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"If I make him a little brother, can he still fall out with me?"
The domineering look in Zeus's eyebrows was completely unlike a man who was blocked at the door and beaten.
Even Jiang Lu had to admire his optimism and confidence.
Jiang Lu toasted him with a glass of wine and changed the subject:
"But these things have to wait until I finish dealing with the Starry Sky Gate matter. This matter is more important to me now."
"It doesn't matter. After we've dealt with it, you can do whatever you want. If you want to leave, just leave. I will help you deal with these things."
Zeus took over this matter very loyally.
Even Jiang Lu felt a little embarrassed now.
"Isn't it bad? If my sister-in-law knows this, she won't think too much about it?"
"What are you thinking about?" Zeus smiled disdainfully: "You have already preached to her, how can she be unhappy because you are preaching in Hyberil?"
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that you are neglecting your family for me and my wife. She must not be jealous, right?"
"Ha." Zeus smiled self-deprecatingly: "It seems that even you think I am afraid of my wife. Let me tell you, the master of Greece is the master. I can tolerate her in small things. I can tell her in big things like this. She dares to say it." Two? Even if you don’t accept it, you have to hold it in!
Do you believe it or not, as long as I tell her that I am staying in Hybriel to help you, not only will she not dare to say anything unnecessary, but she will also have to tell me to be careful? "
"Huh?" Jiang Lu keenly captured the key words and said suspiciously: "You don't want to stay here and tease the Elk Goddess under my banner, do you?"
Zeus took a sip of wine expressionlessly.
"Is it so obvious?"
"Your abacus is a bit loud..."
......
Early the next morning.
Jiang Lu and Zeus, smelling of alcohol, came to the Elk Temple.
As a position that everyone in Hybril is eager to pursue, the selection of pioneers is logically very complicated.
If you are a person who does not hold a priesthood, if you want to become a pioneer, you must first spend a large amount of registration fee. This is why so many people leave Hyberil and go hunting in the mountains every year at the end of the day.
You have to spend money to take part in the assessment.
The content of the assessment is about the history of the temple that selects the pioneers and various knowledge points about the gods they believe in. It will also extend to the candidates' opinions and prospects for the future development direction of the temple.
Only after passing the assessment can you get the opportunity to test your divine power and physical fitness. This part is not too difficult. As long as the test is passable, the priests in the temple will generally not embarrass the candidates.
Then comes the interview. As the examiner, Castalia will assess the candidate's overall quality, set up some difficulties that may be encountered after entering the Starry Sky Gate, and test the candidate's crisis handling ability.
If you pass the written test, physical test, and interview, you can become a temple pioneer.
This is the pioneer selection for civilians, and the pioneer selection for priests usually takes place one day in advance.
Since the priests knew the temple well and had already obtained the corresponding badges based on the divine power test, they only needed to participate in the interview.
But the interview is the most difficult part. Every year, more than 95% of the candidates, civilians and priests who manage to get here will be rejected by the selfless Castalia.
Zeus originally never participated in the selection of pioneers, but because Jiang Lu was involved this time, he naturally had to participate.
Even though the two of them had arrived very early, there were still many people waiting for interviews gathered in the temple, at least dozens of people by visual inspection.
According to Zeus, the priests are already among the best, so they appear to be few in number, but the number of civilians who come to the interview every time is often in the order of thousands. If you count those who were dismissed in the first two steps. , maybe tens of thousands of people.
Roughly speaking, the competition for a pioneer position among a thousand people is fierce.
Zeus helped Jiang Lu get the number, and the two of them sat on the steps and started bragging while drinking wine brought from the tavern.
Completely opposite to their leisurely appearance, the other priests looked extremely nervous.
For this kind of semi-annual selection, no one can stay calm and collected.
Although most of them have obtained through various channels the examination syllabus and standard answers privately sold by those who were selected as pioneers in previous years, the examiner Castalia, as the most strict and talented person in the Elk God Cult, They will come up with all kinds of new tricks every time, which of course makes them feel unsure.
Not long after, it was time to start the interview.
The examiner group headed by Castalia walked out of the apse of the temple and began to read out the interview rules.
Castalia was already familiar with the contents of the speech, so her eyes had already left the speech and began to search the crowd.
