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Ten minutes later, the two were stopped by Castalia's people who found Zeus's address.
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Chapter 127 Jiang Lu attacks the Starry Sky Gate in Sage Time
"It's bad. You must have failed to hand in the instructions in time, so she came looking for you."
When Zeus saw the temple guards, he immediately pulled Jiang Lu to a dark alley and hid him.
Jiang Lu stuck half of his head out of the alley and carefully observed the guards blocking the door of Zeus Apartment: "Tsk, if we get caught, it will definitely waste a lot of time. Damn, it would be better if we didn't open the door twice!
There are only two days left. It is difficult to find the lost gods in two days, and we don’t know what troubles we will encounter.”
"If you say so, then there is actually not much difference between four days and two days..." Zeus said weakly.
"You have no right to say such things!"
But just when Zeus was about to refute first and then think about it, he seemed to suddenly think of something: "I seem to have suddenly remembered something very important."
"what?"
"It takes a lot of energy to open the Starry Sky Gate, so theoretically speaking, as long as we can force it open once before the Starry Sky Gate opens, then those pioneers will not be able to enter the unknown land at all, so time is not that tight."
Jiang Lu was stunned and said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me such an important thing earlier?!"
"I forgot." Zeus said innocently.
"But even so, it still doesn't help the current problem. They are blocking the door."
"Uh..." Zeus scratched his face awkwardly: "You didn't understand what I meant. I wanted to say that there are still two days left, so we can go and try something new now. Maybe they won't be here tomorrow."
"......" Jiang Lu shook his head in dismay: "You have been ruined by being played with in this life!"
"They are performing a play today, Snow White and the Seven Big Black Men."
"?" Jiang Lu was pretending to be reserved, but now he really didn't want to go: "Fuck you."
"Your conversation is really vulgar." Zeus had no choice but to follow Jiang Lu's advice: "What should we do now?"
Jiang Lu glanced at the guards again, then turned his head and said solemnly, "They should be here to find me. I will lead them away. You take the opportunity to go in and bring E'e out. We will meet at the central temple."
Zeus nodded, "Fuck it!"
Then he watched Jiang Lu take a few deep breaths and then approached carefully.
But strangely, the guards just glanced at him and didn't pay much attention to him.
It wasn't until Jiang Lu reached the door of Zeus' apartment that the guard stopped him.
Zeus watched them have a brief conversation, and then the guards actually helped Jiang Lu open the door. Not long after, Jiang Lu came out holding Huang Xiu'e.
He waved to a few guards as he left.
All in all, it looked like a happy occasion.
When Jiang Lu swaggered back to the dark alley, Zeus, who was already full of confusion, couldn't wait to ask: "What's going on?"
"It's like this. Actually, they are here to arrest you." Jiang Lu explained, "The person who locked you up in the basement recognized your ugly face, so after receiving treatment and being able to get out of bed, he ran to the Elk Temple to report you."
"Uh..." Zeus was stunned for a moment and cursed angrily: "This bitch!"
"It's your fault after all, isn't it?"
"It was obviously him who asked me to tie him up!"
"It doesn't matter. You don't need to explain to me. I don't care anyway." Jiang Lu habitually pushed Huang Xiu'e on the head and said, "Let's go without further delay."
"Okay." Zeus nodded. "But they didn't make things difficult for you. Normally, they should be able to easily determine that you are related to me, and then force you to tell me where I am, right?"
"You want to embarrass me?" Jiang Lu sneered and shook his head, looking disdainful: "Then you underestimate me too much."
"Why do you say that?"
"I have to thank that pole dancer a lot." Jiang Lu rolled up his sleeves, revealing his hands full of red rashes and chancres, and smiled cruelly: "I threatened them that if they didn't listen to me and open the door, I would infect them with these diseases."
"No wonder they greet you with smiles and humility..." Zeus suddenly realized.
"You have to know how to make use of everything around you." Jiang Lu suddenly sighed and said sadly, "This is something I learned after my rebirth. Even if it's a sexually transmitted disease, there must be a way for me to make use of it."
"Fuck! You are a master of tactics!" Zeus gave a thumbs up: "You know what? You can't live without STDs, just like Jackie Chan can't live without a furniture store."
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Central temple.
As the time for the Star Gate to open approaches, the inspection has become more stringent.
But unlike last time, this time both of them had the priest badge certified by the Elk Cult, and they did not encounter any obstacles from beginning to end. They went straight up the circular stairs on the platform and soon reached the top.
However, when they stepped steadily onto the huge square surrounding the temple, they discovered new problems.
That is, the Star Gate is right above the temple, and the entrance to the altar is inside the temple. However, the people in the temple now are the bishops of various temples, and each entrance is guarded by temple guards who are superior to all the temples. It is impossible to enter with the identity of a priest of a certain temple alone.
So the two of them had no choice but to blend in with the priests who had come to make pilgrimage in the square, and squatted beside the flower bed to discuss the matter.
"How to do?"
Zeus obviously did not expect the guards to be so strict, because he rarely came to such places. Compared with the major entertainment venues in Hyperborea, he knew very little about the central temple and was not much better than Jiang Lu.
"You ask me?" Jiang Lu thought it was funny: "You are a local and you ask me?"
"The main reason is that I don't come here usually. It's normal that I don't know about it, right?"
