Chapter 143
"Is it really not funny? Forget it, if you don't laugh, you definitely can't laugh. Is it too funny? Every time I tell this to others, they laugh. If I tell them, they will definitely laugh."
The man said this and turned to talk to other people.
Leyuan hesitated for a moment, then called out to another person beside him. This person seemed to have just returned from outside, and he was covered in dust and sweat. He stood beside him, motionless, tilting his head to look at the sky over there. The color of the sky was getting darker and darker, and the sky over there was getting brighter as darkness fell: "Do you know what happened?"
The man took one look at Paradise and said, "I know, but why should I tell you?"
Paradise said, "What do you want? Maybe I can find it for you."
The man thought for a moment and said, "I want money, and I also want Fulu Shouxi Cream. If possible, I want you to accompany me to play with girls at night."
Leyuan said, "Except for the last one, I can think of ways to deal with the others."
The man looked around the park and said with a smile, "Oh, that's not impossible."
He seemed to recognize who this person was, and smiled at Le Yuan: "I know you have a way, but you have nothing now, right? It's not good to just talk about it. Do you want to give me something as a witness or collateral? It's a decision, you have nothing here, and I can't help you with anything. Is this not too much?"
Paradise blinked and said, "What do you want me to give you?"
The man smiled and said, "No problem, no problem. Do you have anything valuable on you?"
Leyuan felt his pocket and said, "I don't have any."
He thought about it, rummaged through his clothes, and found some Fulu Shouxi Cream that had been stuffed into his clothes at some point. He handed it to the person on the other side and said, "If you want this, maybe I can give it to you."
The man looked at it and was somewhat dissatisfied. He said to Leyuan, "This thing is not bad, but I am not so easily satisfied. You have to give me more. This thing is not worth much even if I take it away."
Leyuan searched again and found the body of a cockroach and a tuft of someone's hair in the clothes. He threw them out and into the trash can. He hesitated, shook his hands, and continued searching. He found a piece of jade. He remembered that he found it deep in the room. He didn't know who it belonged to, but no one had lived in the room before, and no one else had lived there since he moved in.
He put the things in his pocket and did not take them out when washing clothes. He washed them together. It seemed that nothing was damaged. He could take them out now and handed them to the man on the other side. The man on the other side looked at them and was barely satisfied. He nodded and said, "Okay, since you have begged me so sincerely, I will mercifully tell you."
He pointed to the sky over there and said, "There's a fire. There's a family that's quite wealthy. Someone in the family is having a birthday today, so they're very happy. But an old man passed away today, so they're holding both a wedding and a funeral. They asked us to hold a ceremony for them, and when we went, they gave us some money and asked us to leave. When we were leaving, I saw them preparing oil and dough balls, probably to fry something.
Frying things can easily hurt people. They have two such big things to do at the same time, and they are busy and tired during the day. I'm afraid they will be exhausted and fall asleep easily at night. It's impossible for me to go to the kitchen to watch the fire, so the chef must be the one to do it.
The scene couldn't be contained, the fire couldn't be contained, and the people couldn't be contained even more. It was noisy everywhere, and when the noise started, no one paid attention to the fire, so something bad happened.
In my opinion, this fire started accidentally when something was blasting. The fire rose from the bottom and flew to the top, burning the roof and the firewood in the backyard. It kept getting bigger and bigger, and it was too late for people to rescue. They could only put on their valuables as quickly as possible and shout to others to leave the scene as soon as possible to avoid being affected. But as the shouts spread, the fire also spread.
The neighbors around here probably can't escape."
The man chuckled and said, "This time we're going to have some fun."
Leyuan nodded doubtfully and asked, "We are far away, so they won't burn us down for a while. But what if they find out tomorrow that they have nothing left?"
The man said, "What else can I do? It's just like that. If you can survive, you live. If you can't survive, you die."
Paradise responded.
The man urged him, "Tomorrow I will ask for the money and ointment you promised to give me. I can return the jade to you, but I won't give you the ointment. Do you understand?"
Leyuan didn't really care about the plaster and nodded: "I understand."
The man waved his hand and said, "I'll come find you tomorrow. Remember to deal with this matter as soon as possible."
Leyuan responded, and the man disappeared in a flash, apparently to do other things.
