The old monk's original name was Wan Kaiyuan. He was originally a genius basic algorithm programmer. His annual income after tax was nearly RMB 10 million. He could basically be said to be a world-class top talent.
It's a pity that Wan Kaiyuan had a crush on a girl when he was young and fell in love with her at first sight.
However, the girl died in an accident. Wan Kaiyuan, who suddenly felt hopeless, ignored the obstruction of his former friends and decided to change his fate, saying that he wanted to take the girl back from the hands of death.
So he sneaked into the morgue and stole the girl's brain.
The human brain is an extremely complex and fragile thing. The wisdom of the Creator cannot be discerned by a mortal like Wan Kaiyuan. But Wan Kaiyuan did not want to recreate a perfect body for this girl, but to transform her into a perfect body.
Separated from her brain, she was reborn in the world of data.
This idea is undoubtedly crazy, and stealing human brains for digital transformation experiments on human bodies is also a very egregious illegal and criminal act.
Wan Kaiyuan is very aware of the risks involved in doing so, but geniuses always have pursuits that are different from ordinary people.
Not only did he do it, he almost succeeded...
As for why he failed in the end.
No one knows...
After being caught by the police, Wan Kaiyuan was sentenced to seven years in prison with five years of probation.
During this period, he suddenly had an epiphany and no longer touched the keyboard or dabbled in basic algorithms. Instead, he ordained himself. During his probation period, he found a very ordinary temple near his city and became a monk.
Once you enter the empty door, everything becomes empty and an illusion.
In the past, Wan Kaiyuan often joked that "color is emptiness and emptiness is color", but now he is also a Buddhist monk who can see through the essence of all things at a glance. However, Wan Kaiyuan has not only been sublimated in the spiritual world. After he used his patent to get a reduced sentence, he left his hometown to
Travel to various places.
When he came back, he had achieved the "Immortal Golden Body".
Of course, this is just the evaluation of him by some so-called insiders.
As for Wan Kaiyuan's changes that are different from ordinary people after becoming a monk, few people know.
When the "sun disappeared", most of the monks in the temple where Yuan Kong lived fled. Only he and the old abbot were left in the temple, doing morning service, sweeping the courtyard, eating fast and chanting Buddha's name every day as usual.
It wasn't until the weather was extremely cold and the old abbot passed away in the middle of the Buddhist hall that Yuan Kong finally realized that he was indeed a little different from others.
The first is that he is not afraid of the cold.
No matter whether there is water dripping outside or turning into ice, Yuankong only feels the spring breeze on the Buddha's face. Even the lower the temperature drops, the more comfortable Yuankong feels. The restlessness in his chest that he tried hard to press during the process of chanting Buddha and listening to sutras has also been swept away. In this dark night
, Yuan Kong seems to have finally found his own world and his own piece of clarity.
The Buddhist hall is lonely and the incense is gone.
After Yuankong buried the old abbot in the backyard, he put on his cassock, held a Zen staff, and went out with a few "violated books" hidden by the young monks who used to make a living with incense and fire money.
When this monk was ordained and became a monk, he saw through the world of mortals, but when he left the Buddhist hall, he had already become "Ji Gong". He no longer eats fast, and rarely recites Buddha's name, but he has kind thoughts in his heart, and always feels that there are many places in the world waiting for him.
With his arrival, Yuan Kong moved forward based on the gratitude in his heart.
At the beginning, Yuan Kong also encountered many refugees who failed to enter the shelter.
Most of these people are already sick, some are sick in body, and some are sick in mind. In the past, I have only seen a few words about changing children and eating in some documentaries, but along the way, Yuan Kong saw
It is even crueler and more terrifying to change one's pen for one's own child...
The darkness hides too much filth.
Everyone has exposed their true nature...those lights have become one of the few isolated islands in the darkness. Originally, there were no LED lights on the Zen stick held by Yuan Kong, but the road ahead is long, and even if it doesn't light up for himself, he still has to disperse those lights.
