Chapter 97 Return to the Temple
Putting aside the momentary emotion, after two days of searching and confirming that there was no problem in the Dark Swamp, Fang Zheng left with Shi Dong and the others. Of course, the most important thing is to rely on Nimf's search ability. After all, the black technology produced by the little angel from Synaps is also superb in this respect.
Riding Pegasus, everyone returned to the temple exhausted, but unfortunately, the grand welcome ceremony Shi Dong expected did not appear, only a few priests stationed in the temple came out to greet them. According to them, now The manpower of the temple almost went out to the Fortress of Order. Fortunately, due to the timely news, the situation of the Fortress of Order has stabilized now, at least there is no need to worry about being broken in a short time.
"A peaceful life..."
Sitting on the chair, looking at the scenery outside the window, Fangzheng also let out a long breath. They are currently at the headquarters of the Northern Alliance where the temple is located. Unlike the exquisite and beautiful architectural features of Star Moon City, the temple buildings here are also full of toughness and wildness with northern characteristics.
The more Fangzheng learned about the temple, the more Fangzheng realized that this organization was different from any religion in his impression. In Fangzheng's memory, no matter what religion he was, he always wanted to print his own church in the same mold. It seems, not only that, they also wish that their believers were all printed in the same mold... Well, from this perspective, in Fangzheng's view, the so-called religions on earth are actually assembly line manufacturing factories, mass production Puppet believers with the same thinking, mass-produced churches of the same style, mass-produced uniforms of the same style, and mass-produced priests with the same sexual fetish...
And their teachings are similar.
However, the temples in this world do not seem to be like this, and their temples are not as similar as Fangzheng thought. On the contrary, the buildings of the northern temples look no different from those ordinary northern-style buildings outside, except that they are larger. It is more eye-catching, and then hangs a sign of the temple. Judging from the appearance, Fang Zheng could not see any blood relationship between this building and the temple in Xingyue City.
I have to say that this temple has done a good job in doing as the Romans do.
However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Looking at the scenery outside, Fangzheng couldn't help but narrowed his eyes, recalling what Shi Dong said to him before.
"You should know, big knights have their own fiefs. Of course, only knight commanders have such things as knight collars. We big knights can only be assigned to a small town at most. But... ...In order to 'praise' your heroic sacrifice, the bishops can't be too harsh, so they made Yinhua Town your knight's fiefdom. That place is an important place for transportation, convenient and developed, and there is a lot of oil and water? , according to the records, you have been 'dead in battle', and you have no descendants, so you are 'hosted' by the bishops, but now you are back... Hehe, you understand what I mean."
Of course I understand.
Fangzheng was also a high-level leader in his previous life, so he naturally knows how embarrassing it is. It's like he knows that a programmer can't compile a game engine that meets the requirements, but he still asks him to do it, and even announces in public that it's done. He was asked to be the chairman, but the other party actually managed to do it... He meow, do you want to have the face of being a leader?
But that's right, it's normal for an organization to fight for power and profit, and everyone respects each other like a guest... It's terrible!
Perhaps for ordinary employees, it is best for a company to be united and harmonious. But for leaders, a group is not very interesting without competition with each other. As a matter of fact, Fangzheng has been involved more than once between the planning team and the human design team, and sometimes even brought in the programming team. Instead of forcing them to work hard, it is better to use this kind of competition to stimulate their sense of confrontation.
After all, if they are forced to work, no matter the result is good or bad, they will resent the company, but if it is competition, they will only focus on their opponents and goals. And when there are rewards, there are punishments. This is a reasonable allocation of resources.
Although the level of force in this world is much higher than that of Fang Zheng's, there is actually no difference when it comes to personnel matters, so Fang Zheng knows very well that his current situation is actually not good. On the one hand, the bishops sealed themselves a particularly wealthy town in order to show their "magnanimity", but everyone knew that they were dead and had no heirs, so for the bishops, this was considered "left-handed". Invert the right hand". On the one hand, he did not suffer losses, and on the other hand, he showed that the bishops "distinct rewards and punishments".
Of course, Fangzheng knew that Shi Dong must have played a disgraceful role in it, seeing how proud Shi Dong was when he talked about it. It can be guessed that Shi Dong definitely thought that he could come back, so he deliberately induced such a result. Anyway, as long as he comes back, the bishop's award will still be his!
