24. The Grim Reaper of the Gate of Destruction has descended

Master Du looked at Ji Chengyu and said, "Although the prince has saved his life, he can no longer return to Ji City, I don't know what to do in the future?"

Ji Chengyu was also distressed about this matter, not knowing where to go. Seeing Master Du'e asking, he thought that he asked Xiao Tong Duxin to go to him specifically, and guessed that Du'e must have an arrangement. Then he said: "Cheng Yu is also worried about this matter, I don't know where to go in the future, and I ask Master Du for guidance." ”

The old ape interjected on the side and said, "Didn't you say that you would go back to guard Grandpa's grave?"

Master Du Er smiled slightly and said, "Prince Ji is big-minded, and he is in a square place, which is not what he wants. ”

looked at Ji Chengyu again and said, "Since the day Prince Ji was born, he has brought disaster to Ji Cheng, and he has not been close to women for the rest of his life. This is not the gibberish of charlatans. According to my calculations, Prince Ji did sow the evil cause in his previous life, so he has today's evil consequences, doesn't the prince want to know the reason for this?"

"Of course I want to know. Ji Chengyu blurted out, bowed to Master Du'er, and said, "Please help me." ”

Seeing that Ji Chengyu was so anxious, Master Du Yi smiled and said: "The road to knowledge is full of thorns and hardships everywhere, I don't know if Prince Ji can endure the hardships?"

Ji Chengyu said resolutely: "I grew up in the mountains and jungles since I was a child, and I have suffered all kinds of hardships, so I ask the master to make it clear." ”

Master Watari still smiled and said, "I wonder what Prince Ji thinks of power, money, and women?"

Ji Chengyu thought for a while, and then said: "Power is used by the people, and those in power should work for the well-being of all people." A man should control money, not be fooled, not be harmed, and not ask for undivided wealth, but let the excess wealth be generous and give to the people. As for women, I am the body of a woman who is destined to be a woman, and I can't get close to women in my life, if he breaks this curse one day, I would like to choose a woman and die old. ”

Master Du nodded while listening, and when Ji Chengyu finished speaking, he couldn't help but smile, and seemed to be extremely satisfied with Ji Chengyu's answer, and said: "I will lead you to a place to help you break the curse of your previous life, but fulfill your long-cherished wish in this life." ”

When Ji Chengyu heard Master Du Er say this, he was immediately surprised, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Ji Chengyu, thank you Master for your success." ”

Master Do'e said, "Get up and come with me!" and said to Watar and the old ape, "Wait here." ”

After saying that, Watari bypassed the left side of the statue, exited the main hall through the back door, and entered the backyard.

The backyard is very large, with towering ancient trees and strange stones. Watar made a quick pass through a trail in the dense forest in the backyard and came to the north under a rock wall.

There is no road further, the stone wall stands thousands of miles, the surface is smooth, there is a cave at the bottom, there is a stone gate at the entrance of the cave, and there are three big characters above the entrance of the cave: the cave of robbery. Ji Chengyu looked at the surrounding terrain and found that only one road in the backyard could lead to the stone cave, if he wanted to come from several other directions, even if he had the ability to reach the sky, it was absolutely impossible. For there were no roads in those directions, and the stone walls were so high that they were so smooth that there was not even a small tree to draw on, not a single rattan, or a stone protruding.

Du Er stood at the door of the stone cave, facing the stone gate, his hands were folded, I don't know what he was reading, the stone door creaked open, and a strong cold wind burst out from it, which made Ji Chengyu shiver uncontrollably, and a dense layer of goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body.

Du Er looked back at Ji Chengyu and said: "Prince, this stone gate is called the Crossing Robbery Gate, inside is the Crossing Cave, from the Crossing Gate into the Crossing Cave, you will encounter a lot of temptations, if you can resist the temptation with concentration, you can enter the Crossing Cave, if you can't resist any of these temptations, you will instantly forget all the memories of the past, like a newborn baby, go or not, please make a decision." ”

Ji Chengyu thought of all the hardships he had suffered, and thought of the dull-eyed fake dead man Red Yu, and his heart was already sworn to die, and he did not change his color at the moment, and asked: "Master Duai, I have made up my mind, the sky is immutable, the earth is immutable, and the people are immutable." ”

"Amitabha. Master Do'e folded his hands together and said with joy on his face, "Prince, you may go in." I'll wait for you at the other end for a pillar of incense, and if you can come, I'll take you into the cave. If you can't come, I'll close the gate and send you out of the temple. ”

Ji Chengyu did not hesitate to raise his feet and walk into the stone gate.

A desolate land, the land is parched and there is no grass. A few thatched huts, dilapidated and open-air, ruined walls, a group of beggars, dirty clothes, and mourning all over the field.

A bleak and miserable scene of purgatory on earth.

Ji Chengyu lay down under a dead tree, his clothes were tattered, he couldn't cover his body, his whole body was pustures, bleeding and pus, and his life was in danger. A pair of godless eyes, looking half-dead into the distance through the messy hair.

Next to him, there was a man and three women, all young, but had been dead for a long time, their bodies curled up, densely covered with flies, emitting a pungent stench.

