"Bishop...Brother, the verdict of the coalition forces on you is that you will be hanged and will be executed tomorrow..."

As she spoke, Karen felt a few drops of hot liquid dripping on the back of her hand, and subconsciously raised her hand to wipe it, but found that she didn't know when to cry.

The small hand wiped the corners of the eyes a few times indiscriminately, but the tears flowed down like pearls with broken strings.

"Brother Bishop, you were not like this before, why did you become like this?"

"Really?" Xing Shan slowly closed his eyes, but there was a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth: "Why did it become like this? I am also looking for the answer. It has been a long time, and I don't even know when this change started. Can not remember."

"It started from the side where the Black Death spread."

Otto spoke. Over the years, he has always remembered these things clearly. Since the year of the Black Death, the godfather has begun to change.

"Well, it should be, Otto, I didn't ask you back then, but now I want to ask you a question."

"Godfather, tell me."

"After the Black Death, what did you see?"

Otto hesitated for a few seconds before replying, "It's devastated, and the people are in dire straits."

For his answer, Xing Shan didn't answer whether it was correct or not, but quietly closed his eyes and did not speak again.

Ao Tuo realized that what he said was not the answer Xing Shan wanted in response to Xing Shan's performance, and immediately began to think about the question again.

But after thinking for a long time, he didn't think of a more accurate answer. It wasn't until the coalition soldiers guarding outside the prison came in to remind Otto and Karen that the coalition forces were about to hold a meeting again. Only then did Otto recover from his thoughts. .

Looking at Xing Shan who was still in the prison with his eyes closed and no intention of speaking, Otto had no choice but to bid him a final farewell.

"Goodbye, Godfather."

......

Outside the prison, Karen held Otto by the hand, and couldn't help raising her head and opening her mouth to ask, "Otto, can hanging really be unchangeable?"

A look of pain flashed in Otto's eyes, and he lowered his head and said bitterly to Karen: "Karen, you have seen what Destiny has done over the years, so many people in the coalition army are precisely because they want to overthrow the destiny of Destiny." The ideas came together, and if the bishop who symbolizes the destiny does not die, then the old era represented by the destiny will always exist."

"old times..."

At the end of Otto's words, he suddenly realized something. He turned his head and looked at the prison door slowly closed by the coalition soldiers. He understood the answer to the question Xing Shan asked him.

After the Black Death, what was exposed was the oppression of civilians in the old era.

"Godfather... what did he do?"

Otto, who realized this, suddenly looked serious, turned his head and said to Karen: "Karen, tell me at the meeting, I have something important to check, so I won't participate."

After finishing speaking, Otto shook off Karen's hand and ran towards the office where the Catholic Bishop belonged.

"Otto, Otto!"

Karen yelled a few times from behind but failed to stop Otto, so she had no choice but to walk to the place where the coalition meeting was held.

Otto hurried all the way into the bishop's office, and there were several coalition soldiers sorting out the things inside, preparing to burn some useless things.

"Let it go!"

The coalition soldiers were startled by the sudden roar, turned around and saw that it was Otto, and quickly put down the things in their hands to salute him.

"Master Otto, what's the matter?"

Otto's expression softened a little, and he said kindly to them with a smile on his face: "I'm going to check some information here, can you please sort out the things in other places first?"

"Since it's Master Otto, it's natural."

Several coalition soldiers saluted again, then turned and left.

Chapter 217 Chapter 210 Four The Truth of Everything

After watching the coalition soldiers leave, Otto immediately closed the door and couldn't wait to search for the information he wanted.

Soon, he found what he wanted among the materials that the soldiers of the coalition army had sorted out and prepared to burn.

Otto flipped through a few pages, and he understood why the coalition soldiers wanted to burn this document. No wonder they did. This document only recorded when and what order Xing Shan issued. The content is not mentioned at all.

But this was exactly what Otto wanted at the moment. He had already learned a lot about those orders through other materials.

