Chapter 13 The Earl of Smokestone
At dawn, the carriage arrived in Yanshi Town.
This is a small town that produces strange stones. The biggest feature of this stone is that it will smoke after being exposed to rain.
Many nobles like to buy cigarette stones, saying that they can be used as decoration in the yard, but they usually do not store them in the yard after they buy them. This thing is very expensive and they don’t look good when they smoke.
Grinding smoke into powder can cure eye diseases. This is common sense that many people know, but no one dares to say it out.
In this era, the only reasonable explanation for disease is the punishment from the Lord of God's Punishment. As long as a person redeems the guilt, the disease will naturally leave. Any medicine and treatment may be regarded as witchcraft, and the use of witchcraft and heresy are the same sins.
When he arrived at the edge of the town, a checkpoint blocked the way. A soldier walked to the carriage and looked up and said, "Open the carriage, we need to check."
When passing by, you have to undergo an inspection. This is the survival rule of the medieval period. Inspection is not free. All goods on the car will be scraped off at least 10% of the tax. Even if there is no goods, taxes will be paid according to the head.
This is a good reason to drive away the God-Punisher. Bruto told the bishop that they did not pass by Yanshi Town, and they could not let those who kindly provide help go for a more detour and spend another detour.
But the God-Punisher did not intend to get off the car. The deacon handed over to the soldiers with the bishop's badge. Although the soldiers did not recognize words, they recognized the pattern and color of the badge. He ran all the way back and moved the roadblock with the other four soldiers.
Bruto told the bishop that they did not want to go to the town and that the bishop hoped to send them to the church.
Both sides talked and the scene was in an awkward stalemate. The Leo woman pretended to be helpless and said, "Take them to the church, I believe this is the arrangement of the Lord."
Quinta looked at the Leo woman nervously, shook her head slightly, and the Leo woman whispered: "Don't worry, I can deal with them."
The carriage continued to move forward, Manda opened the curtains, looked back at the soldiers on the checkpoint, and asked, "How many soldiers are there?"
Sphinx glanced at it and said, "It's just four people, do you think I'll care about these guys?"
"I seem to remember five."
"So what?" The Leo woman's smile was still contemptuous.
Manda put down the curtains, stretched her waist, leaned against the carriage and closed her eyes.
It's really strange, how did the Leo woman's IQ go offline?
The soldiers guarding the checkpoint changed from five to four, proving that one person had gone to deliver the letter. The bishop's badge not only proved their identity, but also conveyed other information. After entering Yanshi Town, they were likely to be surrounded.
I have to find an opportunity to escape. Although I have combat power from Jurassic, compared with these monsters that fly and escape from the earth, I have no capital to fight at all.
Boom!
A loud noise scared Manda and the carriage stopped.
When he opened the curtains, Manda found that this place was not a church, but a construction site, and a group of civilians were demolishing a temple of the Sun.
The size of this temple is by no means inferior to that of the Tifeng Temple in the valley. The majestic Apollo stone statues fell to the ground one by one under the hammer, and the remaining wreckage looked hideous and desolate.
The bishop walked out of the carriage, and a group of monks surrounded him. He stared at the statue and waited for a while. Seeing Apollo's head falling to the ground, he stepped on it with the help of the monk.
"Good friends, I invite you to jointly expose a shameless lie that has been passed down for thousands of years. A group of shameless liars have fabricated absurd legends and let a false god steal the name of the sun. This false god deceived the respect of the world and deceived countless sacrifices. So far, there are still a group of heretics who are unrepentant, who believe in the power of this false god.
I am stepping on the head of this false god. Have you seen his power? Have you seen his majesty? He has nothing, you see only stones and soil!"
The bishop stepped on the head of the stone statue hard and crushed the mud from the soles of the shoes hard on the face of the stone statue.
The bishop was provoking, and he clearly saw through the identity of the group and had no intention of letting them leave alive.
Regardless of territory and number of people, the bishop has a great advantage, and staying here to fight hard will definitely be a dead end.
It is not realistic to escape with a carriage. The carriage has too high requirements for road conditions. A stone or a cross-border can block the way of the carriage. The most urgent task is to obtain a horse.
There are two horses in a carriage, and it takes time to remove them from the carriage. Even if all four horses can be removed, at least one of the five people will not get a horse. Judging from the degree of familiarity and annoyingness, that person is likely to be Manda.
Manda held her breath and watched the situation change quietly. Bruto was still calm. He was trying to negotiate with the bishop.
