At some unknown time, the wind stopped, but the snow continued to fall.
The world between heaven and earth suddenly became very quiet, the mother night fox's hoarse voice pierced my ears, and lingered in my mind for a long time. My heart seemed to have been heavily struck by something, making me temporarily forget the coldness and fear.
Yes, how many lives have been sacrificed on our dinner tables, and how much meat we've eaten in our lifetime is the one thing we can't remember. Don't those animals we eat have brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers? It's said that heaven has a benevolent virtue, all things are equal. But if all things were truly equal...
So why can we eat them? Why do we still eat with such a sense of entitlement?
Is it survival of the fittest? Is it the law of nature that only the implementers survive? Is it because we are strong, so we can eat them up?
What if something even more powerful than us wants to devour us, is that also justified? No, anything that threatens the safety of human life is dangerous. It's evil.
Is this what we humans usually call 'justice'?
Why is this 'justice' so fragile and powerless?
The Buddhist scriptures say: Man is neither good nor evil; goodness and evil are but a thought.
But can good and evil really be judged by us ordinary people?
What is good and evil?
I won't eat you, or I will die; and if you don't eat me, then you won't live either. Between us, who is good and who is evil?
Isn't there a way to have it both ways? I looked at the three night foxes in front of me, they were just like us, with emotions and families, was I really going to destroy them for that forced 'justice'? Just because they were monsters?
Is it because they don't deserve to exist in this era?
I really can't figure it out, and I can no longer find a plausible reason for myself. Maybe this thing, those great philosophers have never figured it out before, and I'm just a 21-year-old unlucky guy, I know that even if I think hard, I won't be able to come up with a reasonable explanation.
So I could only shake my head and say to it: "Sorry, this thing...I also can't answer you, I just don't want to see any life get hurt."
The mother fox saw me, this yin-yang master, actually say "sorry" to it, a monster. It was clearly also surprised. At this time, the little night fox sitting on the stone suddenly started shaking all over. Its hand was tightly grasping the small sparrow that had already gone stiff, and the purple-brown blood vessels on its body began to slowly fade. The male night fox saw this and immediately picked up the glowing thing from the snowy ground - it was a piece of something like tree bark. The male night fox held this thing and slowly rubbed it against the little night fox's body. The little night fox's shaking gradually subsided.
The mother fox spirit gazed sorrowfully at her child, then turned to me. I saw that this monster's eyes were actually welling up with tears. It shook its head and said: "Too late, Mr. Yin-Yang. Everything is too late. My child hasn't grown yet, and having left the host for so long, it can't be saved. At most, it can only live for three more days."
If I had heard this an hour ago, I would have been overjoyed - that wicked thing is finally going to die. Now, however, I just can't seem to muster up any joy. I feel like a child who has done something wrong and doesn't know what to say.
The mother fox gazed at me, her mournful smile seemed desolate in the woods. She said to me: "Mr. Yin and Yang, don't be too self-reproachful, all this is fate, predetermined by destiny. Monsters like us and humans are mutually incompatible. But now, who's right or wrong has lost any meaning. Let me ask you one last question."
If your child was killed, how would you treat your enemy?
I gaze at it, and my heart is filled with a hundred emotions. It seems that we cannot escape the so-called fate after all. We are just pawns of fate. And our fate is to fight to the death, either you die or I perish.
But at this time, I really didn't have the mood to fight with all my might, because I didn't know what reason I should use to fight them. You see, if a demon dies, it's really dead, they don't have a place like the Nether City to return to, only complete annihilation of body and spirit.
The mother fox gazed at me with this appearance, and with a flick of her hand, ten long fingernails grew out. She shouted at me: "Take action!! Weren't you just saying that you are justice? Only the last person alive is qualified to talk about justice!! You don't need to care about what I said earlier, we were originally enemies anyway. Come on, if you can't kill us today, my husband and I will go to the city tomorrow and start a massacre!!!!
Listening to her voice that was almost a scream, I was stunned again. Yes, we were originally enemies after all. And what's called justice probably really only belongs to the winning side. I am still just an ordinary person after all.
Everyone is selfish. If I don't kill them tonight, after I die, Harbin will not be peaceful either, and more innocent lives will be threatened. I cannot let the tragedy happen again.
I forced a smile, I have to fight.
To protect my home, to protect us selfish humans. But now I feel that I am not fighting for justice. Because that thing is like a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water, it's just a golden crown belonging to the victor.
At this moment, I seemed to have no fear, nor coldness. I took out a talisman from my bag, furrowed my brow and shouted at it in a hoarse voice:
"Come on!! Let's settle this once and for all!!"
I vaguely saw the mother fox seemingly weakly smile, then quickly pounced on me. I swiftly raised a "Ding Yi Ju Xian Hu Ti Fu" and loudly shouted "Ji Ji Ru Lu Ling!!"
As the six Ding Yin Shen's symbol force burst open, I quickly used my left index finger, which was still full of wounds, to draw a Jia Wu Yu Qing Po Sha palm heart symbol with my palm. But just as I finished drawing the last stroke, I felt a piercing pain in my back, and without thinking much, I turned around and swung my palm over.
It was the male Arctic fox that saw its mate take action, and it also circled around to my back and gave me a swipe of its paw. I felt a chill run down my spine at this moment, and it hurt piercingly. Using my left hand to feel my back, fortunately, I was wearing thick clothing, so it was only an external wound, but the down jacket along with the clothes inside had been clawed open in several large gashes, and the icy cold air poured in like a knife. I thought to myself that things were not good, if we didn't quickly resolve this battle, there was a real possibility that before being killed by them, I would be completely frozen stiff.
