Chapter 778: Life and Death
"I see, the master is really a bodhisattva, and I am ashamed to say that this thing should have been done by me, but I have experienced too many things in this year, so I ignored their request, and I didn't expect to let so many people be displaced because of this, which is really a sin." Princess Iron Fan looked ashamed when she heard Tang Sanzang's words.
"It's no wonder you, if it weren't for you all these years, they wouldn't have been able to live here for a long time." Zhu Tianpeng comforted.
"Yes, Princess Iron Fan is already very benevolent to be able to help these ordinary people." Tang Sanzang also nodded.
"There is a farce today, which makes you laugh, and you have helped more before, please go and rest first, I will let them bring dinner." Princess Iron Fan looked at everyone and nodded gratefully.
"Okay, but dinner won't be a hassle, we'll take care of it ourselves." Tang Sanzang nodded, but glanced at Ao Xiaobai, who was pulling at the corners of his clothes, and said with a smile.
The group returned to the cave, and Princess Iron Fan instructed the banshee to clean up the battlefield, and then also took the red child into the door.
"In this case, will Sister Xiaohong be sad?" Ao Xiaobai asked with some concern.
"It should be, after all, she went to invite the Bull Demon King, I guess she will still blame herself." Sha Wanjing nodded, and in the end, when the red boy watched the Bull Demon King fly away, his expression was still quite worried.
"Not necessarily." Zhu Tianpeng shook his head.
"Let's take it out and bake it first." Tang Sanzang looked at Ao Xiaobai with a smile and said this, at noon, Ao Xiaobai grabbed a few more wild things, cleaned them up and put them in the ice crystal beads, and took them out directly to roast.
"Then the senior sister should be able to rush back to the town in time, I don't know if the people there are okay." Luo Xi was a little worried.
"It's okay, except that the temperature is a little higher, it shouldn't have burned yet, and even if it does, it won't all burn out." Zhu Tianpeng said with a smile, anyway, when they left, they had already let them retreat according to the original plan.
"What do you eat at night, do you leave me one?" While everyone was talking, the door of the cave was pushed open, and the red boy, who was still worried, poked his head into his head and asked expectantly.
"And me!" Niu Ruyi also poked his head out from above, nodded and said.
"......" Tang Sanzang looked at the two of them speechlessly, the one who had just been stabbed covered in blood, and then was fanned by the banana fan was indeed the brother and father of the two of them, right? And now the two of them came over to eat without anything, and there was no sense of disobedience on their faces, and the degree of this nerve made him not know how to complain for a while.
"See, there are some things that can't be inferred from common sense." Zhu Tianpeng had an expected expression on his face.
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At the same time, although it was completely dark, the whole town seemed to be in a reddish furnace, and some stones had even turned red, and the temperature of the town had risen sharply in the past day or so.
But the town was silent, and it seemed that there was no one left.
A small building on the edge of the town, a little spark rose from the thatched house, and then instantly burst into flames, almost in an instant, it turned into a torch, and the whole roof burned.
And the fire of this thatched hut was like a fuse, and there were five or six ignition points in the town that was not on fire at once, all of which were wooden houses and thatched roofs, like torches rising in the dark.
"Looks like the time has come." On the second floor of the restaurant in the center of the town, Wu Zilin looked at the burning place and sighed.
"It seems that we can't wait for the gods to come, but we old guys, who have played since childhood, can die together now, which is also a good choice, and we can be buried together when we die." An old man sighed, but he didn't feel too sad.
"It's a pity, our Hedi Town has a history of hundreds of years, but I didn't expect it to be gone in our hands, this went to Jiuquan, and there was no shame to see the ancestors." There are also old people who sighed.
"Those children don't know if they will survive, but it's better to leave, find a place to put down roots again, and stay next to this mountain of flames is like sleeping on a stove, and maybe one day they will be burned to death." An old man by the window was a little worried.
In the restaurant, on the first and second floors, there are dozens of old people, and there is no young man in sight.
The whole town, and only here are the people.
"It's burning!"
More than ten miles east of the town, a group of people looked in the direction of Hedi Town, their eyes full of hope and worry.
They are the people who came out of Hedi Town, and they set off in the morning, all young people and children, but the old people in the family are still in the town, and they can't bear to go so far, and at the same time, there is still a glimmer of hope in their hearts, if the gods can come back, maybe they don't have to leave, so they will still be waiting here.
No one wants to leave their homeland, and where could there be a better place to be where you grew up.
But looking at the sudden fire in the direction of the town, everyone's hearts suddenly cooled.
"That's how it started, burning from one or two places, and then burning the whole town to the end......" Yesterday the old woman hugged Xiao Ling'er tightly and looked in the direction of the town with some sadness, she had experienced this despair, so she knew what would happen next.
"Daddy!" A strong man knelt down directly, poofed, knelt on the somewhat hot plank, and kowtowed hard in the direction of the town.
"Mother...... Children are not filial, children are not filial......"
Everyone looked at the flames burning everywhere in the direction of the town, and they fell to their knees one after another, and many people cried.
Despair gripped everyone, the loss of their homes, and the loss of their old people, the wise old men, who led the evacuation, and who voluntarily stayed in the town in order not to hold back the young people.
"Has it already burned?" At this moment, the somersault cloud had already flown over the town, looking at the burning town below, starting from a few fire points, carrying the sparks to other places along the wind, and then igniting one house after another, even if it was a stone house, as long as there was a little wood in it, it would quickly ignite, and the fire was spreading rapidly.
Sun Wukong glanced at the restaurant in the center of the town, the ground was already red, but fortunately, this restaurant was very smart when it was designed, so even if there is no trend of spontaneous combustion now, if there is a spark falling on it, I am afraid it will detonate instantly.
The old people in the restaurant didn't have much hope, and began to say goodbye half-jokingly and half-seriously, all of them were old people who had lived for fifty or sixty years, and they were not so obsessed with life and death, but they were a little calm.