Xu Cheng was a little surprised. She saw that they were motionless. They were all people wearing red monk robes and sitting for a long time.
She held Paopao's hand and returned to the entrance of the village. Huai Zang had already unloaded all the goods. He was sitting on a nuclear-powered tricycle, waiting to pick up Xu Cheng and Paopao to leave the village.
"Quack." Xu Cheng waved to Huai Zang. He turned his head and looked at Xu Cheng and Bu Bu with his electronic eyes.
"So many people, so many dead people!" Pao Pao gestured in surprise, "From the edge of the village to the distant mountains!"
"Are they all wearing red monk robes?" Huai Zang asked.
"Yes!" Bubble nodded sharply.
"... Mercy. Those are elderly villagers who want to save resources for the entire village. In the past six years, everyone over 60 years old will consciously wear red monk clothes sewn by family members or villagers.
Leave the village and walk towards the distant snow-capped mountains. Walk as far as you can. When you are tired, sit down and then leave us." Huai Zang said softly.
Xu Cheng swallowed.
She turned to look at the village. Young people took out the food that Xu Cheng had brought from Jialongpo from the warehouse and took it home for cooking.
The things they brought have made the village a little richer. But if you want to save the lives of the old people, I'm afraid it's not enough.
After knowing the situation in the village, Xu Cheng looked at some people in their 50s. Their faces were full of wrinkles, their expressions were friendly, and their demeanor was calm. There were red monk robes hanging on the walls of nearby houses, as if they were waiting for them to go one day.
wear.
They wanted to eliminate themselves to free up resources for the survivors in the village. Xu Cheng felt strange, but she didn't know what to say.
Once Kojima Yezi reaches 60 years old, will he consciously eliminate himself to make room for those who come after him? Xu Cheng thought silently.
"Are you going to see them off?" Xu Cheng asked Huai Zang.
"We bid farewell to the whole world." Huai Zang said.
"The afterlife is not a big deal, people are queuing up to be resurrected," Xu Cheng said. There are probably 4 billion people queuing up now.
"Be compassionate. That's the best." Huai Zang said.
He packed a lot of food in food boxes, food made by the villagers out of gratitude, to entertain messengers from far away.
Now that the goods have been unloaded, the purchase was successfully completed. Huai Zang put the food boxes on the back of the nuclear-powered tricycle and invited Xu Cheng and Pao Pao to leave the village and return to the airport.
"Bye..." Xu Cheng climbed into the car and waved goodbye to the people in Boudan Village.
They also came to say goodbye. Among the crowd were young farmers, craftsmen, women sewing clothes, women holding babies, children, ordinary villagers, slightly more respectable villagers, and vaguely visible villagers from big cities, joining
Farming students, little girls... they spontaneously gathered at the entrance of the village and waved goodbye to Xu Cheng and others.
"Bye-Bye!"
"Goodbye! Messenger!"
"Come again next time!"
"Walk slowly!"
"See you tomorrow!"
"Bon voyage!" They waved their hands and looked forward to what the messenger would deliver to the village next time.
Xu Cheng sat in the back seat of the tricycle, waving to the villagers with Paopao, until Huai Zang drove the car around the corner of the mountain road and lost sight of it.
But some way away from the village, Xu Cheng could hear the sound of drums and the trilling of reed flutes coming from the direction of the village. Who was playing melodiously, bidding farewell to the messengers who had arduously crossed the dangerous zone, and expressing the gratitude of the villagers.
Xu Cheng closed her eyes, her thoughts seemed to change with the sound of flutes and drums, and she slowly hummed to the beat.
The whistle went away, and she smelled the fragrance of grass and trees and the cool breath of the mountains. Night gradually came, and the stars above their heads surrounded them, as if they could not escape the shining of the stars.
Huai Zang drove the car back to the airport and distributed the food sent by the villagers to everyone on the shuttle.
"This is all carefully prepared by the people in Boudan Village." Huai Zang opened the food box among them.
