Chapter 119: Fengdu Guest (Part 9)
While Lu Ren was cursing the unscrupulous online store seller, the two green snakes that had collided had stabilized their bodies and began to chase the falling Lu Ren.
Due to weightlessness, Lu Ren had a hard time controlling his body, but luckily he was still holding the teddy bear that Ah Bing was living with. Looking at the huge snake head gradually approaching him, Lu Ren shouted in mid-air: "A Bing!"
In an instant, the ruins, which heard the call, spread out like a giant net and tightly bound the big snake that first attacked Lu Ren.
After the big snake was tied up tightly, Lu Ren also hung on the giant snake with the help of A Bing like a rock climber, stopped his falling trend, and successfully avoided the possibility of falling on the sand and being smashed to pieces.
But the giant snake didn't seem to intend to give up.
The green snake tied up by A Bing was not so easy to deal with. The green snake was dancing, shaking its head in the air and twisting its body violently, hoping to break free from the restraints and the burden.
It must be said that the giant snake's measures were very effective. Lu Ren, who was clinging to the green snake's body, felt like he was sitting on a death jump machine, observing the sky from all angles, his stomach churning.
At the same time, another giant python saw his companion being tied up and immediately stepped forward to help. He opened his huge mouth and angrily bit the culprit who shackled his companion. Compared with the huge size of the giant snake, Lu Ren was as small as a louse on the giant snake's body. With just a bite from the giant snake, he would be torn into pieces immediately.
Lu Ren, who was already exhausted from just hanging on the giant python, had no chance to dodge the attack of another giant python. He could only watch the huge snake mouth attack him. The bright red snake tongue and sharp snake teeth were soon close to Lu Ren. He could clearly smell a fishy smell coming from the snake's mouth, which made him dizzy and swollen instantly.
At this critical moment, Chongtong took action. He flew down and punched the giant snake on the head that was about to attack Lu Ren. The giant snake ate Chongtong, dodged and struggled. Lu Ren was finally out of danger.
But the matter was not over yet. Lu Ren was still hanging on the giant snake, sitting on the bungee jumping machine, and he could not afford to slack off. He was seen holding the teddy bear tightly in his hand, fearing that he would be thrown off and smashed into a pulp. At the same time, he gave A Bing a tactical reminder: "A Bing, hurry up, tighten the tentacles."
After receiving the instructions, A Bing cooperated very well. Almost the moment he received the command, he quickly tightened the tentacles wrapped around the green snake.
The giant snake was able to resist at first, but its strength was obviously getting weaker and weaker. Then it gradually began to lose strength, and slowly, its huge body softened and collapsed to the ground, and finally fell to the ground, spitting out its tongue and fainting.
After repeatedly confirming that the giant snake was really strangled by A Bing, Lu Ren asked A Bing to slow down. They were just passers-by, and there was no need to kill the creature that had been guarding its master thousands of years ago.
On the other side, Chongtong had already dealt with another giant snake, and slowly dropped it from mid-air to the ground. Now both snakes were lying listlessly on the sand, looking very pitiful.
Lu Ren felt a little bit sorry, after all, these two snakes did nothing wrong, they just wanted to protect their master forever. Even if their master had died, they were unwilling to leave, willing to imprison themselves here for the rest of their lives, hugging the gravel that their master had turned into to fall asleep, comforting themselves that their master was still by their side...
The more Lu Ren thought about it, the more he felt sorry for it. At this moment, Chongtong, who had already carefully examined the two giant pythons, walked back to Lu Ren.
All he could hear was the pragmatic Chong Tong asking Lu Ren, "Which one do you want to eat first?"
Such a question shocked Lu Ren: "Are you going to eat them?"
Chongtong nodded and explained calmly, "There are many evil spirits in the underworld who want to eat them, but they don't appear often, and when they do, they are in pairs. They are not easy to deal with, and it is also difficult to be caught, so they can survive until now."
The implication is, now that you've caught it, why don't you eat it quickly?
