Dharma Ring: Selling dung beetles at the border

Melina sat on a stone, chewing slowly, biting into the dried meat.

Wuming sat opposite Melina and watched her eat quietly.

Melina ate the dried meat and looked at the ground in concentration.

Under the stone, a green tree bud emerged from the gap under the weight of the stone.

Wuming also noticed Melina's gaze, looked over, and said with emotion:

Life is delicate, yet tenacious and fearless.

When Melina heard that Wuming would say such words, she glanced at him in surprise and continued to eat her own meat.

Seeing that Melina was almost finished eating, Wuming asked:

How does it taste? Is there anything that needs improvement?

I can't tell. Melina replied.

The long-term life of a remnant soul has made her forget the feeling of the living.

Melina couldn't tell whether the taste was right or not.

She couldn't even tell if the strange sensation was taste.

How did you do it? Melina asked.

My hometown has many applications for the soul, and the understanding of the soul is deeper. Wuming said, There are some ways to affect the soul and allow entities to interact with the soul.

Wuming said proudly: Through different effects on the soul, different levels of taste and texture similar to entities are simulated. Although they are not really tasteful, perhaps as long as they have differences, they can make people feel happy. It can also be regarded as a kind of delicacy.”

Is this technique good? Wuming asked Melina.

good.

Want to learn? Wuming said, I can teach you.

I guess you want me to exchange the technology for transforming runes with you, right? Melina said.

You're so smart, kid. Wuming praised Melina.

No way. Melina refused. The reason why only witches are allowed to learn it is to ensure that this technology will not spread and be learned by evil people.

Am I a bad person? Wuming pointed at himself.

You don't look like a good person. Melina said unceremoniously, then she stuffed the last bite of meat into her mouth and licked her fingers.

I feel so hard after eating. Wuming said.

Are you implying that I'm only against you because I hate you? Melina said.

I didn't say that.

Melina said: I really don't like you, but compared to you, the Dianhuo guys are more disgusting. And you obviously have a deep relationship with them. As the leader of the caravan, you also want to build the Dianhuo Village. .”

Businessmen, can't you accumulate virtue and do good deeds? Wuming said, We are also moral!

You misunderstood. What I meant was that businessmen themselves are also a group closely related to epilepsy. Melina glanced at Wuming, Although you don't seem to be involved in epilepsy.

You don't like epilepsy? Wuming asked.

Will anyone like it? Melina said, People who are crazy about madness are crazy people who just want to merge their lives into one. They say they want to make the world harmonious, but they just do things to destroy. .”

Melina looked unusually emotional:

I would not buy into that notion.

She thought of something and turned to look at Wuming:

Do you think so too?

Should I say yes? Wuming said.

Melina stood up and distanced herself from Wuming:

Then don't get involved, and don't bewitch Tui Fu.

There was obvious disgust in Melina's eyebrows, and even some hidden murderous intent.

Wuming raised his hands in surrender: Don't worry, I don't have any evil intentions.

Melina did not approach Wuming:

Then why do you want to help the Epileptic Fire Village?

Don't always be a village. Wuming said, Elepsy patients gather together to form a village. What I help is people.

Wuming kicked away the stone that was pressing on the bud, revealing the shadow under the stone. The buds had grown crookedly, and woodlice and earthworms were suddenly exposed and began to swarm around.

Aren't people with epilepsy life? Wuming stretched out his hand and fiddled with an earthworm on his fingertips, Do you know the characteristics of life?

What do you want to say? Melina asked.

Slender yet tenacious. Wuming pinched off the earthworm's body, and both parts of the insect's body continued to crawl.

The outer skin of one of the earthworms also stretched back, revealing a pair of gear-like sharp teeth, which bit into the nameless finger.

Ouch! Wuming waved his hand, flying the bug onto Melina's face, and put it on her nose.

In an instant, Melina returned to her spirit state and let the bug fall into the grass.

