2. The Celestial Assemblies (revised)
Entering the Daxue Mountain and coming to the building of the East Bureau, two of Lao Zhang's subordinates immediately greeted him, one was called Ah Long and the other was Ah Kang, both dressed in military uniforms and very energetic. Brother Zhang asked them to transport the three corpses to the cold storage for storage, and then drove Shao Hu home by himself.
The buildings here at the East Gate are very similar to Dawn City, because most of the people who live here are people who surrendered to the Great Snow Mountain in the last battle, and now they are residents of the Great Snow Mountain, but there are still many restrictions on going up and down the mountain, and the area where they live and work is basically in this area.
Brother Zhang's home is at the foot of a mountain by a lake in the north of the city, and it is a two-story wooden house with a garden in front of it, in which some hardy flowers and plants grow. It seems that I don't take care of it often, the flowers and plants are crazy, it's really green, fat, red and thin, and there is no beauty at all.
However, the room was very bright and warm, the wooden furniture was clean, and a maid was setting a steaming dinner on the dining table, and when she saw Brother Zhang and Shao Hu coming in, she quickly bent down to say hello, and then slowly withdrew from the restaurant. Shao Hu thought he would see the hostess, but no, there were only the two of them at the dinner table.
When he sat down, Brother Zhang poured Shao Hu a glass of red wine, tasted it for a while, and then began to eat.
Shao Hu said while eating, "May I ask, what happened to that female corpse this afternoon?" β
Old Brother Zhang shook his head, swallowed a piece of beef in his mouth, and took another sip of wine before saying, "It's really not that I don't tell you this, in fact, I don't know, I just acted on orders." β
Shao Hu nodded, and asked again: "So, who are those two men in black?" β
"They are the people of the 'White Light Society.'" Old Brother Zhang said and sandwiched another piece of beef, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"'White Light Society'?" Shao Hu was stunned and asked, "What is the 'White Light Society'?" β
"That's a long story." Old Brother Zhang wiped his mouth with a napkin, lit a cigarette and smoked, and said slowly: "In the battle ten years ago, the reason why our Great Snow Mountain was able to win against your Dawn City was mainly because of the 'White Light Society'. Of course, at that time they didn't have the name 'White Light Society'. They are a group of top scientists, builders of war machines. After the war ended, the 'Elders' of the Great Snow Mountains cut their budget in order to build the city. This aroused their dissatisfaction, so they secretly formed an association and established this 'White Light Society'. Some of the weapons you sell on the black market in Dawn City are what they smuggled, and they need money. β
Shao Hu sighed, thinking that no wonder we were in such a mess there now, it turned out that they provided the weapons.
Brother Zhang continued: "If this situation is allowed to continue, I don't know what weapons the 'White Light Society' will sell to you, so the Elder Council sent troops to occupy their development center, but when they got there, they were dumbfounded. β
Shao Hu asked, "What's going on?" β
Brother Zhang said: "The weapons they developed in the last battle were all pediatrics, and they have even more powerful ones. I don't know what it is, but if you shoot us, if it hits us, it will blow up a half-meter-long hole in blood, and we'll all be shattered - what kind of thing do you say? Who can stand up to such a beating? β
Shao Hu held his chin and asked, "When did this happen?" β
"Five years ago." Brother Zhang said, and drank again, "Since then, they have drawn a boundary with the 'Council of Elders' and set up a forbidden area, and the part of Beishan belongs to them, and they also call themselves the 'White Light Society', and they are on an equal footing with the 'Council of Elders'." β
Shao Hu nodded and repeated, "In other words, your Great Snow Mountain is now split into two factions, one is the original 'Council of Elders', and the other is the newly established 'White Light Society'?" β
Old Brother Zhang pounded the table and said, "Who said it wasn't." And the 'White Light Society' has the upper hand. β
Shao Hu thought for a moment and asked, "So...... Which club do you belong to? β
Old Brother Zhang laughed and said, "You look down on me too much!" Anyone who can join the club is the person above, the elite of the elite. I'm just a little guy who shows them the door. β
Shao Hu sighed and asked, "Don't you 'Elders' have anything to do with the 'White Light Society'?" β
