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, including the familiar New Jerusalem and the Garden of Paradise.
The place where the angels are located is called the Holy City. There are twelve gates in the Holy City, and angels are depicted on each gate. The city wall has twelve foundations, with the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb on them.
Entering through the gate on the east side, you can see the curtained house and the chosen believers who come and go. They engage in the same twelve occupations here as on earth.
After passing through the residential area, you can see an extremely clear river of life flowing through the city, as bright as crystal, with shining light reflected on the surface of the river. There are green trees planted on both sides of the river bank, and every month the trees will bear fruit. Twelve kinds of fruits, the green leaves are the most precious elixir in the world, able to heal all peoples.
Going upstream along the River of Life, you come to the sacred palace composed of three buildings. The halls of this palace are endless. Only holy angels can walk by its throne and come to the end of the river. A garden full of green grass and flowers.
The garden is also infinite. It is the shelter of angels. The angels who have returned from performing guard duties lie on the grass by the river to sleep, or lean under the trees and preen each other's feathers. The chirping newborns prefer to grow up. Groups of people went to Yin Dian Garden to fish.
There are no common flower pavilions or tables and chairs in the garden. The angels walk barefoot and sit on the ground. However, in the center of the garden there is an octagonal curtain built by the archangels. The archangels often gather here to talk. Taking care of trivial matters at work.
Michael and Lucifer were sitting in the middle of the curtain drinking water from the fountain of life from crystal goblets. Michael sighed and said, "Of course I know you came back just to piss off Gabriel, but you have to have someone." In the long run, is it possible to go back to hell again?”
"I've long been tired of hell. If it hadn't been for Mai Zi's dissuasion, I would have sealed off hell and driven out all the devils."
Michael shook his head, as if he was helpless at Lucifer's willfulness, but he continued: "I have told Raphael to bring back those newborn angels who fell into hell under Gabriel's order. Let them bathe in the holy spring again and be baptized in the holy light, hoping that they can return to purity."
"I thought you were going to judge them directly."
"That's unfair. They were just deceived by Gabriel. Besides, every angel is born with the blessing of the Lord. If he falls so easily, how can I protect the dignity of heaven?"
"Rigid." Lucifer commented after taking a sip of spring water, but did not refute. He wiped his mouth and said, "Mai Zi's injury is not healed yet. I won't be able to stay in heaven for long. I will leave soon."
Michael frowned with some dissatisfaction. He didn't know whether it was against him and the female devil, or because he was dissatisfied that Lucifer had just returned and left his post without permission.
"The Archangel's responsibility is to guard the Holy City. You can't leave for too long, otherwise..."
As soon as Michael said this, another young angel came over, saluted to Michael, and said: "Your Majesty Michael, Your Majesty Raphael said that all the newborn angels have arrived. , he is checking for signs of depravity one by one, and asked if you would like to go and take a look."
"I won't go." Michael glanced at Lucifer, the implication being that I was going to watch another guy here who was even more careless than the newborn angel.
After the young angel left, not long after, Raphael's figure flashed outside the hedge. He was leading a group of young angels to the palace, obviously going to the source of the holy spring to reflect it with the spring water. Their souls, check if they are pure.
Michael didn't pay attention at all and continued to say: "Gabriel got into a lot of trouble this time. New angels born in the past thousand years have to be inspected. Some of them have misbehaved for a long time, had quarrels with brothers and sisters, or... Anyone who sneaks into the human world and causes trouble must be dealt with together to prevent this from happening again..."
"By the way, Lucifer, if you can contact the devil over there in hell, ask them if they know which angel has contacted them. Their information must be accurate... Lucifer? Lucifer?! You What's wrong?"
I saw Lucifer staring at the fence on the hedge gate, his expression very stiff, as if he had seen a ghost. He opened his mouth a few times, and then said in a daze: "No, it's nothing. I may have been too stressed recently. Hallucinations occurred.”
Michael immediately frowned. His character was more serious and serious, and he rarely joked. Seeing that Lucifer's expression was not fake, he asked: "Are you okay?...Okay, if you stay here It puts you under a lot of pressure, and I won’t force you to leave, but you should know that you cannot have any deep relationship with the devil, that is unclean..."
Lucifer suddenly stood up. He directly grabbed Michael's arm and pulled him out of the hedge.
Michael was dragged to his feet by him for some unknown reason. As he walked out, Michael asked, "Where are you going? Have you forgotten the way out of heaven? Then just find another angel. Just lead the way for you, I still have to go back to Yin Tian Garden..."
"Shut up!...I mean, I think the fall of the newborn angel is quite serious. We have to go see the baptism ceremony in person. We can't rely on Raphael, the sleepy guy."
Lucifer turned around and gave 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 new angels would be 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 there were only a few with brilliant blond hair like Lucifer. Most of them had brown and dark brown hair, and there were also some red-haired angels.
Unlike 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?"
"How could there be a Batman here?!" Michael's voice was even more horrified than his: "How could Batman go to heaven?! Who did this?! Is the angel crazy?!
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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, but Lucifer grabbed him, and after a slight pause, he opened his eyes wide and looked at Michael on the other side 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, saying dissatisfiedly, "Can't you wait until I finish the ritual before you talk about anything?"
"Wait a minute." Lucifer moved flexibly in front of Bruce, standing between him and the holy spring, and spread his wings to block Bruce's way.
Michael followed suit and blocked 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 Batman on the other side snorted 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 little too trendy!"