Chapter 40: The Face Under the Mask
After a long time, Gulal took his eyes off the gold, eased his excitement, and asked, "What do you want us to do?" ”
Qian Xiuye returned to the iron chair and pressed another switch again, and at the same time as the gap closed, the dome at the top of the hall slowly opened, and Gulal and Victor raised their eyes to look at the white in the darkness outside the dome, and vaguely felt that it should be a mountain.
"Go there, get me something back." Qian Xiuye raised his hand and pointed to the white road in the dark.
Gulal asked, "What is that place?" What's there? ”
"A bowl." Qian Xiuye said lightly, "A black bowl that feels like it's made of wood." ”
Victor realized something and asked, "Why should we go?" Why don't you go yourself? You have so many people at your beckon, why don't you let them go? ”
Qian Xiuye said: "As you can see, I am old, although I am a prophet, but I can't fly, I also said, I also have birth, old age, sickness and death, as for these people under my command, those Bohai remnants, none of them dare to climb that snow mountain, that is their forbidden land, of course, not only the two of you, but also the people who are about to come, will also accompany you to go." ”
Gulal asked, "Who?" ”
Qian Xiuye just smiled and didn't speak.
At the same time that Qian Xiuye, Victor and the others reached a deal, the torture and the others had already come to the canyon above from the passage made of blood, and the moment they walked out of the cave, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, and among the stone chambers hewn out of the entire canyon cliff stood the remnants of the Bohai Sea holding torches, they were cheering, singing cheerful songs, and colliding rhythmically with all kinds of iron tools in their hands.
Everyone stood there stunned and stared, as if they were in some fairy land in a mythical story.
Suddenly, the rain of fire falling from the top of the canyon startled Ma Fei, she hurriedly retreated, took her hand, pointed to one of the cliffs, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's just an iron flower." ”
Ma Fei looked at the eight stone chambers hewn out of the cliff and stood a few ** Bohai relics, and there was a furnace for making iron on one side of the stone room, and those Bohai relics were waving and beating with iron rods, and after the iron rods collided together, iron flowers were immediately splashed in the sticks, which were like beautiful fireworks in the dark night.
Ma Fei looked at it for a while and asked, "What is the iron flower?" ”
"A kind of traditional fireworks originated in the Central Plains, which should be called fireworks in general, but it does not need gunpowder, what is needed is molten iron juice." The torture explained, "The iron flower originated in Chengshan County, Henan, and now there are less than dozens of people left who can play the iron flower in China, maybe less, the legend is that this is a Taoist sacrificial ceremony, Taoism serves Taishang Laojun, and the blacksmith in addition to worshiping the god of fire, some people also worship Taishang Laojun, maybe because this old god has an alchemy furnace relationship." ”
Mo Duqiao looked up: "The origin of the iron flower is also in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it seems that it can be matched." ”
Lian Jiuqi asked strangely: "Why did they pretend not to see us when they saw us?" ”
As soon as Jiuqi said this, the others found that there were indeed many Bohai relics who clearly set their eyes on them, but they all seemed to turn a blind eye, and slowly looked away and continued their celebrations.
The torture leader began to make his way down the canyon, and Angu asked behind him, "What are they celebrating?" ”
Torrey said: "Maybe today is one of their festivals? ”
The torturer in front of him turned around and glanced, "It's better not to celebrate our deaths. ”
Ma Fei frowned: "Don't be scary, if it's celebrating our death, there are so many of them, I'm afraid we would have died a long time ago." ”
"Don't forget, these people worship the light and fear the darkness, and now we are walking in the darkness, and there is nothing they can do with us. ”
Mo Duqiao smiled: "Hopefully, the key is what we do now and how to go?" ”
The torture stopped: "I want to confirm Tang Qianrou first if they are still alive......"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw two figures running towards him in the distance, he subconsciously turned on the flashlight and shone it directly on the two people opposite, and then found that it was Ah Le and Tang Qianrou.
"Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, this is too coincidental." Xingshu took a flashlight and walked towards Ah Le and Tang Qianrou who were walking towards him, "Only the two of you are left?" What about the others? ”
Tang Qianrou didn't speak, Ah Le looked at the gun that had been raised in Mo Duqiao's hand, raised his hands and said: "It's hard to say, in short, we are definitely not your enemies now, for Qimen, we have given up, we have to leave here." ”
Xingshu turned to look at the others, everyone was shaking their heads, especially Angu, who was shaking his head from side to side, not wanting to believe what Ah Le said at all.
"What he said is true, my parents are dead." Tang Qianrou stepped forward and said, "Everything is arranged by the big boss, I don't need to struggle anymore, I will go down this road again, there is only a dead end, so I quit." ”
Torture still shook his head: "You said that your parents are dead, you said that you quit, I won't believe these until I confirm it with my own eyes, the Cusco company is too big." ”
"She didn't lie, Wan Qingquan and Tang Sirong are really dead." Qian Xiuye's voice suddenly echoed in the canyon, and at the same time, the remnants of the Bohai Sea also stopped cheering and celebrating.
The canyon suddenly became dead silent, and only the sound of the snow wind that blew through the canyon and became a ghost crying wolf could be heard.
Xingshu and the others clenched the weapons in their hands, looked up vigilantly, and at the same time found that there were also fires in the caves on both sides of the bottom of the canyon, and then countless Bohai relics holding torches appeared at the entrance of the cave, looking at Xingshu and the others with fierce eyes.
The torture technique subconsciously turned off the flashlight, and the others also extinguished all the flashlights and lighting light one after another, and prayed in their hearts that what Gromov recorded in his diary was true, and those Bohai remnants were afraid of the darkness and would not come out of the bright cave in the dark night to hunt them down.
"Torture, you say, how many of them are there?" Maffei asked in a low voice, looking up and around, trying to count an approximate number.
Xingshu shook his head: "I really care about who the person who is speaking, Tang Qianrou, do you think this voice is familiar?" ”
Tang Qianrou, who was standing back to back with the torture technique and the others, recalled carefully: "It's familiar, where have you heard of it." ”
Qian Xiuye's voice came again: "As a cargo chaser, I was so surprised that he would give up seeking the truth and find Qimen. ”
The torture technique suddenly realized something, and opened his mouth and said, "Qian Xiuye? Uncle Qian? ”
After the torture technique was spoken, even Jiuqi, Tang Qianrou and others were taken aback, and they suddenly recalled that this was indeed Qian Xiuye's voice.
Qian Xiuye smiled: "It's me." ”
After Qian Xiuye said this, Xingshu saw a black shadow appear in front of him, and when the black shadow approached, everyone realized that it was Gulal with a gun.
Ah Le and Tang Qianrou didn't understand what was going on at all, and when Ah Le wanted to step forward, Gulal fired a shot at the ground, stopping Ah Le from stepping forward, and said, "This is a real gun, don't get any closer." ”
After Gulal finished speaking, Victor, who was armed with a gun, walked out of the cave on the other side, also holding the assault rifle in his hand, and his fingers resting lightly on the side of the trigger.
Xingshu and the others immediately raised their guns and aimed them at Gulal and Victor, and at the same time, Ma Fei asked Tang Qianrou: "Isn't this the person you hired?" What's going on? ”
Tang Qianrou shook her head: "I don't know, we were separated before, and they said they wanted to stay to avenge their brother." ”
Ah Le suddenly understood, looked at Gulal and said, "You have been bought." ”
Gulal didn't deny it, didn't answer, just aimed his gun at Ah Le.
The torture technique was to put down the gun, ponder for a while, and then raised his head and said, "You are not Qian Xiuye, who are you?" ”
The man smiled and said, "Why do you say that I am not Qian Xiuye?" ”
"The time can't be combined, besides, the real Qian Xiuye has been stared at by the police, even if he runs away, it is impossible to leave the country." Although he said this, he was not sure in his heart, Qian Xiuye, the old fox, had many methods, but the reason why he said that the person in front of him was not Qian Xiuye was completely out of intuition.