"There is food... Wuwu..." Shahua's head was covered with snow, and he squatted on the ground and stared at the food box in despair.
"Yo ho! There is a free dinner in the world!" Lian Hua put her hands on Sha Hua's shoulders and was almost riding on her sister's head.
The first food box contained buckwheat pancakes, yak butter, butter tea, yak jerky, and butter rice porridge.
The second food box contains meat rice noodles, dumplings, sausages, pickled radish and salty milk tea.
The third box contained sautéed wild edible mushrooms, mutton cakes, millet beer, plums, almonds, some kind of fresh stir-fried root and berries, and amaranth noodles.
"Mercy, junior brother will bring the new Buddha's instructions tomorrow. If everything goes well, we will take you up the mountain. It's dark today, so let's make do with it here." Huai Zang parked his tricycle next to the airport runway and locked it.
"Are we the only ones coming to the Snow Mountain?" Xu Cheng raised his head and asked.
"You are the first batch of messengers in three months. Because the world is folded, few other people come here for transit. Only the unique route from Jialongpo directly to Taixizhou will come to Budan. Other westbound routes can detour to Xinzan
Goss, Nineveh, Honolulu, Chiba City and other places." Huai Zang said.
"The snow-capped mountains are awesome." Paopao looked around, seeming to be looking for a good place to view the scenery.
"This place has survived the catastrophe. It is a sacred land." Huai Zang said.
"...Who were you before you became a monk?" Xu Cheng was curious.
Embrace it thoughtfully.
“The poor monk was once the producer of a two-dimensional mobile game, dedicated to bringing fantasy worlds and beautiful girls to people.” He said, “But after the disaster came, the poor monk’s small happiness was destroyed by endless pain and suffering.
Torn apart by the catastrophe. Faced with the tremendous suffering that the entire world has encountered, the poor monk found that his pursuit of the beauty of the second dimension was not only shameful, but also pathetic. Therefore, the poor monk converted to Buddhism and only wanted to break, break, break..."
"Really?" Xu Cheng couldn't believe it.
Huai Zang took out a poster from under his monk's robe, which showed a 16-year-old middle school girl in school uniform.
He pointed with his mechanical fingertips at the spot between the girl's knee-high white socks and short skirt: "Do you know the absolute realm?"
"I don't know." Xu Cheng shook his head.
"O mercy, who will return to me?" Huai Zang lamented. He hid the poster in his monk's robe, sat on the side of the shuttle, chanted sutras and meditated, and stopped talking.
After the Lianhua sisters had eaten and drank enough, they returned to the shuttle, put down the seat and transformed it into a camp bed, then lay down on it and fell asleep, getting used to the harsh living conditions.
Xu Cheng originally wanted to sleep, but Pao Pao suddenly called Xu Cheng to go out and watch the stars.
"It's beautiful outside." Paopao said to Xu Cheng, and she winked.
Xu Cheng was doubtful and walked into the dark mountains outside the airport with Paopao.
They walked into the cold and lonely wilderness, carefully distinguishing the slope of the land under their feet to avoid falling.
The misshapen moon rose above the throne of the blue and dark night sky. Xu Cheng looked up at the sky and then at the colorless black woods around him. He felt as if he and Bubble had disappeared into a hidden world and could never be found again.
road.
The Village of Boudin. Xu Cheng recalled the small village where he delivered goods before.
It is as eternal as the snow mountain itself. Xu Cheng looked in the direction of the Snowy Mountains. In the center of the mountains, the mirror-like iceberg he had seen during the day was still special, like a diamond, like a crystal, reflecting the dazzling moonlight, as if
It is dyed with nine phantom colors from the sky, like a dream.
"Quack." Xu Cheng felt it was too dark.
"The best view is at night." Bubble promised, "Trust me."
Their little shoes rustled on the snow and mud, which sounded extremely loud, as if they had broken into a peaceful, sacred and quiet world.
Xu Cheng felt like she was walking in a dream, the tranquility seeping into her bones, washing away her tension and fear. This kind of fear has always been there since the catastrophe, and until now, its threat has not appeared in the peaceful environment of nature.