I returned to my room to rest in the park. The next morning, I saw a lot of people blocking the door, and they seemed unwilling to leave.
I went to the amusement park to see what was going on and heard the crowd making a lot of noise and shouting, "We want to go in! We want to eat! Don't you want to take care of us anymore?"
One person said, "We will take care of it. The porridge will be served soon. There will be no peanuts or wine. You can just eat what you can. Don't rush to eat. After you eat this, we will discuss what to do next."
The crowd gradually quieted down, and someone asked, "When can we eat? I ran around last night and I'm so hungry this morning. My stomach is growling!"
A group of people shouted: "Yes, our stomachs are growling. So hungry, so hungry, so hungry!"
The more they shouted, the more they sounded like starving ghosts.
Leyuan ran away quickly, but someone nearby stopped him and said, "Let's go, it's time to go to the lobby to pray in the morning."
Paradise asked: "What do we do?"
The man laughed and said, "How come you don't even know this? You've lived here for so many days in vain! We are the Illuminati. We save the world, have infinite mercy, and save people from suffering. We are the Illuminati of the Sons of the God of Light!"
Leyuan was skeptical: "Really? Why did I feel that the last time I heard someone say that, it wasn't like that?"
The man shook his head, "Maybe you heard it from others and thought it was us, so you remembered it wrongly. It's okay, just come with me. You always kept silent before, but you can't do that this time. If you want to live here again, you will be driven away if you don't pray. You can see that there are so many people there. If they also need to move in, we will definitely make room for them. You have no choice but to live with us.
If you live with us, you can't be picky, you can't refuse to study with us, live with us, and you can't act like an outsider. You can't just exclude us. Otherwise, even if they all have a place to live and you live with us, we will still have to judge you in the end and decide whether you can continue to live here. If you can't pass, you should leave."
Leyuan frowned: "Why are you so disgusting? I'm already in this place, and I still have to be assessed?"
He muttered, "I'll learn it, but it still annoys me. Isn't there a place that doesn't have these things? It's really annoying."
The man smiled and said, "This is not disgusting. Once you learn it, you will understand. This is something worth being happy about."
Le Yuan was skeptical: "Oh."
The man shrugged, "If you don't know how to do it, just follow us. If you can't hear clearly, close your eyes and recite in your mind, 'Savior of the Suffering, Mercy and Boundless Light God, save me.' Then you will know what we are saying. It doesn't matter if you can't hear clearly what others are saying, but you can hear clearly the Mercy of the Light God and recite it aloud. It's the same."
Leyuan nodded suspiciously: "I understand."
The man smiled, and the two of them had arrived.
Leyuan sat down hesitantly, still in the previous seat. Everyone else had already found a seat and sat down. He quickly tidied his clothes, closed his eyes, and began to mumble something. It sounded like the voices of those people outside the door, but gradually they became different, because the voices of those people outside the door were noisy, while the voices of those people inside the door actually became clearer.
Leyuan felt dizzy and lost his vigilance. He remembered what the man told him before he entered the door and recited it silently in his heart. In an instant, he actually heard a vague voice coming from far away. The voice became clearer as time passed. Leyuan followed the mumbling. At first he didn't understand what it meant, but later, he was immersed in it and didn't ask anything else.
When he opened his eyes, everyone around him had stood up and was looking at him. He was startled and asked, "What happened?"
The people around laughed and said, "We are all up, but you are not, so we came to see you, worried that something happened to you."
Leyuan nodded, and looked at them again, and found that they had changed their appearance. If they were normal people before, now they had fair skin, long flowing hair, swollen cheeks, shiny bodies, and tattered clothes. Leyuan was stunned for a moment, feeling like his brain was going to explode, and then he heard a deafening bang from somewhere.
He covered his ears, and the people around him asked with great concern: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?"
If you ignore their current appearance and only listen to their voices, they are still very normal. In fact, they are very concerned about him now, and he should be grateful. However, he can't really express his gratitude. This is the problem of the paradise. He didn't mention it. He rubbed his eyes, ears and head, raised his head, and smiled at the people around him: "It's okay."
He blinked his eyes, and the group of people in front of him became normal again. Leyuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he thought of the people outside the door at an inappropriate time. He didn't know what he would do if he saw them. He wanted to avoid them, but the people around him helped him up and told him: "We can go eat now! We spent a long time waiting for you this time. Hehehe."
