Chapter 218: A Hundred Years of Water and Thousands of Years of Fierce 2

The national teacher said: "It's not that His Royal Highness doesn't know this, but he doesn't know what to do."

Xie Lian bowed his head slightly and said: "He is a god, so naturally it is impossible to tell the believers that I will not allow you to worship gods other than me. I am afraid that he will not make such a request in his heart."

The national teacher said: "Of course you understand him very well."

Xie Lian said again: "However, it is on such a joint that he cannot lack believers and mana, otherwise it will affect the construction of Tongtian Bridge."

The national teacher said: "That's right, so the four of us have to convey the stakes to the people of the country."

Thanks for the pity: "What is the result?"

Huacheng Road: "It's not so good."

The national teacher said: "No. At least it's not as good as we expected. Some people in the country worried that the bridge could not be built and came back with a little heart, but there are also a large number of people in the country who think that His Royal Highness is too domineering. If they are not satisfied, they turn to worship other gods who can satisfy their desires, which is really understandable. They are free believers, and they can believe whatever they want, which is just right.”

"It's not that he doesn't want to satisfy everyone, but he really..."

Xie Lian sighed and said in a low voice: "...heartless."

The national teacher continued: "After the Crown Prince knew about this matter, he stopped us and said that if you want to go, let's go, and if you insist on staying, you will not really believe in him. This is indeed the case. Although we warned it again and again, the hearts of believers It's gone, even if you reluctantly come back, it's not sincere enough, and the power of faith is not as strong as before, it's just a perfunctory."

Thanks for the pity: "He can't be angry with the believers, and he is unwilling to ask other priests for help."

The national teacher said: "Even if he asks, the other priests will not help him at all. If they are willing to help, they will not object at the beginning, and they will not take the opportunity to seduce his followers later."

"His Royal Highness became more and more silent. With the power of one person, he built the bridge and held up the bridge. I look at him every day. Although he doesn't say anything, I can see him. How painful it is in my heart. And this pain can only be endured by him alone. Even if the four of us want to help, we can't share much for him.

"Finally, after struggling for three years, the volcano is about to erupt.

"As soon as the news came out, people rushed to the bridge. The four of us guided the mighty crowd while worrying about His Royal Highness, who was supporting alone."

The national teacher sighed: "We never worried about what he couldn't do before, but at that time, we actually started to worry about him."

"In the beginning, the bridge was relatively stable. But as more and more people rushed up, and the support time became longer and longer, His Highness's hands began to tremble, and his face began to turn pale.

"No one else can see it at all, only us. I don't think it's good to say to people please wait, give him a moment, don't flock to him all at once, just let him take a breath and he will take you all We were rescued. But the volcano was about to erupt, and their lives were at stake. No one was willing to wait. They all rushed to the bridge like crazy, and even trampled people to death. We couldn't stop it!

"Finally, what we feared the most happened.

"In the past three years, due to the continuous loss of believers, His Royal Highness's mana has not been as strong as it used to be. When tens of thousands of people rushed to the bridge to celebrate their salvation, and were happily walking to the heaven, the bridge broke. "

Xie Lian held his breath.

The national teacher said: "Tianhong is torn apart, thousands of people, a large piece of densely packed, suddenly, falling from a high sky, pulling a heart-piercing scream into the sea of ​​​​fire, right in the place of His Royal Highness the Prince. In front of his eyes, he was instantly burnt to ashes!

"I was almost stunned at the time, and I didn't dare to look at His Highness the Prince's face at all. I couldn't even get up, I couldn't get it up, I couldn't put out the fire, I couldn't do anything at all! More people who haven't had time to come up are buried in magma, Flying ash closed. Screaming, crying, cursing. That scene was really terrifying...I've never seen anything scarier than that."

Xie Lian imagined it, and felt a little chill in his heart. The national teacher continued to speak.

"The bridge is broken. The Wuyong people are also crazy."

"They set fire to the palace of His Royal Highness the Prince, tore down his statue, stabbed his heart with a knife, and called him a useless, goddamn god. He is a god, a god should be extremely powerful, and a god cannot fail.

"But he just failed. So, he can't sit on it anymore.

"The celestial priests have been waiting for this moment. They said, 'We have told you long ago, that will not work. You have caused so much trouble that we have to ask you to go down.'

