Chapter 97: Painting the Landscape, Painting the Heart (Part 9)
(a)
"For the sake of 'desire', chasing fame and profit, until I am exhausted. β
"What if it is a desireless person?"
"For 'life and death', born old, old and decrepit, it is impossible to escape death. β
"What about those who live forever and have no desires?"
"For the 'lonely', alone, with time, facing the vastness of the universe without support. β
"What if it is an immortal, desireless, but enlightened person who faces loneliness?"
"For 'emptiness', I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I'm going, I'm looking around, and my heart doesn't belong. β
"What about those who are immortal, desireless, enlightened and have a clear purpose?"
"That's perfect, but it's no longer human. is not happy or sad, immortal, but like a god who does not eat fireworks in the world. β
The two sat opposite each other, red eyes facing blue eyes. Mei Hong supported her chin on one arm and pressed her knee down, with a meaningful smile on her face. After a moment of silence, she spoke:
"What about you? Do you think you are a person who runs around for material desires, or someone who is distressed by loneliness, or a person who has no weaknesses, a god and a perfect person?"
Bai Ling looked at her, his clear blue eyes didn't blink, and after a while, he sighed lightly, and said slowly in a tone that was plain and a little sad:
"One day, I woke up from the eternal chaos, and I have been walking alone for more than a thousand years. β
"Why, why, for whom, and how to survive are mysteries that will never be solved for me. I just woke up by coincidence, and then I was going to live forever. β
"I came into the world as a human being, but I couldn't become a real human being. People have the grace of 'death' to wash away their sins and pains, to remove the burden from their shoulders, and to give them eternal peace. β
"But I didn't. β
"People have a painkiller called 'love'. There is no real trust between mortals, but because of fear and loneliness, they hug each other tightly and rush through their lives in wonderful hallucinations. They have never overcome their inner weakness, but they have paralyzed each other and cannot feel the pain. β
"But I didn't. β
"People have the joy of 'growing'. Different stages of life, just like spring, summer, autumn and winter, flowering and fruiting, all have their gains. β
"But I didn't. β
"Therefore, I am not human. β
"So, am I the transcendent immortal? I don't think so. β
"Love and hate, life and death, I have never put these things out of the way, but I am burdened with the pain of eternal life, and in that long time as 'forever', I have traveled thousands of miles alone, seeking up and down. So, I'm probably just a lonely seeker β that's the answer you're looking for. β
"Really......"
Mei Hong put away her smile and stood up.
"So ......"
She turned, and wings of fire erupted from her back, lighting up the dimly ruined temple.
"We're not too much close!"
She vanished in the flames, leaving not a trace of smoke behind. Her voice echoed through the empty temple, and Bai Ling closed her eyes once again.
(b)
"The moonlight is so nice. β
In the middle of the night, the wind rose, and the ghost man sat alone on the edge of the rooftop of Casi-Joon, his legs dangling in the air. She was holding a bottle of famous Western wine in her hand and was slightly drunk. The red moon on the zenith and the evening breeze on her face coaxed her like a half-fairy, leisurely. The battle that almost ended her life just now was as if it hadn't happened.
"Gollum...... Grunt...... Hiccup!"
After drinking, there was a burp, and when the bottle was shaken, the sound of the liquid hitting the wall of the bottle did not appear, and the good and evil got up from the cold ground, held the bottleneck on the back, and threw the empty bottle out with a round arm.
Five, four, three, two, one, "Smack!"
The glass bottle fell down the street below, shattering into slag. Good and evil, who had been waiting for a long time, nodded contentedly when he heard the crisp sound with several echoes.
She stood straight at the very edge of the casino building, with even half of her foot poking out, unsupported. Looking down, the height of the fifty-five floors is enough to make people's legs weak, and for people with fear of heights, and even ordinary people without fear of heights, the scene in front of them will only appear in their falling nightmares. But good and evil opened their arms and embraced this wonderful night, full of pride in their chests.
