"I want to save someone."
He looked at me in surprise, with a little teasing on his lips, "I can't tell you are kind-hearted."
"But you should give up." His face was calm, but his words were a little sad, "You and I are just two wandering souls now, how can we interfere in this world."
"One person, I just want to save one person! Is there really no way?"
Thinking of the man who was sick, pale and sluggish when we met yesterday, I felt very confused and asked eagerly.
He frowned and looked at me, with a bit of pity and a bit of ridicule in his eyes, "One person? What you said is really ridiculous! You yourself know the situation in the outside world. If you only save one person, that person will be sick the next day. Catch people and beat them to death. If you want to save, then save the whole world; if you can't, just watch!"
His words were so cold that they made me feel angry.
I clenched my fist and trembled all over, wanting to punch him.
After a while, I let go of my fist.
He is sensible and he is right.
It was me who was impulsive.
Wen Shi, how can I save you...
"Why, you have always been so indifferent, don't you have anyone you care about?"
Of course this makes no sense. From a current perspective, it is certainly impossible for me to do what a capable person can do even though I had no ability at the time.
That's why you are unwilling to give in, get angry, and take your anger out on others.
"Really?" He raised his eyebrows and looked at me: "I care about you, my friend. You and I are of the same mind. We are brothers."
"I mean someone else!"
The way he looked at me changed, with sympathy, indifference, and ridicule, just like a neighbor's adult looking at a child that does not belong to him and is "ineffective"!
"I still care about Wenchi. I have always cared about when he will die." He looked at me with an extremely crazy smile.
I have only seen this kind of smile on Wen Ju's face. It was the smile of extreme desire and extreme fear when he replaced himself with a monster heart and tried to seize the monster's ability.
I looked at him: I was looking at a madman.
But he obviously didn't care what I thought of him, and just kept to himself and continued: "I also care about the Wen family. I want to know when the world will think that the Wen family is to blame for this plague. I want to know when they will fight against the Wen family." Wen family."
"You don't know what I'm asking." Looking at his crazy look, I calmed down.
"Then don't you know better than anyone else?" He quickly took a few steps forward, pinched my collar with both hands, and stared at me as if his eyes were about to protrude, "The person I care about has never been here. World!"
…
A new sect has emerged in the outside world, called the New God Religion.
They preach that the holy demon disease cannot be cured and that people should accept it and coexist with it.
They believe that the so-called holy demon disease is just an ordinary test given by God to all living beings. The essence of this test is no different from the floods that destroyed the city in ancient times and the occasional large demons that disturbed the people.
It's crazy!
"What do fellow Taoists think is normal in today's world?" In the dream, the supreme bishop of the New God's Religion smiled gently and asked me softly.
I don’t understand, and it’s precisely because I don’t understand that I came here to see him.
But, instinctively, I feel that the path they are taking now is incorrect.
But is what is needed in troubled times really the so-called correctness?
Perhaps in today's world, only madmen can lead the world?
He didn't seem to expect me to answer, and said to himself: "Holy Demon Disease is indeed a terrible disease. It spreads rapidly and is incurable. Most of the people who suffer from the disease fall into despair and become radical and crazy."
"I once passed by a small mountain village. The village was not big, but it looked like it could house hundreds of families."
As he recalled, the scene in the dream changed rapidly, condensing into a dilapidated village.
I pushed open the door of a house and saw a strong man lying on the ground, covered in blood.
He held the knife in one hand and the stick in his mouth. He stabbed himself in the heart with the knife.
Suicide? !
People will not only be killed by others, not only will they grow old, sick and die, but they will also seek death themselves?
Why did he give up his life?
Is it because of the Holy Demon Disease? Is it because we came here...
I felt something explode in my mind, making me dizzy and unsteady.
A thin black dog bit into the man's body, leaving half of his body bloody and bloody.
Is this a wild dog, or is it a domestic dog that goes hungry without feeding its owner?
I pushed open another door and saw a piece of white silk hanging on the beam. I saw a stool that had been kicked aside. I saw a plain-looking woman with her feet hanging in the air. .
This was another room, and I saw two men of about the same age wrestling together, and they gave each other a fatal blow.
As the doors opened one after another, my heart became more and more numb.
Gradually, when I saw another corpse, I no longer felt any sympathy, but felt a sense of disgust from the bottom of my heart.
Really, disgusting.
"This is the holy demon disease, this is the human heart." The bishop came to my side and said slowly.
"It has no cure, makes people more and more miserable, and can hurt those around them, so much so that some people commit suicide as soon as they get sick."
Yes, there is no hope, you will suffer while living, and you will kill others, so why not die?
Maybe we are the truly selfish people who try every means to hang up the lives of patients and let them continue to suffer!
“It is so terrifying that it scares everyone, so that when a new patient appears next to a patient, the new patient will hate the original patient extremely. He thinks that others have harmed him, so he will hate that patient. Poor people who are unlucky enough to be sick are murderous."
"Human beings are not lower animals that can survive with material resources such as food, drink, housing and transportation. On the contrary, they must first want to survive before they can survive."
