"What the hell is a Palm Chaser?" After Angu repeated this question for the fifteenth time, Lian Jiuqi, who had been in a daze, raised his head, but his eyes were full of fear.

Torrei was also puzzled: "What is the palm of the cargo?" ”

"The title of Zhangrong Merchant Division first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was a special unit in the Fangla Rebel Army, and they were mainly responsible for exploring intelligence as merchants, cargo chasers and other similar identities, and also collecting some rare treasures, but the purpose was not to collect military expenses, but to find some evil things to help the rebel army, and at the same time to fight the army of the government." Lian Jiuqi leaned against the wall and said, "I heard that the name Zhangrong was given by Fang La himself, and this army has also made outstanding achievements in intelligence, especially at the beginning, and the Zhangrong chasers also believe in Manichaeism, which is commonly known as Mingjiao, and Fang La's belief is also this, probably because the belief is the same, so it coincides." ”

Legend has it that because of the possession of this army of the Zhangrong Cargo Division, the Fangla Rebel Army was able to capture the sixty-two counties of Wuzhou in a short period of time, but this army was not included in the records of the Fangla Army, and it did not act with the army on weekdays, but only made a strategy, and never participated in any frontal battles.

Lian Jiuqi continued: "This army is actually no more than fifty people, except for a very few, most of the others are mediocre people in the cargo division, the cargo division is actually a relatively open and free profession, there is no strict requirement for religious beliefs and the like, and it does not require your superficial occupation, so some people are Taoist priests, monks, and even may be butchers. But the Zhangrong chasers are different, they require that they must believe in Manichaeism, serve the Manichaean prophets in eternal reincarnation, the rules and hierarchies are strict, and betrayal is never allowed, and everyone who joins the Zhangrong faction must have a palm tattooed on their bodies, which is completely different from the palm tokens carried by ordinary chasers. ”

Angu subconsciously looked down at the tattoo on his chest: "It turns out that he tattooed me with the mark of the Palm Rong Cargo Chaser, but he never said anything to me about Manichaeism or anything like that?" ”

Lian Jiuqi said: "According to your master, from the moment you were born, you were a member of the Great Manichaean Sect, don't forget, you are the son of Bohai." ”

An Gu was full of sorrow: "That...... What exactly is the difference between Manichaeism and Unified Manichaeism? ”

"In short, Manichaeism believes that light will definitely triumph over darkness, Ming refers to good and reason, and implicit refers to evil and desire, among which there are three worlds, that is, past, present and future, the original Manichaeism has absorbed many advantages of other religions, but the unified Manichaeism is different, they forcibly divide the original Manichaeism into the Ming Sect and the Dark Sect, the Ming Sect is the original Manichaeism, and the Dark Sect refers to them, although they also believe that the light must overcome the darkness, but before the light comes, they must hide in the dark, Use the power of darkness to control the light, and eventually achieve the goal of unifying the light and the darkness. Even Jiuqi spoke, with a panicked expression on his face, "The birth of the Great Unification Manichaeism was after the Zhangrong Chaser broke with Fang La, and they believed that Fang La should not chase the Central Plains, but should go west, to chase the steps of the prophet and complete the prophet's unfinished business. ”

After the Zhangrong Chaser made this request to Fang La, Fang La directly refused on the pretext that the time was not ripe, but because he was the leader of the Manichaeism in Zhejiang at that time, the Zhangrong Chaser had to endure in order not to apostasy, until he hit the city of Hangzhou, when Song Huizong wanted to recruit Fang La, but Fang La refused, but the commander of the Zhangrong Chaser at that time announced to his subordinates that Fang La had a heart to surrender, and the sect leader was guilty of apostasy and the congregation, so he led people to try to kidnap Fang La at night, and if the hijacking failed, he was killed on the spot.

However, the assassination force sent by the Zhangrong Cargo Division was found in Hangzhou that night, and all ten of them were killed, Fang La was furious, claiming that this scout force had been bought by the imperial court, and issued a holy order requiring them to all be rushed back to Hangzhou within five days, otherwise they would be regarded as traitors.

