Paintings of Terror

Dead bodies littered the fields, and blood flowed like rivers.

The corpses of demons and human remains formed a sea of ​​death.

The only clean mound seemed out of place in this corpse environment. At first glance, it was even thought that this mound was made of corpse ashes.

That man sat on the mound.

Wei Dong has never entered into a person's illusion so deeply, even Fang Fei's deep sea illusion has never made him so immersive and unable to extricate himself.

Wei Dong felt that his feet were stepping on the sea of ​​corpses, and his nose was filled with the strange stench of demon blood and human corpses. The moonlight shone from the direction of the mound, and he raised his face and looked at the dirt. The man sitting on the pile.

As if feeling his gaze, that person also looked back at him.

A real person.

Ordinary appearance, no features.

An unfamiliar face, whose age could not even be seen under the darkness of night.

But Wei Dong always felt that this person's gaze was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Weidong approached little by little, trying to see some clues from this person's clothing.

This person glanced at Weidong, and seemed to have lost interest in the "intruder". He turned his head away, not knowing whether he was in a daze or in deep thought.

Wei Dong's eyes focused on the pockets around the man's waist.

This is a very dilapidated cloth bag, so dilapidated that the original color can no longer be seen, but its appearance is very familiar, especially the black rope at the mouth of the pocket, the end of which is tied with a rusty copper A bell, occasionally making a dull sound.

Weidong had seen the exact same pocket before. It was when he and Fang Fei first came to this world—the Shituoling at that time was already full of corpses, and the two had nowhere to go. Two snow-white goose feathers were selected.

What's more, the two also learned the trick of blinding their eyes. They only need to pin the goose feathers on their ears and read the spell, and the two of them turned into two goose demons on the spot, and then swaggered into the Lion and Camel Kingdom.

Wei Dong opened his mouth, wanting to ask this person: Are you the old woman who helped us back then?

But all the words that came out of the mouth melted into the air, and no sound came out.

The man sitting on the mound seemed to hear it, smiled, and seemed to say something to Wei Dong, but Wei Dong couldn't hear it.

The man raised the pocket in his hand, and the copper bell made a rusty sound.

With the ringing of the bell, Weidong finally came back from the illusion.

Fang Fei seemed to be discussing something with the pig guy, and was ready to pick someone and bring a bargain.

The sound of the copper bell was still ringing slightly, Wei Dong stared at the monster in front of him without blinking, to be precise, it was a monster guy from the slaughterhouse, with a moderate stature and a monkey's head on his head. He bared his teeth and shook his body again.

The pocket on the waist of the monkey demon made the sound of copper bells, and the monkey demon made a complicated gesture to Weidong, and then stopped looking at Weidong.

At this time, the voice of the boa constrictor man suddenly came, and soon the voice of Zhu San came: "Wait a while for the deal, the Dragon Lord has taken over all the venues today!"

Weidong turned his head, only to find that the monkey demon had long since disappeared.

Fang Fei reacted very quickly, holding the child behind her back tightly: "We can't afford to mess with Master Long, we will withdraw first and come back another day."

The pig guy was very clever, thinking that it was not easy for these merchants to meet each other, so he first led the two of them out through another door.

The two of them returned to the dirty alley, turned silently along the alley, and then walked onto the avenue paved with green bricks.

Both of them knew that they couldn't even save a hundred people in the slaughterhouse. If they didn't hide in time, the children behind Fang Fei might be left behind by the boa constrictor man, and even arouse the other party's suspicion.

"Go back to the inn first." Fang Fei said briefly, walking like flying at the same time.

There was a piercing "beep" in my ears, and the time signal was getting louder and louder, and it was already the eighth.

Time is really running out.

Back at the inn, he untied the cloth from the child's head. The child didn't cry, and his eyes were dull.

Fang Fei applied the medicine bought on the road to the child's wound. The process may be painful, but the child did not say a word.

"I saw him." Wei Dong said at this time.

"That monkey?" Fang Fei didn't have time to observe the other party with the bird fairy feather, but she could guess from Wei Dong's expression.

"He should be the same person as the old lady who helped us back then," Wei Dong conjectured, "It's the old lady we met before entering the city."

Fang Fei lowered her head and took the medicine, but was speechless for a while.

"Tell me, what you see in the illusion is the past or the future?" Wei Dong asked.