Wuming shook his fingers, blew on it, put his hands behind his back, and said calmly: In short, life is fragile and tough - you don't think that patients with epilepsy are not life, do you?

I didn't say that. Melina said, It's just that they are indeed dangerous, and your help will contribute to this danger.

It's useless. If I don't help them, they will usher in their own king sooner or later. Wuming said, No matter how you suppress, suppress, and kill them all, you can't eradicate them. And the creatures that grow in the darker environment , the more you don’t want to face it.”

Wuming said: This is destined. You can't change it by this method. Life and fire are like this. You can put a stone on it, but they can always find a crack in it to live and thrive. ——And survive in an extremely terrifying appearance, and finally crawl out of the gap in a desperate manner, allowing the world to witness the aliens cultivated in the shadows.”

Melina was a little surprised. The scene described by Wuming really made her, a person who firmly opposed epilepsy, feel a little conflicted.

But it’s hard to refute.

Say it like you've seen it before... Melina muttered.

Unable to refute Wuming's reasoning, he began to refute Wuming directly.

I have seen it more than once, whether in my hometown or on this borderland, immortals, hybrids, demi-humans... Wuming said, Don't underestimate the power of life.

Melina said: According to you, this problem is unsolvable? Are you repairing the Diaohuo Village now to stand in advance and please the Lord of Fire who will appear sooner or later and destroy the world?

You are right about one thing. Patients with epilepsy are all crazy, but do you know why they are crazy? Wuming asked.

Has your brain been damaged by epilepsy? Melina guessed.

Wuming laughed: It is possible, but there are other reasons.

Wuming stood up, bent down and groped around in the bush, and pulled out a few branches from the ground.

On the branches are overripe fruits, exuding a dangerously sweet smell. The fruits are rotten and pus-filled, and are as round as the eyes of an epileptic patient popping out of their sockets.

This thing is called Hierro's eyeball by the locals. Wuming said, It is an anesthetic used by patients with epilepsy to relieve pain.

Wuming crushed the fruit, and the juice flowed along his palm and dripped to the ground. Several insects came into contact with the juice and began to run wildly.

This kind of fruit can anesthetize. Wuming knocked on his head, It's not just epilepsy that ruins their brains, but also analgesics. Just like the rebirth ceremony of the Full Moon Queen, it can make people addicted and destroy people's brains. Sanity.”

It's like poison, Melina said.

Wuming nodded: It's like poison. But what can be done? Without this poison, they will suffer even more.

Wuming suddenly approached Melina.

Wuming's soul-disgusting aura made Melina suddenly excited, and she almost kicked Wuming away.

What are you doing? Melina suppressed her instinctive disgust and asked Wuming who came over.

Wuming reached out and tapped Melina's knee.

Melina's boots bounced up and kicked Wuming, making a clanging sound as she wandered through the woods.

Wuming lowered his head and glanced at Melina's legs:

As you grow taller, do you feel pain in your knees?

I have, Melina said. It's more because it hurts when my mother takes me to train.

Usually it's a sudden pain. Wuming said, But if there is a sharper pain covering it, the originally long-lasting dull pain will slow down and be covered for a period of time by the sharp pain that is ready for a moment.

You're going to hurt yourself, Melina said.

But it's very useful. Wuming said, Poison... Do you know my hometown? If you want to cross a poisonous pond, what should you do?

Melina couldn't follow Wuming's thoughts and shook her head and said she didn't know.

Wuming smiled and said, Eat shit.

Melina leaned back, away from Wuming. The jerky I just ate not only brought a rare feeling of fullness, but also brought a long-lost nausea.

Wuming shook his finger and looked proud:

This is a folk remedy. I don't tell ordinary people - feces is poisonous, you know, right?

Some herdsmen on horseback really like to dye their long arrows with horse feces to quench the poison. Melina said, Fortunately, Toret is a spiritual horse and has no need for this.

So you can poison yourself by eating shit first, so that you will have immunity when faced with more severe toxins in the future! Wuming said, What do you think, is this a good method?