"Alas." Jiang Lu sighed: "Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to fly up."
But who knew that just when Jiang Lu was about to ask Huang Xiu'e to switch combat form, Zeus stopped him.
"No." Zeus shook his head frantically, "We must enter from inside the temple. Any other way will attract griffins."
"You mean..." Jiang Lu looked around, then pointed to the eagle-headed and lion-bodied creatures perched on the outer walls of Hyperborean in the distance: "Those things?"
"Yes, if a demihuman or wizard who can perform magic recklessly uses magic or flies into the air to disrupt order, the griffin will launch an indiscriminate attack on the disruptor."
"What is the Colossus of Justice?" Jiang Lu first complained, then asked: "What level is this griffin? Is it very powerful?"
"To be honest, I don't have much impression. After all, they are only used to pull carts on Mount Olympus." Zeus replied: "But in this era when gods don't appear, they are definitely considered the top fighting force in Hyperion. At least we definitely can't defeat them."
"We should be able to deal with E'e, but it might cause a big noise. Unless it's absolutely necessary, I still hope that Hyperion, the master's degree training base, will not be destroyed." Jiang Lu thought about it and gave up the bad idea of "Fight! Cool!"
"Master's training base?" Zeus was puzzled by this statement.
"Yes, the believers I saw in Florence who came from Catholicism are considered to have been promoted from junior college to undergraduate. Hyperion is originally the kingdom of God, so it is considered a master's degree training base. Only those trained in places like your Mount Olympus and my underworld can be considered doctors." Jiang Lu divided the believers into different levels in a few words.
Zeus was surprised by this statement: "Is there such a statement?"
"Yes, for example, the people of Florence have never seen an angel, let alone a god. They have no experience at all. They read the Bible all their lives and it's just that. If they become the Pope, that's the end of it.
But the priests of Hyperborean temple at least had been able to see the lower gods of their faith before, so at least they had a mentor and were familiar with the business.
Mount Olympus is different from the underworld. Basically, as long as you graduate successfully, even if you are not a god, you are a direct subordinate of a god. This is amazing. Not only do they have rich work experience, but they also know everything about you and are easy to arrange for you. This is very rare."
"Then tell me again, according to your logic, what kind of religious group are vocational high schools?" Zeus became interested.
"Original approval." Jiang Lu said seriously.
"Oh."
"Anyway." Jiang Lu brought the topic back to the topic: "If the hard way doesn't work, then we can only use the soft way."
"What kind of soft method?"
"I have a plan!" Jiang Lu smiled mysteriously...
Inside the temple.
The bishops from various temples had gathered here half a month in advance, praying under the Starry Sky Gate every day with different beliefs, waiting for the Starry Sky Gate to open when the polar day turns to polar night.
Although Hyperborean is said to have countless believers, in fact, among the hundreds of temples, there are only twenty-one temples that are truly powerful.
These twenty-one temples are arranged in order according to the names of the twelve Titans and the nine Muses, and the rest are collectively called the three thousand dream gods and are arranged randomly.
The ranking in the temple is also divided in this order. The twelve most powerful bishops of the temple sit in the center, surrounding the altar, with nine bishops on both sides. No one cares about the other hundreds, they are just there to make up the numbers.
There are only two days left until the Star Gate opens.
Almost all bishops are worried.
Different from those low-level priests or commoners who thought they could change their fate as long as they passed the pioneer selection, they all knew that the Star Gate had already had problems and had lost its anchor point for transmission.
But they relied on this to build a huge religious empire. For the sake of Hyperborean stability, it was impossible for them to make such things public. Fortunately, the manned space flight of Stargate was against the will of heaven, and it was common for people to die midway. Therefore, even though fewer and fewer pioneers survived each time, it did not arouse any suspicion.
The bishops can only choose to keep it secret as long as possible, hoping that one day the anchor point will suddenly be opened, so that what happened before will be as if it had never happened at all.
The bishop of the Cult of the Elk should have been as uneasy as the people around him, but his daughter, Castalia, brought him good news a day ago - a priest in the temple had brought back the anchor point, and the priests had successfully recorded and deciphered it.
After the moment of disbelief, the bishop was filled with ecstasy.
The Cult of the Elk is now one of the Nine Muses. If it can regain contact with the Elk Goddess, it means that the Cult of the Elk will soon be among the Twelve Titans and will soon become the top sect in Hyperborea.
It's a monopoly, nothing much to say.
So when other bishops were nervous and afraid to face the situation, he already had the urge to open the champagne.
From time to time, he took the initiative to talk to the bishops around him. The corners of his mouth that were difficult to suppress were like the twisted mentality of a fisherman who catches a big fish and then waits for others to discover it.
When others asked him why he was so happy, he would say it was nothing and he was just making a fortune in silence.
Meanwhile, Jiang Lu and Zeus sneak into the temple.
"It really works?" Zeus was quite surprised at Jiang Lu's operation.
He thought that Jiang Lu meant bribing the guards or doing something else that would get him out of his depth, but he didn't expect them to just come in brazenly carrying a wooden ladder.
"We were notified to come and repair the wall."
Thanks to this sentence, the two of them were able to pass through unhindered, and the guard even kindly helped them hold the door.
"Learn this, this is my secret skill that I won't pass on to anyone else."