God said he likes you

The blade cut through the air and left traces on the ancient ship's side. The wood produced a scorching smell due to the violent and rapid friction. The keel of the cargo ship fell apart in the fierce battle between the two, and the harsh sound resounded throughout the exhibition room.

Shen Shinian held the knife with one hand, and the cracked bones in his left hand hadn't been fully repaired, and the metal that came from nowhere covered his wound, temporarily stopping the blood for him.

But the injury on the time side was even more serious. His knees were bloody and his joints and tendons were completely ruptured. He could only support his body on one leg. He supported himself on the side of the boat with one hand, and the wooden board behind him was almost completely painted red.

"Do you want to kill me?" Time raised his head, staring at the person opposite and said.

The battle is not over yet, no matter what kind of injuries they have with their strong healing abilities, they are only temporary. At this time, whoever is more tolerant and forgets the pain will be the ultimate winner.

Shen Shinian didn't answer his question, he threw away the knife that had been chopped off countless times, and walked towards the time with his bare hands. He pinched the opponent's collar and beat him hard on the already swollen side face. punch.

Time heard the sound of teeth cracking, and a large amount of blood gushed out of his mouth, flowing from his lips that could not be closed because of the pain.

Even so, he still had the strength to say: "Come on, kill me, aren't you the judge? You should have killed many people like me, right?"

Shen Shinian raised his leg and hit him mercilessly with his knee again. Time suddenly coughed and panted violently. All the cells in his body were giving warnings. In order to maintain his vitality, his heart had to work three times faster. Violent beating.

He pinched Time's chin and said coldly, "I'll ask you one last time, where is he?"

Shi Shi suddenly laughed, showing his blood-stained teeth, with a particularly crazy expression: "He is about to become a god...Brother, I am so happy, really happy."

Shen Shinian let go, just clenched into a fist, but time suddenly grabbed his shoulder, smashed it hard with the head, the skull hit the opponent's jaw, then pushed hard, shouted, and pressed him to the ground. on the floor.

Shi Shi raised his fist, but Shen Shinian caught it. This hand was twisted, but the other hand hit Shen Shinian's face.

At this moment, the strength of the two of them was almost exhausted, and they could no longer play any tricks. They could only punch each other, like children fighting without any skills at all.

Shi Shi bit Shen Shinian's arm, and Shen Shi Nian pulled his hair. The two of them rolled on the ground and punched at the same time. Their fists collided, and they were deadlocked in the air.

Shen Shinian bent his knees and forcibly kicked time away, but the opponent's teeth still refused to let go, taking away a piece of flesh from his arm.

Shen Shinian half-kneeled, pressed Time on the ground, Time stared at him, and spat out what was in his mouth, Shen Shinian strangled his neck tightly, his expression as cold as ice.

"Our Father in heaven..." Shi Shi punched out his fist and hit his chest hard again. He gritted his teeth and said this prayer, "May the world honor you as holy..."

Shen Shinian held down his chest with several broken ribs, and kept hitting his head.

"... May your kingdom come."

His head was bleeding, his eyes were fixed on the unreachable ceiling, and he murmured to himself: "May your wishes be on the ground..."

"Bam—"

Shen Shinian covered his face with his whole hand, lifted his head and smashed it hard on the floor.

"As...as if walking in heaven..."

"...deliver us from evil...for the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours..."

"Forever."

Because his heart was working at an overload, he would soon run out of oxygen, his mind gradually became blurred, his eyeballs were rolled up, and a few tears were forced out of the corners of his eyes.

"Brother...Brother...Brother..."

The prayer gradually turned into an unconscious murmur, and he paused for a long time every time a syllable was grinded out of his throat, and finally he was almost too weak to hear.His face was as pale as paper, his throat could be broken at any time, and his heartbeat gradually slowed down.

His life is being lost.

Shen Shinian closed his eyes, he could hear the heavy heartbeat in his body, the intense pain spread from his chest to all his limbs, he trembled uncontrollably, but his hands never slowed down.

Finally, he could no longer feel the pulsation at the side of his neck in his palm, his brain went blank, his fingers seemed to be frozen and unable to move, only the sound of his tight breathing was left around.

After opening his eyes, Shen Shinian looked at the body that had lost its vitality, lowered his eyes, lifted the boy's heavy shoulders, and slowly embraced him in his arms, tightening his arms more and more.

He was silent, his eyes were more silent than before, no one knew the crack in his heart, where the cold wind was blowing and the glacier was collapsing, but he could no longer feel any pain.

How much pain does a person have to go through before he can't even shed tears at this time.

"So this is growth," someone said to him in the distant past, "You must be strong and brave, you must be fearless, this is your destiny."

That day he walked into the church alone again, and sat in the confessional to tell what had happened in the past few days.

