The cross was once an important tool for the suppression of Christians in the Roman Empire, starting with Jesus, St. Peter, St. John, more than half of the twelve apostles died on the cross, and the cross was once the embodiment of the Christian spirit of martyrdom.

Since the "Edict of Milan" of Emperor Constantine the Great, Christianity has become the soul master of hundreds of millions of people in the Roman Empire and even the entire West, and the cross does not know when it will become a tool for the church to suppress heretics.

On this day, it seems that someone will die on Rhodes Island with the symbol of this tragic fate.

Early in the morning, layers of Rhode Island citizens gathered in the small square in front of the governor's palace, worried nobles and angry commoners waiting intently in the crowd.

Li Yexu's estimate is really right, for Mulan, a new shark head that has sprung up, Rhodes attaches great importance to it, and some of the soldiers guarding the Greek fire factory are partly surrounded by the edge of the square, in order to prevent Mulan's subordinates from robbing people, the Black Shark Pirates and Rhodes sailors surrounded the entire square on three floors and three layers outside.

When the sun slowly rose and the square was bright, the gate of the Governor's Palace, which had been closed, finally opened, and first the gloomy Governor of Rhodes, Panis, was the first to go out under the protection of sixteen spear-wielding guards, and then under the watchful eyes of a large number of guards, the scarred Mulan was bound by iron chains and staggered out of the gate of the Governor's Palace.

This era can be regarded as the most ignorant and violent era of Christianity, the cruelty of non-Christians is indescribable, and the huge violent impulse generated by this Christian identity has accumulated until the most brutal outbreak of the Crusades more than 400 years later, the Holy City Movement, which lasted for more than 100 years, caused unprecedented destruction to West Asia and Europe, and the Renaissance and Reformation evoked by stepping on the bones of tens of millions of people.

Under this sense of rejection, seeing Mulan being dragged out weakly and sadly, the crowd on the inner and outer three floors not only did not sympathize, but shouted for joy to the sky, and all kinds of sundries and stones were thrown out like rain and hit Mulan.

"Kill her!"

"Nail this slut!"

All kinds of clamor and anger came from all directions, and the most excited here was Archbishop Pierre of Rhodes, who was an absolute fanatical believer who wanted to put all non-Christians to death, and now that he had the opportunity to personally preside over the execution of heretics, his excitement was to the bone.

didn't stand with Panis, after all, the identity of the pirate was not visible, the black shark was only hiding in the crowd, but he was still like an underground emperor, surrounded by dozens of pirates, and ordinary people did not dare to approach these hideous pirates at all.

In the other corner, the scarred face shrunk in the cloak was also shining and constantly watching, Li Yexu insisted on completing the task last night, and the two parties had completely fallen out, and he still had seven or eight Sicilian pirates, and Mulan's clan was still lurking here.

Occasionally looking back, on the other side of the mountain, I could faintly see dozens of people in black cloaks hastily lurking towards the side wall of the Greek Arsenal, and Scarface couldn't help but curse fiercely.

"Miss! It has long been said that these Fujian people are unreliable, and now they have been killed by their group of white-eyed wolves! ”

After a long period of excitement, Pierre, the Archbishop of Rhode Island, who had received Panis's tacit approval, suddenly raised his hand and the cross, and the crowd, who was still shouting and scolding, calmed down.

The cross pointed to Mulan, but Pierre himself cried out in a fanatical voice: "God willing, let us see through this heretic, the devil's believers, hidden among the believers of the Lord, today, in the name of the Father, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Angel, the Father leads you to put this heretic to death!"

As soon as Pierre's words were finished, the crowd burst into loud cheers.

"Thank God!"

In the midst of the crowd's revelry, a cross was placed in the center of the square, and two GIs untied the chains that wrapped Mulan's hands around.

Seeing that Mulan was dragged to the cross by several people, and her arms and delicate feet were stacked and tied to the cross with cloth strips, the corners of the black shark's mouth showed a strong sense of pride, and at this moment, a pirate suddenly brought a dirt basket from behind, and nodded beside him flatteringly.

"Boss! Someone sent a basket! ”

All his thoughts were on the upcoming execution, and the black shark was in the mood to deal with him, so he just impatiently asked him to put down the basket, and then looked at the execution ground with all his attention.

A speck of blue smoke wafted out of the basket.

Commanding the soldiers to tie Mulan to the cross, Archbishop Pierre went around to Mulan with a pretended compassion and said compassionately.

