Chapter 1072: Sin and Punishment
The Symbols formed by white light were carved into the ground after moving to their respective areas. Feichi and the snakes still ran back and forth.
Chi Feichei continued doing questions... drawing Symbols.
Feimo is Greed.
The Sin of Greed refers to possessing more than needed, excessively pursuing superiority in money or power. In legend, crows are also creatures symbolizing 'Greed'.
Feimo, this crow like the wind, also led a group of subordinates to robbery everywhere before settling down. Afterwards, it continuously expanded its team. Robbery is also very common for crows.
On Tuanzi and Jubei's side, it was Wrath.
The Sin of Wrath refers to punishment originating from hatred.
Tuanzi hates people who destroy its pre-arranged plans. Jubei hates the enemy who killed his child and attempts to enact punishment.
Actually, everyone has more or less many original sins. Even avenging one's child is somewhat excusable. But since it's been passed down as a 'sin' to this day, then let it be a 'sin'.
Although he is more inclined to think this is a manifestation of another personality, it also currently represents strength.
The Seven Deadly Sins have corresponding Demon Gods and strange creatures. For him and the creatures corresponding to the Seven Sins, even gaining a small part of their strength is a good thing, like pie falling from the sky.
Fei Li is Envy.
The Sin of Envy refers to harboring resentment because the other party possesses more possessions than oneself.
Regardless of whether it was due to discrimination or unfairness, it is a fact that Fei Li left the pod because other orcas received more attention, recognition, food, and praise than she did.
Nameless is Pride.
The Sin of Pride refers to expecting excessive attention or affection from others, yet harboring contempt.
Cats are somewhat arrogant creatures. If not towards their master, then towards others. While craving the affection of others, they also show contempt, entirely depending on their mood whether they'll deign to let someone touch them.
Nameless had already committed this sin repeatedly when deceiving others for food while despising them.
Joshua is 'Lust'.
Actually, in the early days, 'Lust' referred to the Sin of 'Unchastity'.
Initially, it referred to excessively adoring the world and demeaning God's love for the world. Probably because this statement was a bit excessive, afterwards it became 'betrayal and unchastity'.
Before meeting him, Joshua had committed the Sin of 'excessively adoring the world'. After meeting him, it was betraying his original faith, being unchaste towards his faith and his own history of over sixty years.
Even if faith abandoned Joshua first, Joshua did not treat it as a test, but instead questioned and betrayed it by turning to another faith. That is 'Unchastity'.
The seven Symbols were successively carved into the ground. The surrounding area changed again. Scenes like a movie were projected above the seven Symbols.
In the scene on Joshua's side, a baby was born crying, then grew up little by little, becoming a man dressed as a priest, going in and out of the church.
Like a time silhouette, the priest went from a young man with brown hair, blue eyes, and a handsome face, to a middle-aged man with a beard and gentle gaze, and then to an old man with gradually whitening hair and wrinkles on his face. The church he went in and out of also slowly became magnificent, finally reaching the Holy Land of the Church.
In the silent and rapidly flashing scene, Joshua's hair became whiter, and the wrinkles on his face deepened. In the magnificent great hall, he put on a red robe. The faces of the people in the surrounding area, however, changed from joy to astonishment and anger.
A broken staff appeared next to Joshua's foot. Afterwards, he said something angrily, left the magnificent great hall alone, and went to a simple residence alone again. It was also a time silhouette of going in and out, representing the twilight years of being alone.
On a certain day, a group of people appeared outside the door.
The door was locked. Inside the room was full of flame and smoke and dust. Joshua, much older than at present, raised a hand to knock on the door. The black smoke reddened his eyes. The black smoke left deep black marks in his wrinkles.
Afterwards, Joshua, holding onto the door, fell to the ground and was swallowed by the flame little by little.
On Tuanzi and Jubei's side, the scene showed two little black bears running in the forest, snuggling with their mother, growing up little by little. Afterwards, one little black bear fell to the ground with a blood hole on its body and was dragged away by a human carrying a hunting rifle. The other little black bear dodged aside, trembling. After discovering the hunting rifle aiming over, it fled in panic into the forest.
The scene flashed just as quickly. The little bear that ran back to the cave looked up and whimpered towards its mother. The mother bear left. The little bear stayed inside the cave, eating, drinking, and sleeping, waiting at the cave entrance. Outside, the seasons rotated, but clearly, its mother never came back.
The little bear hunted for itself, ate fiercely, and its size grew bigger and bigger. In a certain winter, when it woke up hungry and went out to hunt, it found a black mass lying on the snowy field.
The black bear initially thought it was a fellow creature, and ran up. But it found that it was a human. It bared its teeth and grinned next to the human in anger, sniffed the dying human up close, but still only stuck out its tongue to lick the other party awake, then lay down on the snowy field aside.
Seeing this, Chi Feichei already knew that this surviving lone bear was Jubei.
Indeed, a splash of blood landed on the snowy field, melting the white snow. The black bear, with one eye bleeding, fled towards the deep forest.
The snowy field turned into grassland where wild grass sprouted again. The wild grass grew vigorously and wildly, then gradually turned yellow little by little, and was covered by snow again. A hunter began to appear frequently in the forest. Upon seeing the one-eyed black bear in the outer perimeter of the forest, he fired his hunting rifle as a warning.
