Chapter 100: Lights appear on the river, flowing into the sea
At night, Pinggong Qianye sat alone under the big banyan tree in front of the gate of Weilian Ancient Temple.
There are four stone tables placed around, which can accommodate many people to rest under the shade of the trees.
The night breeze blows gently, feeling especially cool.
The exams were over, and it was a rare time to relax, so Pinggong Qianye also gave himself a short break.
Sitting here, he can see the temple in front and the moon above. He can feel the breeze blowing by with his eyes closed, which makes his mind empty.
Traveling during the summer vacation was not an idea that he came up with on a whim, but a decision he made after much consideration.
With monsters and ghosts appearing frequently and all kinds of bizarre events happening, the world seems to be becoming more and more strange.
He needs to go out and see what the outside world has become.
Just staying in a big city like Tokyo, you can't see many things clearly.
He needs to go to the countryside, to the fields, and to the mountains and forests.
Those places may bring you different gains.
September is the beginning of the new semester, and he has about a month to travel.
One month is not a long time and it is not possible for him to travel all over Japan, so he needs to plan his travel route in advance and prepare some daily necessities needed for traveling.
After the Sumida River Fireworks Festival ends on the 29th of this month, he needs to go to Osaka to enthronize the young mountain boy as a mountain god before August arrives.
It's a good idea to start from Osaka and walk around the area, as it's very close to Kyoto.
But the situation in Kyoto seemed complicated enough to serve as a suitable end to the journey.
If you draw a circle next to it, it means starting from Osaka, going to Nara, Wakayama, passing Tokushima, Kagawa, Tottori, and finally Hyogo and Kyoto.
It should be possible to complete the trip in a month.
Pinggong Qianye drew a circle on the map on the screen of his mobile phone and marked the place he would pass with a red line.
He will complete this journey on foot. If he needs to be in a hurry, he can run instead of bicycles, trams and other means of transportation in the wild.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is solving your own food problem...Suffering from hunger and cold is also a kind of practice.
Pinggong Qianye could only comfort himself in this way.
After enjoying the coolness in the shade of the trees until 10 o'clock in the evening, Heimiya Chiye closed the temple door and returned home.
After taking a shower, I returned to the room, lay on the bed, took out my mobile phone and opened the Pudu APP.
In the past few days, he has been thinking about how to adapt what happened between him and the Golden Light Sect that night into a story that is easier for people to accept.
After all, Kinko-Kyo is one of the Shinto sects. There are certain contradictions and frictions between Buddhism and Shintoism, so it is better not to add fuel to the fire.
Therefore, he came up with a good idea, which was to divide what happened between him and the Golden Light Sect into five short stories.
One story can be published as five stories. What a genius idea!
Although he was not short of merit points, as he had earned 10 merit points from the last Moon Devourer mission, this kind of thing was just like Han Xin recruiting soldiers, the more the better.
As for how to fill the story content, this is not a difficult task. With the central story line, other deficiencies can be made up as long as they do not affect the plot.
Who was the first deity canonized by the Golden Light Sect?
Oh, Toad God.
"The Legend of the Inspirational Toad Swallowing the Moon!" This is the title.
Pinggong Qianye quickly entered the relevant story content based on the title.
In the first half of the story, he mainly introduces the miserable childhood of this toad, and tells how it climbs to the highest point step by step and becomes a moon-swallowing toad that is big enough to swallow the moon.
By the way, are toads and frogs the same species?
Pinggong Qianye thought about it for a while and didn't pay too much attention to this problem. After all, it was a monster, so it was understandable even if it mutated.
About 20 minutes later, Pinggong Qianye entered the entire story, checked it, confirmed that there were no problems, and posted it on the forum.
Once again, a few familiar IDs came here first to take up space, and then came "Sutian Wubian", who plays with his phone almost every day. He quickly left his comment here.
"Hey, Moon Swallowing Toad, why does this name and description sound like the toad that the Golden Light Cult has raised for 30 years?"
