Chapter 35 Chapter 2 Unknown Life, Known Death

Behind Wang Chengfeng, there were also a few sudden inhalation sounds at this moment. Without looking back, he knew it must be Da Duo and Zhuang Zhou. "This place, I call it 'Sleeping Land and Dreamland'," Houtu said with a smile, "it is the place where all the dead souls return, and it can be regarded as a place of happiness." "Sleeping and dreaming?" Wang Chengfeng wondered, "What does that mean?" "It means that death is not terrible. People are afraid of death when they are alive, and they have a very obvious fear of death. In fact, it is only because they do not know death. Death is nothing more than something like sleep. If you really know death the truth, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"It's easy to say," Wang Chengfeng laughed, but when he turned his head, he saw Zhuang Zhou's serious expression, as if he was extremely impressed by Houtu's words. "I'm still the same old saying, because you don't have to die, so of course you are not afraid of death! You only made our Xiao Zhou miserable, thinking that what you said was true." "Of course what I said is true," Hou Tu Ruo said with a deep smile, "It just depends on whether you are willing to accept it or not." "If death is really just like sleeping, there is always a time to wake up from sleep, right?" Wang Chengfeng sneered: "But once a person dies, he will never wake up again. How can you say that death is like sleeping?"

Houtu turned his head and looked down at Wang Chengfeng. At this time, the luminosity was already brighter than that of the Nether World. Therefore, Wang Chengfeng could also see Houtu's appearance more clearly. His description was dark, but his face was not bad. Clear and bright, with long eyebrows and deep eyes, and slender lips, strictly speaking, it looks a bit like a Buddha statue in a temple. It's just very paradoxical that Da Duo next to him is a real "Buddha" who is genuine and genuine. Da Duo does not look like the Buddha statues in the general "Mahatma Hall".

The real is not like the fake, and the fake is like something else. If this muddled account is to be calculated seriously, it is also a very strange thing. Just when Wang Chengfeng was thinking wildly again, he saw Houtu's face was serious, and his eyes were bright again, and he said slowly: "You haven't died before, how do you know you won't wake up after death?" "Of course I know!" Wang Chengfeng said with a smile on his face: "It's not that there are no dead people there. When we go to the wilderness, the mountains and plains are full of dead people. I have never seen anyone wake up." As he was talking, an idea flashed in his mind again, and he said in a thief-like manner: "Besides, you are not me, how do you know if I have died? You are not me, how do you know that I'm not sure if I will die after death?" Will wake up again?'”

"If the body is not awake, how can the mind not be awake?" Faced with the nagging words of the rambunctious young man, Houtu still didn't think it was disobedient, and just sighed softly: "It's just that you haven't seen such a state, so you just don't know what to do." There will be such misunderstandings.” As they talked, several people had already come to a transparent egg-shaped object, and saw that the huge egg-shaped object was also the size of a building, but inside the transparent surface, one could see a person in the center standing behind him. The changing scenes are either sad or happy, or laughing or angry, constantly changing expressions.

If you look carefully, even the appearance of that person keeps changing, sometimes it is a thin old man, sometimes it is a vigorous young man, sometimes it is a middle-aged man who is getting fatter, and sometimes it is a future floating in the amniotic fluid. Born baby. Watching the person change with the scene in the transparent egg, Wang Chengfeng opened his eyes wide, as if he was watching the most complicated computer animation, and he became a little fascinated. "This is the scene of this soul in the place where it lives," Hou Tu leisurely said: "In the definition of the mortal world, he is already dead, but in this 'soul concentrator', you can say that he is It’s a dream, but it can also be said that the mortal life course is another dream.”

Wang Chengfeng frowned, and was about to speak, but he heard Zhuang Zhou next to him as if he had lost his breath, and made a "hum", as if he heard something that shocked him very much. Hou Tu, the Lord of the Nether, nodded approvingly, as if he knew what was on his mind. "Death and life, the human world and the underworld, nothing is absolute. The living fear death, but maybe the dead fear life too? Like this person who is in the 'land of sleep and dreams', he is living happily in this place at the moment, and his emotions change with his memory. If one day you tell him that you are going to take him to your human world, maybe he will be so frightened that his liver and gallbladder will burst!Yes or no? "

At this moment, Hou Tu seemed to think that Wang Chengfeng was stubborn, and the object of his conversation had changed to Zhuang Zhou and Da Duo. "Actually, people are always lazy and content with the status quo. After staying in one place for a long time, they will become dependent on that place. Over time, they will reject fear of other places. Most mortals are afraid of death, but isn't death just like Want to get some sleep? You are afraid of death. In fact, to put it bluntly, are you like a child who was taken away from his hometown and grew up in another place, and when the child is old, one day, someone wants to take him back to his hometown. Sick with fright, for he feared that his homeland was no longer familiar to him.

