Chapter 232 Mass

The Vatican City, the smallest country in the world, is also the only sovereign country that unites politics and religion. It is the center and holy place of the Catholic sect. In another sense, it can be called "the largest church in the world."

If the devil wants to corrupt humans from their thoughts and beliefs, this may be the best choice.

"Want to meet with the Pope? The family has always been one of the largest sponsors of the Vatican, and the Vatican's special property funds are also handled by the Bank of Rome. It won't take long for the family to arrange a meeting for you and the Pope. .”

Secretary Passi drives a Pagani. As Italy, the home of luxury cars in the world, Gattuso's garage has no shortage of luxury cars.

"Okay, we just need to confirm with our own eyes whether this servant of God has sold his soul to the Dragon King or the devil." Caesar turned back to look at Lu Mingfei in the back seat, "Do you have any other suggestions? Besides 'purification' suggestions.”

"No." Lu Mingfei shook his head.

"OK, leave it to Percy to arrange it. A formal private meeting will be much quieter than rushing in to challenge the Pope's Centurion Guards." Caesar snapped his fingers.

"President Caesar, you probably don't understand the behavior of our war group. Generally, wherever our war group appears, there will be a lot of noise." Fingel reminded warmly.

"I experienced it myself more than ten hours ago," Caesar nodded. "I remember that shortly after you went to Japan last year, the weather turbulence there almost staged a real-life version of "The Sinking of Japan."

Patsy's eyes glanced imperceptibly in the rearview mirror.

"Then it's none of our business. We almost blew up the shrine." Fingel said with a manly look.

"I seem to have heard that the building was in disrepair..." Caesar was stunned for a moment, "Wait, was that done by you?"

"Yes!"

"Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang are Chinese. I can understand them doing this kind of thing... But why do you have to look so proud? Aren't Germany and Italy also Axis powers?" Caesar couldn't help but Make complaints.

"It's just that the heretic's sinful den is just below that." Lu Mingfei explained calmly.

"...Very good, then I hope our Pope is still a loyal servant of God. Otherwise, if the Vatican is bombed, then we will all go to hell."

After a long silence, Caesar took a deep breath and said.

Anyone else would probably not think that someone wanted to blow up the Vatican, but Lu Mingfei... he watched with his own eyes as the other party twisted off the head of the Nordic god "Odin" and chopped it into pieces carefully with an axe. Now... "Zaozi"?

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Mixed in with the pilgrims and believers attending mass, Lu Mingfei and his party walked across the Ponte Sant'Angelo connecting Rome and the Vatican.

"Today happens to be the day when mass is held, and at least more than 10,000 believers will gather here... So no matter what, it is better not to make too much trouble, otherwise hundreds of people will die in a stampede. "Caesar was a little worried and held the Desert Eagle filled with alchemical bullets tightly in his arms.

Looking at the endless flow of people, there are solemnly dressed believers and tourists. They are all heading towards St. Peter's Square. Theoretically, the noble Master Caesar does not need to stay here with the "common people" With so many people crowded together, he could have waited until the evening after Mass to officially meet with the Pope.

But Lu Mingfei insisted on getting off the car and walking to attend the mass. He did not hide his blazing golden eyes at all, and looked back and forth among the bustling crowd, trying to find the hidden people contaminated by the power of chaos.

This is a new ability he gained after being baptized by the emperor's power called "Power of Faith". It is different from the prophecy system and the holy word system suppressed by the real world. It gives his eyes insight into the state of blasphemous power. There are too many restrictions, and the result of using it for a long time is just sore eyes.

Ordinary humans in their hometown belong to the category of "psionic inertia". Although they have a certain resistance to psychic power, it does not mean they are completely immune; just like a glass of water can extinguish a lit match, but it cannot extinguish it. A star.

The power of the Lord of Changes is strange and ever-changing. It is not easy to modify and distort the subconscious beliefs of human beings, even in that dark universe. The Lord of Changes can even distort and modify the subconscious minds of devout believers. Maybe this The believer still considers himself a devout follower of the Emperor, but the object of his prayers has become the Chaos God of the High Heavens.

