Chapter 19: Hell for the Hungry

Bursts of dry sand and dust blew on Liku's face, and he smelled a pungent smell of smoke, as if it was burnt, followed by a foul smell that lingered in the air.

After struggling for a moment, he slowly opened his eyes and let out an exclamation of "ah". The scene in front of me is terrifying and terrifying.

"What kind of place is this?"

He saw that the sand and gravel were rolling and dry-yellow, and that it was covered with mud and dirty water, and that there were many tree trunks burning in front of him, and the trunks were full of blood-red stingers. The dry ditches were covered with silt, and the dry moss was a mess.

His whole body was bound by ropes, and he couldn't move at all. In front of him was a bonfire, and the light of the stars was shining a dark red.

He looked up and saw five people with strange and terrifying shapes, their shapes and bones standing, their eyes blood-red, and they could almost hang down in a gust of wind. However, these people looked energetic and their faces were surprisingly ruddy.

I saw these strange people, lying on the ground licking the dirty water on the ground, the black dirty water suddenly turned into a disgusting thick blood soup, in the red firelight, clearly saw their chapped lips, a string of bubbles, as if they had malaria.

When they woke up to the suffering, they raised their heads and crawled towards the suffering step by step. Immediately, around him, streams of foul stench slowly flowed out of the corners of their mouths.

When I looked at it, I saw that their bodies were like dry skeletons, and their dry skin seemed to have no moisture, like cowhide and pigskin that had been peeled off. Their heads were like great urns for wine, and their necks were as thin as horsetails, and their bellies were as large as basins, and their limbs were like thatch.

Their mouths made a strange sound of humming and chirping, and when their whole bodies moved, it was like the sound of five hundred wheels dragging them, and their joints glittered with red sparks, this strange feeling was sad and painful.

Li Ku screamed in horror: "What kind of demons and monsters are you?"

But when he saw one of them, he smiled at him and bared his teeth. There were three rare hairs on his head, and a pair of long, thin and misshapen triangular eyes were squinted, as if he were in front of him, and Liku was not a human being at all, but an animal.

Immediately, I only heard the other four people around mear, muttering: "Hurry up...... Big ignition! Big ignition......"

I felt like my head was going to crack in an instant. He thought to himself, couldn't these people understand what he was saying? He thought about it carefully, and he fell from Mount Milu, as if he had fallen into the cycle of life and death of all beings. I just don't know, which sentient being is this terrifying scene in front of me?

He held his breath, took a long breath, and immediately used the Heavenly Eye to concentrate.

I saw that in this barren wilderness, in the dark red night, from time to time burst out of fireballs or firelight, as far as the eye could see, there was no vegetation or any animals in this barren land, it was a dead silence, and the earth was full of dry cracks.

Li Ku turned his head to look at those strange people, his face turned purple in an instant, and beads of sweat the size of beans trickled down, shouting: "You are the beings of the Hungry Ghost Dao!"

Suddenly, the triangular eye screamed in panic, and shouted, "Why is this animal's eyes shining with golden light!Is he a monster?" and as he spoke, he looked frightened and stumbled back a few steps.

Li Ku gasped for nervousness, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a monster, I'm a monk." I know that the world you live in is very painful, hungry and cold, and if you let me go, I can help you get out of the sea of suffering. ”

The triangular eyes showed a look of surprise, and they crawled over in fright, sniffed the bitterness with their noses, and said, "Who are the monks? ”

He sighed bitterly, but when he saw these scrawny hungry ghosts, although their faces were terrifying and hateful, they were actually very pitiful. Their expressions didn't seem to be enduring torment for a moment.

He thought bitterly: "This barren world of hungry ghosts is too far away from the Buddha and Bodhisattva's daylessness, and it is too far from the day when you are comfortable and happy, and you have plenty of food and clothing." Even if you see the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, you don't have the opportunity to hear the good Dharma at all. They were suffering from hunger and cold all the time, and they didn't even have the opportunity to repent and change their fate, so naturally they didn't know what a monk was. ”

He said, "Even if you eat me, what will you do with the next meal?" You will never be able to eat, you will only be more hungry and more miserable. You have let me go, and I will teach you how to get rid of your suffering, how to get rid of this endless hunger and cold. ”

The triangular eyes looked at Liku in a daze, as if in his eyes, Liku was a monster he had never seen before, and he only heard him say: "What kind of monster are you? I'm hungry, if I eat you, I won't be miserable! After eating one meal and then thinking about the next meal, if I don't eat you, you will eat me, I want to live!"