At that time, the other Zhangrong chasers outside did not dare to go back after getting the news, because going back would be a dead word, and most people also understood that they were at this point today, all of which were caused by the commander, and the reason why the commander did this was to force those Zhangrong chasers who originally continued to follow Fang La to set up another door.

Fang La did not accept Zhao'an, this is well known, the ten killers summoned by the commander were all bewitched by himself, if they can kill Fang La, they may have a chance to usurp power, and they can continue the following plan, that is, to go west and follow the prophet. On the contrary, if Fang La is not dead, he will inevitably exterminate the remaining Zhangrong Cargo Chasers, even if the remaining people say that Fang La has nothing to do with him, Fang La will not believe them, and the Zhangrong Chasers all know that going back is a dead end, so they must have to follow the leader to the dark.

This ploy is tantamount to forcing the rest of the people to get on the thief ship, and you have to get on it if you don't get it.

At the same time, after analyzing the current situation, the commander of the Zhangrong Chaser Division believed that Fang La would be defeated, and under the pretext that the prophet had entrusted him with a dream, knowing that Fang La's army would be defeated within two months, and asked them to set up another sect leader.

The other Commanders didn't believe it at first, but a few of the wise people immediately expressed their willingness to follow the Commander and make him their leader, and the reason why these people did so was because they had inquired about the news they had returned, and the situation they had analyzed, and they knew that Fang La would definitely be defeated.

A month later, Fang La's army and the Song army failed in the next battle in Hangzhou, and began to retreat, and the Song army was also overwhelmed, chasing and killing all the way, and after a few months, Fang La was captured alive, and the remaining more than 70,000 people were killed.

The commander of the Zhangrong Chaser Division was also very cautious, and it was not until he heard that Fang La had been killed that he announced that he had become the new sect leader, and on the grounds of Fang La's revenge, he ordered the rest of the people to contact the rebel army of Fang La who had fled everywhere, and use assassination methods to deal with the Northern Song Dynasty government.

After nearly a year of assassination, although it did not yield much success, it also bought the hearts and minds of the rebels, who were secretly hiding, to think that the new leader was benevolent and righteous.

At this time, the new leader took the opportunity to raise the banner of neo-Manichaeism, and called himself a secret sect, telling the followers that the previous method of fighting with the government would not work, and that they could only adopt the method of secret practice, and listed the examples of what they had done in the past year and the so-called results achieved, and gradually persuaded the followers.

Lian Jiuqi took the cold coffee and took a sip with difficulty: "From that time on, Neo-Manichaeism began to be born, and the first thing that this sect was born was to absorb qualified people as merchantists, and ordered those chasers to no longer worship the ancestor to solve the old life, but should turn to the Manichaean prophet......"

After the new leader announced this matter, even some people who had already joined the Zhangrong Chaser immediately quit, in the final analysis, these people originally joined the Fang La Army, hoping to overthrow the Northern Song Dynasty and seek benefits for the common people, even if it was involved in Manichaeism, it was also because of the freedom of the profession itself, and now the new leader announced it like this, which is tantamount to breaking the rules of the Chaser for a hundred years, and even the ancestor who everyone respects will not worship the old man, so what's the deal?

As a result, most of the Chasers began to leave the Merchant Sect, and the Protestant Leader was furious and declared that the other Chasers were heterogeneous Sectarians, and that the Chasers must disassociate themselves from the past and eradicate the Chasers who threatened them.

The new sect leader's approach not only aroused the dissatisfaction of the other cargo chasers, but even some factions in the rivers and lakes at that time were also quite dissatisfied, so they attacked them en masse, and it only took less than three days to drive the Zhangrong chasers and others directly from the gathering place.

From then on, the surviving Zhangrong Chaser began to go underground, completely hidden in the darkness.

