#987 - Chapter 987: No Going, No Coming
“Monka, have them all change their forms. The height should not exceed the height of a normal person, and the appearance and clothing are up to you. In short, each one must look like a normal person,” Dongfang Chen Er instructed.
He was afraid of scaring the two children.
“Okay!” Monka silently issued the order.
After receiving the order, the Transformers behind them first split to reduce their volume, and then constructed lifelike people by controlling the metal shape and color of the surface.
In the end, 100 Transformers were forcibly split into 3,200 people.
“Let’s go, let’s go take a look.” Ling Hao raised his foot and walked forward.
The Transformers behind him were like bronze men, following behind.
Their movements were actually very natural, but for some reason, they just looked very strange, like a group of simpletons.
“Hello, two little friends.” Dongfang Chen Er tried his best to squeeze out a smile and asked very kindly.
“Who are you? Where did you come from?” one of the children asked.
“We came from a very far place and got lost here. Can you tell me, where is this?” Dongfang Chen Er said with a smile.
“Are you from the outside world?” the child asked.
“You know about the outside world?” Dongfang Chen Er was a little surprised.
He thought it would be very backward here.
“Yes, I know. Grandpa said that people from the outside world might come recently, and asked us to take them back to the village when we meet them,” the child replied.
“Is that so?” Dongfang Chen Er was shocked.
He didn’t expect that in this small world, submerged under the sea for hundreds of years, there would still be such an expert.
“Of course, you can come with me.” The child waved his hand and walked upstream along the bank of the stream.
From behind, the two little guys showed two pairs of snow-white butt cheeks, wiggling as they walked, gentlemanly and cute.
“Let’s go, let’s go see their grandpa,” Dongfang Chen Er said to Monka.
“Why don’t you stay here, and I’ll go take a look?” Monka stopped him.
She had already been traumatized by Guiguzi and was afraid that another omniscient old man would appear.
“No need. They have no malice.” Dongfang Chen Er waved his hand.
Monka no longer insisted, and the group followed behind, slowly walking towards the village.
“Attain utmost emptiness, maintain utter stillness; as myriad things act together, I thereby observe their return.”
“For things abound, each returns to its root.”
“Returning to the root is called stillness; stillness is called returning to life.”
“Returning to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment. Not knowing the constant, reckless action leads to ill.”
“Knowing the constant allows for acceptance, acceptance leads to impartiality, impartiality leads to universality, universality leads to heaven, heaven leads to the Tao, the Tao leads to permanence, freedom from danger throughout life.”
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As soon as they entered the village, they heard loud reading sounds.
This was actually a very ordinary village, mostly made up of adobe thatched houses. This kind of architectural style could only be seen in feudal societies.
“You wait here, I’ll go in and report.”
After arriving in the middle of the village, the child greeted them and ran towards a house.
“Grandpa, grandpa, we have guests.”
Soon, an old man with a white beard walked out.
Looking at his face, he actually looked very similar to Guiguzi.
Both had large foreheads and curved chins.
His cunning little eyes blinked, making him look very wretched.
“Be careful, this old man is probably not a good person.” Monka whispered a reminder in Dongfang Chen Er’s ear.
“Yeah.” Dongfang Chen Er nodded.
“Hahaha, it is a great pleasure for this humble Taoist to have guests from afar!” the old man said with a smile.
Looking at his body, he was very strong.
“I wonder, sir, how did you know we were coming?” Dongfang Chen Er asked.
“This humble Taoist knows everything under heaven.”
“Tch! Here we go again!” Monka glanced at him.
“You are Monka, aren’t you? It seems you have a deep prejudice against this humble Taoist.” The old man looked at Monka and asked with a smile.
“What is your relationship with that Guiguzi?” Monka, no longer surprised, pointed at him and asked sharply.
“He is this humble Taoist’s junior brother,” the old man replied.
“Then what is your name?” Monka asked.
“This humble Taoist is Ling Xu Zi,” the old man replied.
“Sounds fake!” Monka crossed her arms and said no more.
“Mr. Ling Xu Zi, since Guiguzi is your junior brother, presumably you know him very well?” Dongfang Chen Er asked.
“I know, and I don’t know,” Ling Xu Zi replied.
Dongfang Chen Er didn’t mind his nonsense answer and continued to ask:
“Then do you also come from the outside world?”
“I come from everywhere and nowhere,” Ling Xu Zi replied.
“Dongfang Chen Er, forget it, let’s go. There’s no way to talk to this kind of old man.” After hearing his words, Monka didn’t even have the desire to scold him.
In her opinion, could this be called talking? This is like sticking green onions up a pig's nose, pretending to be an elephant.
“Ling Xu Zi, you don’t have to pretend to be an aloof expert. Just say what your purpose is.” Dongfang Chen Er also couldn’t listen anymore.