"And when people really want to live, you will find that people are actually very tenacious. As long as they still want to live, you will see people in famine digging grass roots and chewing tree bark. As long as they still want to live, you will see people in floods People desperately grab hold of something that can be fixed and use every possible method to ensure that they will not be swept away. As long as you are still alive, you will see people who unfortunately encountered a landslide and lost one of their legs, dragging their remains and crawling all the way, and finally were killed. Saved by others..."
"As long as people still want to live, people can always find ways to survive, even today when the Holy Demon Disease is raging."
Makes you want to live! This is the doctrine and belief of the New Theistic Religion.
They want to be the light, the hope, they want to restore order, and they want to calm the twisted hearts in this troubled world.
is it possible……
They really did it!
"People like to pursue excitement, so they go out to take risks, crave chaos, and create killings. But people more often like stability, and excitement is far more draining than stability. So when the war lasts for a long time, people will long for peace. But the cessation of war is too Over time, people’s energy will be too strong and they will start wars again.”
"So this is not a miracle, it's just a cycle of human nature."
Are you so sure that you will succeed?
"Of course." He nodded and smiled: "Because I have no selfish motives, and I will definitely die."
"I am no different from anyone else, and I can give people what they need now, so people will follow me. And as long as I also suffer from the Holy Demon Disease and die with others, people will not think that I am I am a conspirator, so they will naturally not abandon me. In addition, everything I do is for the sake of the world, so as long as I live long enough, even if I die in the future, people will still abide by the order I established. .”
"As long as the troubled times continue, and as long as the order I established can still guarantee a pure land, it will never disappear."
"This is the New God Religion, the order I want to create."
Because of the holy demon disease, people no longer grow food; because of the holy demon disease, people no longer make food into meals; because of the holy demon disease, people "learn" to burn, kill, and loot, and they never tire of it.
But food will not be produced out of thin air. If this continues, the Holy Demon Disease will not be able to destroy humans, and humans themselves will also destroy themselves!
Natural disasters are often followed by man-made disasters.
Man-made disasters often follow...
But in times of disaster, human nature often shines to its fullest.
People enjoy the pleasure of destroying everything, but they also long for a stable and orderly life.
All they need is a guide.
And now the leader has stepped forward!
There are many people in this world who are afraid of death, so he can guide them.
And because people need material resources to live, the first thing the supreme bishop did was to resume production: he dispersed his family wealth in exchange for food and distributed it to everyone, and made a verbal agreement with everyone to come to help with production tomorrow.
Oh, you don’t want to come? Then of course you are not my friend. If you are not a like-minded friend, you cannot share food from me!
In this way, he guided people step by step with food and gradually established order.
At the same time, he gradually told people two obvious facts:
1. The Holy Demon Disease is not that scary. It will not kill us immediately.
2. The Holy Demon Disease is so terrible, so it is useless for us to fear it.
"No disaster can completely defeat mankind!" he loudly announced to the congregation.
It’s so similar, these words are exactly the same as what Li Wenshu expressed to me.
I floated high in the sky and looked down, watching everyone shouting along with his words. It seems that just by doing this, they can temporarily forget their fear.
No, they did temporarily forget their fear, the Holy Demon Disease, and that they were in troubled times.
They shouted loudly, their eyes shining.
Oh, the Holy Demon Disease is the same as the mountain fires of ancient times, and the same as the occasional floods.
They are really a bunch of naive people who believe this.
"It may take the lives of a few people, but it cannot destroy mankind, nor can it destroy our will to survive!"
Innocence is really good, I almost want to shout along.
But this is useless, the holy demon disease still exists, and those who are sick will still die.
Finally, he faced the death of his congregation.
But unlike what I expected, he did not face panic.
I saw people from the New God Cult gathering their dead companions together and lighting fires to burn them.
The flames burst into flames, and they sat cross-legged around the flames. They all closed their eyes, clasped their hands, and remained silent.
They are praying for their dead companions and hoping that they will be healthy in the next life.
Everyone is mortal, this is something everyone knows.
But when I feel that the companions around me are praying with me, wishing that the friends who unfortunately left them will be happy in the next life, it seems that even death is no longer scary, and it seems that even death can be faced calmly.
Li Wenshu told me before that most people are afraid of death, but they are not afraid of death itself. What they fear is the unknown, loneliness, regret, and being forgotten!
So when all the things he listed are no longer scary to the people of the New Theism, is death really as he said, no longer scary, but just life becoming another form?
…
I came to that man's dream again, and he praised me with a smile: "My fellow Taoist has unique ideas, he is really a strange person!"
"Death is not the end of life, it is just another form of life. Yes, people will die as long as they are alive, and death is not another form of life."
"Thank you, fellow Taoist, for informing me of these truths. I will inform the congregation about this tomorrow."
He finally asked me who I was.
He admitted that when he first talked to me, he thought it was just an ordinary dream. He thought he was not strong enough, so he dreamed that he was persuading others. He thought it was just his brain allowing him to convince himself again, making him more confident. firm.
He also suspected that he was too tired recently and had too many things to deal with, so he was thinking about it day by day and dreaming about it at night.
But now, he was convinced that I was a different being from him, and began to ask about my identity, my opinion on his founding of the New God Religion, and what in my eyes he did not do enough.
He is truly a good old man.
But you misunderstood, I am not as powerful a person as you think, I am just a...
"I'm just a wandering soul who still has regrets about the world and is hesitant to move forward."
