Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

In the secret room, the candle flame danced wildly, as if it would be extinguished in the next second.

Joshua still knelt on the spot, staring blankly at the black-robed figure slowly rising from the door.

Under the flickering light, the bricks under the shadow's feet turned quietly, and the whole person seemed to emerge from the ground. The tall and straight body seemed to never bend, and it was as silent as this change.

As the man in black came out from the ground, the elongated black shadow gradually stretched towards the door, onto the brick wall of the chimney on the opposite side, and finally completely covered it, like a darkness that was so thick that it could not be melted away, slowly and quietly. Noisily devouring something...

The crow with scarlet eyes that he saw before also quietly landed on the shoulder of the man in black, looking extremely cute.

The brim of the black-robed man's hat was pulled down very low, and a white, pointed chin could be vaguely seen, which is the feeling only young people have.

And what made him unable to take his eyes off was the snake head under the brim spitting snake letters at him.

In the "Old Testament", Satan is an ancient snake and has nothing to do with sheep.

In "Genesis", the snake who tempted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of knowledge and evil also represents Satan.

In various versions of the Bible, it is also mentioned many times: the great dragon is the ancient serpent, named the devil, also named Satan, who confuses the whole world...

No, it's his new master!

Joshua came back to his senses, and his expression and gaze instantly became fanatical.

Feimo: "..."

Feichi: "..."

Joshua's expression is so distorted...

The middle-aged man didn't realize there was someone behind him at all, and asked Joshua in dissatisfaction, "Belial? What Belial? I don't know what Belial has to do with me being a Satanist? Joshua, don't change the subject! Tell me, would you like to join my church!"

Behind him came a calm, cold and hoarse male voice.

"Some people say that Belial, Samuel, and Lucifer are all nicknames for Satan...but these three nouns appeared much later than Satan, and the name Lucifer that appeared the latest was taken from the myth of Abraham. Roman mythology outside the system, initially, only Satan."

Chi Feichi really couldn't bear it anymore.

Although Belial is a name that evolved later, as a believer of Satan, it seems that there is a church under his control, and he has never heard of Belial. Is it serious?

These days, don't come out to fool people if you don't have any knowledge.

Still in the name of religion, to fool a person who has been a priest for more than 30 years.

The middle-aged man was startled by the sudden voice, and turned to look at Chi Feichi in astonishment.

"Yes," Joshua nodded heavily, his eyes frighteningly bright under the candlelight, "At first, there was only Satan!"

"Which church do you belong to?" the middle-aged man asked with a frown.

He didn't see Chi Feichi appearing from the ground, he just regarded him as a 'peer' to snatch him away.

Although the facts are similar, they are robbing people, but they are not colleagues.

Chi Feichi hissed, "I'm not from any church..."

"Yes," Joshua nodded again, and said earnestly, "You don't belong to any church, and all churches in the world will regard you as their master!"

Chi Feichi: "..."

Is the priest mentally still?

"Pretending to be a ghost!" The middle-aged man watched the two people 'sing together', and said angrily, "My church has launched a ceremony of sixteen people, launched a punishment, and sacrificed hundreds of people..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

With one hand on the middle-aged man's shoulder, he felt several cold sharp knives resting on his throat. The feeling that his life was under his control made his skin crawl.

"I thought it was Anton's church..." Chi Feichi murmured softly.

According to what he knew in his previous life, there are two kinds of Satanism.

One is an evil church that advocates worshiping demons, defrauding others of their wealth, and performing bloody rituals.

The other is the Satanic church organized by Anton Slavi, the law-abiding church, which advocates facing reality, living in the present, not placing hope in the afterlife or after death, not following the trend, affirming the value of desire, and learning to control desire .

They don't even seek to worship any gods, they regard themselves as gods, and they don't anti-Christ. If they have to talk about conflicts, they probably don't like the kind of inherently sinful self-abasement and self-abuse.

After he came to the United States in his previous life, he met a senior member of the Satanic Church.

He also doesn't like the religious concept of "afterlife, enjoyment after death", and the idea of ​​"if someone slaps me on the left cheek, I will take the initiative to stretch out the right cheek and let him slap it".

Whoever slaps him, he will choose to swell the opponent's face...

However, when that friend invited him to join the Church of Satan, he refused. He always felt that joining a certain church was weird, and he was also guarding against the other party's fooling him.

The existence of religion is very brainwashing, and we have to guard against it.

If he really wanted to be his own master, wouldn't it be okay if he didn't join any church?

"An...Anton?" The middle-aged man was covered in cold sweat, trying to slow down his voice, "No...friend, put down the knife in your hand, we have the same belief, don't we? You are also here for Joshua, yes Right? We can discuss it, one side withdraws, it's all for Satan anyway..."