In the darkness, I lost my true nature as a human being.
So Yuan Kong exchanged a bag of rice for this set of LED equipment from a young man.
It feels a bit nondescript, but Yuankong likes it so tightly that he only turns it off every day except when sleeping. At other times, it is like a beacon in the dark, lighting the way for those who are lost.
But as time went by, Yuankong found that the number of people he met on the road became less and less.
Although he is not afraid of the cold, there are still too many mortals in the world who are afraid of the cold. Even if they are tightly wrapped, they will still freeze to death. Most of the naked corpses on the streets had their clothes taken off after they died.
.Once Yuankong saw a girl dead in the middle of the road on the street. When she died, her eyes were wide open and she kept staring at the sky.
Although there were no scratches on his body, he was still blue from the cold.
Her clothes were all taken away, and there was still a ball of ice stuffed in her mouth. I don't know if it was the water she didn't have time to swallow before she died, or something else.
Yuankong took out the host's cassock from his bag, covered the girl with it, and then offered salvation to her in the middle of the road.
Who would have thought that it was just a temporary act, and when the "Buddha's name" sounded, Yuan Kong actually found the girl standing up. In other words... a girl exuding fluorescence was peeled off from the corpse.
She looked at Yuan Kong without saying a word, with a smile on her face.
Although Yuan Kong was surprised at this time, he did not feel scared. On the contrary, he was happy because he had a clearer understanding of his mission. However, he did not yet know what the appearance of this girl meant...
In the days that followed, wherever Yuankong went, this fluorescent girl would go.
She didn't need to eat or drink, she didn't need to go to the toilet, and she didn't even need to sleep or blink. But having such a weird existence always behind her would inevitably make people feel uneasy. Fortunately, Yuan Kong didn't meet a single living person on the way, so she could avoid it.
Caused a lot of trouble.
Along the way, Yuan Kong saw many more corpses, but there were fewer of them on the streets. Most of them were frozen to death in their houses.
The disaster came too quickly. The government had tried its best, but many innocent people were still inevitably killed... Yuankong originally planned to save everyone here, but the voice in his heart became more and more urgent. In desperation, Yuankong had to speed up.
picked up the pace.
And that girl disappeared one morning when Yuan Kong opened his eyes and saw a ray of light falling on him from the horizon.
At that time, Yuan Kong only thought it was an illusion... After all, "the sun has disappeared", where is the light left?
But by this time, Yuankong probably understood. These fluorescent people would eventually leave, but where they ended up going was unknown to Yuankong. He was just a guide.
Xuzhou is Yuankong’s third stop.
His first two stops were Chongqing and Nanjing.
In both places, he saw thousands of dead people lost in the night, and he guided them out of the city according to the meaning conveyed by the voice. Then in the early morning when a light appeared in the eastern sky, these things were all gone.
Disappeared.
As for his disciple Mi Tuoer, it is even more strange.
When he was traveling around the world, Yuankong couldn't tell whether he was meditating and enlightening in the world, or whether he was escaping from something. In short, he was confused every day, and felt ridiculous when he saw injustices. He always thought that he could see through and understand these worldly things.
Everyone in this world lives too tiredly.
But in fact, he is the weakling like a coward. People and things are changing, but Yuankong himself is confused.
When arriving in Changchun, Jilin, a hungry Yuankong met a father and son who depended on each other. The father and son could have made a living as professional farmers, but the soil fertility in the Northeast has continued to decline for unknown reasons in recent years, and no one can figure out what happened.
Why did they lose their jobs?
Perhaps it was because Tianya had become a human being at the same time, so when the father and son saw Yuan Kong lying hungry on the roadside, they gave him most of their remaining rations.
That morning, when the first ray of sunshine and the smiles of father and son reached Yuankong's dusty heart, Yuankong suddenly felt enlightened. But what he said next almost made him get beaten...
Because he grabbed the father's hand and said: "If something happens to you in the future, or you have no way to survive, send the child here and I will accept him as my disciple."
