() "This.. I'm going to be out of luck... That's it, since Mr. Qi wants to understand the mystery of this, let's talk about it in detail when we eat. ”

Gai Qingxuan refused at first. But unexpectedly, his stomach happened to rumble at this time, thinking that he must have not eaten breakfast, and finally accepted my invitation with some embarrassment.

"That's it, you and I are fateful, in order to thank you for saving the raccoon cat, Poor Dao will give you a spiritual weapon to exorcise evil spirits. This thing can avoid evil, and maybe it can save your life at a critical moment. ”

I was about to leave here with Maggie and the general, but Gai Qingxuan stopped me and pulled out a bronze coin the size of a dollar from his pocket.

This copper coin is round on the outside and square on the inside, and there is a thin red rope tied to the hollow in the center, which looks quite like that.

"Then thank you, Chief Gai, let's go back and rest first."

I gladly accepted Gai Qingxuan's good intentions, after all, this thing can please the lottery and be auspicious.

"I don't see it, you still believe this?"

When I got back into the house, Maggie looked at me a little strangely and asked.

"Who would believe in this kind of thing, but just to have peace of mind. By the way, hungry, right? Hurry up and eat something first, it's still early before the meal time. ”

I said to Maggie as I played with the copper coin in my hand.

The food in the backpack seems to be a lot, but most of it is some biscuit bread. The volume is relatively large, and it can provide more heat, but most of these packages are filled with nitrogen, and if you look closely, you can find that there is not much stock, so you can barely last about two days.

After eating breakfast, in the end it turned out that the general had eaten the most. Maggie and I just had a loaf of bread, a ham sausage, and a braised egg each. But the general's big mouth ate a bag of bread in three bites and two bites, and finally ate four packets of 500 grams of bread before he gave up. As for the still weak cerebellar axe on the general's back, he ate very little, and a small ham sausage made it continue to sleep contentedly.

"Well, what can I do about this, maybe I'll have to go down the mountain to find food the day after tomorrow."

Looking at the rapidly shrinking backpack, I muttered to myself with a thick sense of helplessness on my face.

I looked at my watch, it was more than ten o'clock in the morning, and I was still very much looking forward to the hot dishes and hot meals at noon, and I was very excited.

The solar storm has been dissipating for a long time, and the temperature in the north has fallen to the bottom by this time. It is no exaggeration to say that even if you spit and foam outside, before the spit hits the ground, it has already become an ice hockey puck.

Although everyone seems to be very safe now, there is food and shelter, but there is no heating stove or anything in the house, just a small room. At night, if the temperature is too low, you will get sick. Now it is different from the past, I couldn't afford to get sick before, because I was afraid of losing money. Now I can't afford to get sick because I'm afraid of losing my life.

"Meiqi, you and the general take a rest here, I'll go see if there is any firewood or something, boil some boiling water to drink, warm up."

"Okay."

Maggie nodded at me obediently.

But when I got out, I was a little blindsided. Just now, I was patronizing and cleaning up my things, as well as dealing with the cerebellar axe incident, and I didn't have time to look at the overall layout of the temple in detail, and I was not familiar with the environment here. I don't know where there is firewood, where there is well water. Now I happen to have nothing to do, so I simply go to look for it, so as not to have water for cooking and firewood, which will be a ruin.

The courtyard was empty outside, and the bosses all went back to their houses to rest. Actually, I didn't have any hostility towards them, I just wanted to be safe. Now the world is not as good as before, this disaster has given the people of the world a chance to be reborn, but there are only two options for rebirth, good people and bad people. But the good news is that the choice is ours.

Walking out of the yard, there is a small garden in front of you, which covers an area of not very large, only about ten square meters. Unfortunately, it was winter, the grass leaves were yellow, and the birds and insects did not sing.

Looking at the bare willow trees in front of me, I felt a little like those literati and writers, and my sadness was overflowing. Walking on this stone-decorated path, listening to your footsteps, your body and mind are more relaxed than ever

Come. Although the outbreak of mutant cells had only lasted for a few days, it felt like I hadn't seen such a clean place for a long time.

Turn right and walk out of the garden to the main hall where the monks chant and meditate. It is not so much the main hall as it is a slightly larger hall, because from the outside, although the shape is simple and atmospheric, but it is a little less luxurious, I think it should not be built locally, it is very likely that the boss funded the construction in his own name.

"What is the reason why the donor has come?"

I was observing when I saw the white-bearded and white-eyebrow abbot walking slowly out of the main hall, and then spoke slowly.

"Ah, excuse me, abbot, I'm just here to get acquainted with the environment, and by the way, look for where there is wood and water, and we want to make some food ourselves."

I said very politely.

"Then the donor should come and sit with the poor monk, the poor monk has a lot of questions to ask the donor for advice."

When the host said this, there was a bit of confusion and sorrow in his eyes.

"That.. Well, lead the way. ”

I don't have anything to refuse, just take it as small talk, and I don't have much to do right now anyway.

With that, the abbot led me to an arched stone door on the left hand side of the main hall.

Passing through the stone gate, there are neat rows of monks' dormitories, about twenty or thirty rooms, which are the same as the rooms we live in, but they are more compact and dense.

The abbot lived in a room about the same size as the one I lived in, and the furnishings were identical, except for a small stove with an ordinary teapot on it. It seems that this host is pure in the heart and has few desires, and is dedicated to the Buddha.

"Donor, please be seated."

The abbot made a gesture of please for me to sit down.

"Ah, please."

It was the first time in my life that I had spoken alone with such a monk, and I was a little nervous, but I had not forgotten the proper etiquette.

