Chapter 61: No Death
In the pale day when the time could not be seen, the eaves clearly said the thoughts that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time.
The water ghost, who had been a ghost for many years but had never heard such a request, was stunned for a long time, but still did not respond.
Every year, countless human beings commit suicide due to various psychological problems, which is very common, but he has never seen anyone ask for his life.
He has been closed in the water curtain cave deep in the river at the end of Qingshui Town all the year round, but he also has his own attainments in earthly affairs. Over the centuries, there have been many youkai or ghosts who have come to listen to him tell stories or to tell him stories, and some of them have come to ask him for help.
Regarding the situation of life and death, I also met one.
Turning mountains and rivers and turning years, it was a few hundred years that the water ghost became Mr. Ghost, and it was rated as the most peculiar and tragic focus of the year.
I don't know where the new ghost who can't be reincarnated with resentment heard that he has lived for hundreds of years, and he has neither reincarnated nor disappeared, and he admires him very much. After inquiring in all directions, he finally found his underwater hole.
At that time, he was sipping the new wine he had brought from his monster friend, and he was so drunk that he didn't have any sobriety.
The new ghost pounced and knelt straight in front of him: "Please kill someone for me, if you don't kill him, I and my hatred will not be able to end." ”
Mr. Water Ghost was stunned, glanced at the poor new ghost who was on his knees, did not speak, and continued to drink.
The new ghost was anxious, and kowtowed thousands of heads again and again, telling how he was deceived and deceived again, and finally was killed alive by the unjust ghost, and accumulated a heart of resentment that could not be dissipated, and when he arrived at Nai He Bridge, he drank a bowl of Meng Po soup and vomited it out. The underworld has the rules of the underworld, and you can't cross the bridge without drinking Meng Po soup. However, the living relatives and friends gave a limited amount of money, a bowl of Meng Po soup was spent, black and white impermanence abided by the rules, and simply pulled him off the bridge, and said a kind word temporarily, but outside the bridge, in the wilderness, it is good to disperse the resentment, and patiently wait for the relatives to burn the paper money and come over and cross the bridge.
Since then, he has become a wilderness ghost, the past is vivid, and he can't let go of it in his mind, and after day after day, he has not eliminated his resentment, and this has the idea of "taking revenge on the people who killed him in the past".
Under the shivering water, the faint and indignant voice of the new ghost was passed to the ears of the drunken water ghost with the water waves, and when it came to his mind, it was a mess that could not be stirred up.
"The villain is yin, the breath is getting weaker and weaker in this living world, and it is no longer possible to kill, if the adults don't help me, I will soon be scattered and disappear between heaven and earth."
The drunk water ghost who couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest vaguely thought about what it had to do with me when you disappeared, and after thinking for a long time, he said in a daze: "What do you want to kill for you...... Homicide? ”
The new ghost bit his lip and hummed cautiously.
The water ghost shook his head in embarrassment: "But I'm Mr. Storyteller...... I'm not very good at killing. ”
The new ghost raised his face, and there were a few tears in his deep eyes: "If the adults don't help, they will break the footsteps of a ghost." As if he felt that what he said was too selfish, he added: "The person who harmed me is a big villain, and if the adults help me, it can be regarded as accumulating a yin virtue." ”
The water ghost shook his head again: "But I really ...... I can't kill anyone. In a trance, seeing the new ghost who had come to ask for help, his heart was hot with alcohol, and he took a step back and said, "Why don't you tell me, how to kill ...... Coming? ”
He took a sip from the flask, leaned closer and added, "The simplest one, too exhausting...... I don't do it. ”
The new ghost's heartbroken eyes twitched slightly in these words, and a face that had become more and more smooth and transparent through the erosion of the sun and the moon twitched, and there was even a little drunkenness: "Whatever...... Kill as much as you want. ”
"Show me." The water ghost propped up his forehead with one hand and tilted his head to look at the new ghost's request.
The new ghost trembled and twisted his body: "But ......"
But you can't see anywhere else except for the water ghost, I teach you how to kill, isn't it possible that you want to compare yourself to a knife?
The latter words were held in the throat and did not come out. It's just that the complexion is getting more and more ugly, and it's getting more and more ugly.
"Missing...... Knife? "The water ghost heard that it was a turning point, and he said as if he was empathetic. Got up and staggered to take out a rusty knife from the mess in the hole, and rummaged through the things again: "There is still a lack of red silk...... Uh, I only have white silk ......"
The new ghost's face was also distorted in an instant, and he quickly took the rusty knife tremblingly: "No need, no need, the knife is enough." ”
The drunken water ghost gave up the action of looking for things with satisfaction, and watched the new ghost take the rusty knife, sit on the water, and look at the new ghost as a student.
I don't know if it's because I'm drunk, but I faintly see the hand of the new ghost holding the knife trembling incessantly.
The knife is an unsheathed knife, and the sharp cold light is still particularly dazzling at the bottom of the deep water, and the hellish beast engraved on the hilt, even with a few strokes, also reveals an extraordinarily evil aura.
