Chapter 1522 C Twilight Event (Twenty-Eight)
Unlike the gorgeous palaces above the clouds that many people imagine, heaven is a complete world, just like hell, it is also divided into many parts, and the well-known New Jerusalem and Garden of Eden are in it.
The place where the angels are is called the Holy City. The Holy City has a total of twelve gates, each of which is carved with angels. The city wall has twelve foundations with the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb on them.
Entering from the east gate, you can see the curtained houses and the chosen believers who come and go. They are engaged in the same twelve professions as on earth.
After passing through the residential area, you can see an extremely clear and crystal-like river of life flowing through the city. The river surface reflects the sparkling light. There are lush trees on both sides of the river bank. Every month, the trees will bear twelve kinds of fruits. The green leaves are the most precious spiritual medicine in the world and can heal all people.
Following the river of life upstream, you will come to a sacred palace consisting of three buildings. The halls of this palace are endless. Only holy angels can walk past its throne. At the end of the river, there is a garden full of green grass and flowers.
The garden is also infinite. It is the habitat of angels. Angels who have returned from their guarding missions lie on the grass by the river to sleep, or lean under the trees to tidy up each other's feathers, while chirping newborns prefer to run in groups to the Garden of Eden to fish.
There are no flower pavilions or tables and chairs commonly seen in the human world in the garden. The angels walk barefoot and sit on the ground, but in the center of the garden there is a regular octagonal curtain built by archangels. Archangels often gather here to talk about trivial matters at work.
Michael and Lucifer were sitting in the middle of the curtain, drinking the water of the Fountain of Life from a crystal goblet. Michael sighed and said, "Of course I know you came back to piss off Gabriel, but you have to have a long-term plan. Are you going back to hell?"
"I've long been tired of hell. If it weren't for Maizi's dissuasion, I would have sealed hell and driven out all the demons."
Michael shook his head, seeming to be helpless about Lucifer's willfulness, but he continued, "I've told Raphael to take back the newborn angels who were sent to hell by Gabriel, and have them bathe in the holy spring again, in the holy light. ”
“I thought you would judge them directly.”
“That’s unfair. They were just deceived by Gabriel. Besides, every angel is blessed by the Lord. If they fall so easily, how can I protect the dignity of heaven?”
“Rigid.” Lucifer commented after drinking a mouthful of spring water, but he did not refute it. He wiped his mouth and said, “Maizi’s injury is not healed yet. I can’t stay in heaven for long. I will leave soon.”
Michael frowned with some dissatisfaction. It was unknown whether he was against him and the female devil, or he was dissatisfied with Lucifer’s absence from his post just after returning.
"The Archangel's duty is to guard the Holy City. You can't leave for too long, otherwise..."
Just as Michael said this, another young angel came over, saluted Michael, and said, "Your Majesty Michael, His Majesty Raphael said that all the new angels have arrived. He is checking one by one to see if there are any signs of corruption. Do you want to go and take a look?"
"I won't go." Michael glanced at Lucifer, implying that I want to watch another guy who is more troublesome than the new angel.
After the young angel left, not long after, Raphael's figure flashed outside the bushes and fences. He was leading a group of young angels to the palace, obviously going to the source of the holy spring, using the spring water to reflect their souls and check whether they are pure.
Michael didn't care at all, and continued to say: "Gabriel has caused a lot of trouble this time. All new angels born in the past thousand years must be checked. Some of them have behaved improperly, quarreled with their brothers and sisters, or sneaked into the human world to cause trouble. They must be dealt with together to prevent this from happening again and again..."
"By the way, Lucifer, if you can contact the devil in hell, ask them if they know which angel has contacted them. Their information must be accurate... Lucifer? Lucifer?! What's wrong with you?"
Lucifer stared at the fence on the gate of the bush hedge, his expression was very stiff, and his expression was as if he had seen a ghost. He opened his mouth several times, then said in a daze: "No, nothing, I may have been under too much pressure recently and have hallucinations."
Michael frowned immediately. His personality was more serious and serious, and he rarely joked. Seeing that Lucifer's expression was not fake, he asked: "Are you okay?... Well, if staying here makes you stressed, I won't stop you from leaving, but you should know that you can't have any deep relationship with the devil, that's unclean..."
Lucifer stood up with a "swoosh", he directly grabbed Michael's arm on one side and pulled him out of the hedge.
Michael was dragged to stand up by him without knowing why, and as he walked out, Michael asked: "Where are you going? Have you forgotten the way to leave heaven? Then just find another angel to lead the way for you, I still have to go back to the Garden of Eden..."
"Shut up!... I mean, I think the fall of the newborn angel is quite serious. We have to go to the baptism ceremony in person. We can't rely on Raphael, the sleepyhead."