Lu Ren looked at the wild environment, and then looked at the two giant snakes in front of him. It must be said that in the underworld where resources are scarce, they do seem to be very high-quality protein.
But Lu Renke had no intention of eating the creatures from the underworld. He quickly shook his head to refuse: "Let them go. They just want to be with their master. They didn't do anything wrong. Even if they almost hurt us by mistake, they got beaten up."
After hearing this, Chongtong said "Oh".
Since Lu Ren wanted to let the snake go, Chongtong naturally had no objection. He was different from those starving ghosts. He didn't have a strong obsession with eating. He made the suggestion to Lu Ren only out of politeness.
Chongtong's teacher once said to him: "When dealing with guests, be polite and ask about their needs." He was just putting his teacher's teachings into practice.
Afterwards, at Lu Ren's request, Chongtong cast a protective spell on the two snakes to prevent them from being gnawed by some passing evil spirit until only their bones were left.
After doing all this, Chongtong continued to take Lu Ren on the journey to the City of the Dead.
After the thrilling episode just now, Lu Ren finally understood that Chongtong should be a pretty good person. At least he sincerely wanted to help Lu Ren and was willing to listen to Lu Ren's opinions.
Naturally, the two people who had lived and died together were no longer as reserved as before, and the distance between them was shortened a lot.
So, during the journey, Lu Ren naturally asked the question he had always wanted to ask Chongtong, but was too embarrassed to ask because they were not familiar with each other: "Why are you wearing a priest's clothes?"
Chongtong didn't seem to have any intention of hiding it: "This is what my teacher left for me."
Lu Ren didn't expect that the evil ghosts in the blood sea would have a teacher: "Your teacher? Didn't you say you came out of the blood sea?"
"Yes." Chongtong nodded, "I met the teacher after I left the Blood Basin Bitter Realm."
That was a thousand years ago. Chongtong had just come out of the bloody world, his body was soaked with blood . He didn't know who he was, nor where he came from. When he looked up, he could only see the endless night, and when he looked down, he could only see the endless desert. He was naked, looking at this desolate and unfamiliar world in a daze, as confused as a newborn baby.
Chongtong didn't even have a name at that time. He sat alone at the edge of the blood basin for a hundred years, thinking about how to return to the blood sea and become an unconscious evil ghost. He didn't want to think, didn't want to be conscious, just wanted to continue to be in a daze.
It was at this time that his teacher found him.
The teacher taught him some basic common sense and views on right and wrong, and let him know that it is wrong to hurt others casually. Although he did not understand why it was wrong, he would still do it because the teacher said so.
The teacher was not afraid of his terrible double pupils like everyone else, but happily named him "Double Pupils": "I heard from the Oriental people I know that double pupils mean good fortune, so you can call him that."
Yes, Chongtong’s teacher was not an Oriental, but a missionary from the West, a foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes.
The teacher came to the East to preach, but he had an accident and stayed in this land forever. Then he followed the local customs and was captured by the Eastern ghost. His teacher was also shocked because he believed in God. In theory, after death, he should be under the care of the Western gods and go to the Western heaven. So on the way to the City of the Dead, the teacher mentioned this matter to God in his prayer.
"Lord, I want to return to your arms as soon as possible."
Although the Western God was not very active in addressing the needs of his believers, he reacted quickly when faced with challenges to his authority as God. He immediately issued a solemn protest to the East, demanding the return of the missionaries.
However, the Eastern gods insisted that since this was Eastern land, anyone who died in an accident on this land should first wait in the City of the Dead to see their lifespan run out, in accordance with Eastern customs. When their lifespan was up and they were sent into reincarnation, both sides would discuss whether their souls should stay or go.
Although the West cursed, it finally agreed.
When hearing the news, Chongtong's teacher seemed very calm. He was already dead anyway, and he had plenty of time. Staying anywhere could not change the fact that he had passed away. As long as he knew that the Lord had not given up on him, it was enough.
