Chapter 34: The First Memories Continued The Way to Holiness
Ax and Ciel rested for a while, and now the peeping eyes around were gone, but the danger behind the door did not recede, Ax drew his sword and slashed at the door a few times, drawing a few sparks that were more dazzling than the stars, and then turned away with Ciel. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Ciel, seeing that Aix was leaving without looking back, followed quickly, and then there was a sound of rocks collapsing behind him, and as the black door collapsed, the danger behind him also dissipated, as if the crisis he had felt before was just his own illusion.
The two of them walked briskly out of the dark streets, and soon after they reached the statue of Alish in the center of the temple, they saw a pair of heavy, well-groomed guards walking past them, "They're faster than I expected, but still slower than we are!" Aix said with a smile to Ciel, his expression pleasant, as if he had done something very pleasing to him.
Then, Ax asked Hill to wait for him by the spring, and he walked to the street on the right, from Hill's previous warning, Ax could clearly feel what Hill wanted to express, since the left side can be controlled, then the right side may be even more unoptimistic, so simply, Ax will go alone, so that even if he falls into the illusion like before, he doesn't have to worry about anything.
Entering the streets shrouded in golden light, the people here are dressed in white, with swords hanging from their waists, and holding either scrolls with elaborate patterns or golden footglasses filled with a red liquid that smells like wine.
Following Hill's warning, Ax put the hood of his cloak on his head and began to walk through the golden streets, where the buildings were taller and more majestic than the ones on the left, looking like two walls, and the street where Ax walked was a small gap between the two walls, and the crowd was like an insignificant ant in the gap.
But as Hill said, the behavior of the people here is also observed by Aix, silence is not tolerated here, people communicate with each other mostly using some gestures, but more often just nodding or shaking their heads, if someone touches the other, one person will smile, the other will look at the situation of glaring, and after one of the two glaring, the smiling person will bow his head in obedience.
On the way to the end, Ax was close enough to make sure that he would not run into anyone, this part of the road was really more tiring than any part of the road he had taken since he came to this world, and once he had touched the first, it was easy to come across the second, and finally Ax felt that he was almost getting used to such a strange way of communicating, only to see a door in front of him that shimmered as bright as the sun.
However, when Ax approached the door, which covered everything around him, he found that there were countless faces carved on the door, some happy, some weeping, some wailing, some despairing, each with a different face, and Ax had to put his hand on two of them if he wanted to open the door.
"I'm sorry, I had to do it as a last resort!" said Aix, who hesitated for a moment, then pressed his hand on the happiest-looking and the saddest-looking faces, the most symmetrical and the most susceptible of all expressions.
As Ax was about to press on the two faces, the sad face suddenly began to speak, "I told you, as long as we are in this position, everyone who tries to enter will press their dirty hands on our faces, and the saddest thing is that we can't refuse yet!"
"But you see, everybody stopped talking while we were talking, and he was sure to say something to us next, and then look at the others?
"Yes, I'd rather hide in a corner where people won't even look at me than this luck, that's the way to survive, you won't understand!At least not until you suffer!" The sad face looked even more sad, and then he turned his gaze to Aix, who had already taken his hand back, The more kind a person is, the more sad he will be, and when one day you are like me, then your situation will be the same as mine, this is not a warning, but a prophecy, before you press your dirty hand on my face, I want you to know that in the future someone will press their dirty hand on your face-"
"Don't do this!" said with a happy face, "Being happy does not mean that a person is not kind, there are many possibilities to show happiness, of course, the biggest possibility is that person is so kind that he forgets himself, and wholeheartedly wants everyone around him to be happy, instead of being infected by his emotions and becoming sad!"
Ax quietly looked at the two faces, refuting each other's views, but they looked interested, and at the same time, the talk of happiness and sadness also began to involve other faces around them, and suddenly the whole door became noisy, and when the relative, happiness and sadness gradually fell silent.
"Ignore them, push us away!" said to Ax at the same time as Sadness and Joy said to Aix, "Because you're going to go in anyway, aren't you?"
Listening to the words of sadness and happiness, Ax also felt that he was a little indecisive, so he pressed his hand on the face of sadness and happiness, and pushed the burning door open, unlike the door at the end on the left, there was no dazzling light behind this door, and even the feeling for Ax was unremarkable, and it didn't even attract anyone's attention.
Ax took a big step forward and walked into the door, and a gray path began to stretch inward at Aix's feet, the path was winding and covered with stones as sharp as knife blades, and Ax leaned down to take a closer look at the small stones, and found that there were tiny serrations on the edges of the stones, some of which were stained with fresh blood.
At this time, Aix suddenly realized that this was not a road formed by countless ancestors who had walked and trampled on the flowers and plants along the road to expose the soil, but a road paved by the blood shed by everyone who walked here.
On both sides of the path is a sea of white flowers, which should be the mandala hua that Hill told Aix, the flowers that must bloom on the way to heaven, these flowers are the same as Manju Sawah, they don't even have green leaves, but the color is white, the reason can be traced back to an ancient legend of the world where these two flowers are located, Aix has never been to that world, so naturally he doesn't understand, Fei Yue understands but can't explain it to Ax now.
Ax walked cautiously along the gravelly path, and as he climbed up a hill along the winding path, he saw countless men dressed in white, who hid their faces in white cloaks so that Ax could not see their faces, but there was a little certainty that the sharp-eyed Ax was sure of the blood on the robes they brought with them every time they raised their feet, and these blood stains must have been left by the stones.
There is only one end point of all roads, and the one Ax walked on is the same, but Aix's cloak is black, which was specially prepared for him by Hill, and it looks particularly eye-catching when standing in the crowd, even on the other side of the world, as long as there is nothing to cover it, I am afraid that I can see very clearly the only bit of black in this world.
But these were nothing, and the people walking beside Ax didn't even look at Aix, but just lowered their heads and walked slowly, and Ax also blended in the crowd and walked towards the end of all roads.
At this time, Ax suddenly remembered Hill's warning, but Ax didn't feel anything wrong, whether it was the person walking, or the end point that was still in sight, or the white mandala flower, in this time of contemplation, Ax could even feel the meaning of this road and the holiness of the sea of flowers, little by little, the black cloak on Aix's body began to fade into shadows, just like those who had just arrived in this world.
Ax slowly lowered his head, the sharp stone cut through the soles of his feet, the pain made Ax feel a thrill, what a feeling it was, pain, Ax didn't know how long it had been since he felt pain.
Then Ax suddenly woke up, his body could not be hurt even by a sword, how could a small stone hurt himself?
At this moment, Ax saw a white flower not far ahead, and the flower was calling for him to step forward, but compared to the previous manju sawa, Ax did not feel much hostility from this mandala flower, on the contrary, Ax only felt kindness, warning, and love enough to cleanse a person's soul.
This is the ultimate bewitchment for mortals, but on Aix, it makes Ax more calm and sober, he began to let himself fall into the bewitchment of Mandhara Hua as he did with Manju Sawa before, and then approached little by little, and when he walked to him, he suddenly reached out and uprooted the holy Mandala Hua.
At this moment, Ax found that there was endless shame and remorse in his heart, this force from the inside out almost broke his will completely, it was the punishment brought by the desecration of the holy things, from the depths of his heart, Ax closed his eyes, and then turned his head to return to the place where he entered, but found that he could no longer find the way he came.