The sound of their laughter was very shrill, reminding Leyuan of a certain madman, but he couldn't remember the details. He could only smile, agreeing with their words and meaning.
They happily took Leyuan out to eat, and Leyuan couldn't refuse, as he couldn't leave in such a group of people, so he had to follow them out. When they reached the door, Leyuan wanted to look, but at the same time he thought it would be better not to look, as he would be scared if he looked, and curious if he didn't look. After hesitating for a long time, he had already walked near the group of people. They were in the yard, guarding a huge pot.
There was something white and bubbling in the pot. The milky white porridge, oil, rice and sugar were all floating on the top. There was also a gurgling sound inside, as if something small was stealing something from underneath. Leyuan heard the soft giggles again and felt irritated. He could hardly walk and staggered. The people around him supported him, but some gaps were left. Through the gaps, Leyuan looked out.
Maybe it was an accident, maybe not.
Leyuan saw the group of people surrounding Baizhou.
He was ragged, dirty, with messy hair, and emitting an almost visible stench. He was barefoot, wearing black shoes that seemed to be made of dry straw from the cell, discarded rags, and hemp ropes used to tie up dead people. They felt like they had grown hair, like discolored hairy tofu, and when cut with a knife, the inside was hollow and milky white.
Someone seemed to be aware of something, raised his head, looked in the opposite direction, saw Paradise, and stared at each other.
It was a blurry, ugly face, not because of the distribution of facial features and facial contours, but because the skin was covered with ants. The enlarged pores looked like irreparable scars, bloody, and no one knew when the wounds had been inflicted. They were not bandaged, turned outward, and had some tiny white hairs that swayed slightly in the wind, like a large group of dandelion seeds.
The mouth is very small, as small as the mouth of an emergency medicine bottle, and the belly is fat, as if there are balloons stuffed under the clothes. If this is some kind of liquid, if you stir it, you may get a dirty substance like turbid black grease, which will be poisonous when poured out.
Leyuan turned his head quickly, and someone beside him whispered in his ear: "Haven't you seen it before? This is what a starving ghost looks like. It's a little ugly, but you'll know after watching it for a while, it's not scary at all. We're all used to it. You're new here, if you've lived here for ten or eight years, you'll feel it's just okay, there's nothing wrong with it, and you still have to eat later. Don't throw up."
Paradise felt that the key point was the last sentence. I nodded, and for a moment I wasn’t paying attention, and the person disappeared.
He looked worried and didn't feel like eating because he had no appetite. He looked at the food in front of him and took two bites casually, thinking that he had finished the meal. If someone asked about it later, the matter would be resolved.
Good.
Leyuan nodded, put down the cutlery in his hands, and prepared to leave. People around him asked him, "Where are you going?"
Leyuan hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to go back to my room and rest for a while before coming out."
Everyone else nodded.
Leyuan asked, "Can I not come out from now on?"
They all said, "Of course, of course. It would be boring if we were to follow strict rules here. Who comes here to ask for something? Since you are here, have fun. I haven't seen you do anything in all these days. Have fun! Otherwise, it would be boring."
Leyuan nodded, left, returned to the room, tidied his clothes, and prepared to go to the room on the river to ask someone for some money and Fulu Shouxi Cream.
"Are you in there?"
Paradise asked.
He Shang responded: "Why am I not here?"
Paradise asked: "Can I come in?"
He Shang said, "Sure, come in."
Leyuan opened the door and waved the air. The air was filled with the smell of freshly burned ashes. Leyuan asked, "Did you just burn paper money here?"
He Shang was lying on the bed and laughed, "Why should I burn paper money? Where can I find paper money to burn? Even if I do have it, I don't have anyone to give it to. Oh, you don't seem to know? My sister is dead, my father is dead, and my mother is dead too. I am free now and I am very happy! Hahaha!"
Leyuan said, "I came to ask you for some money and Fulu Shouxi Cream."
He Shang asked, "Really? What do you want these things for? It's not that I can't give them to you, but I feel very uneasy if I give them to you like this. I don't want to give them to you. Besides, I'm not your relative or your friend. Why should I do it for no reason? Just listen to you and do what you say? There's no need for that! Even if I have them, I won't do charity."
