I experienced a crisis in the prevention and treatment of acute infectious diseases at the beginning of this century, when it was necessary to take a step-by-step approach to quarantine and set up strict barriers to cut off all channels of infection. In the end, human beings have become islands of habitation, and they do not dare to have the slightest substantive contact with each other. This has proven to be the most effective solution, and there is no second way to go.

As the shadow suggests, if many human extinction plans in history are related to "demon suppression", then the history of mankind will be rewritten again.

Without much thought, I can cite more than a dozen human extinctions from 1800 AD to the present, some due to natural disasters and some of them absolute massacres under the will of the rulers.

During World War I and World War II, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions of people died in wars, erased from the list of human beings, regardless of whether they were on the just side or the unjust side.

In the notorious Nazi concentration camps, the Axis prisoner of war camps, and the New Asian Tactical Cooperation Institute, too many innocent people were wiped out in the incinerator and became the eternal soul of the earth.

Throughout history, every time there has been a change of dynasty, a large number of people have fallen, watering the silent earth with worthless blood. The Chinese poet summed up the meaning of war with the phrase "one will become famous and ten thousand bones wither", and the blood of the small soldiers finally stained the helmets of the victors, allowing those who were high above to gallop into Beijing and ascend the throne.

"You guessed it." Shadow said.

I shook my head: "No way, innocent people shouldn't lose their lives for this so-called 'demon suppression'." 'Suppressing demons' is the business of all mankind, how can it become a killing game for politicians? ”

"Where is the game and where is the facts, who can tell the difference?" At the beginning of the demon suppression, there are always innocent people who will be affected, which is unavoidable. The fire at the city gate has always affected the fish in the pond. The shadow said.

I suddenly felt a little discouraged and depressed, and thought of the words in the Tao Te Ching - "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs." ”

In the eyes of the high-level rulers represented by "heaven and earth", the people and everything are grass dogs, and tens of thousands of living beings will perish with a wave of their hands and a lift of their feet, and the rulers do not have to bear any responsibility.

"In that case, what's the point of 'suppressing demons'?" I muttered.

"What do you want? All the meaning you want is in the process of 'suppressing demons', the process is everything, and the ending is not important. The shadow replied.

I smiled wryly, because there was nothing wrong with what the shadow said and I couldn't refute it.

For those who have died, life has become nothing, and there is no need to talk about "living, living well, sharing the fruits of victory", because the soul does not need a place to dwell at all, it is smaller than the tip of a needle, a molecule, or an atom. The earth is so big that it can hold hundreds of billions of souls.

For those who are alive, they can live in the moment, live in the sunshine, have food to eat, clothes to wear, and a house to live in...... It seems that this is enough. The living are always happier than the dead, so what right do they have to blame the injustices of the world?

"Contentment and happiness, peace and happiness" - I also thought of the various "poisonous chicken soups" introduced by the ruler's royal literati in order to appease the injustice of the poor people. These seemingly high-sounding "proverbs" can make many poor people become calm, no longer covet fine clothes and food, high-rise buildings, brilliant authority, and beautiful women, but guard their own humble room and ugly wife to live their lives, and when they are unsatisfactory, they will repeatedly anesthetize themselves with articles like "The Burrow".

Such a person, who has the idea of "being an ant, being a submissive citizen, and being a slave" throughout, has been kneeling for so long that he has forgotten what it is like to stand up.

"What else will the ruler do to achieve the goal of 'suppressing demons'?" I asked.

"Anything you can think of and anything you can't think of." The shadow replied.

"So, in the end, will the 'Demon Suppression' succeed?" I asked the question differently.

"The devil is born from the heart, the heart lives and the devil lives, the people are in the devil, and the people die and the demons die." The shadow replied.

This is the correct answer, just like the Chinese often say, "where there are people, there are rivers and lakes". When humanity perishes, so does the witch.

"What can I do for you?" I asked.

"Right now, you're me, I'm you. What you see and think, is what I see and think, understand? The shadow replied.

I calmed down and gave a name: "Fu Tuo." ”

Killing the ambush is the first step in resolving the crisis. Human society would never allow the existence of such super monsters, like the dinosaurs of the past, Godzilla of modern times, and the wild people of the Great Snow Mountain.

"Now that you understand, let's act." The shadow said.

If I have enough time, I'm willing to stay here and talk to the shadow for a long time, and then figure out the meaning of all the knots on this rope.

I looked up, and the end of the rope was not in the roof, but through a round hole, all the way up.

"How far is it from here to the end of the rope, and how many knots are there?" I asked.

"How far is it from here to the source of the great river? How much water is still pouring out and flowing from the source? Stop asking questions that can't have answers, the past, you can't grasp, you can only miss; The future has not yet come, and it is useless for you to be anxious. The only thing that can be done is to grasp the moment ......" The shadow's voice became cold.

I took a few steps back away from the rope.

A gust of wind passed, and the shadows disappeared silently.

I walked out of the house, saw Sun Moon Niang again, and told her straight to the point: "Eliminating Fu Dai is the most important task at the moment, put aside other things and focus on the present." ”

Sun Yueniang nodded: "Please follow me." ”

I followed her for a long walk, at least twice stepping into the same passage as the ancient Babylonian Endless Corridor, and finally reaching a dark door.