"Bring them to me." After Qian Xiuye finished speaking, Gulal and Victor raised their guns and motioned for the torturers and others to follow them into the cave.
Torture raised his hand to signal the others to put down their guns, and then looked at Gulal, who raised his fist to signal Victor to put down his guns, and then turned and went into the cave.
When the torturers and the others walked into the cave, those Bohai remnants gave way one after another, stood on both sides, and looked up and down with strange eyes at this group of people who were dressed strangely in their eyes.
After walking through the complex cave corridor for half an hour, everyone came to the hall with iron seats under the "protection" of Gulal and Victor, and that Qian Xiuye sat there with his iron mask in his hand, looking at them with a smile on his face, as if to indicate that he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
"You're finally here." Qian Xiuye sat there and said with a smile, "Since you are here, I don't have to act anymore." Qian Xiuye said, slowly uncovering the mask on his face, and then tearing it off violently, when he threw the mask at his feet, what appeared in front of the torture art and others was another familiar face Wu Zi'an.
Wu Zi'an, nicknamed the Great Wall of Copper, had obviously been confirmed to be dead for many years, and he suddenly appeared in front of the eyes of Xingshu and the others, making them all feel that this was simply a dream.
Xingshu frowned and looked at Wu Zi'an, shaking his head slightly, still unwilling to believe it: "I attended your funeral, and I saw you being pushed into the incinerator of the crematorium with my own eyes. ”
Wu Zi'an smiled: "What you see with your own eyes is true? Your master also saw Lian Jiuqi buried in that snow pit in Mongolia back then, and in the end, isn't he also alive? Don't talk nonsense, I don't have much time, I need your help, so I tell you everything about the year now, which is my sincerity. ”
Saying that, Wu Zi'an told all the things that Qian Xiuye planned all this back then, how he used Cai Nayun, how he framed Lian Jiuqi, and how he used Tang Sirong's selfishness to divide Cai Nayun, Chen Taidong and Wan Qingquan.
After listening to the torture technique, he said: "It turns out that it was you and Qian Xiuye who planned this matter early in the morning?" And Qian Xiuye deliberately asked Cai Nayun to convince you in order to cover you? Even Cai Nayun doesn't know, you are also one of the masterminds? ”
Wu Zi'an said: "Yes, the layout is like this, what you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears is not necessarily true, you think you are a mastermind, but in fact you are just a chess piece." ”
Lian Jiuqi stepped forward and said: "The diary you sold to the reed flute back then was completely for Tang Sirong and the others to come here as a foreshadowing?" What exactly is your purpose? ”
"The purpose? Our goal was to eliminate as many chasers as possible and reduce competitors. Wu Zi'an said coldly, "The war between the Zhangrong Chaser and the Chaser has been going on for hundreds of years, and this time the Zhangrong Chaser has almost completely won, of course, thanks to our predecessor Xing Renju!" ”
Xing Shu was stunned: "Xing Renju is also a master of the cargo?" ”
Wu Zi'an smiled: "Then what do you think? What do you think he left those clues for? Qimen, how many cargo chasers want to find the place, you must know that these clues left by him alone have attracted countless chasers to go, and how many of them died in the middle of the way? And here, is their end, but you are the exception, you are the only team that has come here for so many years and is still alive, of course, this is also related to my kindness, if it were not for my mercy, you would have died in the hands of these Bohai remnants a long time ago. ”
Lian Jiuqi's mind was a little confused, and after thinking for a long time, he asked: "I still don't understand, you mean that Qimen doesn't exist at all?" You mean it's all just a game set up by the Merchant Chaser for revenge? Xing Renju went to great lengths to set up a bureau back then, the purpose of which was to kill other cargo chasers who were looking for Qimen? And you're just enriching the game he laid out? ”
Wu Zi'an got up from the iron seat, slowly walked down, and walked to Lian Jiuqi: "Lian Jiuqi, you really disappointed us, I always thought that you would be the first person to uncover the mystery, who knows not, you are indeed very smart, but you are not as good as your master and your uncle Chen Taidong in understanding." ”
Lian Jiuqi shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand the meaning of Wu Zi'an's words at all.
