conflicts of opinions and positions. "

  Lawrence took up the handkerchief and wiped away tears for Liya.

"We can call him a heresy for the time being, and you will encounter many such heretics in your future life, ranging from small conflicts of preferences to large conflicts of beliefs. These people are your potential enemies, and they are all possible. Swing a sword at you for noble or ridiculous reasons.

  Yes, that’s it, endless conflicts, this is the inferiority of mankind, the curse of mankind, we will fight because of the difference in sweetness and spicy, we will fight because of the different people we support, and we will fight for the different things we desire. "

   "Then...what should I do?"

  Liya couldn’t understand, these things were still too complicated for her.

"I have no idea."

  Lawrence suddenly gave such an answer.

"Actually, I don’t know what you should do. After all, this is your problem. No one can make a decision for you. Only you can make a decision. At best, I just give advice, and no one knows this. Everything is the correct answer, isn’t it? So we have to try it ourselves and find the answer in our attempt."

  Perhaps because the next thing will be one of his own great journeys, Lawrence rarely calmed down and chatted with the girl about all this.

  "Did you find the answer?" Liya asked.

"I found it, but I don’t know if it’s right or wrong... but it doesn’t matter. Before I truly fail, no one can say that all this is wrong, just like you can also take revenge. Before you kill him, no one can judge the right or wrong of your answer."

Liya gradually let go of her timidity, and she found that Lawrence was still very kind, although the dark mask was disturbing.

   "Then what is your question? What is your answer?"

   Liya asked awkwardly, but she regretted it after she asked. She actually dared to ask Lawrence about this kind of thing, but the expected rage was different. Lawrence didn't react much, but said calmly.

"My problem is an enemy, a very powerful enemy, it will kill everyone, and I want to defeat it, but many people are like Lorenzo, these heretics hold different ideas from mine and have different ideas. The interests of... we can’t be united, not only that, they will hinder me and try to kill me.

  I was troubled by this for a long time, and then I thought of a solution. "

   Lawrence said.

"Strength, absolute force, I need to become very strong, so strong that I don’t need the assistance of others, nor will I be afraid of the interference of the heretics. As long as I become strong enough, the swords of the heretics will be vulnerable to me. , If they want to get in my way, then they run over, if they rebel against me, then they kill them all until only my voice is left."

  Under the calm voice is the corpse mountain and corpse sea.

   "Could it be...can't understand each other?"

   Liya asked innocently, and the blood under Lawrence's words almost suffocated her.

   "Then can you understand Lorenzo Holmos?"

   Lawrence asked rhetorically.

"Do you believe in others? Do you still remember what you thought in your heart when those people came to kill us? Let me guess, you must be wondering, right? You don't understand why they did this. It was only the first time we met. , Even the name is not clear, the two people who have nothing to do with each other, just start a life-and-death battle for ridiculous reasons?

  Do you believe or even pray for understanding? "

  Lawrence seems to be asking Liya, but Liya’s face overlaps with another familiar face in his eyes.

  Lorenzo Medici, you are willing to believe and understand, but you have failed.

  I will never set foot on your old road and repeat the same mistakes.

"This is my answer, what I should do, use absolute force to change everything, and so is your revenge. The change you have to do is not only to kill Lorenzo, but to connect his friends and everything to him. The heretics uprooted together and cut off the cycle of hatred."

   The face under the mask has long been distorted, and Lawrence has waited too long for all of this. He will never forget the burning wilderness in his memory, and he will never forget the demon hunters who died beside him.

   "There will be no more heresy at that time. Everyone will only listen to one voice and one will. If human beings cannot be united together, then I will let them unite."

   Lawrence asked now.

"So do you think your revenge is still important? Your enemy is not only Lorenzo, but all heretics. These people are endless. Only absolute force can make them surrender and make them live under the fear of power. ."

  "But this...what will you do afterwards?"

  Liya didn't feel any fear, she was just a little upset, very upset.

  Lawrence laughed suddenly, with some helplessness in his voice.

"After this? I want to defeat my enemy and save the world... Don’t you believe it? In fact, many people don’t believe it, but I am too lazy to say this to others. I really just want to save the world. There are simple and even naive reasons."

  Lawrence looked at the warm sun outside the window, and he felt pretty good after saying this to Liya for some reason.

   "No, I believe it, let me join too."

  Liya said loudly.

Lawrence is right. Her enemy is not Lorenzo. Lorenzo is just one of her enemies. Even if Lorenzo is killed, many enemies will appear. They will ruin Liya's beauty and cause suffering. The tragedy of the night repeats itself.

"Are you sure? You will kill people and make mistakes. Even God can't save you and me. This is a broken road, just like walking on an ice surface. The ice surface will continue to shatter as you progress. ...This road has only two endings in the end, falling in the cold wind, or falling into the cold deep sea and drowning."

  Lawrence intimidated and seduced the girl.

  “But correspondingly, you will also get a lot. You will accomplish what you expect, and you will have your paradise. Maybe you can’t enjoy it all, but the one you love will live on it.”

   "I do, Master."

Liya replied again, this time she was extremely firm.

   "Okay, I promised you, Liya."

  Lawrence stood up as he said, he said suddenly when he passed Liya.

   "But stop calling me the headmaster."

Liya did not understand Lawrence's meaning, she also stood up, turned around and saw that some believers had been waiting at the door for some time. They raised the tray of red cloth, and Lawrence took them in Liya's gaze. The crown on the top was worn on the head.

   "You should call me Mianxia."

   Lawrence said.

  (End of this chapter)