To Four Thousand Years Later

Leonardo saw clearly. Shining on the cardinals... is a thin, cloudy but clear enough white aura.

It is not knowledge from the abyss, but the end point after the fusion of polychromatic psionic energy, pure psionic energy without hue. It is the same as the high spirit of the Order of the Rosary. No...they really merged into one ball, and they just merged.

Although this method is still too simple

This is the most brutal way. They voluntarily melted down the barriers of consciousness, and violently fused each other's psychic energy into one. It was like baking many pieces of maple syrup together when they were half-melted, waiting for it to re-solidify into a piece of sugar. Although their wills were fused , but not uniformly. As time goes by, this simple psionic combination will gradually become separated, because the depths of each consciousness, because this is not a pure consciousness, but thirteen consciousnesses glued together, to work together. Control the bodies of thirteen people.

"To be honest, your determination...surprises me." After the cardinals took their seats, Leonardo said calmly: "I have thought for a long time that this day will come sooner or later. But you didn't tell me until today , This day is far more than I imagined, he walked out from behind the Pope.

Eat, everyone. We ate and talked.

Leonardo stood beside the silent pope, not too far from the height of the chair he was sitting on. He raised his hand, signaling the cardinals to start eating and drinking, as if he was the real leader, the cardinals nodded, and began to eat as Leonardo wanted. Leonardo took a deep breath. If you want to imprison and impeach the Pope, the most important step is to make sure that there are no spies among them. Here is a prisoner's dilemma: if less than half, or even less than one-third, of the people who believe that the pope is innocent, then the pope will be impeached, and the cardinals will jointly become the rulers of the church, and everyone will own the country. One-third of the authority, the political status has risen sharply. You know, it is impossible for the College of Cardinals to kill another Cardinal. All the cardinals are behind the party, and if they attack them, it is tantamount to fighting another battle on behalf of the master behind them.

However, if more than half of the cardinals believed that the pope was innocent, then the pope's authority would return to him, and the status of the cardinals who helped the pope would also increase significantly, and his enemies would immediately die without a place to die. That is to say, no matter what the final result is, the status of the person who voted for the pope's acquittal will rise; while for those who voted for the pope's guilt, people are always more inclined to act if they are not sure whether other people will help the pope. Help the pope's decision. In this situation of mutual suspicion and mutual balance, it is hard to imagine that the cardinals can work together to imprison the Pope. Because in essence they are not of one mind.

Now Leonardo almost understood. Maybe they weren't before...but they are now.

"You... all betrayed?"

Leonardo was silent for a long time before asking.

He did not specify whom the cardinals had betrayed, but the answer was immediately answered in the affirmative: "Yes.

"Now our will is free.

"We will all act in the interests of the Theocracy.

The cardinals also seemed to have not seen the Pope, nodded to Leonardo, and said in unison: "This is necessary, Mr. Leonardo. We do not have any enmity with the Pope. Individual hatred means nothing to us.

"The reason we acted this way was because we were on the brink of survival.

"What happened?" Leonardo asked curiously: "What made you so wary?" The cardinals were silent for a moment, and then replied: "It's the telephone.

"You invented the telephone."

"Telephone?"

This answer made Leonardo stunned.

It was Hector who was stunned suddenly, as if he realized something.

"Yes, my lord. It is the telephone."

"According to our calculations, if the telephone is further popularized, which is an inevitable historical trend, people will no longer need a large number of teaching staff. It is not that those countries cannot produce excellent teachers, but they cannot produce good teachers. A sufficient number of excellent teachers.

"And if you let those rare and particularly good teachers use multiple telephone calls to teach different schools, it is tantamount to letting a few teachers teach the majority of people."

In this way, people can secretly surpass the limitation of space through the phone. This means that a large number of low-level teachers will lose their jobs... It also means that The Church will lose their main income from education taxes.

"People can even get news from the operator over the phone, and the speed of news transmission will break through the limits of the media; perhaps future writers and singers will no longer use pen and paper. concert.

The cardinals replied in a flat voice: "We know that this is a miraculous invention. It will completely change this era and the world. Therefore, it is impossible to stop it. The only thing we have to do is Be the 'savior' of this generation. We must stand up when people are in the most suffering, when the country is in the most suffering, and rely on their support to gain power] and forcefully promote industrialization. Just like the previous Pope did. "They didn't hide anything. When they saw Leonardo with their own eyes, the group of cardinals immediately knew that all concealment and lies would be meaningless in front of Leonardo. Their psychic energy was fused together, so they became extraordinarily powerful But because of this, they also become more sensitive than ordinary people.

The moment they saw Leonardo, they immediately gave up their mental resistance and hostility. In Leonardo's view, the original yellow names of these people turned pale green the moment the first person saw him. And Leonardo only asked a question, and they revealed all their plans.

Because they are very clear that they have no ability to resist Leonardo. I have no ability at all, I can only pray for his forgiveness and understanding. "We attack Pope Hector to get an excuse to prove that Pope Borgia is right. We have seen that even if we will be suppressed by other countries in the future, we must try to be a strong country, at least there must be one that can resist aggression" because we The rice bowl that I used to live on...has been broken by your new invention. But our people don't realize this. They are still indulging in false happiness. I "We killed the pope, actively breaking the custom of the past and the present-that is a good excuse." The cardinals replied: "We planned the accidental death of Hector III after the Southern Judgment. So that people will Slowly realize that they are guilty, and they are also our accomplices. They can only go down the road of industrialization and normalization... because there will be no Pope to stand up to support them.

"Next, in the name of the College of Cardinals, we will gradually deprive them of their rights. Little by little. One by one...

They answered honestly and calmly: "The Pope cannot forcefully order the people, and cannot raise taxes on the people. That is because we are secretly supporting the people; before all his will is implemented, it will be "but we can

"After the pope is gone. After the pope is gone in this country, our will will not be hindered by anyone. Because no one will stand up and speak for them. The cardinals paused and addressed Leonardo He opened the mouth and said: Leonardo stared at them blankly: "Go on. "