Chapter 208 Rapid Spread
At the dinner, more than twenty soldiers and believers covered in blood sat in front of a long square table.
Essence, energy and spirit are very different from before.
Ordinary soldiers left the battlefield, mostly with only confusion and depression left in their aftermath.
But these twenty people were still murderous and full of energy.
Sitting in front of the square table, eating meat and drinking from large bowls, they laughed and talked about how enjoyable today's battle was.
There will even be a hunting competition in the next battle to see who can kill more barbarian soldiers.
When Commander-in-Chief Wu Xiaoyi came to the banquet, he began to commend everyone for their meritorious service.
These twenty people showed no fear and accepted it calmly.
Wu Xiaoyi was really surprised by this.
After some polite remarks, Wu Xiaoyi also seriously asked why everyone had such a change.
If he had been so brave and fearless in the past, he would never have become so silent and never made any conspicuous achievements.
After hearing Wu Xiaoyi's inquiry, the group of people naturally did not hide anything and told everything about their belief in the Blood God.
A small iron statue was even taken out.
The statue depicts a huge god with blood-red skin, sitting high on a brass throne.
Under the throne were covered with blood-stained corpses and piles of skulls.
The statue of the god is wearing a pair of finely crafted plate armor, with countless faces deformed and screaming due to pain and torture carved on the plate armor.
A huge winged helmet obscured the face of this huge god-man, leaving only a pair of red blood pupils that made the viewer shudder.
Everyone’s first impression of this statue is that it is ‘warlike, cruel, and fond of destruction’.
If it were a time of peace, the audience for this statue would naturally not be large. Anyone who lives a good life would not expect any destruction.
But now that the world is in chaos and the situation is precarious, this kind of powerful statue is naturally full of unprecedented temptation.
Even if it is the incarnation of cruelty and destruction, believers hope that they will bring destruction to their enemies.
"This is the Blood God we believe in..."
As soon as these words came out, the other soldiers who were feasting and celebrating today's victory couldn't help but stay where they were.
Even the staff beside Wu Xiaoyi widened their eyes in horror:
"Bold! As officers and soldiers of the imperial court, you secretly believe in obscenity and sacrifice to the evil god. What crime do you deserve!"
Only Wu Xiaoyi was thoughtful and noncommittal. Instead, he asked several people in detail about the blood god's belief. .
After hearing that the so-called Blood God did not ask his followers to kill innocent people, or to sacrifice their life span or organs to pray for blessings.
Wu Xiaoyi also breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said:
"In extraordinary times, you should do extraordinary things. Although you believe in folk obscenity and sacrifice, it is not in line with the court's laws."
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"But if it can help you fight the enemy bravely on the battlefield, there is no harm in this matter."
The final conclusion is that although they believe in evil gods, considering their achievements, merit If the demerit exceeds the limit, no commendation will be given.
And Wu Xiaoyi finally added that more than 20 people would be promoted to commanders in the army.
Each leads a team of ten people, which adds up to a team of more than 200 people.
Up to this point, many thoughtful people probably understood what Wu Xiaoyi meant.
Not rewarding or punishing actually favors them.
What's more, these people were later promoted and became low-level officers in the army.
How could they not spread the so-called ‘Blood God’ to their soldiers despite their high status?
In fact, Wu Xiaoyi did have this plan. Now that the city is about to be destroyed, we must make full use of every ounce of strength to delay as much time as possible.
Even if it was allowed to spread privately that the so-called Blood God drank poison to quench his thirst, he really couldn't control that much.
At least judging from today's speech and behavior, he found that although the temperament of these soldiers had changed drastically.
But he has not lost his sanity, and there is no obstacle to talking to others.
The most important thing is that they still identify themselves as human beings and are willing to defend the country against foreign invaders.
Wu Xiaoyi felt that if the blood god could really make the soldiers forget their fear and fight with all their strength, then he would be willing to take these reasonable risks.
After all, the nine orthodox sects believed in by the imperial court were not kind-hearted people in the first place.
In essence, most of them are more powerful ‘inhuman things’.
It’s just that after cooperating with the Daqi court, the benefits outweighed the disadvantages for the whole world, and the Daqi court could only pinch its nose and accept them as orthodox beliefs.
The commander-in-chief of Jueshanguan is also a second-rank official in the imperial court, and he can also be called a "one of the princes" locally.
So he also knew many unknown inside stories about the imperial court.
Naturally, he was not as afraid of the so-called evil gods as ordinary people were.
If this blood god is really as powerful as they advertise, he has the ability to inspire soldiers to give up their fear and unleash exponential combat power.
Then he would naturally write to the court as the border commander and canonize this god as an orthodox god.
The so-called Blood God can also be renamed the God of War or the God of War.
You can also enter the palace and become an orthodox god.
However, the development of things was obviously beyond Wu Xiaoyi's expectations.
He originally thought that the blood god's belief would only spread among the two hundred or so soldiers at most.
But who knows after the celebration party that day.
All the officers and soldiers who attended the celebration banquet began to repeat the same dream at night.
In the dream, he was enjoying a peaceful life at home with his parents, wife and children, with abundant food and clothing, a beautiful and peaceful home, and his wife was even pregnant with another child for him.
But until one day, foreign barbarians invaded, killed their parents, insulted their wives, and used their weapons to cut open the abdomens of their wives who were pregnant for seven months.
The fetuses were picked out and trampled to death, and then their homes were burned down.
During the whole process, they could only be tied by ropes, watching the scenes unfold with blood and tears in their eyes.
Although these are just dreams, they are too real and the sense of immersion is too strong.
And they dreamed of the same thing for several nights in a row, making them feel like they were holding a fire of ignorance in their stomachs every day after waking up, and they didn’t know who to turn to.
Until a few days later, the same dream came again, and they were still tied to the side and watched the aliens do all kinds of cruel and bestial things to their families.
And they can only suffer from a strong sense of powerlessness in their dreams, lamenting their own incompetence.
But just when they were experiencing the same despair countless times, the terrifying statue of the Blood God they had vaguely seen appeared in their dreams.
“Praise my name and gain my power to complete your killing.”
“If fear and destruction cannot be avoided, then it is you who will bring it to the enemy!”
People who are immersed in nightmares never thought that one day they would feel that this terrifying god has become so majestic.
Like the last straw for a drowning man, I grabbed it with all my strength...
(End of this chapter)