Lucifer turned around and showed Michael a stiff smile. Michael frowned, looked at Lucifer with a puzzled and slightly disgusted look and said, "When did you become so responsible? When God said that there would be new angels born from the holy spring, didn't you want to drain the water to prevent them from bothering you?"
"That's all in the past." Lucifer curled his lips and said, "Have you forgotten that when the first batch of newborns arrived, you were bothered by them and lost your hair every day?"
While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the temple where the ceremony was performed. The holy spring flowing from the holy elephant was the most holy baptismal spring. The newborn angels walked out of the spring water, and the blessed spring water gave them all kinds of beautiful qualities.
Most of the newborn angels are very simple, or to put it bluntly, a little stupid. They don't have the omniscience and omnipotence of the archangels created by God, and they rarely leave heaven, a place where everyone is simple. Therefore, since the birth of the newborn angels, they have been deceived, abducted, polluted and corrupted.
The best way to detect whether the newborn angels are polluted is to lead them to the source of the holy spring where they were born. If the surface of the holy spring can reflect their shadows, they are still pure. If not, they are probably corrupted.
When Lucifer rushed in with Michael, the ceremony was halfway through. The newborn angels who passed the test gathered in groups of three or five to discuss what happened recently. Lucifer could hear them talking about him, but he didn't have time to care.
Lucifer's eyes were cast on a figure at the end of the team that had not been tested. When his eyes focused on that face, Lucifer completely turned into a sculpture, and then cracked on the spot.
Angels of all shapes and sizes crowded around the holy spring, with feathers on their wings falling to the ground due to crowding and friction. Most of them had dark hair, and only a few had brilliant blond hair like Lucifer. Most of them had brown and dark brown hair, and there were also some red-haired angels.
Also different from human rumors, the angels' eyes did not have so many fancy colors, nor did they glow. Most of them were the aquamarine described in the Bible, that is, a grayish white, and there were also yellows close to gold, and even reddish brown.
Then one of the blue eyes stood out, and what stood out even more was his handsome appearance that was not inferior to the others but slightly better than them.
And what made Lucifer split on the spot was the name represented by the familiar facial features on this handsome face - Bruce Wayne.
It was hard to say that this was Batman, because unlike the dark and even gloomy temperament of Batman known to all the archangels, this Bruce was a little too holy, and the holy light surging in his soul was stronger than that of all the newborn angels present.
Michael was a little curious about what happened to Lucifer, so he followed his gaze and saw the second cracked sculpture in the temple.
Raphael stood in the center of the holy spring, his dazzling red hair braided and coiled behind his head. He looked like all the workers in the world who stayed up late to deal with their colleagues' messes, with drooping eyebrows, sleepy expression, and mechanically repeating the work at hand.
"Next!" Raphael shouted.
The angel in front of Bruce walked over, saluted Raphael, walked to the front of the holy spring and lowered his head. The moment his shadow was reflected on the water surface of the holy spring, he breathed a sigh of relief, folded his wings and walked to the other side.
When Bruce walked over there, Raphael didn't even look at his face, but just waved his hand to signal him to hurry up, so Bruce walked to the front of the holy spring.
Just as he lowered his head to look at the water, two whooshing sounds came, and the two most famous archangels in heaven grabbed his arms on the left and right.
Lucifer on the left gritted his teeth and said, "Bruce! What are you doing? Is this the place you should be?"
"Why is there a Batman here?!" Michael's voice was even more horrified than his: "How can Batman go to heaven?! Who did this?! Is the angel crazy?!!!"
Bruce reached out and grabbed Lucifer's wrist and pulled it down hard, then moved his arm to get rid of Michael, rolled his eyes and said, "Can't you see how I got here? Get out of the way and don't block me from performing the ritual."
After that, he was about to walk forward to see the surface of the holy spring, Lucifer grabbed him, and after a moment of stunned silence, he opened his eyes wide and looked at Michael opposite him and said: "It was Gabriel... Gabriel gave him his wings!"
"God! Look at what you have done!" Michael hurriedly made a series of prayer gestures on his chest, and said angrily: "This is the result of you coming back to anger Gabriel! He even wanted to blow up heaven! Think of a way!"
Bruce frowned, and shook off Lucifer's arm, and said dissatisfiedly: "Can't you wait until I finish the ritual before talking about anything?"
"Wait a minute." Lucifer swiftly jumped in front of Bruce, standing between him and the Holy Spring, and spread his wings to block Bruce's way.
Michael followed suit and stood in front of Bruce, but he didn't understand why, so he lowered his voice and asked Lucifer: "What's wrong? Why are you stopping him..."
"If you don't stop him, what if a clown jumps out of the Holy Spring?!"
Just as Michael was about to say it was impossible, he saw that the Batman opposite him made a "huh" sound and curled his lips, as if his conspiracy had been exposed.
"Haven't you noticed yet? This Batman is different... He... He..." Lucifer grunted for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable adjective, and finally gritted his teeth and said.
"He's a bit too trendy!"