When he first came here, the priest said that only they and God would know the words spoken in this place.

So he told a secret.

"Will God forgive me for killing someone?"

"That depends on why you kill," the priest replied from the other side of the curtain, "as long as you uphold the way of justice, you can be forgiven no matter how much you kill."

"It wasn't for justice," he said, "it was my mother's mission to take out that man's heart."

"Did you do what she said?"

"Done."

"why?"

"If I didn't do it before, she would lock me up."

"How long will it be closed?"

"A week," he thought for a while, and then said, "Occasionally a month, I don't remember."

"Will she give you water and food?"

"sometimes will."

"What else would she do besides lock you up?"

"do nothing."

He fiddled with his fingers and said slowly: "She won't talk to me, and she won't let my brother talk to me."

"Are you afraid?"

"meeting."

"Will you cry?"

"I will too."

"So you are persecuted," the priest said. "Many people, like you, make this choice when they are desperate."

"So God is angry?"

"No, God loves all things in the world."

"Even the bad guys?"

"You're not a bad person."

"I am," he said stubbornly, "the teacher said that a murderer is a bad person."

"He only sees one side, and the other side is hidden in your heart, so what he said is not quite right."

He was silent, and the priest said again: "If he could see your heart, he would surely shed tears like me."

"Are you crying?"

"Yes, my child," said the priest, "if God saw you, he would want to embrace you."

"God... really exists?"

"He will always be with you."

Perhaps it is because only the priest knows his secret, and he has always trusted what the priest said, so he always believes that there is a god in the world.

The difference from faith is that for him it is more like a kind of salvation.

But what he didn't expect was that in the days to come, he actually met God.

Before God, every thorny road he walked, every drop of blood he shed, and all the pain and suffering he experienced disappeared into nothingness.

Sensing the loss of temperature in his arms, Shen Shinian gradually let go of his hands.

He got up, the knife he had thrown on the ground was back in his hand, and he limped away from the ship to continue his search for his god.

But just after he turned around, there was a crisp sound from behind him.

It was the sound of bones rubbing against each other.

Shen Shinian frowned, turned around abruptly, and saw the cold corpse standing up.

impossible!

His pupils constricted suddenly, and a tube of injection slipped from the man's hand to the ground, and the contents inside were already empty.

He didn't even notice that time injected this thing into his body, but obviously, the god's cells failed to save him, but just injected him with a powerful force. His heart didn't resume beating, but his limbs were mysteriously Driven by power to move.

Time's body is now even more flexible than before, and the speed at which he rushed towards Shen Shinian was terrifying, almost in the blink of an eye, when Shen Shinian lowered his head Shijiu found that his abdomen had been penetrated by his fingers.

Shen Shinian pinched his wrist and swung it forcefully, his forearm twisted, and then he kicked over again, time flew back a few meters, and rolled a few times on the floor.

His body was torn apart, but he could still move. He wriggled slowly on the floor, staring at Shen Shinian with his eyes wide open. The tattoos around his eye sockets were even weirder than before.

Shen Shinian stared at him vigilantly, the broken blade condensed into shape again, and several fine pieces of metal tried to pass, and all disappeared in an instant when it was close to time.

At the same time, those iron pieces all appeared behind Shen Shinian, without slowing down, and instantly sank into his defenseless back.

This is a space transfer, and it is difficult to achieve such a precise level even if Time is still alive.

In normal times, the damage done to Shen Shinian by those iron pieces would not be worth mentioning, but now the injuries he suffered while fighting time have not fully healed, and his movements are severely restricted. It can be said that the situation in front of him is even worse than before. more dangerous.

Relying on space to move, time attacked Shen Shinian again, his position could not be judged at all, Shen Shinian was injured again, half kneeling on the floor, unable to support his body anymore.

In desperation, he could only let the metal wrap himself, which was his last defensive stance, but it was easy for time to crack it, and the metal wrapped around his body was quickly removed.

At this moment, the floor of the exhibition room suddenly began to shake, and it was difficult for his time-damaged body to maintain balance, and he fell to the ground again, but he still did not give up, and crawled towards Shen Shinian, his nails leaving terrifying marks on the floor.

Shen Shinian realized something, frowned, and looked around nervously.

The shaking became more and more violent, and even the display cabinets fell to the ground one after another, the glass shattered on the floor, and the ancient cargo ship even cracked directly, and debris splashed everywhere.

Time suddenly stopped, raised his head in a daze, and stared in the direction of the cargo ship, as if there was something that attracted his attention more.

The author has something to say: Sorry for being late.

This chapter was written in tears, wiping tears while coding, so the speed is a bit slower.

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Notes:

"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, Just as we forgive our debtors, don’t lead us into temptation and deliver us from evil, because the kingdom, the power, and the glory are all yours forever.”

Excerpt from Matthew 6:9-3