Chapter 70, Return and End (Part 2)
In February 1349, nearly a year after coming to this world, the great and compassionate "angels" who had sent down divine grace to save the world suddenly announced publicly that since mortals had found a way to save themselves, their merits had finally been fulfilled. He is about to return to heaven to serve God.
Suddenly hearing the news, all the medieval European Christians who had just escaped from the catastrophe, especially the new teachers and students of Hogwarts College and the subjects of the Kingdom of England gathered in Oxford, were all shocked for a while, and some even knelt down. He fell down before the angels, pleading and begging to stay.
However, because these angels were very determined to leave, the British had no choice but to accept this unfortunate fact after repeated persuasion failed.
"...Before we leave, we have something to explain." Doraemon said solemnly with a straight face, "...You must remember it."
The British people surrounding the angels immediately assumed a posture of listening attentively, and pricked up their ears one by one, for fear of missing any word.
"...I have said before that the reason why this great plague has come to the world today is fundamentally because of the evildoing of mortals and their deviation from the right path...I remember that at the beginning of creation, human barns and fields were infested with rats. , God said, let there be cats, so there were cats in the world that was suffering from rats. And God said, you must love cats as much as you love me... The first people were indeed taught humbly and regarded cats as animals. own family However, as time goes by, more and more fools completely forget God’s instructions, not only forgetting the Lord’s teachings, but also blaspheming Him. You no longer love the cats who help you catch mice, but you dare to frame these sacred creatures as monsters and use the most cruel methods to kill them without any reason.
Even so, the Almighty Lord has not given up on you, but has repeatedly issued oracles to warn the world to correct their evil ways, but they were all ignored, and eventually the terrible plague was brought by rats from the east... If you had not gone against the grain and sought death. By hunting and killing cats indiscriminately, these holy creatures can eliminate the rats that spread the plague and block the haze of death from outside your homes. It is entirely because of your stupid sins of seeking death that this plague is so terrible, but it can also be used as divine punishment to harvest the lives of those who deviate from the right path! ”
Doraemon was wearing a pair of cat-eared hairpins, and he talked like this with a sly temperament, deceiving everyone: "...In the distant past, the Almighty God once destroyed mankind with a great flood, just for the sake of To punish those ancient people for their grave sins. Today, this great plague is coming to cleanse you of your sins... If you want to avoid such divine punishment from happening again. When you come to this world, you must follow the Lord's teachings without any distortion. For this reason, I give you these texts that record the righteous path, and I make a covenant with you here to restore these forgotten righteous paths. Spread the word. At that time, when your merits are complete, you will be able to come to heaven to see God and enjoy His blessings..."
——It must be said that Doraemon has tried his best to prevent cats in this world from being tortured and killed for no reason.
Regarding the above-mentioned instructions, all the devout English Christians only accepted the instructions and respectfully accepted the illustrated booklet "The Ten Commandments of the Cat Worship Club" distributed by Doraemon without daring to have any objections. Then, while lamenting, "Without the guidance of angels, where will our future be?", he consciously and voluntarily grasped the knot and took advantage of the last moment to offer various parting gifts to the angels one after another like a flowing stream.
Naturally, Doraemon, Wang Qiu and others happily accepted gifts such as gold, silver, jewelry, woolen furs, etc. No one would object to the money. I could barely accept the homespun cloth, live chickens, and small handicrafts, as they were considered local products from the countryside. But the problem is that the gifts given by some ordinary citizens are really too different to accept... Looking at the large number of various "star-gazing groups" in front of us, especially the pair who died in silence. With fish eyes, all the time travelers couldn't help but look at each other in awe, and were speechless.
Hey, how much do you English people like to look at the stars?
"...Ahem...Don't always look at this traditional British dish with a colored eye! This is just the aesthetic difference between the East and the West. Let's put aside the color, flavor and so on. Just focus on the fish. The nostalgia for life and dissatisfaction with fate shown in his eyes can be seen that there is indeed a realm. Apart from the British cook, which cook can put such profound emotions into a dish? "< br>
Levi tried to excuse the person who contributed this thing at first, but in the end, even he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
In addition, the teachers and students of Hogwarts College are relatively well-informed and have heard sporadic complaints from the "angels" about the stargazers. They thought that the "angels" might not like seeing fish heads, so they After brainstorming, they improved the star-gazing pie that they made by hand and dedicated it to the angels to see off - changing the fish head up to the fish head down, and letting the fish tails with different postures poke out of the pie crust!
——Wang Qiu was even more speechless for a moment when he saw this improved version of the star-gazing pie that was just like the famous dish "Loach Diamond Tofu".
However, the matter is not over here - in addition to the "traditional content" of looking up at the starry sky pie with whole fish as filling, Queen Joan's royal chefs went further and presented a dish with whole fish to the angels. "Royal's Starry Sky Pie" stuffed with chicken. And very creatively, the whole chicken body was buried in the cake, with only a pair of charred and spasmodic chicken feet poking up to the sky, like the hands of a person buried alive reaching up to the sky to ask for help... In addition, it was roasted to gray brown for some reason. From a distance, the pie crust looks like a group of chickens falling into a swamp with their heads turned upside down!