Not bad. Melina said expressionlessly, I choose the antidote.

The eldest lady from a rich family. Wuming commented on Melina. Poor people cannot afford to use antidotes day and night - they live in such an environment. Compared with antidotes, it is still Something like poop, which is everywhere, is more suitable.”

Can you please stop talking about excrement? Melina rubbed her temples.

Okay, let's not talk about it anymore, Wuming said, But you have to understand that it is a method, not a solution. Although it is embarrassing, it can solve the problem.

Wuming murmured: Of course, people who solve problems in this way must have many other problems. Dirty, ugly, deformed, and of course, crazy. Life will become distorted under heavy pressure - that is to adapt to the environment - - Plants are like this, people are like this, even the immortal ancient dragon will be like this once it has life. This is life...

Wuming looked at Melina:

They cannot be eliminated. You can suppress a group and eliminate a group, but in places where you don't notice, twisted lives will continue to be born, and eventually a terror that can subvert everything will emerge. Because you have not eliminated it. Soil. I want to change the environment to eradicate epilepsy and madness, what do you think?

Melina was silent.

Think about it for yourself. Wuming patted Melina on the shoulder and left the jungle.

Melina pondered, not even dodging the unknown contact anymore.

She thought for a long time until there was another movement behind her.

Melina's eyes were suddenly covered by a hand.

Guess who I am? Haida's voice came from behind.

Melina's tone was calm: As a blind person, you are worthy of praise for covering my eyes so accurately.

Haida and several residents of Epileptic Fire Village came nearby.

Melina revealed Haida's identity in the most rude way, and Haida was so angry that she wanted to twist Melina's neck off.

But Melina's self-introduction in Epilepsy Village told her that this was impossible. Melina can turn into a spirit body at any time, disappear from everyone's sight, hide in the soil, or hide in a big tree.

So Haida had no choice but to hold back her anger and stall for time.

The other villagers in Diianhuo Village covered their eyes, raised their heads and trembled towards the sky.

A ball of epileptic fire gradually formed in mid-air.

Haida decided to get rid of Melina as soon as possible.

As a subversive force, if you don't care about human life, you should fuse people into one in advance.

Witches appeared one after another, making Haida feel a sense of crisis.

As a witch who subverts the fire power, Haida certainly doesn't mind killing a competitor.

Although Melina did not agree to teach Wuming the technique of transforming Rune, keeping her around was always a danger.

Haida immediately contacted the residents of Epileptic Fire Village, gathered the strength of the whole village, and came up with the best idea in the village - to use the power of Epileptic Fire to destroy the witches.

Let several devout epilepsy patients summon them at the same time, and the majestic power of epilepsy will show its majesty at the junction.

Du Juan was destroyed by this force.

A whole regiment was wiped out, and Haida didn't believe that Melina would be fine.

I want to give you a surprise. Haida continued to cover Melina's eyes, I want you to see something good, so don't open your eyes.

I don't really want to see your good things, please let me go. Melina maintained her indifference to others.

Okay, okay, I'm ready. Haida let go of her hand, Take a look at it, this is my heart.

She could feel the heat wave in the air.

The power that melts everything about you and me will reveal His power. Ordinary people would go crazy just by seeing it. Even the soul, as long as it still has consciousness, will definitely not survive the disaster.

Melina raised her eyes and looked at the sky in the direction Haida pointed, looking for the big treasure in Haida's mouth.

As the sun shines brightly, a huge fireball appears over Melina. Huge, misshapen, ominous, and fascinating fireball.

Haida was already looking forward to the sound of Melina covering her eyes and screaming.

As expected, Melina's voice came:

I've finished reading, is there anything else?

Under the heat wave of the flames, Haida shed a few drops of sweat. Haida felt like she was in an ice cave at the same time, and she couldn't help but sweat.

Even if she couldn't see anything, she could clearly feel it——

Melina was staring straight at her, expressionless.

I've been really unlucky lately, my laptop screen is broken.