Chapter 38: Endless Greed
Instinct drove me to turn around and run, but the wooden box that sealed the monster didn't give me time to run to a safe place, and with the "bang" of the wooden box, I felt the black shadow behind me instantly disperse, and it was about to swallow me.
Just when I felt hopeless, I suddenly felt that someone had grabbed me from behind, and then I felt my feet off the ground and fly.
"Lord Yeke, are you alright?"
"It's okay," I watched as the Heartless Youkai on the beach was gradually recovering to its original form, growing faster than Shiofa's, "Thank you, it's too dangerous here, you can put me a little further away from that youkai and get out of here." ”
"I'm sorry.. Putting you in such a dangerous situation. Xi said as he flew, and several times his wings hit the black youkai.
"I'm sorry what you say," Zong'an and Luke saw that I was temporarily safe and were retreating to the other side of the beach, "just put me on the rock below." ”
As if he hadn't heard, the tide continued to fly into the distance.
"Xi, Xi, you let me down!"
"I'm sorry Lord Yek, I can't do this," Shio said, "It's too dangerous for you to be there, and with your help, the monsters we managed to lure to the ground will definitely be wiped out by the demon slayer." ”
What do you mean? They brought that horrible youkai?
"What the hell is going on?" The youkai who failed to seal seemed to be not lightly injured, much smaller than its original size, and Zong An stood in the distance and began to draw another magic circle again.
"Lord Yeke, there are some things you don't need to know. "Xi still doesn't mean to let me down.
It seems that this matter is not that simple, if I don't ask the truth, Zong An and Lu will be in danger.
"Lord Ye Ke, what are you doing?" Seeing that I was breaking open its claws one by one and grabbing me, Xi shouted in panic, "You will be thrown to death like this!"
"If you don't let me go, I'll have to go down by myself. "I don't mean to stop.
“... Okay, don't move, or I really won't be able to catch it, and I'll put you on the beach. The tide quickly set, putting me on the beach at a distance from the Heartless Youkai, "Please just wait here and don't go any further," its tone seemed to be pleading, "This is the hope of all of our Hundred Butterflies." ”
Why does the pure soul of the Hundred Illusion Butterfly have something to do with the monster that devours everything? This matter is so confusing that I was about to continue to ask, but the scene in front of me made me more and more unable to understand what was going on.
Hundreds of Hundred Fantasy Butterflies fell from the sky, with brilliant light, and took the initiative to send themselves to the mouth of the Heartless Monster that was difficult to recover its original form, with the power of the Hundred Illusion Butterfly, the monster began to grow rapidly again, and soon grew even bigger than it was.
I felt like something was being clutched at me, what were they trying to get in this suicidal way?
"Lord Yek, I know it's unbelievable. "But as you can see, this is what we want, we want this monster to keep devouring and growing, so that the sea will rise and the sea will one day flood this place." ”
“... Why!" I haven't been so angry in a long time, "how many people will be implicated in that case? What are you doing with your own lives and those of others?"
"We just want these humans to disappear!" Xi's voice also became annoyed, "If it weren't for them, the Black Sea wouldn't be what it is today, there wouldn't be so much garbage on the surface of the sea, no creatures would be forced to leave their homes, and there wouldn't be so many Hundred Butterflies and animals that would get sick and die due to pollution! Those who sent themselves to the monster's mouth were all Hundred Illusion Butterflies who couldn't live for a few days!"
“... So you're going to bring this kind of monster who is so greedy that it eats everything? What are you going to do? It will obediently stop at the Black Sea?"
"Lord Ye Ke, the Hundred Illusion Butterfly can't bring that kind of monster," Xi said, "The reason why it eats everything, and the reason why it has no heart, is because it is an aggregation of greed, and it is the consciousness of human beings who have been greedy for a long time, and the long-term and endless creation of pollution will fuel this kind of thing." Human beings are self-inflicted, and we just give them back what humans have inadvertently made. ”
Youkai are made by humans themselves? What is the answer to this? This...