"I do not know."

"In that environment, it seems that there was a battle between a demon and a human, and the scene was very tragic."

Listening to Weidong's description, Fang Fei found it hard to imagine the tragic scene, let alone deduce whether it happened hundreds of years ago or would happen a few hours later.

"Weidong, why do you think these monsters came to the Lion and Camel Country?" Fang Fei suddenly asked.

Wei Dong thought for a while: "Didn't the boa constrictor man say that people can eat people legally here, and this country seems to belong to the three-way zone."

"What did it say in "Journey to the West"? Why are those monsters allowed to eat up the people of a country?" Fang Fei felt horrified when she thought of this—cannibalism is certainly terrible, but what is even more terrifying is that cannibalism actually Reasonable and legal.

"According to the book, these three monsters all have backgrounds, not nameless wild monsters." Wei Dong sat on a chair by the window, "The green lion and white elephant are Manjusri and Puxian. The mounts of the two Bodhisattvas, and the big roc is even more remarkable, it is said to be the uncle of the Tathagata Buddha."

"This seems to have been mentioned in TV dramas. Phoenix gave birth to peacock and Dapeng. The peacock was born to eat people, and he dared to eat the Buddha. Later, the Buddha broke the peacock's back. So Dapeng became Buddha's uncle." Fang Fei still remembers playing this scene on TV.

"So the roc is lawless, saying that he is not used to fasting and has to eat people every day. In the end, it was the Buddha who said that he should be fed by his followers, so that he converted."

Fang Fei widened her eyes when she heard that, "Feed it with people?"

"It probably has the meaning of feeding a tiger with one's body, sacrificing one's life for righteousness." Wei Dong said.

Fang Fei frowned, and seemed to think of something: "I told you about the eight dragons before, and it mentioned that the roc was fond of eating dragons until the dragon family was about to become extinct. Later, the dragon mother begged Buddha for help. To save the dragon son, the Buddha persuaded Dapeng not to eat dragons again, and promised him that Buddhist disciples would give him nectar and food before eating fast, so Dapeng converted to Buddhism and never ate dragons again.”

This is the first time Weidong heard such a statement, which completely overturned his previous understanding of "Journey to the West": "To be honest, I have never understood this before, so I can only fool myself with words like 'sacrificing one's life for righteousness'. Didn’t expect such an interpretation in Buddhist scriptures?”

Fang Fei: "I haven't read Buddhist scriptures. I did some research while reading martial arts novels, and they happened to be mentioned in it."

Wei Dong: "I think Wu Cheng'en, the author of Journey to the West, must have known about this story. He probably wrote it in a different way deliberately, maybe to satirize the society at that time, maybe to enhance the storyline or something. Yes, or because of other unspeakable reasons."

Fang Fei felt that with the IQ and experience of the two of them, it might be difficult to penetrate the mystery in a short time.

Fang Fei said: "Anyway, the world we live in is nothing more than a matter between humans and demons."

The world in front of him reminded Weidong more of the painting "Animal World".

No matter in the painting or in reality, as long as the position at the top of the food chain is seized, the identities of human and demon are completely interchangeable.

What exactly is a person?What is a demon?

What is non-human?

The one who gets eaten is always the weakest one.

Wei Dong looked at Fang Fei's snow-white goose head: "You know what? If you let me watch a goose slaughter now, it's probably the same as watching a murder."

Things hurt their kind, that's what I'm talking about.

Wei Dong felt as if he had suddenly understood materialist dialectics.

"I don't think that monkey monster has a chance to say anything to you," Fang Fei never hesitated to change the subject, "If he is really a pure person, it is impossible not to leave a hint."

"He said," Wei Dong carefully recalled the monkey demon's gestures at that time, and now he stood up and imitated, raised his right hand high, raised it up once, then patted to the left three times, and patted forward twice Down.

"Half-hearted? Three words and two actions?" Fang Fei felt that she was the worst at guessing such puzzles.

"..." Wei Dong turned around and looked around, as if he suddenly understood something, he changed the direction and did the set of actions again, "I remembered, he was facing the south at that time , I think he is pointing us in a direction."

"What direction is it?"

