The Dragon That Devours the World

A few years later, in a residential house in Nazareth.

The 27-year-old Hanna was carefully counting the equipment and many herbs in his room. During the Roman Empire, some doctors had already noticed the blood circulation of the human body, and some extreme scholars directly used death row prisoners as experiments. Examine them and analyze the internal organs of human beings.

However, due to the limitation of the carrier, most of the books at that time were recorded in nitrated sheepskin. The cost was high and the production time was extremely long, so that only a few people had access to this knowledge, and they were far away in the Middle East. It is naturally impossible to reach the Hana. The medical skills he learned were all learned from the old doctors nearby. Doctors in this era are extremely conservative. Medical skills are almost the only way for them to eat. It was only a few skills learned, most of the knowledge was obtained through his continuous practical experience.

At this moment, he was going to diagnose a patient outside the city. These instruments and herbs were all the props he needed for this trip. However, before he was ready, suddenly a loud laugh came from behind him. .

"Hanna, it's been a long time since I saw you."

Hearing the sound of Hanna, he couldn't help turning around and looking back, only to see a middle-aged priest wearing a white linen gown and a big beard looking at him behind him. Hanna was surprised and delighted, and couldn't help but said in surprise.

"John."

He put down the things in his hands, shook hands cordially to the bearded priest in front of him, and asked happily.

"John, I haven't seen him for many years."

John, this is a very common Jewish name. It is common to say a word of John in the street and someone will definitely turn their heads, but for Hana, the John in front of him is very unusual, because he is his own cousin.

Hanna’s mother was Mary. Mary had a sister named Elizabeth. Elizabeth was much older than Mary. She married the priest Zechariah and later gave birth to her only son. John, so John later inherited his father's priesthood. And because the age is much older than Hamna, when Hamna was young, he instructed Hamna’s Jewish faith and taught Hamna theological knowledge, that is, Hamna’s cousin and godfather of Hamna, and Hamna’s godfather. The relationship between them is even closer than their parents.

But unlike Hanna, Hanna chose to give up his father’s shop to study medicine, while John, as a priest, chose to run and speak out for the Jewish independence movement, and he had a lot of fame in the Jewish kingdom.

The two brothers haven’t seen each other for a long time, so it is inevitable that there will be some reminiscence, and in the conversation, Hana also understood that John was caught by other Jewish priests who tried to please Pilate because of a conflict with Pilate, the governor of the Jewish province. I was squeezed out here.

Every time he talked about that Pilate, John couldn't help gritting his teeth, but when he talked about the King Herod, he hated it even more.

"This guy is treacherous with the Romans and doesn't deserve to be our king at all!"

Speaking of anger, John couldn't help but slap his legs and curse.

The earliest King Herod was not a Jew, but an Edomite. However, because he saved Caesar’s life and married two royal princesses from the former Jewish dynasty, Caesar made him king of the Jewish kingdom instead of The former royal family of the Jewish kingdom. However, because of his embarrassment after all, although he is said to be the King of Jews, he is obviously closer to the Romans than King Herod of the Jews. For the Jews who have lived here for generations, it is natural that he is extremely disgusted with the unhealthy Herod .

After the arrival of the Roman governor Pilate, this contradiction intensified. In order to maintain his rule, the son of the first King Herod and the current King Herod chose to join Pilate to rule the Jews.

Kings of foreign nations, empires with no sense of identity, excessive taxation, rude rule...All these have led to the Jewish independence movement in the Jewish kingdom one after another, and John is the most intense group of them. Even in the Israeli feudal under the leadership of Herod, he still didn't have any softening intentions, and he still mocked the Jewish king.

"John, don't talk nonsense."

With a heartbeat, Han Na hurriedly advised John in a low voice.

He was naturally very clear about what John did, but Hanna didn’t like to fight, nor did he have a deep independent plot like John. He hoped that the parties could sit down and discuss it. In his opinion, anything Peace is far better than bloodshed...

