In Utopia, the structure of religious orders or illegal religious groups in the name of association is roughly the same.
One, two, or three popes. The False Sea Sect has one pope, while the March Sect has three popes.
Three or more cardinals.
There are many archdiocesan bishops, pastoral bishops and pastoral priests under the cardinal.
Finally, each of these people had a large civil service, in which members were called priests, monks, congregants, etc.
Among the Mind Flayer Documentary Research Order, there is one Pope, namely Gwen. The remaining half are composed of spies, rangers, Shad Mutual Aid Committee and Wilgi Cooking Guild who are not too serious about watching the fun.
The other half is filled by spies from all levels of spy guilds and secret service agencies across Utopia. Curse Blade originally held the position of 'branch chief' in the Secret Investigation Division.
Logically speaking, in the clerical order, he has the qualifications of a pastoral priest.
But considering that Gwen is completely like a puppet, it seems inappropriate to control the entire church as a pastoral priest. Therefore, in order to appease everyone, the cursed blade has no choice but to be in the public eye, the people's will, and the destiny is known. The artifact... cough,
Anyway, under these circumstances, I had to take the liberty of raising my level in the religious order by two levels.
Just be the ‘Standing Pope’!
That is, a cardinal.
But considering there is only one Cardinal, it seems a bit too conspicuous.
So he grabbed a woman named 'Hela' from somewhere and became the second cardinal. This Hela was once a vicious and vicious generation in the Utopia before Li Qi, but she was cleared intermittently for the same reason.
It's simple. She wasn't rebelling against the authorities back then, but was an opponent of the authorities. Although she was older, she looked young and mature! Except that she didn't speak like a Utopian, everything was fine.
Two cardinals don't seem to be enough either.
No matter what, we have to invite the third cabinet minister to come out.
Curse Blade hired Professor Jackal.
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"Why?"
Gwen asked.
Cursed Blade said: "What are the advantages of the Mind Flayer Order? Dark, mysterious, gloomy, and finally handsome. First of all, as the Pope, you are the best billboard, which perfectly satisfies the male believers' fantasies about the Mind Flayer.
; Secondly, Hela has a wild and innocent beauty, which is very popular among the elderly; finally, Jackal can make up for the propaganda of our cult's image against the young girl generation."
"Oh! What about mature women?"
"..."
Gwen glanced at a hunting suit, a black priest's robe, a tall and handsome cursed blade, and snorted unhappily:
"knew."
…
After setting up the three cardinals and ensuring that two of them were puppets, the Curse Blade began to look towards the bigger puzzle.
The identity of the "Undertaker", who is among the very few in the power of the mind flayers, or who even Gezi himself doesn't care much about, has been brought up again. Curse Blade asked Rabbit to give more space to introduce reincarnation, rest in peace, and the horse in the heart.
Island...no, the concept of peace of mind. And proposed a new authority: "We can't decide whether you live or die, but we can decide how you live or die in your next life."
In Utopia, no religious order has yet experienced the charm of this move.
On the contrary, I feel that Cursed Blade is a bit hungry.
"Does something like funeral rights need to be snatched away? Isn't it just a matter of digging a hole and burying it or throwing it off the train?"
This is the view of the two major religious groups.
As for associations and illegal religious groups that are less popular than them, they don't pay much attention to these.
This principle is quite simple.
The legal sects themselves have huge profits from salt, iron and sugar, while the illegal sects are mostly engaged in small-scale smuggling of sugar candies, weapons, steel, monster corpses and source power corpses. By the way, large-scale smuggling still requires
They are two major legal sects. The Clerical Sect was founded, and everyone is waiting for the opening of the 'Mind Flayer Assassin Agency'. After all, it is not that there have been sects based on the most dangerous and strange stories of fellow villagers before, and most of them are.
Became the standard League of Assassins.
"Five Dynasties Rivers, Mountains and Winds"
Doing funerals and funerals?
It's not as easy as getting money to kill people!
Not to mention anything else, if Gwen is willing to take the order, it is not difficult to easily earn 10,000 military dollars every month. As long as he can pass the hurdle in his heart, it is possible to break 100,000. After all, the more upright the person, the better.
He is not afraid of death, because a decent character in Utopia means going crazy. In Utopia, being crazy is still decent, which means that he has a bright future in Yuanli. Therefore, he will not waste money on hiring professional bodyguards. Without professional bodyguards, Gwen is really
It's accurate to kill one person at a time.
For example, an upright commander in Commander Quan's territory next door stood on the same front as Long Yan and destroyed 500,000 military-grade sugar candies in one go. It can be said that the entire underworld from fellow villagers to the homecoming line hated him.
