Forty Familiar Strangers
In the middle of the picture is a large fish with a human body, hanging on a large fishing net, struggling desperately, and next to it stands a very beautiful girl, who is holding a knife and ripping its flesh one by one.
The picture is very delicately carved, and the girl is beautiful, but the smile on her face is cruel.
"This seems to be the eight hundred bhikshunis mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures." I frowned.
"Okay, Yang Xiuyuan, even the Buddhist scriptures have been studied, why don't you hurry up and explain to us."
"Eight hundred bhikshunis are a Japanese legend in which a fishing maiden was convicted of eating the flesh of a mermaid and gained the power of immortality."
"Is immortality still called being guilty?" Pei said curiously.
"It's not surprising that in the oldest legends of mankind, immortality has always existed as a curse." I held a flashlight in one hand and shone on the mural, trying not to miss a single detail.
"The bhikshuni who eats mermaid meat and lives forever is actually living a very miserable life, she lives too long and can only watch her relatives and friends grow old and die one by one, until in the end no one recognizes herself, and even forgets who her parents are and where she came from...... She saw the impermanence of the world, and finally died of hunger strike in the cave - what did the owner of the tomb engrave this thing for? ”
"Yang Xiuyuan, you have become stupid, do you still need to ask, it must be the matter of Changsheng again, and the owner of the tomb is just like that."
"Nonsense, of course I know it has something to do with immortality, the question is why did he cover up the carved murals, if it was to hide, why did he deliberately make the abnormality of the Buddha's head so obvious!"
Even if I didn't find anything abnormal, I couldn't help but be a little impatient, could it be that the owner of the tomb did such things to scare people? No way, how could he be so boring!
Pei saw that I was really a little anxious, so he didn't laugh anymore, and threw his backpack on his back to help me fumble around.
At this moment, the Buddha's head suddenly began to turn.
I was startled and subconsciously pinched the dagger in my hand.
Pei Chong glanced at me, picked up a small Buddha statue and quietly walked around the back of the big Buddha, ready to smash it first regardless of the situation.
The Buddha's head fell down after two turns, Pei Yi raised his breath, and the stone Buddha in his hand smashed down.
But a pair of hands pinched his wrists, and then a person emerged from inside the statue.
My heart tightened, and without hesitation, I hit the dagger in my hand in one go, and the man actually dragged Pei down and blocked the entrance of the Buddha statue with him. Fortunately, Pei's reaction was not slow, seeing that the situation was not good, a lazy donkey rolled and hid to the side, and the advantages of his body were exerted to the extreme, and the man couldn't pull him.
The dagger hit the wall twice and then bounced away, and the person came out again, his hands on the Buddha's head to reveal half of his body, and said with great interest, "Brothers, are playing here." ”
I felt that he couldn't forget the face that turned to gray at first glance.
"It's you!"
"What?" Pei grunted up, looking a little silly.
"Hey, it turns out that it's also a peer, brothers, give me something to eat." The man was not polite at all, and sat at the entrance of the cave with a big grin. The good Buddha statue looks like a human body on the neck, and it looks extremely weird.
I rummaged through my pockets, and although it wasn't much, the food was still a little.
"Thanks." The man smiled at us, not polite at all.
"You're not afraid of us poisoning." Seeing how he ate with relish, I couldn't help but ask.
I didn't expect to meet him, to be precise, I didn't expect to meet him so soon.
"To be a ghost is to be a full ghost, poisoning is better than starvation." The man held his chin and smiled, and he didn't have to think about it to know that he must be talking nonsense. But now I don't know him very well, and since he doesn't say it, I don't have any position to ask further.
"Everyone is a revolutionary comrade, and it is right to help each other." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little cold, Huzi snorted, "Dude, are you here to fight too?" ”
"No, I'm here for a tour, so I'm going to come down and slip around." A man is a serious man.
The corners of my mouth twitched, "Okay, you continue to slip yours, Uncle Zhao, let's go first." ”
"Hey, that's it? Pick me up, go down this way, otherwise I won't let you go~"
"Aren't you here for a tour?"
"Yes, I accidentally fell into the sea, I swam and accidentally stepped on the mechanism, and then I accidentally fell into this bucket, how can I be worthy of so many carelessness if I don't catch a handful." The man smiled and slammed his face, and I twitched the corners of my mouth, "Don't talk nonsense, why are you so careless?" ”
"Yay? You're even more fun than ever. The man choked, then looked at me with interest. Pei sneered behind him, "Master Qi, let's get away with it this time, if you want to get people, you have to think about a reasonable reason first." ”
"You know me?" Qi Yufan smiled even brighter, and rolled down from the Buddha statue and hugged his neck, looking like two brothers.
Pei suddenly felt a chill, and said again and again, "Who doesn't know about Qi Ye's great name." ”
"Tell me why you're here? Are you in a group of other people? ”
"Who knows." Qi Yufan let go of his hand when he heard this, and looked at me with a smile. "But I'm curious you can find it here, and in this way, their worries are a little unfounded."
I felt a pang in my heart, knowing that Qi Yufan was suspicious of himself, after all, he also knew in his heart that the appearance I was showing now was definitely not what I should have, or could have, at this time.
But I've thought about that for a long time, I can't always pretend to be that stupid. Rather than waiting for someone to find a way to prove the lie after revealing his feet and being recognized, it is better for him to reveal some of it first, at least once someone notices it later, there will be room for maneuver.
It's not that they haven't thought about it, so they just let their intentions take advantage of the fact that they are not deep enough to wade into this troubled water. But this game is too involved, even if he has worked hard for so long, he doesn't dare to say that he really understands it.
If he could do it all over again, if he really didn't think about anything, there was nothing wrong with his honest wandering, and he would never be curious about any unknown answers in this life.
But he couldn't!
Now, all the people who have a relationship with him are in this game, wading too deep into the water, and he can't even be a bastard to continue to hide behind them as if nothing happened after witnessing all this.
Pretending to be ignorant? The price was too great, how many people lost their lives, and it was not for him.
Since nothing has happened yet, why should I be sorry if I have the opportunity to do it all over again?
Even if you still can't escape a joke at the end, it's better than watching without doing anything and regretting it from now on.
"My surname is Yang, and I am Yang Xiuyuan." looked at him and said without showing weakness.