Chapter 295: Self-Grasping
The fire was relentless, and soon burned to the side of the mountain, and everyone felt the rolling heat. The people who were originally sitting on the ground couldn't hold on, so they all got up and ran, forming a huge wave of people rushing towards us. It was really crowded here, and everyone was quite afraid of the hellish scene, but with so many people, this terrifying atmosphere was diluted.
The quality of the people here is quite high, and when it comes to life and death, I don't see who is crazy, everyone is helping the old and the young, and supporting each other. The young lady and her family were scattered and fell to the ground, and I saw that I couldn't pretend not to see, so I went over and helped her up. She cried and said, "You really burned this fire?" ”
I nodded silently.
The young lady punched me in the chest: "Don't worry about me. As he spoke, he squeezed into the crowd with his skirt.
I was stunned, and the cat on the ground sneered: "What's the matter, tempted? Do you still think it's just a painting? ”
I ignored it, followed the crowd forward, the fire was blazing, the more people crowded, the more crowded they were, the crowd was still surging. The power of a single person can be completely ignored, and the entire crowd forms a huge whirlpool, and it can't find where the nodes are, so they can only rush forward with the current.
As I walked, infinitely tumbling black clouds appeared in the sky, like waves in the Black Sea, which was extremely spectacular. I saw the crowd in front of me falling down the edge of the towering cliff in rows like leeks.
They didn't want to drop it, but they couldn't stand the crowd behind them, and they squeezed hard. I was so anxious that I shouted, don't squeeze everyone, don't squeeze. But everyone can't help themselves. The cat climbed onto the head of a man next to me, crouched on his shoulder, and sneered at me.
The closer we got to the cliff, the more cold I felt, and when I looked down, it was an abyss, and I couldn't describe what I saw when I didn't see the bottom. Below the cliff is the pitch black of nothingness, and you can quickly feel a sense of emptiness and oppression, how big can this huge space of nothingness be? It's unimaginable that this is the source of the chilling fear.
The people in front of me fell in rows, and when they went down, they went down, and without even a movement, they were swallowed up by nothingness.
The cat said, "This is already on the edge of the painting, and the fire will eventually burn everything without leaving a trace." As long as you beg for mercy and say that you are wrong, I can still take you out, and that green snake will not bother me again in the future. ”
"I was wrong," I said, "and my fault is not to apologize to you, but to the person in the painting." In fact, there is a reason that you should think that since you have created life on paper, then this life must be as fragile as paper. ”
The cat sneered: "What's the use of saying this, I see what you will do when you die." ”
By this time I had reached the edge of the cliff, and I was pushed from behind, and I fell down.
At the moment of falling, I suddenly grasped a raised stone at the bottom of the cliff, and at that moment, the young lady also fell, and I grabbed her hand with my quick hand.
Now I hold the stone with one hand and the young lady with the other, and the two of them hang in mid-air. The cat was hovered over the stone, looking down at me with contempt in its eyes.
At this time, many people on the cliff fell down like dumplings. I looked down, and the abyss below was so dark that I didn't dare to look at it anymore, for fear of losing the will to live.
The scene was so deadlocked, and I don't know how long it took, and no one had fallen. My feet found a foothold on the cliff and I struggled with one hand to finally reach the top. The cat had been following and had not taken the opportunity to fall into the well.
In its previous life, it was a proud silver fox layman, and it really disdained to use that kind of small means, it just convinced me.
I finally climbed to the cliff and dragged the young lady up, she was already tossing and dying, and suddenly cried, and beat me weakly: "Why are you saving me, it is better to die." ”
At this time, I saw that the fire had reached the edge of the cliff, and the flames were rolling all around, and all I could see was fire, and even the sky was gone. And the places where the fire burned have become the same abyss below, and now the cliff where we are has become the only isolated island in the fire.
The cat coiled next to me, licking its paws: "Hurry up and tell me for mercy, if you don't beg for mercy, you will die, you won't think that the world here is fake." Let me tell you, in this painting there is no difference between dead and really dead, both are ashes. ”
"If you stay here, you'll die, why don't you leave?" I sat cross-legged on the ground and asked it calmly.
The cat jokingly said, "I want to see you say goodbye, don't worry, you won't hold out until the moment I can't get out." I'm going to paint your ugly appearance and show it to the green snake, and she won't bother me anymore in the future. ”
"Well, I was wrong." I say.