"The Lord says, All beings are lost lambs, and death is near, Serana, and thou wilt repent of the iniquities which thou hast committed. I can make an exception for you to kiss the cross! ”

These words finally made Mulan, who had been confused, finally come back to her senses, and seemed to be eager to stretch her weak arms to raise her body, Pierre also looked merciful and stretched out the cross ring on her hand in front of her, but when Mulan's lips were pale because of pain touched the ring, Mulan's eyes suddenly became fierce.

A mouthful of bloody spit touched Pierre's white bishop's robe, and just as the fanatical bishop was stunned, Mulan scolded in an incomparably loud manner.

"Fuck off! Hungry wolf of false mercy! In order to collect money, you robed butcher can drive the farmers of Eyler from their land alive, you can snatch the last ration of more than a thousand people, watch the old people and children starve to death and shout for them to return to the arms of the Lord, why are there so many Rhodes pirates! Just because you have forced many families to die in the name of God! You're the real devil! Bloodsucker! ”

This era was the time when the ecclesiastical property was most expanded, and the Holy See also invested in feudalization and became a big landlord, forcing the peasants on the original land into serfs, and the Holy See of Rhodes City was especially greedy, even pirates like Mulan were exploited by him, and now they were picked out by Mulan * naked, like a thunderbolt in Pierre's ears, staggered two steps, Pierle shouted in annoyance: "So stubborn, nail! Crucify her right away! ”

Even Panis shook his head in disdain at this scene, and then waved his hand at the executing soldier.

Three hard iron nails were pierced in the palms of his hands and instepes, and seeing the soldiers pick up the heavy sledgehammers, Mulan once again raised her head to the sky and bit her lip.

almost died once, Mulan has seen a lot, her short life is flowing in front of her like a movie, and occasionally she sees a happy time, which makes the corners of Mulan's mouth crook with a happy smile.

Seeing that the hammer was raised high, and the cold and shining nails were about to be cruelly drilled into Mulan's white palm, a shout suddenly sounded in the execution ground.

"Wait, she's still a virgin! Isn't it forbidden by statute to put a virgin to death? ”

Listening to this stumbling in Greek, Mulan immediately opened her eyes in annoyance.

It is true that the execution of virgins is not allowed in Western law, in some regional Christian law, but this is not to save her, the solution to this law is too simple, and it is enough to make the prisoner a non-virgin!

This should be the black shark who wanted to insult her once before she died, Mulan raised her head with her eyes on fire, but in a moment, her streamer eyes were unbelievably round.

Not only her, but the scarface in the crowd who had just pulled out half a knife almost didn't bite his tongue, and the black shark triangular eyes of the black shark watching from the side were filled with a strong anger, and the well-dressed Governor of Rhodes, Panis, also frowned suspiciously.

He had just thought it was a good thing for his immoral brother to do, but he had never seen this young man with a wide black cloak, black hair and eyes, and a neatly groomed short beard that was quite energetic.

"He's my subordinate! He has always had a bad idea of me, and he wants to take the opportunity to insult me! You can't trust him! Mulan, who was pressed on the cross, suddenly fluttered like a dying fish and was about to jump up, the cloth crackled and the six soldiers were so panicked that it took a lot of effort for the six soldiers to press her back, but she was paralyzed on the cross, and Mulan still kept screaming and scolding, crying blood.

What Mulan said made sense, and Panis's old face also showed a look of disgust, and said angrily: "As we all know, Serana, an apostate, became a mistress to the Fujian pagans and betrayed the Holy Roman Empire, how can you say that she is still a virgin?"

Before Panis finished talking, Li Yexu asked impatiently: "Whose mistress is she?"

"I heard that it is Li He, the general of the Great Min Erpin, the right Qianniuwei, ............" Panis racked his brains to think about the pronunciation of the two words, and Li Yexu rolled his eyelids impatiently and said.

"Li Yexu! It's Lao Tzu! ”

At the moment, the general's seal was thrown by him on the platform, Panis picked it up incredibly, and immediately screamed and threw it down like a hot hand, and then pointed at Li Yexu and shouted, the six executing soldiers dodged like they burned their buttocks, and groups of Roman defenders screamed and outflanked from all directions.

It was really called Heng Mei Leng pointed at Qianfu, as if he was blind to the dense spears around him, Li Yexu really had a little bit of the frivolity of the fifteen or sixteen-year-old Wuling boy when he was in Chang'an, and walked slowly to the cross, and cut the strip of cloth that tied Mulan's wrist with a knife.

As soon as one hand broke free, Mulan was already like an angry female leopard, grabbing Li Yexu's collar fiercely.

"You're crazy!"