To Four Thousand Years Later

A good man cannot be pope.

A good man. Wang Yi, who was unable to become a group of good people

...so ironic. But Hector III could only smile wryly: "I know too, Your Majesty. I always know.

"But you still don't believe it."

"I actually believe it, Your Majesty. I know, I believe it too, but I just...haven't wanted to believe it.

His lordship with a disfigured face unconsciously clenched his fists in his long sleeves, and he murmured in a low voice as if in a dream, "At the beginning, I always felt that I was different from the previous popes. I Knowing that I still harbor goodness in my heart, I still yearn for justice, and truth. I thought I was the only one who was special"__ but I was wrong. he whispered. Pope Hector III, former Archbishop Hector, felt unspeakable pain.

"When I was young, my teachers didn't educate me like this. What I learned was wisdom, benevolence, fairness, integrity, and the knowledge of the world. The teachers asked me to speak upright words, do benevolent ways, and follow justice. They asked me to give Courage to those who are timid, protection to the weak, enlightenment to the dull! As he said this, he slammed his fist **** his thigh. Every time he said a word, he swung his head.

It was a merciless hammering with all its strength, but there was no pain in his eyebrows and eyes.

Or, his eyes were already full of pain.

He paused, and whispered a little decadently: "They told me that the people in the temple can't be trusted; Only by making the people blind and ignorant can we have the value of existence. He raised his head, but he didn't look at Leonardo.

He just continued to turn his back on Leonardo. Without turning his head back, he stared ahead—his firm and silent gaze. Staring at his sealed windows and gates, it was as if staring at groups of people admonishing, reprimanding, and seeking help from him.

He was puzzled, and asked in a sleepy voice: "Before... Shouldn't we be teachers first? As teachers, why should people become stupid? Our vocation should not be "Then what I said before Is the education I received the one that made me stupid? If that's wrong, my will hatched from that soil, my life born from that flame... what is it? "

He was silent for a long time. Only then said to himself in a very soft voice: "Then I should. What should I teach my children?"

Leonardo understood him. He also understands his pain. He saw with his own eyes that what he thought to be evil in the past can become a virtue somewhere; he followed the moral standards since he was a child, but was taught by his elders as "a useless thing that needs to be discarded" after he grew up. So he unconsciously had doubts about the right and wrong in this world, and this doubt caused him pain, and the morality he still refused to abandon was the oil on the fire.

As a result, his heart became cold, shrank, and dried up.

"poor child.

Leonardo sighed softly.

People are in their positions and cannot help themselves. What he shoulders is not his own will. What he carries on his body is by no means a life.

He is the captain of an ocean-going fishing vessel, in order to keep most of the people on board alive. In order for the ship to go back and be handed over to the next captain as completely as possible...he sometimes has to make some choices.

Some choices that made him painful, confused, and numb, but he had to make.

Later, later...

He just got used to it. Leonardo sighed softly: "You are the captain of this ship, but this ship is not your property, never has been. It is the public property of all passengers, of course you have to listen to other passengers how Leonardo Many reprimands are so calm, but the Pope is as weak as a child who has done something wrong, bowing his head to listen to Leonardo's lessons. His heart is full of pain and confusion. If it weren't for this, he would also Will not call Leonardo.

Hector had already had such doubts in his heart. His only crime is arrogance. Everyone was offended, until he killed all the officials who could be killed, until he gave the people a bright world that no one wanted, and made the hidden things public. But he was not happy.

When he was an archbishop, what he liked most was to criticize those injustices, and what he liked most was to reveal those hidden secrets. He did not hesitate to pay the price of his life for this, and even openly told the Pope that he wanted to try to unravel the Order of the Rose after being sent abroad. Urgent...then he, how he hoped that the Pope could help him. But the pope not only did not help him, but also alienated him, even against him.

And now he is Pope himself. No one can resist him, and every straightforward order of his can be implemented.

Then comes the chaos. In the office of Hector III the Sober. Since the founding of Solomon Theocracy. The first rebellion was launched. First, the people no longer trusted the justice of the Holy See, and then the power of the new department "Law Enforcement Officer" he established began to swell. Every cardinal who supported or had supported Hector III, who wanted to have the power to cross the line, was cut by his brutal separation, and chopped their claws before the line. So they stopped supporting him. Live health care, and then the treasury quickly became empty; he wanted to tax the treasury, so the people immediately turned against the "pope of tyranny" and couldn't collect money. The life insurance plan can only be put on hold, so there are more liars in front of his name; people start to claim "the protection they deserve", but they are not willing to pay more Cardinals want to participate in the work of legal reformulation , but Hector III was shocked to find that they were trying to install their own people in the judicial and law enforcement agencies; and when he expelled these people. But they bit back and falsely accused Hector III of being unwilling to pay them for their work and nepotism. in this small country. In this tiny country that doesn't even have an army, people are fighting against each other, hurting each other, deceiving each other, and doing everything they can to plunder what is more or not theirs. And Hector III could only watch all this in a daze. That's...the wisdom they got?

- This is the "true wisdom" they get. I don't agree.