Ember Gun

  Chapter 237 Heresy

   "The missions have come."

  Salikado looked towards the end of the night, everything was so obvious, penetrating the dark beam of light and going all the way, arriving at the old pier.

  Shermans also glanced at the dark night outside the window, his eyes full of sorrow.

"The one headed is Anthony Russo. Do you have any impression of him?" Salicardo asked. It is not difficult for him to get the list of missions. After all, he is also a noble duke. Maybe I will attend the welcome dinner in a few days.

   "It's him..."

  Shermans heard the name, his eyes changed slightly, with a bit of horror and melancholy.

   "It looks like he left a deep impression on you." Seeing the changes in Shermans, Salicardo noticed.

On the night Lawrence attacked, a new world unfolded before Salicado’s eyes. The scavengers had washed away his memories of that night, but never thought that he would remember all this again in his nightmare in the future. .

Old Dunling is on the eve of the storm, and different forces are caught in this cold steel city. At this moment, the group composed of Salicardo and Shermans is still hidden in the darkness. Salicardo knows very well. Once exposed, they will inevitably be liquidated by the mysterious organization, and they try hard to hide, watching the changes in the situation.

  "He is a traitor. Anthony betrayed us, betrayed the holy cardinals, and turned to the new pope."

  Shermans said slowly.

  "Anthony was originally from our side. Although he is not outstanding in the Knights of the Templar, in fact, with our assistance, he has secretly controlled a large part of his power."

  Salikado listened quietly, without speaking.

"After the Holy Night, the Gospel Church was greatly injured. The old pope was also injured in that incident. Time is running out. After his death, we need to elect a new pope. However, the situation in Qiqiu was chaotic at that time. Unbearable."

Unlike other exiles, Shermans is very old. The things he has experienced for so many years have destroyed his will, power and desire are not what he expected, just like a stubborn old man, what he is doing now For, just for a bit of boring unwillingness.

"Maybe this is the inferiority of human beings. Even the fear of faith and darkness can hardly contain the growth of greed. Originally, the next pope had two powerful candidates, one is Cardinal Miguel and the other is Cardinal Medici." Shermans said.

   "The Medici in charge of wealth?"

   "Lorenzo Medici, the great Lorenzo, he once led Fei Lengcui to the golden age, but he ended because of his own age."

   Mentioned this great man, Shermans couldn't help being in awe.

"When I was a young man, he was already a noble cardinal. I thought he would become the pope, but he didn't. What he did was more terrifying than I thought." Shermans recalled that. The age of yellowing,

"The Medici Cardinal did not become the Pope, but he secretly supported several Cardinals to ascend the Pope," Shermans looked at Salicardo and explained to him, "As the Pope, you have to break away from the world. This will inevitably weaken its rule of the world, and the foundation of the Medici family is finance."

   "The Pope became the puppet of the Medici Cardinal. He ruled both faith and secularity, which has never existed in the history of the church."

  Although he did not understand the various aspects of the gospel church, Salicardo still sensed his horror from Shermans’ words, and he was a little puzzled.

   "No one objected?"

"Of course," Shermans laughed, "but when you object, the Medici family will easily bankrupt your family without seeing a drop of blood, and supporting others to take your place. Leng Cui belongs to him. The supported Pope wanted to resist, but he was put under house arrest, propagating that the Pope was bewitched by demons."

"He finally committed suicide in the bedroom. Cardinal Medici held a grand funeral for him, and then the next puppet took office. At that time, we realized that he was in full control of each other, and he did a great job. good."

  Shermans looked at the steel city outside the window, where the steam engine was born, and the roar of the factory completely defeated the faith.

"One of the main reasons why we were not wary of the steam engine at first was Cardinal Medici. Although your steel torrent is terrifying, under his leadership, Fei Lengcui also embarked on a golden age. He is a cruel tyrant. , To defeat the enemy with gold, then plunder all his assets, and the wealth poured into the church continuously, even the original opponents gradually turned to him."

  "Ke people will always get old..."

  Shermans sighed, the legendary life of Cardinal Medici ended here.

  "He is old, and Cardinal Medici seems to be tired. He kept letting go of power in his later years. With his exit, the golden age ended. After losing him, we discovered how important he is."

"He had gold and fame for the first half of his life. The entire Fei Lengcui was under his rule, managing faith and secularity, but in his later years he put down all his weapons and turned to fund those artists. He was amiable. Every artist sings about his kindness and selflessness."

  Salicardo laughed when he heard this. Although he had never seen this legendary cardinal, he still admired him sincerely.

   "The first half of his life is like a tyrant, but the second half of his life is regarded as a saint."

  Shermans nodded, Salicardo’s words are suitable to describe the Medici Cardinal, “Like a **** thug, what he did in his later years may be an atonement.”

"After Holy Night, we need a new leader. Two people are admired by everyone, the newly promoted Miguel, and the other is the old Medici Cardinal. In fact, everyone is more inclined to Cardinal Medici, I hope this old lion can turn the tide and lead us back to the golden age.

  But at that time we realized that Cardinal Medici was dead. He died silently in the night of the Holy Prophet. "

  Shermans said slowly.

   "No one noticed these things at all. In his later years, he was very simple and dismissed all his servants. There was almost no social interaction. Only one priest served by his side, and that priest died."

   "We checked the decomposing body. According to speculation, the Medici Cardinal died on the night of Saint Promenade. The riots of that night were not just the Cathedral of Saint Nalo."

  "This...this is not the way he should die."

