Peach Blossom Land On Longyin Island Chapter 45

Does God exist?

“Why haven’t An Xiaoyu come back yet?” Anle wrapped herself tightly in a blanket, braved the fierce wind, walked to the door of the courtyard with difficulty, held on to the fence and looked out.

Without the moonlight, Longyin Village was shrouded in dark clouds. The two protruding hills of Maomao Mountain in the distance looked particularly tall in the dark night, with a strong sense of oppression. It was as if the always well-behaved cat suddenly turned into a ferocious tiger, opening its bloody mouth towards Longyin Village.

The sound of the wind seemed to wake up many villagers, and Anle saw faint lights constantly shining in the dark Longyin Village.Some bright lights were moving, as if some villagers were carrying lanterns and going out to check.

The uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense. Anle waited for a while, but there was still no sign of An Xiaoyu. Finally, he couldn’t hold back his anxiety, so he took a lantern and looked at Longyin Slope.

Every step was extremely difficult. Anle regretted that he had not become fat because his body, which was already too thin compared to his peers, was unable to withstand the strong wind.The lantern in his hand was blown and he ran straight behind him. After only a few steps, the candle in the lantern could not withstand the strong wind and went out without any surprise.

Anle didn’t care about lighting anymore, threw away the lantern, picked up a strong branch as a walking stick, and walked towards Longyin Slope step by step.

Could this wind have anything to do with An Xiaoyu and the others?Is it related to the Dragon King Statue?Such a coincidence made Anle, who had always believed in science, become superstitious. Could it be that just as it was written in the history of Longyin Village, they had angered the Dragon King and brought disaster.

Having said that, he has personally experienced the incredible thing of time travel. As a product of unnatural forces, he has always believed in science, which is ridiculous in itself.

Anle laughed at himself while moving forward on the branches with one foot deep and one foot shallow.Several times, Anle was almost knocked down by the wind.He walked against the wind. In his opinion, the strong wind seemed to be blowing from the direction of Longyin Slope. Every step he took, he had to resist the stronger obstruction from the wind, as if the Dragon King was blocking him.

What happened to the Dragon King Statue?

How is the Dragon King Temple?

How is An Xiaoyu?

Anle’s mind was filled with speculations about the Dragon King Temple.If this wind really comes from the Dragon King Temple, what are An Xiaoyu and Anshun at the center of the storm going through?

Come on, come on, why can’t you go faster!The distance that was usually not that far seemed like a chasm at the moment. Anle urged himself to move forward, but was trapped by his body’s inability.

The wind became stronger and stronger, threatening to sweep everything away.An Le had no time to think about anything else. He lowered his head and only focused on the road under his feet. After walking for an unknown amount of time, a faint howl of a wolf suddenly came from the howling wind.

“An Xiaojin?” Anle stopped and listened carefully, carefully identifying the sounds in the wind.After a long time, another weak wolf howl was carried by the wind.Anle felt happy and was sure that the voice came from An Xiaojin.

“An Xiaojin—” An Le shouted loudly, but the wind was even louder, and the wind blew him away as soon as he left his mouth.

Anle quickened his pace again, even though he had already used all his strength to resist the strong wind.

“An Xiaojin—” Even though the words fell apart, Anle still didn’t give up calling An Xiaojin.

“Ouch~” After a while, a clear wolf howl came, and then An Xiaojin’s tall, majestic wolf body broke into his sight.

An Xiaojin ran very fast. When he rushed in front of Anle, he lifted his front paws off the ground and straightened up his tall wolf body to grab Anle.An Le lay unsteadily on the ground, and An Xiaojin’s big head kept rubbing against his neck.An Le pushed An Xiaojin’s heavy body away and struggled to stand up, while asking in a stern tone: “Where is An Xiaoyu?”

An Xiaojin hummed a few times while squeezing into An Le’s arms. Under An Le’s increasingly urgent urging, he reluctantly whined toward the way he came.

An Le immediately breathed a sigh of relief, hugged An Xiaojin, rubbed An Xiaojin’s huge wolf body, and coaxed: “It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s just a typhoon, it’s just a typhoon…”

Knowing that An Xiaoyu was fine, Anle was relieved and sat in the middle of the road waiting for An Xiaoyu.But after a long time, An Xiaojin and Anshun did not appear.

Anle became anxious again.

“Xiaojin, Xiaojin,” Anle opened the wolf’s head that was close to An Xiaojin and coaxed softly, “Go and see where they are? Go and find An Xiaoyu.”

An Xiaojin groaned and refused to leave Anle’s arms.

Anle wanted to sigh. The atmosphere between him and An Xiaoyu was a bit strange during this period, so much so that An Xiaojin was always hostile to An Xiaoyu.

“Xiao Jin,” An Le continued to coax softly, “go and find An Xiaoyu. Don’t let me worry.”

An Xiaojin reluctantly left Anle’s arms, turned towards the way he came from and howled again.Not long after, An Xiaoyu’s erratic voice came from the wind: “Xiao Jin?”

Anle’s heart fell back into his stomach again, and he stood up and looked at the road ahead.

