Dwarf

  I picked up the kasaya, ready to put it on and return to the real space. The coffin kept reminding me that I had to wrap my whole body, otherwise I would end up like him with only a head left.

  I nodded to him, indicating that I understood. Unfolding the Buddhist robe, the coffin was biting my clothes with its teeth. I covered myself from head to toe with the robe, and in my mind, I was thinking about what kind of scene it would be when I took off the robe later.

  "It's almost done." The coffin in my arms said.

  I pulled off the cassock, but everything in front of me didn't change, still that golden world. I lowered my head to look at the coffin, and he also looked at me innocently, his eyeballs rolling back and forth, as if indicating that he didn't know what was going on either.

  "I clearly saw Pong Pong disappear, and my body also disappeared, so why can't it be done this time?"

  With my limited knowledge level, I couldn't explain it either, just then, that dwarf appeared.

  "What are you doing?"

  "Can't you just stop suddenly appearing from behind people? Does that make any sense?" I was extremely angry.

  "Haha, it's been many years, no one would dare speak so loudly to me."

  "Where did you go just now? What have you done, why can't we leave this place?"

  "Leave here, why? Is this place not good? No birth no death, no old age no illness."

  "But nothing will change here, why don't you say so? Right, who are you anyway?"

  "I'm just a person who forgot his name. I just hope someone will accompany me and chat with me here."

  "Is it just because of this that you've left my head behind?" The coffin suddenly shouted out loud.

  "Isn't this great? It makes you forget a lot of troubles."

  "Damn it."

  "What does BT mean?"

  The coffin no longer spoke.

  "How can we get out of here?" I asked

  The man didn't say a word, turned around and walked slowly. I watched him for a while before realizing he wanted us to follow him. So I picked up the head of the coffin, grabbed the Buddhist robe and followed behind him.

  There was a wall without any golden light, the dwarf fumbled around for a while and then opened a secret door, but it was only his height. I could only crouch down to walk through. Inside, I saw a very delicate room, suddenly reminding me of hobbits' houses, I had to lower my head in order to move around inside.

  "The room is simple, I hope you can forgive me."

  I didn't know what to say, so I just nodded in agreement. As soon as the sound stopped, the door behind me closed.

  At this time, outside the door, we didn't know that a strange phenomenon had appeared. At the place where the coffin's head and body were broken, the golden light disappeared. First, the grass on the ground withered away, slowly spreading out in a circular shape, and everything disappeared wherever it went, revealing only the black earth.

  "May I ask your name, sir?" I knew I had to be polite with this eccentric person.

  "I've said it before, but I forgot my name, so just call me a mortal being."

  "When did you arrive here, Na Chen?"

  "I don't remember clearly, it was probably the day this tower collapsed, but my memories before that are already vague. I still recall Old Man Jiang fishing by the river and drinking with me, Wu Mei was just a naughty girl back then."

  Normally, I would have slapped him for saying something like this, it's completely nonsense. But at this moment and place, I had no choice but to believe what he said. The coffin seemed to still hold a grudge against him for snatching its body, not saying a word, perhaps thinking of ways to escape.

  That worldly person sat in front of us with a smile on his face:

  "Looking at your two attire is strange, I don't know what era it is now?"

  "It is now 2009 AD, we are from Xingtai, and today is a socialist construction regime."

  I know he doesn't understand a word, but I want to use this to confuse him and let him know that Laozi is not given in vain.