The cat sneered: "Don't play with words, say it all, what's wrong." ”
The fire had already burned three meters away, and when a heat wave hit, I said, "I want to ask you for something." ”
"What?" The cat asked.
I looked at the unconscious lady next to me and said, "She is the only survivor of this world in the painting, after you get out of the painting, try to prevent her from dying and take her away with you." ”
The cat circled around me twice: "I didn't expect you to be a lover and fall in love with her after such a while?" Such a girl, as long as I have supernatural powers, I can draw ten or eight with a single stroke, what's the use of bringing her? ”
I sat cross-legged and watched the fire fly: "That's your attachment. Silver Fox Layman, you keep saying that you want to create a world, but you always treat this world as a piece of paper. Don't speculate, I have no love for this girl, and since she is a conscious being, she should not be buried for our gamble. ”
"Don't pretend to be a good person here," the cat sneered: "Why didn't you intercede when so many people died, but when it came to this girl, you started playing this, hypocrite." ”
"A hypocrite is in the wrong mouth, but I am the same in my heart." I put lotus flowers on my legs with my hands and closed my eyes slightly: "The words have been made clear to you, whether you can save this girl or not depends on your thoughts." ”
"Then you will be wiped out with this world." The cat said coldly.
I said, "It is not me who destroys with the world, but ego." What I can't put down is just a piece of paper, and what you can't put down is the heart behind this paper. After you go out, you can't put it down or you can't put it down, and you should be tangled or tangled. ”
At this time, the fire had burned to a meter away, and there was a sea of fire all around, and the cat was wandering back and forth on the ground anxiously, and it meowed, "How can I put it down?" ”
At this juncture of life and death, I am calm and transparent, "Self-grasping is me, and if you let go of 'me', you will naturally let go of self-grasping." ”
The fire was getting closer and closer, and I could already feel the flames licking my face, and in the next moment, I suddenly felt cool all over me, and the flames were gone.
I slowly opened my eyes and saw that I was back in the Buddha hall, and the cat was lying on the futon next to me and watching me. The whole scene seemed to have never changed, I scanned the paper sliding doors around me, and was surprised to see that all the paintings were gone, and the paper was burned out, leaving only the black shelves, but fortunately the Buddha hall did not burn.
The cat looked at me, walked to the door, opened a gap, a breeze blew in outside, swept away the full house of fireworks, at this time a scrap of paper drifted with the wind, is falling on my hand, I picked it up and looked, this is the size of a cigarette box of white paper, the surrounding fire burned into an irregular zigzag, in the middle of the white paper, is a Danqing painted, fluttering lady picture. The lady above has deep eyes and yellow hair, a clever smile and beautiful eyes, and she is the young lady who survived in the world in the painting.
The cat looked back at me, a meaningful smirk on its lips.
I opened the door of the Buddhist hall and walked out, and before I knew it, the morning sun came out, and the whole courtyard was bathed in sunlight, and I took a deep breath.
The cat didn't leave, but followed me, when someone stepped through the courtyard gate and came in, it was Master Green Snake. She walked slowly to us, looked at me, and then at the cat, and a rare smile appeared on her face: "Master Feng said why didn't you go to the spring to eliminate karma today, it turned out that you successfully caught Mimi, congratulations." ”
The cat was very dissatisfied with the wording of the green snake master's "caught", and meowed.
"Can I see Huang Xiaotian?" I say.
Master Green Snake made a gesture of please, and the two of us walked out of the backyard with a cat and walked forward. It was five o'clock in the morning, and some of the lay people had already gotten up to clean the courtyard, and when they saw us coming, they all smiled and stopped what they were doing, and nodded slightly.
We went to the front yard and entered the Buddhist hall where we were doing our homework, Master Green Snake kept walking inside, and the cat and I followed, and we went into the meditation room inside.
As soon as I entered, I saw four futons placed on the ground, and on one of the futons was a weasel sitting with a big grin, leaning on the futon with his legs crossed like a human, leaning on the futon, very leisurely.
I smiled when I saw it, it was Huang Xiaotian Huang Sect Master.
Master Green Snake motioned to sit down, and she sat on another futon, and there were exactly four futons here, and the cat and I had places. This green snake master can, she seems to have calculated it, I will definitely take the cat in.