Chapter 6: Midyear Day
The moon is about to set.
The coming darkness made the group reticent.
In this jungle, the most important thing is to accommodate the tree hole, all the way, there was a camphor tree hole that required more than a dozen people to hold, but unfortunately the mountain of snake skin inside made the group give up the idea of staying overnight.
Before his eyes were filled with darkness, Beard still set up a small fire not far from the tree hole, and in the darkness, the sound of thunderbolts could be heard from time to time, which could somewhat alleviate some of the fear in his heart.
"I say, bearded!"
"My name is Jiang Donghai!"
"I said Donghai, you should be on duty first tonight, and you will shout if there is any movement!" said the monk.
"Why me?"
"Tomorrow at dawn, I may not know where I am, you should watch me well now, if I disappear, it will be your dereliction of duty!"
Jiang Donghai was speechless.
"The best thing to do is for me to detain both of your souls and put them back tomorrow at dawn. The voice of the Taoist leader came from the corner.
"This kid is so weird," said the beard, changing the subject, "It's normal for such a big child to cry and drink milk." β
The Taoist chief said, "Is he like a normal child?" β
"Amitabha, fortunately, this child is just sucking the essence of plants and trees for food, which is really enviable. β
The Taoist replied painlessly: "Maybe tomorrow I will start to suck people's essence." β
"Rest first, and I'll keep vigil outside the tree holeβ" The bearded man hurriedly crawled out of the tree hole and sat down by the fire.
The interaction of yin and yang creates the alternation of day and night.
During the day, everything visible to the naked eye plays out its own script, and when night comes, everything invisible begins to appear. Although all species are greedy for time and reluctant to leave, they cannot survive the laws of nature after all.
But in this seemingly isolated jungle, there is no transition between day and night, and the arrival of night almost closes the skills that people have always relied on most reliably, and even deprives them of the right to sleep.
In the dark night, the sound of busy traffic and human voices constantly sounded, floating from far to near, from near to far.
The "Diamond Sutra" in the monk's mouth has never stopped.
At the moment when the noise sounded, the beard rolled back into the hollow of the tree, and sat down next to the monk, and then calmed down a little.
The Taoist is uneasy, the yin and yang of this world are different from the world he is familiar with, so how much knowledge he knows and masteres can be guaranteed to work here.
The outside world is like a carnival is being staged, and his group is still safe at this time, which may mean that his invisible existence can't see them either.
Dao Chang comforted himself like this and sat down not far from Binglin again.
"What's going on outside? Bing Lin asked softly.
Binglin once said that her last memory before appearing here was that she took her younger brother to a haunted house in search of excitement. If she had told her that the hollow was surrounded by a group of ghosts, she might have been curious.
The Taoist chief did not reveal his guess, but replied lightly: "It's nothing, it's just an auditory hallucination caused by the confusion of the magnetic field." β
"As soon as the day dawns, it's fine......"
The existence in the darkness seemed to have finally had enough, and the noise began to drift away slowly, and before the waning moon had risen, the ghost light came first.
The bearded man complained: "It's very unfriendly to us here! At night, when it is dark, it is dark, but when it is light, it is as slow as an old man of more than a hundred years old gets up!"
Looking through the ghostly light, the monk's eyes were closed, and his whole body was like a sponge taken out of the water, soaked with sweat.
Everyone was waiting for the monk to wake up, and the string of Buddhist beads around his neck was extremely dazzling at this time, not because of a miracle, but because the monk had crushed the Buddhist beads last night, but at this time they were hanging intact on the monk's chest.
Beard stepped forward, and was about to test the authenticity of the Buddha beads, when the monk suddenly opened his eyes and clasped the hand that Beard stretched out, "Click!" Beard's hand was broken!
The beard screamed, and the monk didn't embarrass the beard, but just looked at everyone and asked, "Where is the poor monk?"
Bing Lin stepped forward and said, "Master Aurora, don't you remember?
Dao Chang raised his hand to interrupt Bing Lin's words, and came to Hu Zi's side, Hu Zi was thinking about how to take his hand back, Dao Chang said, "I'll come." β
The Taoist quickly took the beard's hand back, and the beard moved and said, "Thank you, the Taoist chief!"
The Taoist chief nodded, pointed at the monk and said, "Beat him for me!"
"What?!"
The Taoist chief patted the bearded shoulder very seriously and said, "It's okay, I'll help you!"
