To Four Thousand Years Later

"I heard that you abolished Leviticus."

The Queen of Sheba looked at the Temple Mount, raised her eyebrows and asked casually, "So this is the temple you built for yourself, King Solomon?"

"of course not."

Solomon said calmly, "This is the temple I have built for God."

After the Queen of Sheba presented a gift to King Solomon, Solomon took her for a walk in Jerusalem. And Bai Meng was the only one who came out with them.

The citizens on the road were all doing their own work, but when they saw King Solomon, they still immediately put down their work and greeted their respected king warmly and sincerely.

They went as far as the Temple Mount, where the number of citizens suddenly dwindled.

Looking at the splendid and sacred palace, the Queen of Sheba blinked, and followed Solomon and Baimon into it without making a sound.

"But, according to you... is there any difference between the temple built for you and the temple built for God?"

The Queen of Sheba smiled back and looked at Solomon.

She paused before continuing, "What you want is the palace itself."

"yes."

Solomon didn't panic at all, just nodded: "Since the people need such a temple now, I will give it to them."

"What if people don't like it in the future?"

asked the Queen of Sheba.

Solomon couldn't help laughing: "Then let them destroy it."

"Then the incense wood, gold and precious stones that were used to build this palace should not be used?"

She blinked and asked, "What's the point of spending materials to build it like this?"

According to common sense, Solomon should say something like "This is a temple dedicated to God, this is what it means"... However, Solomon did not answer bluntly like the Queen of Sheba thought.

He just shook his head gently: "How can you say it's meaningless? Isn't the building of this temple itself a meaning?"

"Yes, sooner or later it will decay, be destroyed, collapse, and even be looted and burned by people... But so what? Will people not eat today because they have to eat tomorrow? Will people not eat because of Are you doomed to die so you don’t have to live?”

Solomon reached out and touched the pillars carved with patterns in the temple, and said softly: "It made the eldest son who built the temple like a family, it carved my words, it left the face of an angel, and it made future generations write poems for me , Let poetry educate people who are newer. This is the meaning of its existence."

As long as it has existed, how can it be meaningful that it has not existed?

Even if only one person knows it, it has special meaning to that person. Although when this person dies, when everyone who remembers him dies, the thing itself will disappear...

But did this thing really not affect future generations?

Solomon didn't think so.

Although what I have created today is dross, the country I have built will be destroyed, and the words I have said will be refuted...then there is no meaning for them to exist?

"Every era in history has its special significance."

Solomon said leisurely, stroking the calf of the angel stone statue in front of the inner hall, and said softly, "I can't always be right. I can only be a guide...or a corrector, a recorder."

Speaking of this, he chuckled and looked at the Queen of Sheba: "Do you know what I'm talking about?"

The Queen of Sheba shook her head slowly, her face became serious. She said softly: "That is to say, you don't need a god...?"

"The people need it."

Solomon simply replied, "So I need it."

"—You don't need to continue testing Solomon, just speak straight."

The one who suddenly spoke was Baimon who had been following behind the two of them.

He looked at the Queen of Sheba with his indifferent eyes, and said in a very indifferent voice: "Solomon is different."

"You finally couldn't bear it anymore."

The queen chuckled, and wings, goose webs, and a snake-like tail emerged from her body. Her temperament has also become more attractive, full of arrogance and oppression.

That is definitely not a gesture that humans can have

"He is indeed very different. His wisdom is definitely not what humans can possess...but I can also tell that he is not Yahweh. You also know that Yahweh and Apsu have left this world long ago .”

The Queen of Sheba stared closely at Solomon, but said to Baimon: "I can see it, and you can naturally...but you still choose to follow him, Raziel."

"Call me Baimon, Asmodeus."

Baimon said in a cold voice: "I also don't want to call you by your previous name... Azazel."

Asmodeus, according to records, is a queen with peerless beauty and powerful strength. It is also said that she is riding a dragon from hell, with waterfowl-like feet and a snake tail... and Azazel is the master of the wilderness and the ocean, so her image has the characteristics of snakes and birds, and goose paw is one of his images.

—Of course, Solomon had seen her name before. That's why he said those "impious" things to her.

However, the amount of information in the conversation between these two people is a bit large...

Solomon raised his brows, and kept the content of their conversation in mind first, then asked suddenly: "I see, you didn't come here to seek wisdom. You came here to ask questions."

Since the time of Moses and his brother Aaron, Israel has had the custom of making atonement every year on the Day of Atonement.

Every year, they took two male goats and placed them at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to cast lots for the two goats. One went to God and the other to Azaser.

After the goat dedicated to God has been slaughtered, the he-goat is brought alive to the altar. The priest put his hands on the sheep's head, confessed all the sins and transgressions of this year, and put all the sins on the sheep's head, and sent the sheep to the wilderness to sacrifice to Azaser.

This is the so-called "scapegoat" allusion.

And Solomon abolished the book of Leviticus and abolished most of the sacrificial ceremonies, which means that the lamb given to Azaser every year was also detained by Solomon and eaten by the eldest sons.

And now she came here from the southern country, probably for this matter.

"But I didn't expect that you also became the king of a country."

Solomon didn't feel guilty at all, just smiled and looked at the Queen of Sheba: "Do you want me to restore the Day of Atonement?"

"No, there's no need. If you cancel it, just cancel it. At most, the crime will be returned to you."

The Queen raised her eyebrows and said with great interest: "Anyway, I won't really eat that lamb. It's just that I haven't been given a scapegoat for three or four years. I'm a little curious. But when I asked, Baimeng was still serving you ..."

"—no service."

Bai Meng suddenly spoke out, pleading with a blank face: "It's just an assistant."

"Okay, Assistant."

The Queen of Sheba shrugged her shoulders, and said casually: "But the only person who can be recognized by Baimon is someone who is wiser than him. So I came over to have a look...By the way, I will ask you how to govern the country."

"Then have you learned it?"

Solomon chuckled: "And how about my consideration?"

"The courage is really good, and there is no fear in the face of the two demon gods."

She shook her head: "It's a pity. If it was more than twenty years in the morning, Yawei and the others might have taken you away together."

"Where did they go?"

Solomon curled his lips indistinctly, and asked.

Of course, he has no fear of two demon gods appearing in front of him at the same time... It's not like he hasn't seen it before.

He also saw two demon gods appearing on the bed at the same time.

The Queen of Sheba became serious and shook her head: "That's not something you can ask, even if you make a covenant with Baimon. The most I can tell you is that it is a place higher and farther than the stars... the rest Take your guess."

"...Actually, I probably already understand what you said."

The corners of Solomon's mouth turned up slightly.

Higher and farther than the stars... What is there but the infinite universe?

But his mood became a little heavy because of it.

Finally... saw some clues.

—About the nature of the main task of obtaining independence after entering the cosmic era.