Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 47 Tracing the source (5)
After that, he left Mucuo Peak again and again, went to slightly inhabited places, or simply attacked caravans, collected a lot of corpses for himself to drive, and thus walked towards the end of his life accompanied by corpse servants .Until the moment of his death, he was not able to witness the spectacle of the demon fire extinguishing the world, but he still did not have any doubts about his prediction, and wrote the following words in the last log:

"My calculations are not wrong. The magic fire will eventually erupt, and the land of Kyushu will be turned into a sea of ​​flames. All history, all civilizations, all beauty, all suffering, all light and darkness that have ever existed, will be destroyed. Disappeared in the flames. Tens of thousands of years later, when new creatures reappear from the ashes of the corpses, and when new civilizations rise again on this scorched earth, perhaps they will no longer be able to find traces of the past, and will no longer know , In this continent and ocean, there used to be humans, Yuren, Kuafu, Luo, Yuren, and Mei. Those self-proclaimed splendors that have been handed down forever will no one know, just like the same The beautiful movement of the song, when the music is over, those beautiful notes can only dissipate in the air after all."

"I can't help but think, has our civilization experienced such a catastrophe or many, many catastrophes? Before us, were there creatures who thought they were the favored ones of the sky all over the land and sea? All of this may never be achieved. Got it. I'm going to die, as an insignificant person, towards an insignificant end. And our civilization, our world, every drop of blood we shed to fight for the land, will eventually become insignificant just like me , eventually becoming unknown.”

"I suddenly felt that the words of the ascetic monks who I have always looked down upon are actually reasonable. Life is like a series of endless long gates. You step through the long gates, but you will never understand the world The only thing you can do is to seek personal relief. Perhaps the long-door monks have seen through this point and chose this way of escape?"

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This story is not long, Xue Huaiqing read it quickly.She flipped through other books, most of which were out-of-the-ordinary anecdotes, but they were all related to this story.The descriptions in these books are not completely consistent, and some details are simply contradictory, but they are basically the same when it comes to key points and key points.Moreover, at a certain stage in history when cults were flourishing, this discovery by Hong Tianyin was actually interpreted by evil people with ulterior motives into the teachings of cults, and one or two cults with considerable influence were born.Xue Huaiqing thinks about it carefully, it seems that he has heard similar nonsense before, but the world's cults are a family, and they are just all kinds of legends about annihilation, and then they are in the name of saving the people Deceiving money and sex.In the context of heretical teachings, sayings such as eruption of magic fire are too common, so she didn't think about it.

In addition, there is a stack of books, which seem to have nothing to do with this matter, and the contents are various and unrelated, including acupuncture, textual research, poetry, poetry, astrology, etc. There is even a book that looks very similar to the original "Shangyang Blood". It was a famous song that even Xue Huaiqing had heard of. According to legend, it was composed by Ouyang Fu, a great luthier in Emperor Qiangwei's time, to commemorate the bloody battle that took place at Shangyang Pass.These books were not well preserved, and there were traces of smoke and fire. An Xingmian shook her head at her, meaning that these books were not important, and she would not care about them.

Then she put down the books and papers in her hand, and slowly sat down on the chair in front of the desk.Her mind was completely confused, and she didn't know how to react for a while.The violent volcano hidden deep in the ground, the world-destroying fire that spewed out, the founder of the corpse dancer, the long-door monk who pursued the truth through penance... She had never put these elements together in the past, but Just as An Xingmian said, fate made a wonderful joke, binding the long-door monk and corpse dancer who were originally irrelevant.It's just that this so-called fate is really something people can't avoid, but there is no way to escape.

Is Nagato's book cave really just a cover?The great cause that the long-door monks have been doing for thousands of years is actually pushing Kyushu to the point of destruction step by step?Xue Huaiqing could hardly believe such a fact.Those long door monks, those long door monks with firm faith and fearlessness, do they know what they are doing?

She turned her head involuntarily and looked at An Xingmian.An Xingmian's face was very calm. Obviously, after these days of suffering, even if he could not accept it all, at least he had enough firm belief to face it.But... these are just some words, doesn't he have the slightest doubt?

"Of course I won't confirm something just by words," An Xingmian guessed Xue Huaiqing's doubts, "so I will definitely investigate. Among the packages I picked up, some were torn to pieces The emperor probably did it. He was going to burn the package, but I picked it up. On our way back, while you were sleeping, I spent a few nights and put those Confetti spelled out."

"What did it say?" Xue Huaiqing asked.

"That is a place, the only evidence left to future generations by the immortal monk," An Xingmian said, "I followed this guide and found an underground cave in Qingyuling, Yuezhou. The entrance to that cave is inexplicably hidden in a swamp, and I think maybe after the cave was dug, they managed to turn it into a swamp. However, when I arrived, that part of the swamp had been drained, for sure It was the emperor's men, so I went in without much trouble."

"It was an unbelievable spectacle, just like the Luo clan's dungeon, where the ground was hollowed out, forming a huge deep hole, leading to the depths of the remote leylines. I told you before that I don't I will go to climb down the cliff again, but I did not expect that climbing down that cave is more dangerous than the cliff. I can't help but start to imagine that in those long moments in history, the ancestors held torches and tied What a touching scene it would be to hang ropes into this cave and fill it with books again and again. Before that, it would be even more miraculous to spend countless efforts to dig out such a huge project. But unfortunately, Such beliefs and passions are the victims of a conspiracy to be exploited."

