Overturned Tower

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Paradise Bird couldn't help asking: "Mr. Qunqing, do you often drink alcohol?"

"That's not true. I might as well say I'm going to throw up at the sight of the wine."

Russell shook his head helplessly: "But when I was in school, I really drank too much wine. I drank everything at any price, so I know a little more.

"To put it bluntly, the directors of some small companies probably don't drink as many types of wine as I do, and the price is high."

"...But drinking is bad for your health."

"I know, so I only drink Coke now."

But Coke doesn't seem to be very healthy...

Seeing Russell pouring Coke on his own, Paradise Bird hesitated to speak.

"By the way, Mr. Qunqing. The church..."

And Russell noticed her move, smiled and stretched out his hand in front of his mouth.

"Don't be in a hurry," Russell said softly, "We'll talk about it after they finish serving the food.

"Otherwise our conversation will be interrupted by the waiter all the time, and we won't be able to have a good chat, right?"

"Yes……"

"Then don't worry, come and chat casually. How is your situation in the church?"

"is acceptable."

The bird of paradise looked at Russell with its smart eyes, and whispered: "The angels are very good to me."

"Another meaning of 'okay' is not happy enough."

Russell also poured a glass of Coke for Paradise Bird, and said softly, "Otherwise, you should be chatting with me about your daily life with great interest."

"Yes……"

"Come on, drink some happy water. Everything will be fine."

Russell handed the Coke to Paradise Bird.

She took the Coke with both hands and carefully placed it on her lap.

The girl seemed a little hesitant, and asked uncertainly: "Is it really going to be all right?"

"fake."

Russell looked at her with a smile: "I lied to you."

"why is it like this……"

Paradise Bird obviously didn't expect Russell's answer.

But Russell couldn't help laughing when he saw the little pigeon showing a bullied expression.

Under the somewhat dissatisfied gaze of Paradise Bird, his laughter stopped quickly, but the smile remained on his face.

"it does not matter."

His voice became gentle and deep: "Although the world will not become better for no reason. But I will help you solve the troubles you encounter.

"You can always trust me. You can think of me as your... kin."

——For a moment, Paradise Bird seemed to see the shadow of his father from Russell.

She kept looking at Russell beside her, with extremely strong nostalgia and nostalgia in her eyes.He didn't even notice when the iced cola in his hand was warmed up.

"Okay, the waiter probably won't come in again."

Suddenly, Russell spoke.

Only then did Paradise Bird wake up, realizing that he had been staring at Russell's side face for an indefinitely long time.

Before I knew it, all the dishes were served.

Russell turned up the music a little bit, approached Paradise Bird and asked, "What's the matter?

"Both Wuming and Bugle are good people, what should I say without them?"

"Two things...but maybe one too."

Bird of Paradise grabbed Russell's arm very nervously, leaned close to Russell's ear, and whispered in a low voice: "When I went to the church headquarters, I noticed something.

"—many angels are gone!

"It is said that they only thawed more than 50 angels. But when I visited the angels, I noticed one thing.

"Although the cabin I saw was full of more than 200 angels. But when I came out, someone was entering the cabin opposite, and the door hadn't been closed yet.

"I took a glance and saw that in that cabin, there were only seven or eight scattered cabins with something in them...the others were all empty.

"Those two compartments are the frozen compartments belonging to the lower angels. The number of angels should be the largest, and it is impossible for so many to be vacant... Although the church has thawed more than 50 angels, there should be only seven healers.

"That is to say, the number of angels I saw is already less than 100. I didn't look at the other cabins, but I think they may have been secretly thawed by the church and used to deal with you...

"—Mr. Barber!"

"...I think maybe not so."

Russell just shook his head slightly, thoughtfully.

Chapter 21 Transactions to the Godfather

Russell thought for a moment, but decided to immediately tell Paradise Bird what the church was doing.

Including the essence of angels being able to be "juiced", and the fact that "source of holy orders" is selling well in the dream world... The situation has changed, and it may be too late to wait for the right time.

"...how could this be!"

After hearing Russell's explanation, Bird of Paradise's eyes suddenly widened, almost furious, and her voice became sharp because of this: "What right do they have to betray angels?!

"Without the angels, the Church would have ceased to exist back then!

"These angels have long been able to control the entire church. They chose to trust the church and the Pope, and they were frozen and sealed voluntarily, but now..."

For Paradise Bird, this is almost a collapse of the world view.

Although under the influence of her father, she doesn't have much trust in the church—but she has far more sympathy for angels than ordinary church personnel.

Her anger is not based on her disappointment with the church, but on her empathy and indignation towards the angels.

After all, the child's heart is too pure.

Although he was born in the lower city, he was not polluted by the lower city at all.Paradise Bird still has goodwill and trust towards others in its heart...

This kind of character can indeed make her from a bad background recognized by the church, but it also makes it easier for her to be used by others.

Russell wasn't worried that she would be arrested too...

As a living saint who can obtain the power of an angel-level holy order with her own pure will without using the halo, her value is obviously much higher than that of ordinary angels.

After all, Paradise Bird belongs to the "angel template that has not yet appeared".

After she grows up, she can reproduce many brand-new angels with her memory alone—even if the church's senior management only regards angels as tools, Paradise Bird has at least the value of an assembly line.It should be possible to share a full meal with the wisdom of the elves at the top of the church.

What he is worried about is that Paradise Bird, who is completely ignorant of the inside story, will be used as a gun.