'What's the way back?' The Presbyterians' are not vegetarians either. Brother Zhang lowered his voice as he spoke, and leaned closer to Shao Hu, "I'll tell you a secret: the 'Council of Elders' has mastered an extremely advanced technology, and this technology will change the fate of the Great Snow Mountain in the future!" β
Shao Hu hurriedly asked: "What technology?" β
Old Brother Zhang leaned back on the chair, and said in a tricky way: "Where do I know, it's all rumors." Recently, however, there have been indications that the Council of Elders is preparing to attack the White Light Society once again. β
"Really?" Shao Hu looked at Brother Zhang and asked with a smile, "Which side is your brother going to stand on in the next battle?" β
Old Brother Zhang was worried when he heard this, and said, "This time is different from the past. β
Shao Hu asked, "What do you say?" β
Brother Zhang said: "Ten years ago, your brother chose to fight for justice and stand on the side of Dawn City against the richest and most powerful people in the world, and I chose to give me the most money in the Snow Mountain. But there is no war yet, and the boundaries have been clearly demarcated, and those who live in Nanshan are the people of the 'Presbyterian Church', and those who live in Beishan are the people of the 'White Light Society'. You say, "Where is the turn for us to choose?" β
Shao Hu snorted and asked again: "Look, what will be the result in the future?" β
Old Brother Zhang shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, both sides are tucked and hidden, holding back the magnifying moves, and maybe they will end up together." β
When Shao Hu heard this, he let out a long sigh and said, "I'm afraid that this war of yours will burn to Dawn City!" β
Old Brother Zhang patted Shao Hu's shoulder and said with a smile, "Brother." You've all gone up to the Great Snow Mountain, why are you still thinking about Dawn City? Don't be so frustrated, I'll get you an ID card in a while, and then I'll take you to see and see. β
Shao Hu first said thank you, and then asked, "What do you see?" β
Old Brother Zhang smiled mysteriously and said, "There is a 'Heavenly God Conference' on the mountain tonight, and I have also been invited, so you can pretend to be my entourage and follow in." β
Shao Hu asked again: "What is the 'Heavenly God Conference'?" β
Old Brother Zhang smiled and didn't answer, but said, "You'll know when you go." β
At this moment, on the East Bureau building, there is a dark shadow standing in the wind, and from the point of view of her figure, she is a slender woman. She looked down the street below, looking for her target. Because of the cold weather in the mountains, except for the food street opposite the East Bureau, which was full of people, the rest of the streets were deserted, and not even a wild cat could be seen.
After observing for a while, the man suddenly opened his arms and jumped from the seven-story building to a small two-story building behind him. If you were a normal person, this jump would definitely break your bones, but this person's body fell lightly to the roof of the small building, and when he landed, it was like stepping on cotton wool, and there was no sound at all.
The main entrance of this small building is guarded by two soldiers with guns.
The man looked in the right direction, rolled over, jumped down head to foot, and fired at the same time, only to see two rays of light hit the two soldiers, and they trembled as if they had been shocked, and then they froze, still with their eyes open, and remained standing.
The man took a card out of his pocket, swiped it, lifted the curfew, and walked inside.
It's cold inside, and it's a cold room.
The man walked straight to the innermost part of the cold room, opened a barn door, and pulled out a corpse, which was the same girl who had fallen in Dawn City this afternoon. She covered her mouth in surprise, tears rolled down, and hugged the girl tightly, and finally couldn't help crying......
At nine o'clock in the evening, Ah Long, the soldier Shao Hu saw in the East Bureau, drove to the house of old Brother Zhang and brought him documents and uniforms. Old Brother Zhang asked Ah Long to give Shao Hu a haircut and shave his face.
When Shao Hu changed into a uniform, the whole person immediately looked energetic and extraordinary.
Then the two of them went out and drove up the mountain. After driving for more than ten miles, I arrived at the center of the Great Snow Mountain, that is, the palace that Shao Hu looked up at below. At this time, the open space in front of the main hall is full of cars, and guests are walking towards the entrance, where they are waiting in line for security.
Shao Hu was a little nervous, and Brother Zhang said to him with a smile: "Are you worried about a fart?" Your ID card is not fake, I gave it to you! And I'm the one who specializes in issuing ID cards! Shao Hu didn't defend himself and nodded.