Paradise said, "How can you live here and not do anything? How do you avoid it?"
He Shang smiled and said, "I'm not avoiding anything, otherwise, how could it be like this now? I'm just having a good time. They don't care about me, but I'm fine with it. We don't interfere with each other and don't bother each other. It's great. Life here is much happier than outside. Anyway, I've lived to this day and there has never been a fire here. Isn't it a safe and good place?"
Paradise said: "It's a good place, but what can I give you? I really need your things. Anyway, you have more than that. Give me some!"
He Shang thought for a moment and said, "Then let me ask you, where did the jade in your room go?"
Leyuan asked, "Is that yours? Sorry, I mortgaged it to someone else. If you want it, give me something and I'll go and get the jade back."
He Shang uttered a cry and almost sat up from the bed, shouting, "You actually gave it to someone else? What's wrong with you? How can you just give your things to someone else? Besides, it's mine. I don't know when someone touched it and put it there, and I don't know when someone came to me and said that the thing can ward off evil spirits. I don't care what they do with it, as long as they know that the thing is there.
Who knew that it was neither in your hand nor in the room? I thought that if it was in your hand, it would be in the room, so I would not care about it. How could you! How could you! "
Leyuan said: "Anyway, this is the situation. I have made it clear. What do you want to do?"
He Shang waved his hand and said, "You said it as if I could come up with other solutions. Since you said you can do it, just let me handle it. I only want my piece of jade. You can take my things and exchange them with him."
Le Yuan said, “I understand.”
He Shang asked, "So, you just want money and ointment?"
Leyuan responded, “Yes.”
He Shang said, "Okay, go ahead."
He seemed to want to add something like "go early and come back early" but he felt that it was not appropriate so he did not mention it. He was too lazy to mention it as it was quite troublesome.
Leyuan took the things and went out. When he reached the door of his room, he found someone had been waiting there for a long time.
"Why are you here?"
Le Yuan looked at the man in confusion.
"Ah, what's my problem here?"
The man looked at himself and found that he was not disheveled. He smiled and said to Leyuan, "You have already got the things? Why not give them to me now? To be honest, I have always carried the jade you want. You can take it back if you want."
Leyuan said, "Then take out the things and show them to me."
The man gave Leyuan a piece of jade. Leyuan looked at it doubtfully, turned out the pocket inside his clothes, and handed the thing to the other party. The other party snatched it away and laughed, "Very good! Very good! Hahaha!"
He happily packed up his things and went out in a circle.
They looked a little crazy, but since they didn't hit Leyuan, Leyuan treated them as normal. He returned to the room, closed the door, and really wanted to rest. However, he couldn't sleep.
He stood up and returned the jade to He Shang, who smiled and said, "Thank you."
Leyuan responded: "Then I'll go back and rest."
He Shang asked: "You have nothing else to do recently?"
Paradise said, “Yes.”
He Shang asked: "Don't you want to go back?"
Paradise said, “Yes.”
Kawakami asked, "Do you have any clues?"
Leyuan said, “I don’t know.”
He Shang asked: "I actually have a solution here, do you want to try it?"
Paradise asked: "What can we do?"
Kawakami smiled and said, "You can mix with others, just like the people next door did on the day you came."
Leyuan said, "Forget it. Gold and silver bottles are just bottles if they are broken. If the pulp comes out, it will be my brain. I don't want to die."
He Shang laughed: "You are taking it too seriously."
Leyuan rolled his eyes and said, "You don't know what I'm talking about. It's disgusting anyway. It's disgusting to know that there are such things in the world. It's even more disgusting to run into someone doing it and hear it. You still want me to go? Do you want me to die? Or let me be frank. Even if I die, I don't want to do such disgusting things. Whoever wants to do it can do it."
Kawakami asked suspiciously, "You don't like people because you like weird things?"
Leyuan said with a gloomy face: "No, I don't like anyone."
He Shang was skeptical: "Although you said so, you have no evidence. From the way you spoke, the probability that you don't like people is still relatively high."
Leyuan said, "I'll leave if there's nothing else. You don't want to talk? I'm leaving."
He Shang shouted, "Hey! This method doesn't work. I have another one."
