Chapter Forty-Eight: The Shadow of the Monkey Cat

Pig Eight Dog's eyes that seemed to have seen through everything did not seem to be joking, which made Sun Wumao feel a little uneasy in his heart, he tried to recall the scene when he went up the river through the bottomless boat, the river water was clear and visible, he could see the sand and stones and aquatic plants at the bottom of the river, and he could see the fish in the river, but he did not see the most indispensable thing, although he had already sensed that something was wrong at the moment, but he couldn't remember what was wrong. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

This time, as Pig Bagou had said, he lowered his head, looked at his feet, and finally untied the knot—what was missing in the river was his reflection!

Sun Wumao frowned, rubbed his eyes a few times, and couldn't believe the scene at the moment. He bent down and looked left and right, trying to find his reflection:

"It's weird, why, I don't have a reflection either?"

He kept groping his face and hair with both hands, a little uneasy:

"Am I dead too? Pig Eight Dogs, have you ever seen my shadow?"

"I saw it. ”

"Where did it go?"

"It's not going anywhere, it's right in front of my eyes, and that's who you are. ”

"Is it me?" Sun Wumao thought this was even more outrageous than a dream, "In that case, I am already dead like you? Your incarnation, your soul is gone, your spirit is gone, so what about mine? Where is my body? Where is my soul?"

Sun Wumao raised his head and looked up at the sky, and the big black face of black impermanence had long since disappeared at some point. The sky was not blue or white, but black, and the stars were surging and beautiful.

But the earth is as bright as day, I don't know where the light comes from, Sun Wumao stared at the galaxy surging in the dark sky and thought hard, recalling the situation when he fell from the sky: "I fell from the sky, pierced the bottomless boat, sank into the river, and then passed through the bottomless boat back to the boat, is my body still underwater, and what floated up is only my shadow? The reason why this bottomless boat can carry me is not how amazing the ship is, but that it doesn't need the bottom of the boat to carry a shadow?" I can't scoop up water, my sleeves and my body aren't wet, it's all just because I'm just a shadow?"

Sun Wumao lowered his head and was puzzled: "If I become my shadow, then who has my body become?"

After a long time, he said to Pig Eight Dogs: "Eight Dogs, I just pierced through the bottomless boat from the sky and fell into the water, I think my body must have been dropped under the water by me, it must still stay in the place where I fell, go, come with me to find it back!"

Sun Wumao hurriedly turned around, turned his back to the direction of the bottomless boat, bent down and desperately scooped up the water behind him, trying to make the bottomless boat sail back the same way.

However, this did not help at all, Sun Wucat fluttered and plopped for a long time, but the bottomless boat still went against the trend, but at a slower speed.

He was tired, straightened up and panted, and could only look at the river and sigh, unable to do anything.

"Oh, how is this good? This incident makes you say that when I go into the mirror, I lose my body! When I get out of the mirror, if I lose my body, then I will not have to be in the company of those lonely ghosts!"

Zhu Bagou was lying on his side on the boat, and saw Sun Wumao frowning and muttering there by himself, and interjected: "What are you going out for?" The outside world is so boring, how interesting this world is, why don't you stay and let us have a companion!

Sun Wumao heard this, but retorted: "Go and go! Take care of a fart! You can't run, you have to go out with me! If the Buddha told you and me to be with Tang Sanzang's master and apprentice all the way, go to the Tang Dynasty to preach the scriptures, how can you let you run into the mirror and be at ease?"

"Hey! Sun Wu Cat either said that your cat is stubborn, our family Rulai does not have an old saying called 'those who have me are sentient beings, and those who have no self are Buddhas', since we have both become shadows now, and our bodies and souls do not know where to go, isn't this just the answer to the sentence 'no self', so you and I have become Buddhas? Go to the East to spread the scriptures, there are our masters, they protect the Tang Sanzang, what can you and I do with a cat and a dog? Just be our Buddha here, be at ease!"

Sun Wumao glared at him and said, "You conscienceless, you are lazy, you make excuses one by one, more than I can say! What else has become a Buddha, have you ever seen a Buddha who is chased by rabbits? !

Zhu Bagou said: "Yes, it's too late, you run one and show me, I came in a few days earlier than you, it's not that I don't want to go out, I didn't find the exit!?"

"Exit?" Sun Wumao patted his head, "Oh, yes! How could I forget such an important matter?"

"Look at it, it's like I'm lazy and have no conscience!"