The caress slowly fades away.
It's very quiet, you can only hear the chirping of birds that come out at night, and the gurgling streams and rushing rocks.
She took Xu Cheng to sit on a hillside at the edge of the forest, several kilometers away from the airport runway, the village and the monastery.
"Come." Paopao sat with Xu Cheng. This is the place with the widest view, and the scenery is more beautiful than other places Xu Cheng has been to during the day.
Snow-capped peaks gleamed dazzlingly under the sea of stars, the sky dropped so low it was as if the stars were falling onto the planet, and the constellations glowed like frozen fireflies, almost ignited from within by some kind of celestial fire.
.
"Doesn't it look good?" Paopao smiled and turned to Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng looked around and saw nothing.
"I didn't see anything," she said.
Bubble looked at Xu Cheng, squeezed Xu Cheng's fingers, and then looked at Xu Cheng's face gently.
"I've seen everything." She looked at Xu Cheng, her eyes filled with Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng didn't understand what Bubble meant. She opened her mouth and turned her head.
Inspired by the bubbles, she focused more on interacting with the world around her and wanted to see more and more things.
Xu Cheng closed her eyes. She was very inspired. At this moment, she seemed to be able to hear the breathing of the mountains. An ancient, sleeping soul was rising and falling here. It had occupied it long before humans carved their marks on the stones here.
This land exudes an aura of mystery and eternity. Some beauty cannot be possessed and can only be briefly borrowed by human eyes, allowing mortal souls to glimpse immortality.
"How is it?" Paopao said to Xu Cheng.
"Ah Gu, Ah Gu." A spark or meteor-like thought flashed through Xu Cheng's mind. She suddenly had a suspicion that she wanted to confirm.
"What, what's wrong?" Paopao was at a loss. She regretted what she said to Xu Cheng.
"Porphyrin!" Xu Cheng squatted down and tapped the ground with his hand, "Come out quickly!"
"What? What's coming out? What are you doing?" Paopao was frightened by Xu Cheng's actions.
"Giant God!" Xu Cheng jumped, and she pointed to the distant ice and snow mountains. The weird, crystal-like mountain was even more dazzling at this time. Oops! This is Yan Duo's other brother who fell, but he was hit by
Then I slept peacefully in the Snowy Mountains until today! It is also its power that prevents the Snowy Mountains from being covered by fog, making it a huge safe zone!
She couldn't turn on the machine to check it now, so she could only wait until tomorrow. When she thought that she might find one of Yan Duo's brothers and wake it up from the Snowy Mountains, Xu Cheng was very happy and hurriedly took Pao Pao's hand back to the shuttle.
Went in to rest.
"Gugu..." Xu Cheng lay on the army green sheets and fell asleep. Paopao helped Xu Cheng cover himself with the quilt, tucked the corners of the quilt, used the timer heater to set the hot milk for tomorrow morning, and quietly turned on the shuttle
Cleaned up and then went to bed.
The next day, Xu Cheng got up and found that the milk was hot by itself. She was very happy because there were so many sensible milks in the world. While she was drinking, she saw her junior brother Ming Gao, who was pregnant with the monk, coming down the mountain.
Huai Zang exchanged a few words with Ming Gao. They used a data cable to exchange information, and soon Huai Zang came over.
"Can we enter the Zen monastery?" Xu Cheng asked.
"No, the new Buddha said your fate is not here." Huai Zang said.
"Quack." Xu Cheng was unhappy.
"Mercy, but the new Buddha has given us other orders. It seems that you are going to Taixi Continent? That place is already full of vampires and their minions." Huazang said solemnly.
"Yes!" Xu Cheng nodded. The package must be delivered to Qianmeng. But Taixizhou is the home of vampires, which is very troublesome. It is said that they are super powerful.
"In that case, you must first learn a fighting skill called 'Breathing Technique' and release sunlight ripples before you can defeat the vampire." Huai Zang nodded, "We are willing to teach you such a skill!"