There were corpses everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed.
The corpses of demons and the remains of humans formed an ocean of death.
The only clean mound seemed out of place in this corpse environment, and at first glance it even seemed that this mound was made of corpse ashes.
The man was sitting on the mound.
Wei Dong has never entered a person's fantasy so deeply, and even Fang Fei's deep-sea fantasy has never made himself so immersive and unable to extricate himself.
Wei Dong felt that his feet were on the sea of corpses, and his nose was filled with the strange stench of demon blood mixed with human corpses. The moonlight came from the direction of the mound, and he raised his face and looked at the soil. The man sitting on the pile.
As if feeling his gaze, the man also looked back at himself.
A real person.
Ordinary in appearance, nothing special.
An unfamiliar face, you can't even see the age in the night.
But Wei Dong always felt that this person's eyes were very familiar, and he seemed to have seen it somewhere.
Wei Dong approached little by little, trying to see some clues from this person's clothes.
The man looked at Wei Dong twice, and seemed to have lost interest in this "intruder".
Wei Dong's eyes focused on the pocket of the man's waist.
This is a very worn cloth pocket, so worn that the original color can no longer be seen, but it looks very familiar, especially the black rope at the opening of the pocket, the rope end is tied with a rusty copper The bell occasionally makes a dull sound.
Weidong, who was the exact same pocket, had seen it before, when he and Fang Fei had just arrived in this world—the Shituoling was already littered with corpses, and the two had nowhere to go, so they could only choose from this pocket. Two snow-white goose feathers emerged.
In addition, the two of them also learned how to hide their eyes. They only need to put the goose feathers on their ears and chant a spell, and the two of them turn into two goose demons on the spot, thus swaggeringly infiltrating the lion and camel country.
Wei Dong opened his mouth and wanted to ask this person: Are you the old woman who helped us back then
But all the words that came out of his mouth melted into the air, and no sound came out.
The man sitting on the mound seemed to have heard it, smiled, and seemed to say something to Wei Dong, but Wei Dong couldn't hear it.
The man raised his pocket, and the brass bell made a rusty sound.
With the bell, Wei Dong finally came back from the illusion.
Fang Fei seemed to be talking to the pig guy, and he was ready to pick someone and haggle with him.
The sound of the copper bell was still ringing slightly. Wei Dong stared at the monster in front of him for a moment. To be precise, it was a monster guy in the slaughterhouse. He was of moderate stature and had a monkey head. Baring his teeth, he shook his body again.
The pocket attached to the monkey's waist made the sound of a copper bell, and the monkey made a complicated gesture to Wei Dong and stopped looking at Wei Dong.
At this time, the voice of the python man suddenly came, and soon the voice of Zhu San came again: "Hurry up and trade, today's place is covered by Long Ye!"
Wei Dong turned his head, but found that the monkey demon had long since disappeared.
Fang Fei reacted very quickly, holding her back tightly against the child behind her: "Lord Long, we can't afford it, we withdraw first and come back another day."
The pig guy was very clever, thinking that it would be difficult for these merchants to meet each other, so he led the two out through the other door first.
The two of them returned to the dirty alley, turned silently along the alley, and walked onto the green brick road.
Both of them knew that they couldn't even save a hundred people in the slaughterhouse. If they didn't hide in time, the children behind Fang Fei might have been left behind by the python man, and even aroused suspicion from the other party.
"Go back to the inn first." Fang Fei said briefly, walking fast at the same time.
The ear-piercing "di-" sounded, and the sound of the time was louder than one, and it was already the eighth sound.
Time is really running out.
Back at the inn, he untied the cloth on the child's head. The child did not cry, but his eyes were dull.
Fang Fei applied the medicine bought on the road to the child's wound. The process may have been painful, but the child did not say a word.
"I saw him." Wei Dong said at this time.
"Is that the monkey?" Fang Fei didn't have time to use the bird fairy feather to observe the other party at that time, but from Wei Dong's expression, he could guess something.
"He should be the same old woman who helped us back then," Wei Dong said. "It's the old woman we met before entering the city."
Fang Fei lowered her head to apply the medicine, and said nothing for a while.
"You said that what you saw in the illusion was something in the past or something in the future?" Wei Dong asked.