"Why did this go into the mirror and cause so much trouble?!! Wave after wave!" Sun Wumao was obviously a little irritable, and sat on the boat, "Pig and dog, come, now we are starting from the beginning, how many things need to be solved?

Zhu Bagou stood up and squatted in front of Sun Wucat.

Sun Wumao stretched out his palm and said while counting his fingers: " You see, the first thing is that I came to this mirror in search of Sha Wuyu; the second thing is that our master and Tang Sanzang are probably also in this river, and we have to go and find out if we can find it; the third thing is that we have to find the exit of the mirror and take Sha Wuyu and our master to escape from this mirror; and the last thing is that my body and soul are gone, I have to find them back, if I can't find them, forget it, just be like you! Which one do you think we should do first?"

After hearing this, Zhu Bagou was puzzled: "Sha...... You came in looking for a fish? What kind of fish is that? Does it taste good? Do you have to come in and find it?"

Sun Wumao glanced at him and said, "Sha Wuyu is the little goldfish we rescued in Lingyundu!"

At the mention of this, Zhu Bagou suddenly became excited, and quickly swept his tail a few times, and said: "Oh! You mean that big beauty?

"Okay, then it's up to you!" Sun Wumao seemed to think of it with Zhu Bagou, and continued to inquire with him: "By the way, Bagou, I saw Sha Wuyu just now, she was swimming in the water, and she clearly saw me, but when I called her, she didn't respond to me, and disappeared in a blink of an eye." Speaking of this, he was worried: "Later, I saw a huge black fishtail sweeping over the bottom of the river, lifting up all the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river, and I was worried that there would be something wrong with the sand and fish!"

"Oh!" Zhu Bagou suddenly realized, "It turns out that you stood on the boat and shouted desperately just now, just for this?"

"Otherwise, what am I shouting? I suspect that the black giant tail is the thousand-year-old dragon catfish that ate our master, and it is in this dreamlike world just like us!"

"It's also there, I came in from the purple gold red gourd, and you and Sha Wuyu came in from the mirror, so where did it come from?"

"I don't know, I just have this kind of worry!" Sun Wumao said uneasily, and then a trace of joy flashed in his eyes, and said, "By the way, Bagou, what did you tell me when you were on the shore just now?"

"What?"

"Didn't you say that everything here eats people?"

"That's right!"

"I don't think you're right!"

"How so?"

"The creatures you just told me about eating people, birds, fish, sheep, these are all going to be eaten in the outside world, so in this mirror, they are eating people in turn, in this case, then the creatures that eat people in the outside world are going to be eaten in turn when they come here?"

"Alas?" Zhu Bagou tilted his head, "It doesn't seem unreasonable for you to say that! Well, there is a possibility!"

"Then we might as well give him a try! Since the thousand-year-old dragon catfish eats people in the outside world, then I will go into the water to eat its thousand-year-old dragon catfish, even if I can't eat it, it's good to find the way!"

Pig Bagou said: "What do you say? Have you forgotten that you and I don't know how to water? Do you want to be a drowned ghost?"

Sun Wumao smiled and replied: "You just reminded me, why did you forget it first? You and I are both shadows! How can shadows be afraid of flooding? Have you noticed just now that half of your body is soaked in water but it is not wet! I can't get water from the water, so it can be seen that we can't help water, and water can't help us! Just go down and see, there is no hindrance!"

After Sun Wumao finished speaking, he was about to jump into the water, but Zhu Bagou hurriedly dissuaded: "Slow down! Yes, the thousand-year-old dragon catfish in this mirror may be afraid of people, but there are other fish in the water! In the outside world, dragon catfish eat people, people eat small fish, in the mirror, isn't it just people eat dragon catfish, small fish eat people? So many small fish, you have to hug together, you take a bite and I take a bite, then it is better to be eaten by a dragon catfish in the outside world! Don't end up, there is not even a shadow left, then it will completely disappear in this world!"

Sun Wumao said: "Didn't you also say that you are a shadow, heartless! The shadow has no heart, and there is also no meat! What can those fish eat? Besides, don't you want to say that you should first look for Sha Wuyu, and Sha Wuyu is underwater, and we have to go down to find it!"

"Yes, it seems to make sense for you to say that!" Zhu Bagou's stupidity came up again, this is his true color, "Then I reserve my opinion and mix with you!"

"Okay, I'll go down and explore the way for you first!" Sun Wumao swore as he got up, "I've entered the six centers, and I'm afraid that it won't be a river in a mirror?"