"And His Royal Highness asked a really stupid question. He asked: 'Why don't you help me?'

"For no reason, why should others help you? Moreover, if he is allowed to successfully help Wu Yongguo through this catastrophe, wouldn't he have no opponents in the heaven?

"So, that's a really stupid question. I think he knew that, but he asked anyway.

"Of course no one answered him, His Royal Highness was demoted.

"He fell back to the world, not a god, nor a prince. We followed him, and we all said that you must be able to ascend again, so he started to practice again. However, it was too difficult. You should understand."

Xie pity of course understands.

The higher you stand, the harder you fall. After falling from the sky, he will be greeted by endless cold and malice.

The national teacher said: "The volcano is still erupting, and the Wuyong Kingdom has fallen into an unprecedented bleak situation. Refugees, rebellions, and invasions continue. Everyone is in a daze, and their attitude towards His Royal Highness is not as good as before, and their attitude is completely opposite.

"Even so, His Royal Highness still wants to help people. However, at this time, another thing happened.

"Many other priests, began to show mercy.

"Although they are unwilling to stop the eruption of the volcano, they are happy to offer some small favors, such as herbs, food, etc. Because at this time, His Royal Highness has been demoted, and what he can do is of course far inferior to these priests.

"The people of Wuyong seem to have suddenly seized the life-saving straw and reborn their parents. The loss of believers is faster, but in fact, there are not many left. All the praise and love for His Royal Highness the Prince were all passed on to others intact. Priest, all that is left for him is hatred and disgust."

The national teacher closed his eyes and said: "At that time, we were really unwilling.

"Obviously these priests didn't do much for them at all, and only came out to show it after the catastrophe. His Royal Highness is the one who has done the most, he tried his best, and he could have succeeded, just one step away! But why? In the end, only he is the only one who will be saved forever? Why do people who give the most turn a blind eye, and those who give a little are grateful?

"That's when I started to change my mind.

"I couldn't help thinking, if, from the very beginning, His Royal Highness chose to pretend not to know the future foreseen in the dream, and stood by on the grounds of 'this is destiny, and the gods can't do anything', and only after the eruption of the volcano would be like other priests. Reluctantly give a little reward, and people will be grateful to him."

Huacheng whispered: "Did you think of it at that time? You should have thought about it at the beginning. People will be grateful if you cut a piece of meat to save a person. But the more you cut, the more people want. In the end, Even if the person is cut down to the point that only a white bone remains, people will not be satisfied."

The national teacher said: "I dare not tell him these thoughts at all, but His Royal Highness is getting more and more silent, I don't know what he thinks in his heart, has he thought about the same thing as me.

"Day after day, the volcano is still erupting intermittently, and the entire Wuyong Kingdom is immersed in panic for a long time and can't get out. No one knows how to make it stop and end this nightmare.

"One day, His Royal Highness suddenly told us that he had found a way to stop the volcano. But when he said that, we had a big fight."

Huacheng Road: "I guess, the way is to sacrifice living people."

The national teacher said: "Yes. His Royal Highness said that he has selected a group of wicked people, and can use these wicked people to sacrifice, throw them into the copper furnace, and quell the anger of the copper furnace.

"Our four specific ideas are different, but in general, we are against it, and we must not do this kind of thing. When His Highness didn't want Wu Yong to send troops to attack other countries, he just didn't want to change his life. If he chooses to sacrifice his life now. What's the difference between offering sacrifices to a copper furnace? It's even worse. Some of them were particularly violent, and they quarreled directly with His Royal Highness.

They quarreled so much that they fought. I was originally against it, but it's more unbearable for us to quarrel with ourselves than the attack from the outside world. You must know that the four of us have always supported His Royal Highness, and now we are his only support, but that time, not only did we act out of excitement, but some people told His Highness that he had changed and he forgot his original intention , he is not the original Crown Prince.

"Those few words are really cruel, I really can't stand it. If even we stand on the opposite side of His Highness and accuse him, there will really be no one else in the world standing with him. So in the end, I did not I also oppose it. I just said that it’s okay, don’t worry about it anymore, whether it’s the heavens or the human world or the refugees, don’t worry about it all. I’m really tired.

