Chapter Ninety-Six: Mutation
What are they going to do?
I could see a strong reluctance in the pain of the twelve.
If I can accept that these two old men were stabbed 12 times like this, I can't accept that they still have to be tortured, and at my age I don't want to believe that death is happening right in front of my eyes.
Even though they are wearing shrouds, their conversations with people are full of hints!
But that's not the reason for me to believe it, just because there are their fellow villagers and even their own children standing on the top of this mountain.
In my heart, even if it is against the sky, if my relatives and friends are not guilty, I will never watch them die in front of me like this.
This is a deep-rooted thought, as if it comes from the soul, just like the obsession that Master said, but I don't care, there is a sentence that I remember very clearly, but I can't fully understand it, but I believe it, and Master once said that only with self-attachment can I break it, and only with self-attachment can I cross it. Only after breaking the obsession can there be sublimation.
"If you can't get over it, it's the biggest hurdle in your heart. can be obsessed with one after another, so how many such ups and downs there are, unknown. "Master was drunk that day, but he just said something like crazy.
In short, I let this thought remain in my soul safely, because I received a Taoist education, and I know that everything is a chance, and until the day I can break it, I can't pretend to be able to pretend, because I can't fool anyone's heart.
So, under this thought, I just don't want to believe that these two old people will die.
Ironically, my innocence was shattered in the next moment, and the twelve men carried the two old men in two directions, one towards the hillside where there was a stone monument, and the other in the direction where Brother Zhengchuan and I were.
"Don't look." At this time, Brother Zhengchuan suddenly whispered to me, and then covered my eyes.
What is going to happen? I insisted on pulling Brother Zhengchuan's hand covering my eyes, but Brother Zhengchuan used a lot of strength, and I couldn't pull it away even if I struggled.
I don't know why a wave of anger rose in my heart, that is, I stubbornly wanted to pull away Brother Zhengchuan's hand, in a hurry, I made a relatively large movement, Brother Zhengchuan had to hold me down, and said: "Third child, even if you see something, you have to be calm." It's brutal."
There was a hint of sadness in his voice, and when he finally took his hand away, I saw the most brutal scene of my life.
On our side was the old woman, who did not know how to do it, and was fixed to the most dense part of the branches of the treacherous tree, almost obscuring her body by the dense branches.
The six men had already left, and a raging fire was burning on the top of the mountain, and it was the white flowers sent by the people of the village before that were burned, and the dust was flying, and the village chief had somehow gotten another bottle of inferior liquor, and while drinking, he hummed a village tune.
The song seems to mean farewell to the old man, and the tune is desolate and sad
No one spoke, and the whole atmosphere was extremely depressing, and after my brain went blank for a short time, the recurring image in my mind was the image of the blood on Brother Zhengchuan's fingers being sucked dry with just a slight touch.
And then there is the picture of the pig's heart being sucked dry, broken into several pieces and falling to the ground
Brother Zhengchuan covered my eyes just now, I didn't see how the old man in front of me was sent to the tree, but it didn't prevent me from being angry at this moment! Why is this possible? Watching his fellow villagers (dealine) being sent to a dead end!
No, it should be the people of this village who sent them to their own end! In my opinion, even if there are 10,000 reasons why this cannot be done
I almost couldn't suppress the 'Teng' and stood up, and the bushes around me made a small sound Brother Zhengchuan obviously didn't know that I would be like this, and he didn't have time to pull me at all.
Seeing that we were about to be exposed, it was at this time that a terrible scream came from the canopy of the tree, and the tragedy finally began, and the devilish branches began to suck blood!
It was at this time that Brother Zhengchuan grabbed me and pulled me into the bushes!
"Brother, why are you" I want to question Brother Zhengchuan, why can you not save you when you see death, but I don't want to just say four words, and Brother Zhengchuan covered his mouth stiffly.
