Text-savvy, explore the copy

Chapter 36 Animal Society

Commentary on the "Don't Eat Sutra"

Zhuang Cai closed the scripture in his hand.

The reason why he read this scripture was because the annotations on it clearly stated that it was done by the previous generation of temple abbots.

The name is equally strange, called Ping Ya Jin.

The pig-headed Buddha statue they saw in the main hall was presided over by this previous generation.

It's strange, but it's not the same world after all, so naturally it can't be understood with the same Buddhist concepts.

The place where he is now is the seven-story pagoda at the end of the entire temple. The lower two floors of the entire pagoda are used to place some monk statues that are about the size of heads.

The upper part is used to put some annotations on scriptures, and it seems that the above annotations and various scriptures are original.

Zhuang Cai simply looked at these scriptures and then returned to the bottom.

The circular room is surrounded by statues, large and small.

There are some notes below these statues, and it seems that these monks and Buddha statues have names.

Leaving the pagoda, we came to the main entrance of the main hall.

Nan Subei was already sitting on a futon, holding his head, thinking about something.

He turned around when he heard footsteps and saw Zhuang Cai walking in.

"Where is Monk Wu Nian?" Zhuang Cai asked.

Nan Subei shook his head. He didn't see it elsewhere.

However, as soon as he finished shaking his head, footsteps came from behind. The two of them looked around and saw Wu Nian, who was wearing a somewhat loose but obviously new monk's robe, walking towards them.

Looking at the two of them, he smiled with a round face and said: "I found some clothes. Although they don't fit well, this should be the smallest one."

When Nan Subei heard this, he suddenly smiled and said, "After all, the monks here are all pigs, hahaha."

Although I don’t know what the body shape of these pigs is, I guess they are not thin.

You can tell just by looking at the Buddha statues.

The three of them came together and sat in a circle on futons.

At this time, the sun was already hanging in the sky, and it was obviously noon.

This was exactly the time they agreed upon from the beginning.

"Let me talk about my discovery first." Wu Nian said, stretching out his hand from his sleeve.

In his hand was a yellow talisman with unintelligible characters written on it.

"I found this in a monk's room when I was looking for clothes that fit me. It was hidden among the clothes.

The kind that are stacked together and used as amulets. "

As he spoke, he shook the yellow talisman in his hand, which had obvious creases.

Nan Subei picked his head and asked with some confusion: "Is there anything strange about this talisman?"

"There is energy up there." Wu Nian said.

"Energy?" Zhuang Cai was a little confused.

Wu Nian nodded: "I have a piece of equipment that can make me more sensitive to energy than normal people.

There is energy left in this picture, and it is very obvious. If you pay attention carefully, you should be able to feel it. "

He looked at Zhuang Cai and said, then he handed the talisman directly over.

Zhuang took over after hearing this.

The light talisman paper fell on the palm of my hand. If I felt it carefully, I could really clearly feel that there was a vague feeling on it.

It's very abstract, but it should be what is called energy.

It was a bit like the speed seal he felt he had created.

He nodded: "I can definitely feel it."

"Why don't I feel it?" Nan Subei took the yellow talisman from Zhuang Cai and said with a frown.

Zhuang Cai thought for a moment and said, "Maybe you don't have energy-related skills."

Then he took the yellow talisman and gave it back to Wu Nian.

He could already understand the text on the yellow talisman, although the description method was a bit abstract, and some unknown symbols were also drawn.

But the meaning expressed in the font above should be "protect oneself and ward off evil spirits".      It is indeed like a talisman.

Wu Nian looked at the yellow talisman in his hand and said, "What I'm actually more curious about is, why would a monk hold a yellow talisman as a talisman?"

"?" Zhuang Cai and Nan Su Bei were a little confused.

The two of them didn't react for a moment.

"The yellow talisman should be used by Taoist priests, monks don't use this kind of thing." Wu Nian explained.

"Ah? I thought the monk also used a talisman." Nan Subei couldn't help but say.

Although they know in their minds that Taoist priests generally use yellow talismans, in reality they have also experienced things like monks selling talismans.

So I didn't notice the problem for a while.

Wu Nian just sighed after hearing this.

Zhuang Cai thought about it and said: "In other words, unless there is a background reason for this copy, there is a certain problem with the monk using the talisman as his own amulet."

Wu Nian nodded, that's what he meant.

"Let me tell you what I discovered." Nan Subei said with a smile, then took something out of his trouser pocket and placed it in front of the two of them.

Zhuang Cai looked at it: "What's the finger bone?"

It looks very slender, at least it doesn't look human.

Wu Nian picked it up and looked around: "Is this a tooth mark on it? It has been bitten by someone."

"Is that a tooth mark? I thought it was a mark from a bump." Nan Subei said.

This completely touched upon his knowledge blind spot.

Zhuang Cai also took it and looked at it, and then compared it with his index finger. One section longer than his index finger.

"It looks like an animal, but it's too big... You think, if this is a background world where animals are anthropomorphized.

This could be the finger bone of another orc. I found pictures of other orc species in a book. "

He has actually determined that the background of this world is not just a race of pigs, but there are definitely other races, because he has seen a brief introduction in the scriptures.

At least there will be sheep, rats, monkeys, and foxes.

And there are definitely more.

This is a world of animal anthropomorphism.

"Then what kind of animal bones are these?" Nan Subei asked.

Zhuang Cai shook his head, and Wu Nian also shook his head.

They don't have this knowledge.

"Amitabha." Wu Nian suddenly put his hands together and prayed.

Nan Subei also thought of something and said: "There are teeth marks on it, doesn't that mean..."

He stared at the two of them with wide eyes in surprise.

Wu Nian also nodded, but thought about it and said, "Maybe it's a hostile relationship like animals?"

Zhuang Cai shook his head: "No, I think the relationship between animal races may be more like the difference between human races.

The presence of a temple means that it must be civilized and such cannibalism should not happen. "

In addition to scriptures, Zhuang Cai also read some rosters. Through some patterns of names, he roughly understood that there were many people coming to worship.

Because the monks in the temple are all pig people, their names are usually a combination of teeth and fur.

But there are many other ways to name them, such as paws, hooves, feet, head and horns.

Obviously it doesn't fit in well with pig people.

Most of these names appear on some non-monastery lists, such as lists of worshipers or donations.

It can be seen that this should be a relatively peaceful society.

At least that's the current clue.

"This temple is not simple."

"To put it simply, it is not a copy."

(End of this chapter)