Huh, can toads and frogs be the same species?
Pinggong Qianye's mouth corners curled up slightly. He deliberately replaced the toad with a frog.
Sure enough, someone soon came to refute Sutian Wubian's speculation, saying that he couldn't even tell the difference between a toad and a toad.
By the way, he was also given some scientific knowledge about the difference between a toad and a toad. Looking at the scientific introduction, Pinggong Qianye was sure that it was definitely a long passage copied and pasted from a certain song.
Because he had just read those contents not long ago.
After browsing the comments for a while, a new ID "Kutuotuo" caught his attention.
"Thank you Master Liansheng for eliminating the evil for me and returning the bright moon to its pure state."
From what he said, this Ku Tou Tuo is the monk who helped Daijo Palace Master to publish the Moon Swallower mission on the Pudu APP?
Pinggong Qianye thought about it and replied, "I have always liked the moon, and this is what I should do."
One must always be polite in order to show the demeanor of a great monk like Master Liansheng.
As for the saying of loving the moon, there are probably few monks throughout history who hate the moon, right?
"Master Liansheng, so mighty and majestic!!"
Su Tian Wubian, who was still surfing the Internet, came over to reply and followed it with an emoticon of waving flags and cheering.
Pinggong Qianye ignored him, read the comments for a while, and then closed the Pudu APP.
I lay in bed for a while and found that it was only a little after 11 o'clock, so I got up, sat at the desk, and read the scriptures.
If young people don’t stay up late, can they still be called young people?
……
Late at night, a wet and salty sea breeze blew in from the surface of Tokyo Bay.
It was the hottest time of July, and many outdoor tents were set up in the nearby seaside park, where young men and women were dating and playing.
In the dense woods or grass in the middle of the night, one or two disgusting moan sounds would always be heard from time to time.
Only when the lights of the patrolling security guards pass by do the waves of seductive moans stop briefly.
When the lights faded away, the disgusting moaning sounds re-emerged.
Sometimes, the sound would even sound on one side and then fall on the other side, one after another, as if they were engaging in some kind of tacit competition.
In the shade of a jungle, a young girl dressed fashionably and beautifully, held the tree trunk in front of her with both hands, her waist and hips straightened, her hair loose and stuck to her forehead with sweat, her eyes hazy and absent-minded, and her lips painted with bright lipstick, uttering a series of light or heavy moans.
Suddenly, a dim yellow light slowly floated over from the grass in front.
Getting closer.
It gradually illuminated the already dim environment. The man behind the girl was standing at a relatively high position with a wide field of vision. He looked up occasionally and saw the ball of yellow light hidden in a red lantern clearly hitting his field of vision.
The man was so frightened that he trembled and felt weak all over.
"Brother, are you done so soon tonight?"
"I'm not there yet..."
The girl murmured softly, pushed her hips back, waited for a moment, and found that the man behind her did not move at all.
It's becoming more useless every day.
The girl sighed in disappointment, raised her head, and prepared to ridicule the man behind her.
Suddenly, the yellow flame hidden in the lantern appeared clearly in front of her.
The flickering flames looked like curious stars blinking.
The girl was frightened and let out a scream. She pushed the man behind her back, then quickly stood up and put down her rolled up black skirt.
The man, who had reacted at this time, shuddered again. He hurriedly grabbed the girl's hand and rushed out of the grove, not daring to stay here any longer.
A dazzling white light swept over, it was the security guard on night patrol.
When the white light from the flashlight fell on the man, his lower body was still completely naked, revealing his second brother who had already become listless.
Finally, the girl and the man were taken away by patrolling security personnel.
After everyone left, the yellow flame hidden in the lantern in the bushes tilted its upper body forward and blinked as if in confusion.
After a while, another slightly larger yellow flame hidden inside the lantern floated over.
As if by force, the first lantern that was still peeping in the dark was dragged away.
Two balls of yellow flames seemed to be using the hidden red lanterns as sedan chairs, floating through the grass and coming to the bank of a nearby river.