"After I went down to the bottom, what I saw was an expected brutal scene: the books that were originally stored there were all reduced to ashes. It seems that the emperor was eager to find out the truth at the bottom of the cave, so he simply lit a fire to burn those precious books to ashes. The priceless treasures were all burned. But at that time, even I couldn't bear to feel the pain, but eagerly started looking for the evidence that I wanted to find and hoped I would never find."

"Thinking about the long-term monks back then, relying on the strength of a very small number of people to memorize books here and hide them basket by basket over time. I don't know how many generations of hard work, but to destroy them, you only need A fire. Is it not the case to destroy Kyushu?"

Xue Huaiqing was slightly taken aback when she heard this, she always felt that An Xingmian's words "one basket by one basket" just now seemed to remind her of something, but she didn't have time to think about it because she had more important questions to ask.She didn't dare to ask this question, but she had to.

"Then... have you found any evidence?" Xue Huaiqing felt that her voice seemed to be floating from a distance, and there was an unreal feeling.

An Xingmian's answer made her heart sink completely: "I... found it. I tried my best to push away the piled up ashes and exposed the ground. Rare ancient books, and some of them were picked up, can be regarded as an additional gain of this trip. From the analysis of these remnants, the books stored in this cave should have been collected in the period of Yinmo. Of course, the most important gain--if this can If it is a harvest - I still found a small hole dug by the emperor at the bottom of the cave. Through that hole, I saw the dark red lava under the earth's crust. They are not violent, and they can even be said to be very quiet, but they are not Death is still flowing slowly, accumulating strength and heat, and no one knows when it will explode completely. This is the evidence, irrefutable and straightforward evidence."

"In other words, all of this is true..." Xue Huaiqing was talking like a dream.She is not a person who worries about the world, but for any ordinary person, knowing that she is living in such a crisis that may appear at any time, it is impossible to feel indifferent.

"Hong Tianyin always thought that the people who dug those caves were some powerful and powerful forces, so he firmly believed that it would take at most ten years before all the volcanoes would be induced," An Xingmian said with a slight smile, "but He didn't expect that those who dug these caves were not rich and powerful people, but the poorest group of people in the world. It is absolutely impossible for them to dig through all the caves within ten years. In fact , Each one needs the hard work of several generations. So he can really find a comfortable place to spend his old age, instead of going to the snowy mountains to suffer and suffer.”

Xue Huaiqing was speechless.She really wanted to comfort An Xingmian, saying that those caves might not be the caves dug by the Changmen monk, these are just two coincidences, but she knew very well in her heart that this was not a coincidence, at least the emperor's big move against the Changmen monk was definitely not a temporary one Crazy.

Yes, the underground Longyuan Pavilion built by the monk Nagato with all his pains "coincidentally" is on top of those extremely dangerous volcanoes.How to explain this incident, Xue Huaiqing has not yet figured it out, but at least she can understand the reason why the emperor did that.It is related to the survival and destruction of Kyushu, so it seems that no matter what kind of thunder method is used, it is not too much.

"You found all of these under the cliff, right?" she asked tremblingly.

An Xingmian nodded: "That's right, that's all. Since the cause and effect are completely untestable, I can only make up for the missing links by guessing. First of all, I will think of three words: Why? Why do the monks of Tianzangzong do this?" Do they? Do they know what they are doing when they have devoted generations of hard work to building these book caves?"

"You mean, they don't know about it?" Xue Huaiqing asked.

"Yes, I've been thinking about it for a few days. It's unbelievable to say that every generation of head monks is willing to do the cause of destroying Kyushu," An Xingmian said, "I can only guess like this: God The Tibetan sect has actually been used."

"Be exploited?"

"Yes, the vast majority of ordinary monks with compassion are used by a very small number of people who know the truth hidden behind the scenes," An Xingmian's voice was a bit sad, "The elder who was welcomed to Tianqi City in body The eminent monk of the sect may be such a manipulator behind the scenes in the Tianzang sect. There are not many such people, as long as one or two people enter the interior of Nagato in each generation and take on the important task of finding a suitable place for the library cave, it will be enough. enough."

"But why did this Nagato monk leave written evidence, and why did he hide the address of the evidence on himself?" Xue Huaiqing asked, "Could it be that he discovered it? But using this method to hide the secret, And when can we hope to be discovered?"

"No one knows," An Xingmian shook her head. "If it weren't for the strange fire, this secret would have been buried forever. But it was revealed after all, so... this is what we have been looking for all this time. It seems understandable that the emperor, who has always been regarded as benevolent, suddenly killed Nagato. You know, there is even such a possibility..."

"What's possible?" Xue Huaiqing's heart tightened suddenly.And she felt that she was asking too much, but in fact, she already had the answer in her heart.

"Perhaps...the entire birth and prosperity of Nagato was just a hoax," An Xingmian said in a low voice, "Those beliefs and pursuits that have lasted for thousands of years are just a cover for other people's conspiracies and ambitions. , in the end they were all deceived.”

An Xingmian still seemed very calm, without too many emotional fluctuations, which made Xue Huaiqing have to admire his self-control ability.She could imagine that the other party's heart was difficult to calm down.Even if he is not a very "pure" Nagato monk as he himself said, when a person hears that what he has been insisting on learning is a vain deception, no matter what, he will be hurt a lot .What's more, Nagato has another level of emotional sustenance for An Xingmian, and that is his revered teacher Zhang Haoge.In the past six months, most of the reason why this not-so-long-men monk has risked his life so much for his sect is because of Zhang Haoge. The blow to Zhang Haoge's beliefs is equivalent to An Xingmian's own beliefs got hit.

"At least now you know that your teacher's change has a reason." This was the only sentence that Xue Huaiqing could think of to comfort An Xingmian after thinking for a long time.

(End of this chapter)