"Lord Yek, I know it's hard for you to believe what I'm saying, but if you think about it, what's the difference between this monster and a human? Xi said, "But you are different, we have heard of you a long time ago, you have compassion for life, you will not hurt us, you even saved us." ”
"Xi, you tell me the truth," I was silent for a long time, trying to accept the fact that humans had created your own monsters, "were you injured that day, did you deliberately allow yourself to be injured by the fireworks?
The silence of the tide says it all.
"Indeed, I also know a lot of bad people, and I understand that you hate us and want us to reap the consequences," there are constantly hundred illusion butterflies flying into the mouth of monsters, and I saw Zong An and Lu Ke also looking at the sky in surprise, "But there are still many people, they know the preciousness of life, and even the fearful monsters retain their instinctive love." "I think of Guan Qing, Fu Bai, Yu Ping, Tian Bei, and Chunshui.
"But it's too late," Xi said, "even if it's really as you say, but the destruction hasn't stopped, the pollution is getting worse and worse, and the good people you said can't control it." ”
I can't argue with it, there are some things that are not something that a few people can decide.
As there were fewer and fewer Hundred Fantasy Butterflies actively flying towards the greedy monsters, the swelling Monsters had already occupied most of the beach and part of the sea, and suddenly, it opened its mouth towards the sky and began to devour the Hundred Illusion Butterflies in the sky!
Not only me, but Xi didn't expect it to become like this, the black monster gulped down the flying hundred phantom butterflies, and the sky of the phantom sea soon became fragmented, and the butterflies fled in panic, but most of them still did not escape the fate of being eaten.
Xi couldn't take care of me anymore, and spread his wings to fly to his partner, but he stumbled and fell to the ground, and a few black spots appeared on its wings, which were rapidly corroding it.
"You—" I remembered that it had crashed into the monster several times when it saved me, "I'll see if I can help you heal you, I should remember what that circle looked like." "You can't let it take its own hands to save me.
"It has nothing to do with Lord Ye Ke," Xi said calmly, "Hundred Illusion Butterflies shouldn't have a desire for revenge, my scales have been polluted, and I have lost the power of purification, so I will be polluted by greed." "It tried to fly again and again, but never again.
"Tide, whether it's people, youkai, or other creatures, no one can survive alone. I saw that Zong An had already drawn a circle behind the monster, Lu Ke took out his bow and arrows, and the arrows were on the string, waiting for the opportunity, "I'm sorry I can't let your hopes come true, you wait for me for a while, and I'll be back soon." As Zong An recited the incantation, I removed the gauze from my hand and ran towards the center of the circle.
The youkai that was devouring the Hundred Illusion Butterfly switched targets within a few seconds after I removed the gauze, and chased after me with a wide open mouth, and I ran to the circle with all my strength, and when it was about to devour me, I took out the scale powder that the tide gave me, and sprinkled it in the monster's mouth accurately.
The scales began to purify its body, the monster stopped in the center of the circle, smoke came out of its mouth, it writhed in pain, the spell of Zong'an next to its ears became clearer and clearer, the circle emitted a deep blue light, and when the monster was about to attack me again, Lu Ke shot an arrow into its throat.
The black monster in front of me was less than ten centimeters away from my face, and it slowly dissipated into dust from its mouth, and when the light of the circle disappeared, the black sea had regained calm, leaving countless injured Phantom butterflies on the beach.
When I returned to the tide, it had already begun to dissipate, and Zong An couldn't heal the contaminated wound with many methods, and when it finally disappeared, he said thank you for making it still have hope for humans, and the tide left with the other hundred butterflies, and that day a large number of colored scales flew into the sky with a brilliant light, and later many people said that they saw the colored sunlight after the wind was over, and the black sea that became blue again.
"The clouds of the Phantom Sea are missing by more than half. Lu Ke said, "It's a pity." ”
"Rest assured, it won't be long before more souls become Phantom Butterflies again. Zong An looked at the sky, "Go back, it's done." ”
"Xiao Ke, let's go!" I heard Lu Ke keep urging me to go back.
If it is really as Xi said, then what will the endless greed of human beings create next time? Who will pay the price like the hundred butterflies? I looked at the sea, and my heart was full of unanswered questions.