At this time, above the gurgling river, red lanterns were lined up, one in between, flowing along the water, towards the river outlet and towards the sea.
Later, one of the two yellow flames was hit and reluctantly returned to the river surface, lined up behind a lantern, and floated towards the sea along the river.
Another ball of yellow flame stood quietly by the river. It waited until all the red lanterns flowed out from the depths of the river before it slowly floated on the river, allowing the water to carry it to the sea.
A bright moon was shining in the sky, and the sea was surging with waves as usual, pushing away the currents and sending the red lanterns to deeper parts of the sea.
……
"Officer, we really didn't lie. We really saw a ball of yellow flame floating from deep in the grass at the Seaside Park!"
"Yes, I clearly saw the yellow flame hidden inside a red lantern!"
"Yes, its flames flicker, just like the eyes of stars blinking!"
"Officer, they must be monsters!"
"Officer, you must believe us! We definitely did not lie about this issue!"
Inside the security room of the Seaside Park, two police officers who received the call looked at the man and woman in front of them helplessly.
He went to the seaside park late at night to have sex and was caught on the spot by patrolling security personnel.
This is not a big deal and can be solved with verbal education or a small fine.
However, after the man and woman were taken to the security room, they kept insisting that they had just seen a monster.
This is a seaside park with a large flow of visitors every day, especially now that the Spark Conference is approaching, the visitor flow has doubled.
If rumors of monsters lurking here were to spread, it would have a serious impact on the income of the entire park.
And even if there are monsters, it is not something that can be solved by a few patrolling security personnel.
So they chose to call the police, and the police officers nearby had to rush here to deal with it.
"Since you both refuse to change your statements, then both of you should come with us to the police station to make a statement."
Seeing that the couple insisted that there was a monster in the seaside park, a police officer had no choice but to use his trump card.
According to the conversation and understanding just now, this man and woman are not a couple, but each has a family and is in a superior-subordinate relationship in the company.
Tonight, they each lied that they were on a business trip and couldn't get home in time, and then they agreed to go to the seaside park to seek fun and excitement.
After hearing this, the man and woman who originally wanted to argue with the police officer suddenly fell silent and dared not say anything.
Going to the police station to take a statement is not suitable for them now.
Soon, the man and woman received some criticism and education and left the security room.
"Officers, could there really be some monster lingering in the park?"
There were no outsiders present, and the patrolling security guard couldn't help but ask in a low voice.
The adulterous couple were not the first to see the so-called yellow flame.
The first people to notice this scene were their security personnel who were patrolling late at night.
It happened about 3 days ago.
But at that time they only caught a glimpse of a yellow flame from afar, passing through the grass and disappearing, and did not encounter it head-on.
In Japan, there are so many legends about various monsters.
It is not unacceptable for a ball of fire to become a spirit.
"We try not to disturb them when they have no intention of hurting anyone."
The two police officers left the security room after saying these last words, leaving a few security personnel who still had to continue patrolling looking at each other in bewilderment.
"The locations where they appeared twice seem to be concentrated in that area. When we patrol in the future, we will try to avoid that area."
The patrol captain spoke with a serious expression, solemnly admonishing the other patrol members to be careful and not to disturb any possible ghosts or monsters just because of their curiosity.
As for such ghost rumors, he had encountered them several times in his life, but he only needed to stay away from them. There were not so many ghosts that would actually hurt people.
More often they just pass by by chance.
After all, this kind of place should have been their home, and humans are latecomers and invaders.
In the countryside, people always leave a piece of pure land for these spirits to live in mountains, rivers, wild rivers, swamps and other places, and try not to disturb their lives.
These are villages that have inherited ancient wisdom that has been passed down through the long river of history.
Unfortunately, most people nowadays live in cities full of steel and concrete, and have forgotten the wisdom that is still being passed down in places like the countryside.
If he had not encountered such an incident recently, he would probably have forgotten his childhood life in the countryside long ago.
(End of this chapter)