"But no one listened to me. After the big fight, the other three, except me, left."

Xie Lian shook his head, not knowing what to say. However, leaving at this time will undoubtedly make things worse.

The national teacher said: "I was the only one who stayed. His Royal Highness didn't say anything, just asked me, 'Are you going?'

"Seeing the expression on the face of the old Highness when he asked me this sentence, at that moment I really felt that even if he really threw people into the copper furnace to sacrifice, I can understand. I said, 'Your Highness, I will not leave. .'

"His Royal Highness still didn't say anything. He didn't mention the use of human sacrifices any more. He changed his mind and set up an altar near the copper furnace. I, along with him, faced the abuses and rocks of many refugees every day, and cultivated practice, trying to suppress the anger of the volcano.

"I thought that was the end of it. Who knows, one day, I discovered something that terrified me.

Speaking of this, the face of the national teacher became extremely terrifying, as if he saw the scene that made him horrified again. Xie Lian's heart seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand, and said: "What's the matter?"

The national teacher said: "He...he suddenly covered his face."

"..."

The national teacher said: "His Royal Highness is handsome, he never covers his face, and there is nothing that can hurt his face. I have never seen him like this for so many years, so I am very puzzled. I asked him, Your Highness, your What happened to the face? He said, accidentally burned by the fire.

"I don't know where he got the injury at all. He didn't let me see the wound. He applied the herbs himself, and his whereabouts suddenly became erratic. These were originally abnormal, but at this time, a great thing happened. , temporarily diverted my attention - the volcano suddenly stopped erupting.

"The copper furnace has returned to a dead silence, gradually settled down, and did not erupt again for a long time. Since only His Royal Highness the Prince has worked hard on it, many Wuyong people thought that he was the one who suppressed the volcano, and some people began to worship him again. .His Royal Highness's cultivation path has also become smoother. At least, no one will abuse him and throw stones at him, and people will gradually laugh at him again.

"But I always felt something was wrong.

"There are a lot of things that are not right. Although my three friends have different personalities, I know a little bit about them, so they shouldn't really just walk away and ignore them. Even if they are really angry with His Royal Highness, they won't even bother me. He was angry, and there was no news at all.

"The most wrong thing is the face of His Royal Highness. He has been covering his face with things. At first, it was a rag, a cloak, and later, he wore a mask, and he did not take it off all day.

"Sometimes I wonder if this person is not His Royal Highness at all, but someone pretending to be someone else, because his words, actions, and even his personality have all changed. Sometimes he is amiable, sometimes suddenly angry. Once he was alone in the room. , smashed all the mirrors, bleeding out of nowhere, making blood dripping. What's more terrifying is that I often hear some strange noises."

Thanks for the pity: "What sound?"

The national teacher said: "Sometimes, in the middle of the night, there will be people's voices in the room of His Royal Highness, it seems that several people are whispering and arguing. But I went in and looked, and there was only one person in the room. After a few times, His Royal Highness asked me not to enter. his room.

"One night, I heard that strange voice again, and this time, I found that it seemed to be the voices of my three friends!

"I couldn't help it, and I thought, are they secretly coming back? What are they doing without telling me? So, I got up and ran to His Royal Highness's room.

"The strange thing is that there is really no one else in the room, only His Royal Highness is lying on the bed without taking off his mask. I stood and listened for a while, and found that those voices seemed to be coming from His Royal Highness.

"Accurately, it came from under his mask.

"I walked slowly to the bed of His Royal Highness. The closer I got, the more convinced I became. It really came from under the mask. Could it be that His Highness was talking in a dream? Because I missed my friends so much, I learned their voices in my dream?

"I hesitated for a long time, during which His Highness the Prince didn't move. I thought he was asleep, so I gently removed the mask from his face and saw something."

There was an unconcealed fear in the eyes of the national teacher.

He said: "I saw my three friends.

"It's not His Royal Highness who is talking, it's them. His Highness's face is full of scratches from sharp weapons. The scratches turn up the skin and flesh, and the blood is half-congealed. Moreover, I don't know when I have three more faces, and my mouth is moving. , one and one. It's their faces!!!"

Xie Lian shuddered, and said: "He... throws the three attendants who left him into the copper furnace??"