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"Nothing." He shook his head, and then continued to ask: "So when you just said to yourself that you asked me to take over your mission, you meant that you wanted to control me, and then asked me to help you continue to exterminate his followers?"
"Yes."
Hasmore revealed his original plan:
"The original executor was Pope Clement VI. God told him in a dream that he planned to give believers some small tests. Only those who can survive the disease are truly loyal to him.
Clement VI believed it and did so. Even if I didn't appear in front of him, he believed so firmly.
Therefore, clergy are the group with the highest proportion of infected people. Those clergy who are not sick rarely appear in front of the public. This is because they have been dismissed from their posts by Clement VI and expelled from the Holy See. "
"I understand." Jiang Lu felt that everything made sense: "That's why they spread the word that diseases are caused by people being unfaithful to God, so they were punished by God.
In addition, some inexplicable rituals are even used to delay the time for patients to receive treatment, in order to make the disease spread wider. "
"Yes, that's what it is."
Jiang Lu suddenly felt disgusted. In his opinion, God's operation was more evil than the evil god himself.
At least he can't do this kind of thing of using other people's beliefs to satisfy selfish desires. Of course, you and I are willing to do things between men and women, but that's another story.
"How terrible..." He couldn't help but refresh his understanding of God.
He thought nothing of the death row prisoners in the Tower of Redemption, but a disaster of this scale made him re-understand the lower limits of God.
It can only be said that the three views are inconsistent. Under the background of God, Zeus, whom he has always had a prejudice against, seems to be much more majestic.
"So what were your original plans?"
"The plague is not as powerful as I thought."
Hasmore said bluntly: "Such a power cannot exterminate all human beings, so I want to re-enact the history of the Crusades and let your Red Cross fight a holy war with the Catholic Church.
By then, the entire continent and more than a dozen countries will be affected.
In the end, you and Clement VI will suffer losses under my arrangement.
In this way, both sides will suffer heavy casualties. The dead will naturally be taken care of without further mention, and the remaining injured will also lose their resistance to disease and become a better breeding ground.
There will be no more living people on this continent. "
Such a tragic ending made even Jiang Lu feel chills running down his spine.
Because he didn't know at the beginning that the Pope in the Vatican was really one of the spreaders of the plague. If Hasmore made some small moves behind the scenes, those troops that had lost their combat effectiveness would definitely suddenly come back and catch Florence off guard.
Even if our side feeds war with war, advancing towards the Vatican while relying on Isina's power of redemption to absorb new believers, the outcome will not change in any way.
Because the Pope is cheating, Hasmer will continue to balance the combat power of the two sides behind the scenes, so that the ending will be as she described, with both sides suffering losses.
Thinking of this, Jiang Lu took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.
Fortunately, none of this will happen now.
Who would have thought that the turning point related to the life and death of the entire European continent would be a small happy bean?
Jiang Lu seizes the future!
However, there is another point in this plot that makes Jiang Lu unpredictable.
It stands to reason that this must be a spiritual realm with hell level difficulty. Why is the difficulty only A level?
The most important thing is that now that Hasmore has abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, the spiritual realm is still not over. So what is the so-called root cause?
Intuition told Jiang Lu that there might be some secrets that even Hasmore didn't know.
The answer to everything is in the Vatican!
Thinking of this, Jiang Lu asked seriously:
"Hasmore, can you eliminate all plagues?"
Hasmore shook his head: "Sorry, Master, I can't do it. My fire can burn the pollen of the 'Black Death', but I can't do anything about the pollen that enters the human body, unless I burn the infected people together."
"That makes no sense." Jiang Lu shook his head sadly.
"Do you want to save everyone and become the savior?" Hasmore was a little surprised.
She didn't understand why this sinful devil apostle wanted to be the savior.
"Saving people is secondary." Jiang Lu shrugged: "I just did it casually to achieve my goal."
The goal he was talking about was naturally a task in the spiritual realm. If it went well, he certainly wouldn't mind adding some trouble to God.
Whether it was what he did to Ishina, or whether it was the mark of sin he put on himself, or the current thing he didn't even bother to do, he had reason to include God in his name. "Tao" blacklist.
"But..." Hasmer thought for a moment: "If you can find a way to rescue those who are already infected, like Florence did, then I can burn all the rats carrying pollen. In this way, the transmission route will be cut off, and new infected people will not appear, and you can achieve the effect you want."
"That's no problem." Jiang Lu nodded happily, then thought of something and smiled:
"But when you mentioned the savior, I remembered that I have a girlfriend who is the savior, and I think I can pay her a little tribute in this way.
Besides, I have a girlfriend. Although I don’t like her compassion, even death row prisoners should be given the opportunity and right to start a new life. But...if she knew that she played a role in promoting the butterfly effect today, I’m not sure if she can laugh out loud like me. "
Facing Hasmore's puzzled gaze, Jiang Lu had no intention of explaining, but muttered to himself in a somewhat narcissistic manner:
"I have to say, I am really a damn good man and the number one lover."
