only god

Chapter 554: Through me, go to the city in heaven
Slaier returned to the Temple of Lies and immediately sent someone to summon Vali.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the hall, and the spokesman of lies pushed open the door and stopped quickly in front of Slaier. He raised his hands high, knelt down with a plop, lowered his head and kissed the toes of Slaier's shoes.

"Ah... resourceful Slaier, please bypass me!"

As Wally spoke, he kissed the toes of his shoes diligently and made a regretful voice,

"I let a man escape. I neglected my duty and betrayed the trust of a great god!"

As soon as Vali heard that Slaier was going to summon him, the clever boy immediately guessed something - Slaier had discovered that someone had escaped.

The boy didn't know who leaked the news, or whether Slaier had any way to confirm the number of people. In short, Wally immediately came up with a countermeasure.

Simply pretending to be crazy and acting stupid will definitely not be able to hide it from Slaier, and he will expose it in a few minutes. Instead of asking questions and not knowing, it is better to proactively admit your fault and find another reason to excuse it.

"I realized that one person was missing, so I hurriedly wanted to rule you. However, who knew that you happened to be away at this time, so I waited and waited until you finally came back."

Vali added further without blushing:

“If I knew that the great Slaier was back, I would have come here immediately to report it, and there would be no need for you to specially send someone to look for me.

About the man who ran away,

In fact, I have already sent people to search for him, but I don’t know who he is yet. "

At the end, Vali kissed the toe of the shoe again. He raised his head and looked up at Slaier from bottom to top. This posture looked even more humble than those of the lowest slaves.

Slaier lowered his head and glanced at him, and said calmly:
"His name is Verdo, right."

He remembered the names of everyone in the town after his death. As long as he spent some time, it was not difficult to find out who escaped.

After several comparisons, he had determined who had escaped.

Vali was stunned and screamed:
"what?!"

The cry was so scary that even the tone of it changed.

Vali quickly came to his senses and realized that his reaction just now was too intense, so he hurriedly added:
"It turns out to be Verdo...

I thought that after the riot, he gave up the idea, but I didn't expect that he still persisted in it. "

Soon, Vali hugged Slaier's legs and hurriedly begged for mercy:
"God of lies and deceit, look at the many days of labor I have put in...I have worked day and night to serve your divine plan, and I have sacrificed my life...no, I have sacrificed my little life, and I have worked hard to this day.

I thought I would never make a mistake in my life. Unfortunately, I made a mistake this time. Please bypass me this time! "

Then, Vali quickly raised his head and looked at Slaier's expression.

Soon, he saw Slaier nodded slightly.

Vali let out a breath of relief, and then he stood up angrily, pointed to the door and said:
"Scheming Slea, indeed nothing can be hidden from your discernment. As long as you issue the oracle, I will immediately send more people to hunt for Verdo."

Vali had previously thought of hiding Slaier for a little longer in order to buy more time for Verdo and expose Slaier's lies, but now, Slaier knew that Verdo had escaped and continued to work for him. Buying time doesn't help either.

Therefore, at this time, Vali gritted his teeth in his heart and resolutely cut off his wrist.

He knew very well that his plan to use Verdo to expose lies had almost failed.

But... the days are long, and as long as the town continues to exist after death, he will always find an opportunity.

Thinking like this, Vali stood there and waited for a long time, but did not receive Slaier's oracle.

The boy turned his head in confusion and met Slea's gaze.

The face of the God of Lies and Trickery was calm. When he saw Vali turn his head, the corner of his mouth slowly raised an unpredictable smile.

Wally shuddered.

"Wally, do you think I don't know anything?"

Slaier's voice was very light, as light as the leaves passing by the autumn wind in the mountain forest.

But Vali felt as if he had been struck by lightning. His face quickly turned pale, and he was stunned and motionless.

After a while, he said desperately:

"Scheming Slaier... you... what are you talking about? Why... I can't understand..."

Slaier slowly walked up to him and gently pressed his head.

"Do you think,
Can you fool me? "

Vali is like withered wheat, his whole body is straight but crumbling at the touch of a finger.

His plan... failed completely.

Just now I was thinking about a strong man breaking his arm, but now that I think about it, it all seems so ridiculous.

After a long time, Vali uttered in despair:
"How...how did you find out?"

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Verdo ran across the vast wilderness.

He breathed in the air of freedom. He felt that even if he became a lonely ghost on the road, it would be far better than staying in a small town after death.

After a while, Verdo stopped, and he began to rely on the direction of the wind to determine the direction.

Having traveled around with the religious order all year round, Verdo has mastered many skills in the wild, and it is easy to identify directions.

After confirming the direction, he tilted his ears and recognized a "heavenly sound" hidden among the mountains and forests, the wilderness, and the wind. He regarded it as God's guidance and walked in the direction of the sound. Looking for the so-called "Stairway to Heaven"

He walked for more than ten days in a row.

Verdo found nothing.

The stairway to heaven... does not seem to exist in the underworld.

"No, I can't be sure yet... This is only a small part of the underworld."

Verdo said to himself,
"I can spend ten, 20, or even 100 years, anyway... I'm already 'dead'."

Verdo feels that if it takes 100 years to find the "stairway to heaven", then he can conclude that this is not the underworld at all.

After all, that's 100 years.

But compared to 100 years' time, the path I have traveled now is really insignificant.

Although finding the "stairway to heaven" is still far away, Verdo feels that even if he walks for a real 100 years, it will be more meaningful than staying in a small town after death.

It's like... I'm still alive.

Wildo thought, perhaps, life is meaning, and it is the pursuit of meaning.

As long as you can live a meaningful life, it will be the same before and after death.

