Chapter 1508 C: Twilight Event (XIV)
Chapter 1501 C Twilight Event (Fourteen)
In the Forgotten Bookstore, Schiller and Red Hood were cleaning up the traces of the previous fight. While wiping the blood on the floor, Red Hood asked, "Now Constantine's body has been taken away by the angel named Gabriel. Where are you going to find him?"
"I don't need to find him. Someone will come to find me."
"Ding Dong", the doorbell rang. Schiller turned his head and saw Lucifer outside the window.
Red Hood walked over to open the door. Schiller looked at Lucifer. Lucifer rushed in in a hurry, and then the moment he saw Schiller's eyes, he made a "uh" sound.
"Is Pride not here?" Lucifer asked.
"He has finished teaching for a period of time and is on vacation." Schiller lowered his head and wiped his hands with a towel, and said, "If you have something to talk to him about, you can come back later."
"I do have something to talk to him about." Lucifer sighed. He stood by the door, holding the door frame with one hand, and his expression was hesitant to speak. It seemed that he only had a common topic with Pride in this regard.
"I guess you want to ask me how to deal with Gabriel?" Schiller smiled and said, "Coincidentally, he also took my things. I hope he can give them back to me."
"Then you, then you..." Lucifer really didn't know how to start. It wasn't that he was embarrassed to ask Schiller for help, but because he knew that Schiller hated everyone equally. If Schiller helped one person deal with another, then he would probably make both people pay the same price.
"It's actually very simple." Schiller walked to the table by the window and sat down, then pointed to the position opposite and said, "Don't worry, I won't lie, and I won't let you pay any price. Helping you is also helping myself."
Lucifer immediately took two steps back to show his attitude, but after a while, he still walked to sit opposite Schiller, because he really wanted to know how Schiller planned to deal with Gabriel.
"In fact, even if you don't come to me, I will go to you. Only you can deal with Gabriel." Schiller leaned back on the chair, put his hands in front of him, and then said, "It's not because of how powerful you are, but because you are special."
"You are the first light at the beginning of creation, the brightest star in the sky, and the most magnificent angel who has fallen, but this is actually not the most special thing about you."
Lucifer raised his eyebrows, and Schiller continued, "The most special thing about you is your position in God's heart. He doesn't just favor you. To God, all creatures except you are equal, regardless of Whether they are human or angel, he loves them, but he loves them as a god. "
"Angels and humans are all believers of God, only you are his son, and he is your father, so even if you no longer believe in him and do not live in your original home, he still loves you."
Schiller took a breath and said: "You and God, God and you, the relationship between you is not faith, but family affection, you are God's only relative."
Lucifer lowered his eyes and bowed his head gently to one side. He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing. Only at this point, the original sin of arrogance is undeniable.
Lucifer knows better than anyone that the so-called fall from heaven to hell is simply a joke, because whether it is heaven, hell, the human world, or anywhere else in the universe, it is all under the control of God.
He is more like a rebellious son who has a quarrel with his father. He is unwilling to be controlled by his elders at home, so he runs out to live alone. He seems to be independent, but in fact he has always been under the protection of his father. If he is not Lucifer Morning Star, would he, Satan, do it so easily?
"Gabriel is jealous of this." Schiller stretched out a hand and placed it on the table, tapping his fingertips and saying, "He is not jealous of your strength, but your free and easy state now."
"Because you are where you are today, it is entirely God's indulgence. This omniscient and omnipotent God did not punish you for such an offensive behavior, allowing you to fall from heaven willfully, and run to the human world because you are tired of the position of Satan. If God had indulged you a little less, you would not live so freely."
Lucifer pursed his lips and had nothing to say. He muttered a few words in a low voice, but in the end he did not refute. After all, what Schiller said was true. In fact, if God was determined to stop him at the moment of his fall, even if he could run, he would definitely not be able to compete for the position of Satan.