After all, if others don't know his identity, how can Shi Dong not know? Didn't he already regard himself as that Holy Spirit Knight?
Now………
"What a headache..."
Fangzheng stretched out his hand and pressed his forehead. He is now waiting for the bishops to be summoned, although Shi Dong assured himself that there is no problem. But Fang Zhengke knew that things were not as simple as Shi Dong thought. Humans are animals that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Although the Archbishop Karl also promised to help him with good words, but the friendship of others is not enough .
More importantly, Fangzheng himself was also somewhat hesitant about the next road ahead.
Because Fangzheng didn't particularly want to accept this reward.
For Shi Dong, this reward is a good thing, but Fang Zheng thinks deeper. Because if he accepted the reward, it would show that his relationship with the temple would be further deepened.
Of course, if Fangzheng was to be blunt, it would be that he was afraid that the temple would send him to die.
This does not mean that the temple wants to eradicate dissidents, or deliberately send itself to death. In fact, from the performance of Marte and Stone, Fang Zheng can see that the reason why they can reach their current status is not only their strength, but also their consciousness.
To put it bluntly, it is the consciousness of dedicating one's life for the better life of the people and the preservation of order!
In fact, this is also a matter of course. If you want to join an organization and become a high-level executive, you must obey the leadership of the organization, maintain the constitution of the organization, and contribute your strength to the organization.
If Fangzheng grew up in this world and received the humanities education here, then maybe he would really have this idea.
But it's a pity...Fang is an outsider! He doesn't have the consciousness to die for this world, maybe in the future as time goes by, he will gradually change his mind. However, that is definitely not now!
Besides, most people in this world are blond and blue-eyed, and they don't seem to have any nostalgia for seeing fellow villagers.
So compared to Shi Dong, Fang Zheng didn't really want to accept the position and identity of this great knight—he was really not interested in sacrificing his life to save order.
But if he refuses, it will definitely leave a bad impression on Stone and Marte. After all, the two have different values and live in different worlds. Of course, this was Fang Zheng's own fault. It would have been great if he hadn't joined the temple to conceal his identity, but now it's like this... Who is to blame?
It must be all Tokiomi's fault!
Silently cursing the guy who was far away, Fangzheng withdrew his thoughts again. Naturally, there is no way. If everything goes well, I can achieve my goal. Now he just doesn't know what's going on inside the Bishop's Conference. If he thinks about it based on his own experience, um...
"Boom boom."
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, interrupting Fang Zheng's thoughts. He looked up and glanced at the door.
"Please come in."
"Crack."
The door opened, and then a nun walked in. She saluted Fangzheng respectfully, and then spoke.
"Your Excellency Fangzheng, the bishops are waiting for you."
"ok, I know, thank you."
Hearing this, Fangzheng stood up, smiled and nodded to the nun. Then, he glanced out of the window --- in the courtyard, Nymph was leaning against an evergreen tree, playing with the squirrel in his hand with a happy smile.
This is the expression that a kid of this age should show.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng withdrew his gaze and looked at the nun in front of him again.
"Please lead the way."
Perhaps because of the tense battle on the front line, there were only three bishops who appeared in front of Fangzheng this time. One of them was the vampire bishop Karl that Fangzheng had met before, and the other two had a round face and a thin bamboo pole— ——Since they didn't intend to introduce themselves, don't blame Fang Zheng for giving them code names.
Fangzheng walked into the hall, came in front of the three of them, and saluted them, and the three of them also nodded. Then the thin bamboo pole took a look at the document in front of him, and then asked.
"You are the apprentice Guardian Knight of Xingyue City, Fang Zheng?"
"Yes."
Fangzheng raised his head, answered and looked at the three of them. Bishop Carl was very calm, and the thin bamboo pole had a serious expression, only the smiling one with the fat round face seemed very kind, but Fang Zheng could keenly perceive what was hidden under the other party's smile.
In Fang Zheng's experience, when a person smiles at you for no reason, he is either asking for something from you, or he is hiding his true feelings.
Thinking of this, Fangzheng smiled inwardly.
He already has an idea.