So, he kept moving forward and searching in this empty "underworld", stopping and stopping along the way, catching every clue.

until…

An inconspicuous stone step appeared in front of him.

At that time, Verdo's whole body was shocked.

A rough stone step suddenly appeared on the hillside, almost without any warning, just appearing alone in front of him.

For a moment, Verdo suspected that he had seen it wrong and that he was crazy.

It took a long time for Verdo to calm down. He walked over and saw more steps.

One, two, ten, hundreds of steps came into view as he gradually approached. They gradually spread from the gentle hillside to the highest point of the hillside, suspended in the air, and gradually touched the distant mountains. The sky of the underworld.

"Stairway to Heaven..."

Verdo murmured.

At this time, he no longer cared whether the underworld was real or not. The stairs appeared in front of him. He ran like crazy, then raised his feet and stepped onto the stairs. When the soles of his feet touched the stone steps, he felt like A dreamlike and sacred feeling, as if I was walking on a heavenly path.

One step, one step, another step... Verdo started to walk up the stone steps. He held his breath and saw only the endless stone steps. He didn't dare to say a word, and his eyes were fixed on the steps under his feet.

Slowly, he walked higher and higher, higher than the slope, and leaned toward the sky little by little.

He didn't know how long he had been walking, but when he looked back, he found that the ground was gone.

Verdo realized that he was very close to the gate of heaven.

He raised his head and saw the approaching sky. He climbed up again and again, and kept climbing.

Until, in the sky, a grand and spacious gate appeared in front of him.

There seems to be something hanging on the door.

The moment he saw the door of the Kingdom of Heaven, Verdo trembled all over. The legend was true, and his speculation based on the scriptures was also true. The Kingdom of Heaven is here. The true believers in the past followed this heavenly road until they arrived. In front of God, the eternally happy garden of sea of ​​clouds.

Verdo's breathing quickened, and his pace quickened, heading towards the door of heaven.

When he finally reached the gate, he pushed against the door of heaven desperately.

He seemed to have heard...angels singing.

After a while of fantasy...

All he waited for was for the door of heaven to remain motionless.

Verdo was stunned. He pushed the door hard, but the door seemed to be stuck and motionless.

"God, what's going on..."

Before he finished speaking, Verdo looked down and suddenly saw a brown wooden sign hanging on the door.

It's like a sign.

Verdo grabbed the sign.

On the front it reads:

“Through me to the heavenly city.”

He hastily turned the sign over.

I saw a crooked sentence written on it:
"Under construction."

Verdo was stunned. He looked at the sign in disbelief.

He raised his head, clung to the wall sculpture of the door, and then tried his best to cling to the door frame and looked at the back of the "Heaven Gate".

Behind the gate of heaven is not the heavenly city that all people admire.

Behind it, there was nothing but the empty, dim sky.

This is a gate that has not yet been completed and is suspended in mid-air.

"Fake...fake?"

Verdo was stunned.

The moment he saw the "Stairway to Heaven", he seemed to have gone crazy and threw everything behind him. He had unlimited expectations for the gate of heaven and tried to reach it directly.

But now, he discovered that the gate was fake, even a semi-finished product that had not yet been completed.

Verdo slowly sat on the towering stairs and repeated in disbelief:

"Fake...it's actually fake?"

at this time…

"Yeah, it's all fake.

This is all a lie. "

An elusive voice with a joking smile reached Verdo's ears.

Verdo shuddered and almost fell from the sky at the sound.

He quickly raised his head and saw a familiar figure walking slowly from high in the sky.

That look was exactly the philosopher who led them to riot together.

"It's...is it you? How could you do that?"

Before Verdo could react...

A gust of black wind came, and the philosopher transformed in the wind, revealing his true body.

"Long time no see, Verdo."

Slea bowed politely,
"Just to introduce you, I am Slaier from the Second Prophet."

Verdo finally came to his senses and shouted loudly:

"The underworld is fake, I'm not dead at all!"

As if to respond to him, or to add to the excitement of a stage play, Slaier slowly rose to a higher place. Then he took out the fire sickle, lit a candle, and slowly raised it.

only see...

The vast sky... began to burn.

Verdo looked at this scene in astonishment.

Sleah's candle burnt out the "sky"

The smell of ashes reverberated in the air.

"Yes, everything here is fake, even the sky is fake. This is just a big enough curtain."

Slaier stretched out his hand and opened the gap in the "sky" wider, and then, from the gap, a large piece of blue sky emerged.

That's the real sky.

It lies even further away than here.

Verdo was completely confused. He gradually understood that Slaier had created this "underworld" to make everyone mistakenly think that he was dead. For this reason, he also used a huge curtain to cover the real sky.

but…

what is this?
Verdo couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

After a long time, he recovered and breathed heavily.

After learning the truth and knowing that he was really not dead, Verdo did not feel even a shred of joy. On the contrary, waves of fear swept over him, and he shivered with cold in front of this false door to heaven.

Everything here is fake and almost nothing is real.

And the god of lies and tricks before him is a complex god in the scriptures, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil.

Who knows, what is His purpose?
"You... why are you doing this?"

Verdo was finally able to ask aloud.

"why?"

Slaier chuckled, then opened his arms and said in an inscrutable tone as always:
"Of course it's to... confiscate death!"

"I have spent a lot of effort to create the 'underworld', and let my spokesperson and my priests lure living people in one after another. In order to make you completely believe that you are dead, I also lowered my identity and pretended to be a Mortal philosopher, successfully destroyed your will...

I don't sit there so much just for fun.

Verdo, fortunately it is you, and fortunately you are the only one who came here. Fortunately, you are the only one who discovered the truth of all this. "

(End of this chapter)