Not long after, An Xiaoyu’s striding figure appeared in Anle’s field of vision.The strong wind blew An Xiaoyu’s fur coat and long hair roughly, flying towards Anle’s face.

“An Le?!” At the same time An Le saw An Le, An Xiaoyu also saw An Le, running quickly with open arms pushed by the strong wind.When An Le rushed to An Le, he didn’t stop. As soon as An Xiaoyu hugged An Le, he was blown down by the wind and fell on An Le.

Anle, who was already unsteady on his feet, swayed a few times and then sat down, his whole body pushed to the ground.

Anle: “…” Fortunately, the wind is strong, otherwise, how many pieces would this butt break into today?

An Xiaoyu still maintained the posture of hugging An Le. When he fell to the ground, one arm acted as a cushion for An Le’s head.The two lay on the ground, looking at each other, frozen for a moment.

An Xiaoyu explained awkwardly: “I…didn’t stop…”

He was so close that An Xiaoyu almost talked in his ear. Anle pushed An Xiaoyu’s chest and muttered: “I know, I know, get up quickly.”

“Ouch!” An Xiaojin seemed dissatisfied with An Xiaoyu pressing down on Anle, biting An Xiaoyu’s hem to pull him up.

An Xiaoyu didn’t move, looked at Anle and said, “Anle, we found the map.”

Anle was stunned for a moment, unable to explain what he was feeling. The disappointment overwhelmed everything: “It’s good.” After a while, he remembered that the two of them were still lying on the ground, and said again: “Get up quickly.”

“You two…” Before the two of them got up, Anshun said hesitantly, “We haven’t seen each other for a while, haven’t we?”

Anle: “…….”

Anle stood up, patted the mud on his butt, and said, “I just fell down because I didn’t want to. Let’s go back first.”

When I went back, I was almost pushed by the wind. On the way, I met several villagers who were looking for the village chief Anmu.Anle learned from Anshun that this was the first time Longyin Village had encountered such bad weather, at least in Anshun’s eighteen years of life.For no reason, Anle remembered the heavy rain he read in the book that recorded Long Yin’s past. That rainstorm ended with the villagers worshiping the Dragon King.

Is this typhoon related to the destruction of the Dragon King Statue?Anle couldn’t help but come up with this idea again.

“What happened to you at the Dragon King Temple?” Anle asked impatiently after returning home.

“Do you also suspect that this wind is related to us breaking the Dragon King statue?” Anshun asked.

“I don’t know, I don’t really believe in ghosts and gods.” Anle said honestly: “Maybe it’s just a coincidence. What happened to you at the Dragon King Temple?”

An Xiaoyu and Anshun looked at each other, and An Xiaoyu said: “After we arrived, we replaced the Dragon King statue with the new Dragon King statue, smashed the Dragon King statue in the yard, and the bamboo tube containing the map fell out of the Dragon King statue. The map was in the bamboo tube.” With that, An Xiaoyu came out of the bamboo tube.He took out a cowhide map from his pocket and handed it to Anle. While Anle was looking at the map, he continued: “Then, we threw the Dragon King fragments from the top of the mountain into the sea. When we were about to come back, the wind suddenly picked up. During this period, it was only half a cup of tea.”

Longyin Island on the map is just a small dot on the vast sea. The mainland is far away. On the east side of Longyin Island, the name of the continent marked on the map is Yongguo.

“Yongguo?” Anle murmured, frowning and thinking for a long time, then shook his head, “It’s not my world.” Although he had expected it, he was still inevitably disappointed.

Anle looked at Anshun and said, “Anshun, the outside is not my hometown, Anle…he is not in this world.”

Anshun was silent for a long time and said: “The map is only a small part of the world.”

Anle sighed softly and stopped trying to persuade him.Perhaps as An Xiaoyu said, for him, staying here without doing anything is a kind of torture.

“I’m going back first.” Anshun said, “Mianmian, Maizi slept at my place tonight. I should be worried if you can’t find her.”

An Le nodded, put away the map, gave it back to An Xiaoyu, and said, “I’m going to Grandpa An’s house.”

An Xiaoyu said: “I’ll be with you -”

“No need.” An Le interrupted An Xiaoyu, looked at him and said warmly: “Go and see if your parents need help. Stay with Su Su.”

When An Le arrived at the village chief An Mu’s house, the previous villagers were coming out of An Mu’s house. They hurriedly said hello to An Le and left without stopping.

Several people’s words were heard in the wind, as if they were preparing to inform every household to prepare for the storm.

Anle went directly into the study. The window was open, and Anmu, wearing a mink fur coat, was looking out the window intently.The cold wind howled, and there was muffled thunder in the distance, as if it was going to rain.

Facing the window is the silhouette of Longyin Slope in the thick night.

“Grandpa An,” Anle closed the window and said, “You will get sick if the wind blows like this.”

Anmu sighed deeply, looked at Anle, and said, “Where do you think the wind comes from?”

“On the sea.” Anle avoided looking and said calmly: “There is sea on all sides, so it is normal to have typhoons.”