"He turned his face to the south, and raised his hand upwards, telling us to walk out of the slaughterhouse, and slapped to the left, that is, to the east, and slapped three times. I think it should be three streets to the east, and then slapped forward again. Twice, turn south and cross two streets." Wei Dong expressed his analysis.

Fang Fei stared at Wei Dong in disbelief, almost suspecting that he had stolen some of Mu Yiran's brains and brought them here.

Wei Dong scratched his head: "I've been thinking about this all the way, and I don't know if I guessed it right. Just now I figured it out. He was standing with his face facing south, and the sun was hurting his eyes. He squinted his eyes hard, probably to remind me that he is facing the south."

"It's not too late, let's hurry over and have a look!" Fang Fei has always acted vigorously and resolutely.

However, Wei Dong took out the feather fan left by the bird fairy that he carried with him, took off a piece of white feather from it, and walked up to the child. At this time, the child was probably exhausted. Slowly fell asleep.

Wei Dong pinned the feather behind the child's ear, and recited the mantra that the old woman taught him back then, and soon the child's head changed into the shape of a white crane, just like a sleeping little crane demon.

"The appearance of a man is too dangerous. Sooner or later he will die in the lion and camel country. We can't keep him forever." Wei Dong said.

Fang Fei looked at Wei Dong and nodded.

The two took care of the shop boy and asked him to help look after the children.

Wei Dongfangfei set off again, heading for the place Chunren pointed to.

The two walked hurriedly, and soon arrived at this small street.

Although the small street is small, the two sides are full of small shops. The two of them quickly looked for one shop after another. eyes.

Wei Dong rubbed his eyes vigorously, and managed to see clearly, but suddenly found that the bird fairy feather stuck between his eyelashes was gone.

Fang Fei stared at the goose eyes angrily, apparently her bird fairy feather was gone.

Wei Dong looked up at the shop in front of him, it turned out to be a painting shop, he opened the door and walked in, and there were monkey monsters busy inside.

For a moment, Weidong couldn't tell whether the "pure man" who instructed him to come here was among them.

Without bird fairy feathers, how can we distinguish between "pure people" and "pure demons"?

Fang Fei followed and said in a low voice with some reproach: "Where's your fan?"

Wei Dong wept bitterly: "It's gone, it seems to have been blown away by that gust of evil wind."

There is no way out, and we can only let it come, and let it go.

Wei Dong looked at this small painting shop, the walls were covered with paintings.The monkey guys are busy, some are hanging pictures, and some are trying to dry the ink of these pictures.

It was only then that the two discovered that the paintings hanging everywhere in this painting shop were actually the same painting!To be exact, the patterns on these hundreds of paintings are all exactly the same!

"Is this a woodblock print?" Fang Fei asked a monkey buddy.

The monkey guy saluted and said: "Ma'am is right, the water and land paintings in our shop are the most charming. During festivals or to invite gods and immortals, people from our lion and camel country will come to our shop to buy paintings! "

Wei Dong asked, "Why is there only this pattern?"

The monkey guy replied: "This water and land painting is the most effective! This wood block is made by a fairy, and it has supernatural powers! We little demons can't draw or make plates!"

Wei Dong further asked: "We are here to buy paintings, I am afraid there are not enough hanging in this shop."

It was the first time that monkey buddy heard of someone buying so many paintings at once.

Wei Dongdao: "I have to go to the workshop to see if your printing speed can catch up with our painting tomorrow."

The monkey buddy didn't push back, so he led the two goose demons to the printing workshop behind the shop.

I saw a few monkeys who had their own division of labor, some were responsible for coloring the woodblocks, some were responsible for printing, and some were responsible for taking pictures to dry...

Wei Dong and Fang Fei approached to look at this wooden board, and saw that the gods and figures from all walks of life were carved vividly and lifelike.

"Is this the only woodblock in your family?" Fang Fei asked.

The monkey buddy got a little impatient, and didn't know what the purpose of the two goose monsters was: "Since all the monsters entered the Lion and Camel Kingdom, there is only this one woodblock, and this is the same picture that is hung in every house. It’s not that I’m bragging, even our King Dapeng’s palace also hangs the same woodblock-printed picture, but the printing material has gold powder, silver powder and precious stone powder added to it, so it won’t fade easily.”

Wei Dong stared at the woodblock for a while, and then turned to look closely at the printed paintings. Wei Dong had never studied water and land paintings before, and only now did he realize that there are various gods and ghosts in the paintings. In addition, there are people who are as inconspicuous as worthless.