"I have no idea."
"In that environment, there seemed to be a battle between demons and people, and the scene was very tragic."
When Fang Fei listened to Wei Dong's description, it was hard to imagine the tragic scene, let alone infer whether it happened hundreds of years ago or just a few hours later.
"Wei Dong, why do you think these demons came to the Lion and Camel Country?" Fang Fei suddenly asked.
Wei Dong thought for a while: "Didn't the python man say that it's legal to eat people here, this country seems to belong to the no-care zone."
"What did it say in "Journey to the West"? Why can those monsters be allowed to eat all the people of a country?" Fang Fei felt horrified when she thought of this - eating people is scary, but even more frightening is that eating people is actually reasonable legitimate.
"According to the book, these three monsters all have a backstage, they are not nameless wild monsters," Wei Dong sat on the chair by the window, "The blue lion and white elephant are Manjusri and Puxian. The mounts of the two bodhisattvas, and the great Peng bird is even more remarkable, speaking of which he is the uncle of the Tathagata Buddha."
"This seems to have been mentioned in the TV series. The phoenix gave birth to a peacock and a Dapeng. The peacock naturally likes to eat people. Self-proclaimed, so Dapeng became Buddha's uncle." Fang Fei still remembered this scene on TV.
"So Dapeng is lawless, saying that he is not used to fasting and eats people every day. In the end, it was the Buddha who said that he would be fed by his own followers before he converted."
Fang Fei heard the words and widened her eyes: "Feed it with people?"
"There is probably the meaning of feeding the tiger with one's own body and giving up one's life for righteousness." Wei Dong said.
Fang Fei frowned, as if thinking of something: "I told you about the Eight Heavenly Dragons before, which mentioned that the Dapeng bird likes to eat dragons, until the dragon family is about to become extinct, and then the dragon mother begged the Buddha for help After saving the dragon child, the Buddha persuaded Dapeng not to eat dragons again, and promised him that Buddhist disciples would give him nectar meals before eating fast food in the future, so Dapeng bird converted to Buddhism and never eat dragons again."
It was the first time that Wei Dong heard such a statement, which simply subverted his previous understanding of "Journey to the West": "To be honest, I have never understood this before, so I can only fool myself with the words 'sacrificing my life for justice', I didn't expect that there is such an interpretation in the Buddhist scriptures?"
Fang Fei: "I haven't read Buddhist scriptures. I checked some materials while reading martial arts novels, and it happened to mention these things."
Wei Dong: "I think the author of "Journey to the West", Wu Cheng'en, must have known the story. He probably wrote it in another way, perhaps to satirize the society at that time, or to enhance the story. Yes, or for other reasons that can't be said."
Fang Fei felt that with the IQ and experience of two people, it might be difficult to understand the mystery in a short period of time.
Fang Fei said: "Anyway, the world we live in is nothing more than a matter between humans and demons."
The world in front of him reminded Wei Dong more of the painting "Animal World".
No matter in the painting or in reality, as long as the position at the top of the food chain is captured, the identities of humans and demons are completely interchangeable.
What exactly is a man? What is a demon
What is non-human
It's always the weakest side that gets eaten.
Wei Dong looked at Fang Fei's snow-white goose head: "You know what? If I were to watch goose slaughter now, it would probably be no different from watching murder."
It hurts its kind, that's what it means.
Wei Dong felt as if he suddenly understood the dialectics of materialism.
"I don't think that monkey demon has a chance to say anything to you," Fang Fei said, never leaving any room for change. "If he is really pure, it is impossible not to leave hints."
"He said," Wei Dong recalled carefully the gestures of the monkey demon at that time, stood up and imitated, raised his right hand high, raised it up, slapped three times to the left, and slapped twice to the front Down.
"Half-minded? Three words and two beats?" Fang Fei felt that she was the worst at guessing such puzzles.
"..." Wei Dong turned around and looked around, and seemed to suddenly understand something. He changed the direction and did the action again, "I remembered that he was facing the south at that time. I think he's giving us a direction."
"What position is it?"
"He turned his face to the south and raised his hand up, just to let us walk out of the slaughterhouse, pat to the left, which is to go east, and pat three times, I think it should be three streets east, and then pat the front again. Twice is to turn south and cross two streets." Wei Dong expressed his analysis.
