106 · Esoteric Religion I
"Why did you ask the madman to go with you?" Chen Jian sat on Bai Long and asked Bai Yao, "He is close to the human body, he should be able to help more on the way, right?"
"Crazy?" Bai Yao sneered and shook his head, "He's crazy, and he will inevitably cause trouble along the way, but you look like a smart person." Besides, I've always been on my own, and I don't need help from others. ”
"That's it......" Hearing Bai Yao's praise, Chen Jian didn't feel happy, thinking to himself what you asked me to come over for. But instead of asking, he asked, "Where are we going?"
"Central Hill. Bai Yao took out the time disk, "It will take half a year to arrive." ”
"Three months?!" Chen Jian almost rolled off the dragon's back. How long did it take him to get from the Wind Country to the Yellow Emperor Mountain?
"What's the matter? Three months is still not satisfied?" Bai Yao yawned.
She hadn't slept for four or five days in a row, and was already teetering on the brink of sudden death, but it was a trivial matter of no importance, and death and life were the same. She looked up at the fiery red sky where the heat wave rolled and sighed gloomily: "It's gone in the blink of an eye." ”
Chen Jian looked at Bai Yao's back and couldn't help but wonder: How long did she live in purgatory? After entering purgatory, her body would stop growing, so Chen Jian had always looked like a teenager, and Bai Yao still looked like a girl in her twenties. She was so young, what heinous crime did she commit to be sentenced to purgatory?
Although there is no shortage of "unjust, false and wrongful convictions" in purgatory, most people are guilty to follow.
The madman, Ye Liancheng, and some of the madman's companions on the way, they can all find the right charges in the world and be sent to purgatory, and there are very few people like Chen Jian who have been unjustly imprisoned due to the royal struggle.
However, he felt similar grievances and resentment to Bai Yao to himself.
She wants to escape from purgatory, and it seems that there is something extremely important waiting for her in the world, which is her motivation for survival.
"Bai Yao, why do you want to restore your human body?"
Bai Yao turned his head and looked at Chen Jian in surprise: "If you don't recover your body, how can you explore purgatory? Do you want to be like you, you can't run fast, jump far, and have clumsy limbs? You have already been swallowed by the sea of blood, and enduring pain is the price of exploring purgatory, and it is also the determination of all travelers." ”
Chen Jian nodded slightly: "Endure the pain...... Your body has fully recovered?"
"That's right. ”
"That ......" he hesitated for a moment, feeling disrespectful to ask.
"You want to ask me how much punishment I have to endure?" Bai Yao saw through Chen Jian's intentions.
"Yes. ”
"I can't count it," Bai Yao counted silently in his heart, "the more complete the physical body recovers, the more punishments will be added, and there may be hundreds of combinations." I'm used to it, and I never care about it. ”
Listening to Bai Yao calmly say the cruel reality, Chen Jian's lips trembled a little.
What kind of mentality did they have to resist all this? There were only two punishments imposed on Chen Jian, and he was already unbearable, and even wanted to let the beast eat it in order to return to the state of flesh.
But whether it is a white child or a madman, they all accept it silently and take it for granted.
"Why ......" Chen Jian felt his heart sour, and muttered in a low voice, "Why can you endure these ......?"
Bai Yao smiled softly, stroked Chen Jian's still thinning hair and said, "You have just come to purgatory, you are still human, and we have already become monsters, for us, pain is a normal physical activity - what you have to do is not to endure, but to accept, purgatory is like this," she smiled bitterly, "deceive yourself." The pain is no longer painful. ”
The pain that penetrates deep into the bone marrow, the wailing that runs through the brain...... How do you deceive these things?
"You have to take your time. Bai Yao sighed leisurely, "It was the same when I first came to Purgatory, and I was crying every day. I cried and fainted, and when I woke up, I continued to cry, and those lotus flowers kept blooming around me as if they were mocking me, and there were magnificent lotus flowers all over the mountains, and I don't know how many years later, I seemed to wake up suddenly, and I was used to the pain. I ate first plants, then I hunted animals, drank their blood, ate their flesh, and made their fur into a garment of shame. ”
Bai Yao pursed his lips and said self-deprecatingly: "Do you know that you are at peace with what you encounter? We are such monsters, even in such a world, we can still have a good life." ”
Chen Jian's eyes began to moisten, the experience during this time made him sentimental, the madman took him out of purgatory every day, so that he temporarily left behind a lot of sorrow, but Bai Yao's soothing voice led all those thoughts out, he felt sympathy and sorrow for his own experience, and couldn't help but fall into Bai Yao's arms.
Bai Yao gently patted his back: "Cry, it's no big deal." ”
There was not a hint of femininity in her, it was full of blood and the smell of beasts.
This is true for everyone.
"Bai Yao......" Chen Jian raised his head in a choked voice, "Why did you come to purgatory......?" What did you do?"
"I told you that you don't know. She shook her head.
"Tell me about it, there's still a long way to go anyway, and I'll tell you my story. Chen Jian pleaded.
The blood-red waves slapped the bodies of the two of them, and the blood clots scabbed over into shells on their bodies, and Bai Yao sat stiffly on the white dragon, silent for a long time.
"Let's go ashore. ”
Back on the shore, Bai Yao wiped the blood on his legs with a cloth that was too dirty to be dirty, and then fulfilled his promise and said: "Because I discovered a secret, they sent me to purgatory in order to hide it. ”
"Sure enough, you were also wronged!" Chen Jian just opened his mouth, and found that he had the feeling of being startled when a madman spoke.
"'Also'?" Bai Yao looked at Chen Jian, "Why were you sent to purgatory?"
"I'm a princess—do you know princess?
"Princess Tilting Lotus......" Bai Yao recalled this title, "I know that she is favored in the court and is a very lovely girl, and I seem to have a relationship with her." ”
"Girl?"
When did this happen?
Chen Jian asked, "When you were in the human world, who was the emperor?"
"Emperor Yanju. ”
"That's been a long time coming. The Emperor has died, and now his son has succeeded to the throne, and Princess Tinglian has listened to the government. ”
"Who?" Bai Yao was stunned, "the princess is listening to the government, are you joking?she, how could she do such a thing—I'm not saying she's incompetent, but she's naïve...... Could it be that someone else has controlled it?"
Hearing Bai Yao say this, Chen Jian was also puzzled.
His impression of the princess is cold and resolute, but he can hear a diametrically opposed princess from Bai Yao's mouth. Could it be a dual personality? However, Bai Yao only knew the young princess, and it was not impossible for her to become ruthless after experiencing the "edification" of the royal struggle.