The child's father was very angry when he heard this. Fortunately, although the child was young, he was very sensible.
After the two parties said goodbye, Yuankong continued on his way, but this time he did not deliberately avoid crowded and bustling places. He withdrew the money in his name, changed into clean clothes, and then went to the final destination with his bald head.
A crowded place and had an epiphany there.
Later Yuankong also went to the Greater Khingan Mountains and stayed there for more than a year.
When he returned to the temple where he became a monk, he actually met the father and son again. The father handed Yuankong a token and said, "Take it, and I will be able to find you. I will really have no way to survive in the future."
Yes, I will send the child there."
Yuankong had expected this day, so he happily accepted it.
Sure enough, one year and one month after the disaster occurred, Yuan Kong, who had just come out of Nanjing, thought that the rest of the journey would be a lonely journey. As a result, he met the father and son for the third time outside Nanjing.
At this time, my father's appearance has changed. He is no longer the earthy black-faced man. He has put on expensive-looking equipment. There is a jar in his arms, which contains one red and one black.
A round ball. When the man saw Yuan Kong, he taught him Amitabha.
"Master, I have sent the child to you as promised... Although the relationship between me and this child is indeed very thin, he is my biological son after all. I hope that Master can take good care of him."
Yuankong didn't say anything but smiled and stretched out his hand to Mi Tuo'er.
Mi Tuo'er actually pulled out his hand from his father's hand without any hesitation and ran towards Yuan Kong.
Seeing this scene, the man under the mask shed a tear.
Since then, Yuan Kong has had a similarly strange little apprentice beside him. But Mi Tuo'er is not afraid of the cold at all like his master. He is afraid, but the cold is not enough to freeze him to death.
The master and apprentice arrived in Xuzhou on foot.
After entering the city, the voice became significantly calmer. Yuankong looked at the empty city, clasped his hands together, lowered his eyes, and softly chanted sutras and chanted the Buddha's name.
Amitabha has no foundation in Buddhism and does not even know the most basic "Diamond Sutra".
There is even a head of thick, soft black hair on his little head. However, this boy's Buddhist connection is indeed extraordinary. Even if he cannot chant sutras and recite Buddha's name like Master Yuan Kong, he can still meditate with his eyes closed.
When he finished reciting the sutra about the transcendence of the past and present life, he only heard him say "Amitabha!"
He put his hands together again, and the originally silent city was suddenly lit up by fluorescent lights. The middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a Chinese tunic suit and holding a mahogany sword on the high platform exclaimed when he saw this scene: "Old monk, you are really amazing! I I thought that all your Buddhism stuff about the afterlife was just to deceive people, but didn’t you expect that you are really so capable?"
The Taoist priest's surname is Tan, and his single name is Jiu.
Tan Jiu was a fortune teller whom Yuan Kong knew before he became a monk. However, this profession declined long ago, and few modern people are superstitious about it.
Even Tan Jiu himself doesn't believe it too much, and he is also the CEO of a listed company. He usually studies the things left over from his group just out of hobbies.
Perhaps it is just a matter of genius. Tan Jiuhua spent far less time studying the essence of Taoism handed down from his ancestors than he did studying modern scientific knowledge, but his attainments in Taoism have already reached the level of proficiency.
Not only has his body changed a lot, he can walk as fast as he can without being out of breath. After drinking too much, he can punch a gangster and send him flying for more than ten meters. After falling asleep, he can sit cross-legged and sit in meditation to observe the weather.
Several times, the nanny saw him sitting up suddenly in the middle of the night, which frightened the little girl.
Tan Jiu didn't think anything of it at first, not to mention that these changes were beneficial to him.
But when the disaster happened, the "sun disappeared", and his company's assets fell into negative numbers overnight, he suddenly realized that maybe his existence in this world had another meaning. Of course, this was just his usual love. It's just Tan Jiu's own random thoughts.
