The next day, Amon came to the theater again, and in the same position, he saw Vincent again. The two just nodded and smiled, and then continued to watch the play. Today is the work of another playwright, and each play is relatively short, so two plays are performed in a row.

The first play, "Ion," is still the story of Apollo, and the playwright in the city-state of Aaron seems to be particularly pocastic about the deity. As the curtain opened and the actors came on the stage, Amon frowned more and more as he watched.

The Apollo on the stage is like a god, like a shameless magnate in the world, who not only behaves despicably, but also perfidious and morally corrupt. Apollo came to earth and shamelessly seduced a lovely maiden, who gave birth to a son named Ion. Apollo, who was only interested in pleasure, abandoned the girl and returned to heaven to be his god.

When the girl gave birth to the child and could not dispose of it, she put him in a box and sent him to the cave where she had a tryst with Apollo, where the gods should be able to see her son. Of course, Apollo saw it, so he asked Hermes, the messenger of the gods, to do a favor and take the box away and put it in front of the temple of Apollo, and the priest took the child in.

The child grew up in his father's temple and spent his life playing under the altar of Apollo, not knowing who his parents were. Because of his unique origin, everyone regarded him as a human sacrifice to the gods, and he was born to guard the gods in the temple.

The girl later married a stranger, and she thought that Apollo had forgotten her, but this aroused the jealousy and resentment of the gods, and Apollo punished her for not having children. The poor woman did not know why, so she went to the temple of Apollo and prayed to the gods.

The first scene of this play takes place in the temple where the mother and son meet, and the woman, recognizing her son, tells the young man the story of another woman in a distant land, without telling Ion that the unfortunate woman is herself.

Ion said sadly in front of the altar, "Noble lady, how similar the fate of your friend is to mine, she is looking for her son, and I am looking for my mother. But don't expect the gods on the altar to give you a satisfactory answer, because you are accusing the gods in the name of your friends, and the gods will not admit their mistakes!"

The woman in the play did not tell Ion in front of her that she was his mother, nor did she pray to the gods again, and turned and left the temple.

This is the general content of the myths and legends about Ion, but the play on the stage deduces the unknown myths into various details. The devil is in the details, and it turns a legendary folk tale into an exposure of the evil deeds of the gods, and Apollo is not only hypocritical and lustful, but also chaotic and shameless jealous.

At the end of the play, there is a long part of the chant narration - "If a god acts vilely, he is no longer a god! a god cannot set a standard for the human world and he himself violates it! people imitate the evil deeds of the gods, and the gods call it evil!"

Vincent suddenly laughed, and a word came from his soul: "O god Amun, it may not be that no one will arrange you like this in the future. ”

Amon also laughed: "There are some things that are said in the play that if God's actions are despicable, he is no longer a god, and God cannot break the covenant that has been made. ”

Vincenteb added: "As you said yesterday, when the gods cease to be beyond things, the gods are also men. But this play is obviously arranging the evil of the gods, and using it as a basis to criticize the evil of the gods, although it is only about the Apollo in the play, but it is not pointing the finger at Apollo in the temple. And the evil of man is the evil of man, and no matter who imitates it, it does not change according to who the evaluator is. ”

Here they were muttering to themselves, and Medanzo and Isolt were whispering over there. In between the two plays, the whole theater was full of talk, and Medanzo muttered, "Are you sure this playwright is writing about Apollo, and not about any of the adults who offended him?" ”

Aesop laughed and said, "There are a lot of such things in the world, and if the protagonist is written as a god, more people will be willing to watch it." If it's a cat and a dog on stage, how can the audience be so sensational?"

Medanzo: "The gods are really unlucky. ”

The Aesops were still laughing, "Who called them gods?"

Medanzo added: "I find that people love to watch plays like this, and writing about them makes it easier for playwrights to get higher ratings. You see that these people in the theater are angry when they watch the play, but many people are inexplicably satisfied. ”

Aesop sighed: "Look at the ugly things of Apo [***], where is he still like a god, just a morally corrupt and incompetent person. People are happy to see that their own vices and unspeakable ** gods also exist, so they get a sense of satisfaction side by side with the gods, who have the same dark and despicable surnames as they do. ”

This time it was Medanzo's turn to smile: "If you think so, they will never become gods, and there can be no gods in this world." ”

Aesop sighed again, "If the god really did this, you really don't have to think of him as a god. The god Amun is also watching the play, so let's continue watching. ”

Medanzo asked curiously, "How would Apollo feel if he watched this play?"

Aesop laughed again: "How do I know, you should go and ask Apollo." If he really did it, he deserved to be scolded. If he hadn't done it, it didn't matter if he watched this drama or not, but the cats and dogs in the world were replaced by his name. What people would do on earth, imagine that the gods would do the same. ”

After a short break, another play was staged on stage. When the performance entered the **, Medanzo couldn't help but look at the location of the god Amun, wanting to see how this god would react? The play just now was still choreographing the evil deeds of the gods, and now this play simply denies the existence of the gods.

