only god

Chapter 660 Qinrun is on the sad earth.

When Eden woke up, he realized how dirty the room was.

Spider webs were covered in the corners of the walls, and even remote places were covered with a layer of dust. The sickles and hoes in the house were all rusty, and a few bugs appeared in the kitchen from time to time. It was really hard to imagine how this mute old man was doing. I can endure this kind of life.

Although the house was dirty and his body was equally filthy, the old man's soul was pure. He was a good man, Eden could see it.

Realizing that Eden was awake, the old man came to him, still holding the scripture in his hand.

Eden took the scripture. He remembered that the farmer said that the old man had been looking for someone to read the scripture to him, but people found him so annoying that even the chief priest no longer wanted to talk to him.

Opening the pagan scripture, Eden cleared his throat and read out the words inside.

"The past was darkness. Since the death of that great god, the world has collapsed and collapsed again..."

The old man listened quietly.

This reading lasted all afternoon. The sun was about to set. Feeling hungry, Eden closed the book and stopped.

The old man also came to his senses. He stood up and opened a box. Eden looked at it curiously and found a strip of pickled dried meat inside.

The dried meat seemed to be well preserved, with only the skin slightly moldy. The mute old man came over with the dried meat and pointed with his finger, as if asking Eden if he wanted to eat it.

Eden shook his head.

Seeing this, the mute old man put the dried meat back into the box and wiped off the dust on the box again and again with his arm, as if he were treating a treasure.

Eden unpacked his bag. He had brought quite a lot of dry food. He divided the scones in half and handed them to the old man.

As soon as the mute old man took it, he wolfed it down. After eating, he opened the water jar and scooped out the water to drink.

Eden looked inside and found bugs growing on the surface of the tank.

"Hey, this can't be done."

Eden stopped him and poured him some water from his own water bladder.

After a while, I don't know if it was out of compensation, but Eden couldn't bear it. He poured out all the water in the water tank, then picked up the bucket and went to fetch water for the old man. As the dusk was about to pass, the sweet well water It filled the water tank.

As night fell, the light was extremely dim, and the mute old man sat at the door, looking far away at the wine-colored night sky.

Eden looked at the old man, and after a while, he roughly guessed what he was thinking.

Having been a priest myself and managed a parish, I understand why a dying old man looks at the sky.

In the sky, there is the world after death, and on the endless sea of ​​clouds, there is a perfect country. Life is just a short journey, and sooner or later it will reach the end. Once there, it is time to rest.

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Eden read the scriptures in the book to the old man every day, and the scripture in the old man's hand was just one of all pagan scriptures, so in just two days, all the scriptures in it were read.

The mute old man could not speak. He led Eden out and pointed to the lecture hall in the small town.

Eden understood immediately what he meant. “You want to take me there to borrow some scriptures?”

The mute old man nodded seriously.

So the mute old man took Eden to a lecture hall, and the priest showed disgust when he saw the old man.

After hearing Eden's request, the officiant refused directly.

"You don't know, except for us, no one here can read.

I gave it to this illiterate person, but he couldn't understand it. Forget it, if something goes wrong with the scriptures, what should I do? The scriptures are very precious, and this is the only one in this town. "

After being rejected by the officiant, the mute old man led Eden back home dejectedly.

Seeing the old man's appearance, Eden thought for a while and softly comforted:

“I remember those verses and I can read them to you from memory.”

Eden has been to this future many times and is still very familiar with pagan scriptures.

After hearing what Eden said, the mute old man no longer asked to go to the lecture hall. He moved two stools out of the house, and just like that, a priest, under the warm sunlight, lectured the old man on the scriptures.

Eden knew that the mute old man had a very devout faith. He would go to the Lecture Hall almost every day. Even if he could only stand at the door, he would insist on listening to the officiant's sermon and completing the ceremony.

And even the boring parts of those scriptures were listened to by the mute old man with great interest.

Eden, who was familiar with pagan scriptures, preached many scriptures to the mute old man.

The priest discovered that the mute old man looked forward to the miracles and miracles in the scriptures, but he didn’t care much. Sometimes he was even indifferent. But when he heard the parts about promises, agreements, compassion, faith, and love, He was extremely focused, with his only remaining eye wide open, not daring to blink.

He seems to be... looking for some solace in the scriptures.

A gust of cool wind passed by, and Eden saw the old man's thin body trembling slightly.

He sat alone in front of him, he had nothing.

Eden has seen many such old men.

Yes, this old man has nothing. He is blind in one eye, his throat is mute, and his family members are all dead. He is like a withered straw, standing on the barren land, as if it does not need any wind. It fell, fell, and returned to this land.

Once you have seen fear, you beg for love. After experiencing the harsh winter, you will look forward to the arrival of spring.

Although Eden knew a lot of pagan scriptures, he couldn't memorize them backwards and forwards. So, after he finished reading all the pagan scriptures he knew, he started to read scriptures that overlapped with paganism and true religion.

Paganism claims that the King of Kings has inherited the authority of the Lord. Therefore, the contents of several of their scriptures are the same as those of the sacred scriptures of the true religion. Many places are different in description and commentary.

Eden told him all the scriptures, starting from the "Book of Kings and Prophets", telling the birth of the Logos, the pioneering of King Sabor, the story of the prophet Ar's pursuit of God, and the arrival of the end. , God's salvation, then to the entanglement between the two kings in the "Book of Two Kings", and the final execution of the angel by the Logos, and finally to the "Second Prophet" and the "Millennium Prophet", where he talks about the prophet Norn prophecy, and the promise of Solamius.

Eden told the mute old man all the scriptures of the True Religion. He still remembered that he told the story of Jaresto and Tertullian. At that time, the old man kept shedding tears and spoke silently under the drunken night sky. Sobbing and sobbing, at this time, drizzle began to fall outside the house, moistening the sad land.

(End of this chapter)