All living beings in hell

Chapter 100 - Peacock Kang
The lotus lantern at the door was lit up, and the office welcomed customer No. [-].

"Write, write, write." The guest's voice called three times at the door, accompanied by the sound like a glass ball hitting a wooden board.

"Come in, please," I said.

The door opened a crack, and a slender creature squeezed in sideways.From the side, it looks like a thin line with countless beads from the bottom to the top.It rolled like a wheel to my wooden desk and turned right.Only then did I realize that it was a disc that resembled a peacock's tail.In the center of the disc is an eyeball, which spreads out around the center, colorful and decorated with eye-like patterns.The disk stared at me, slowly turning clockwise all around.

"The new office is very good, I like it very much."

"Thank you, what should I call you?" I asked.

"Kang Tong."

I spread my pen and ink, and wrote its name: "Okay Kang, may I ask why you are looking for me today?"

"I don't know if I should trust you, my lord. I don't know if you have the ability to record my story in detail."

"Everything you say, I will record it truthfully." I replied.

"My lord, if you can't record, what should you do?"

"If you question my ability, why come to me? If you go out, turn left."

"I believe you, but I doubt it. As you can see, I'm a paranoid."

"Are you looking for me today to express your doubts about me?"

"I want to tell a story, but I don't know if you are worthy of my entrusting the story."

"Kang Yu, your story is not about marrying me, so how can you entrust it? My duty is to record your story truthfully and bring it to the world. It is to share the story, not to transfer the ownership of the story. Even if you tell it Yes, your story is still part of your experience."

Kang's eyeballs blinked twice, and the rotation speed of the disc gradually slowed down, and slowly stopped.Blue smoke emerged from the gaps in the disc patterns, and the smoke gradually formed the shape of a bird's body around Kang Yu.The foggy bird's body gradually solidified, the original disk formed the peacock's tail feathers, and the original eyeballs disappeared, replaced by a peacock spirit, sitting very cautiously on the wooden chair.

"My lord, as you can see, I was originally a peacock. I was taught by a certain fairy family, practiced diligently, and I also have some Taoism. I wanted to travel around with the fairy family to help the people of the four directions, so as to cultivate merits and virtues."

"Then what brought you to this hell?"

Kang Yu sighed: "I have indeed traveled to many places with that fairy family, and I have done many good deeds. I helped transport food in places where there was a famine, sent charcoal to farmers in the cold winter, and killed evil spirits to keep everyone safe... I did a lot of things with that fairy family, and went to many places. But he, he...he is a very stubborn fairy. Good things can be regarded as done, and I also had a lot of quarrels with him. In the end, I really endured I can't go on anymore, it's a shot and two parts."

"What kind of quarrel? What are you arguing about?"

"My lord, is there absolute good and evil in this world?"

"Do you think there is?"

Kang Yu paused and thought for a while: "When I traveled around with that fairy family, I felt that there was something. I firmly believe that as long as you eliminate harm for the people, you are good. Immortals are good, gods are good, people are good, demons and ghosts are good. It's all evil. As long as all the demons and goblins get rid of, then there will only be good in this world. Isn't this an absolutely good thing?"

"And now? Do you still think so?"

Kang Yu looked down at his sharp claws, the claws were as sharp as a diamond dagger: "I don't know, Mr. Writer. I have killed too many so-called demons and ghosts, but I am a spirit of animal cultivation.

Then you say, am I good or evil?

The immortal family claimed to practice the immortal way, the right way, and the great way.In the process of cultivating Taoism, he also slaughtered many demons and ghosts, erased their bodies, and sent them to hell.

The same is killing. Do you think what he did was good or evil? "

"What do you think?"

"Massacre is evil, but massacre for the people is good. I do evil things for good."

"Sounds a little self-sacrificing. You killed those ghosts, and what happened?"

"You can't kill all the demons... If you kill this devil today, another devil will jump out tomorrow to avenge it.

At the beginning, the immortal and I just took care of the evils during our travels, but in the end, because of the continuous appearance of evildoers, we were tired of running between the various villages.The villagers all know that we have strong spells and ask for our protection.However, there are only two of us, and we are simply too busy.

Today, when I ran to the East Village, the house in the West Village was destroyed by goblins.Going to the West Village tomorrow, the children in the South Village will be abducted.

The evildoers became more and more rampant, and began to attack the village in a planned and strategic manner.Their goal has changed, not to attack human villages, but to play us. "

"and then?"

"One afternoon, when we were about to leave the village and rush to the next location, a woman chased out, hugged the fairy's leg and cried loudly. She said that her child was taken away by a leopard spirit. The fairy comforted the woman Feelings, ordered me to hunt down the leopard spirit. I followed the scent left by the child along the way and chased it out, and found it quickly. But...but..."

"Where is the child?"

Kang Yu's eyes dimmed: "The leopard spirit was standing in the rushing river with the child in its arms. It was winter, and the water was very cold. The leopard spirit was shivering from the cold. The child's body was sinking and floating in the water with its head down. The leopard spirit was still holding the child's hand firmly. I swooped down with a long cry, and my claws clasped tightly on the leopard spirit's shoulders to tear off a piece of flesh. The leopard spirit was shocked, and his hand loosened. Rush down the stream. I and the leopard spirit rushed at the child at the same time."

