Yin Xiu held the window frame with one hand and looked at the changes outside the window.
Those monks, whether it was the fat monk who loved looking at himself in the mirror, or the pair of brothers who played chess with one tall and one short, even Wu Chen himself had undergone strange and terrifying changes.
They stood there, their bodies swaying, as if these soulless skins would fall down and never get up again if a gust of wind blew them.
Under their skin, there were waves of vibrations and undulations visible to the naked eye.
Then black veins popped up, starting from his eyes and ending on the back of his hands, all over his body.
These people seem to have become no different from zombies, turning into bloodthirsty murderous monsters.
A bug came out of the monk's eye, opened its mouth and sprayed out black mucus, as if to provoke Yin Xiu.
Until Yin Xiu raised his hand and shot a bloody arrow, cutting the insect's head into pieces, the monk also fell to the ground.
"Is it because I killed Fa Yin?" Yin Xiu asked Sang Jiu.
"Who do you think you are?"
Sang Jiu smiled bitterly, "The cause of all this has been planted a long time ago. It is destined to bloom and bear bad results. It is just a matter of time."
"Then why are you okay?"
Only then did Yin Xiu remember that Sang Jiu had repeatedly reminded herself not to eat food from Qianfo Temple.
He was shocked, "There is something wrong with the food."
"Absolutely."
Sang Jiu sighed, "I don't know when it started. It wasn't until one day that I found insect eggs in my food. I vomited them out and couldn't eat for several days."
"So, those monks ate those insect eggs just like you. Didn't you bring those ragdoll insects?"
"Of course I brought it. My master passed it on to me, and I brought it here from southern Xinjiang.
You want to ask me why everyone was infected by the bugs I cultivated, right? ”
Sang Jiu spread his hands, "I don't know."
"You don't know?"
"Yes, I just don't know."
Sang Jiu seemed to feel a little tired and sat on the ground.
"Do you think that because I cultivate these bugs, I know them well? Wrong, we don't know anything about those bugs at all. We actually don't know many things. We just use some shallow knowledge and our own will Just accept the way to understand them.
Just like the sky is round and the earth is round, that is just some unrealistic delusion of the ancients.
My dream is that I can control these bugs. In a cave in the back mountain, I raised them in several jars. At first, this was the only one..."
Sang Jiu showed his little finger and said, "It's only this long."
He pointed to the dead bug on the ground again, "Then after eating the flesh and blood, it can grow to this long.
And you probably already know its ability, which is to make the dead body rise again and become lifelike. ”
"But Abbot Fayin didn't stand up again, did he?"
"That's because we are humans, we are not those beasts."
Sang Jiu's face had a vicissitudes of life, and the stubble under his chin had turned white.
“I was very worried when I first ate the eggs, thinking that I would turn into a terrifying monster like those apes.
So I was on tenterhooks for a while, only to find that nothing happened.
It wasn't until a monk fell off the cliff and died, and then stood up again, that I discovered that the bugs were different in humans and animals. ”
"In other words, if you die, you will become that kind of monster, right?"
"I don't know, but I know they're going to be like that."
Sang Jiu shook his head, "When the bandits attacked Qianfo Temple, I hid in the mountains and escaped.
Then when I came back, these monks and people seemed to be fine, and they continued to sweep, do their homework, and laugh and play.
The few people I know had their heads chopped in half by bandits, or their intestines fell out and flowed all over the floor, but they still seemed to be fine"
Sang Jiu held his forehead, "This is really a terrible thing."
"Is this the first time you have discovered this situation? What about before? Didn't you already know that the dead guy will be resurrected?"
"Of course I know."
Sang Jiu explained: "But the guy who was resurrected last time is just like these monsters in front of you. How can he communicate with you, talk, and act like humans?
That guy was just a bloodthirsty monster, so that's what scared me. ”
"Why did it become like this?"
If according to Sang Jiu, everyone in Qianfo Temple ate insect eggs and was slaughtered by bandits that night, even if they were resurrected, they would only become monsters and would not be able to do the same thing as before. Saying the same thing, even his personality is the same as before.
The most important thing is that there are no wounds visible on their bodies.
Those who were beheaded, those whose intestines were taken out with a knife, those whose hands were cut off, and the scars as big as the mouth of a bowl were gone.