Wu Zi'an lowered his head and pondered for a moment, glanced at everyone, and slowly walked to Lian Jiuqi: "Let's start with you, from the day you became Zheng Cangqiong's apprentice, our game has officially begun, you must be thinking, why you?" That's because of a legend, legend has it that to open the Qi Gate, you must have the blood of the Helian family, and you also need the pair of thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks and the thousand-year-old black incense bowl, so you should understand that your master Zheng Cangqiong accepted you as an apprentice, not out of chance, he accepted you as an apprentice, and he went to the Qimen from the beginning. ”
Lian Jiuqi stood there, cold, and shook his head slightly: "No, it's impossible, I just met my master by chance." ”
"By chance?" Wu Zi'an sneered, "There are thousands of ways to create accidents, your master is so smart, he just used one of them, during the ten years of turmoil, your master set his sights on your family, and your father was labeled as a capitalist roader at that time, you were still young at that time, think about it, who helped your family get back the house?" Who raised you? Who is it that keeps your family at peace? It's your master, Zheng Cangqiong! ”
Xingshu looked at Lian Jiuqi, and felt very uneasy in his heart, he felt that Wu Zi'an gradually pointed the finger at Zheng Cangqiong, not simply trying to explain the truth, maybe he also wanted to provoke the relationship between Lian Jiuqi and Zheng Cangqiong.
Of course, Lian Jiuqi remembered that when he was still young, when the men and women who shouted slogans and rushed into his house, his father hid him in the secret compartment under the bed, and told him not to come out no matter what happened, never to come out.
Lian Jiuqi hid in the dark grid, listening to the screams outside, and the scolding, he was extremely scared, he had no idea what was going on, he didn't know what he was supposed to do, and what would happen next.
The child is always a child, lying in the dark compartment he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he heard no sound outside, hungry he crawled out of the dark compartment, looking at the devastated house, looking at the smashed furniture everywhere, the first reaction in his heart was to go to the police, he was young, he didn't understand the revolution at all, he just thought that there were bad people in the house, it was as simple as that.
When Lian Jiuqi looked for his mother, he found that his mother had hanged herself......
Lian Jiuqi was stupid, kneeling there and crying, at this moment, a person suddenly appeared, covered his mouth, and asked him not to make a sound, and then the person carried Lian Jiuqi up to the beam, squatted there, and watched several people rush into the house where Lian Jiuqi's mother hanged herself, and after searching for a circle, he turned around and left.
After those people left, the man let go of his mouth to cover Lian Jiuqi, Lian Jiuqi turned his head and looked at the man with a gentle smile behind him, and at that moment, he felt safe.
"My name is Zheng Cangqiong, and I am a good friend of your father." The man touched Lian Jiuqi and said, "Don't be afraid, with me, you will be fine." ”
From that day on, Lian Jiuqi began to live with Zheng Cangqiong, who taught him literacy, culture, kung fu, how to behave, and let him know that he lived in a rather weird and bad era at that time.
"It didn't take long for your father to die, killing himself by swallowing industrial salt in that little dark room, right?" Wu Zi'an leaned close to Lian Jiuqi's ear and whispered, "You are very sad, but your master told you that he will definitely help you avenge, and it was also on that day that he officially accepted you as an apprentice." ”
Lian Jiuqi turned his head sharply and looked at Wu Zi'an: "You want to tell me that the person who killed my whole family was my master Zheng Cangqiong?" ”
Wu Zi'an didn't rush to answer, just looked at Lian Jiuqi's eyes: "Think about it yourself, think about it......"
"Don't listen to him, he's lying to you!" The torture technique grabbed Lian Jiuqi's arm, "What kind of person is Master, don't you know?" He did it on purpose, don't believe his words, it is now clear that among the nine sons, except for Master and Uncle Chen, the other seven people participated in the plan of the year, which is the main reason why we have not been able to find out the truth! ”
Lian Jiuqi stood there stunned: "Let me think about it, let me think about it......"