But God didn't care about him at all, and let him use the powerful power of Lucifer Morning Star to make a big fuss in hell, completely disrupting the original order, and then became Satan.
He soon got tired of the environment in hell and set his sights on the human world. God attached great importance to humans and would hardly allow any angels or demons to mess around in the human world, but Lucifer still came to the human world with such a powerful force. He said he was opening a bar, but in fact he was doing nothing, but God still had no objection.
This kind of behavior can be regarded as spoiling any elder. Lucifer thought, no wonder Gabriel had to provoke a war between heaven and hell, wasn't it just to keep himself busy?
Schiller also said: "Gabriel dare not retaliate against God, and he knows that he does not have the ability to do so, so he vents his dissatisfaction with God's preference by disrupting your life."
"Essentially, this is a kind of corrective thinking, thinking that you get what you don't deserve, so he wants to correct this."
"Idiot." Lucifer said coldly: "I don't deserve this, and it will never be his turn."
"From now on, it's actually very simple to deal with him." Schiller picked up the water cup on the table and poured two glasses of water, handed one to Lucifer, took a sip of the water cup himself, and said: "The worst option is to ignore him completely. You don't treat him well. If you pay too much attention to him, he will not be able to achieve his goal of correction, and he will naturally be full of anger and unwillingness. "
"I wanted to do this too." Lucifer sighed and said, "But he is getting more and more excessive. Not only did he send people to my new bar to investigate, he has been stirring up trouble in heaven and frequently provoking the devil in hell. If he continues to stir up trouble like this, no one will be able to have peace."
"Then you can take a middle strategy and call Michael. Archangel Michael represents a pure heart of justice. He will not allow Gabriel to do these little tricks to provoke a war. In this way, you don't have to do it yourself, and you can also use it to humiliate him. He, remind him to recognize his own identity. ”
Lucifer's expression was somewhat moved, his eyes turned slightly, and he said: "This is not bad, but in fact Michael can't control him. That guy is too rigid and only knows how to preach religiously. Gabriel is much more despicable than him and it is easy to deceive him. ”
Then Lucifer thought for a while, frowned and asked: "Since there are bad strategies and middle strategies, there must be a good strategy, right? Don't keep me in suspense, tell me about it. ”
But Schiller shook his head and said: "Although these two suggestions are generally effective, they don't require much effort, but the best strategy is completely different from them, and it can even be said to be able to The effect achieved is completely different from the previous two. "
Lucifer's hand stiffened for a moment, but he still asked with a little curiosity: "What effect can be achieved? Can Gabriel be killed?"
Schiller shook his head and said: "Angels are immortal, but what is more terrible than the physical death is mental torture. I can't let Gabriel die, but I can make him mentally collapse."
Lucifer slowly narrowed his eyes, leaned forward, looked at Schiller and asked: "What is that?"
Schiller smiled mysteriously, also leaned forward, put his hands on the table, and his originally lifeless gray eyes instantly focused, staring at Lucifer's eyes and said.
"You return to heaven as Lucifer Morning Star, become the supreme archangel again, and then judge Gabriel's numerous crimes and expel him from heaven."
"Cough cough cough cough cough!" Lucifer coughed violently in a series of violent coughs, looking like he was going to cough out his lungs.
He pointed at Schiller, then at himself, and then at Schiller again, opening and closing his mouth, then staring at Schiller in disbelief and said, "What did you say?"
"Are you kidding me?! I've fallen from heaven a long time ago! How can I go back? And the current archangel is Michael, what does that have to do with me? How can I expel Gabriel???"
"Think about it carefully, Lucifer." Schiller leaned forward and stared at Lucifer's eyes, and Lucifer was unconsciously attracted by those focused gray eyes.
"Can you really not do it? Lucifer? Think calmly and rationally about the things you just questioned. Do you really have no chance of doing it? ... Let's look at them one by one."
"First, can you go back to heaven?"