"Why did it become like this?"
Sang Jiu murmured and came up with only one possibility, "Evolution."
"Evolution?"
Yin Xiu said alertly: "You mean these bugs have evolved?"
"Maybe it's bugs, maybe something's wrong somewhere, before that, everything is acceptable.
It was precisely because I saw others eating insect eggs that they were fine, so I didn’t remind everyone that I wanted to stay here and survive.
Because if I had spoken out at that time, I would have been kicked out of the Thousand Buddhas Temple, because it was something harmful to people. In this case, I would have had no other choice.
In my observation, when the eggs enter the human body, they are just like parasites and actually have no impact on people, at least while they are alive.
Everyone has bugs on their body to some extent, and they like to eat raw fish, crabs, and mud snails. Even when they go to the toilet, they will pull out bugs, so what?
These are troubled times, everyone will die, so why do we need to take so much care? After eating the insect eggs, they did not die suddenly or make people sick. This is enough!
I'm not Guanyin Bodhisattva, I can't save so many people! ”
"Then what the hell is this evolution you are talking about?"
Yin Xiu closed the door and blew out the oil lamp, and the room suddenly fell into darkness.
This made the restlessness outside become smaller. It seemed that the insects were slowing down because the light disappeared and Yin Xiu and Sang Jiu could not be seen for a while.
At this time, only the moonlight was shining on the two of them, with a cruel cold emotion on their faces.
Fain's body was shrouded in the moonlight and seemed to be covered with frost.
Sang Jiu gently covered Fain's body with a quilt.
"It's different from the abbot's situation. The abbot is a living person. I put the ragdoll worm into his body, so to a certain extent, the ragdoll worm is symbiotic with him.
But the abbot was already very weak at that time and was not far from death, so the ragdoll insect just kept him alive and sucked nutrients from his body, making it impossible for him to go any further. That body is both the support and the cage of the insect. Just like other people, for them, the insect eggs in the body are time bombs that will never be triggered while alive.
But things changed.
On the night when the bandits entered the mountain, everyone seemed to have lost the power to resist, as if the massacre was not terrible, but just a baptism to welcome new life.
You know Elder Wuchen's ability. Even if he is vulnerable to you, a master of the synaesthesia realm, for ordinary people like us, he is a mountain that can only be looked up to.
After all, the bandits are just a mob. As long as Elder Wuchen takes action, everything will be fine.
However, he did not move and allowed the bandits to chop him into eighteen pieces. Others just ran or stood while the bandits ended their lives.
Abbot Fayin didn't know whether it was luck or misfortune, but all the monks in the front room were killed. The bandits were so disgusted with the smell when they arrived here that they didn't even enter the door. ”
Thinking of what he saw and heard that night, Sang Jiu's scalp was still numb.
What made him feel lucky was not that he survived, but that his daughter was not in the Thousand Buddhas Temple. Otherwise, he didn't know what kind of tragedy would have happened that night.
The men were killed in front of him, pierced one by one with spears and steel knives, and hacked to death.
The women were naked, being moved around like white-faced sacks, ravaged and ruined by the blood-stained bandits. Finally, they lifted up their trousers and didn't forget to mend them with a knife.
There is no hell on earth better than this!
"Where are those white apes?" Yin Xiu suddenly asked.
"Have you met the white ape?"
Sang Jiu frowned.
White apes usually do not come into contact with humans, so no one has ever been attacked by a white ape on the mountain.
But that's because there aren't many people going up the mountain. If there are a lot of people, they will definitely attract the attention of the white ape, let alone a group of murderous and noisy bandits?
He also thought that if the bandits who went up the mountain encountered a white ape, they might not be able to reach the Thousand Buddhas Temple alive, and just one of them would make them pay a heavy price.
However, that night, the bandits flowed unimpeded on Bodhi Mountain. After killing everyone here, they descended the mountain in an almost leisurely manner.
Sang Jiu once stood on the stone at the top of the peak, watching the bandits leave in a big way, until the firelight in their hands was obscured by the mountains.
Why isn't the white ape there?
And why did Yin Xiu and the others attract Bai Yuan's attention with only a few people?
There may be only one answer, and that is the appearance of the Insect King.
