Chapter 566 Erecting the Burning Frame
For Purficott, solving the Evil God Sect can only be said to be incidental.
Although it is true that her fundamental purpose of returning to Langton this time is to solve the problem of the Evil God Sect, and even simply to try whether killing gods can be done, this is still not her fundamental purpose.
In the final analysis, her purpose from the beginning was to save the world, save mankind, and let more people live.
For this goal, she can abandon the empire's mainland, abandon the empire's colonies, abandon the entire old world, and even abandon everyone else except the humans she saved.
And she herself gave up some unnecessary sympathy and emotions for this goal, and even forced herself to become an iron-fisted and cold-blooded ruler.
But along the way, what she did was still serving the big goal of saving mankind.
The reason for abandoning the mainland of the empire is that it cannot be maintained. The purpose of building the northern border is to draw on a piece of white paper and eliminate all interference.
With such dedication and hard work, it can be said that the North is now thriving.
Although the lives of the people cannot be compared with the prosperity of the empire before the disaster, at least every northerner can work hard with their own hands in exchange for three meals if they are not lazy and lazy. To live a life without worries about food and clothing.
It was precisely because she had made it possible for the people in the north to basically survive that Perficott had the energy to go back and consider how to save Langton and the empire.
It’s just that before saving the empire, she needs to clear the evil sect that hinders her from saving Langton.
This is not a simple matter, it can even be said to be an almost impossible task.
Not to mention that the apocalyptic disaster itself was caused by the gods of the past, it is not an easy task just to deal with the evil sect itself that is now rampant in the outer city.
Although the project initiated by Purficott in the Lower City caused many people to return to the embrace of the empire and choose to abandon their belief in evil gods, more people still had no choice.
They can only choose to rely on the Evil God Sect to survive in today's world.
If they refused, they would have starved to death long before Perfectcourt returned to Longton.
Perfect knew this clearly, so she was very tolerant of those people who believed in the evil sect, and did not like some crazy guys who wanted all heretics to die.
She just arranged for the church's magistrates to conduct an examination and identify all the people.
Those who worship evil gods just for the survival zone are still worthy of saving and have the value of being saved as long as they are willing to change their ways and return to the right faith.
Only those who believe in evil gods beyond hope will be sent to the stake.
Although Purficott felt that these people were more or less innocent, she still erected a burning rack without any mercy, and she burned a bunch of people on one burning rack, and burned a new one before the previous pile was burned. Throw in the firewood.
So much so that there were dozens of burning racks burning in the lower town of Langton at the same time, and the rising smoke almost blackened the entire sky of Langton.
But for the people, this is not unacceptable.
After all, what the Evil God Sect is and how they act is something that everyone can see. It does not mean that the Evil God Sect pretends to be a good person and distributes some relief food to everyone, or plays some tricks. The human heart can cover up and deceive.
One of the most obvious facts is that the evil sect also costs money to deceive people. If you can gain a believer by starving him to death with a mouthful of food, why bother to brainwash him?
In the past, when they could not operate openly, they really needed to pay attention to every believer who could develop, and they needed to ensure that they would not inform the church.
But now there are a large number of believers waiting for them to choose. As long as they have food in their hands, these believers will already have as much as they want, so naturally they will not bother so much. This also led to the fact that most of the people could be saved, and only a small number should be burned on the rack.
So when the burning rack was raised, a large number of people gathered around, not only keeping warm by the burning rack, but also applauding the burning.
In the final analysis, the most critical reason why the Evil God Sect is called the Evil God Sect, rather than the Old God Sect, is because of their "evil" nature.
Compared with the All Father who did not need to use the flesh, blood and lives of believers to sacrifice and sacrifice, the gods of the old days really had to use living believers to sacrifice.
And according to the different gods of the old days, they had different requirements for sacrifices.
Some want pure virgins under the age of eighteen, some want babies under the age of three, some like strong warriors... and so on.
Things like the Death Sect are not picky, but they are a very rare phenomenon among them.
So one can imagine what kind of attitude the Evil God Sect has towards the people who have fallen into their arms.
They did not regard those people as human beings, but as livestock they raised, and when necessary, they would select qualified ones from among them for sacrifice.
And as the date of the arrival of the White Star approaches, the scale of their sacrifices becomes larger and larger, and the demand for sacrifices naturally increases.
If life and death were not in the hands of others, these people would have rebelled long ago.
But the bloody reality is that people can sell anything for a bite of food that can keep themselves or others alive.
The sister went to the altar for her brother, the mother was willing to have her heart cut out for the sake of her child, the father was willing to fight like a wild beast for the sake of the family...
The Evil God Sect has really done too many evils in the outer city.
The people have already lost hope and even fallen into despair.
They no longer hope that anyone will come to save them.
But when Purficott returned to Langton and began to try to save the city, these people still burst out with a strong will to survive.
They are eager to live.
After all, no mother wants to see her child being put on the altar, screaming in pain as she dies in a huge meat grinder, and then crushed into a bloody mass. Being eaten as a meal.
Not to mention that some people had their skin skinned alive, their limbs cut off, or their eyes gouged out.
There is no way out if they can't survive, but now that they have hope of living, they are naturally unwilling to let go, and are even willing to pay the price of their lives in order to protect everything.
So when the torture rack was lit, it also ignited the flames in the hearts of these people.
That is the hope of living.
(End of this chapter)