dragon hunter

Chapter 31 The Buddha and the Devil

"Benefactor, meeting is fate..." The monk turned and walked towards me with a benevolent expression on his face, holding a white bone bowl in his hand.

I witnessed the fate of the bald man with triangular eyes. I dared not let the other party approach me. I screamed strangely in fright, took a few steps back, turned around and ran away.

"Amitabha!" The monk chanted the Buddha's name and stood where he was, without chasing me, but with a secret smile on his face.

Just as he ran out of the temple gate, he saw a woman with loose hair tied to a crooked neck tree in front of the gate.

"Help me!" The disheveled woman raised her head, and it turned out to be Zhen Qingyi.

I stopped in amazement, and looked at Zhen Qingyi suspiciously. He looked very miserable, tied to the trunk by a barbed vine, and his body and face were stained with blood.

"Why are you tied here?" I felt that the scene in front of me was a little weird.

"I just fell into a coma, and I was tied up here when I woke up." Zhen Qingyi looked haggard and looked at me pleadingly.

The barbed vines, like living creatures, twisted like snakes, getting tighter and tighter round and round.

I hesitated for a moment, and seeing the pitiful look of the other party, I gritted my teeth and rushed over, grabbed the tree vine with my hand, and pulled it out forcefully.

The barbs on the vines stuck in my hands, and it hurt my heart. I gritted my teeth and wanted to untie the tightly wrapped vines, but I didn't want the vines to be very powerful, and my forehead was sweating anxiously.

"Be careful, there is something crawling over the ground." Zhen Qingyi reminded in a panic.

On the ground beside me, there was a crackling sound, as if something was crawling over, I looked down, and found that there were a few more vines at my feet, twisting and crawling towards this side.

"What the hell are these things?" I was very panicked, but my hands and feet didn't stop.

The vines were wrapped around many times, and there was not enough time. My heart sank, and I ignored the thorns on the vines. I clenched my hands and ran around the trunk in the opposite circle.

"Leave me alone, run away." Zhen Qingyi said very worriedly.

"No, let's go together!" I said through gritted teeth.

After working for a long time, his feet were almost entangled by the vines on the ground. Finally, he untied the vines around Zhen Qingyi's body, and before he had time to think, he pulled the other party and ran away.

Before running a few steps, Zhen Qingyi let out a cry of pain and knelt down on the ground.

"What's the matter?" I looked nervous, this place is too weird, and the second uncle and the others have disappeared, making people afraid to stay longer.

"A sprained ankle." Zhen Qingyi looked pained, and stretched out his hands to cover his ankle joints.

"I'll carry you, this place is very tight, let's leave quickly." I bent over and ran towards the village with my back on my back.

While running, I searched for the figures of the second uncle and the others, and found that the surrounding area was quiet, and there was not a single ghost in sight, and there was not even a single light in the distant village.

He was panting and running, but found that something was wrong with Zhen Qingyi on his back, and the other person's body was getting lighter and lighter.

I subconsciously turned my head to look, and there was no figure of Zhen Qingyi. The one on my back was the skeleton monk. His skinny face was only a fist away from me.

"Oh my god!" I was startled, threw the other person off, and ran away.

What the hell kind of place is this? I deeply hate that I don't work hard at ordinary times. I have learned half a bucket of water physiognomy, and it is useless when I encounter danger.

As soon as I ran to the edge of the woods, I heard the sound of fighting coming from inside, and then I was pleasantly surprised to see the figure of my second uncle.

"Don't come here, it's dangerous here." The second uncle was fighting with a group of wild dogs with a mahogany sword.

The group of wild dogs looked a little abnormal, their eyes were blood red, and their teeth were exceptionally sharp.

"Second uncle, is it really you?" I suffered a loss once and became cautious.

"This is a phantom formation. What you see is fake. The gate of life is in the east. Run!" The second uncle spoke, his reaction was half a beat slow, and the wild dog bit his calf, dripping with blood.

Even if the second uncle said it was all fake, I couldn't just watch the other party being bitten by a group of dogs, and rushed over as soon as my brain got hot.

I stepped on a tree trunk as thick as an arm. I staggered and almost fell. I bent down to pick up the tree trunk and swung it at the wild dog.

"You're stupid, it's all false, what are you doing here?" The second uncle was a little unsteady, and his injured leg obviously affected his movements.

"Even if it's fake, I can't see you being dismembered by a group of wild dogs." Panting, I waved the tree trunk to drive away the wild dogs around me.

My calf hurt, and I almost fell down. While I was not paying attention, a wild dog bit my leg hard.

I stretched out my hand to touch it, and there was blood all over my hand. The blood on my hand and the pain in my calf made me doubt what my second uncle said. It didn't look like a fake.

"Hurry up, or we'll both be bitten to death by dogs." The second uncle looked resentful.

There are more and more wild dogs around, I smiled helplessly, the strong wind and waves are rushing over, is it possible to be bitten to death by dogs here?This kind of death is too useless.