Liku shook his head and asked, "How long have you lived?"

The triangular eyes were stunned, and he saw that his facial muscles were twitching in pain, and he wailed while dripping from his mouth: "I can't remember...... I don't have the energy to think about it...... I'm hungry...... I'm cold...... I'm foraging for food every day...... I can't even remember how long it has been since I eat...... If you want to die, you can't die, if you want to live but you can't live, you just let me eat......"

"You can't even feel alive, you can't even forget how long you've lived, I see with my eyes that you've lived for up to 10,000 years." You endure hunger and thirst, cold, and heat every day, and you feel that the moon is hot in summer and cold in winter. Even if you see a fruit-bearing tree, it will disappear in an instant, and you will find sweet spring water, but when you see it, it will dry up. Your heart is tormented by fear and distress every moment. ”

The triangular eyes looked at Li Ku with a frightened expression, and said, "You are so strange! You are going to be eaten by us, and you still tell me about this ethereal thing? I only know that after eating you, I will be full, and I will not be in pain!"

"Do you know where you are now? Do you know who you are?"

Triangle eyes glared at him fiercely, and said, "How can I have the strength to think about such mysterious things! I just know that today I was lucky to have picked up a living person! I have meat to eat!" he said, grinning and laughing hideously.

He sighed for a long time, and suddenly said loudly: "Three evil realm beings! I will tell you the truth, you should be enlightened! See yourself clearly! You are in the path of hungry ghosts, because you are often hungry and thirsty, so your face is black, your mouth is dry, and your lips are dry and burnt, and you can only lick your mouth with your tongue, but the pool water you see has turned into pus and blood and cannot be drunk. Do you know why you're a hungry ghost?"

Triangle Eyes looked at Li Zhu in horror, his expression changed from doubt to horror, from horror to madness, and he fell to the ground and wailed in pain: "You are talking nonsense! I am a human being! How can I be a hungry ghost?"

"There are 84,000 kinds of hungry ghosts, and your karma makes you a hungry ghost, and although you are running around begging for food, your throat is as thin as a needle, your mouth is as big as a torch, and your belly is bulging like a mountain, but even if you get food, you can't swallow it because your throat is thin. ”

Triangle Eyes cried, "I'm not! I'm not!"

"Do you know why you became like this?"

The triangular eyes looked up to the sky and sighed, gritted his teeth and said: "Where can I manage so much! This world is like this, everyone is like this, I have to live! I am not wrong! I don't want to listen to you tell the truth! Only living is the king! Only eating you is the king!"

"You can't live in harmony with nature, you don't know how to benefit sentient beings, you only think about your own greed, this forms a vicious circle, you fall deeper and deeper, you can't extricate yourself, you look at your world, it's barren, all creatures, vegetation, can't coexist with you." You will never be satisfied, and you will make yourself hungry and miserable. What's the point of living like this?"

The triangular eyes seemed to be touched in an instant, and he looked at the suffering with teary eyes, and said in a lamented voice: "Then what should I do?

He said quietly: "All this suffering is created by your karma, and it is all born from the illusion of your mind. If you think about it, you have lived for tens of thousands of years, why can't you die? So, it's not the cause of hunger at all, all this pain is the pain in your heart. Without a head, there is no headache. If the root of the eyes does not climb the dust, the ears do not hear right and wrong, the nose does not distinguish between smells, and the mouth does not crave food, many troubles will be reduced, and there will be no pain and itching in the body without internal organs, and there will be no suffering from illness without internal organs. Isn't that the happiest thing? You'll be comfortable! You'll be free, you'll be reincarnated......."

Triangle Eyes covered his head, sat on the ground, looked at Liku in pain and confusion, and asked, "Really...... Really......"

His expression of bitterness turned from fear and hatred to compassion, and he said, "Take a good look at yourself...... You let me go, let me help you, I will teach you the mind, get rid of the pain......"