"Sir, we have sent you here. Now it's time to part ways, and it's time for us to leave."
The bishop smiled and shook his head: "Good friends, why don't you understand my painstaking efforts? You helped me, so I leave you a chance. This is the tolerance given to you by the great Lord!
You are carrying foolish faith, flowing with dirty blood, and mastering evil witchcraft. Only the Lord can save your fragile and humble souls, throw them into the Lord's arms, and wash away the sins on you for the rest of your life. This is your only choice!”
The villagers stopped working, and more and more people were watching. Manda felt the hardness of his fingers. He was about to rush outside the carriage, cut off the rope cover with his fingers, and rode a horse and drill out of the gaps in the crowd.
Sphinx smelled the strange smell, with the blazing flames and the fishy smell of blood, which was a little similar to the smell of the three-headed dog.
But the Leo still can't tell the source of the taste, and it seems that the danger is not enough.
The bishop turned his sight to another carriage, and the deacons and monks who were walking with him were still in the carriage, and they were ready to take action.
Several monks quietly came to the crowd and quietly blocked the way of the carriage.
Bruto stopped his meaningless negotiations and stared at the three-headed dog Leonder with his eyes.
Leonder frowned and he felt the threat in the carriage.
The air was almost frozen, and no one could guess what would happen next moment. Manda looked at the Leo woman, hoping that the Leo woman could rush out first and block the first wave of attacks for him.
Sphinx looked calm, she raised one leg gracefully and kicked Manda outside the car.
It was so sudden, what a vicious woman this is!
Manda, who had been out of the car, sat on the ground and looked at everyone in panic. Bruto looked stunned. Leond was speechless. The bishop smiled grimly, "Child, has your companion abandoned you?"
"Uh, I can't say I'm a companion, I'm not very familiar with them..." Manda really didn't know what to say. He couldn't imagine the change in the situation and underestimated the cruelty of the Leo woman.
In a panic, I suddenly heard a noise behind me, and the onlookers scattered on both sides. A man in his forties in his forties walked up to the bishop surrounded by guards.
"Bishop Barker, please tell me what's going on here?"
The bishop frowned faintly, then smiled: "Earl Karean, I have found several heretics and are about to execute them."
Earl Carren, the lord of Yanshi Town, known for his laziness, is home to a wealth of Yanshi minerals, and he really has no reason to be diligent.
It's still early morning. Under normal circumstances, Carren should have hugged the girl and immersed in his dreams. Bishop Barkern really couldn't understand why he appeared in the Temple of the Sun.
He looked at the two carriages, Brooke, then Leonder, then at Manda, who was crying and crying, and asked, "Where are you from? Why did you break into my territory?"
Brooke didn't want to speak, and his previous negotiations made him feel disheartened.
Leonder didn't want to speak, and in his opinion, speaking was not the right way to solve the problem.
Manda's lips opened and closed a few times, but he still didn't know what to say.
"Are you all mute?" Carren sneered, "If you don't want to defend yourself, I will support the Bishop's decision to execute you for heresy."
The suffocating silence continued, and suddenly the voice of the natal god came from Manda's ears: "Say something quickly, this is a reasonable person."
What should I say? Why did the natal god come so suddenly?
"Hurry up and say something! Tell him why you came here!"
Amid the urging of the natal god, Manda cried, crying heartbroken: "Yes, we are here by Lord Bishop."
What he said was the truth, and tears came from the heart.
Carren was stunned, turned to the bishop and said, "You brought the heretics to my territory?"
The bishop did not deny it and smiled and said, "I just want to give them a chance to save themselves."
"We didn't save ourselves. We saved a monk and were in that carriage." Manda deliberately confused the concept of redemption, and combined with his face full of snot and tears, the innocence of children vividly interpreted.
Carren looked at another carriage, and Leond immediately opened the carriage. The deacon in the car quickly put away the candles. The injured monks panickedly wiped the marks on the ground. They were setting up an ancient spell.
Carren looked at the monk's legs, his twisted joints with a broken bone profile.
"Your person is injured?"
The bishop nodded and said, "We have had some trouble on the road."
"They saved you?"
"This is the arrangement of the Lord, and the Lord gave them a chance to atone for sin."
"The Lord arranged a group of heretics to save you?" Carren looked at the bishop in surprise, and the onlookers exclaimed.
The bishop smiled helplessly, it was really embarrassing now.
Manda secretly looked at the situation and thought to himself: There is something wrong with this count.
Chapter completed!