211: To kill or not to kill(1/2)
The sunshine in the city is warm, and there is plenty of light in the library.
There was a slight sound of books being turned, and the faint sounds of pedestrians coming from outside.
This is a peaceful and stable county.
People in the city live and work in peace and contentment and are prosperous.
This seems to be what people think and expect.
Is it delusion for the people to want peace and happiness? Lou Jinchen didn’t know how to define it for a moment. After all, between heaven and earth, no matter whether he is a big person or a small person, he is enveloped by the torrent of heaven and earth. It’s just that big people have more ability to struggle.
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Lou Jinchen did not open the book, but walked towards the shopkeeper.
"From the shopkeeper? What kind of book is this? Who is this Lou Jinchen?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Isn't Lou Jinchen your name? How come you don't know who he is?" the shopkeeper asked Lou Jinchen strangely.
"Does the shopkeeper know me?" Lou Jinchen asked, staring at the other party.
In his eyes, this shopkeeper is a real person who cannot be more real.
"Master Lou, this is the first time we meet, how can I recognize you?" the shopkeeper asked strangely, but then suddenly said: "You are a foreigner, right? Since you are a foreigner, why not go and read our books?"
The building’s sign.”
So Lou Jinchen took the book and went out, came to the street and looked up at the plaque.
The plaque has the characters "Benming Library" written on it.
"My destiny?"
Lou Jinchen stood directly on the street and started reading the book in his hand. The first page of the book read: "You came from a foreign country, took a sword and settled in the Fire Spirit Temple outside Swimming City, and learned
The method of extracting and refining yin and yang,..."
This is actually everything he has experienced since he came to this world, and the private things that few people know about are also on it.
The last part describes how he set out alone with only his sword to sort out the affairs of Jiangzhou Prefecture and to quell the secret spirit chaos in Jiangzhou, and passed through Yinxi County... to Liang County.
He frowned, returned to the library again, and said, "Does the shopkeeper know how many people have read the contents of this book?"
"This is your first time coming in, so naturally you will be the first to read it. Do you want to buy it? If not, then put it back. Many people will read it in the future, and Mr. Lou's future experiences will appear in this book.
superior."
Lou Jinchen was stunned and immediately thought that the book only appeared after he entered the building. He opened it and the contents inside appeared. It was like a mirror, reflecting his past trajectory.
I have not seen this book, and there is no trace of this book. I have seen this book, and this book has written the trajectory of my life.
He suddenly thought of traveling to a certain place, and was photographed by the other person. The other person asked you to come over and take a look, and after reading it, he asked you to buy it.
It’s okay if you don’t look at it, because if you don’t look at it, you don’t know it, just like you don’t have it. After looking at it, this photo represents the past and a memory. However, if you want to keep it with you, you need to spend money.
"How to sell it?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"You can get this book with a sincere prayer," the shopkeeper said.
"A prayer?" Lou Jinchen was both surprised and unsurprised. The existence of a secret spirit and its transition from fiction to reality are indispensable for outlining the meaning of one's existence, just like drawing on white paper, which requires outlining lines and coloring.
And this kind of prayer outlines the meaning of His existence.
"Yes, as long as you pray sincerely, the people in this city will always be healthy and happy, and this city will last forever," the shopkeeper said.
"May I ask, what is the name of the shopkeeper?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Young Master Lou, you can call me Bookkeeper." The shopkeeper said.
"The wish of the bookkeeper is what people hope for, but people have birth, old age, sickness and death. If it is as you wish, how can we call ourselves human without birth, old age, sickness and death?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Why do people have to live and die? Don't you practice cultivation and want to escape this life and death? You can pursue and escape this fate, why can't they?" said the bookkeeper.
Lou Jinchen fell silent.
"What's more, they are not immortal, nor are they immortal, they just no longer feel sad and painful." The book shopkeeper said seriously.
Lou Jinchen didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"I will take this book and give you my best wishes later." Lou Jinchen took the book out of the library and walked on the street. People were living normally and their faces were full of happiness.
