Chapter two hundred and twenty-four: no one agrees
Where is this?
Bai Ya touched his chest. His skin and clothes were intact, and it didn't look like he had been pierced by a knife. His knife was also very clean, without a drop of blood on it. He looked at the ground and the sky.
I feel like I can't describe the sights I saw. They were chaotic black, but not pure black. It felt a little... strange.
The colors are slowly changing. It's like a person closing one eye, opening the other, and then using the open eye to look at the vision of the closed eye. I can't tell what I saw, but at least I know that I
He was not blind yet. It was just that he was the only one who could see himself in the vast chaos, which made him feel suffocatingly small and lonely. He was struggling to move forward.
This is... Tiandao? Not like it, not at all. Although he has never been to Tiandao and doesn't know what it's like there, he feels that it shouldn't be this kind of place. So could this be another place in the Six Paths... He
No matter how many steps he took, he felt like he was spinning in circles with no way out. What was this? Is there still a chance to get out? Bai Ya was confused and had a headache - especially about the fact that he was still alive. What if?
If he is really dead, then is this place... Hades?
"woke up?"
This was a sound that was close at hand. Its appearance was not abrupt, as natural as an idea emerging in his heart. Even so, Bai Ya still felt a certain degree of surprise. Of course, anyone would be surprised.
.
"To make a long story short, this is the rift of the Six Paths."
"Six spiritual veins?" Bai Ya asked, "Am I trapped here?"
"Yes." The voice answered simply.
Whether it is this abrupt, gender-neutral voice or Bai Ya's own voice, it seems just right in this environment. The voice will not echo because the space is too small, nor will it be swallowed up because it is too wide.
"Who are you?"
"The Lord of Naraku."
"..."
Bai Ya felt that the voice was joking with him.
Perhaps he was used to the big scenes of the gods, but now his meeting with Yama, who claimed to be a legendary figure, the boss of the underworld, and the lord of Naraku, was so... out of place. He was very surprised.
It is hard to believe what this person said, but apart from that, there seems to be no one more worthy of belief.
"Then you - why are you in a place like this?" He asked suspiciously, "Shouldn't you be in Hades?"
It is said that the underworld is located somewhere between the human realm and the hell realm. However, these are just rumors. No one has seen it, and those who have seen it may not be able to come back. Bai Ya is not interested in all this.
"I'm in the underworld and can't come to see you. I can hear the voice, and that's enough."
Bai Ya frowned slightly. He really couldn't associate this male-non-female voice with Yama Demon. This voice couldn't be said to be pleasant or unpleasant, but it didn't remind him of anyone he had seen. It was clearly something he had never heard before.
, but it doesn’t feel strange. Of course, it doesn’t feel familiar either. It’s like there is a magic in this voice that makes you inherently have this kind of recognition, which is a bit deliberate. It is neither resisting nor confusing.
kind.
It is...a simple fact, simply existing.
"...I can hear it. But what do you mean? I should be dead. Besides, I don't trust your identity."
The other party didn't reply, and I don't know if he was angry. But in front of its eyes, a strange color suddenly appeared. It was small, like a seed. Then it spread rapidly - in a way that Bai Ya couldn't understand.
It's like flowers blooming, or like paint spreading in a dye vat. Some very conflicting colors sway in the eyes,
Floating, spreading, one after another. Finally, the entire environment he was in became so indescribably colorful and bizarre. He felt a little dazzled and tried to take two steps back. Each step caused the surrounding color blocks to move with him.
It made people dizzy. He had to stand there and watch the collision and expansion of those warm and cold colors without transition.
Then, those colors condensed into an outline. A rabbit-like color block swayed in front of him and jumped towards him. It also moved like a rabbit-but it was definitely not a rabbit.
The rabbit opened its mouth. The part of its mouth was split bright red.
"Bai Shaoxia Bai Shaoxia!" Its voice was exactly the same as before, but the tone was urgent, "Are you afraid if you are here alone?"
Bai Ya felt confused. He squatted down and looked at this strange "rabbit". But he still answered:
"Don't be afraid. I should be dead already. The dead are nothing to be afraid of."
"The dead are much more afraid of." The little rabbit waved his front paws, and his scarlet mouth opened and closed, "We have to worry about where we will be reincarnated in the next life, or whether we will be in the human world; if we are in the human world, will we be able to be born again?"
A good family; if the memory disappears, how many regrets will I have; if the obsession was too heavy during my lifetime, I will feel lonely even if I am a ghost."
Bai Ya shook his head: "There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just that I'm too tired to be born as a human being. I don't want to die. Although I may look like... I actually didn't do anything. But the human world is really boring."
After that, he stretched out his hand and tried to touch its head. The outline of the rabbit had no eyes except for its mouth. But before he touched the rabbit, it suddenly "broken", and the broken parts turned into butterflies.