The black bear turned its head and ran away every time. But the human and the bear seemingly developed a tacit understanding. The hunter would not injure the bear, and the bear would not injure the hunter. The human would lead other hunters in the outer perimeter of the forest in a different direction. The bear would also intercept dangerous animals in advance when they approached the hunter, kill them, throw them in the original place, run over to provoke the hunter a bit to make him shoot and scare it, then turn its head and run away again.
In the flowing time silhouette, the bear had its own children. The hunter turned his head and saw the big black bear going out with two little bears, and grinned happily.
Afterwards, the corpse of a little bear was hung on the tree. The black bear chased all the way, smelling the scent of its other child and the human scent on the dead little bear's body.
Chi Feichei also saw Conan and others. Even if it was just a flash, this time the black bear faced the hunting rifle and charged. Afterwards, the police arrived, and the black bear took the little bear to the deep forest.
But the scene flow was not yet finished:
The black bear raised the little bear little by little. The little bear, grown into a big young bear, ran around in the forest as well. The seasons rotated, and then it died under the hunting rifle.
Afterwards, the one-eyed black bear also fell under the muzzle. While it was dying, its abdomen was dissected...
Chi Feichei looked around. The other scenes were the same. They were the lifetimes of these creatures under circumstances without his participation.
On Feimo's side, a baby crow with red eyes hatched. It grew up with other crows. It looked no different from other crows. Just that as the seasons rapidly rotated, other crows were replaced batch after batch, but it still lived.
Its age was that of the oldest among the old crows. After the baby crows it had taken care of grew up, they would bring it food and help it build a nest.
The stunned look in the crow's red eyes gradually turned deep. It no longer flew among the crow group as it did previously. It often stood alone in a high place, looking into the distance in a daze.
Finally, it still flew away, leaving the flock.
The scene flashed through season changes, and also flashed through place after place, and group after group of crows of varying size or physique.
The red-eyed crow continuously flew away, stayed, and flew away. The world it experienced was also undergoing transformation. High-rise buildings rose one after another, then turned into high-rise buildings of unknown material, and small transportation flying in the air.
Soon, the metal things in the air gradually became fewer and disappeared. The creatures the crow saw gradually underwent transformation.
Strange and tall fruit trees, farmed animals of unknown kind, humans who walked normally but when they lifted their hair, there was a display screen behind their head...
Koizumi Akako happened to also see Feimo's scene there, and was a bit astonished. "Just how long can Feimo live?"
The next second, Feimo was caught by the light net, then entered the oil pot...
Chi Feichei: "..."
Which genius was it, not even letting the crow go!
But looking at the deep-fried Feimo, he actually felt...
It looked quite delicious.
Feimo's scene here terminated. The scene returned to the time when the baby crow with red eyes was born, repeating Feimo's lifetime that was ultimately deep-fried again.
Koizumi Akako suppressed the speechless feeling in her heart and looked towards the scene on the other side.
The scene had no sound. Even if there was sound, she wouldn't understand it. But it could be seen that it was the lifetime of a baby orca.
Growing up in the orca pod, leaving the pod, staying in the bay, then leaving again, swimming all the way. It was all ocean scenes. Then it got lost, was stranded in the ice and snow, and was frozen little by little...
On the other side, a white cat was born, taken home by humans, snuggling with a young woman in the sun, lying at home secretly peeking at the entrance, waiting for the woman to come back. Afterwards, it was abandoned and wandered, and was accidentally run over by a speeding car during a playful chase.
Koizumi Akako did not look at that bloody scene again. She pondered a bit and found that there seemingly was a pattern within. "Child of Nature, you seemingly..."
Chi Feichei nodded. "I answered correctly."
"I remember..." Koizumi Akako recalled and took stock. "The Punishment for the Sin of Unchastity is being suffocated in sulfur and flame, same as Joshua; the Punishment for the Sin of Wrath is live dismemberment, same as Jubei; the Punishment for the Sin of Greed is being tormented in oil. Feimo was indeed deep-fried; the Punishment for the Sin of Envy is being thrown into ice water. Fei Li was stranded on a glacier..."
Chi Feichei: "..."
Fei Li's weird sense of direction attribute is worrying.
Even if it has already met him, it is still possible to run away to weird places and get stranded.
"Nameless's Sin of Pride is Breaking Wheel; the Punishment for the Sin of Sloth is..." Koizumi Akako paused a bit, looked towards the direction engraved with the 'Sloth' Rune. "Thrown into the snake pit."
Amidst the misery and sorrow, Feichi's scene occupied two slots, and moreover, it was out of style with the other scenes.
The Punishment for the Sin of Sloth is being thrown into the snake pit.
The Punishment for the Sin of Gluttony is being forced to eat rats, toads, and snakes.
In the scene, Feichi, who was not bought by humans, was sent to a dilapidated and narrow breeding base. Feichi seemingly decided not to yield to the 'Small Loach' diet anymore, and began to slip out to steal food. Today it would go steal rats to eat, in a couple of days it would go steal pet frogs to eat, and after a while it would go steal newly born small snakes to eat... It was like eating with bloodshot eyes, and also like opening the door to a new world. Its diet became wider and wider the more it ate. After eating, it would run away to take a bath, return to the snake pit to pretend to be innocent, nap, sleep, and act obedient.
Once seeing Feichi's scene, the feeling was that the style of the entire space was led astray. It could be named "The Lifetime of a Green Tea Foodie Snake", "As a Snake, My Diet Is Super Broad", "Feichi Big Shot's Monologue: The Lifetime of a Snake Lies in Eating, Drinking, Pooping, Peeing, and Sleeping"...