Although Jiang Lu and Zeus are in the background, some people are born to be the protagonists.
The two yawning Sima faces stood out among the faces around them that were full of humility and awe after seeing Castalia.
Seeing Jiang Lu arriving as promised, Castalia breathed a sigh of relief.
Last night she had been worried that Jiang Lu was just fooling her. Being a pioneer was just an excuse for him to deal with her. In fact, he was not interested in her at all.
It was only now that it was confirmed that Jiang Lu had not lied to her, and the stone in her heart finally fell to the ground.
After reading out the rules, Castalia said loudly:
"You are all the best priests this year. I hope you can all pass the interview smoothly and pay tribute to the Elk Goddess!"
"Salute to the Elk Goddess!" the priests said in unison.
Jiang Lu nudged Zeus with his elbow: "As for you, why don't you pay tribute?"
"I've already paid my respects." Zeus proudly stretched out his hand to give a thumbs-up, pointing his thumb to his waist.
"Good guy, this is more than just a tribute, you have raised the flag."
The interview began.
As the first person entered the apse, the priests became more nervous.
I am worried that the person will come out with a dejected face soon, because this means that the interview this year will be too difficult.
I'm also worried that he will be happy when he comes out, because this means that the quota will most likely be taken up before it's his turn.
So although they were all making their own preparations, they were actually absent-minded and focused on the apse.
Sure enough, not long after, the first interviewer came out dejected.
"What's wrong?" His friend hurried forward and asked.
He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Let's fight World War II in the second half of the year."
Now, the tense atmosphere became even more intense.
So in the main hall, apart from some voices talking to themselves, some comforting each other, and some anxious pacing, the only sounds left in the main hall were the sounds of Jiang Lu and Zeus telling dirty jokes.
"Are you good at couplets?" Jiang Lu asked.
"You taught me and I know a little bit." Zeus nodded.
"Then I say you are right."
"it is good."
"Moonset."
"sunrise."
"Cultist."
"nun."
"Osan."
"White water."
"go."
"Come."
"It's very neat." Jiang Lu nodded in surprise.
But Zeus suddenly realized something, blushed, and pushed Jiang Lu: "Oh, you are so bad."
At this moment, someone finally couldn't bear the two people who had been doing nothing since entering the temple: "Have you had enough?!"
The two looked up and saw many priests looking at them with disdain.
Whispers such as "They have been drinking", "Desecration of the majesty of the priest", "The Elk Goddess will not protect such people" can be heard endlessly.
Zeus immediately felt aggrieved. It was clearly Jiang Lu who started it first, so why did he even scold himself?
He wanted to throw the blame to Jiang Lu, but when he turned around, Jiang Lu was no longer around.
Turning around again, Jiang Lu was already standing next to the person who spoke.
"What about you, have you had enough fun?" Jiang Lu joined the crusade and asked Zeus.
"Fuck you!"
"Report to the commander." Jiang Lu said to the man the gesture that the priests had just done to pay tribute to the Elk Goddess: "The war criminal Osroar Temple, it is recommended to burn him to death with fire!"
The priests obviously did not expect that someone could be so insane, and they all shook their heads and stayed away from them, for fear of getting into bad luck.
"It's unreasonable." The man obviously didn't want to tangle with them anymore, and angrily said, "Are you worthy of participating in the selection of pioneers?" Then he turned and left.
Jiang Lu sat back and said calmly: "Settlement."
Zeus was a little indignant: "If you are nervous, take it out on us, what are you talking about?"
"Ah, no, actually we did influence them." Jiang Lu blamed himself.
Zeus was shocked when he heard this: "Who are you? Where did you hide my brother?"
Jiang Lu smiled evilly: "So I decided to expand my influence."
"What do you want to do?"
"I kill two birds with one stone. Not only can I demoralize them, but I can also cut in the queue and interview them earlier."
Jiang Lu and Zeus whispered, and Zeus praised repeatedly: "It is indeed a poisonous trick!"
Then Jiang Lu quietly left the temple. After a while, he rushed into the temple pretending to be anxious.
"shit!"
When he shouted, he immediately attracted the attention of others.
When they saw it was Jiang Lu again, they all showed disgusted expressions.
At this time, Zeus immediately rushed forward as planned in the script.