The real situation is much more complicated than he thought.
However, this did not prevent Tan Jiu from proclaiming himself a "man of destiny". He even changed his motto in life to "When heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first work his bones and muscles, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body."
So I really went to fast, but within two days I almost fainted from hunger.
At this time, Tan Jiu clearly realized that he was just an ordinary person who was a little less ordinary than ordinary people.
As for how Tan Jiu contacted Yuankong, and why Yuankong knew that Tan Jiu had been waiting for him in Xuzhou, these are things for later and will not be mentioned for now.
Tan Jiu, who was not wearing a Taoist robe but wearing a Chinese tunic suit and holding a mahogany sword in his hand, looked a bit out of place.
But Tan Jiu thinks that democracy and anti-feudalism and gods and ghosts and anti-superstition are two different things. What's more, he is not sure whether he got his current power from the essence of Taoism, or whether he is really the so-called "Destined One". "Man", it was God who favored him.
In short, appearance is all clouds, what choice you make and how many things you do for the choice are the key.
Yuankong awakens the "souls" of the dead in the city. They walk out of the high-rise buildings and onto the streets. From a distance, they look like an army on the march.
Although it was the first time for Mi Tuo'er to see these things, he was not surprised at all. On the contrary, his eyes lit up, as if he had seen through and understood.
When all the "people" arrived, Yuan Kong took the lead and took these things out of the city as soon as the "Buddha's name" sounded. He wanted to find an open space so that he could send all these "people" away.
Tan Jiu followed him, but the young Mi Tuo'er was left at the end of the team.
I don’t know if Mi Tuo’er’s father would come back and fight Yuankong if he knew his son was being taken care of so well.
But the little monk himself didn't feel scared. The darkness in his eyes was just lightless desolation. The true and false in front of him were all floating images. Therefore, his heart was empty, so he didn't feel there was anything to be afraid of.
.
However, when Momozawa Hanako and Yu Gege, who followed these lights, saw that the densely packed fluorescence in the city turned out to be a group of "dead souls", their little hearts couldn't bear it.
Especially Momosawa Hanako, she has always been very timid, especially she is extremely afraid of these ghosts and monsters.
But the more afraid she was, the more Momosawa Hanako liked it when she was a child, just like some people clearly can't eat spicy food, but they don't like spicy food. Momosawa Hanako was born in a Chinese-Japanese mixed-race family, so regardless of whether it is Chinese movies such as Liaozhaizhi
She had heard Ms. Liang Qiuru tell a lot of stories about strange things, strange stories among Japanese folk, and so on.
But she always thought those stories were false, an artistic fabrication by the ancients about some unexplainable things. But today, in the urban area of Xuzhou, she saw this vast scene of at least tens of thousands of "dead souls"
, Momozawa Hanako was so frightened that her face turned pale, and even her breathing was stagnant.
Fortunately for Yougege, she herself is a "monster" that has surpassed the limits of ordinary human life. How can she be afraid of these "dead souls" who are also "monsters"?
It’s just in Yougege’s opinion.
Using "dead souls" to describe these things is a bit too general. The shape of their existence and the scene of them moving outside the city at this time are completely different from the "dead souls" that Yougege knows.
What's more, although Yougege still can't fully explain why she can live for more than a century and still remain young, she is still a staunch materialist. Therefore, in her opinion, no matter what the name of Buddha, "dead souls" are wandering the streets.
Anyway, it’s just a form of expression.
There must be a reasonable answer to the specific reason.
It's just that she couldn't see through it at her current height.
"Let's go and take a look at the front." Yougege suggested.
However, Momozawa Hanako grabbed Yougege and said, "You still want to come closer!"
Yougege asked back: "How can you figure out what these things are without getting closer?"
"Ah? Do you still need to look at this? Ghosts!! These are definitely a group of resentful ghosts! We would have been killed by them in the past!" Momosawa Hanako's meaning is very clear, even if you beat me to death, I won't dare to go.