Fang Fei also looked at it for a while, but really couldn't understand it.

A familiar voice suddenly sounded beside him: "Unexpectedly, Chunren is playing hide-and-seek with me."

The two turned their heads in horror, and it turned out that the man who came was the boa constrictor.

Fang Fei didn't wait for the boa constrictor man to open his mouth, and said coldly: "In the lion and camel country, people are the food of demons. The reason why Dapeng established this country is because it can eat people legally and legally. Mr. Long and Dapeng bird There is no difference in their identities, they are both monsters and cannibals, why does Mr. Long have to leave this place so hard?"

Indeed, after a few hours of observation in the lion and camel country, the two discovered that the two animals that are natural enemies as beasts are also friendly neighbors in this country, such as foxes and rabbits, roosters and centipedes, and Weidong The kite and the little house sparrow I saw with my own eyes in Xicuilou.

"I'm afraid Mr. Long has other purposes?" Fang Fei asked further.

The boa constrictor man smiled sinisterly: "Mrs. Dongfang is really not simple. My dragon clan is omnipotent in the sky and into the sea. How can a small kingdom of lions and camels block my way? I can go out of the city at will, so why do I need to ask him?" That gold seal?"

"So, the pure human heart is not dedicated to the roc, but you want to eat it yourself?" Fang Fei said.

The boa constrictor man spat out the purple-red snake core: "I thought you were two dumb geese who had just entered the city, but I didn't expect you to have some brains, that's all, today a group of monkeys also ate them, and the two geese also ate them, and swallowed you all up." In the stomach, my python can digest it all!"

As soon as the male python spoke, his true form appeared. It was a giant python as thick as an old tree trunk. At this moment, he opened his mouth and sucked in the monkey buddy who greeted the two of them just now.

The whole small shop was already collapsed by the original form of the python. The other monkeys were so frightened that they wanted to run around, but they were surrounded by the huge body of the python, and no one could escape.

Wei Dong could no longer tell where the python's Qicun was, because one of the other's scales was as big as his palm, even if he could find the Qicun, he might not be able to hold it down.

"Monkeys retreat!" Before Fang Fei finished speaking, the python's huge mouth came towards Fang Fei, and the cold voice was accompanied by the wind: "Mrs. Dongfang is too smart, I have to eat you first."

Fang Fei looked very small in front of the python's huge mouth. If it was eaten by it, it would be like a human eating a dumpling.

Suddenly a gust of wind hit, fanning the boa constrictor back.

Wei Dong couldn't believe that his hands turned into a pair of giant wings, and his whole body became bigger accordingly. His long neck stretched out, and his hard mouth pecked fiercely at the top of the python's head.

Fang Fei was very anxious, knowing that this was probably the effect of the half of the dragon ball, and regretted that she hadn't had time to eat the other half of the dragon ball yet. ——I probably thought that the dragon ball was taken out by the boa constrictor to fool the two of them, and it couldn't possibly have the effect of "multiplying demon power".

Fang Fei touched the treasure box she carried with her, opened it, and saw that half of her dragon ball had turned into nothingness.

Fang Fei looked at the battle between the snake and the goose in front of her, and only hated that she was not the one who ate the dragon ball. In terms of combat effectiveness, she was much stronger than Wei Dong.

Fang Fei knew that she couldn't help, so she hurriedly asked the monkeys: "Which one of you is a pure person? Can anyone tell me where the fragments of the woodblock are?"

One of the monkey monsters said: "I don't understand what you mean by pure people or impure people. I only know that all people in this city are not human. I don't know what kind of woodblock fragments, there is only one woodblock in Lion Camel Kingdom. There is no second piece."

The scene was too chaotic, large pieces of white goose feathers fell down, like a heavy snowfall.

Fang Fei was so anxious that she wanted to cry, but she warned herself to calm down, and carefully recalled what the monkey monster said. There is only one wooden board in the lion camel, and there is no second one.

That is to say, in fact, the woodblock fragments in Lion Camel Country can only come from this woodblock!

Fang Fei clenched her fists and walked towards the wood block of water and land painting, and slammed it hard, bleeding out with her fist, but the wood block was still a solid piece of iron, not cracked at all.