However, the days and nights spent in the City of the Dead made the teacher change his mind. He looked at the suffering of all beings in the City of the Dead, lamenting that all souls could only wait aimlessly for the afterlife, and the city was filled with wailing all day long. Suddenly one day, the teacher with double pupils finally realized: "God is not compromising! He is not asking me to follow the Eastern tradition, but clearly conveying a new mission to me! He wants me to lead these suffering souls back to the arms of the Lord!"
So, the missionary began to preach in the City of the Dead.
"Believe in the Lord and you will have eternal life."
It must be said that when people are not satisfied with their current lives, they will start looking for spiritual sustenance, sometimes it is entertainment, sometimes it is a new belief. The missionaries' preaching work is very effective. Soon, almost every wronged soul in the City of the Dead began to believe in God. They even went to the chapel to listen to the missionaries worship and confess their sins when they are free every day.
For a time, the entire City of the Dead was thriving, and the sound of "Hallelujah" was heard everywhere.
If this happened in the human world, it would be at most a case of too many religious fanatics in one place, but they didn't steal or rob, and they were just comforting each other psychologically, so there was no danger. But the problem was that this was the City of the Dead in Hades, the Hades in Eastern mythology. For Bian Cheng, who was in charge of the City of the Dead, it was like the West had sent an undercover agent in to steal his base camp!
Bian Cheng was determined not to stand this grievance, he rushed to the First Hall to find Qin Guangmingjun: "If you don't solve this matter today, I will live in your First Hall."
How to say it, Bian Cheng’s reputation in the underworld is second only to cockroaches’ reputation in the human world.
Qin Guangming was unwilling to do that. He was so frightened that the gavel in his hand fell to the ground. He hurriedly organized to contact the gods in the West and urgently discussed to extradite the missionary back before his life was over. Who knew that when the contact was almost over, the missionary said, "I won't leave. I haven't completed my mission. I have only explained half of the Bible."
My goodness, I've heard that it's easy to invite gods but hard to send them away, but I didn't expect that it's easy to invite people but harder to send them away.
Finally, the Hades sent out a gift package of reincarnation, and spent a lot of effort to negotiate with the Western gods to let the missionary be reborn in the Holy Court in the next life. The matter of the Holy Court finally convinced the missionary, and he reluctantly agreed to return to the West.
Before leaving, the missionary passed on all his possessions to the lonely soul he had picked up from the world of suffering, Chongtong. This included his priest's robe, the Bible, the cross, and the church. He hoped that Chongtong could take his place, complete his unfinished mission, and finish reading the remaining half of the Bible.
Chongtong has no faith, he can't even tell right from wrong, he rarely has his own subjective initiative, most of the time, he just controls his actions according to the instructions of the missionaries who left.
However, although Chongtong insisted on taking over from the missionaries in the church every day to explain the Bible, for some reason fewer and fewer people came to worship.
Faith is something that is so precarious that it cannot be disguised.
Some people would travel thousands of miles, over mountains and through rivers, just to see with their own eyes a flower that they don’t know whether it is blooming or not in a distant land; some people would cross oceans, even if they would die in a foreign land, just to hear the so-called voice of God that they have never heard in their lives; and some people would risk their own lives and say with a smile that their country and family come first for the desire to drive out the Tartars.
Faith comes from human love.
Faith itself is meaningless, and God is not great either. The truly great are those who are willing to sacrifice everything for their faith and God. Only humans are the smallest, most fragile, strongest, and greatest in this world.
In short, Chongtong has no confession of passion and no soul.
Believers commented on Chongtong: "There was not a trace of emotion in his voice when he praised the Lord. It felt like we were watching a monster hiding under a skin and pretending to praise God. It seemed that in the next second, he would eat everyone present, which made people shudder."
As time went by, no one wanted to come to the church anymore. No one wanted to worship, so the church gradually became deserted.
But Chongtong didn't want to waste his teacher's hard work, so he has been trying to find a solution to the problem for so many years. He wanted to know how to become a ghost like his teacher. He has not found a suitable solution until today.
Today, he met Lu Ren and a creature that was supposed to have no emotions but was willing to take the initiative to protect Lu Ren.