"...Hey, what a bunch of pitiful creatures who never die in silence. Britain has really been the leader in the dark cuisine world since ancient times!"
Looking at the chicken feet that seemed to be struggling to death, Wang Qiu could only sigh helplessly, "...how to deal with these things?"
Upon hearing this, everyone showed disgusted expressions and took a few steps back. In the end, Doraemon stood up, pinched his nose and put these curiously styled "medieval British delicacies" into his fourth-dimensional bag, "...Forget it, I'll put it away anyway. There are also fish in it, which can be fed to the stray cats on the streets of Tokyo, and perhaps given to homeless people sleeping in cardboard boxes under bridges..."
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In addition to bringing gifts and food, the people gathered in Oxford also tried their best in the shortest possible time to organize as grand a farewell ceremony as possible for the angels - the cold wind in early February was still mixed with scattered light snow. Among them, these devout medieval Europeans, regardless of the cold weather, all Putting on the best clothes at home, they gathered on the shore of the Black Lake of Hogwarts College, knelt down on one knee in front of the departing "angels", and at the same time, led by the church choir, sang loudly in unison Singing the "Farewell Song" written by the great writer Boccaccio overnight:
"...I beg God to listen at this moment, I am not trying to steal your divine power.
At this moment, I beg God to listen. All life in this world is unique.
Even though I was not chosen by fate, I still beg God to give me hope at this moment.
Although I know that everyone in the world has their own good and evil, I am willing to bring hope to those who pray for forgiveness..."
——As ordinary people in the middle and lower classes of society, they do not know the inside story of the transactions between the "black-hearted angels" and the "worldly dignitaries". They only know that these holy "messengers of the Lord" have sent boundless divine grace, starting from the plague. He saved himself, so his heart was filled with the purest gratitude.
At the same time, the cats brought to this world by Doraemon also gathered around and played a chaotic chorus of meows.
Even though he had just lost his appetite for the dark British cuisine, in the face of such pure and strong feelings of piety and gratitude, Dora A has now recovered all his moral integrity indicators since all his debts have been paid off. Mr. Meng was still deeply moved.
"...Hey, in this kind of weather, cats should huddle up in a ball in the kotatsu! And so do these people..."
Squinting his eyes and looking at the group of cats below whose fur was blown by the wind and snow, as well as the crowd of people who were also shivering from the cold and whose cheeks turned blue, Doraemon couldn't help but murmured and sighed, "...No matter what In this way, we have finally brought some good changes to the world, right?”
Having said this, Doraemon suddenly turned his head, looked into Wang Qiu's eyes, and said with a very tangled and complicated expression.
——Although he once turned into a black man under the pressure of loan sharking, at heart, he is still the innocent and kind-hearted Doraemon.
Therefore, after returning from the long-lost moral integrity, he naturally felt a little guilty for some of his previous actions in this world.
"...Yes, Doraemon, our arrival and actions have made their lives different from before, and some places may have suffered some losses (gold coins from all over Europe are probably taken away) At least half), but the benefits they get will definitely be more!
First of all, the modern hygiene concepts we teach them can greatly reduce their chances of contracting various plagues, improve their quality of life, and extend their lifespan and health. Secondly, the high-yielding crops in the Americas and the high-tech crops in the future world that you have collected for them will not only enrich the tables of European nobles, but also provide adequate food rations for the poor who are often half-starved all year round. Then, the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] you left behind can not only protect them from the threat of almost all diseases within a few years, but the various attack magic written on it can also help them survive after the plague. During the weakest period, they successfully repelled the invasion of various foreign enemies... Even though they had to endure temporary sacrifices, after getting so many good changes, how could their society not have a bright future? ? ”
Hearing Wang Qiu's comforting words, Doraemon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the little guilt in his heart dissipated a lot.
However, what Doraemon didn't expect was that Wang Qiu actually lied on this issue!
In fact, based on Wang Qiu's consistent pessimism and the so-called Murphy's Law, the answer he came up with on this question is actually: the future fate of Europe, in which the world has been completely derailed by the time-travelers, will definitely be worse than the original one. The situation after the Black Death was even worse...
First of all, although the time travelers saved many people with compassionate and holy faces, and selflessly taught them a lot of advanced medical and health knowledge, due to the compound plague weapon released by Doraemon in retaliation, the only people they killed were There will be more - the number of deaths in Europe during the Black Death era rose from the original 25 million to about 60 million, and the original total population of the entire Europe was only 80 million...
Originally, Europeans in history spent nearly two centuries reproducing and increasing their population after the Black Death. Before entering the Age of Discovery, the total European population returned to the level before the Black Death. And now faced with such a terrifying mortality rate of up to three-quarters, it is even more difficult to know that it will take years and months to recover - whether it is civilization or society, its foundation is composed of population. If the population is gone, or if the population plummets to a point where it is difficult to recover, then no matter how advanced and civilized this society is, what future does it have?
