211: To kill or not to kill
The sun is warm in the city, and the light in the study building is also abundant.
The slight sound of flipping books, the faint sound of pedestrians intertwining from outside.
It is a peaceful and stable county.
The people of the city lived and worked in peace and prosperity.
This seems to be what people think and expect.
Is it delusional for the people to want to be stable and happy? Lou Jinchen didn't know how to define it for a while, after all, between heaven and earth, whether it is a big man or a small person, he is carried by the torrent of heaven and earth, but the big man will have more ability to struggle.
Lou Jinchen didn't open the book, but walked to the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper? What book is this? Who is this Lou Jinchen? Lou Jinchen asked.
"Isn't Lou Jinchen your name? How can you not know who it is? The shopkeeper asked Lou Jinchen strangely.
"Does the shopkeeper know me?" Lou Jinchen stared at the other party and asked.
In his eyes, this shopkeeper is a real person who can't be real.
"Lou Gongzi, you and I meet for the first time, how can I recognize you?" The shopkeeper asked strangely, but quickly said: "You are a foreigner, since you are a foreigner, why don't you go and see the signboard of our library." ”
So Lou Jinchen went out with a book, came to the street and looked up at the plaque.
The plaque reads "Honmei Book Building" in large letters.
"Natality?"
Lou Jinchen stood directly on the street and looked through the book in his hand, the first page of the book reads: "You came from a foreign country, and settled in the fire spirit concept outside the swimming water city with a sword, and learned the method of refining yin and yang,......"
This is what he has experienced since he came into this world, and the private things that few people know about are also on it.
And the last part is written that he was dedicated to sorting out the affairs of Jiangzhou Prefecture and the rebellion of the secret spirits of Pingjiang Prefecture, setting off alone with a sword, passing through the ...... of Yinxi County and going to Liang County.
He frowned, returned to the book building again, and said, "How many people have read the contents of this book?" ”
"You are the first time to come in, naturally the first to read, whether you want to buy it, if you don't buy it, then put it back, there will be many people to read it in the future, and Lou Gongzi's future experience will appear in this book."
Lou Jinchen was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought that this book appeared because he entered the building, and it was when he opened it that the content in it appeared, like a mirror, reflecting his past trajectory.
I haven't seen this book, there is no trace of this book, I see this book, this book writes the trajectory of my life.
He suddenly thought of traveling somewhere, and was photographed by the other party, and the other party called you to go over and see it, and after reading it, he asked you to buy it.
It's okay not to look at it, because if you don't see it, you don't know, if you don't have it, and after seeing it, this photo represents the past and represents a memory, but if you want to stay around, you need to spend money.
"How do you sell it?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"A devout prayer will yield this book." The shopkeeper said.
"A prayer?" Lou Jinchen is both unexpected and not unexpected, the secret spirit survives, from the false to the real, it is indispensable to outline the meaning of his existence, just like painting on white paper, you need to outline the lines, you need to color.
And this prayer is an outline of the meaning of His existence.
"Yes, as long as you pray sincerely, the people of this city will always be safe and happy, and this city will live forever." The shopkeeper said.
"Dare to ask, what is the name of the shopkeeper?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Lou Gongzi can call me the bookkeeper." The shopkeeper said.
"The wish of the bookkeeper is what people want, but people have birth, old age, sickness and death, if it is as you wish, how can it be called a human being without birth, old age, sickness and death?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Why do people have to die, grow, grow old, sickness, and die? Don't you also practice, don't you also want to escape from this life, old age, sickness and death? You can go after it to escape this fate, why can't they? The bookkeeper said.
Lou Jinchen was silent.
"What's more, they are not immortal, nor are they immortal, they just no longer feel sad and painful about it." The bookkeeper said seriously.
Lou Jinchen didn't know how to answer for a while.
"I'll take this book, my wishes, I'll give it to you later." Lou Jinchen took the book out of the book building, walking on the street, people's lives were normal, and people's faces were full of happiness.
Everything is in order, Lou Jinchen has never seen such a stable and happy city in this world.
He spun around and then left the entrance.
And when he left, the book in his hand disappeared.
Lou Jinchen came all the way to Sanwei County, but all the people in this county town were gone, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.
