bookcurios Chapter 126 5 Turbid Temple
Chapter 126 5 Turbid Temple
"Reincarnation in the dirt?"
I stood up straight and looked at him expressionlessly: "How come I have jumped to the Fire Movie Studio now?"
"Oh. It's not the one from Shonen Jump." He waved his hand nonchalantly and explained, "It's just to illustrate the same concept."
"......What's the meaning?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
He sighed, took out a pack of Marlboro from his left pocket, pulled out one of the cigarettes, turned it in a different direction, lit it, and blew out a smoke ring in an experienced manner before he began to speak.
"It would take quite some time to explain it to you."
"Why? Do I have to pay you something?" I asked him emotionlessly, "Are you the type who only feels happy when others beg you for something?"
“Cough, cough, cough…” He choked on the smoke and turned around and said, “Oh, don’t think of me as such a bad person.”
"I'm not that guy."
I guess I won't be happy to hear what you said.
Kong Shiyu took two steps forward, leaned on the half-man-high park railing, and continued to smoke. "Famous temples all have their own famous prayer areas. You know this, right?"
"Yeah." I recalled the architecture in my memory: the red corridors and pillars, the undulating buildings, the bells hanging in a row, and the long sound of the bells. These are the indelible memories of my childhood.
"Pray for blessings and amulets at Sensō-ji Temple, pray for love at Kiyomizu-dera Temple, and pray for a smooth birth at Suiten-gu Shrine... probably something like that."
"That's right." Kong Shiyu said, "But what you don't know is that apart from these well-known temples, less famous temples will also set up a prayer area."
"Near Sensoji Temple, there is another little-known temple called Gozhu Temple."
"Five Turbidities..." I couldn't help but frown, "It doesn't sound like a good name."
There is a saying in Buddhism about the five evil times. Why do they want to bring bad names upon themselves?
"The monks explained that Wutongwu, Wuzhu Temple, means a world without turbidity."
He continued, “It is said that the Five Turbidities Temple exists to drive out the evil world and put an end to the Dharma Ending Age.”
This is ridiculous... It's so baffling, how come the Dharma Ending Age suddenly appeared?
"It makes sense, I guess." I slowly exhaled, still puzzled. "After all this rambling, what does this temple have to do with a 100 million yuan reward?"
"The connection is that Wuzhuo Temple recently lost a magical instrument." He finally got to the point, "It's called the Soul-Calling Banner."
"Soul-calling flag?"
"Yes." He showed an extremely serious expression: "It is said that this is a divine weapon that can call the souls of the dead back from the other side to the world of the living and resurrect them directly."
"......Do you believe it?"
"I believe it." He nodded heavily.
The air remained silent for three seconds.
A sparrow landed on a branch with a leaf in its beak, hopped a few steps, and looked down with its head tilted, its eyes round like small green beans.
“Hahahahahaha! Hahahahaha…”
Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter at the same time.
The sparrow spread its wings, opened its mouth and flew away in fright.
"They actually said they could bring the dead back to life." I held my stomach and laughed so hard that I couldn't breathe. "What a marketing trick. Why don't they say they have a magic weapon that can make people's wishes come true?"
"Ah, this." Kong Shiyu seemed to remember something and said with a smile, "Their temple really has it, it's the treasure of the temple."
"Really?" I asked curiously, "What kind?"
"I don't know." He shook his head. "It's so secretive. No one has ever seen it."
"That's probably a lie." I thought about it for a second and decided to put it out of my mind. "Even if there is, it would have caused a bloody storm long ago."
He lit the cigarette in his hand, the burning flame flickered in the air, and the falling ashes were blown away by a breeze, "But it's enough now."
The mature voice was a little hoarse and calm without any ups and downs. "Someone has seen the spirit-summoning flag work with their own eyes."
"what?"
"A woman lost the love of her life." He spoke as if he were pulling out a book of scriptures that recorded a story from long ago. "She went to the Wuzhu Temple and knelt before the statue to pray for a miracle."
"The soul-calling banner is touched by the love that is hard to find in this world, and it waves the spirit flag to guide the dead."
"In the end, the lover who had been reaped by the Grim Reaper's scythe stood before her again."
"......It sounds like that." I analyzed methodically, "But it's just like a business making up a bunch of touching stories behind the product in order to increase sales. It's fake and empty."
"No, this time is different." Kong Shiyu said lightly, "At least a while ago, there was quite a commotion in Shinjuku. Several people died in succession, and even the top brass of the Metropolitan Police Department were alarmed."
"The black market is now offering a reward of 100 million for this lost so-called artifact." He said, "Most of it comes from this rumor."
"Okay." I caught the falling leaves and covered my left eye with them. I looked up at the sky through the gaps in the leaves with my right eye and said with a lack of interest, "You're right. It's best not to take on this mission."
"You are not interested because you don't believe that the spirit-summoning flag can really summon spirits."
Kong Shiyu asked suddenly, "One hundred million, are you really not tempted at all?"
"My heart is beating." I sat up suddenly and shouted, "I am so excited. That's 100 million!"
"But this is too troublesome." I said, "In order to get this thing, I might have to kill a bunch of people, and then be hunted by others."
"I'm quite timid, so forget it."
"Huh?" Kong Shiyu couldn't even smoke anymore. She held the cigarette in her hand and looked at me in disbelief with her eyes wide open. "You? Coward?"
"Why?" I was stunned by his questioning tone, "Can't I be a coward?"
He took a deep breath and raised his voice slightly: "What are you talking about? Last time I heard from Shier that you beat up Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, and every move you made was aimed at their lower body."
"You call this cowardice? We are both bound by heaven and curse, and I didn't even kick you in that part! You, woman, are really crazy and scary."
"If you are afraid of being hunted down, I don't believe you would kill me."
You can't stop talking about Fushiguro Shigenobu. How come you've fallen in love with him?
Me: ".......Why did I tell you everything? I had my reasons, okay?"
"Do you think I believe you?" He bared his teeth, as if he had a deep understanding of this. "You don't know how horrible this is for a man."
"..."
To be honest, I did this because I knew it.
"I don't need to tell you this." I rolled my eyes. "If you don't agree with me, forget it. You should just think about how to help me get more tasks."
"The woman you called so scary is now a penniless pauper!"
Kong Shiyu: “…”
"If you keep on dithering, I'll really kill you."
"Okay, okay." Kong Shiyu threw the cigarette butt into the trash can, spread his hands, and said, "I'll help you find it now, okay?"
"It's still the same." I put the leaf in my palm. The lines on the trunk stretched out in all directions, like a crack spreading. "I don't accept missions to kill people."