The new ghost took a long time to hold it steady, gestured towards his heart, and hurriedly took it away a few points, his voice trembling: "Just ...... That's it...... Just stab it. ”
The drunken water ghost's consciousness is not clear, and he looks at the new ghost and compares with each other, but he just makes an unrealistic move, and concludes: "You didn't demonstrate right, you're not dead." ”
As soon as the doubts came, the speech became much clearer.
The new ghost clenched the knife and didn't let it go, and sneered: "My lord, I am a ghost, and ghosts will not be killed by a knife." When he said this, he was also stunned, as if he suddenly understood something, yes, he was a ghostless ghost, how could a ghost be killed.
Fang Yi's trembling voice suddenly added great courage: "If you don't believe it, I'll stab it to show you." ”
The water ghost leaned against the cool stone wall, touching his chin and watching silently. The new ghost touched the rusty iron knife a few times, plucked up the courage to smile at the water ghost who saw his face very blurred, held the knife with both hands to his chest, and slowly approached the knife with a sigh: "My lord, look at it, look at it, it's like this......"
Like this...... Cyan Qi Lang billowed out of his body.
The drunken water ghost forgot that not long before the new ghost came to him, a Taoist priest threw a knife into his cave and entrusted him with safekeeping.
The new ghost died in a painful state of disbelief, and he didn't even have time to find out. The water ghost was surprised: "So that's the ......" Seeing that there was no new ghost shadow in shape except for a cloud of smoke spreading in the water, he was stunned for a while, turned around and walked towards the cave.
After the water ghost woke up, he saw that he was at the top of the list of the top ten evil ghosts in the wild ghost world for some reason, and the water children circled around him with the cold knife that still left the devil crying: "Sir, sir, you have finally made it to the list of coveted evil ghosts, come and thank us for your whistleblowing!" ”
The water ghost took the empty gourd and threw it over.
That year, the wild ghost world was even more noisy than the real ghost world, and wherever there was a list or the like, it could always be noticed by the Quartet. After the water ghost, who has always been accustomed to listening to books and telling stories, appeared on the list of evil ghosts, his popularity has greatly increased for a while, and his image has also been greatly reduced.
Since then, the goblins who have come to look for water spirits for help have stopped coming.
These are not easy and trouble-free. It's just that the side business is not good, and the main business will also be affected. After some tossing, the ghosts who came to tell him stories and write books for him became fewer and fewer, and the water hole became more and more lonely.
Later, the cost of listening to books was reduced from 10 to 3, and it took decades of continuous operation to regain its reputation.
Therefore, about the stupid ghost who came to ask him to take care of life and death, he remembered it very deeply, really very deeply, and he couldn't help but be profound.
After many years, the human girl asked for life and death again, and the water ghost thought about the past, and was half stunned, trembling and convulsing.
After a long time, he regained his stability, and whispered to the little ghost to take the bamboo shoots to the side room, sat down on the wooden table, and laughed: "Suicide is a sin in the Buddhist language, what did the girl with the eaves encounter, and she didn't want to live like this?" ”
The eaves sat down and poured a cup of tea for Mr. Water Ghost as if flattering. From the face of it, the ghost lady didn't seem to have any interest in coming to ask for her life, and it seemed that this would not be possible without telling the truth.
After thinking about it, he asked, "Can the ghost master know the way, the eaves of the demon mountain?" ”
The water ghost nodded, and by the way, he said: "Just call me sir, I know the eaves of the demon mountain, and I heard that there is a monster named the eaves of the mountain living on the mountain." ”
When Hua Wei heard that the water ghost actually knew the way, there was some joy between her eyebrows, and her heart was no longer so flattering, so she eased her voice and asked again: "That ghost...... Uh, Mr. Ghost, if I tell you that I am the mountain owner on the Eaves Mountain, can you believe me? ”
The coolness came by the wind, and Mr. Water Ghost lowered his eyes and took a sip of the cup, feeling that he needed to calm down.
"You don't believe me?" Hua Wei was a little disappointed and asked anxiously.
The water ghost Ha Lu Ha smiled, slowly put down the teacup, and turned to look at the bamboo forest outside the house: "Identity, sir, what I see, girl, you are a mortal body, is this paranoia?" He said......"
"I'm not lying." The eaves quickly interrupted. looked a little anxious, and his body suddenly stiffened like a tree: "I'm really a monster, but I just took the life of a mortal, and I was dragged to death in the mortal world, and I couldn't return to my true body." If Mr. Ghost doesn't believe me, wouldn't it be good to kill my body? ”
The water ghost stood up and shook his head amusedly: "Not all wild ghosts are life-seekers, I am a storyteller, and I can't kill people." Then towards the side house, a light fluttering sentence is not salty and not light, and the back is left together: "Besides, people in the world, death is much easier than life, not far from the bamboo forest is the moat of the royal city, if the girl wants to die, just jump down, why do you need Mr. me to do it?" ”
"Sir, wait!" Hua Wei hurriedly stood up, and his tone was eager, "I'm targeted by monsters, and I can't destroy myself, nor can I be destroyed by other humans!" ”
The water ghost looked back: "Oh? ”