His voice rang in a low voice: "If you think that reckless impulsiveness can save people, not harm them!" If I let it go, you can't hear it, can't you see it, this is a village that has suffered for generations? Don't you see their reluctance, but they have to do it? You think you're saving people, maybe you're hurting more people Now, you finally understand, why do I understand this qiē? Not only to prove, but never dare to forget Master's words, the art learned, used for benevolence and righteousness, is for my way, for my name, for my life! We're going to do this, and we're going to save a whole village, not just these two people. ”
After saying this, Brother Zhengchuan slowly let go of my continuous screams, covering up our movements just now, and no one noticed that something was wrong.
And after I was let go by Brother Zhengchuan, I suddenly knelt down in the bushes, clutching the soil on the ground with both hands, in the screams, my heart was constantly tormented, the same words, the master also said to me, and once jokingly said to me: "Xiao Zhengling, don't you want to be a hero?" This is the state of mind that a hero should have. However, it is not enough to have a heart, you also have to learn the ability well. Otherwise, let's be honest and be a person who was saved by a hero. ”
At the time, I didn't think so, but now I hate it.
If I had the master's ability, I would have to come forward at this time, save these two old men, and then go to destroy the demons hidden under the mountain, what else do I need to endure?
In my heart, Master has this ability!
But now only me and Brother Zhengchuan are here, so we have to learn such a cruel choice, and the first time I faced the helplessness in life, I found that my previous naïve life is really a tangled and painful process.
"Master may also have no choice, that's why we need to pass it on. Always believe in one thing, as long as it is passed on, there is always hope to break through the darkness. I think the people in this village think the same way. "I'm naïve after all, and I can hear too little information from these people's conversations.
And Brother Zhengchuan is a real adult, he may have seen through more things before he said such things to me.
I just closed my eyes in pain, and even if I blocked my ears, I couldn't hide the continuous screams and the sad and desolate farewell song
It was a torture, every second was so sad until I don't know how long it was, and the screams in my ears gradually faded until they disappeared
At this time, I dared to open my eyes, the fire burning with white flowers on the top of the mountain had been extinguished, and the old man hanging on the tree had turned into a shriveled corpse, and at the moment I opened my eyes, it coincidentally fell from the thickest part of the branches of the tree to the ground with a dull sound.
My heart hurts, I was still a living person before!
At this time, the waiting villagers had a new move, and the twelve strong men came out again, carried the two shriveled corpses to the top of the mountain, dug two shallow pits on the top of the mountain, and buried the bodies on the top of the mountain in silence!
Then the whole village walked over the burial place, trampled the earth tightly, and then did some work to erase the traces, and the people of the village went down the mountain in silence!
The light of the fire gradually faded away, as if it had never happened, and the top of the mountain was restored to its original appearance, because even the traces were carefully cleaned up by the people of this village.
But Brother Zhengchuan and I chose to pant with our backs against the boulder almost at the same time, this is a torture for our souls, we can't go down the mountain immediately as if nothing happened, we need a little time to calm down.
"Third child, you know what? When I was eight years old, I came out to walk north and south with Master, and every year I had to spend two months of the so-called 'walking the rivers and lakes and seeing the red dust' in Master's mouth, and I also encountered some strange things, but I had never seen such a thing, and I felt very uncomfortable. The people in the village have already gone away, and judging from the footsteps, they are about to reach the position of the mountainside, and Brother Zhengchuan's voice has also been released.
Full of pain and sorrow.
I don't know what to say, I remembered the bloody dirt on the top of the mountain, how many people's flesh and bones were buried? I can only be silent.
After a while, Brother Masakawa said, "I seem to remember something, but it's very vague. However, let's not stay on the mountain, let's go down? ”
"Good!" I just don't want to stay for a moment.
However, as soon as Brother Masakawa and I stood up, the whole mountain shook, and the damn heartbeat-like vibration that only I could feel reappeared.
In the distance, perhaps very close, there was a long wolf howl.
Even the hazy furry moon was covered by the drifting clouds, and the moonlight was bleak!