The shape flew behind him. Bai Ya stood up and turned around, watching its graceful figure fall to the ground, and suddenly a huge horse emerged.
The horse spoke. Its mouth was blue and it had no eyes.
"Well...don't you want to be reincarnated? If you really think so, it's not surprising." Its voice did not change, but its tone was much calmer, and it was a bit verbose, "But reincarnation, reincarnation, there is nothing wrong with it. After all,
You have forgotten everything about your life, why do you care so much, it’s all a new beginning anyway… maybe your fate this time is not bad.”
"Living is troublesome." Bai Ya spread his hands, "I'm not saying this because I'm afraid of suffering. The joys and sorrows are decided by the people involved. But I just find it boring. People do it for various reasons.
die for various reasons and live for various reasons. Why don’t I hope that everyone
Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and the world is peaceful and prosperous. The weather is smooth and the country is peaceful and the people are safe. This is indeed what I look forward to. But I am just one person - just one person, and I will try my best to make the biggest changes in my life. In the end, nothing has changed for the better, and I
He didn’t even save himself.”
The horse tilted its head and said nothing. Bai Ya stretched out his hand tentatively, and it suddenly shrank and turned into a mouse with a long tail. The mouse climbed up his trouser legs, leaving white paint-like traces on the clothes as it ran.
.It stood on Bai Ya's shoulder, and when it opened its mouth, it was also white. It also had no eyes.
"I see you lived a fulfilling life!" it chirped. "You saved many people!"
"I...ah, that's too bad." Bai Ya suddenly remembered something, "I wonder what's going on in the world now. Do I...do I prevent the appearance of 'Heaven'? If not, wouldn't all this be..."
"I did it, I did it." The mouse ran from his left shoulder to his right shoulder, and he turned his head, "You live in a myth that everyone praises. Many people spurn you, you killed their faith; many people admire you.
, as a god-slayer, as a knight, as a human being
.Ah, I forgot to mention that in the gap between heaven and earth, time flows much faster than in the human world. If we chat here for two quarters of an hour, it will take more than ninety hours in the human world! Your friend has gone. Yingyue Jun
I informed the court and the court sent a boat to take them home."
"...Really?" He breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know whether he was happy for his friends or glad that the world had not yet been destroyed.
The mouse jumped to the ground and turned into a fish. It spiraled around him and had no eyes.
"Wait a minute, that Aoyan is still..."
The fish stopped, as if thinking about something, or hesitating. It opened its mouth, and the mouth was green. The fish said lazily:
"Well... how about you go and see for yourself." The fish slowly swam again, "There's nothing to say."
"Can I still go back?" Bai Ya asked.
He didn't know whether he felt happy or sad at the moment. His heart was empty, he just thought of something and said something. The fish swam higher than his head, and suddenly plunged into the ground. What finally emerged slowly was
The outline of a human figure is similar to Bai Ya's body shape, but the male and female cannot be distinguished.
It has no mouth.
At this time, all the mottled colors in the background quickly gathered at its feet, as if the figure suddenly absorbed the entire landscape. Everything returned to the original darkness, which looked like darkness, but was not darkness.
It has eyes open all over its body. There are all kinds of shapes, big and small, and there is nothing that does not exist in the world, and there is nothing that this human form does not have.
Bai Ya took a step back.
The original voice came again, without tone or emotion.
"Do you regret it?"
"I don't regret it." Although he was afraid, he didn't hesitate at all.
"Names - names are like a plague, spreading to every corner of the world. The world's praise and criticism are the talk of the world, and they are completely unaware of its savior. Admiration, love and hatred constitute the only symptoms of this plague."
"Then I don't regret it either. What do others say, and what does it have to do with me?"
The figure was expanding, getting bigger and bigger. With it, more and more eyes opened.
"Are you afraid of death?"
Bai Ya paused. He thought for a while and then said:
"I am not afraid of death. I am not unwilling to die like this. I just feel...empty. It seems that I shouldn't die in peace so easily, but other than that, there is nothing else I am looking forward to."
"Do you still want to see the future situation of the Jianghu you saved?"
This time, Bai Ya was silent for a long time.
The other party was not in a hurry, and just looked at him silently with countless eyes. It had become very big, standing in front of Bai Ya like a mountain. Those countless eyes, like lights and stars, were all shining on the ground.
Staring at him, interrogating him, but not urging him.
"Think about it," he said.
Everything in front of him suddenly disappeared, as if billions of eyes were closing at the same time. The surroundings fell into complete darkness, but what was different from before was that this time it was pure black, like a shadow. He suddenly felt a force pulling
He pulled himself up and down, not knowing where to take him. In panic, he heard the last statement of the voice.
Before and after this, Bai Ya will no longer be here.