"Hello, Gensokyo! Goodbye, Gensokyo!"
She stood on top of the tallest man-made object in all of Gensokyo, and shouted with a deep sense of intoxication. The evening breeze ruffled her hair and carried the heroic cry into the distance.
Win!
Good and evil are convinced that she has won. And this victory is just the first step in realizing her ambitions.
The stupid "True Ancestor" believed her and gave her the first pot of gold, giving her the capital to give it a go. It was through this fight that she earned the chips to continue to grow bigger. Gensokyo, big monsters, vampires, true ancestors, one or two, in the end, are just stepping stones for her ghosts to climb upward. When she trampled them under their feet one by one, the fellows would regret it and beg for mercy on their knees, which she would never bestow on them.
"All of them must die!" continued to shout, "all of you, all of them, give them all, go to hell!"
"Ha-ha!"
Good and evil can be seen, and a grand plan is slowly unfolding in front of her, the mountain of gold and the crown, which can be reached directly by reaching out. This feeling, this feeling of dominating the world and despising everything, is really addictive.
However, even if you are drunk, high to the extreme, and crazy to the sky, the five senses of good and evil will not fail. Therefore, she realized almost immediately that the sudden rise of heat in her chest was not the work of the surging heart, but really, physically, hot.
No, it's not just the level of heat, it's just ......
"My Nima's, it's burning!"
It's literally on fire!
The gray smoke rising from under his clothes frightened the good and evil, and he almost didn't fall to the bottom of the building. She hurriedly took two steps back, away from the edge of the rooftop, and at the same time quickly took off her blazer, flung it to the ground, and put out the flames on the inside of the coat with both feet, and then slapped her chest like an angry gorilla until the flames above her were extinguished.
"Whew...... Escaped...... Fart!"
The good and evil who finally extinguished the fire were already in a hurry before they had time to celebrate. Ignoring the cause of this flame, good and evil at this time only focus on one thing, which is crucial, and it can even be said that it is more important than her personal safety.
The place where the fire started was the inner pocket of her suit jacket, and in that inner pocket, there happened to be an item that was afraid of fire, which she exchanged for her life, the most useful, and at the same time the biggest chip in hand.
So in a panic, the good and evil knelt down on the black suit she had thrown on the ground, carefully opened it, and took out a white silk scroll from her inner pocket. At first glance, good and evil breathed a sigh of reliefβthe scroll was still there, not burned. But at the second glance, she lifted up the heart she had just put down againβa little more black on the silk that should have been pure white.
She quickly spread out the scroll on the ground, and as soon as she pulled it to the end, the whole huge picture scroll as long as a glacier was completely displayed in front of her. On the white and clean silk scroll, densely painted, all kinds of human portraits, the number of which must be tens of thousands, innumerable. Each of the portraits is not large, but the painting is extremely exquisite, even unbelievable, from beginning to end there is no duplicate face, each face is also detailed, even the most subtle features can be depicted, as if a real person is printed in the painting. At the very end of the scroll, there are several figures far away from the crowd, and if you look closely, they are Reimu, Marisa, Alice, and Huiyin, who is injured and unconscious, lying on the ground. The men all closed their eyes and frowned, and raised their hands to cover their faces, as if they were blinded by the bright light.
Next to the four of them, there was a charred humanoid black spot, still emitting green smoke - that was where the fire started.
"Something is wrong. β
As soon as Good and Evil saw this black spot, they instinctively realized that something was wrong.
Because this black spot is too complete, it can even be said that it is not a single point, and it is not bad, and it erases a person - Fujiwara Meihong.
And Fujiwara Meihong's ability is exactly ......
"Yo, Heavenly Demon!"
Good and evil followed the sound, turned around, and just met the white-haired arsonist girl ten paces away.
"I shouldn't have missed anything, right?"
Mei Hong waved her hand and grinned, revealing two rows of neat teeth, but there was only a fierce light in her eyes that "I want to beat someone".
"Fujiwara sister red, your ......"