I pulled the child's body out of the water...it was...already utterly cold, as cold as the river.I'm so angry, why, why does this monster want to do something to a child!This is a child!Looks like he's only six years old!why! "

I poured Kang Yu a cup of hot tea.It lowered its head to soak the bird's beak in the tea, then raised its head to swallow the tea in the beak.After it repeated this posture of drinking water several times, it seemed to calm down a little, and continued to talk.

"Just when I wanted to get rid of the leopard spirit, she also cried and rushed to the child, took the child under her body, and cried loudly. I was very angry at the time, and I didn't care about the reason. I looked at the leopard There was a burst of biting and pecking at Jing's back. Her back was quickly ripped apart, and the blood stained the fur, and flowed into the icy river along the cracks in the mud. But she seemed to ignore the pain at all, and still hugged the child Corpses weeping. Crying and crying 'My child, my child.'”

"Is this human child hers?"

"No, it's not..." Kang Yu took another sip of hot tea, "Humans...humans took away her child, peeled off her child's skin and made clothes. The leopard spirit has been crazy since then, treating human children as human beings. They were their own children, and after abducting them, they found that they were not their own children, so they killed them. Alas, it is also pitiful.”

"How did you know?"

"I saw that the leopard spirit didn't fight back, but seemed to be protecting the child's body. I felt strange. The anger gradually calmed down, and the leopard spirit was also dying. I looked at her, and she suddenly grabbed my wings. Yellow-green animal eyes staring straight at me—

'We're all goblins, do you think you're better than me? '

After she finished speaking, she swallowed her breath. "

"What do you think of that sentence?"

"I don't know, my lord, I don't know. I took the child back to the village, and the woman almost fainted when she saw the dead body. Just as I was about to tell her the truth, she suddenly grabbed me by the neck. Her strength Big, like a beast, asking me why I didn't save her child over and over again. Asking me over and over again. Why, not saving its child. I didn't say anything, just looked at her like that.

Leopard Fairy's words echoed in my head, 'We are all fairies, do you think you are better than me? '

The Xian family didn't stop that woman's behavior, and let me be strangled.

After that day, I parted ways with the Xian family.My lord, that was the first time I felt hopeless. "

"Why do you feel hopeless?"

"I feel like the things I've always believed in... are wrong."

"What is wrong?"

"Monsters are evil, and humans are good. From this point of view, demons are not necessarily evil, and people are not necessarily kind. I am a goblin, why should I protect humans?"

"Yeah, why do you want to protect humans?"

Kang Yu was silent for a while, "Maybe I thought it was the right choice back then."

"now what?"

"I don't think it's worth it right now."

"You answered your own question yourself, 'Monsters are not necessarily evil, and people are not necessarily good.' This is what you said. Your cognition has changed compared to the original you, so that Why do you still need to ask me?"

"I want verification from you."

"Why is my verification important to you?"

"It made me think... maybe I'm right."

"I don't think there is absolute right and wrong in the world, nor absolute good and evil. Different perspectives look at the same thing, and they will have their own criteria for judging. This is what I think, do you think it is correct?"

"I don't know, my lord. How should I act in this case? Wouldn't it be difficult if there were no criteria for judging?"

"Your voice is your judgement."

"I... I don't understand what you mean."

"Recall how you have made various choices since you were a little peacock until now? What made you choose to practice Taoism, what made you choose to travel around with that fairy family, what made you choose to go Hunting monsters, what made you stop doing that?

There must be your own measurement standard behind each step of choice, and this standard is not constant.When the external world changes, your cognition also changes all the time.

So that is to say, there is no absolute standard stipulated in the world, everything is still determined by your subjective, isn't it? "

"Hmm...it seems...it seems...it's like this..." Kang Yu was thinking, "I came down because I wanted to see how those monsters I killed before... how they lived in hell. I There's always some... guilt in my heart. I feel guilty for the lives that ended at my hands."

"Then what are you going to do? Apologize one by one?"

"Maybe they won't forgive me."

"Do you forgive yourself?"

Kang Yu was silent, it lowered its head, paws on the floor: "I did something too much, how can I forgive myself?"

"First of all, accept what you did at the beginning. In that situation, it is your cognition, the cause and effect caused by your cognition and behavior, and accept it if it has happened."

"It's so difficult... so difficult."

"This is something no one can verify for you, or do for you. Accepting the past is the first step to forgiving yourself."

"And then? Then what do I need to do?"

"Come on step by step. When you truly accept yourself and forgive yourself, maybe you are no longer in hell."

"For a long time, I have always hated that fairy family. I always felt that I was influenced by him to create my current karma. But actually thinking about it, I am quite grateful to him. He taught me a lot My ability has taken me to many places. If I hadn’t practiced Taoism, I wouldn’t be sitting in hell chatting with you now.”

"Well. If it were you now, if you met that fairy family again, would you still travel with him in cultivation?"

"I still know how to practice Taoism, but I won't travel together anymore. Taoism belongs to Taoism, but our thoughts are different. We are two paths of fairy and demon. I will choose to walk my own path."

"Then you already know what to do next."

Kang Yu looked at me, thought for a while, and then showed a relieved expression: "Yes, Mr. Writer, I understand."

"Go, it's almost time today."

Kang Yu nodded and stood up. It plucked a slender colorful tail feather from its own tail and placed it on my wooden table.

"My lord, thank you for today, this is for you."

"Your feathers?"

"It should be much better than your bamboo pen."

I smiled and accepted this beautiful peacock tail feather: "Thank you so much."

"See you again, Mr. Writer." Kang Yu flapped his wings and retreated towards the office's gate.

"Goodbye." I said.

(End of this chapter)