Isn't death like asking the child to go back to his hometown? " Zhuang Zhou listened intently to Hou Tu's words with bated breath, as if he was afraid of missing any word. "Since I created this 'Ghost City', I have taken in countless souls, almost all of which came with negative emotions of sadness and regret. It's just that after coming for some time, as time goes by, I also forget the previous life years and what happened in the past. Some people asked him: 'Why were you so afraid of death and didn't want to leave the world? ' And most people who are asked this way will answer something like this: 'I have forgotten. 'Only a few of the most intelligent ones would answer something like this:

'I used to be afraid of death because I didn't know what it would be like after death. After I died, I was very scared at first, but after I got used to it and thought about the past, I realized that the fear in the past was pitiful and ridiculous. Now I am used to the world of death, and when I think of the "life" in the past, I start to be afraid again. I'm really scared, I'm afraid that one day I will leave here and return to the "life" world...'" In front of "Sleeping Country and Dreaming Land", Zhuang Zhou and Da Duo discussed life and death with Hou Tu in detail like the most devout disciples listening to the sage's sermon. Said, so as to let the two understand.

In the conversation, Zhuang Zhou also mentioned the "Dream Butterfly" technique taught to him by "Guiguzi" Wang Li in the "Academy". Houtu looked at the huge butterfly phantom that appeared behind Zhuang Zhou, and with a few pointers, Zhuang Zhou's figure became blurred, interacting with the light and shadow of the butterfly. The figure that is clear for a while, and blurred for a while is mesmerized, as if immersed in the most beautiful illusion in the world. The butterfly shadow is like a dream, like a dream. I don't know if Zhou's dream is a butterfly, or if the butterfly's dream is Zhou... As for Da Duo, who was on the side, he also had endless questions to seek answers from Houtu. "I am Siddhartha, the son of King Jingfan of Kapilavastu. My mother, Mrs. Maya, gave birth to me through the Lumbini Garden, and later came to the 'College' through the Bodhgaya Pippala Tree," Dado said eagerly: "Up to now , but there are still countless confusions in my heart..." In the gentle smile of Hou Tu, the realm that Da Duo entered is a very long and long time journey, the time covered cannot be counted, and the number of long counting units is huge, but in a short time, it can also Hidden many long years. "There are sixty moments in a flick of a finger, and there are three lives in an instant," Dado said softly to himself during this time and space journey: "A person's life is one life, and the third life is the past life, and the present life world, and the future world, but the third life is only in an instant, and there are sixty instants in a snap of the fingers... The world has to go through many catastrophes, and one catastrophe lasts for 4,300,000,000,200,000 years, at the end of the catastrophe, there will be a catastrophe fire, everything will be ashes, and after the catastrophe, it will be reborn... Ninety-one kalpas ago, I talked with the Buddha who burns the lamp. The lamp is the Buddha of the past. He was born in the solemn kalpa of the past life. On the vast and huge plain, egg-shaped objects that seem to contain countless worlds are on display. In the quiet philosophical atmosphere, Da Duo and Zhuang Zhou are intoxicated in the time and space of the deepest philosophical thinking, their figures flickering. Now, the whole space is filled with the most mysterious and intriguing atmosphere. It seems that even the smallest particle in the air has a profound philosophical beauty. But there is always an exception to everything. In this picture of the most philosophical beauty, there will always be someone who burns lutes and cooks cranes and spoils the scenery. That is a person who is about to... no, it should be said that he has "already" achieved unprecedented feats in history, a great man who has made Confucius, Zhuangzi, Laozi, and Liezi sincerely call him "Teacher Wang" in his mouth. It is also! "Ah……" In the profound philosophical sky of "Sleeping Land and Dreaming Land", listening to Zhuang Zhou's "Dream Butterfly" and Da Duo's "Calamity", and seeing the expressions of the two figures intoxicated and enlightened, Wang Chengfeng finally couldn't stand it anymore. He stopped and yawned heavily. Perhaps because of the excessive lack of oxygen in the brain, one shot was not enough, and another one was needed. "Heh... ah..." Maybe it's because yawning in such a temperamental place is too eye-catching!Wang Chengfeng yawned so much that he even burst into tears. In the tears, he saw Houtu, the Lord of the Nether, turned his head and looked down at him, with a strange light in his eyes. If you insist on describing it, it can be said that it is the feeling of being stared at by a living Buddha. Generally speaking, Wang Chengfeng is an extremely ignorant guy, but the atmosphere at the