Chapter 841 Religious Rituals Are Troublesome

.As the protagonist of today's special celebration ceremony, the newborn was placed in two golden angs and carried onto the ceremonial platform by the priests, but the ang was only for the Atlanteans. In terms of height ratio, at least in my eyes, the two shiny little ones are almost as big as Pandora's single bed. (Update the latest chapter of this book)

The two newborns had just been placed on the rectangular platform for baptism. Before the high priest could step forward, Lilina was the first to rush out. She suddenly became a little excited.

The guy hurriedly ran to the baby's bed, scratched his head and took a look inside, then let out a very sudden exclamation and ran back with a sad face.

"What's wrong with Lou?"

I looked at Lilina in surprise. She was the one who was so excited to hold the baby just now. Why did she look like this after looking at her now?

As a result, Lilina looked up at me at a 45-degree angle, with tears in the corners of her eyes, and muttered aggrievedly: "Mom, you are bigger than me when you are born, how can you hold me?"

Everyone said the same thing and were suddenly speechless.

Only Shandora could calmly analyze: "Because they grow very fast. According to the database, the new ones in Atlantis must learn to walk independently and accept the test of the natural environment within a few days. After they are born, they grow almost as soon as the wind blows..."

Shandora was doing some popular science for us, but I found that there were two little guys beside me who also had strange expressions.

Pandora and Visca clenched their little fists involuntarily, staring blankly at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, as if they had lost their goals in life. It seemed that these two little guys were allowed to accept that a person who was born with a higher It is indeed difficult to hold a big baby of my own. Lilina is really an excellent thunder warrior. I should be glad that the person who ran over just now was not Pandora, the two little lunatics whose resentment about height has almost reached the sky.

Lilina also noticed the depressed expressions of the two 12-meter-tall soldiers, and quickly comforted her: "Don't be sad, I just looked at it, those two little guys are bigger than me, they seem to be a little lower than you. …”

I looked at Lilina's height. Well, it's 1.09 meters, not even 1.1 meters. Then her statement is really convincing, but this little girl is also a tragedy. After decades of life, she finally turned out to be He is only 1.09 meters tall. No wonder he has something in common with the Pandora sisters.

After hearing this, Viska was naturally greatly encouraged and ran over with bright eyes. I watched from behind with tears in my eyes: Has this poor little guy been reduced to seeking height superiority from a baby?

As a result, before I could finish the tears in my eyes, Viska ran back with a sad face, hugged my big butt and rubbed it hard, twitching and saying, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" , or the little finger placed sideways..."

I:"……"

At this time, Lilina luckily struck with a double blow: "Oh, considering the growth rate of these two children that I just felt, they will be bigger than you in another forty-eight hours... …”

This girl who refuses to lift any pot deserves to be beaten to the ground by Pandora and Viska!

This interruption by the three little girls made the priest who presided over the ceremony seem particularly at a loss. The black-robed giant with a silver mask looked here with a particularly innocent look for a while, until Sandora reacted and gave them a message. After receiving the signal to continue the baptism, the priests breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the baptism of the newborn baby officially began.

The first is to bathe in holy water, which is the kind of high-concentration radiation water that can turn half of Washington into a real-life reproduction of Fallout 3 in twenty minutes. Several assistant priests placed a huge egg-shaped sink in the center of the baptistery. I found This water tank was actually modified from some kind of survival capsule, with various interfaces and mechanical structures still remaining on the surface. After asking, I found out that the Atlanteans used the old imperial scientific expedition team in the early days to build the first The survival capsules of modern cyborgs have been preserved and regarded as some kind of sacred object with magical power. They feel that this thing gave new life to the first Atlantis artificial god in ancient times, so it also has the ability to make people The ability of a newborn to be reborn.

The water tank was filled with radiant water that exuded a faint blue light. The two priests picked up the newborns (by the way, they are a brother and sister) from the gorgeous bed, and quickly recited a few prayers in mid-air. , and then put the two children into the sink.

At this moment, I also saw the two new beings who were very special today: they were indeed bigger than Lili Na.

But apart from being extremely large, they look like normal children in other aspects, such as chubby limbs and wrinkled little faces. The difference is that these two smooth newborns show signs of being different from their infant identities and Its incongruous stillness. They didn't cry or make trouble. Although they were only seventy-two hours old, they could open their unusually bright eyes and look at everything around them alertly and challengingly. When they were caught by the priest, both children did the same thing. They made an amazing move, that is, they bent their arms to cover half of their faces, protecting their heads without affecting their ability to observe the surrounding environment.