Torreux asked, "So, the prophet here is actually referring to the Manichaean prophet?" ”

Lian Jiuqi shook his head: "Because in terms of time, these Bohai remnants migrated here after the fall of the Bohai Kingdom, and Neo-Manichaeism was born in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the tribute ship and the so-called prophet later came here at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, so it is not clear whether he was the real prophet of Manichaeism or was created by Neo-Manichaeism later, but I think it may be the latter." ”

Angu said: "You mean the prophet created by Neo-Manichaeism?" False prophets? ”

"I don't know if it's true or not, I can't make up my mind." Lian Jiuqi crossed his hands and ten fingers together, gave two thumbs up, pressed against his chest, and gently swiped upward, "This is called the seal of eternal life, which is claimed by the New Manichaean Prophet, but this seal was not available in the previous Manichaeism, and in addition, there is also the Seal of the Heart." ”

Lian Jiuqi raised the thumb of his right hand and gave his thumb up with his left hand, but wrapped his right hand, and then pointed the thumb of his left hand towards his heart: "This is called the Nian Xin Seal." ”

"Finally, there is the fiery gold seal." Lian Jiuqi spread out two palms, put his left hand on top of his right hand, and raised it in front of his forehead.

Angu suddenly said: "I know, the three seals are the abilities of the three prophets, one is to read minds, one is to bring the dead back to life, and the other is to turn iron into gold!" ”

Lian Jiuqi put down his hand and said, "Yes, that's right, I just saw the tattoo on your body, and I connected everything." ”

Angu suddenly realized: "It turns out that everything is related to Manichaeism. ”

"No, it should be Neo-Manichaeism." Lian Jiuqi analyzed, "I almost forgot, the necessary thing to be used by the cast iron immortal to make iron is fire, and Manichaeism advocates light, in ancient times, fire is the most important source of light in addition to the sun, maybe the cast iron fairy should have been the earliest missionary, do you know iron?" ”

Angu and Torret both shook their heads together.

Lian Jiuqi explained: "Iron iron is a kind of steel in ancient times, after polishing the surface and then treating it with corrosive agent, it can produce patterns, and guess where the origin of iron iron is?" ”

Angu thought for a moment and said, "Persia? Manichaeism was founded in Persia as well? ”

"That's right." Lian Jiuqi nodded and said, "And the introduction of iron into China was during the Tang Dynasty, but it was recorded in the Sui Dynasty, and the most important thing is that the Liao State, that is, the Khitan, once also offered iron knives to the Great Song Dynasty, so linking these together, I think that the cast iron immortal is very likely to be a Manichaean missionary, and the place of Khuhan City, maybe it was really the last place where the prophet appeared, after the fall of the Bohai Kingdom, some Bohai remnants came here to try to find the prophet, and some other Manichaean followers finally in the Northern Song Dynasty, Somehow got here, but as for what they came to do, maybe we can find out in Khuhan City. ”

An Gu thought for a while and said, "According to what you say, that Wu Zi'an, no, Qian Xiuye has revived the faction of the Zhangrong Cargo Division?" ”

Lian Jiuqi frowned and said: "I don't know, everything is unknown now, I also think that it is not an accident that he sent you here, there must be a premise and a plan, don't say it, it's too late, you should rest, good night, go to sleep." ”

Torree returned to the door with his crossbow and guarded, Angu fell to the ground, but did not close his eyes, although he said the truth that he had been concealing, his heart was finally a little lighter, but he did not expect that the next series of news would be so shocking.

What is the purpose of Qian Xiuye?

Even Jiuqi was thinking about this against the wall, although he was very tired, he couldn't sleep at all, he began to worry about Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong, he knew that the reason why these two pieces of old ginger wanted to rush back to China must have been to find out that the real culprit was Qian Xiuye, but could they succeed in catching him?

……

"Stop! Don't run! Dong Guozhi chased Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong who were running wildly in front of him in the back street, and Chen Fang followed closely behind, staring ahead, followed by four or five police officers.

Chen Fang watched Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong walking like flying on the icy road, the body and speed were simply weird, he couldn't imagine at all, how could these two old men, who were more than a hundred years old and close to two hundred years old, run so fast? The physical strength is at least dozens of times better than that of these young people.

"I'll go over there and block them!" Chen Fang suddenly stopped, pointed to another street, and chose two policemen behind him, "You and you, follow me!" ”

Dong Guozhi and Chen Fang acted separately and decided to block them at the next street entrance, but when Chen Fang ran to another street entrance, suddenly a person stood up and raised his fist to attack Chen Fang.