He wanted to kill him, and offered a sky-high price of nearly 1.2 million for military supplies on the black market. And based on the fact that these military supplies can be paid off with hard currency such as 'shells' and 'military explosives', it can be judged that some people in the authorities are looking at him.
accurate.
To kill him, Gwen estimated that it would only take a week.
Although this kind of big deal is hard to come by, it will always happen once in a year or two.
However, the only difficulty Gwen faced was the one in her heart.
Obviously, he won't do it.
Curse Blade is not that crazy to attack a truly good person. She targets Long Yan because Long Yan is not a saint in the true sense. Long Yan is a very contradictory person. Although he is a good person, he is still relatively bad and utopian.
"So, are we making money from funerals now? Can those people handle it?"
The handsome jackal guy who was invited to be a cardinal looked surprised, "Will there be an audience?"
Gwen, who was acting as a puppet, was holding her dragon tail and squinting her eyes to relax.
make money?
The development of the funeral industry in Utopia can definitely be regarded as a blue ocean industry, because among all the industries in Utopia, the red ocean industry is the killing industry.
Even at this point, ordinary killings are completely out of the question, so you have to add some creativity.
Also need some brains.
According to Coral Theory, no immortal has been born for a long time.
If Curse Blade can really use these to start a funeral industry, then if we separate this, it will become a completely legal industry!
"sure."
Curse Blade has always been full of confidence: "We will first provide the most basic service. Gwen will burn the body to make ashes, and then store them in the prepared tomb carriage."
"But that doesn't sound very appealing."
"Gwen's flames have warming properties, as does the source power, which can send the souls of the dead into reincarnation. We have Gwen handle the corpse once a week and turn it into a ritual."
"A ceremony?"
Jackal was still a little hesitant.
Cursed Blade patted the table:
“As long as it’s solemn enough, cracking a tea egg can become a ritual!”
…
It's almost curfew time for fellow travelers.
At this time, fellow villagers are rushing home one by one.
Tommy looked at these people in a hurry and felt a little envious in his heart. He envied them for having a home to return to? Not really. Or rather, it was just a kind of envy for stability as a person living in a violent life.
He lit a cigarette and nodded to a man on the corner whose back was against the wall.
The other party smiled and nodded, pointing to the gas mask around his waist.
It's the curfew man.
Tommy knew that when the curfew came, these people who would not go home like him would most likely pull out weapons and shoot at him. Maybe it was a vendetta by a certain gang? Maybe it was a dispute on a certain street. Death and Utopia
People follow.
But at this moment, he just wanted to finish smoking the cigarette in his mouth.
"Dear citizens, tonight's curfew will increase the frequency and intensity of patrols, but at the same time, we will postpone the curfew for 30 minutes. According to reliable information, this postponement is because an association spent money to purchase..."
"Sokka!"
Tommy heard a person next to him curse: "Where did the rich man come from and actually bought half an hour of publicity time?"
It seems that anything can come out of Utopia, such as the soul.
For example, train curfew times.
The man next to me was scolding, maybe because his gang had prepared to rob a store, but the extra extension of the normal time caused problems with the curfew patrols, and they had to cancel the plan.
Hey, what's this called?
The program is not getting faster.
Tommy looked relaxed and content, because he was delivering goods, and the shorter the curfew time, the less the number of goods delivered.
He even had the mood to buy a ticket and whistle to see what the 'funeral ceremony' mentioned in the promotion was like.
…
The funeral ceremony was held by an association called the Mind Flayer Documentary Research.
Although he didn't know why the mind flayer was related to documents and funerals, it didn't stop Tommy from watching the fun.
Before entering the venue, I also bought a bottle of beer and a bag of sausages at the door for 1 standard and 3 private parts.
Watching a funeral ceremony and eating?
Don't worry, this is the traditional culture of the Utopians. What's more, Tommy is the black cat Wilkie, which makes it even more so.
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The venue was the Gentile Theater. I heard that the place unfortunately burned down once, but in March, some kind-hearted people raised funds and quickly rebuilt it.
And it was a little bigger. The tall marble pillars made Tommy think for a while before he remembered how to say the word, 'magnificent', yes, very grand.
There is not much time, it has already begun.
Tommy quickly found an empty seat and sat down, ready to have a good meal.
Before I started eating, I heard a vulgar voice:
"Sokka, isn't this Mind Flayer ritual great?"
Why are you yelling so loudly? Do you want people to eat?
He raised his head and quickly looked at the stage. The reason was that the person who shouted was the boss of the Bigs and Sea Dragon Gang next door, and he was a real ruthless person.
Can't afford to offend.