Everything was in order, Lou Jinchen had never seen such a stable and happy city in this world.
After turning around in a circle, he left from the entrance again.
And when he left the book in his hand, the magic on it disappeared.
Lou Jinchen came all the way to Sanwei County, but all the people in this county were gone, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.
Lou Jinchen circled around and found no one. He then looked for people near the county seat and found that nine out of ten villages were empty and had already been moved away.
He stood in front of the newly built 'temple'. There was no aura of mysterious beings inside, and there was no mysterious presence in this city.
He has left.
Lou Jinchen continued to the next city. The people in this city did not disappear, but no one was alive. Everyone died on the bed, as if they were asleep and never got up.
Lou Jinchen believed that when these people died, their souls were taken away.
He walked around again, and found that the villages and towns around the county were lifeless and empty, with only skeletons.
Only then did Lou Jinchen feel that it was extremely rare for people in Liang County to be alive.
Came to another county.
He stood on the top of a high mountain next to the county seat, looking at the 'people' in the county seat.
Those people can no longer be called human beings, those people are hunched over or crawling on the ground.
Their faces were all earth-colored, because they actually ate the soil on the ground. Some people even baked clay cakes to eat, and some people put some leaves on the earth cakes to eat.
This is no longer a normal person, but some kind of earth-eating alien, which can also be said to be a native.
When Lou Jinchen was looking at the entire city, the 'people' in the city seemed to suddenly have a sense of it, and they all looked towards Lou Jinchen.
At this moment, Lou Jinchen felt as if Mount Tai was pressing down on him, and there was yellow dust flying in the void around him, quickly wrapping him up, and the mountain at his feet seemed to have opened its mouth and was about to swallow him up.
Suddenly following the eyes of the 'people' in the city, what emerged was earth energy.
Lou Jinchen pulled out his sword and held the sword flower in his arms. Wherever the sword light passed, the rustic atmosphere around him turned into golden light.
Native gold.
The golden light shone across the sky, and he saw his sword swinging out, and the golden light fell towards the city like a silk sword.
Each ray of golden light fell towards a native, and each native's head was separated. However, these natives picked up their heads one by one, hid aside, found a water source, and dipped their necks into it.
After getting wet, he put his head back on.
The earth energy around him continued to gather, but he continued to transform it into gold energy, turned into sword energy, and fell towards the city at the foot of the mountain, slashing the natives.
After all, the sword energy was dispersed too much and its power was greatly weakened.
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 been hiding in the mud under the city.
Lou Jinchen was certain that the other party could escape underground.
"Why do you want to kill us?"
This voice suddenly sounded in the city.
Suddenly so many people asked at the same time.
"We just changed our way of life, and we didn't harm anyone. Why did you come to kill us?"
This is still the 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 where you practice. You can allow the existence of the Eyeless City, why can't you allow the existence here?"
Lou Jinchen frowned and said, "Do you know me?"
"The name of the corridor director is as loud as thunder, how could I not know it?" 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 the victims. I can't bear to hurt their lives anymore, and Master Ji is willing to control it, so naturally I can't.
I wish to recreate the karma of killing."
"And here, you took the initiative to turn these people into the natives they are today. You killed the people in this city, and you deserve to die!"
Lou Jinchen suddenly flew out with his sword. The sword turned into a stream of light, fell in the city, and pierced the clay statue of the god.
The mysterious light on the statue quickly dimmed.
However, the sword was not drawn out, and the brilliance swirled on it, and the clay statue turned into gold and stone in the brilliance.
A ray of light fell in the 'temple', Lou Jinchen had already entered, and the sword flew back to his hand.
With another slash of the sword, the head of the statue was severed.
Sure enough, as he thought, his sword failed to hurt the 'secret spirit'. Lou Jinchen was not surprised. The other party would know his name and swallow his memory. They should have such ability.
He went out to kill all the natives and purify the entire county, but he saw a native holding a child in his arms.
To be continued...