Chapter Ninety-Six: Odd
Pegasus landed on the thirsty earth.
"This is where the Buddha's light is. ”
The Whip looked around and frowned slightly: "Why is this a scene?"
The endless earth is exposed to deep cracks, and there is no vegetation to survive here.
The air was so hot that as far as the eye could see, except for the yellow sand, only the bones of wild beasts lay on the hot earth and stones.
"This star palace has not become bliss, so it is naturally like this. ”
The Demon Slayer Tower replied, "It's better for us to go to Elysium earlier." ”
"Nope. ”
The whip shook his head: "I'm going to be here." ”
He turned to look east.
"As it fell, I saw a city a hundred miles away, and we went there. “
The whip of God made an assertion.
The men marched eastward, uninhabited until they had walked fifty miles away, and did not see cracked fields.
In front of a field, Whip meets a skinny girl.
The girl was in tattered clothes, squatting in a cracked field, digging something with stones.
"What are you doing?"
Whip asked, approaching.
The girl was startled, picked up the dirt, turned and ran away.
Whip looked at the girl's back and vaguely saw her clutching a small piece of tree root in her hand.
"I'm going to see her. ”
The whip speaks to Pegasus and chases after the girl.
When he found the girl again, she was hiding behind a boulder and chewing on tree roots.
"Why bother. ”
The whip sighed.
The girl stood up and tried to run, but was imprisoned by the spell cast by the whip.
The girl looked at the whip in horror.
"Rest assured, I'm not a bad person. ”
With a flick of the long sleeves of the whip, a table of delicacies was placed in front of the girl.
"Eat. ”
He untied the girl, who hesitated for a moment, swallowed her saliva and reached out to pick up a piece of steamed bun from the table.
She took a bite of the steamed bun, and then threw herself on the table hungry and devoured it.
"Don't worry, don't worry!"
He looked at it with a smile, poured a cup of tea and handed it to the girl: "Come, drink some water." ”
The girl just wanted to take the cup, but when she saw the leaves inside, she immediately stopped.
The whip was puzzled: "Why don't you take it?"
"Mom said you can't drink this ......"
The girl spoke, her voice hoarse as if she had been scraped by a knife: "She said that if she added the water from the leaves, she would be hungrier if she drank it." ”
The whip teacup flickered, turned into a glass of water and handed it to the girl.
"Is that okay?"
The girl hesitated for a moment, but finished her teacup.
After drinking, she looked timidly at the whip: "Are you an immortal?"
The whip handed her a second glass of water: "Guess what?"
The girl finished drinking the water again.
"You must be a god. ”
She said.
The whip laughed: "Why are you here alone?" ”
"There is nothing to eat at home. ”
The girl said, "Mom said she couldn't support me and kicked me out. ”
"How can such a thing happen?"
The whip frowned and said, "It's okay, I'll take you back and talk to your mother." ”
"Good. ”
When the girl saw him perform a miracle, she did not believe it, and immediately followed him with joy.
"My family lives in Bingcheng, and there is a big river outside. ”
The girl said to the whip, "Grandpa said that when he was young, the water of the river became shallow, and when the cows walked past, the water was no more than their backs. By the time my mother was born, the water was no longer up to the thighs of the cows – and by the time I was born, the cows were gone. ”
"Why is it gone?"
Whip asked.
"Because all the cattle in the city have been eaten. ”
The girl said: "Everyone is starting to get hungry, and my mother and I can only eat elm leaves every day, and a while ago there were no elm leaves. ”
I didn't know what to say for a while.
They soon saw Bingcheng.
"It's almost home. ”
The girl said happily that her home was not far from the city gate.
She threw down the whip and ran quickly into the city: "Mom, I'm back!"
The whip chased after him.
He saw that the city was full of ragged and scrawny people, and the girl ran through the street and into a dilapidated yard.
The whip followed, and suddenly frowned.
A group of people with their bellies on their backs looked over into the courtyard.
"How did the kid come back?"
The Whip heard their chatter.
"Wasn't she let go by the woman?"
"We also had the woman take her place......"
"It's good if she's back, we can live one more day. ”
The sound of these people's discussions made the whip feel an ominous premonition welling up in his heart.
He pinched his fingers, suddenly turned pale, and couldn't help but take a step back.
"Has it come to this point?"
Even with the mentality of an immortal, it is difficult to accept that fact when beating the divine whip.
The girl quickly walked out of the courtyard.
"Mom is gone. ”
She looked a little anxious, came to the side of the whip, and pulled up his sleeve: "Immortal, can you help me find my mother?"
The whip looked at her, and felt a little sad in his heart.
"Why is this so. ”
He couldn't help but think that this was not what he thought.
I thought that the world before Elysium was at most full of demons and devastation, but I never expected to see such a scene.
"You sleep. ”
The whip stroked the girl's head with his hand and put her to sleep.
Immediately after, he turned around.
"You all deserve to die!"
Whipping the gods is furious, and he wants to kill the people around him.
"Whip the gods, stop it. ”
At this time, Tenma appeared with the pagoda.
"Why?"
Whip asked.
"They are guilty, but they are also forced to be helpless. ”
The pagoda said, "Didn't you notice? There are no more children here." ”
Whipping the gods, my heart was shocked.
Thinking about it, he really didn't see children in the city.
"The suffering of all beings comes from obsession. ”
The pagoda continued: "His Holiness has great expectations for you, and if you want to become a Buddha, you must see the truth and not make mistakes. ”
The whip gradually calmed down, and it was right, if he was angry, he would become obsessed and deviate from the path of bliss.
Retaliation won't solve anything.
Whipping the gods to suppress his anger, he asked, "Bliss has not been achieved, is it all like this?"
"I'm watching star evolution, most of the time. ”
The Demon Slayer replied, "Don't worry, as long as the Venerable One comes, all disasters will end." ”
"Then this kid ......"
The whip looked at the girl at her feet.
"She and her mother will be in Elysium. ”
The Demon Slaying Tower smiled and said, "His Holiness can make this place perfect. ”
Whipping the gods is relieved now.
But although he was relieved, the Zhenyuan Daxian floating in the sky was not at ease.
"There is something strange about this star palace, and it is by no means an ordinary disaster. ”
Zhenyuan Daxian looked at the ground coldly and said, "I was just looking for rain, but I didn't succeed. ”
The earth was dry, and he wanted rain to moisten him, but he couldn't.