  Salicardo sighed that such a maniac finally died in such obscurity, in a secluded place, until someone looked for it and found out his long decomposed corpse.

  "We don’t have time to find out the cause of his death. Without his competition, Cardinal Miguel almost agreed to be the new pope, but at this moment the Seni Lotaire appeared."

  Shermans' voice was a little trembling, and it was the owner of this name who forced them to the present situation.

   "He became the final winner?" Salicardo remembered the name, now the name of the Pope.

"Sene Lotaire, he suddenly appeared, holding the letter of appointment left by the previous pope... this thing is actually useless. Every pope is elected by the cardinals, but everything happens with his appearance. Everything has changed, just as premeditated, the cardinal who was originally on our side suddenly turned to him.

  The whole situation became chaotic. His vote was equal to Miguel. We urgently investigated his identity, but the result was strange. "

  Shermans had inexplicable confusion in his eyes, even today he still couldn't understand these things.

"Seni Lotaire appeared suddenly, but none of us knew that there was such a person next to the old pope. The priests who survived the night of the Holy Trinity had never seen him, but the information he gave clearly recorded it. Everything in his life...like...as if the power of a **** is controlling all of this, suddenly inserting a non-existent person into this world and paving everything for him."

  He couldn't understand it, and Cardinal Miguel couldn't understand it, as if everything was doomed.

  "Then what I said to you, Seni Lotaire's votes are getting more and more. We don't want to lose here. In order to make the evangelical church glorious again, we even decided to use that dirty method."

Shermanston paused, took a deep breath and continued.

"Speaking of Anthony, Anthony is ours. He is our dark chess set in the Knights of the Templar. We originally wanted to use it to kill Seni Lotaire. Everything went well until the beginning of the mission. , He didn't show any intention of betrayal at all."

"We thought that night was our beginning, but we never thought it was the end. The Knights Templar had our list. They should have attacked the Cathedral of San Nalo, but appeared in front of us. We were unprepared. Blood flows into a river."

  It was a nightmare night.

   "We were almost annihilated. The only man who escaped from the Seven Hills overnight, and after that, Seni Lotaire was directly promoted to Pope, and the rest of the cardinals took orders from him."

  This is the cause and result of this group of exiles. Salicardo is one of their funders, and these people are also trying to counterattack the new pope.

  "Anthony is a cunning guy. Although he looks cold and tough, he is very good at strategy. The new pope sent him here, and he is definitely not well-intentioned."

  Salikado nodded, silently not knowing what he was thinking, after a long time, he said slowly.

   "Are there any more? Those secrets related to you."

In that constant nightmare, Salicardo repeatedly dreamed of all that frightening, ordinary people may be afraid, but the business giant found a new desire in the constant fear, the mystery is like in Attracting him, constantly pulling him.

  Shermans shook his head, he refused.

  "Secrets are also one of the benefits, you already know enough."

  "That means I need a better price to know those, right?" Salicardo was keenly aware of what, and he smiled.

"Make a bid, Cardinal Shermans, this must be what Miguel wants you to do, right, you now have nothing but the knowledge in your mind. You need money, manpower, and too many things. , After all, just relying on slogans can't get back to the place of Qiqiu."

Salicardo’s gaze was like a jackal. He did not take in and support them because of mercy, but for secrets. When those secrets were known to him, these exiles also lost their role, and Shermans knew it. This, but nothing can be done.

  These exiles have been forced to the extreme by the cruel new pope, otherwise these noble people will not bow to Salicardo.

   "Some secrets are taboo, and I can't be the master." Shermans said that compared with Salicardo's prosperity, he is like a dead tree about to die.

   "Actually I am tired."

  Shermans sighed and glanced at his robe, bright as blood.

   "I wanted to quit as early as the night of the Holy Prophet. I didn't care about those power struggles. At that time, I could understand why Cardinal Medici chose to loosen power."

   "What about you now? If you say that, you should surrender to the new pope."

  Salicardo looked at the sad Shermans, this guy is indeed very old, his skin folds together, like an old tree.

"No, this is the bottom line. I can accept these, but I cannot accept those new popes," Shermans replied. "I am a cardinal. No matter how you judge the right or wrong of the gospel church, I Always a member of it, and the new pope is different."

   Shermans opened his mouth to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he swallowed those words back, and he refused to reveal the key secret.

   "At least I want to die with dignity, instead of accepting the mercy of that kind of person and living."

  He said again, with the exhaustion of a stranger in his voice.

  Salicardo looked at him, and Shermans looked at the end of the night, that was the direction of the place of seven hills, and for a moment he seemed to see through all of this old man.

  "You are different from Miguel. That guy just wants to be the pope, and you just want to die, right?" Salicardo said.

   "Every cardinal should be buried in the place of seven hills, gathered together with other sacreds, and not die away."

   Shermans said stiffly, but this seemingly ridiculous stiff was the old man's last insistence.

  "I am not the same as them. I still believe in the ancient sacredness, and I am willing to spend my whole life in defending it. Miguel and I come together only because of the seemingly same position."

   "I don't care who is the pope, I just hope that the sacredness I believe in will not deteriorate."

  Shermans has a firm belief. Even if he falls to such a situation, he is still unwilling to take off his red robe. This is not power and status, but it represents his belief.

  "Then why can't the pope be Seni Lotaire?" Salicardo asked.

   "Because he is heresy."

   Shermans replied with anger and screaming.

   "Sene Lotel is heresy!"

  (End of this chapter)