Fang Fei stared at Wei Dong in disbelief, almost suspecting that he stole part of Mu Yiran's brain and brought it here.
Wei Dong scratched his head: "I've only been thinking about this all the way, and I don't know if I guessed it right. I just figured it out just now. He was standing facing south, the sun pierced his eyes, and he still He squinted hard, probably to remind me that he was facing due south."
"It's not too late, let's hurry up and have a look!" Fang Fei has always acted resolutely.
Wei Dong took out the feather fan left by the bird fairy that he was carrying with him, took off a piece of white feathers from it, and walked to the child. The child was probably exhausted at this time, so Fang Fei put medicine on him. Slowly fell asleep.
Wei Dong pinned the feather behind the child's ear, and recited the incantation that the old woman taught him at the time. Soon the child's head turned into a white crane, like a sleeping little crane demon.
"The appearance of a person is too dangerous. Sooner or later, he will die in the Lion and Camel Kingdom. We can't keep him forever." Wei Dong said.
Fang Fei looked at Wei Dong and nodded.
The two took care of the second shopkeeper and asked him to help look after the children.
Wei Dongfangfei set off again and went to the place pointed by Chunren.
The two walked in a hurry, and soon reached this small street.
Although the small street is small, the two sides are full of small shops. The two of them are looking for one shop and one shop. When they find the end, a gust of wind suddenly blows, blowing the feathers of the two of them, and they are all fascinated. eyes.
Wei Dong rubbed his eyes vigorously, barely able to see clearly, but suddenly found that the bird fairy feathers stuck between his eyelashes had disappeared.
Fang Fei stared at the goose eyes angrily, apparently her bird fairy feather was missing.
Wei Dong looked up at the shop in front of him. It turned out to be a painting shop. He pushed the door and went in. There were all monkey monsters busy.
Wei Dong couldn't tell for a while whether the "pure person" who pointed him to this place was among them.
Without bird fairy feathers, how can one distinguish "pure human" and "pure demon"
Fang Fei followed up, and said in a low voice, "Where's your fan?"
Wei Dong said with a sad face: "It's gone, it seems that it was blown away by that monster wind."
There is no way out, just come and go.
Wei Dong looked at this small painting shop, and the walls were covered with paintings. The monkey guys were busy, some hanging pictures, some trying to dry the ink on these pictures.
Only then did the two discover that the paintings hanging around in this painting shop are actually the same painting! To be exact, the patterns on these hundreds of paintings are all exactly the same!
"Is this a woodblock print?" Fang Fei asked a monkey guy.
The monkey guy saluted and said, "Madam is right, the water and land paintings in our shop are the most charming, and during festivals or to invite gods and immortals, the people of our lion and camel country all come to our shop to buy paintings! "
Wei Dong asked, "Why is there only one pattern?"
The monkey guy replied: "This water and land painting is the most effective! This woodblock is made by an immortal, and it has supernatural power! We little demons can't draw or make plates!"
Wei Dong further asked: "We came here to buy paintings, I'm afraid there aren't enough to hang in this shop."
The monkey guy was also the first to hear that someone bought so many paintings at once.
Wei Dong said: "I have to go to the workshop to see if your printing speed can catch up with our paintings tomorrow."
The monkey guy didn't push back, and at this time he led the two goose demons to the printing and painting workshop behind the shop.
I saw a few monkey guys have their own division of labor, some are responsible for coloring the woodblock, some are responsible for printing, some are responsible for taking pictures to dry...
Wei Dong and Fang Fei approached the woodblock and saw that the various immortal figures on it were vividly carved and lifelike.
"Does your family only have this piece of woodblock?" Fang Fei asked.
The monkey guy was a little impatient, and he didn't know what the purpose of the two goose monsters was: "Since all the monsters entered the lion camel country, there has only been this piece of woodblock, and the paintings hanging in every house are also this one. It’s not that I’m boasting, it’s that the same woodblock prints hang in the palace of our King Dapeng, except that gold powder, silver powder, gemstone powder is added to the printing material, so it is not easy to fade.”