The gap in strength has been explained just now. One against one, the odds of winning by yourself are too small, but if the Taoist joins forces. That's 100% sure!
It's best to pull out the monk's soul first!
If you can be angry, why not, the gentleman takes revenge, and if he can fight, he will go up!
The bearded man rushed towards the monk and inserted two fingers directly into the monk's eyes, and the monk did not hide or make a move, stretching out his bald head!
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The beard screamed, but fortunately he reacted quickly, and the scissors turned into fists, otherwise these two fingers would not be able to be saved, which is harder than a copper-headed iron arm!
Beard quickly jumped behind the Michicho and kept rubbing his fists, inhaling cold air in his mouth!
The monk smiled with the spirit of mountains and seas in his chest. Satisfied, he touched his bald head.
"Let's go together? β
The Taoist chief was naturally not polite, stepped on the seven-star step, and began to fight around the monk with a strong wind, making a move to hit the joints! The monk reacted very quickly, but the Taoist chief seemed to have three heads and six arms, and he guarded his chest, and he was punched in the waist, and he was slapped in the face.
Soon the Taoist priest withdrew. The monk touched his already red, swollen and hot face and rubbed it vigorously.
The Taoist chief rubbed his hands behind his back and rubbed them secretly, this monk's whole body was made of steel bar, and his hands were not so hard!
"Li Duojin! I've grown a lot in the past two days. β
"How does Zero know, oh it's called Li Duojin?!," the monk said inarticulately, touching his already red and swollen face.
The Taoist didn't raise his hand, and glanced at Binglin's head towards the monk, meaning to let Binglin explain.
Bing Lin endured it for a long time! She took two steps forward excitedly, and the joints of her fingers crackled due to the atmosphere just now!
The monk immediately assumed a defensive posture vigilantly.
"Here's the way it is......"
"Let's go, let's go, let's go"
......
After Bing Lin finished speaking, for a quarter of an hour, the monk was still immersed in a state of loss and couldn't extricate himself.
The monk didn't say a word.
The Taoist chief inserted his two hands into the Taoist robe of the other hand and said, "Monk, I have grown a lot in the past two days. With your skills, there aren't many people who can sneak up on you at night, right?"
The monk sighed and said: "That day of the debate, the old monks of Ancheng almost vomited blood when I said it, and when they returned to the Thousand Buddha Temple, the group of bald donkeys flattered me again in the Arhat Hall. I was a little flustered. β
Speaking of happiness, the poor monk flicked his sleeves and blew out a constant lamp. That's the fault..."
"Isn't it just a lamp, and then light it when it's off. Beard said.
The monk shook his head: "The lamp can't be extinguished, it represents the practice of the poor monk, and it has never been broken in the middle." I can't remember how many burned them, but I know that they lit up a whole Jiazi. β
"Master Poor Monk once said that when the lamp goes out, it means that the poor monk's practice in this life is over, so the poor monk's view of this lamp is as important as the life of the poor monk. β
"You're just greedy, greedy for fame. Otherwise, it would already be an Arhat. The Taoist said.
"The lesson of the Taoist chief is that the poor monk has always taken his reputation too seriously, and he is still just a monk. β
"And what happened later?" Binglin asked.
Later, as soon as the lights went out, I silently rolled up and left, my master said that my practice in this life was over, and I should never set foot in the Buddhist monastery again. β
"Huh, just because I accidentally blew out a candle?" Bing Lin said with some unfairness, feeling that she had used the wrong words, so she hurriedly changed her words and said, "I mean blowing out the Changming lantern." β
"It's not very important that the lights go out or not, but what matters is what Master said... Never before. The monk bowed his head, as if he was in repentance.
Bing Lin nodded as if she didn't understand, and shook her head again.
"With my ability, there are really very few people who can get me here, but after I left the monastery, the more I thought about it, the more annoyed I became, so I sealed my own method. β
"In the middle of the night, my apprentice came to me with two monks whom I had never met, and said they wanted to follow me. β
The monk shook his head again and said, "My apprentice has a simple personality, and those two don't know what means to use, so they fainted me while I wasn't paying attention." β
"And then here I am. β
When the bearded man saw that the monk had finished speaking, he asked, "You said that if you wake up and the Buddha beads are still there, you will know where we are?"
"I guess I probably know where we are, and the Taoist should know too?"
The Taoist chief did not speak.
Bing Lin and the bearded man looked at the monk and asked in unison, "Where is it?"
"In hell. β