moment is really weird. Under Houtu's strange gaze, Wang Chengfeng still felt a little uncomfortable, so he scratched his head and smiled foolishly . "Hi!" Hou Tu didn't seem to notice such a greeting full of the spirit of the new generation, but continued to look at Wang Chengfeng quietly, and after a long time, he said slowly: "You are special." Wang Chengfeng scratched his head again nervously, first with his left hand, then with his right hand, but with a blank expression on his face. "what?" Hou Tu's big dark face smiled slightly, but there was a subtle sense of humanity. Although he was always gentle and elegant before, he always felt a little distant, but the smile now made people suddenly feel relieved. "Specially, I don't know!" Wang Chengfeng said with a smirk from the bottom of his heart, "I have been scolded by people for being stupid, incompetent, and imbecile, 'I can't even read well, how dare you ask me to let you buy a motorcycle? '... But to be honest, no one really said I was special. " Hou Tu looked back at Da Duo and Zhuang Zhou who were still obsessed with fugue, and said with a smile: "Aren't you at all tempted by the realm they have comprehended? Both of them are very outstanding characters, and it is a rare opportunity to be able to gain insight here.Are you really not tempted at all, do you not want to be enlightened like them? " "It's not that I don't want to," Wang Chengfeng said honestly, "It's just that I really don't understand what you are talking about." Houtu looked at him quietly, looked up and down, as if trying to see his sincerity, and after a while, said the same sentence slowly. "You are very special, really special," Houtu said in a deep voice, "It may also be because your era is more advanced than theirs." "It's probably true to say that," Wang Chengfeng said with a smile, "I heard from Wang Li that my time is more than two thousand years later than theirs, so I think I'm a bit smarter." "I've rarely met someone like you," Hou Tu shook his head and whispered, "So, maybe I can let you know something more." "If you want to understand things, shouldn't you find someone who is smarter?" Wang Chengfeng pointed at Da Duo and Zhuang Zhou and said with a smile, "If you find me, I don't care if you get mad." "Smart or not, it's actually hard to define," Houtu said, "Although Da Duo and Zhuang Zhou are both talented and talented, they live in a relatively primitive era of civilization after all, and they have many insights into things. , which cannot be surpassed in a lifetime.” "It's strange," Wang Chengfeng clapped his hands and said with a smile, "a fellow said this before, saying that 'two thousand years of civilization accumulation is extraordinary after all', saying that I am still better than Da Duo and the others." Houtu took the lead slightly. "Basically, that's right, so, I think I can use a more advanced way to explain to you what this 'Ghost City' is all about, and what is my real origin." "Very good, very good," Wang Chengfeng nodded, and said with a hearty smile, "But you have to keep it simple, my brain is not that good, and I can't understand it if it's too complicated." Houtu ignored him, and sat quietly on the plain, telling many fascinating and strange stories to Wang Chengfeng. "Although my current identity is 'Lord of the Nether', I seem to be a character in the earth god realm. What I collect are the souls of the earth people, and what I touch day and night are the thoughts of the earth people..." Houtu said quietly Said: "However, I am not from the earth, I come from another planet, if according to what you say, I am an alien. My mother house is called "Centaurus Star" on the earth. This galaxy belonged to the Southern Dipper constellation in ancient China. It is in charge of death. The so-called "The Big Dipper controls life, and the South Dipper controls death". This galaxy in charge of death is mine. home. My home planet, the Centaur galaxy, is very familiar to people on earth after the 22nd century, because my compatriots once launched a big war to invade the earth in the 22nd century, which indirectly destroyed the whole earth. " Hearing this, Wang Chengfeng couldn't help shouting: "This... I heard this story from Wang Li, isn't it just some kind of 'Superman War'?" "Yes, it was because of the centaurs' invasion of the earth that the 'Thirty Years of Superman War' was triggered," Houtu said slowly, "but this war has nothing to do with me, because I I arrived on Earth earlier than those centaurs who invaded Earth, and not a little earlier, I arrived on Earth six thousand years earlier than them!" "Six thousand years?" Wang Chengfeng said in surprise, "Chinese culture is only five thousand years old, but you are six thousand years ahead of others?" "If so, what kind of era was it six thousand years ago?" "That's a good question. What was the era six thousand years ago?" Houtu smiled and said, "Tell me, what era did you experience before you came to 'Netherworld'?" Wang Chengfeng rolled his eyes, and a look of horror appeared on his face. "Mythical time and space? You came to