"I..." Lucifer was about to deny Schiller, and then he looked at him and said, "I don't mean whether you want to or not, but whether you can."
"Yes... I can." Lucifer dragged out a long tone, and then said with some embarrassment: "There is no place in this world that I can't go, including heaven, the Garden of Eden and those places that seem very sacred in the Bible. When I was a child, God took me there, and I know the way."
"Okay, then if you go back to heaven, will Michael give you the position of Archangel?"
Lucifer's expression was even more exciting , he twisted his face again and again, and finally squeezed out a sentence from his teeth: "He... should be able to."
Lucifer wrinkled the muscles around his eyes, then covered his eyes with his hands and said: "You don't know, Michael is an old-fashioned guy who only believes in the Bible. He believes everything the Bible says. The Bible says that angels cleanse all the sins in the world on behalf of God and spread love and kindness. He thinks that whoever can do this best should become the archangel."
"And he believes that sincere repentance is the highest virtue of all living beings. You know, those arguments about atonement. If he sees that I am willing to return to heaven, he will definitely think this is really rare, and then run to the Garden of Eden to continue to be his guard, and give me the position of archangel."
"Very good, then, can you judge Gabriel?"
Lucifer thought carefully and said, "That idiot is not without flaws. Azazel has evidence that he sent his subordinates to hell to collect intelligence. Just for instigating the angels to fall, Michael must want to kill him on the spot. I guess Michael won't have any objections if I say to expel him."
After Lucifer finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair with a look of despair on his face, while Schiller continued to lean forward, his upper body almost crossing the center line of the table.
"Do you know that this will make Gabriel collapse? You gave up the things he had been seeking for thousands of years so easily without any punishment, and when you looked back, everyone forgave you so easily, and even felt very happy about your repentance, and even celebrated it."
"You threw away the things he cherished. He wanted to teach you a lesson, let you know that such contempt for God's love will always be punished, but after you were free and easy, your status has improved."
"And there is no reason for all this, not because you are better than him, and do better than him, but because of God's unreasonable partiality."
Schiller's lower eyelids slightly raised, and the chill in his eyes made Lucifer feel a chill on his back.
"But God's authority has long been rooted in his mind. He cannot raise any hatred towards the Creator. Those knife-like resentment and jealousy will be swallowed by himself, crushing his internal organs like a storm, bringing unspeakable and endless pain."
"In the end, he will not hate God, or even you, he will only hate himself. There is no suffering in this world that is deeper and more continuous than what this kind of people inflict on themselves."
Lucifer swallowed his saliva and pushed the chair back a little with his feet. He turned his head and said, "I think you are still a little too Extreme, I think calmly, Gabriel didn't do anything, I'm not that angry. "
Schiller returned to his usual posture, his back against the back of the chair, his hands crossed on his legs, looked at Lucifer with a meaningful look and said: "Everything is up to you. If you change your mind, come here to find me, I will always wait for you."
After leaving the Forgotten Bookstore, Lucifer sighed for a long time. He was actually a little relieved in his heart. Fortunately, he controlled his emotions and was not bewitched by the devil, otherwise he would be the same as Constantine.
Lucifer wanted to go back to hell to find Azazel, and let him get Constantine away quickly and not get involved in the affairs of Constantine and Schiller, otherwise he would be defeated sooner or later, but he felt that his brain was still a little confused, so he decided to go back to his bar in Seaside City to calm down for a while.
When Lucifer just landed after teleporting, he smelled a strong smell of blood. He widened his eyes and walked into the bar quickly, only to see corpses on the ground.
A painful groan came from the bar, and Lucifer rushed over to help the woman who fell in front of the wine cabinet. He looked down at the wound on her abdomen and said, "Maizi! Maizi, what's wrong with you?!"
Suddenly Lucifer shrugged his nose because he smelled a familiar smell from the power in the air.
A few seconds later, an angry roar echoed in the bar.
"Gabriel!!!!!!!"