[Comprehensive Yingmei] I cover this earth

Chapter 101 The White Whale 40

The two soon arrived at the door of the Gotham Secret Star Church.

Compared with three years ago, this place has expanded a lot. Because of the large number of Gotham believers and the increase of worshipers from all over the world, it has obviously become a tourist holy place. The original small church has been expanded several times. At this moment Already one of Gotham's most iconic landmarks, it echoes the nearby Wayne Building.

"It looks really decent." Tony looked up at this magnificent church and sighed.

Although I have seen it many times on TV and news, it is difficult to understand the shocking event of this strange sense of space unless I personally visit it.

"There is another one three kilometers away." Bruce said, "The god once performed a miracle and destroyed the owl court overnight. The square where the incident happened became their second holy place, and it still exists today. A terrible mysterious power remains."

"Mysterious power?" Tony's thirst for knowledge was immediately aroused.

Bruce glanced at him, a little helpless.

Human beings can never control their curiosity in front of the abyss.

Otherwise, it would not be full of believers who came to worship in an endless stream, and tourists who simply came to watch the fun.

"Go in." Bruce said, and he walked directly into the door of the church.

There was no one in the church at the moment, only the candles in the corner were still burning.I don't know what kind of magic the Secret Star Church cast on it. Some candles have obviously been burning for a long time, but they haven't even dripped a drop of wax tears.

In the dim atmosphere, there seemed to be a gloomy atmosphere permeating the air.

"Crack!"

The flash flashed, blinding Bruce's eyes, and looking back, Tony Stark took out his phone and snapped a snap.

Bruce: ...

Very good, as expected of you.

Are you really not afraid that the Eye of the Secret Star will be offended by this disrespectful behavior!

...But in fact, the Eye of the Secret Star seems to have a really good temper. Bruce has been studying Him for so long, and it is not uncommon for him to do all kinds of slightly offensive things, but obviously the Eye of the Secret Star has never cared about it.

Maybe it's because of dismissiveness.

Bruce walked around the nave of the church with ease, and walked into the long underground corridor through a small door.

"This looks like the entrance to the secret space." Tony complained, "It's not like the one in my house..."

What does it mean to have the main entrance of the Mystic Church in the women's wardrobe!

Based on this alone, Tony can conclude that the Eye of the Secret Star is definitely the kind of god with a particularly good temper. He will definitely not get angry because of some trivial things, otherwise Alice would have been finished.

... Xingchao's compulsion has been lowered by her alone! !

"What's the end of this secret passage?" Tony asked.

"It depends," Bruce said.

Tony: "...?"

"Sometimes when we go to the end, we will find that we have finished walking a mirrored road, and we will return to the church after pushing the door at the end." Bruce said, this kind of ghost hitting the wall is the most common, and generally this kind of situation is caused by the host. The church refused to have an audience, "Sometimes the space of the main church is opened when the door is opened."

As soon as the voice fell, they had already arrived at the door at the end.

Bruce turned sideways and raised his chin to signal Tony: "Come on."

His success rate of pushing the door will definitely be higher than his own.

After all, the past between Bruce Wayne and the Church of the Secret Star was not happy.

Tony stepped forward, but before he could reach out, the door opened automatically.

A magnificent and strange light poured out from behind the door. Behind the door was the vast space where the main church was located, a sacred place suspended among endless galaxies.

Even Bruce had to admit that every time he came to the main church, he would be shocked by the wonders here.

Afterwards, both of them felt being pulled violently by some huge suction force, and in the next second they had already arrived at the front of the church.

The Pope sat there peacefully, looking at them with silver eyes, with a smile on his face: "Bruce...and Tony. It's nice to see you again."

Bruce nodded slightly towards him: "Pope."

The Pope doesn't appear to have changed anything.

They haven't seen each other since the incident three years ago.Three years have passed, but everything in the past seems like yesterday.

The Pope treated him like an ordinary guest.

"Let's save some meaningless greetings." Tony sat down directly on the bench, "I'm here to ask you, can Alice quit Star Nest?"

After the voice fell, the entire main church fell into a brief silence.

Bruce glanced at Tony with some surprise, but he wasn't too surprised.

The pope didn't even seem to be surprised, and there was no trace of fluctuation in his expression. He just smiled and looked at him, and said, "Why do you ask so suddenly?"

"Because I'm not used to my daughter... my son works in a black factory, does this need to be explained?" Tony raised his eyebrows, with a slightly aggressive tone in his tone.

"..." The Pope narrowed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he said, "It seems that you understand."

"Know what? Know your Star Nest's behavior?"

"No." The Pope smiled with an unknown meaning, "Know his real gender."

"..." This seemed to hit Tony's pain point, he wrinkled his nose and said nothing.

"But it seems that you still haven't understood the whole truth." The Pope said calmly, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to me to ask such a question."

"Let's talk about it first." Tony didn't like to play riddles and guess riddles, and said directly, "I know you will definitely not let people go for no reason, so what is the condition?"

The Pope looked at him with a smile, but did not speak.

"Star Nest has always been short of people, isn't it?" Seeing that the Pope didn't speak, Tony took the initiative to speak up, "If I join you, I can completely solve the big problem of the crimson core, and even solve the problems of the future Earth." With all the troubles related to the old days that will arise... Maybe I can't think of replacing Alice to perform this job."

Before he finished speaking, Bruce narrowed his pupils slightly, looked at him suddenly, and growled, "Stark!"

Are you crazy!

