"I killed my dad." Chen Jian stood by the bridge, looking at Li Damin with a cold gaze.

With his eyes closed, he stood in the pouring light, bathing in it, squinting and enjoying it.

My throat rattled, and I whispered to Li Damin, "It's Professor Chen again." ”

The light shone over Chen Jian's body, and we were surprised to see that he was slowly getting old, first twenty years old, then thirty years old, then forty years old, fifty years old. He became what he was in reality.

Li Damin said in a low voice: "He has returned to the state before his death." ”

Chen Jian's face began to become particularly terrifying, his face was burned and blistered, his face was almost unrecognizable, and his facial features were gathered together, which was extremely terrifying.

We couldn't take our eyes off it, and the scene was weird and beyond imagination.

Chen Jian retracted his gaze, touched his face lightly, and walked slowly in front of us, his voice low: "Li Damin, are you from outside?" ”

The two of us immediately understood, and Chen Jian recovered all his life memories.

"Yes," Li Damin admitted, "I was invited by your daughter to save you." ”

Chen Jian touched his cheeks, walked to the bridge, looked at himself in the lake by the light, and sighed for a long time, "It's all retribution." ”

"Now it's the last level, as long as you crack it, we can take you back to Yang." Li Damin said.

Chen Jian sat cross-legged on the bridge, his eyes did not leave the water of Sensen Lake, and sighed: "It doesn't make much sense to go back or not." In the past, I always thought that it was better to die than to live, but now I understand that a person's life is actually a process of accumulating karma and retribution...... I can't be freed. ”

"You can't say that," Li Damin got up: "In addition to sinful karma, there are also blessings in life." The most important thing is that with a human body, you have the opportunity to comprehend the Great Dao. The so-called human body is rare, and the Dharma smells bad. ”

"What is the Great Way?" Chen Jian turned his face sideways and asked faintly.

Li Damin thought for a while and said: "Man is the spirit of all things, the physical body has a unique health and full form, and the five internal organs and six internal organs of the qi and blood meridians are consistent with the number of nature, and man himself is a small universe." Opening up the spiritual mind, germinating the Dao mind, and going straight to the essence of the world is a great pleasure in itself. ”

Chen Jian smiled bitterly: "Li Damin, let me tell you what the essence of the world is. As you might have guessed, my dad died at my hands. I was young and lived in a rural village in the mountains, and when I got home that day, I saw my father beating my mom like crazy. My father came to the countryside in that era, responded to the call to take root in the countryside, and married a rural wife. Later, other classmates returned to the city one after another, either to take the university entrance examination or enter the factory, all of them found a good way, but my father could not leave, and his social relations remained in the countryside forever. He often looked at the village entrance alone in a daze, sighing at every turn, he said that if he could take the college entrance examination, he would definitely get a good score, and his academic performance was particularly good when he was in school, at that time, because of his age, he was nicknamed a professor by his classmates. ”

Li Damin didn't blink when he heard it: "And then?" ”

Chen Jian said: "His ambition turned into smoke, and every day when he came back from work in the field, he just drank a little wine, and then took out his anger on my mother." He beats people to death. As for my mother, she endured it silently, without crying or being annoyed, and let him beat her. Every time I asked, my mother said that she had delayed my father's life, and she should have beaten herself! Dad should have had a more productive life, he could have found a job and a half-job, and he should have been richer, all because of her...... She said she was a burden. ”

Chen Jian's tears fell like rain, and the tears fell to the surface of the water, causing layers of invisible ripples.

"On that day," Chen Jian said, "I came home and saw my father beating my mother like crazy, I couldn't help it, and I fought back for the first time." I beat my dad, and my dad drank too much that day, his eyes were red, and he beat me frantically, crying while beating, saying that our mother and mother were a scourge, a scourge that dragged down his life. After he beat me, he hit my mother, and when he hit my mother the hardest, I slashed him in the back with a kitchen knife...... He didn't say a word, he didn't have much blood left in his impression, and he fell to the ground and died. ”

"And then?" Li Damin asked.

Chen Jian said: "That night I disposed of the body with my mother, and I carried my father's body up the mountain late at night and buried it in a ravine, which is inaccessible to people, and I am sure that it will not be found for many years." My mom told me to leave the house tomorrow morning. I know what she means, don't look at her as uneducated, but very smart, she is giving me an alibi. ”

"And then you left her alone and left?" Li Damin asked.

