Chapter 21: The City
Actually, I'm not sure if they will agree, and I'm almost certain that Liu Shishi won't, but I just want to help them.
The things were quickly collected, and the hundreds of people quickly walked away, leaving only a table and a pile of empty baskets. If it weren't for the fact that they greeted Chang Cheng when they walked away with their things, I would have thought that those people couldn't see us.
Chang Cheng took two steps forward, sat down on the table with some difficulty, and handed me a pass, "Later, someone from the city will come and pull those things away, so you can just follow them back." Take this certificate and receive you to the Mercy Society. ”
"That's all?" I was a little surprised.
"There's nothing to see anymore." Chang Cheng said, "I originally wanted to lead you to walk more, but now I feel that our suffering is better as a secret, after all, we also have our dignity, and in order to maintain these dignity, we need this secret to do those dignified things." ”
I didn't quite understand what he meant, and wondered if this was the meaning of the joke that the poor man had prepared a piece of fat at home to wipe his mouth.
"You're still young...... Chang Cheng saw my doubts, smiled and said, "Just like my sheepskin jacket, it gives me dignity." ”
"I don't understand, if that makes you feel undignified, why let me know your predicament?"
"That's why I said you're young, if someone can heal my wounds, I won't cover them up, even if they make me more dignified!"
I nodded, still not quite understanding. I'm a very simple person in some things, some bookish spirits, always thinking about how things should be, there are few sleek things, and I don't know how to give and even more express what I want.
Chang Cheng stared at me and smiled, "When the sun sets, most of us will go to the outermost part to stand guard until dawn, and the cold wind at night will ...... Very comfortable. ”
I also laughed, "When is the car coming?" ”
"It's coming, it takes time to load, and drivers need to leave before dark because they don't want to see what we look like when we go to work."
I looked at the sturdy old man, "What did you do before?" ”
"Me?" Chang Cheng was stunned for a moment, "Do you know the Great Mercy and Grace Temple?" ”
"Yes, Big Wild Goose Pagoda!"
"I grew up there, and I know that the catastrophe is coming!"
"Are you a monk?"
"Not anymore. How? Doesn't look like it? ”
I can't find a trace of a monk in him, and besides, how can a monk tattoo a Buddha image on his body?
Chang Cheng probably saw that my eyes kept looking at his back, smiled and said: "Gejia is rampant, the world is already hell, everyone is suffering, who will enter if I don't go to hell?" That's why I'm still in the world. I have been a monk since I was a child, and my body is like a Bodhi clean, and I can cut it off, so I cut off my own leg. From your point of view, how do I not look like a monk? ”
"You're talking about...... "I'm not good at playing this kind ......of wit, so I have to follow his words."
"My senior brother is the real great virtue, who went out of the city alone, voluntarily fell into the evil ghost path, and wanted to use his own strength to transform the world Gejia. I'm still far from it! Chang Cheng looked into the distance and sighed.
"Your senior brother has changed Gejia himself?" I asked in shock, feeling in my heart that this senior brother was really stupid, "How can Gejia be able to save without humanity?" ”
Although I don't agree with his approach, I don't think I have the courage to do it. All living beings are suffering, where does suffering come from? Cihang Pudu, but how can people and ghosts go the same way? ”
I thought he meant it so much that I couldn't digest it, and I was thinking about what to say when I heard the sound of a car in the distance.
"Don't think about it, young man, you know it. The car is coming, it's time for you to go. Chang Cheng said.
A pickup truck dragged a huge bucket and drove slowly, gasping for breath to stop, the door opened, and a man jumped down, nodded at us and went over to move things.
"Feng Yan, you tell him, I'll lead the guests back." Chang Cheng commanded.
Feng Yan nodded and left, and we went back to the tent.
After starting the car, Chang Cheng stood next to him and said, "This time, we may never see each other again." Send you a word, look at the heart to know the future, you can savor. ”
I wanted to shake my head and say I didn't understand, but I felt a little embarrassed, so I could only nod. Chang Cheng turned around very simply and walked into the tent, and Liu Dongxi started the car.
"Why does this old man look like a monk?" Liu Dongxi asked.
"Before, he was a monk!" I replied.
"Okay is the master!" A voice suddenly came from the earphones, it was Wang Dake!
"Okay? Dake, do you know him? ”
"I've met once, and I can't really see it, but when I heard you say it, I remembered, is he from the Great Mercy and Grace Temple?"
"That's right." I was stunned for a moment, Wang Dake would know him, I really didn't expect it.
"Why didn't you say it just now?"
"Does it make sense for me to say that?" Wang Dake asked rhetorically.
I didn't say anything at once, this Nizi said it was really good, but the words were too choking.
"This person ......," I said, and stopped, not knowing what I wanted to say.
Liu Dongxi parked the car, and people from the city in front of him were still loading the car. "Come with him into town?"
"Let's take a trip......," I replied.
"I heard everything just now, do you really want to wade into this troubled water?"
I looked at the tattered bag in front of me, "This old man Chang volunteered to be sick and led these people to stay here, I can't bear his efforts in vain!" ”
"It's all politics, and it doesn't make sense if you get involved!" Liu Dongxi said.
"They may detain and kill us, they may discover our secrets and study us, and they may slice the little monster you persuaded us to save, have you thought about it?"
"I can go into town by myself!" I looked at Liu Shishi and said, in fact, my heart was already muddy by his words.
"Less of this! You know there's no way we're going to let you die! Liu Dongxi said.
I stared at him, and my heart began to shake again.
Liu Shixin suddenly smiled, "Let's go and see, we all want to know what the last hope of mankind looks like!" ”
I smiled and didn't speak, and my heart felt like a big stone had been dropped.
It was getting late, and the shadows of the tent gradually became one, and the man finally loaded the car, walked over and banged on our window vigorously, "Feng Yan told me, you follow me into the city!" ”
The man's voice was muffled because he was wearing an old-fashioned gas mask, but we understood his words. Liu Dongxi nodded at him and released the handbrake.
The car followed the mountain of baskets slowly, and it was already a little dark, and some people began to staggered out of the tents. After about two miles of walking, we were out of the shack. It was almost dark, and I could see in the rearview mirror the crowd of people walking in the opposite direction like zombies on the road behind me.
I know they're not zombies, they're cities. We're already in town!