Anmu stood up holding on to the armrest of the chair, walked slowly to the bookshelf, took out a book from it, and said slowly: “In the summer and July of the 15th year of Longyin, Longyin Village suffered four consecutive days of heavy rain. The seawater poured in and the rainstorms continued. The houses in Longyin Village collapsed and the fields were destroyed. When the villagers were desperate, they rebuilt the Dragon King Temple and prayed for the Dragon King’s protection..The village head An Shui personally made a statue of the Dragon King and led a total of 318 men, women and children in the village to worship the Dragon King.After the rain, the people of Longyin Village expressed their gratitude to the Dragon King and promised to stay in Longyin Island to worship the Dragon King sincerely.From then on, the weather in Longyin Village was good, and there were no natural disasters.

Anle has naturally read the history of Longyin Village that Anmu mentioned. He even copied this book not long ago.Just as he thought when he first saw it, now he still thinks it’s just a coincidence.

He is an atheist. There is no God in the world. The so-called appearances of gods and Buddhas are just illusions caused by a series of coincidences.

“It took a long time to build the Dragon King statue from scratch. At that time, An Shui had no time to build a new Dragon King statue, so he repaired the original broken Dragon King statue and led the villagers to worship the Dragon King.” An Mu closed the book, looked at Anle, and asked, “Do you think this record is true?”

“The heavy rain may be true, and it may be true that the rain stopped after worshiping the Dragon King.” Anle looked back at Anmu calmly and said, “But I still think that God does not exist.”

“Why?” Anmu’s eyes were gentle, “How do you prove that God does not exist?”

Anle was speechless and opened his mouth for a while before saying, “Isn’t this natural? There has never been evidence of the existence of God in the history of mankind.”

“This does not prove that God does not exist.”

An Le was silent for a moment, then asked: “Does Grandpa An believe that there are gods, Buddhas and ghosts in the world?”

Anmu shook his head and said: “I believe there are forces in this world that humans don’t understand. Because they don’t understand them, humans regard them as the power of gods, Buddhas and ghosts.”

An Le didn’t know why, so he asked again: “Grandpa An, do you think the wind today is because of the Dragon King?”

Anmu asked, “What do you think?”

Anle frowned slightly and said: “Wind, rain, thunder and lightning are all natural phenomena. Wind is the product of air pressure differences and is not controlled by humans.”

The sound of rain came, and the rainstorm was coming.Anle subconsciously looked at the window and murmured: “The wind will bring rain. This is normal.”

Anmu walked to the door, opened the door, and stopped under the eaves.It was windy and rainy outside, the thunder was deafening, the rain was pouring, and the wind was unabated.

“If the rain continues at this intensity and doesn’t stop tomorrow night, Longyin Village will be in danger of being flooded,” An Mu said.

Anle came to Anmu and asked, “Do you want to transfer the villagers?”

Anmu looked at Longyin Slope from a distance and said: “People can move, but Longyin Village cannot move. It is the cold winter. Without Longyin Village’s reserves, it will be difficult to survive this winter.”

An Le said: “There are many caves on the mountain that can be used. The reserves can be transferred as much as possible. If there is no food, we can still hunt and fish. We can always survive the winter.”

Anmu nodded slightly and said: “The hunting team has organized the villagers to prepare. But we all hope that it will not reach that point. This is the first time a natural disaster has occurred in Longyin Village since Longyin 15 years ago. How is the Dragon King Statue?”

“Grandpa An…you…all know?” It was a bit surprising but not too surprising. Anle had always felt that nothing could be hidden from Grandpa An in the village, but Grandpa An pretended not to know.

“I broke the Dragon King statue into pieces and found the map. I threw the fragments of the Dragon King into the sea.” An Le said.

Anmu glanced sideways at Anle, then suddenly smiled and sighed.

Anle lowered his head and said nothing.After a moment, An Mu laughed and said: “At that time, you said you wanted to learn how to make clay sculptures, so I only taught you how to make clay sculptures. But making Buddha statues is different from making clay sculptures. Making Buddha statues requires more steps than making Buddha statues.”

“What’s the difference?” Anle said, “I think they all look the same.”

An Mu said: “The statue is the carrier of faith. What people worship is not the body of the clay sculpture, but the gods and Buddhas who reside in the statue.”

Anle looked at Anmu in confusion and asked again: “Is there really a god?”

Anmu shook his head and said: “I don’t know. But when human beings are in an unsolvable dilemma, facing forces beyond human cognition, and when human beings are powerless, they can only turn to God for help; when a person falls into despair, he will hope that God exists and hope to pray for God’s mercy. One hundred yearsThe people of Longyin Village in the past had no choice but to ask God for help.Six months ago, a doctor who only believed that medical skills could save people went to pray to God when she was faced with a child without a pulse.If she didn’t believe in the existence of God, then who was she praying to when she knelt in the temple and begged?”

An Le was speechless for a long time.

After a loud noise, an extremely bright purple lightning appeared like a vine over the black Longyin Slope. It quickly extended around like a branch that had absorbed enough power, and the dazzling light illuminated the entire Longyin Island.

After a long silence, Anle said: “What step is missing?”

“Consecration and finishing touch.”