"If Fatty Wang is here, that fat body is definitely a good shield." I found that I was a little nervous, and I was still in the mood to think wildly.

The second uncle pushed me hard, and stopped the group of crazy wild dogs alone, "You run, the gate of life is in the east."

I staggered and turned to look at my second uncle, who was being bitten by a group of wild dogs.

I gritted my back molars tightly, ran over, swung the tree trunk vigorously a few times, drove away the surrounding wild dogs, and dragged my second uncle to run outside.

Running and running, I realized that something was wrong again. I turned around suddenly and found that what I was pulling was actually a smiling bone monk.

"It's really lingering." As if I was bitten by a snake, I threw away the opponent's hand and continued to run panting heavily.

"Almsgiver, if you meet again by chance next time, please give me your heart." Monk Baigu clasped his hands together and recited the Buddha's name.

I kept silent and ran towards the east. I didn't know why I ran this way, maybe I was influenced by the saying "The gate of life is in the east".

As soon as I saw a light in the distance, I heard cries for help from around me. I turned my head and saw that Li Xiaolei was calling for help.

A flat-headed poisonous snake was wrapped around the opponent's neck, strangling her so hard that she could hardly breathe, her pretty face flushed, and her hands were tied behind her back to the tree trunk.

I felt a little schadenfreude in my heart, even though I knew it was mostly fake, I felt very happy seeing the painful expression of that insidious girl.

I ignored Li Xiaolei's call for help, this girl is not related to me, and she has a little grudge, so I don't want to risk my life for the sake of her.And the bone monk said that if he meets me again, he will dig out my heart.

I put my head down and continued to run forward, and the place with light in the distance was getting closer and closer.

"No matter what happens, keep your heart."

I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered what my second uncle said before entering the ruined temple, and subconsciously stopped in my tracks.

"Originally?" I frowned and thought, thinking if a stranger was in danger in another time and place, should I save him or not?
Li Xiaolei's cry for help in the distance sounded very miserable and made people feel compassionate.

I let out a heavy breath, turned around, and wanted to run back, planning to save that bitch first, regardless of whether it was true or not.

"His sister, it's a big deal. As soon as I rescued that girl, I turned around and ran away." I thought to myself, so the bone monk should have nothing to do with himself, right?

"Help...help me..." Li Xiaolei's pretty face was flushed with blood, the poisonous snake was tightly strangled around her neck, as before.

I rushed over, grabbed the poisonous snake seven inches away, tore it off with both hands, and threw it far away.

Then he loosened the rope from the opponent's hand, turned around and ran away without saying a word.

"Amitabha!" The bone monk's voice came from behind.

I secretly rejoiced in my heart, fortunately, I reacted quickly, and my steps moved like the wind, for fear that the monk would catch up.

"The benefactor knew it was a trap, why did he still save people?" A voice came from ahead, which startled me.

I was startled, I was so focused on running just now, I didn't realize how that monk appeared in front of me.

My mouth was bitter, and I remembered the scene where the bald man's triangular eyes were cut out. Although the other party had a compassionate face, he was more terrifying than a ghost in my heart.

Monk Baigu walked towards me step by step with a compassionate face, "Donor, you haven't answered my question yet."

"Saving people is saving oneself. Isn't there an answer on the wooden sign in the temple?" I was so blessed that I thought of the wooden sign that had the original handwriting removed and another sentence written on it.

The Bone Monk froze in place for a moment, with a half-smile on his face, and was silent for a while, "In this world, there are actually people who believe that saving others is saving themselves?"

I don't know where this monstrous monk came from. At the moment of life and death, his mind was exceptionally bright, "The Buddha can cut flesh and feed it to eagles. I'm not that great, but if I can do it, I won't refuse to save him."

"Xiegu, you lost the bet." A dull voice sounded like rolling thunder.

I looked sideways and found that there was a stone Buddha next to me, and the other person's eyes were bleeding with blood and tears, which looked extremely strange.

"I would like to bet and admit defeat!" Monk Bone's face was calm, and he praised the Buddha, his whole body was covered with a layer of faint golden light.

Then an ordinary old monk with a thin figure and a gray monk's robe appeared in the place of the bone monk.

"This...what's going on here?" I stammered, feeling that my brain was not enough.

"I have been sealed by that evil thing for many years, and I almost lost my mind. Thank you benefactor for awakening me." The old monk folded his hands together and bent down to salute me.

"What evil thing? Is it the one in the human skin brocade?" I asked nervously.

"It's a long story, the benefactor should wake up his companion first." The old monk walked up to the stone Buddha and sat down cross-legged.

I found that the surrounding scenery had changed. I was originally in the wilderness, but now I returned to the ruined temple.

The ruined temple was the same as it was before, covered with dust and cobwebs, but there was a skinny old monk sitting cross-legged in front of the stone Buddha, twirling rosary beads with his eyes closed.

"What a powerful phantom array." I exclaimed in my heart, looked down and looked around, the second uncle and the others were lying on the ground, breathing evenly, and seemed to be asleep.

(End of this chapter)