Joshua looked at the middle-aged man with ironic eyes, and at the same time felt startled, and lowered his head.

He could see clearly that it was not a knife but a claw that was on the man's throat.

The claws that grow out of the fingers like nails are sharp and sharp, nearly 10 centimeters long, and there is no trace of fakery.

At least at first glance, people will think that it is a sharp claw...

The man was still chattering, "By the way, I have a lot of church funds and beautiful church members, if you like..."

"It's noisy."

Chi Feichi slapped the man's neck vigorously, bringing up a cloud of blood.

The man clearly felt the sensation of his skin being torn apart. He looked at the blood splashing in front of his eyes in horror, wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, and hurriedly covered the wound on his neck with both hands.

When he fell to the ground with a bang, he finally saw the sharp claws protruding from the hand under the black robe, and his expression was frozen in fear.

Chi Feichi stared at the man who was not moving, and frowned.

Is the evil spirit a little heavy recently?

After leaving Conan, he seemed to let himself go a little bit, and felt more and more deviated from Guang Weizheng's friends.

Joshua still knelt on the ground, looked at the fallen man, swallowed nervously, raised his eyes quietly, and saw that the sharp nails on that hand were slowly withdrawing, becoming like the nails of a normal person, and hurriedly looked away. He lowered his head in cold sweat.

Sure enough, he was not mistaken, the sharp claws were not props, and they were not something that humans should have!

However, that hand looked familiar.

He seems to have seen it, just recently...

Slender and strong, with well-defined joints, very fair and clean, like the best work of art, it makes people feel that this is a noble gentleman who has been pampered since childhood...

"You..." Joshua suddenly thought of someone, and looked up at the figure standing in the middle of the door pattern, "You are Chi... Chi..."

Chi Feichi was silent for a while, and walked forward, without covering up with his hoarse voice, he asked calmly, "How did you find out?"

No need to hide, Joshua did recognize him.

Joshua was nervous in his heart, and when he saw Chi Feichi approaching, he felt that his whole body was covered by invisible pressure, but as Chi Feichi approached, he looked up and saw clearly the black robe under the brim of the hat. With purple eyes hidden in the dim light, he swallowed, "I, I have liked to observe other people's hands since I was a child, because I think hands are a symbol of human dexterity and the most perfect tool."

Chi Feichi stretched out his left hand and looked, as if there were no special marks that could be remembered, "Do you remember everyone's hands?"

"No, it's because it hasn't been long since we met, so I remember," Joshua lowered his head, his expression became painful, "It's also because that was my last baptism, and after that, everything changed. It's different, I shouldn't have done that baptism, I shouldn't have baptized the devil's child in the church..."

"Didn't God say that He can redeem everything?" Chi Feichi knelt down, looked at Joshua, and paused every word, like a tempting demon, "Noah is my godson, without my blood, if I am guilty, he should redeem Noah, you are his faithful believer, keep the commandments all your life, you baptized Noah without knowing, and you are willing to repent, he should also choose to forgive you, in fact, he Did not redeem Noah, and gave up on you."

He is not disgusted with Christianity. Christianity has the idea of ​​"love God, love people, and love yourself", opposes infanticide and abandonment, abolishes slavery, is enthusiastic about charity, and has made many contributions to human civilization.

Many religions teach people to be good, and there are many good conducts to guide them. What they hate are only some bad things.

For example, Christianity denies other religions, saying that the birth of a child is sinful, just because a woman stole an apple many years ago, and if she is not baptized, it is a sin. If you are baptized, your sins are forgiven, and then you have to believe in her for the rest of your life.

For example, Buddhism requires people to cut off everything and devote themselves wholeheartedly, so that people leave their wives and children behind. He feels that this violates a man's responsibility, even his responsibility as a human being.

If he has to say, he still likes Taoism a little more.

Of course, whether you like it or not has nothing to do with the present.

If the interest was to represent the devil, then he was representing the devil now, so what?

It seems that Joshua hasn't completely given up his original beliefs, so he wants Joshua to give up all of them so that he can be better...to collect land for Feimo.

Joshua was conflicted.

That’s right, shouldn’t God redeem that child?

Why do nothing and give up on him?

Or... is this a test from God?

"Even if I don't like your god's teachings, I'm still willing to step there for Noah." Chi Feichi stood up, "Father, please tell me the content of the third chapter of Genesis."

Joshua was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Chi Feichi told him this. After thinking about it for a while, he recited without thinking, "Of all the creatures made by Jehovah God, the snake is more cunning than all the living things in the field..."

Feichi couldn't help but ask, "Who wrote this book? Did the snake provoke him?"