Triangle eyes were stunned for a moment, and immediately got up, only to see his muscles bulging, looking at Li Ku greedily, and said: "You lie to me! You lie to me! You just want to escape! I can't go hungry...... I'll eat you right now!" As he spoke, he flew over, opened his big black, red, and black mouth, and bit down on Liku's arm!

When he left Kuden, he felt a pain in his arm, and he was about to recite the Divine Realm Mantra, and when he got out of here, he suddenly looked up and exclaimed, "What are you going to do?"

I saw that behind the triangular eye, there was another hungry ghost with hemorrhoids on his face, and suddenly a disgusting stench hit, and the hemorrhoid ghost held a big stone in both hands, raised it high, and was aiming at the head of the triangular eye.

Li Ku hurriedly shouted at the triangular eye: "Watch your back!"

The triangular eye said fiercely: "You still want to lie to me? You trick me into turning my head and taking the opportunity to escape, so that I will not be fooled by you!"

Li said anxiously: "No! someone behind is going to hit you with a stone!"

The triangular eye laughed and said, "I want to eat you, and you still care about me?

Hearing a "bang", the hemorrhoid ghost smashed the stone down, and the triangular eye screamed in pain, only to see him covered with blood, and fell to the ground and shouted: "You want to kill me! You want to kill me! We are in a group!"

The hemorrhoid ghost glanced at him and said, "Do you want to eat alone? I'll eat you first!

Li Ku let out a long sigh, closed his eyes tightly, and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, in front of his eyes, a blur of flesh and blood, and only the sound of greedy chewing was heard.

Li Ku gritted his teeth, opened his eyes and said angrily: "You even eat your own kind!"

The hemorrhoid ghost suddenly raised his head, wiped his mouth full of flesh and blood, smiled, and said, "This guy has no flesh and skin, and you are still delicious! I really don't know what kind of dream I had, I met you with such a ...... with fine skin and tender flesh" As he spoke, his blood-red hala flowed all over the ground.

However, the suffering in front of this hemorrhoid ghost was indeed a look of compassion, and he looked at the hemorrhoid ghost with sympathy and helplessness in his eyes.

The hemorrhoid ghost felt very strange and said, "Why are you so weird? I eat your ...... now."

Suddenly, he only heard a "rumbling" sound not far away, and the ground under his feet shook slightly, and he settled down and listened carefully, it was the sound of a thick pad of flesh falling on the gravel.

Immediately afterward, he smelled a stirring heat peculiar to brutes.

Faintly, he saw a shadow with smooth fur, its large flat face covered with curly hair, trembling slightly against the wind. It was squinting its long, slender eyes that looked particularly fierce because of the slanted hanging, and looked at everyone in their place.

I saw that the hemorrhoid ghost turned his head, and his face changed greatly, and he was so frightened that he shouted: "Gluttony! It must smell your flesh!"

Frightened, he exclaimed, "You mean that fierce and greedy monster, gluttonous!"

Li Ku hurriedly raised his head, cast his heavenly eye, and stared at the monster.

In the shadow of the blood-red moon, he saw a great beast, with a human face like a sheep, tiger teeth and claws, a hideous head, blazing eyes, and a protruding nose, and a pair of curved horns, like sheep's horns and horns of a bull. There is a pair of fleshy wings on both sides, shaped like ears.

It was entrenched in front of it for a mile, and its body was arched, its head on the ground, and its breath was moving, as if a wild beast were watching its prey.

His huge mouth suddenly opened wide, and he saw sharp teeth like saws, and the cold light flashed.

In an instant, it flew and pounced.

Seeing this, the hemorrhoid ghost fled backwards desperately, however, before he could see what state he was, he saw that the gluttony had leaped in front of the hemorrhoid ghost, and bit him down, and in an instant, he bit him to pieces.

Then, with lightning speed, the gluttony pounced on the other three hungry ghosts.

Li Ku was terrified to see it, only to feel that its speed was as fast as a ghost, its bloody mouth was like a glittering dagger, its tail was like a steel whip, and the end was divided into three forks like a poisonous snake, and what was more terrifying than its appearance was the greedy desire in its eyes, once it attacked, it would pounce and bite to the end, and there would be no mercy and no possibility of closing.