The interior of the church is not monolithic either.

Although based on the way of obtaining the power of holy orders, the nature of the church must be good...

But the birth of "angels" is itself a loophole taken by the church.Even though it was to defeat the mage, if the church was really pure and white, the angels could not have been born in the first place.

The so-called mechanical angels are false artificial saints.

To deceive the world by modifying other people's memory and adjusting other people's will... to obtain the power of the Holy Order that could not be obtained or was not so strong in a fraudulent way.For this reason, it even spared no effort to construct a system of "God's Arrival Device" through the remains and relics of the dead saints, analyze their memories, and copy their subconscious minds.

Since they can do such a thing, it shows that the church is by no means pure and innocent——

At that time, they had already proved... as long as it was for the sake of victory, even such things as desecrating the bones of the saints and rewriting the spirit and memory of the innocent could be done without hesitation.

And these created angels are naturally innocent and holy.Regardless of whether their consciousness is false or implanted, since the power of the Holy Order that can be used is much stronger than those bishops of the church, it means that the "god" of the church recognizes them better than those mortal bishops.

But after the war ended, the angels did not hold power at all, but were collectively sealed up.

"From that moment on, I knew... the church might be better than the corporation, but not much better.

"Isn't it hard to understand that the church now sells these 'artificial saints' for other interests? Fundamentally speaking, what they did in the past and now have always been the same thing—"

Russell sighed: "When you went to visit, there should be an entourage?"

"Yes... there are four or five."

"Did you meet anyone else on the road?"

"……Yes."

"That is to say, the church headquarters must have known you were coming. How could they be so coincidental that they let you see that the space in the opposite room was short of space at the moment you were leaving?"

Russell patted Paradise Bird on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't think too much, you're just being used.

"Because your own value is too high...you won't get into trouble easily. And naturally there are struggles within the church. It's perfectly normal for one faction to want to use you to cause trouble for the other faction.

"I think these acts of selling angels should be done by one of the factions. This is a very simple reason... If the church's top management unanimously passes this kind of resolution, then a complete assembly line should be formed from the production of angels to the sale, then no Shortfalls may occur.

"But other forces in the church are obviously not happy to see the resurrection of the angels. So although they don't support it, they don't directly oppose it in essence, but take it as a handle.

"And you use this handle to leverage their fulcrum."

"why is it like this……"

Paradise Bird could only murmur and repeat this sentence.

Although he planned to tell some secrets to Russell, he did not expect to be shocked by Russell.

"I've also thought about whether I should tell you this kind of thing. You are a good boy, not good at acting...Once you know too much, it will be easy to show flaws in your words and deeds, and it will be difficult to hide the truth from those old turtles .

"But the same... If you know too little and are easy to be used by others to do something you don't want to do. The harm between the two powers is the lesser, I decided to tell you all this."

Russell stretched his arms around the shoulders of Paradise Bird, and whispered in her ear: "Let's relax later... You can go back after you calm down. At this stage, it's best not to let Wuming know too much... …After all, as far as I know, the church holds the control terminal that exerts influence on each halo. Once the angels make any obvious betrayal, it is easy for the church to be vigilant and disarm all the angels.

"By the way, what did you want to tell me before? What's the second thing?"

"...Wait a minute, let me think about it, Mr. Barber. My mind is a little confused..."

Paradise Bird murmured with her eyes closed.

She paused for a while before explaining in a low voice: "I feel that I may not have fully understood this matter before... After you told me this secret, I seem to understand something...

"I originally wanted to tell you that the church already knows that you are a mage. On the one hand, they plan to continue to send angels to the special execution department to put pressure on you, and on the other hand... hope that I can contact you The remnants of the city conveyed the wishes of the church to 'make a deal with the godfather'.

"I originally thought that this was a trap. Because I don't think the church can reach any real 'deal' with the mage. Contacted, even fought, with some groups in . They are just using me to convey false goodwill to you.

"But now... I'm a little confused..."

The Bird of Paradise finally couldn't stand it any longer, turned around and fell into Russell's arms, sobbing softly and making a vague cry: "I don't know, what should I do... What are they going to do... What is the thing I was after before?" What……"

Russell sighed softly, shaking his body back and forth like coaxing a child, and gently patted the back of Paradise Bird.

He narrowed his eyes slightly.

deal……

Yeah.

"Then I'll take their deal."

Chapter 22 Downtown

Even if it was because of work, it was the first time for Delphinium to come to the pendulum area.

She usually stays away from such noisy places.

It's not that she has such a serious personality that she doesn't like this kind of entertainment venue... She was also a student back then.Although Delphinium has a more quiet personality...or rather, she is more homely.But she must have been to all the entertainment places that the students love.

What she doesn't like is the noisy atmosphere in the pendulum area.

Her hearing was already keen, as was her sense of smell.Mixing all kinds of smells and sounds will give her a headache.

All the streets and alleys are playing music with different tastes, gathering their own wave of guests; those advertisements that are usually muted in Tianen District are directly projected on the walls of various buildings.

Walking on the road, you can hear and see more than five advertisements at the same time.The sound of each ad was turned up to the max, as if they could just make people pay attention to their ad simply by drowning out the other ad with a louder voice.

Or from another point of view, perhaps it is precisely to prevent these advertising companies from getting traffic, so every store in the streets and alleys here will play their own music to cover the sound of the advertisements above their heads.