July [-]: The bishop ordered to start research on whether Houkai can develop a specific medicine for the Black Death.

October [-]: The special medicine reagent was successfully developed, and the bishop ordered to test the cure rate of the reagent.

December [-]: The bishop ordered that human experiments be carried out and special medicine reagents be used on a large scale.

Godfather, did you become strange from this time?

Otto looked at the record in his hand, feeling a little complicated. He stared at the same page in a daze for a while before turning to the next page.

April [-]: Despite the dissuasion of others, the bishop ordered that Karen, who escaped with the black box, must be captured. He once said that the herrscher from the ancient centuries was sealed in the black box, and that sealed Herrscher could not be released even if he sacrificed his destiny .

lawyer? !

Otto was startled, no wonder the godfather at that time wanted someone to bring Karen back despite the rumors in the city that were detrimental to Destiny and his own reputation.

May [-]: The news of Kallen came back from the Far East, and the bishop ordered Otto and a group of Valkyries to bring her back.

June [-]: Karen was brought back to the Mandate of Heaven, and the bishop ordered her to be imprisoned in the prison for interrogation at an optional date.

When Otto saw this, he couldn't help but tighten his grip on the information in his hands. It was from this moment that he began to doubt the godfather, right?

June [-]: The bishop ordered the execution of the Valkyrie Kallen, and arranged for people to spread the news in the city that Kallen took the black box to save the civilians.

Otto was stunned. It turned out that those rumors came from the mouth of the godfather?

But why?

Obviously, the godfather has already sentenced Kallen to hang, since he wants to kill Kallen, why bother before she dies?

Thinking of this, Otto flipped through the materials faster and faster, and he desperately wanted to get a reason for Xing Shan to do so.

June 23: The bishop ordered to relax the garrison at the East Gate on the day of Kallen's execution. When he saw someone leaving with Kallen, he pretended to pursue him.

Otto's lips trembled slightly. It turned out that the godfather never intended to kill Karen. No wonder he took action when Karen was about to be killed by the Honkai Beast.

No wonder, when he took Karen out of the city, the pursuers were just trying to drive them away.

Otto flipped through the documents faster and faster.

January [-]: The bishop summoned the intelligence personnel who had previously investigated Shenzhou. After a brief exchange, he ordered them to be locked up in the prison.

January 23: The bishop announces the Crusade.

February [-]: The bishop rejected the proposal to transport food and grass to the front line first, and strongly demanded that the expeditionary force only carry part of the food and grass to start the Eastern Expedition.

Otto frowned deeply when he saw this record. Before the army moved, food and grass went first. He knew this truth, and the godfather should understand it if he thought about it, but why did the godfather do this?

August [-]: The news of the defeat of the expeditionary force came back. The bishop rejected the proposal of the frontline commanders to retreat and asked them to continue to insist. He also passed on the news that Taixu Mountain was a shortcut to the enemy's back. front.

Taixu Mountain?

Ao Tuo had a vague understanding of this, because he also heard about what happened afterwards. An immortal came down from Taixu Mountain, and with only a long sword in her hand, he turned the people killed by the large army of the expeditionary army on their backs.

Otto put down the documents in his hand, dug out the map from another pile of documents, and after checking the situation around Taixu Mountain, he suddenly frowned.

Judging from the map, not only does Taixu Mountain have no shortcuts to the interior of the East, on the contrary, it is also a natural barrier to prevent the enemy from invading the East. There may be 'shortcuts' regardless.

They are the masters of that place, how could there be masters who don't know about their own family?

So obviously, the godfather deliberately sent people to Taixu Mountain, and his purpose...

Otto couldn't help but widen his eyes. Is the godfather intentionally sending the expeditionary army to die?

The more Otto thought about it, the more surprised he became, and he repeatedly flipped through the documents that had been put aside.

March [-]: The bishop liaised with other nobles to issue indulgences.

April [-]: The bishop ordered that the money collected from the indulgences be exchanged for food for the relief of refugees.