Wei Dong stared at the woodblock for a while, and then took a closer look at the printed paintings. Wei Dong had never studied water and land paintings before, but only now did he realize that there were various gods and ghosts on the painting. , In addition, there are people who are inconspicuous as grass mustards.
Fang Fei also looked at it for a while, but really couldn't understand it.
A familiar voice suddenly sounded beside him: "I didn't expect a pure person to play hide-and-seek with me."
The two turned back in horror, and the person who came was actually a python man.
Without waiting for the python man to speak, Fang Fei took the lead and said coldly: "In the lion camel country, people are the food of the monsters. The reason why Dapeng established this country is because it can eat people reasonably and legally. Young Master Long and Dapeng Bird There is no difference in their identities, they are all demons, they all eat people, why does Young Master Long have to leave this place so hard?"
Indeed, through their observation in the lion and camel country for several hours, they found that two animals, which are natural enemies as beasts, are also friendly neighbors in this country, such as foxes and rabbits, such as roosters and centipedes, and then Weidong. Harriers and little house sparrows that I saw with my own eyes in Xicuilou.
"I'm afraid Young Master Long has other purposes?" Fang Fei asked further.
The python man smiled slyly: "Mrs. Dongfang is really not simple, my dragon clan is omnipotent in the sky and the sea, how can a small lion and camel country stop my clan's way? I can go out of the city at will, where do I need to ask him? The golden seal?"
"So, the pure human heart is not dedicated to the Dapeng bird, but you want to eat it yourself?" Fang Fei said.
The python man spit out the purple-red snake core: "I thought you were two stupid geese who just entered the city, but I didn't expect you to have some brains, that's all, today a group of monkeys also eat, two geese also eat, swallow you all in In my stomach, my python can also digest it!"
As soon as the python man's voice fell, his original shape appeared. It was a giant python as thick as the trunk of an old tree. At this time, he opened his mouth and inhaled the monkey guy who greeted the two of them just now.
The whole small shop was already collapsed by the original shape of the python, and the other monkey guys were so frightened that they wanted to run around, but they were trapped by the huge body of the python, and no one could escape.
Wei Dong could no longer tell where the python's seven inches was, because one of the other's scales was as big as his own palm. Even if he could find seven inches, he might not be able to hold it.
"Hurry up, monkeys!" Before Fang Fei's voice could finish, the python's huge mouth came towards Fang Fei, and the gloomy voice was accompanied by a fishy wind: "Mrs. Dongfang is too smart, I have to eat you first."
Fang Fei looked very small in front of the python's huge mouth. If it was eaten by it, it would be like a human eating a dumpling.
A sudden gust of wind struck, inciting the python to retreat for a while.
Wei Dong couldn't believe that his hands had actually turned into a pair of giant wings, and his whole body had also grown larger, his long neck stretched out, and his hard mouth pecked at the top of the python's head.
Fang Fei was very anxious, she knew in her heart that this was probably the effect of the half dragon ball, and she regretted that she hadn't had time to eat the other half of the dragon ball. - I probably thought that the dragon ball was taken out by a python to fool two people, and it could not have the effect of "doubling the power of the demon".
Fang Fei touched the treasure box she was carrying, opened it, and saw that her half of the dragon ball had turned into nothingness.
Fang Fei looked at the battle between the snake and the goose in front of her. She hated that it wasn't her who ate the dragon ball. In terms of combat power, she was much stronger than Wei Dong.
Fang Fei knew that she couldn't help, so she asked the monkeys urgently, "Who are you all pure human beings? Who can tell me where the woodblock fragments are?"
One of the monkey demons said: "I don't know what you mean by pure human beings and not pure human beings. I only know that all people in this city are human and non-human. I also don't know what woodblock fragments are. There is only one woodblock in the lion and camel country. There is no second block."
The scene was too chaotic, and a large piece of white goose feathers fell, like a heavy snowfall.
Fang Fei was so anxious that she wanted to cry, but she warned herself to calm down, and carefully recalled what the monkey demon said, there is only one woodblock in the lion camel country, and there is no second one.
That is to say, in fact, the woodblock fragments in the lion camel country can only come from this woodblock!
Fang Fei clenched her fists and walked towards the wooden block of the water and land painting, and smashed it hard, blood splattered with one fist, but the wooden block was still a single piece of wood, not cracked.