Lou Jinchen circled, there was no one, he looked for people near the county seat, and found that the ten villages and nine empty had already moved away.
He stood in front of the 'temple' that had just been built, and there was no breath of a secret spirit in it, and there was no mysterious existence in this city.
He is gone.
Lou Jinchen continued to the next city, the people in this city did not disappear, but none of them were alive, and everyone died in bed, as if they could not get up in their sleep.
Lou Jinchen thinks that when these people die, their souls are all taken away.
He walked around again, and the villages and towns around the county seat were lifeless, empty except for bones.
Only then did Lou Jinchen feel that it was extremely rare for the people in Naliang County to be alive.
Another county came to me.
He stood on the top of a high mountain next to the county seat and looked at the 'people' in the county seat.
Those are no longer human beings, but are hunched over or crawling on the ground.
They were all the color of the earth, because they fed on the dirt of the earth, and some of them baked the clay for bread to eat, and some of them closed some leaves on the clay bread to eat.
This is no longer a normal person, but some kind of land-eating alien, or native.
When Lou Jinchen was looking at the entire city, the 'people' in the city seemed to suddenly have senses, and they all looked towards Lou Jinchen.
At this moment, Lou Jinchen only felt as if there was Mount Tai pressing on the top, and there was yellow dust flying in the void around him, which quickly wrapped him, and the mountain under his feet seemed to be open, and it was about to swallow him in one bite.
Suddenly, with the eyes of the 'people' in the city, what emerged was the vitality of the earth.
Lou Jinchen pulled out his sword, holding the sword flower, and the sword light passed, and the surrounding rustic atmosphere turned into golden mangs.
Native gold.
The golden mangs reflected the sky, and I saw his sword swing out, and the golden mangs were like silky swords, falling towards the city.
Each golden ray fell towards a native, and the heads of the natives were separated, but one by one the natives picked up their heads, hid to the side, found a water source, and after wetting their necks, they took their heads back.
The earth vitality around him continued to gather, but he continued to transform into golden vitality, turned into sword qi, and fell towards the city below the mountain, slashing those natives.
In the end, the sword qi was dispersed too much, and the power was weakened a lot.
He was looking for the 'secret spirit', but he couldn't find it for a while, this 'secret spirit' was extremely careful, he could be any 'native' in the city, or he could have already hidden in the dirt under the city.
Lou Jinchen was sure that the other party would definitely be able to escape underground.
"Why did you kill us?"
Suddenly, the voice rang out in the city.
Suddenly so many people asked together.
"We're just changing our way of life, and we're not hurting anyone, so why are you here to kill us?"
Again, this question.
Lou Jinchen still didn't answer, he wanted to hear what this 'secret spirit' had to say.
"I heard that there is an Eyeless City in the place where you practice, and you can tolerate the existence of the Eyeless City, why can't you allow the existence here?"
Lou Jinchen frowned and said, "You know me? ”
"The name of the corridor chief is like thunder, how can I not know." The voice said again.
"Then let me tell you, there are no secret spirits in the Eyeless City, the secret spirits there have been killed by me, and those Eyeless people are also victims, I can't bear to hurt their lives anymore, and Master Ji is willing to control them, so naturally I don't want to create killing karma again."
"And here, you took the initiative to turn these people into the current natives, you killed the people of this city, you should die!"
Lou Jinchen suddenly flew out with a sword, turned into a streamer, fell in the city, and landed on the clay statue.
The mysterious light on the idol quickly dimmed.
However, the sword was not drawn, and the light on it swirled, and the clay statue of the god was transformed into gold and stone in the light.
A ray of light fell in the 'temple', and Lou Jinchen had already come in, beckoning the sword to fly back into his hand.
Another sword slashed, and the idol's head was severed.
Sure enough, as he thought, his sword failed to hurt that 'secret spirit', Lou Jinchen was not surprised, the other party would know his name and devour memories, they should have such a ability.
He went out and wanted to kill these natives and purify the entire county, but he saw a natives holding a child in his arms.
The child was very small, and the native chewed up the dirt for the child in his arms to eat.
This made Lou Jinchen a little moved.