As a doctor, he has seen too many deaths.

The opposite John glanced at him and snorted, but he didn't say any more, just normal narratives.

...

Among the dim dwellings, there was a person on the bed with a stench. The rotten pustules made everyone, even their relatives, afraid to approach it. Everyone abandoned him and he could only lie on the sickbed. , Occasionally murmured a few words unconsciously.

But Han Na was not afraid, his hands and body were covered with layers of cloth to resist possible disease invasion. This is his armor as a doctor, and herbs are his sword as a doctor. He walked into the patient who had been abandoned by everyone, put down the medicine box in his hand, and then applied Chinese herbal medicine to his body.

"hiss……"

Accompanied by the faint voice, the patient seemed to perceive something. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but only a calm voice sounded in his ear.

"do not move!"

Han Na continued to treat this patient who was suffering from the epidemic. This is the fourth time he has been here. However, his medical skills can only give the patient a little psychological comfort. What he did almost It is meaningless. Anyone can realize that this patient has died soon...

But Han Na still didn't give up, he clenched his teeth unconsciously and tried his best to think of all possible ways...

He doesn't like someone dying, he doesn't want to see someone die in front of him, he wants to save him.

"Doctors……"

There was an unusually faint voice in the dumb throat, including the reputation. The patient in front of him was crippled by an abscess to his unrecognizable face, only a pair of eyes were faintly visible.

In those eyes, there were crystal tears, life's instinct made him want to live, but he could understand that he no longer had the power to survive.

"I... am I about to die."

In the hoarse voice, it was obviously a question, but there was no doubt, only it was clear.

Hanna was silent, he did not answer the patient's words. And the patient didn't seem to try to expect Hana's answer, just talking to himself.

"Doctor...everyone left me...Even my children...don't dare to approach me anymore, why are you still here..."

Hanna didn't care about him, just continued to use the herbs and knives in his medicine box to try to do something, but what else could he do?

Hold the hand of the doctor's knife, clenched tightly.

He hated himself for being so powerless, and actually wanted to watch others die in front of him again.

But the patient just looked at him calmly, and continued to mutter after a long time.

"Doctor...you said, where do people go after they die..."

Hanna was silent for a while, and said in a hoarse voice.

"Probably... go to heaven."

"Heaven? But I am a believer in Baal, and I don't believe in your Jewish God..."

The patient smiled bitterly. Baal is a **** who is also widely worshipped in the Middle East, and many non-Jews believe in it.

He was silent for a while, and suddenly, he was panting as hard as he could, struggling to say to Hana in front of him.

"Doctor, can I...can believe in your god? You are so kind, and your god...must be as kind as you...please, let me believe in your **** at the end of my life."

There was an inexplicable light in the patient's eyes, and he looked at Han Na in front of him, almost begging.

However, both the patient and Hannah understood that Jews did not preach to foreigners. Even if they were preaching, they must have Jewish blood, and he obviously did not meet this qualification.

Han that opened his mouth, he instinctively wanted to refuse. All the theological knowledge he had received since his birth told him that he should refuse this rude request, but looking at those eyes, he was about to blurt out the kind of words. But all can't be said.

He opened his mouth, and finally, he was silent, just stretched out one of his hands~www.readwn.com~ and gently stroked the patient's forehead.

Nothing was said or said. The patient who had already blurred his vision felt a little warmth on his forehead, and an inexplicable sense of peace emerged in his heart, and he slowly closed his eyes.

"Jo...Shua..."

At the last moment of Mi Li, looking at the figure that seemed to be shrouded in the light, he said indistinctly.

Joshua, a hero in Jewish legends, led the Jews to get their heels in Israel, and it means "salvation", and if the name is spoken in Greek, it would be...

Jesus.

...

In the underwater temple, a pair of eyes suddenly opened, and in those eyes, it was cold and dark.

Low laughter began to sound in the temple.

"Finally found."