With a long hiss~ waving his big wings, he slowly landed.

Dark Continent.

The outer layer is an eerie dark forest, with perennial fog and a place where poisonous insects and beasts are the most infested.

Surrounded by the dark forest, is the nameless abyss, which is called the sinkhole, and no one knows whether the sinkhole is deep or not, because the people who go down never come out alive. In the nameless abyss, it is the realm of nothingness where the soul of entry flies away.

Legend has it that the realm of nothingness is the execution ground for punishing the god of sin in ancient times, and it is the passage between the world and hell, not to mention mortals, even the gods go in, and there is no return.

Before she could enter the forest, Xingrou felt a chill piercing to her bones.

"You must be careful for a while, the demon beasts in here are not ordinary beasts, most of them are highly poisonous, try not to provoke them, avoid them if you can, if you really can't avoid them, you have to fight, and try not to let them touch ......" Jiuwang said with a solemn expression.

Xingrou nodded, and the two of them cautiously stepped into the forest.

The vines of the trees in the forest are intertwined with each other, like a large net of layers, blocking out the sun.

On the thick fallen leaves, you can see it everywhere, and the forest is full of white bones.

Some are very old, and when a gust of wind blows, the bones turn to ashes.

Some of the corpses had just begun to decompose, bleeding pus and blood, and had been gnawed beyond recognition by birds and animals.

There is also a corpse that has just died, and there is still a terrified expression on his face at the moment of death.

Xingrou didn't understand why so many people came to such a dangerous place. Are they all exiled sinners?

Seeing Xingrou's puzzled eyes, the Nine Kings understood what she was thinking, and explained, "There are exiles here, but most of them come by themselves. ”

Xingrou was curious: "Why?" ”

The corners of the Nine Kings' lips hooked, and they mocked: "People die for money, birds die for food." The Dark Continent, although it is a very dangerous place, is also a huge treasure, with many artifacts left behind by the ancient gods. Those who were destroyed by the gods, after they were wiped out, their artifacts were also left here, especially in the realm of nothingness, legend, there are countless artifacts, just get one, you can get rich from now on...... There are always some people who want to take risks to get it, and in the final analysis, they are greedy. ”

Xingrou nodded, remembering the story of Shakyamuni revealing the truth about human beings being entangled in desires:

A passer-by hurried to his home and suddenly noticed that there were a lot of white things scattered under his feet.

If you look closely, it turns out to be human bones.

He continued on his way, and a roaring tiger approached him.

Passers-by were taken aback and realized that the white bones in the ground turned out to be the bones of people who had been eaten by tigers.

As he thought, he hurriedly turned around and ran away as fast as he had come.

Finally, he came to the front of the cliff, below which was the rough sea, behind which was a tiger, and in a dilemma, the passer-by climbed a tree that grew on the edge of the cliff.

However, the tiger also spread its terrible claws and began to climb up the trees.

Passers-by were discouraged, and suddenly saw a rattan hanging from the branch in front of them, and slipped down the rattan.

However, the rattan broke in the middle, and the traveler was suspended in the air and was not allowed to go up and down.

The tiger above licked its tongue and stared at it, and below, on the rough sea, there were three evil dragons of red, black and blue, waiting for him, and they also wanted to eat him.

There was also a squeaking sound from above, and when I looked up, I saw two mice, black and white, gnawing at the roots of the rattan.

If the rattan is bitten off by a rat with its teeth, passers-by will have to fall towards the dragon with its bloody jaws wide open.

In the midst of this siege, he thought that the rats should be driven away first, so he tried to shake the rattan, and something warm fell on his face, and when he licked it, it was sweet honey.

It turns out that there is a beehive at the root of the rattan, and honey falls with every shake.

He loves sweet honey. Forgetting that he was at the end of his rope – despite the fact that he was caught between dragons and tigers and that the only life-saving rattan was being eaten by rats – he took the initiative to shake the rope again and again, reveling in the sweetness of honey.

In this story, the tiger symbolizes death or disease. The big tree symbolizes status, possessions, and fame, while the black and white mouse symbolizes day and night, that is, the passage of time.

Man is constantly threatened and chased by death, and is still attached to life.

However, life is as impermanent as a rattan and wears away over time, and year after year we get closer and closer to the death that seems to have escaped, but even if we shorten our own lives, we still want to get "honey".

This is the true face of human greed.

Xingrou looked at the white bones in front of her, and her heart was sad and dazed.