After the Pope heard his words, the smile on his face seemed to have stagnated for a moment.

This was the first time Tony saw a look of surprise on this face.

"Are you... sure?" the pope said.

"Tell me first, can you?" Tony's tone became a little more serious.

"...If you join Star Nest, judging from your foundation, you will soon become the outstanding one among us." The pope said calmly, and he quickly concealed his emotions completely, "God It will bring down the powerful power that you cannot understand and rely on the knowledge that human beings will never be able to obtain. You will understand the entire universe and even everything beyond the universe, and you don’t have to worry about the spiritual pollution it brings. When you become us, you You will find that the once insurmountable mountain is already under your feet, and the pollution of those ridiculous creatures will no longer drive you into madness..."

Bruce snorted softly.

The Pope looked at him, and there seemed to be some indescribable emotions in his eyebrows and eyes: "...Of course, you will also face greater risks, pollution and mutation go hand in hand. As for the crimson earth core - believe me, it is absolutely Not the toughest enemy you'll face."

"No, maybe you don't fully understand what I mean." Tony said, "I mean, if I join, can Alice quit?"

—he had already thought differently after hearing the story about the messenger from Bruce.

Some sacrifices are necessary and some are not.

The difference is only whether the things obtained by these sacrifices are more worthwhile, especially when they face a terrifying opponent who cannot be shaken by their own abilities.

In many cases, choice is far greater than ability, and choice determines everything - making a decisive choice when there is still a choice is also a great decisiveness.

The pope's pupils seemed to move slightly, and he fell silent.

Neither Tony nor Bruce said a word, they just watched the changes in the Pope's expression, trying to read some information from it.

Finally, the pope said: "No."

Alice... was already dead.

He had already died in the turbulence of the long river of history that was extremely distant and blurred by time, and what was alive at this time was just a mirror image, a puppet.

When he said the word "no", his tone was so calm that it was almost cold.

Before Tony could say anything else, the Pope said, "I don't think you have discussed it with him when you came here?"

Tony raised an eyebrow: "What?"

"Because he will definitely stop you." The pope lowered his eyes. "You don't know him well. If you ask his opinion, the answer you will get is definitely no—the singer will never quit the star nest."

"Why?" Tony frowned and asked, "Because of faith? She can still do things for you, but you don't have the authority to order her to die—"

"Tony." The Pope interrupted him and said calmly, "You should know that Singer is the craziest of us. If one day he really dies, it will only be..."

"Enough!" Tony's voice was already carrying a little anger.

The Pope stopped talking, his expression remained soft, as if he was waiting for Tony to calm down.

"...Why?" Bruce asked aloud, "You, the samurai and... the messenger, you all try your best to avoid pollution. Why is this happening to the singer?"

This is obviously very different from Star Nest's style of avoiding pollution as much as possible.

"That's why I said that you don't know him well." The Pope said, his tone remained calm, "If there is nothing else, you can leave."

"Wait a minute." Tony said, he had regained his composure, "I need to know why Alice didn't quit Star Nest."

"..." The Pope narrowed his eyes slightly.

"She lied to me for so long, and you Xingnest lied to me for so long, and used me—I think you should be very clear about how much profit you have taken from me." Tony said expressionlessly, "Look at us For the sake of the same purpose, I can not pursue these matters, but the exchange condition is that you must tell me everything about Alice."

She is full of too many unreasonable and contradictory.

"..." The Pope was silent for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, I can tell you."

There is nothing about the singer to be taboo to him, even if he asks himself face to face, he will truthfully confess.

It wasn't a glorious past, but it wasn't something to be ashamed of either.

"The singer is not from Earth," the Pope said, "nor is he a human being. He was born in a place where the class divisions are extremely severe, and his status is extremely low—so low that he is almost as low as an animal."

Tony's breath choked slightly.

Such a pampered and willful child, unexpectedly has such a background?

"But you have also seen that he has a beautiful appearance, an outstanding singing voice, and... outstanding ability to deceive, so he tried his best to escape from the place where he was oppressed," the Pope continued.

"He has no education, and his thinking is not very complicated. He just wants to sing...and live. Fortunately, there happened to be a troupe recruiting singers in the place where he escaped.

"Unfortunately, that troupe only had female singers.

"The singer escaped from the oppression penniless and could not survive on his own. He could only forcibly disguise himself as a woman and join the troupe, and lived as a girl ever since.

"He almost tried his best to please others. After all, in a society where the class division is so terrible, how difficult it is for singers at the bottom to climb up. You can imagine that it is not just a matter of having a good voice. things.

"As a person... from a livestock background, he insisted on acting like a wayward girl. No one doubted his lowly real identity. Everyone only thought that he ran away from home to pursue his dream. And the reason why he was able to act This appearance is only because he was once enslaved by a girl with the same personality, and this is the only appearance he can act out.

"He gradually became famous.

"However, if you want to climb up, you have to pass the test of the rich and powerful.

"For the sake of the future of the whole troupe and the future of the singer, the head of the troupe put him in a coma and sent him to the bed of a dignitary.

"Next, you should be able to figure it out—after his true gender was revealed, the dignitaries were furious, and the head of the troupe immediately separated all ties, as if the singer had never brought popularity and glory to the troupe, and he was sentenced to death penalty—hanging.”

A cruel criminal law that could easily destroy his miraculous singing voice.

"Alice died the day she was sent to the gallows." The Pope said, with a look of pity on his face, looking at Tony and Bruce who were stunned, "From now on, Star Nest has more A... 'singer' longing to sing."