[Journey to the West] Monkey, be good

"What did you say?" I was stunned, and the half-bitten orange petal fell to the ground.

"..." Houzi was laughing and bragging to his grandson, so he was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at me with a smile.

I:"……"

"It's not good, General Horse Monkey is dead! General Horse Monkey is dead!" At this moment, a little gray-haired monkey rushed forward crying.

The monkey's smile froze, jumped up from the throne, and asked in surprise, "What happened?"

The arm-armed monkey explained: "Back to your lord, General Horse Monkey is old and dead!"

"Dead?" Monkey stepped down from the throne in a daze.Someone brought the horse monkey's body. He walked over to touch it, looked at it, and his face became paler: "It's cold, it's hard, and the eyes will never open again...Is this death?"

"..." Monkeys, you look at me and I look at you, but no one answered.

The monkey started to tremble. He raised his head, and with the fear of losing his life in a daze, he asked again: "Is it true that we are all the same... one day, we will die?"

"..." Still no one answered, even though they knew it well, no one wanted to admit it.

I walked over, held his hand, and said, "Yes."

The monkey was startled and gripped my fingers tightly.

It was also at this time that the Water Curtain Cave in front of him collapsed with a "boom--".

Everything in the monkey's dream turned into a puff of dust in the illusion, only the temperature from my palm, scorching hot, extremely real.The cave collapsed, rubble splashed, and the color of the white water curtain waterfall outside the cave suddenly turned black, and the black water poured into the water curtain cave, covering my head in an instant.

The illusion is destroyed, and the nightmare is awakened.

"Um…"

I was ejected from the dream of a monkey, my spiritual consciousness returned to my body, and I found that the ice layer covering the rock wall had faded away at some time, the soil was soaked and moist, and the traces of the fire were washed away and buried, and it was no longer as heavy as before.

"Ugh!"

Immediately, there was an undisguised roar from below, and the monkey woke up from the dream.

At the moment when both the monkey and I were frozen, time seemed to freeze as well, and the picture was frozen.When I woke up again, the night was dark, and I was still the crooked tree with a broken root and a broken waist. The monkey was still looking up at me, holding a golden peach in its hand.

There was a moment of hesitation and bewilderment in his eyes, he brought the golden peach to his nose to sniff lightly, and then took a bite.In an instant, the golden flesh shot out a dazzling golden light, which flowed around the monkey's lips, illuminating the deep cliff bottom where even the moonlight could not shine, and let me see his face clearly.

"Thank you for the peaches." The monkey smiled at me and shook the more than half of the gold peach in his hand, lowered his head, as if he was reluctant to eat it in one sitting, and sighed: "I can't remember, how long has it been since I ate peaches?" .”

"..." I shook the branch feebly, my mind wasted too much, and I was a little exhausted, so I could only hang my head limply on the rock wall, listening to him, thinking to myself: Don't be too happy Early, I only have this one peach, and after eating this meal, there is no next meal.

"It tastes good." The monkey said, he chewed the flesh, and took the peach away with a little novelty, "But...have all the peaches evolved like this now? Why didn't I hear that there is gold in the world before?" Peach?"

"...Don't say you don't know, it's also the first time I've seen you." I moved a bit, feeling drowsy.I thought to myself, more or less, I am also a little bit different, although it will not bloom for tens of thousands of years, but now, as soon as it bears fruit, it bears the only golden fruit in the world, which is worth showing off.

If there is a chance to return to Pantaoyuan in the future, I will definitely let those dogs see... Well, forget it, let's not mention the past.

"Just now, I had a dream." After the monkey finished eating the peaches, he grabbed a handful of dirt and wiped his hands, lying on the ground, recalling: "I dreamed that I saw 'death' for the first time, what did I know for the first time?" It's 'fear'. I'm not afraid of death, I just look at the partners who were joking and joking with me one moment, but remain silent the next moment, watching them leave one by one...I'm afraid that in the world, one day, there will be only Get me one."

"..." My heart moved slightly.I thought that the suffocating sense of fear I felt at the moment before the illusion collapsed came from the monkey's fear of death, but did it turn out to be the fear of loneliness?So, at the last moment, when I took his hand, he held it back, so tightly?

I leaned over to the edge of the rock, lying on the edge and looking at the monkeys below.Seeing that his cheek was resting on the back of his hand, he was motionless, he didn't speak any more, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The night was getting darker, and the cold wind suddenly picked up. Although it was not very easy, at least there was no burning flames, and there was no ice seal. The "Punishment of Ice and Fire" finally subsided for a while.

Come to think of it, the monkeys also spent the hundred years before I came here.It's a pity that even if I come, to him now, it's just a peach tree in reality and a phantom in a dream.Even, when he wakes up, whether he will remember me or not is still not sure.

"Ah..." I felt sour for no reason, sighed, and looked at the monkey for a while with my cheeks propped up. Then I was really tired and fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, a heat wave came oncoming, and the fire dragon leaped in the air, another new torture.I woke up from my sleep, still hearing the sound of "crackling" rocks cracking, molten iron winding down, and the suppressed humming of monkeys coming from below.

here we go again…

My spirits were shaken and I lost all sleepiness.After a night's rest, my physical strength recovered a bit, I straightened my body, raised my chin towards the two dragon gods that were constantly churning in the sea of ​​flames, and shouted: "Prajna!"

Prajna flew out across the sky, bursting into golden light, and slammed into the dragon's head. "Dang!" There was a loud noise, and the flames splattered. The Dragon God paused, swayed in mid-air, and fell heavily.The sea of ​​flames suddenly rose several feet high, and the air wave hit me directly. Prajna circled and flew to block me, spreading a layer of Buddha's light.It was also at this time that the ten-zhang karmic fire quickly subsided, leaving only the blackened land in the valley, the air gradually cooled, and everything returned to normal.

"Good Prajna, thank you!" I said, retracting Prajna, and was about to see the monkey's condition, when I lowered my head, I saw his golden eyes staring at me without blinking.

"The bell just now, is it from the Buddhist sect?" He said, his voice was low, "Which monk from the West Heavenly Court sent you here?"

"I..." Seeing the monkey's unkind expression, I remembered that the monkey was imprisoned here by the Tathagata, so he probably held a grudge against the monk in the West Heavenly Court because of this. If I said that the bell was sent by Maitreya, he would definitely hate me along with it up.So I quickly shook my head and said, "I don't know where the bell is, and no monk sent me to harm you. I wanted to accompany you!"

"..." The monkey frowned slightly. Seeing me shaking the branch violently, he pondered for a moment, as if he had figured it out, with a smile in his eyes, he said, "In the West Heavenly Court, I only know Jin Chan. Are you coming to accompany me?"

I:"……"