Then we can only look at the mind flayer on the stage.
But this looks bad.
Can't take my eyes away.
Standing on the stage was a beauty, wearing a lava-like glowing red robe with long sleeves. She was not tall, with a pair of awesome lava-colored curled horns on her head, and a huge dragon behind her.
Tail. Its eyes were dyed with flames, and the suffocating source power continuously overflowed from the fingertips to the toes, as if it had become substantial, and the molten source power spread on the stage.
【Gwen】
There is no need to understand, no need to know.
I don't even know the spelling.
But the name had already appeared in Tommy's mind, and he was extremely convinced that this was its name.
Endless lava engulfed this place.
He felt no burn, no pain, only a sense of warmth, a feeling like soaking in warm water on a cold night. It was like wiping his body clean and lying on the bed, and the soreness in his waist slowly eased.
a feeling of.
In the sky, leaves of different colors composed of flames fell down.
"It's so beautiful."
He praised sincerely. In the endless lava lake in front of him, [Gwen] stretched out his upper body. He became extremely huge, holding a lava lake in his hands, and slowly moved the soul inside to an unknown time.
Under the tree behind him.
The feeling of relief made Tommy feel spiritually cleansed.
It feels like coming home after a hard day's work.
this moment.
He sincerely and fanatically believed that this ritual could indeed appease the human soul and allow the soul of the deceased to turn into source power and flow into reincarnation.
Then he was noticed.
[Gwen] turned her head to look at him, her lips that had been pursed into a line showing a shallow smile.
Flames, heat, and warmth overwhelmed Tommy.
…
The soothing night breeze woke Tommy up.
Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly walked out of the Gentile Theater where the ceremony was held.
Surrounded by the rest of the audience were huge crowds.
At this time, he had a desire to live that he didn't know where to live.
Don’t want to live in such a hazy state, do you want to live clearly and do something more meaningful?
He felt a little hungry.
Perhaps, this is a symbol of desire awakening?
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Sniper Cat, main tower.
Gwen changed out of her thick papal uniform.
I feel a little warm all over.
Originally, the design of this set of papal uniforms was not to say relatively silvery, but at least it could be said to be relatively slutty. It was basically cosplayed with the costumes of the Kiritsugu dancers. However, after Gwen's strong protest, it was changed to a completely different one.
A type of clothing that is not revealing at all. Although it looks like a two-dimensional oiran, it is better than the one in front. The one wearing Kiritsugu in the front really does not treat the audience friends as outsiders. In the 21st century, then
I have to be detained for fourteen days with my audience friends.
But to put it another way, if Gwen appeared in the 21st century, then even the most staunch atheist would have to wonder whether the martyrs launched some kind of Jedi war to protect the great Mother Earth.
Even if you dance wearing Kiritsugu's clothes, you still have to endure it.
After Gwen changed her clothes and went out, she heard Curse Blade shouting excitedly.
"It's done, there are over a hundred corpses being transported on trolleys!"
With this cry of ‘It is finished’, people who don’t know may think that this is a cannibal sect waiting for the ingredients for dinner to arrive.
Gwen's face was tense, but not completely tense, and she went out with a playful smile.
Asking for credit as soon as you show up:
"I'm so worried about this!"
It belongs to the dream of Internet cafe 2011.
These hundred or so corpses are the corpses of insiders of the March Sect and the False Sea Sect, and belong to the Laoxianren branch. Some people from the two major sects saw the effect and thought it was good and beneficial to stabilizing their faith, so they started writing
The money was left to the clerical association.
There is only one requirement:
“Big and nice!”
Please note that the average education level of Utopians is inseparable from enlightenment education. Although the elites are great, they must also take into account the public opinion of the lower classes when formulating policies, which is the Utopian people's "big is awesome"
This kind of mentality.
Does the Witchcraft Company not know that the only people buying rifles for self-defense are petite and cute boys of Gwen's size?
It can't be done!
But the problem is that people who actually need witchcraft rifles and people who will buy witchcraft rifles are two different people. Therefore, their submachine guns are made to be petite and cute, while their rifles are made to be big and powerful.
People who buy big and powerful rifles will also buy petite and cute submachine guns for the little boys and girls next to them, creating two orders at once. Wouldn't it be nice?
Therefore, the two major religious groups knew that "Isn't it necessary to enter reincarnation just to meet Gwen?", but they couldn't bear that the members of the church actually had good wishes and visions for the next life, so they simply asked, "You have to make the ceremony bigger and bigger."
Well, it would be best for Gwen to come and dance again, and the money will be given neatly.
Of course, Cursed Blade also gave an evaluation:
"The quoted price is high, and their rebates are also high!"