One of the police officers avoided it, and was directly punched in the face, and fell to the ground with a bang, and after the other person blocked the kick of the person, a grappling style locked the man's arm, but the man suddenly turned around, directly dislocated his left arm, and by inertia rotation, raised a kick and kicked the police officer's head, directly kicked him unconscious, and then leaned against the wall to connect the dislocated arm, moving his neck to stare at Chen Fang.

Chen Fang frowned and said, "Do you know what the consequences of attacking the police are?" ”

"If I get caught, I can tell the judge that I didn't know you were police officers and thought you were robbers." The man wearing the ski mask smiled coldly, raised his hand and attacked Chen Fang.

As soon as Chen Fang saw that person made a move, coupled with the previous method of attacking the two colleagues, he knew that it was not easy to come, so he immediately retreated to see what kind of kung fu moves that person was using, but he didn't expect that person didn't give him time at all, and he attacked continuously, and his kung fu routine changed several times.

In the end, Chen Fang was hit continuously, and he had to draw his gun, but when he got up from the garbage heap and was about to raise his gun, he found that the man had disappeared.

In the dark corner of the street corner, the man who attacked Chen Fang quickly took off his coat and put it on one side, and then took off his ski mask, and it was none other than Bai Zhongzheng.

Bai Zhongzheng put on a cotton hat again, looked at Chen Fang, who was looking for him in the distance, and took out his mobile phone to dial it.

When Guo Hongkui's phone rang in a back alley outside the street, Guo Hongkui had just let go of Dong Guo's title, which was strangled by himself, he turned around and disappeared into the darkness, picked up the phone and said: "This time we are in big trouble, and the crime of attacking the police is very big, and in this case, you should be serious, right?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng squatted in the corner and observed Chen Fang across the street, Chen Fang was describing Bai Zhongzheng's general physical characteristics with the police who rushed to support.

Bai Zhongzheng: "Don't worry, it's just some soft tissue contusions, and I don't even need to go to the hospital, but if the torture technique is known, I will definitely be asked to turn myself in after I finish my work." ”

Guo Hongkui said with a smile: "That kid is so conformist, but it's also a good thing, at least there is a bottom line, okay, let's meet in the old place, Shi Zheng Cangqiong and Chen Taidong should be brought over." ”

Guo Hongkui, who had already walked upstairs, finished speaking, stood at the window at the staircase and looked down, and saw that the supporting policemen were supporting Dong Guozhi and the other three police officers who fell to the ground, and at the same time talking something on the walkie-talkie.

Guo Hongkui took off his clothes, changed into the clothes prepared in his backpack, pretended to be an ordinary old man and walked slowly, and deliberately stood there looking at the policemen with puzzled eyes.

"Old man, have you seen anyone suspicious?" A police officer stepped forward and asked.

Guo Hongkui deliberately pretended to be behind his ears: "What are you talking about?" ”

The officer said, "Suspicious people! ”

Guo Hongkui nodded, and asked again: "What is suspicious?" ”

The police officer didn't want to repeat it, so he had to say, "Old man, there may be danger here, you should go home early." ”

Guo Hongkui deliberately suddenly realized: "I know, I'll drink less, thank you, young man." ”

After speaking, Guo Hongkui walked away slowly, and just swaggered past the police who searched for him, after all, no one believed that the four policemen were knocked unconscious by this old man.

Dong Guozhi, who came to his senses, reported the situation at the scene to Fu Mingwei by phone, and after Fu Mingwei listened, he asked: "Did you find any suspicious people around?" ”

Dong Guozhi looked at the other police officers: "Is there any suspicious person?" ”

One of the police officers said, "No, just now an old man passed by." ”

"Just an old man......" As soon as Dong Guozhi finished speaking, he scolded, put down the phone and asked, "Hurry up and chase that old man, it's him, it must be him!" Hurry up! ”

Fu Mingwei, who was on the other end of the phone, sat down on the table, looked at the video in the previous monitoring room, looked at the tattoo on Cai Nayun's chest in the video, and said to himself: "Zhangrong chaser of goods? What kind of organization is this? ”