Paradise asked: "What can we do?"
He Shang smiled and said, "If you kill someone here, maybe I can use the blood-stained formation to let you go back."
Leyuan said, "If that method worked, I wouldn't be stuck here, because I tried it before and it didn't work."
Last time, when I encountered someone jumping off a building, there was blood everywhere. I didn’t go back immediately, but only went back after I had dealt with other things. So, this method is not feasible and has no reference value.
Leyuan turned around and continued to walk away. He Shang thought for a moment and shouted, "It's not that there is no solution. Tell me about the situation before you came here, and maybe I can come up with a solution for you."
I was about to leave the park, but after hearing what he said, I didn’t want to say it, but I still said, “I saw a notice that someone had died, so I came in.”
He Shang murmured, "Is it so simple?"
He turned over and asked, "Why do you think you came in?"
Leyuan said, “I don’t know.”
He asked tentatively: "Play? If you are not happy, your life will be meaningless."
He Shang smiled and said, "That's what you say, but it may not be true."
Leyuan asked: "Why not?"
He Shang said, "That's why you don't know. But I don't want to explain it to you in detail. I have come up with a new idea."
Paradise asked: "What can we do?"
He Shang said, "You probably came in part for me. I'm already here, but you didn't leave. This means you didn't come here entirely for me. That must be related to what you saw before you came in. What did you see?"
Leyuan thought about it, thoughtfully.
He Shang said, "Do you understand? You can try it."
Le Yuan nodded doubtfully: "We can definitely give it a try. We'll talk about it later if it doesn't work."
He turned and walked away: "I'll come back tomorrow!"
He Shang asked, "Hey! Are you not in a hurry? Come back tomorrow. I still have things to do."
Leyuan said: "Then let's talk about it when you are free."
He Shang snorted: "It seems that he is not in a hurry."
He closed his eyes and gradually fell asleep.
The next day, Leyuan arrived at his door and found the briefcase. He took out a box. On the side of the box were two dead people, a man and a woman. Judging from their postures and expressions, they seemed to be a couple. The box was handed to Heshang. Heshang looked at it and smiled, "They both died together after all. Oh, where is my sister?"
The briefcase said, “It’s in there too.”
He Shang nodded: "I understand."
He put the can away and put it under the bed. A cockroach quickly crawled out from underneath and was killed by him when he took off his shoes. He happily threw away his shoes, clapped his hands and asked, "Did you bring my things?"
The briefcase said respectfully, "I'm sorry, sir, we don't provide this service for the time being."
He Shang frowned and asked, "Why?"
Briefcase smiled and said, "It's because recently someone started a fire everywhere. The flames burned down all the trees in the village. Everyone is worried. We can't risk the world's condemnation!"
He Shang slammed the table and shouted, "Do you think I don't know? You must have the goods! Give it to me, give it to me! If you don't give it to me, I will kill you first. Are you afraid of fire? Do you still remember the fire in the village before? I tell you, if you don't give me the goods, I will make your family, your whole family, your neighbors, and the whole street related to you the same!"
Briefcase blinked and smiled, "Don't be so angry. I did bring the things, but this is the last time. What do you think?"
He Shang waved his hands, thinking he was talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously at all. He only remembered that he said that he had indeed brought the things. He rubbed his hands happily and asked, "Hey! Where are my things? Why don't you take them out quickly? Come out!"
Briefcase took out a paper package and said with a smile: "It's here!"
He Shang quickly reached out to take it. The briefcase said, "Don't worry. You have to give me something first. Where is the thing I gave you before? You always said that you gave it to someone else, but when I asked you, I didn't know who you gave it to. Why not give it to me now? I won't lose it. I promise. Every penny of your family's property is yours. If your whole family dies, who can get this money? Right?"
He Shang snorted and said, "I'll give it to you if you want. It's no big deal."
He fumbled around on the bed and pulled out a pocket. He took the briefcase and opened it. He found a jade pendant inside. He smiled and said, "Okay, this is mine. I give it to you."
As he spoke, he handed the bag in his hand to He Shang and turned away.
He did not see the paradise on the road, but he seemed to know where it was. The paradise was hiding and watched him go out. Then it came out and entered the house and saw a fire on the river. He was not afraid that he would accidentally drop the fire on the bed and accidentally set the whole house on fire. If something like what happened in the village happened again, he would be too late to regret it and no one would be able to save him.