This is the fighting instinct written deep in the genes awakening.

Are these two naughty kids still babies? Did the Atlanteans' childhood end on the third sunrise of their lives? !

I complained vehemently, even though I also know about more cruel "ripening" than this, such as those imperial soldiers who can grab cannons and smash people into the field as soon as they jump off the production line, but after all, one is a mass-produced Xiling apostle, and the other is It is a carbon-based creature born from a normal womb. The latter's exaggerated growth is really concerning.

After putting the newborn baby into the holy water, the officiant immediately began to recite blessing prayers. The prayers were not long, and there seemed to be a lot of freedom to express myself, because I found many things that were consistent with today's situation. The priest first welcomed the two newborns into the world, and then announced that they were the first pair of babies in Atlantis after the beginning of the new century. This was of great significance. Then, the priest announced that after the "Great God" and the three leaders Under the witness and blessing, the two newborns will thrive, and they will become the best warriors in the shortest time. There are many things, which are basically words surrounding these things, not so much prayers. Rather, it is a very pragmatic record of birth circumstances and future life plans. After finishing these prayers in less than a minute, which I originally thought would take half an hour, the priest presiding over the ceremony paused the staff in his hand, and suddenly shouted three words in a high and strange voice: "Harragon!"

I immediately noticed a slight change in the atmosphere among the Atlantean priests who participated in the ceremony. Even Ares next to me suddenly became serious. Well, even though all I could see was his chin slump, I thought it was a particularly serious chin sag...

"Harragon!" Two assistant priests came forward from the queue after the chief priest finished speaking. They repeated the three words of unknown meaning loudly, and at the same time each of them held a large rectangular box. The box was It was made of metal and had some curved patterns on it. It was unknown what was inside, but the box could be seen shaking slightly in the hands of the assistant priest, as if there was something alive inside.

Lilina stretched her neck and looked at the two big boxes curiously. I felt that if her sister hadn't been holding her, she would have rushed over to taste the salt. Even the mercury lamp became restless and twisted on my shoulder. He squirmed around and muttered: "It's so serious when a child is born, blah"

I felt something in my heart and raised my shoulders. The little doll immediately hugged my head tightly: "Hey! What are you doing! It will fall!"

"Is there a welcome ceremony like this for you when the time comes?" I said with a low smile. "According to the specifications of the imperial princess, we have to arrange more than 20,000 tables of Manchu and Chinese banquets to celebrate your birthday, and then we also provide this process by the way." Do you walk through it? "

The mercury lamp knew I was joking, but it was still fascinated immediately, and then started to bite my scalp.

At this time, the two assistant priests had placed the big box next to the sink containing holy water and newborn babies. The holy water in the sink was only about ten centimeters deep. Two sturdy "babies" (I'm really embarrassed to say they were The baby (who is bigger than Lilina!) was curiously sitting upright in the water and poking his little head out of the sink. At this time, he saw the box placed in front of him, and he suddenly showed a look of vigilance.

"Inside that" Lilina seemed to sense something, covering her mouth and exclaimed in a low voice.

The box was suddenly opened, and after two or three seconds of silence, two agile black shadows sprang out from inside!

Before I could react, the two black figures had fallen into the sink, followed immediately by a low neighing sound and a fight in the splashing water.

"Haragon is a poisonous python." Ares bent down and explained in a low voice, "This kind of python will only live in Mount Olympus. We regard it as the elf of the holy mountain and the instructor who tests newborns... …”

"I'm going! You guys are risking your lives!" Even Lilina couldn't help shouting this time. I reacted faster than her and was about to rush over on the spot, but Sandora grabbed my arm and then Pointing at the sink, which had gone silent for a few seconds.

Yes, it got quiet. The neighing and fighting lasted less than a few seconds in total. It was so fast that I even thought that the two children who were only three days old had been killed instantly, but the parents of the newborns kept smiling. Looking at the water tank, they didn't seem to be killed instantly. After the fight, they looked at each other, came to the edge of the water tank, and fished out the "Harragon" poisonous python that had been torn into several pieces.

"Healthy child! Long live the gods!"

The priest presiding over the ceremony raised two python heads that had almost turned into floccules. A high-pitched voice came from under the silver mask. The blood of the pythons was still flowing and sprinkled on the black sacrificial robe and his mask. On top, other priests also raised their hands and repeated loudly in a uniform and strange tone that first fell and then rose: "Healthy child! Long live the gods!"