Secondly, the high-yielding crops from America collected using [Random Door], as well as several 22nd century high-tech crops produced by Doraemon, can certainly be said to be very good and powerful. However, after the Black Death swept away, the contradiction between man and land in Europe had been greatly alleviated. In many places, this contradiction did not even exist - as farmers and landowners died together, the most fertile farmlands Everything has become a wilderness. Even if farms and pastures are given away to farmers for free, no one can be found to take them! With everything going on like this, how can there be any population pressure? In this case, there is no shortage of food in Europe at all. No matter how good the high-yielding crops are, apart from having more new tricks on the table, they are dispensable to them.
Third, the spells recorded by Doraemon in the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] do not have the user restriction of "for European Christians only". Any spell that European Christians can use can also be used by Arab pagans. Only they can recite the words of the spell fluently.
Although in today's context, the first purpose of anyone getting a spell book is to cure diseases and save people, the next step will soon become to kill people.
In fact, according to the intelligence collected using the [Micro Reconnaissance Satellite], it seems that Jewish traders are quietly smuggling genuine or pirated "Spell Manuals" and then selling them at high prices to the Arab tribes occupying North Africa and southern Spain—— Their territory happens to be within the effective range of the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary]... By then, various magic battles will be staged frequently on the Spanish Peninsula and the Mediterranean!
Of course, even if there is no black-hearted businessman to teach the secret of the spell, just based on the frequency of wars among European noble lords, one fight every three days and one fight every five days, there will definitely be frequent wars in Europe after the plague. There are all kinds of apocalyptic scenes where fireballs and lightning are thrown at each other, people's brains are knocked out of dogs' brains, and cities and castles are reduced to ashes - thus further reducing the already scarce European population.
Calculated in this way, since the destructive power of war has increased many times in an instant, but people's ideological concepts have not been able to change for a while, it is already very good that the poor medieval European civilization has not regressed amidst such frequent destruction, and again Where can we talk about progress and development?
Fourth, the "healing magic" in the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] is indeed very good and powerful, but precisely because these "healing magic" are so good and powerful, they will inevitably take away the jobs of all doctors and pharmacists, leading to the European The total devastation of medicine. When the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] is damaged and fails and "healing magic" no longer exists, the scene will be really... well, it will only be a few years at most anyway. I hope that by then those European doctors who have changed their profession or rested on their laurels have not yet Forget about their professional knowledge - but their skills are so bad that the patients will die regardless of whether they are cured or not.
Fifth, the absolute authority of the Catholic Church that was supposed to be shaken has been greatly strengthened. Of course, this is only a long-term impact and cannot be said to be very important. In fact, even in its original history, the church’s thoughts The confinement also lasted for a very long time.
Finally, as the saying goes, "The higher you climb, the harder you fall." It is precisely because of the various wonderful spells in the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] that it has brought so many miracles and conveniences to every European in this era. When you are suddenly forced to lose it one day, the resulting social backlash and madness will be unimaginable. Don't look at these devout European Christians who are now willing to kneel in front of Doraemon and respectfully "listen to the holy teachings". They treat these cats who were regarded as monsters last year as if they were their own ancestors. But when the day comes when the "magic power expires", God knows how many unlucky cats will become the targets of their anger and be thrown into the fire by angry people, or be hanged or drowned!
In short, in Wang Qiu's eyes, the world has emerged as horrific as the collapse of the Mayan civilization and the fall of the Roman Empire. Of course, the consequences may not be as serious as the above two, but at least they are as terrible as the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe. To a certain extent, it is definitely inevitable.
As a new round of cat abuse movement unfolds, as the [Magic Encyclopedia Dictionary] gradually reaches the limit of use, I am afraid that it will also enter a countdown.
But, even if the future of Europeans in this world is so bleak (the future of cats seems to be equally bleak), for Wang Qiu, an unscrupulous reincarnation who "leave after making money and earning points", if you want He is responsible for the future of every plot world he has ever visited, which is really a burden that life cannot bear. Therefore, what he can do now is to fool his companions with nice words, while laughing at himself in his heart, "What will the world be like after I leave... This is none of my business! Hahahaha" Such a heartless statement.
So, with the above thoughts in mind, Wang Qiu waved to the farewells for the last time, and then calmly opened the "Book of Time Travel".
"...It's finally over...Pay 50,000 points to allow participant Levi to return to the real world, and now everyone is leaving!"
Immediately afterwards, in the eyes of many farewell people in Oxford, the angels instantly turned into sacred white light and disappeared between heaven and earth forever.
As devout Christians who had personally experienced "divine grace", they all remembered this moment firmly and could not forget it until a long time later...
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PS: Japan's latest statistical survey data shows that the proportion of underage girls in the country who have had at least one "****" has increased from a quarter in the 1990s to about half of the current level. In addition, the charging level There has also been a sharp decline... I really don’t know what to say.
And this only counts those who sell their bodies for money... In the future, I am afraid that I will really have to go to elementary school or even kindergarten to find a virgin.
In addition, the infidelity rate of married women in Japan has reached a new high, reaching about 40%, and in some areas it is even as high as 80%!
Generally speaking, the Kansai region is more conservative and the folk customs are a little more simple. The Kanto region and Hokkaido are a bit unsightly. Hey, it seems that the campus and urban erotic fantasies depicted in those Japanese pornographic paintings are also based on some facts.