So I hastily raised my right palm again, and the symbol flew out like a fox pouncing on its prey. Unexpectedly, their speed was so fast that it jumped to the right, and my palm symbol missed again. The mother fox stretched out her claws and quickly pounced on me once more.
Fortunately, I had a similar experience before. Since my feet were all snowy, I took advantage of the situation and fell backwards into the snow to avoid its attack. As I fell onto the snowy ground, my right hand quickly struck its belly with a blow.
The power of the Liujia Yangshen blasted it away! I hastily stood up. Wanting to take out another talisman from my bag to pursue and attack, but just at this moment, that male fox spirit grasped my hand with precision, using force to pull me backwards!
I felt like my right hand was going to be twisted off, and I couldn't help but let out a miserable cry. Before I knew it, I didn't think too much in the midst of the crisis, I just knew that if my right arm broke, there would really be no hope left, so I don't know where I got the endurance from, but I gritted my teeth and quickly reached into my bag with my left hand, not caring what I grabbed, pulled it out and slapped it onto the Night Fox that was grabbing my arm, shouting "Hurry up and follow the law!!"
Heaven forbid that what I bring out is either the "Ding You Wen Gong Lu Fu" or the "Jia Shen Wen Chang Zhu Xie Fu"!!
Fortunately, Heaven seems unwilling to destroy me, that talisman is 'Jia Wu Yu Qing Po Sha Fu'.
Only then did the male night fox let out a mournful cry and release my right hand, jumping backwards. He landed beside the female night fox that had flown out earlier. My seal had hit the paw that was grasping my arm, it seemed that paw was now useless.
In just one round, we seemed evenly matched, but that vixen actually stood up again. She looked at her belly which had been blasted into a small hole by the curse, then turned to look at the little night fox who was still trembling slightly. Gnashing her teeth, she grasped the skin near the small hole with her hand and let out a pained cry as she twisted the skin on her belly into a small bundle, like a dumpling, blocking the hole.
As I watched her terrifying behavior, cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and I felt like the hair in my hat was soaked with sweat. We were both injured, but I seemed to be in a more miserable state. I panted heavily, my back had fallen into the snow earlier, and the snow had poured into my damaged down jacket. My back seemed to have lost all feeling. Moreover, my right hand now hurt even when I moved it slightly, but I felt that it hadn't been broken, apparently the muscles in my arm were strained. The entire arm was trembling involuntarily.
What can I do? To know that my right hand is temporarily almost unusable, and just now I had a fight with that unlucky kid Yi Xinxing, and now I'm both tired and cold, my physical strength is almost at its limit, and once again I feel like I'm going to die. Damn it, this is really torturing me.
But I couldn't just wait to die, ah, got it, Yi Xin Xing!! This seemingly brainless person must still be waiting stupidly for me, this cannon fodder, to lure these monsters back. Since my right hand is now useless, I don't have much combat power left, and can only place my hopes on him.
But how can I get them to come over? It seems that if I shout loudly, he will also hear it, but when I came, I saw him tying something on the tree, probably some kind of formation in "San Qing Qi Men", if I call him over, the formation he set up will be basically scrapped.
I have to say, although I've only met him once and think he's a bit unreliable, but I still have confidence in the "Three Clear Book". I know that the Qimen technique must have some mysterious moves that can capture them, of course, this is also a gamble.
At this point, I decided to take the initiative and delay for a while to create an opportunity for my brother to escape, so I quickly drew out two talismans with my left hand and threw them at the two of them.
By the way, my kite at that time was made of thick sketch paper, about 15 x 7 in size. Since the sketch paper is very thick, if there is no wind, it can basically be thrown out like a poker card.
They had just suffered from my talisman, so they didn't dare to be arrogant and each jumped out to avoid my talisman.
But this was just the beginning of my escape plan, watching them dodge my talisman, I quickly took out another talisman from my bag with two fingers and made a throwing gesture.
But this time I wasn't going to throw them, but at the little night fox in the distance. They saw me wanting to hurt their children and frantically rushed back to their children's side, trying to block my spell with their own bodies.
But how could I be so despicable? I just wanted to pretend and create some distance.
I see that the distance between us has been pulled apart once again, if I don't make a move now, when will I? Yi Xin Xing ah Yi Xin Xing, I hope you won't let me down!
So I immediately turned around and ran back, in my impression, the distance from here to Yixin Star's location is at most 50-60 meters. However, this extremely deep snowy ground is very difficult to walk on, and now I can only say that I am half-disabled, and can only run back and forth with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Ancestors above, bless the disciples to survive this time! Those two night foxes saw that I was using a trick, pretending to attack but actually wanting to escape. Suddenly furious, they no longer hesitated and quickly chased after me.
To know that I am a two-legged person, how can I outrun these monsters with hands and feet? Moreover, these two night foxes originally had no physical body, in the forest they could move freely without any obstacles, leaving no footprints in the snow.
Luckily, I was also prepared. As I ran away quickly, I stretched my left hand into the bag again and grabbed a handful of talismans, probably over ten, and scattered them behind me without looking back. At the same time, I pointed at the back with my fingers and shouted continuously: "Hurry up like the law!! Hurry up like the law!! Hurry up like the law!!"
I shouted for over a dozen times, and those two night foxes had just approached when they were forced back several steps by the talismans I scattered on the snowy ground. There were some non-aggressive talismans mixed in with them, anyway, it was enough to trigger a few of them.
I ran all the way, sprinkling the talismans behind me, until only one was left in my bag. I finally ran back to where I had been earlier, but all I saw on the snowy ground was Yixin Xing's small blue lantern, and there was no sign of Yixin Xing himself.
Damn it! He can't have run away, can he?!