Earth in the era of Shan Hai Jing?" "Exactly." Houtu nodded. "Basically, the Earth's Shan Hai Jing era is the result of a time mutation. This mutation has far-reaching effects. Not only are victims from different eras involved in this mutation, some people are even from other ages. planet." "Just like you..." Wang Chengfeng stammered, "And I heard that you have companions, right?" "Strictly speaking, there are three people who were drawn from the centaur galaxy to the time and space of mythology, one is me, and the names of the other two on Earth are Nandou and Yandi. The technology of the centaurs was much more advanced than that of the people on earth six thousand years ago, and the three of us were the best scientists in the centaur galaxy at that time. When we first came here, we tried to go back to the Centaur galaxy, but after a few futile attempts, we put our minds on this earth where everything is very primitive. Not long after, both Nandou and Emperor Yan became very interested in this undeveloped virgin planet, so they used their respective equipment and technology to establish the Kunlun Heavenly Court and the Southern Heavenly Court through genetic modification. And I, because I am very disgusted with these ambitions and battles, found a subdimensional space with a very specific nature in the extreme north. Based on the strange negative energy in the space, I gradually built this strange "world of the nether world" All'. " "So, you are not the King Yama in our mythology, nor are you some 'Lord of the Nether'," Wang Chengfeng breathed out lightly. "Your real identity is actually just an alien?" Houtu nodded, indicating that he was right. "In fact, I have come into contact with so many undead, although I found that most of them have the belief of the underworld, but if my inference is correct, those myths and legends of the 'underworld', 'eighteen levels of hell', 'bull head and horse face ', 'Black and white impermanence', in fact, do not exist, everything is just from people's beliefs and imaginations. From a scientific explanation, what dominates human actions and thoughts is a group of highly energetic free radio waves. From the perspective of the world, it is the 'soul'. As for why the "soul" gathers into a wave of energy that is enough to drive the human body, and under what conditions can the soul leave the human body in an immortal state, or allow the free soul to enter the human body, I am ashamed to say that even if I study the soul of the dead The characteristics have been around for such a long time, but still can't fully grasp, even the simplest, where the soul comes from, and how it disappears can't grasp the key. What I am best at is that I can only use the energy of the Netherland to attract many dead spirits from all over the world, and store them in the "Sleeping Land of Dreams", and observe them from time to time to see if I can get some mysteries from it. " "You don't have to be so polite about yourself, do you?" Wang Chengfeng said with a smile, "At least you created the entire Netherworld yourself. Just this alone is already remarkable." Hearing Wang Chengfeng's "flattery", Houtu didn't react at first, but suddenly became silent, with a gloomy expression on his swarthy face. A giant with the appearance of a black and strong Buddha can still show a "gloomy" expression on his face. It should be regarded as an amazing sight, right? It's just that at this moment, another strange light flashed in Wang Chengfeng's heart. At this moment, what came to mind in his mind were a few things that seemed to have nothing to do with the "Ghost City". These few things are just what I heard and heard, and I have not personally experienced them. The first thing is "Guiguzi" Wang Li, the master of "Academy". Although Wang Li is the master of the "academy", when asked about the origin, characteristics and functions of the academy, he sadly said that he still hadn't figured it out, and he didn't even know where the "academy" was. Also, the strange god "Nandou" who dominated the entire mythical time and space back then, many people thought that the Kunlun Heavenly Court was a conspiracy planned by him, but later found that there seemed to be a larger leading force behind him. Finally, what Wang Chengfeng remembered was the new adventure story of the time hero Grey. Traces of civilization were found here and there. Three irrelevant stories in different time and space, different worlds, but they all have the same reaction. Sadly. I thought I had dominated everything, but in the end I found that even the matter of "dominance" was the arrangement of another, more powerful force. He thought he had started to be the master of the house, but in the end he found that he still had a stronger immediate boss above him. The feeling of pride dissipated, so I feel sad. At this moment, Wang Chengfeng once again felt such a gloomy emotion in Houtu's reaction. "Slow...slow." He opened his mouth in surprise, pointed at the back soil and said, "Aren't you going to tell me that the person who built this 'Nether City' is not you, but someone else?"