Chapter 508 Oath
Thinking of this, Jiang Qilan felt his back was wet with cold sweat.
Amos and Transisco were still talking, Jiang Qilan quickly came back to his senses and tried to concentrate on listening.
At this time, footsteps came from behind him.
Jiang Qilan made a prompt decision and quickly turned to the fork of a bush next to him, and then resumed the sound of normal walking.
After a while, he heard the person behind him greet Amos and the others.
"Hey, old guys!" The man had a strong Spanish accent.
Jiang Qilan came back to his senses and looked over.
A big middle-aged man with a hooked nose strode towards Amos and the others.
From a distance, the big guy, Amos, and Transisco all made a move at the same time, covering their left eyes with their left hands.
Because they all wore sunglasses, the three of them reached under the sunglasses and covered their eyes with their palms.
——This is the standard greeting of the Masonic Society.
Jiang Qilan walked forward quickly, listening to the sounds behind him.
He was not discovered by Amos and the others.
After walking a few steps, the view in front of him suddenly opened up. There was a large open space, densely packed with tombstones.
A tall man wearing a golden mask, holding a thick yellow leather book in his hand, stood next to the tombstones.
In front of him, there was a leather bench.
There were three or four other people.
These three or four people kept a friendly, or rather a wary distance.
It seemed that they were not familiar with each other.
Jiang Qilan felt relieved.
If they were all so familiar with Amos and the others, he would be different.
Jiang Qilan covered his left eye with his left hand and saluted everyone present.
The others returned the salute.
Including the guy wearing the golden mask - he did not put his hand under the mask, but covered it on top.
After a while, Amos, Transisco, and the unknown Spaniard came out from the back path.
The three of them stopped talking, walked to the open space, and remained silent.
In this strange silence, several more people came one after another.
In the end, excluding the guy with the golden mask, there were a total of fifteen people who arrived here.
It was exactly 12 o'clock.
The golden mask held a yellow leather notebook in his left hand and slapped it with his right hand.
He slapped it three times.
The crowd moved.
With the leather bench as the center, a circle with a radius of about five meters was formed - Jiang Qilan also stood in the circle with them.
The golden mask moved a crystal pyramid camera from behind a tombstone and placed it on the leather bench.
Jiang Qilan was a little disappointed - it seemed that the heavyweight did not show up.
Is the guy with the yellow mask the supervisor?
Everyone bowed their heads, stood silently in their positions, and waited.
At this time, piano music came from the crystal pyramid.
Light and pleasant piano music.
Jiang Qilan found that no one was surprised by the piano music, maybe this was also a routine.
Jiang Qilan tried to distinguish the piano music.
--He was not very knowledgeable about music.
All his musical knowledge came from his younger brother Jiang Qiyun.
--Jiang Qiyun loved music when he was very young.
If I remember correctly, this piano music should be the piano music of William Byrd, a great English composer during the Renaissance: "Nocturne No.2 in Minor".
The song ended.
Everyone present applauded.
Jiang Qilan immediately followed suit and thought to himself: Could it be that the guy behind the camera played it?
After the applause subsided, the crystal pyramid sounded again.
It was a gentle male voice.
"What wonderful music, what a great creation, what a nostalgic era--" the man said.
Having a special feeling for the Renaissance--Jiang Qilan silently remembered it.
The pyramid sounded again:
"Next, let's recite our Masonic oath--"
The eyeball-shaped camera on the pyramid was spinning.
Jiang Qilan felt that the other party was paying close attention to everyone's reaction——
Jiang Qilan had already memorized this oath, and he recited it with everyone:
"As a member of the human race, we will adhere to the principles of morality and ethics, uphold the qualities of integrity and honesty, and work for the welfare and happiness of mankind."
"We will be guided by kindness and justice and strive to pursue the path of light and progress."
"We will care and love others and work to improve human living conditions and environment."
"We will respect the dignity and rights of everyone, regardless of their race, beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, identity or other differences, and we will treat everyone with equality and tolerance."
"We will pursue truth and wisdom, continue to learn and explore, and contribute to the advancement of human knowledge and wisdom."
"We will protect and maintain the natural environment, realize our interdependence and interaction with nature, and strive to achieve harmonious coexistence between humans and nature."
"Respect and protect the diversity of species."
"Finally, we solemnly swear that we will work for light and human progress with firm beliefs and actions, and contribute our own strength to building a better world."