A hero who rode a winged Pegasus into the sky to see if the gods existed, and he found no trace of the gods, but from heaven he saw all kinds of evil in the world and the power trampling on justice, and the hero cried aloud - "Listen to me, good people.

It is said that there are gods in the sky, but no, there really isn't!

As long as you have a shred of wisdom, you will not believe in ancient legends.

There are countless tyrants on earth, and they deprive them of goodness.

How cowardly are the hearts of those who worship the gods!

Please tell me where the gods are?

When I fly into the sky and I can't see them, where is the light, the warmth, and the hope?

I want to declare that there are no gods in heaven on earth, and there really are none!"

At this point in the play, many audiences in the audience showed shocked looks. Aesop turned her head and said to Medanzo, "I don't know if there is heaven or not, but there is one sitting in the theater today." ”

Medanzo frowned: "If the playwright really sees the world this way, then there are really no gods in the world he sees, and the gods sit in the audience and watch the plays he writes." ”

Aesop sighed, "The hero who flies up to the clouds can declare that there are no gods in the sky, but when he shouts, does he also examine his heart, where is the light, kindness, warmth, and hope he is calling for?"

In the most crowded part of the theater, Vincent Teb asked, as if deliberately jokingly, "How do you feel, God Amun?"

Amon didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Vincent, I would like to ask you, how would you feel if Apollo's name was changed to Infinite Light in Fang Cai's first play?"

Vincent replied with a smile: "You are asking the wrong person, the Buddha said that the Great Enlightened One is not a god, and he has never regarded himself as a god. Immeasurable light is just a title, the surname is bright and shining in the ten directions, the original is self-sufficient, there is no beginning and no end, it is not born and does not perish, it comes and goes, and it can give birth to ten thousand laws. It doesn't matter how you arrange it, the immeasurable light shines in all directions, and the immeasurable light is not visible. ”

Amon blinked, "Oh, what about the one I saw in the Syrian Desert?"

Vincenteb replied, "Incarnate as I saw in the city of Jaron." ”

Amon: "I am not immeasurable. ”

Vincent: "You're a driver of the show." ”

Amun smiled: "I see! What about the Buddha you are talking about?"

Vincenteb replied: "Observe and repay with a wise mind, and hearing the Dharma is like seeing my Buddha." Do all the good deeds, and look at your own surname to verify the perfection. ”

Amon nodded slightly, "Infinite light has three bodies?"

Vincent Tebu also nodded and said, "Dharmakaya, incarnation, and retribution, three bodies in one. ”

Amon stopped talking and entered an ethereal meditative state, and he really became a spectator, silently watching the people in the theater, and the play in his eyes was not only on the stage. The crowd was watching the drama on the stage, and at the same time they became the performers of the drama on earth, watched by the gods.

Amun verified the current realm, and he did not know what the name of this realm should be, only that the angels called him the only god. So is there a higher realm on top of this achievement, and if so, how should we verify it? Amun did not think about it and did not have time to conceive about it, because he had not yet attained the state of sufficiency of the present realm.

But listening to Vincent's mention of the immeasurable light today gave Amun a kind of insight - there is indeed a higher realm, and he did not accept the guidance of the immeasurable light, but he can find it in another way. As for the path to verification, Amun is still groping.

At this moment, Amon suddenly discovered that another deity was also watching a play in this theater. If Amon hadn't been in this state and watched the crowd, he probably wouldn't have noticed. Because this person has been watching the play in this theater for the past three days, Amon did not particularly notice him, let alone recognize him, and only then did he suddenly discover who he was.

It was a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a sturdy man, sitting in the best position in the theater not far from Aesop, wearing a white robe, and there were fine wines and melons on the small table in front of the seat. His appearance Amon had never seen before, but there was a subtle sense that awakened the mark of déjà vu in his soul.

After the death of King Leoni of Kibada, Zeus came to earth in a different identity and was sitting in the theater of the city of Aaron.

The scene on the stage choreographed Apollo like that, and Zeus would not have a light on his face. And in the myths circulating in the world, Zeus did many things worse than Apollo in today's play, and he was the number one womanizer in heaven and earth, and he was simply the number one silver thief in the world. Compared with the "deeds" of Zeus, the little deed of Apollo in the drama "Ion" is nothing.

In the second play, also by the same playwright, the hero simply rushes into the clouds to curse the gods, and then announces to the world that the gods do not exist. And looking at Zeus's appearance, he was not angry at all, he was always smiling and eating while drinking, and it was a bit heartless to watch.