Ji Chengyu hadn't eaten for a few days and nights, he didn't have the slightest strength, and he couldn't even shed tears of grief before he died. He rolled his eyes with great difficulty, looking at the dead men lying beside him, believing that he would soon die like them, perhaps in less than an hour, and then he would be pecked by flies, and his flesh would rot and turn into dry bones, and finally merge with the earth. Later people can no longer tell which ones are ashes and which ones are dirt.

All the people here will die one after the other, just like them. Turned to bones, to ashes, and vanished, and no one knew that they had ever been there, and no one knew how they died.

Ji Chengyu was a little unwilling, but his consciousness had begun to be messy, he didn't remember how he lived in the previous decades, but he remembered that his life seemed to have been wandering, walking a lot of places, getting more and more desolate, and never stopped. Where was he born, where he grew up, who were his parents, why did he become the way he is? I have forgotten it.

Ji Chengyu is very reluctant to recall now, because there is no hope. People who have no hope are reluctant to recall their past, and good memories may make them feel at ease even when they die.

What's more, Ji Chengyu doesn't seem to have even a good memory.

However, there is one more thing that Ji Chengyu will never forget, that woman. It was the only thing he didn't want to forget, even though it was painful for him. Even the pain caused by the abscess on his body, Ji Chengyu couldn't feel it anymore. And the pain brought to him by that woman's death has always been like a cold cone.

She is Ji Chengyu's wife, a woman who has lived together for less than a month, not beautiful, but very kind. Or to be precise, Ji Chengyu can't be called a lady yet, because they didn't hold a wedding, she was just a woman Ji Chengyu met on the wandering road, in a room at the foot of the mountain, guarding an acre of thin land, the woman's husband had just died on the battlefield, and the child was stillborn, and the woman took him in when Ji Chengyu was about to die. He was revived with the nai water he had prepared for the child in his womb.

When lying in the woman's arms and sucking her RU head hard, Ji Chengyu didn't know whether the woman saw him as a man or her own child, Ji Chengyu only knew that the woman's movements were gentle, and suddenly, Ji Chengyu felt as if she was lying in her mother's arms.

Ji Chengyu was sick for a long time, and the woman kept feeding him with nai water. When Ji Chengyu finally got better, the woman was sick. She had no food and fed her hunger with weeds all day long, but she had to provide him with water, and Ji Chengyu emptied the woman's body.

On the third day when Ji Chengyu got better, the woman died.

The woman can save Ji Chengyu with her own nai water, but Ji Chengyu has nothing to save the woman and can only watch her die miserably.

Ji Chengyu dug a grave in the middle of the small dilapidated house and buried the woman. He knelt down at the grave and told her that if he was given a chance, he would find a piece of land for the woman to grow crops, build a strong house that was impermeable, and build her a hospital to heal her, but he felt that these wishes could only be thought of, and that they could not be fulfilled in this life. In fact, what he wanted to do most was to set up a monument for women, with the names of two people engraved on it: Ji Chengyu and Ziniang. But even such a small wish, he can't realize it, because he doesn't have a copper shell.

Ji Chengyu regarded Ziniang as his wife, and swore in front of the grave that he would guard her like jade in this life and never get close to women again.

Ji Chengyu felt that there was only this for Ziniang.

A fly sucked too much blood and was about to die, Ji Chengyu tried his best to reach out and catch it. It lies in the palm of his hand and does not run. This is the only living thing that Ji Chengyu can catch at the moment, and the only thing that can be used as food. He tried to stuff the fly into his mouth and eat it, but the fly jumped and ran, as if he was deliberately playing a joke with him, or deliberately laughing at him, laughing at him for being a dying man, and that he would be so greedy.

Ji Chengyu was not angry, and cracked his mouth, but he didn't laugh in the end. It's all dying, what are you fighting with a fly?

Not far away, there were heart-rending cries, and it seemed that another loved one had died. Ji Chengyu suddenly felt very envious, and he could cry with such a loud voice, which showed that that person would definitely live longer than him. Although the loss of a loved one is a painful thing.

Ji Chengyu thought of that woman again, the woman she buried in the small broken house, and tore his heart to the point of crying blood.

Ji Chengyu closed his eyes tiredly, thinking about nothing anymore, and he didn't want to think about anything. He said to himself, how good it is to die, to turn into mud and ashes, to see or hear, not to know the pain, not to know the suffering, how good it is!

I don't know when, Ji Chengyu felt as if there was one more person in front of him, "Hey, Ji Chengyu, wake up." He felt the man shake his arm vigorously, as if calling a person's name.

"Ji Chengyu, is my name Ji Chengyu?" Ji Chengyu asked himself in his heart, he wanted to open his eyes, but he didn't have any strength at all. Ji Chengyu had heard people say that when a person was about to die, the underworld would send a messenger to cross the soul, and they would call out the name of the deceased, and if the deceased agreed, the soul would be taken away by the messenger, and if they did not agree, they would think that the person was not dead, and then go somewhere else. The souls of the dead will fly to heaven on their own.

Ji Chengyu warned himself that he must not agree, he has already lived in the underworld in this life, and in the next life, let himself go to heaven!

But the man kept shaking him and calling his name.