......

December [-]: The bishop ordered that the lords of cities surrounded by coalition forces can choose whether to surrender.

April [-]th: The bishop ordered the people in the Mandate of Heaven headquarters to give up resistance, and not to use the family members of the coalition forces still in the city as hostages.

Otto wanted to continue turning the page, but found that this was the last piece of information recorded on the record. Obviously, after that, the headquarters of Tianming was captured, and Xing Shan was caught without giving orders.

Otto rubbed his sore eyes, and slumped on the chair that Xing Shan used to sit on.

After reading these, he understood.

All of this is operated by the godfather behind the scenes!

No wonder the coalition forces were able to capture one city after another so easily, and those city lords surrendered one after another.

This is all because the Godfather refused to give them support and said they could surrender at will.

This made those city lords who were in crisis choose to surrender to the coalition forces!

Moreover, it is precisely because the godfather used the immortals on Taixu Mountain to weaken the strength of Tianming, that their coalition forces have the opportunity and space to grow to their current scale.

The more Otto thought about it, the more bitter he felt. Their coalition forces had countless opportunities to be wiped out by the destiny, but under the operation of the godfather, those crises were quietly overcome.

Reminiscent of the question the godfather had asked him in prison, Otto now fully understands.

The Godfather wants to end this old age of ignorance ruled by nobles and religious beliefs.

When the sun shone through the window on Otto's dazed face, he was suddenly stunned.

Sunlight?

It was night when he came to the office.

Otto suddenly turned pale with fright, stood up from the chair, and ran out in a hurry.

He ran all the way to the direction of the execution platform.

When he saw the civilians gathered around the execution platform and was about to shout to stop, those civilians suddenly parted ways.

A stretcher was carried out, and a person covered with a white cloth was carried out on it, and beside the stretcher, Karen followed silently, tears streaming down from the corners of her eyes.

Chapter 218 Chapter 210 Five

"Otto..."

Seeing Otto standing there crying sadly, Karen stepped forward and hugged him into her arms.

Otto buried himself in Karen's chest and said with a choked voice.

"Karen, maybe we misunderstood the godfather."

"Um..."

Just like this, the two stood quietly on the street and hugged each other. After a while, Karen said.

"Otto, the bishop, said before the end that he left something for us at the place where we first met."

Otto looked up blankly, but he immediately recalled the back garden where he first met Xing Shan.

Taking Karen to the back garden of the Apocalypse family, they saw that the lawn in the middle of the garden had been turned over.

Otto immediately took a shovel from the side and shoveled away the overturned lawn, and found a large iron box buried underneath.

Otto knelt down on the ground, carefully took the iron box out of the pit, and stretched out his trembling hand to open it, only to find a letter, a shoulder dress, and a pure white wedding dress inside.

Otto and Kallen looked at the three items in the box and were speechless. Otto gently held the letter in his hand, as if he was touching something that was about to fall away.

Opening the letter, there were only a few words written in it, but those few words made Otto burst into tears.

[Otto, Karen, when you read this letter, you think that you are already successful saviors. For the sake of the new era, the passing of the old era is inevitable, and it will become the nourishment of the new era, allowing people to move forward even more. Far. 】

[In my short life, there are so many unknowns in the world, but I only understand three, and I hope to tell you the answers to these three. 】

[A person will experience three growths in his life. 】

[The first time is to understand the right and wrong of things. 】

[The second time is to understand that some things are more than right and wrong. 】

[The third time, after realizing that there is no right or wrong in some things, I still firmly do what I believe in and take responsibility for it. 】

【I have made tens of millions of civilians live in dire straits. Death is just the lightest punishment for me. You don’t need to feel pain because of my death. 】

[If there is any regret in my life, it is that I couldn't say to you at your wedding with Karen, 'Happy Newlyweds', but I think it can make up for some regrets by saying this in the letter. 】

【Finally, I wish Otto and Karen a happy wedding. 】

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