The soldiers in charge of the security check were polite and patiently asked the guests to keep order and enter in turn. When Shao Hu came over, a soldier smiled at him and said, "Good evening, sir." β
Shao Hu stepped into the security door, and on the monitor at the other end, his avatar and personal information were displayed, and the words on it were densely written. Shao Hu didn't see it clearly, but he felt that he had a rich resume and made a lot of contributions to the Great Snow Mountain.
When you enter the door, you are faced by a shadow wall, on which are written four big characters: "Dazai Tongtian". Behind the shadow wall is a stone path with green grass on both sides, and underground light sources are laid underneath, so it is very bright even if there are no street lights.
At this moment, elegant music wafted out of the main hall. The guests walked in one after another, stepped into the hall, and smelled a refreshing fragrance of flowers, and their hearts were indescribably comfortable. I saw that the flying beams in the main hall were painted in a golden and brilliant manner, and it was completely a retro style, and in the middle was a golden statue of a mythological figure more than 30 meters high. Below is a raised platform, where the master of ceremonies is making preparations. There are 100 chairs under the high platform, and the greeter is guiding the guests to their seats.
After a while, the music stopped, and the master of ceremonies took the microphone and said, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!" β
The guests burst into applause.
The master of ceremonies waited for everyone to be quiet, and then said, "Since the birth of mankind, we have been pursuing the dream of immortality. However, in the past 5,000 years, all human beings have been able to do is to maintain health, not to live forever. But how can we live forever? After many years of research, we at the Presbyterian Church would like to give you a satisfactory answer today. Please our elders, Taiyuan Zhenren! β
There was another round of applause. The music played, and an old man with white hair and white clothes slowly appeared from the lifting platform in the middle of the stage. He stood silently, enjoying the applause of the crowd before signaling that they could stop.
The hall became silent.
The old man opened his mouth in a subdued tone: "Where do people come from? Where are you going? Why do you age? Why only live for a hundred years? Why is there pain? Why do you die? Whose arrangement is all this? What is the day? Is it ground? If it's a day, why doesn't the sky say yes? If it is the earth, then the earth, why should we be buried? β
There was a whimpering sound from the crowd.
Suddenly, the old man's arms shook, stretched out, clenched his fists, slowly received them to his chest, and said indignantly: "Could it be that the heavens are dead? Are we looking for something that has long since disappeared? Yes...... Why can't we do it for the heavens? Why can't we be heaven? Why? We can do it! β¦β¦ We're going to show the guests today! As he spoke, with a wave of his long sleeves, something more than three meters tall emerged from the middle of the stage, something similar to a gossip furnace.
With the old man's order, the door of the gossip furnace opened widely, and a puff of white smoke came out.
When the white smoke cleared, the guests saw that there was nothing else in the furnace. So under the gaze of everyone, the old man strode towards the furnace with his head held high, and closed the door again.
A group of disciples in white clothes and white skirts walked to the stage with cloud steps, sat in a circle, and chanted words in their mouths.
At this moment, Shao Hu heard someone behind him snort, and involuntarily turned around to look, and found that it was a woman in black, her delicate face was full of disdain, and her eyes seemed to be about to erupt with anger. Soon she also spotted Shao Hu, so she quickly turned around and dodged.
The guests in the main hall stood up and sang along. It's like a spell, everybody knows it.
In this way, after about half an hour, the sound finally stopped, and the group of disciples also dispersed from the stage. The guests craned their necks and looked at the gossip furnace in the center of the stageβboom, a thunderclap, a wide open door, and a puff of white smoke rolled out.
When the white smoke cleared, I saw a seven or eight-year-old boy sitting inside, with pink arms and legs, tender and cute.
The master of ceremonies stepped forward to hear the news: "May I ask who you are?" β
The boy opened his eyes and whispered, "I am Taiyuan Zhenren." β
The guests in the audience let out a surprised "ah, oh". Suddenly, a person raised his hand and took the lead in shouting: "Master Zu is rejuvenated!" Eternal life! So all the people followed and shouted together......
Just as he was kneeling down, there were only two people standing upright in the hall, one was Shao Hu, and the other was the woman in black just now.
The woman in black took advantage of the fact that everyone knelt down and no one was paying attention, and quietly turned around and entered the side door.
Shao Hu hurriedly followed, but after walking out of the main hall, there was no one on the long verandah.