"Insect King? What is that?"
Yin Xiu asked him while holding a piece of talisman paper in his hand. It was the talisman paper used to communicate with Ma Xiaoyu.
However, he quickly took back the talisman. The entire Thousand Buddha Temple was probably in danger now, and it was useless to distract her at this time.
Yin Xiu changed into the Thunder Fire Talisman.
"You should have heard of King Gu, right? It is the lifelong dream of every head-dropping master.
Throw hundreds or thousands of snakes, toads, geckos, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and all kinds of poison into one place, and make them fight and kill each other.
In the end, there will only be one left, and that one is the Gu King, the most poisonous and ruthless one among the insects.
As soon as the poisonous insect appears, all the poisonous insects will be frightened by it, and they will not dare to move and will be sent and ordered by it.
I think that the insect king I mentioned also has this kind of magical power, making all insects obey his orders.
Therefore, it can control not only the people in the Thousand Buddha Temple, but also those white apes, whether they are insect eggs or insects. ”
"That makes sense."
Yin Xiu nodded, "Insect swarms are very simple. Only one brain is enough. Other insects are responsible for eating and dying, and the brain is responsible for directing them to eat and die. This is the most efficient.
The question is, why tonight? And not some other time? ”
“It’s hard to explain clearly what opportunity is.”
Sang Jiu smiled bitterly, "I don't know why, originally everything was fine, we just waited for Abbot Fayin to survive the Mid-Autumn Festival, but now a group of bandits came up and slaughtered the entire Thousand Buddhas Temple.< br>
All the people in this temple are good people, so why are there no good rewards? ”
"Didn't they already go to see the Buddha?"
Yin Xiu sneered, "When you are a monk, you have to go to see the Buddha in the end. It's just the difference between going early and going late. And who told you that good people will be rewarded?"
Ignoring Sang Jiu's disappointment, Yin Xiu grabbed the back collar of his clothes and asked, "Where is the Insect King?"
"Maybe it's in this temple."
Sang Jiu looked solemn, "Because only here can you feel everything and command so many bugs at the same time."
"Is that the conductor?"
Yin Xiu heard more and more footsteps coming from outside, and knew that Sang Jiu's guess was true.
This Thousand Buddha Temple is now overrun by insects, so naturally the brain of the insect nest should be the safest here.
"Let me ask you, who is more important, the person or the place?" Yin Xiu suddenly asked.
"What?" Sang Jiu didn't react.
"I am saying that it is the monks in the temple that are more important, or the temple that is more important."
"Of course it is a monk. Without monks, no matter how magnificent a temple is, it is just an empty shell."
"Very good."
Yin Xiu smiled, "At least you haven't fallen into illusion. If you are obsessed with appearances, what's the difference between you and a bug entering your brain?"
Sang Jiu wondered why Yin Xiu wanted to discuss Buddhism with him at this time? Obviously neither of them are monks, and all the monks here are dead. What can two laymen have to discuss?
It's like two virgins discussing riding skills. What can be said?
But when he saw Yin Xiu's other hand burning with fire, Sang Jiu was stunned.
"You shouldn't be..."
"Yes."
Yin Xiu grinned, and his face looked even colder and deeper under the firelight.
"I just thought about it. I don't know where the insect king is hiding or what it looks like. Even if it is hiding in a house, if the two of us go from house to house looking for it, we don't know when we will find it. < br>
And haven’t all the living people here turned into bodies driven by insects?
In this case, all the monks in Thousand Buddha Temple are dead, why is this temple still left? I might as well burn it all on fire. ”
"But!"
Sang Jiu's eyes widened, "This Buddhist temple has a history of hundreds of years. There are thousands of Buddha statues, all of which are treasures left by the predecessors."
"I know that those stones won't be anything like that. They will be blackened at most. As for the wood..."
Yin Xiu glanced at the wooden Bodhisattva in another Zen room.
"I made a mistake just now. I should say this. Since the monks can be recruited again, the Buddhist temple can naturally be rebuilt. Anyway, they are all dead, so it is better to burn them all with fire!"
No! ! !
Sang Jiu turned pale and almost screamed.
However, the firelight and heat wave quickly turned his face red again. (End of chapter)