"I'm scared, I'm really scared," Chen Jian cried very sadly, "On the fourth day after I left, I received a call from the village, telling me ......" My voice trembled: "My mother committed suicide by jumping into a well." ”

We gasped at the same time.

"I hurried back to the village, and then I learned what happened, and the old branch secretary told me that my father left the house without saying goodbye, and ran away alone, and my mother couldn't find him for a few days, crying very sadly, and jumped into the well at the entrance of the village the night before yesterday." Chen Jian cried and said: "My mother is too great, she made up such a set of lies in order to clear my suspicion, and she chose to commit suicide for fear of revealing her stuff in the future, just to save my ......"

Listening to this story made me feel uncomfortable, blocking a big rock, and Li Damin was silent. The whole thing really can't say anything except sighing.

Li Damin said: "The challenge of the demons you face in this last level is your father, and you killed him again." ”

Chen Jian wiped his eyes, raised his head, looked at the black lake, and didn't speak for a long time.

"Damin, since you have killed the demons in your heart, you should have passed this level." I said, "Why are we still here?" ”

This sentence reminded Li Damin, "Yes, what's going on?" Professor Chen has been killed by Chen Jian, and the demons have been dealt with, why haven't he passed the test yet. ”

"Do you have to wait a little longer? Is the system identifying? "I guess.

"." Li Damin said: "How can the realm of the bardo be so outdated. There must be something we didn't expect, maybe some task was not completed. ”

We were guessing when suddenly the water of the lake changed, and there were many ripples on the surface, rippling layer by layer. The most immediate feeling for me was that something seemed to be moving beneath the lake.

It dawned on me what it was.

Li Damin and I shouted out almost at the same time, "Dragon! It's a dragon! ”

Don't forget that the ultimate heart of this level is the dragon that has been sleeping in the depths of the lake. Professor Chen, and so many people in the exploration team, the ultimate goal is also to find the secret of Longmian.

Now, it seems that the dragon is waking up.

"This is the final test," I swallowed, "it's the dragon." ”

Chen Jian was a little frightened and stood up from the side of the bridge.

The surface of the lake changed more and more violently, as if boiling a pot, and a lot of bubbles appeared, gurgling. The surface of the water was covered with a layer of white mist, and the air was filled with a faint smell of fishy smell and fragrance, mixed together, and the taste could not be described.

Li Damin saw something, he tried his best to crawl on the ground, and I couldn't walk, so I crawled next to him. We approached the bridge and looked down, and there seemed to be a huge black shadow swimming at the bottom of the lake.

This dark shadow is indescribably large, almost all it is as far as the eye can see, and the law of movement is meandering and circling. "Dragon, it's a dragon......" I almost felt dizzy.

"Strange," Li Damin muttered to himself, "Why is there a dragon in Chen Jian's bardo realm?" ”

At this moment, there was a roar from under the lake, extremely low, not harsh, but continuous, like a low-frequency sonic attack, which shook my ears and caused my whole brain to crash.

A clear syllable intermingled with sound waves came out from under the lake, "Jian'er, Jian'er...... My Jian'er ......"

Chen Jian's whole body was shocked, his lips trembled, he walked to the bridge as if he had lost his soul, looked at the dark and secluded lake, and responded softly: "Mom, Mom...... My mom ......"

Li Damin and I were so shocked that we couldn't speak.

Li Damin's jaw dropped in surprise, "It turns out that the dragon in the lake is his mother, this is the ultimate test!" ”

I said, "I jumped into a well and died...... It has something to do with water. ”

Everything here is a refraction metaphor of Chen Jian's state of mind, all changes, impermanence and weirdness, but there are traces to follow, making people speechless.

Li Damin sighed: "I kind of understand, what is called human heart is hell." ”

From a certain point of view, the difficulties in the bardo realm were actually created by Chen Jian himself.

At this moment, Chen Jian muttered to himself: "Mom, Mom, Mom......"

The voice under the lake is very demagogic, "Jian'er, Jian'er, my Jian'er, mom misses you, mom thinks about you......"

Chen Jian walked to the edge of the bridge step by step.

"Jian'er, my mother has been bitter all her life, my mother admits it, my mother wants to see you promising, and my mother doesn't want to drag you down." The sound of the bottom of the lake was faintly heard.

"Mom!" Chen Jian knelt on the edge of the bridge and cried, "Mom, I'm looking for you." ”

"What now?" I asked Li Damin at a very fast pace.

Li Damin is also in a dilemma. Our purpose is to break the level, Chen Jian may die if he jumps into the lake, and he can't pass the pass if he doesn't jump the level, what should we do?