These people are indeed aliens, but these people are not beings.
"The words of the corridor chief are bad, they are not dead, they are still lives, the corridor chief, you are just worried that we will do evil, I can swear to you that I will never leave this Huangni County, and not let people outside Huangni County become 'soil' people."
Lou Jinchen saw that some natives actually poked their heads out of the ground and burrowed back into the ground, they were like fish diving.
"Do you know that I have a master who is good at the Five Elements Spell, and can turn this piece of earth into gold, so that you will be imprisoned in the land forever, and turn into gold and stone with the earth?" Lou Jinchen stood on the long street and said with his sword on the ground.
"I heard that the corridor chief was born in the Five Visceral God Sect, and there can be such a clever Five Elements Law in the Five Visceral God Sect, I don't doubt it, so I am willing to stay in this Huangni County forever and not leave, if the corridor chief really wants to kill them all, then I can only leave."
Lou Jinchen finally made a move, he was not sure that he would be able to kill the secret spirit hiding in the depths of the earth.
Since you can't kill that secret spirit, there's no point in killing these people who eat dirt.
As he walked through the city, he found that the city had a tendency to transform like the Eyeless City, and that another order was about to be born.
And I saw that the two 'little people' really made a child out of mud and water, and then kept 'ha' at the little clay figure.
He stood there and watched for half a month, and the little clay figure that had been lifeless actually began to become conscious.
When he left, he said, "I hope you will restrain the 'native' people in the city, and if something happens in the future, I will send a message." ”
Still, he decided to go back and have some counseling.
The last city was by the sea.
Everything in this city seems normal to Lou Jinchen.
It's a sea alley city, but it's not very normal at a glance.
Because there is a strange kind of prosperity in this city.
Of course, prosperity does not equal peace.
He saw the mermaids coming from the sea, even the natives, the yin spirits, and the eyeless people, and some strange spirits, and even he saw the five immortal spirits in the Qunyu Mountain.
They were either engaged in business, or as a merchant, or patrolling the streets in the clothes of officials.
It is a free city where all races coexist.
Lou Jinchen walked in, but no one noticed him, and there were not a few monks like him.
There was no one at the gate to guard the tax money to be entered into the city.
As he walked down the street, he noticed that most of the transactions were bartered.
And between different spirits, the same bargaining, but controlled within a line that did not fight.
A few canine-headed men with iron halberds walked down the street, and the quarrelling spirits would immediately whisper, and when they had passed, they would raise their voices again.
These inhumans with dog heads and human bodies have actually become officials patrolling the streets here.
Lou Jinchen didn't know how they came here, but it was certain that this city must have a connection with that dog feudal country.
However, the smell here is so bad that the ground is dirty, and Lou Jinchen suspects that there should be urine everywhere in those alleys.
At this time, he saw a leather painting hall, and the name of the painting leather museum had two big 'Lou's' characters.
Lou Jinchen raised his eyebrows and thought of a possibility.
This store is not small, but there are three signboards, namely the Leather Painting Pavilion, the Painting Photography Pavilion and the Thorn Yin Pavilion.
It's like opening a store with people, in order to save rent.
The steps in front of this door are very clean, and after Lou Jinchen walked in, he even smelled the fragrance.
He saw the big red flowers blooming in the corner, exuding a strong fragrance.
That's right, this is indeed Lou Jiling's taste, but her taste is good here, covering up the smell outside.
"Guest, would you rather have a portrait or a sashimi or buy a painting skin?"
A woman smiled and greeted her, she looked extremely beautiful, but she had no eyebrows, and her smile was very stiff, and her mouth was red like blood, which made people look very strange.
Lou Jinchen glanced at her, frowned, and said, "How can you sell such a painted skin on your body?" ”
The woman who greeted the guest said with a smile: "Guest officer, you may not know, this is the latest popular style here, which belongs to our owner's own creation, and the people who want to buy our kind of painted skin have already been lined up for three months." ”
"If the guest officer wants it, it may have to wait for a while."
Lou Jinchen smiled, and was even more sure in his heart that such an aesthetic must be right for her, so he said: "Go and tell your host that there is an old man visiting." ”
(End of chapter)