Throughout the theater, Aesop, Medanzo, Vincent, and Amon all smiled, but when the second play reached the first time, Zeus was the only one laughing, and his expression seemed to say, "If you say that there are no gods, then why do you scold any gods?

Amon watched in silence and did not move, reading the meaning of Zeus's smile, and Zeus became part of the play before him. I just wonder if Zeus saw Amun, and in Zeus's eyes, did Amun also appear in the human drama?

...... On the second day after Amun entered the city of Aaron, he wandered around the temple square, and then watched the play for three more days, for a total of five days. Early in the morning of the sixth day, he said to Aesop, "We should have seen everything, and we should leave here and send you back to your hometown of Miduri." ”

Medanzo asked a little puzzled: "Why don't you stay for two more days? I haven't seen enough of the play!"

Amon replied, "If you want to see a play, you have time to do it, but I found Zeus in the theater yesterday. He's sitting next to the two of you, and he's been there for the past three days. I entered the Olympian Realm without permission, so it's better not to make a fuss. ”

Medanzo was taken aback: "yes, why didn't I find out?"

Amon explained: "Zeus's achievements are no less than mine, I only found out about him yesterday when the play was about to end, and I haven't noticed it for the past three days, and it's normal that you didn't notice him." ”

Medanzo: "My God, did Zeus discover you?"

Amon: "I don't know, but it's not that he doesn't know me, I'm who I am." ”

After breakfast was settled that day, Amon drove Aesop, Medanzo followed on horseback, and the three "master and servant" left the city of Aaron and hurried to the city-state of Miduri.

Today's Midori city-states have also joined the Aaron League, which is mostly located along the coast and mountains, passing through many dangerous points along the way. The brigade does not have to worry, but small groups of pedestrians also need to beware of strongmen, after all, this place has just experienced war, and there are some soldiers who occasionally work part-time to do some unprofitable business after they are idle.

When passing through a dangerous mountain road, there was no one around, and Medanzo suddenly heard several people talking in the dense forest. One said: "That Aesop came back from making a fortune outside, and he must have brought a lot of money with him." No one knows him here, and no one cares about his whereabouts. Slaughtered with a sword, throw the corpse down the cliff, and the money will be all ours. ”

The other man seemed to be the leader, but his tone was very displeased: "You called us and said that there was a big deal, but you didn't understand the situation! The old man named Aesop is nothing, but his coachman and guards are not easy to deal with!"

The man said, "What are you afraid of? There are only two of them, and they don't even have weapons, and we have eight people here." ”

The leader said angrily: "I'm afraid it's not enough for us eight people to deal with two people! Don't you notice? That carriage walks on the mountain road, as steady as on flat ground, and the people on the carriage don't feel bumpy at all, and ordinary coachmen have such skills?"

Another person said: "Look at that guard again, his riding skills are simply freewheeling, his distance and position from the carriage are always the same, the light fluttering is like a walk, how can an ordinary bodyguard have such skills?"

The man who spoke at first was surprised, "Could it be two great samurai? That Aesop is so rich that he can let the great samurai drive the carriage for him!"

The leader said, "How can a great samurai drive a carriage? I can't hire a rich man, that's a matter of status! I think that the coachman is a very powerful middle-rank samurai, but the guard may really be a great samurai." We definitely can't do this deal, so let's stop thinking about it as soon as possible. ”

Someone next to him suddenly said: "I heard that Aesop came from Salem City, and this journey has passed through many war-torn places, if the guards are not capable of being robbed a long time ago, can they wait for us?"

This is a gang of robbers, the messenger has set their sights on Aesop in the city, they are lying in ambush outside the city in an attempt to kill him, but they are too eager to do anything, and can only watch the carriage pass through the forest. Robbers also have a robber's way of survival, and if you jump out without understanding the situation, you will only become a little thief who dies quickly.

The carriage had gone far away, and suddenly someone in the dense forest exclaimed, "How can it be on fire?...... Pants, oops, my pants!"

Another person shouted, "Burn me——! hurriedly threw the weapon in his hand, and then hurriedly reached out to undress. ”

It turned out that at this moment, the weapons in their hands suddenly turned red, as if they were burned hot in the fire, and their pants were all on fire for some reason. The robbers burned their hands and bodies, threw away their weapons, took off their burning clothes, and rushed out of the dense forest naked, all frightened and inexplicable, thinking that they had been punished by the gods.

Aesop's carriage had long since gone away, and Medanzo rode after him, apparently he had done it. Aesop, who didn't know what was going on, asked, "What's so funny?"

Medanzo replied, "The weather is so nice and cool!"

Of course, Amun, who was driving the car, also heard the conversation of the gang of robbers in the dense forest, and knew what Medanzo had done, but he ignored it, and only silently thought about one question - who was Zeus who he met in the theater yesterday?

(To be continued)