The cheers started to spread from the priest team until other nearby Atlanteans who were participating or watching also raised their arms and cheered. The whole scene was as weird as the bloody totem ceremony in ancient times. I and several others were the biggest at the ceremony. There was a discordant note. Sister-in-law had to give me a slap from behind and shouted in a low voice: "How old are you? Okay, okay. I don't have a proper look."

It seems that this ceremony of the Atlanteans is coming to an end now. Although it was short-lived, the process just now contains three meanings: blessing, baptism, and test. Many onlookers, especially the monsters, understood it in stunned silence. The ferocious folk customs of Atlantis, a powerful man-made civilization, especially in the last step, they actually used deadly poisonous snakes to test whether the children were healthy - in fact, they were not only testing the health of the children, but also the attacks of the newborns. Sex and fighting instincts, these are things written in their genes, just like newborn babies know how to avoid fire, they know how to destroy the enemy and how to protect themselves from birth.

So what happens to children who don’t have this ability?

"Died on the baptismal pedestal, the holy water tank serves as a coffin for such a failure." Faced with my question, Ares said frankly, "The inability to fight and kill is a genetic defect for the Atlanteans. , which means that the genes given to us by the gods have undergone bad mutations in those failures, but this kind of thing rarely happens. In history, only three babies have had recessive fighting genes, and those babies have not been able to Step down from the baptismal font. The enemy infects the weak among us, and babies who fail to survive baptism are more likely to grow up to become enemies possessed by the abyss, for their own good.”

"Don't do this again in the future." I took a breath, but still felt the need to say it on my nose. "I know that this custom was normal in those circumstances, because if you don't do this, the fittest will perish, but now With the empire backing you, it’s better to avoid this bloody baptism.”

Ares was stunned for a moment and thought for a long time. I thought he would stick to his opinion, but in the end. The pong man still nodded and replied angrily: "Then let's change our customs."

It seems that I have underestimated the impact of what "god" said on these Atlanteans. Their customs are based on the meaning of God. If God's meaning changes, they will immediately change the customs of the entire race. They are all fanatical believers!

Shandora's eyes still fell on the priests. Now the two babies had been wiped clean and placed on their shoulders again. The young parents were accompanying the two children, and other priests were using spices and new products. of holy water to cleanse the blood on the sink. Watched for a while. Sandora suddenly said: "Children with recessive fighting genes do have the right to survive, but this baptism ceremony can be preserved. Don't let the next generation forget how to fight."

After saying this, she smiled at me again: "I am a little sensitive about the Mobrador civilization, but for such a race that is born for fighting, it is not a good idea to be too protective.

I looked into Sandora's eyes and immediately understood her thoughts, and then nodded: "That's true. And this baptism method is considered an intangible cultural heritage, right? Should we set up an incineration..., uh , the Ministry of Culture has related things? With so many worlds under its name, there are many strange and ancient customs. "

Sandora rolled her eyes and ignored me. Only Lilina kindly explained to me in a low voice: "Boss, the Ministry of Culture doesn't care about these things."

The baptism of the newborn has ended, and we have done nothing but watch, but I still feel satisfied. After all, it is equivalent to seeing novel alien customs, but Lilina doesn’t think so.

She always felt that she was not involved in something and felt really bad about it. She still remembered her bold words before setting off that she would personally bless the newborn with the goddess, although now it seemed that she did not expect this at all, she I still couldn't forget this, so when the two newborns were about to be taken down, this little girl suddenly jumped out.

She called Dingdang, who was struggling to save the owner's hair from the mercury lamp above me, and announced that she would give the child "a loving blessing filled with the grace of the goddess."

Several Atlantean priests immediately felt a little embarrassed at Lilina's request. They respected this little girl who was only one-third of their height because she was a friend of the "Great God", but they did not dare He rashly agreed to the other party's request because the Atlanteans' teachings did not allow them to accept any other gods, even if this god usually lived in the great god's pocket, and more importantly, the great god was watching right in front of him. At this time, it is a bit unreasonable to allow a newborn to receive the blessing of an alien god.

"Let her be, or she will make trouble for me all day long."

I saw that even Zeus looked down with troubled eyes and shrugged at them.

Lilina cheered and led her goddess forward to bless him.

Imaya may be the day of religious revival...

I didn't do anything, I just followed others to watch their great performances!

"I'll go, no matter how many times I look at it, this child is big enough." Lilina held Dingdang on her head, lying on the edge of the "baby bed" that could be used as a single bed for herself, looking inside. "Dingdang also looked in. After taking a look, he nodded in agreement: ". Dingdang looks like everyone has a big penis..."

Everyone: ""! .