If we put aside the fact that Jiang Lu mentioned two women in two sentences.
At least at this moment, his smile did have the word "pure love" written all over it.
......
After arranging for Hasmore to make some relevant preparations, Jiang Lu immediately went to the construction site of St. Jiang Locke Cathedral and found Giovanni without a safety helmet.
"Plans have changed, get ready to go."
Of course Giovanni knew what Jiang Lu was referring to, and was immediately surprised: "Isn't it too fast?"
"Trust me, there's no better time than now."
Jiang Lu's rare seriousness startled Giovanni.
The last time he saw him look so serious, the two of them became like-minded, and now that he was so serious, he didn't even dare to think that something big would happen.
"I understand." Giovanni nodded: "I will make arrangements right away to integrate all armies and reserves."
"You don't need too many people. A few hundred people are enough, but they must all be knights."
Jiang Lu desperately wanted to throw ashes into God's eyes, so the faster he could march, the better.
"Uh..." Giovanni was a little skeptical: "The number of horses is no problem, but there are so few people, and they are all cavalry. Are you sure it's okay?"
Giovanni had read many military books and understood that the number of people attacking a city must be at least twice the number of defenders to have a chance of victory. Not to mention that the Holy See in the Vatican is a tall fortress, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In addition, in siege warfare, the combat effectiveness of infantry far exceeds that of knights.
So no matter from any angle, Giovanni felt that Jiang Lu's scheduling was extremely unreasonable.
Even if all the Holy See soldiers in the Vatican were sick, he didn't think he could successfully break in.
This is without counting the reinforcements from the Vatican. Once the battle cannot be resolved quickly and falls into a tug-of-war, the contemporary pope will definitely ask the King of France to send reinforcements. When the time comes, there will be no logistics and no reinforcements. On the contrary, Florence will be in a difficult situation. , maybe even fall into desperate situation.
Out of consideration for the prestige of Jiang Lu and the Red Cross, Giovanni explained all these factors to Jiang Lu.
But Jiang Lu just waved his hand: "Don't worry, we don't need to fight with the Vatican at all."
Giovanni was stunned: "Then what are we going to do?"
"We are going to start a holy war, and this holy war does not require death and sacrifice."
Jiang Lu said seriously: "This is a holy war to liberate the mind. I call it Renaissance!"
At this time, Giovanni didn't know the weight of this sentence, but said helplessly: "Is there any war without bloodshed?"
Jiang Lu patted him on the shoulder and said, "So, I need to prepare some things. When the time comes, I will do it in front of the entire continent."
"The whole big job?" Giovanni didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
"Well...you can think of it as a grand ceremony that has never been seen before and will never be repeated." Jiang Lu smiled mysteriously.
"Okay, I have no reason not to believe you." Giovanni still compromised: "But what are the things you said you need to prepare?"
Jiang Lu slowly spit out two words: "Holy water."
Giovanni seemed to understand what Jiang Lu wanted to do: "Are you going to distribute it to people in the Vatican to undermine their belief in God?"
Jiang Lu nodded: "Absolutely."
Giovanni asked again: "How much to bring?"
"The more, the merrier."
"Everyone needs to be given a copy? Then let me think, according to the proportion of sick people in Florence, the Vatican..."
Giovanni calculated carefully: "Bring about a hundred cans, so that everyone can get the same amount."
"What do you mean the same amount?"
Jiang Lu stared: "The Vatican next door saw it and thought we couldn't afford the holy water. Who can use this small amount? A thousand more cans, one for each person! You're stupid."
Chapter 114 The road to the Vatican is not easy...
In the early morning of the third day, five hundred Florentine paladins, each riding a horse and leading a horse carrying dry food and supplies, set out towards the Vatican.
The horses were loaded with barrels of holy water.
In order not to delay the treatment of people in Florence, Jiang Lu worked hard last night and finally had everything ready before sunrise.
The Vatican is southwest of Rome, about three hundred kilometers from Florence.
Theoretically, it would only take a dozen hours to arrive at full speed. However, due to the large amount of luggage and the large number of people, Giovanni counted the time for the horses to rest, and estimated that it would take a day, a night, or even noon the next day to arrive.
Jiang Lu didn't know how to ride a horse, so he was sitting on a specially made carriage and enjoying the top treatment.
The three brothers riding in front looked back from time to time, looking at the carriage and sighing.
"This treatment is different." Blind Box grinned.
Sitting in the saddle for a long time made his buttocks, inner thighs and calves feel raw and painful for a person who can ride a horse but almost never rides a horse.
Classical Music and The Man with the Sword are no better.
"Just bear with it."
They smiled wryly.