The surroundings are all white, and this black door is inlaid on the white wall, which is extremely abrupt.

"Behind the door, there's what you need." Sun Moon Niang said.

I didn't ask much, just simply ordered: "Open the door." ”

Ri Yueniang hesitated, held the doorknob with her right hand, and turned her head to look at me: "Don't you ask for more reasons?" You must know that some doors are allowed to enter but not to retreat, and once you walk in, you have to grit your teeth and hold on to the end. ”

I smiled and waved, "Open the door." ”

Sun Moon Niang wanted to say something, I stretched out my hand, pressed her hand, and pushed the door open.

It was dark inside, and without the slightest hesitation, I stepped inside, and then closed the door with my backhand, cut off from the white world outside.

I couldn't see anything, my hands groped in front of me, left and right, and it was empty, nothing.

Suddenly, the soles of my feet went limp, and my body immediately sank, and I felt like I was falling into a swamp, and my whole body could not be supported, but I just sank vigorously until I suffered a catastrophe.

It was like a person who couldn't swim and was drowning, and nothing worked but it sank to the bottom.

Later, I heard the sound of gurgling water, my body floated forward, and a bright light appeared in front of me. It turned out that I was in a huge enclosed cave, half of which was water, and half of which was shore.

The stones on the shore glow automatically, illuminating the thirty-pace-square space.

When I went ashore, I saw a large bluestone with a garment laid upright—a glittering golden robe.

"That's ...... Buddhist robes? Why is it here? I was a little confused, and walked over quickly.

It was indeed a robe, made of silk and gold threads, and it looked very precious.

I picked up the robe, and my hands were heavy, and I knew that the gold threads were genuine.

Suddenly, a few lines of words appeared on the stone wall in front of me, which read: "A Buddhist hall, the soul will not forget; Kill demons and demons, sand and flowers. ”

The robe is one of the treasures of Zen Buddhism, and it seems counterintuitive to appear here.

"Tsar's robe?" I suddenly remembered it.

I walked over slowly, touched the robe gently, and felt that it was very cold and hard, not like silk fabric, but more like the iron armor of a general.

In the teachings of Zen Buddhism, the practitioner wears a robe to resist all real aggression and psychological killing, to be able to transcend the outside world, and to have a firm mind as a Buddha. In the same way, the first people who invented iron armor did so with the same considerations.

The "Tsar" is a brutal image in the minds of ordinary people, but I know that any successful politician must have both "gentleness" and "iron fist". If there is only "mercy" and no "severe punishment", then a country will become a plate of loose sand with no discipline and no combat effectiveness, and the ultimate fate can only be shared by the foreign powers.

In this sense, both the tsar and the tyrannical Qin are nothing more than symbols of the "iron fist", and they are both superficial images created by the rulers for the sake of national stability.

I lifted the robe with both hands, feeling that it weighed at least twenty kilograms, and it was not easy to drape on my body.

"The Tsar put on his robe and went to destroy the monsters and protect the peace of the north?" I expanded my thinking even further.

Tsarist Russia was once the most powerful northern nation, and only the brave and fierce "Emperor Immediately" could cultivate an invincible army, attack the city, and expand the territory. A historical figure similar to the tsar is the Mongolian magnate Genghis Khan.

Sun Moon Niang brought me here to answer the question of "eliminating the Fu Tuo".

So, what does this robe give me?

Suddenly, I saw countless pictures of Jin Ge Iron Horses charging into battle on the stone walls on all sides. In the midst of the chaos, a monster that stood tall in the sky and the earth shook its head and tail, shocking the human battle array to pieces. The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great, and it seems that humans can't hunt monsters at all, and in the end they can only serve as snacks for monsters.

I heard the roar of a horn, and a general in a golden robe leaped out of battle, rushed to the belly of the monster, climbed up the monster's thighs, and reached the bottom of the monster's neck, plunging his sword into the monster's throat.

The monster fell, and the surrounding soldiers thundered with joy and vigorously waved the weapons in their hands.

The general trampled the monster's head under his feet and stood proudly, with great courage.

"You can kill monsters this way?" I seem to get it.

What is terrifying is that a monster has just fallen, and hundreds of similar monsters have appeared in the distance, and shadows have come one after another, filling the air raid between heaven and earth. This world is no longer the home of humans, but has become a land of monsters.

"Humanity is perishing." I couldn't help but lament.

Next, a scene of sighing and sighing appeared. All the soldiers assembled, led by the general in the golden robe, raised their swords and whipped their horses wildly, and attacked the monster.

The outcome of that war can be imagined, so

Everyone will die on the battlefield, and none of them will be able to return, including the owner of the robe.

I think this robe must have been stained with the general's blood.

"In a battle of similar strength, you can fight bravely in order to defeat your opponent; The battle of disparity in strength is to use the mantis arm as a car, only fighting for ideals and beliefs, and it is completely irrelevant what the outcome of the victory or defeat is. The younger generations will inherit the faith and courage of the warriors, and carry on the battle to the end, both visible and invisible. "That's the only thing I have on my mind at the moment.