Leyuan was standing nearby, thinking about this in his mind. Suddenly, he saw the flames falling on the bed, almost burning. He was stunned for a moment, came to his senses, opened his mouth, and was about to talk about this. Heshang found out, after all, he was closer to the flames. He patted the bed and said nonchalantly, "It's no big deal. Shouldn't you have known this a long time ago? There are gods here."
Le Yuan murmured, "I know, but I didn't know it was like this."
It doesn't seem quite right to say that it is effective, but it doesn't seem appropriate to say that it is indifferent either.
Paradise is silent.
He Shang said, "Are you coming to me to deal with your previous matter?"
Leyuan thought for a moment and said, "Today is not the right time yet. I will come back tomorrow."
He Shang said, "Goodbye then! I hope you remember to eat. You don't have to come so punctually tomorrow. I really have something else to do. I don't want to see people appear at my door or in my room every day, and I don't want to meet annoying people every tomorrow."
Leyuan asked: "Am I a disgusting person?"
He Shang said, "It's both, and it's neither. Don't ask anymore."
The park responded, opened the door, and left. When leaving, he closed the door. He Shang muttered inside: "That's better. Otherwise, do you want me to close the door myself? How annoying."
They didn't go to the amusement park the next day. He Shang thought that he had listened to what he said. He felt very happy and laughed happily during the day because no one suddenly appeared at his door or in his room to disturb him from having fun or doing things.
Day after day passed like this, and He Shang almost forgot that he still had something to deal with in the paradise, and he had run out of ointment.
He searched the whole house and ate everything, but there was nothing left. He cried, "If I had known this would happen, I should have saved some for myself. Wuwuwu, wuwuwu. What shall I do now? I can't live any longer!"
The briefcase came over, and He Shang thought that the bag contained what he wanted. He searched for a while, but nothing came out. He didn't see what he wanted. He knelt on the ground to look for it, but couldn't find it. He was furious, raised his head, and with red eyes, he looked at the briefcase and asked, "Hey! Why don't you give me the things? Why?"
Apparently, he had forgotten what the briefcase had said to him when they met before.
The briefcase smiled at him, and remembered what he had said, so he repeated it to He Shang and comforted him: "Don't worry, this period will be over in a while."
He Shang shouted, "Fuck you! I want it! The goods! The goods! The paste! Ahhh! If you don't give it to me, why don't you give it to me? The things are not yours."
Briefcase straightened his clothes and said, "The things are indeed not mine. I don't think you are worthy of them, so I don't want to give them to you. Besides, although the things are not mine, I walked the road, brought the things, arranged the people, and met you. What's wrong with that? I said it's gone, and I told you in advance last time. You don't cherish the opportunity, so you can't blame me."
He patted his sleeves and said, "Okay, I've told you what I need to inform you about. I have to go now."
He Shang climbed up and asked, "Is this the only reason you came here?"
"Of course," said the briefcase.
He Shang clenched his fist, knelt down in front of him, hugged his legs and cried, "Just give it to me! I know you brought it!"
Briefcase shook his head and kicked him away: "No, that's all."
He Shang was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his hand and said, "Then give me a lollipop."
Briefcase smiled and said, "Okay. I still have this."
He opened the package, took out a lollipop and handed it to him: "Yours."
He Shang bit off the candy and watched the briefcase turn around and open the door. He rushed over and pinned the man to the ground. He stabbed the stick of the lollipop through the neck of the briefcase. Blood squeezed out from the hollow of the stick, little by little. It looked quite funny. He Shang looked at the body that was gradually losing temperature and laughed: "Damn it! Damn it!"
He lit a cigarette, but it didn't light up. His eyes were a little dizzy, and he slapped the bed, which collapsed. He snorted, got up and went out. He became a minor official in the village, and relied on his background to rise all the way up. He was not discovered until he was about to leave the village.
The children all surrounded him, laughing and giggling, but he waved his hand and told them to go away. Surprisingly, his temper seemed to be much better than before. The next day, the children's homes were burned down. There was nothing in the house. Their parents were dead.
He had people silence them, and those who knew about it were either dead or mute.
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