Drifting Sand in the West Chapter 56 Jizo Blood Lotus 2
However, looking at the appearance of these lights, they look very much like lotus flowers, but I always feel that something is wrong, but it is difficult to say. I saw a few lines of words faintly engraved on the wall of the palace where we were, and when I looked closely, it was written in minority languages, and I glanced back at Li Tong, only to see that this Nizi was carefully studying the words on it.
"Any clues?" I asked in a slightly anxious tone. Li Tong took out the notebook he had picked up in the desert from his backpack and flipped through it page by page. "We were lucky that these lines were also marked in this notebook and a translation was given." The cannon hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" Let's hear it. ”
Li Tong put the notebook back in his backpack and said succinctly: "Actually, this is a Zen saying: The Buddha has compassion for all sentient beings, takes blood as the guide, sits on the ground and turns into a lotus, and only hopes that hell is empty." For this Zen saying, I am also the second monk at a loss, looking back at the other three, needless to say, the cannon must not know, only to see Li Tong and Brother Li seem to be thoughtful.
"The Sutra of Good and Evil Karma once had an original oath about the Bodhisattva of Jizo, and the general explanation that has been handed down to this day is: Hell is not empty, and the vow is not a Buddha." Li Tong continued: "In Buddhism, the interpretation of the appearance of the Jizo Bodhisattva in Esoteric Buddhism is: holding a lotus flower in his left hand and a wishful treasure on the flower, and holding a jewel in his right hand and sitting on a lotus flower. ”
Brother Li suddenly said: "It seems that these lotus-like things have a great relationship with the Zen language on this wall. Li Tong said with some surprise: "This may be the Jizo Blood Lotus that has only been mentioned in Buddhist scriptures." I looked at Li Tong with the cannon and asked, "A real baby at this time?" ”
"I can't say, this religious treasure can be sold for a good price in real life." Brother Li broke our minds with one sentence. Brother Li continued: "Perhaps, this thing can help us make good connections. ”
"Uh, ......., forget it, the key is that we can go out and talk about it." I dropped a sentence and moved on. But I didn't take a few steps before I felt dizzy in my head. "What's wrong with this?" I subconsciously asked.
Before we could reflect it, we saw that the surrounding buildings were crumbling like houses that had lost their support. "What's going on?" I had a question in my mind.
The "boom....... was accompanied by a loud noise, and a building not far from us broke off in the middle as if it had been torn apart by a tremendous force. The houses in other places slowly began to crack and gradually collapse, and the buildings in front of them were completely devoid of the neatness and majesty of the previous ones.
"It's over, it's over, we might be hanging here today." Cannon complained. "Stop making a fuss, be quiet." Li Tong shouted calmly as always. Li Tong continued: "The most important thing now is to run away where there is no rupture, and don't fall behind and act privately. Looking at Li Tong in front of her, who would have thought that she was a girl, like a domineering president, it seems that this girl doesn't just look so weak.
I remember that the philosopher once said: "Everyone has a small universe in their hearts." Now this sentence is really true.
I made up my mind and quickly followed the team towards the center of the central space. "Ouch, my feet." didn't take a few steps, only to hear Li Tong suddenly shout. Looking back, the girl had tripped over a piece of masonry, her knees had been worn out, and a stream of blood kept gushing out. I hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Do you have any gauze in your backpack for bandaging?" ”
Li Tong shouted in some pain: "It's already used up." "In a hurry, I removed a piece of cloth from my coat and took out some iodine wine from my backpack for a simple sterilization treatment." You bear with me, when we go out, I'll deal with it for you. I said anxiously. Well! Perhaps because the wound was painful, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on the girl's forehead.
Without saying a word, I picked up Li Tong and ran forward, and the cannon and Brother Li were also on the side to help, so the three of us took turns dragging Li Tong to run forward desperately. However, the scope of the destruction of the building became larger and larger, and the originally intact building suddenly became a ruin. We didn't have time to watch and express our thoughts, so we could only run forward with all our might, occasionally looking back to see that the buildings not far from us were destroyed by a strange force like the end of the world.
I don't know how long I ran, and I don't know how many times we rotated, I just felt that my feet were no longer on my body, and after I put Li Tong down, the three of us lay on the ground. "Mother, I really want to have a good night's sleep here."
I spread my body on the ground and really wanted to lie on the ground like this and not go anywhere. Suddenly, I felt that the destruction area was not spreading towards us, and I let out a long sigh of relief, "Thank goodness that we are still alive." ”
After resting for more than ten minutes, I wanted to find something to eat in my backpack, and when I opened it, there were only two canned meat and a little mutton left, and there was nothing else. But I've been eating these things lately, and I'm tired of eating, and I don't find it a little boring. Looks like we're going to have to get out of here, or we're all going to starve here. Since Li Tong was not in good health, I simply found her something to eat from her backpack. Suddenly, I didn't say a soft thing, and I subconsciously asked, "Miss Li, what do you put in this backpack, how do you feel soft to the touch?" ”
I was about to take this thing out, Li Tong said in a panic: "Don't take it out, then, that's my personal belongings." I understood, and said with an embarrassed face: "Yes, I'm sorry." With that, I put my backpack in front of her and awkwardly threw it away. Cannon and Brother Li still didn't know why, and looked at me with a confused expression.
I turned to the cannon and asked, "Cannon, do you still have food in your bag?" The cannon turned the backpack over and said, "Hehe, Brother Seven, I'm about to run out of ammunition here." ”
I turned my eyes to look at Li Tong again, and Li Tong said with a gloomy face: "It seems that everyone's food is already scarce, we have to go out as soon as possible." Brother Li also said: "We have to go out early." ”
The point is that we don't know where we are now, and it may be too far away to get out. So now our only task is to get out as soon as possible.
From time to time, everything around us is no longer as bright as before, but dark again. "What's going on?" Cannon asked. "Who knows? Finding a way out is king. I pulled the flashlight out of my backpack. Because we relied too much on the flashlight along the way, there was not much power left, and the flashlight was not as bright as it was at the beginning. The few pairs of batteries brought have been used almost as much, and recently they have been using the used batteries in turn. On the one hand, it is to save batteries, and on the other hand, it is also forced by the situation.
When everything was ready, I stood up and put my backpack back on my back and shone my flashlight in all directions, and the environment in front of me was not much different from what I had seen in the pit before. For the sake of safety, I walked to the front, with the cannon supporting Li Tong, while Brother Li still walked behind. After resting, Li Tong's body has almost recovered, and his face has become a little more ruddy.