With that, the abbot began to light a fire and boil water.

After a few minutes, the lid of the kettle began to beat restlessly, the spout whistled crisply, and the room gradually warmed up.

Two brown teacups were placed in front of me and the abbot, who made me and himself a cup of tea, and that's when the theme began.

"Donor, can you tell the poor monk what is happening in this world? The poor monk didn't know anything about it. ”

The host asked me and looked at me calmly.

Through the rising white mist, I could faintly see the uneasiness in the abbot's eyes.

I paused, not knowing where to start. It's too long to say it from the beginning, and if you don't say it from the beginning, you can't understand it, and you can't say it for a while. But the abbot seemed to wonder what was going on, and spoke first.

"A few days ago, the woodcutter in my temple went up the mountain to chop wood, and on the way back, he met a woodcutter, and he wanted to say hello, but the woodcutter pounced on him without saying a word. Tearing down, the woodcutter bit him on the arm. When he returned, he began to have a high fever, and soon he was silent..."

The abbot said this, with a slight choked voice in his voice. A monk is also a human being, even if he is detached from the world and the six roots are pure, he cannot look down on everything. After all, he is also a human being, and if he is a human being, he has feelings, which is an attribute that comes in our genes.

Alas, this was not over, but just as the poor monk and the disciples were about to take care of his funeral, he suddenly got up from the ground. It is the same as the appearance of the woodcutter he said, and he pounces when he sees people. Fortunately, several monks of the courtyard restrained him, and now he is locked in the firewood room. ”

After listening to the abbot's statement, I shook my head helplessly, and at the same time sighed deeply.

"Abbot, don't blame me for speaking badly, in fact, your apprentice is dead."

Hearing my words, the wrinkled skin on the abbot's old face twitched slightly, and even the snow-white beard, which was more than ten centimeters long, trembled.

"To put it simply, he's been infected by mutant cells, which you can understand as a virus. Now this body is controlled by mutant cells, and the real one is dead, and he is no longer your apprentice. ”

I explained to the abbot in as plain language as possible,

Hopefully he understands what I mean.

The abbot looked at me in disbelief, as if seeking the last shred of hope, hoping that what I said was just a joke. I nodded heavily, extinguishing the last glimmer of hope in the abbot's heart.

The abbot finally slowly closed his eyes and nodded slightly.

I know he's uncomfortable, but I can't help it, almost everyone has lost their loved ones since the outbreak of mutant cells, including me.

"Abbot, let's mourn and change, this place is already considered lucky, our city has been completely destroyed, otherwise we wouldn't have come here."

"You mean the world has been.."

The abbot was even more shocked when he heard what I said. I nodded in affirmation.

"The host doesn't have to worry, according to my observation, these infected people have a very low IQ, and the winding road is winding and winding, they shouldn't be able to go up to this temple."

I'm not talking big about it, I've verified it before, and the IQ of these infected people is really low. Except, of course, the evolutionary ones.

"Alas, I didn't expect this to happen... When retribution finally comes, will the world have done too many sins to be repaid? ...”

The abbot sighed sincerely, and between his eyebrows, he seemed to be much older.

Silence ensued, and the only sound in the room was the crackling of burning firewood. The space gradually became oppressive.

"Abbot, I don't think the scale of this temple is as large as other temples, this should be built at personal expense, right?"

The sudden silence in the room was deadly, so I chose to take the initiative to break the ice.

"That's right, this temple is a long story, the poor monk had saved a person's life when he was meditating on the mountain in the early years, this person later made a fortune, in order to repay the kindness, this is to build such a temple for the poor monk, so that the poor monk can continue to accumulate virtue and do good, worship the Buddha and chant sutras. It's been almost ten years now. ”

The abbot reminisces about the past. I also sighed in my heart, it is not easy to become a monk, choosing to become a monk is just an idea, but it takes a lifetime to stick to my beliefs.

"The poor monk thanked the donor, and thanked the donor for answering so many doubts for the poor monk."

This conversation is almost over, and the abbot seems to need to digest the information I have given.

"You're welcome, I'll say whatever I know. Don't be sad, now that everything has happened, we living people still have to live well. By the way, where can I find firewood and water? ”

It's time to get out of here, and there's no point in talking about it any longer.

"If the donor doesn't dislike it, the poor monk will cook some food in the temple at noon, and the donor doesn't have to do it himself. The poor monk would tell the kitchen to make more. ”

Knowing that I was leaving, the abbot directly invited all of us to eat with them.

"This can't be done, now that food is in short supply, it's already a favor for us that you can let us stay, we can't eat your food anymore, we have it ourselves."

I'm not the kind of person who takes advantage of it. Since we have the conditions to cook by ourselves, why bother to compete with these monks who have no quarrel with the world?

"In that case, it is also good, so the poor monk will let the benefactor take the benefactor to find firewood and water. Come, take this benefactor to find some firewood and water. ”

Seeing that I was resolute and did not force it, the abbot immediately asked Wu Nian to lead me to find what I was looking for.

"Yes, Abbot."

Through the door, the voice of Wu Nian came in.

I opened the door, and when I saw that it was me, I subconsciously took two steps back, and there seemed to be some fear in my eyes.

"Ahem, what are you afraid of? I'm not a bad person. ”

I had to explain in embarrassment, which made the abbot standing behind me look puzzled.

Wu Nian first took me to the demolition house to pick up bundles of firewood, and then took me to the bucket to carry a bucket of frozen water. And borrowed me a set of stands for making a fire.

With a bundle of firewood in my right arm, a stand in my hand, and a bucket of ice in my left hand, I staggered back to where we lived.