Compared with transforming humans into dragon-blooded deadpools with greatly reduced psychic resistance and sufficient combat power, although this method of corruption is inefficient, the subsequent impact will spread rapidly among humans with faith like a plague. , and finally may be able to directly ignore the suppression of the real world and carry out erosion.

"Have you noticed anything, Captain? By the way, should I get you a pair of sunglasses to wear? Otherwise, at night, your shining eyes will become the spotlight."

Fingel whispered beside Lu Mingfei.

"The power of blasphemy has not been discovered yet. Maybe the corruption ceremony has not started yet." Lu Mingfei followed the crowd into St. Peter's Square, still maintaining a scrutinizing posture, and his golden eyes swept over one believer after another.

Their minds are clear, and there are no traces of contamination from blasphemous power in their bodies.

"Although I don't understand the corruption ritual, it sounds like the more people gather in this ritual, the worse it gets..." Fingel glanced at the densely packed crowd gathered in the square, "In addition to firing a shot into the sky, I can't think of any other way to evacuate these people."

"That would trigger a stampede and riot that would shock the world." Caesar looked serious. "The Secret Party's primary task is to protect humans from dragons, not to indirectly infringe on humans."

"Pope XVI has appeared." Patsy reminded him in a low voice behind him.

An old man wearing a golden crown, a bright red pontiff embroidered with an exquisite cross, and holding a cross scepter appeared in the square surrounded by many high priests, liturgy priests and other clergy in white robes. On the high platform, his deep voice spread throughout St. Peter's Square through the loudspeaker.

Lu Mingfei's blazing golden eyes immediately locked onto the most powerful pope in his home world. His clothes were somewhat similar to those of the Archbishop of the Imperial State Church in the universe, but the latter would have many more mechanical devices and imperial equipment. The Emperor's Proverbs.

The relationship between the Lamenters chapter and the Ecclesiarchy is not bad, because some Ecclesiastical believers are also committed to spreading the faith and glory of the Emperor in the remote worlds of the Empire. The Lamenters "save the Emperor's loyal followers and at the same time save his people." Their deeds were praised by them, and they sometimes used various supplies to allow the Lamenter Astartes to serve briefly as the Archbishop's personal bodyguard.

More or less, although the Lamenters did not fervently believe in the Emperor as a great god like the brothers of the Black Templars or the Red Hunters Chapter, they also began to learn to recite the Emperor's holy words and pray to the Emperor. ——As the son of Holy Leth, it is not a bad thing to have more ways to suppress "blood thirst" and "black rage".

Such a good relationship even led to several cardinals and archbishops jointly lobbying the Inquisition when the Lamenters Chapter was sentenced to a hundred years of atonement expedition to buy them a few more years of supplies.

"Is there anything unusual?" Caesar came up and asked in a low voice.

"……nothing now."

In the time when the memories flashed like fragments, Lu Mingfei did not discover that the pope who recited the Bible had hidden power of blasphemy. As the mass ceremony began, the believers in the square followed the choir. Christmas carols are recited, and the beautiful sound of organ music fills the sky over this smallest country.

"Hallelujah, it seems that our Pope is still a devout servant of God." Caesar breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Lu Mingfei would do something outrageous and cause a riot.

"Do you want to continue the Pope's meeting with you after the ceremony?" Patsy asked softly.

"Go ahead and let Lu Mingfei confirm it up close." Caesar thought for a moment and then replied.

After the main ceremony of the Mass is the "Holy Communion", this central part is the most complicated. First, the Pope reads the Bible, restores the famous scene of "The Last Supper", and then consecrates the bread and wine, which represents that these are Jesus The body and blood of Christ are distributed to large numbers of believers.

This ceremony lasted for nearly two hours. At Lu Mingfei's request, Fingel also pretended to be a devout Catholic believer and took a small piece of bread back to him for inspection. After confirming that it was normal, Fingel put it back in his pocket. Throw it away when you go out - you can't throw it away here.

Lu Mingfei's surveillance continued until the completion of the ceremony and the believers gradually left St. Peter's Square. During this period, he did not find any traces of Chaos pollution.

"Hope is my illusion." He whispered to himself, perhaps because he was infected by this religious ritual, and at the same time, he silently prayed to His Majesty the Emperor in his heart.

But he didn't get any response. His Majesty the Emperor seemed very busy.