Section VII. Vanishing Families
The heyday of the Zhuge family was first known to have originated from Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China.
Everyone knows that Zhuge Liang is an outstanding politician, military strategist, and inventor of a generation, but few people outside the family know that he is actually a great 'onmyoji'.
Dressed in gossip clothes, holding a feather fan, strategizing, and making great contributions to the Liu family. This is people's impression of Zhuge Kongming.
In fact, before Zhuge Liang met the Han Lord, he had been an onmyoji, using yin-yang to guard the peace of the south. And the Zhuge family, as an onmyoji, also has a family motto: 'It is not allowed to harm people with art, it is not allowed to harm the country with art, and it is not allowed to pretend to be a sorcerer.' ’
Because Zhuge Liang was the most powerful person in the family for several generations, his father often told him: 'Yin and Yang art belongs to the power outside of people, and it is also magic. Positively, it can govern people and save the country. Evil can harm people and destroy the world. Your duty is only to protect the human world from being trapped by demons, so I don't want you to use your talents to interfere too much in human affairs. Because when a person's strength is strong, the heart changes. ”
So when Liu Bei went to invite Zhuge Liang, he was avoided. Later, because they learned that Liu Bei was a person of destiny, the family agreed to Zhuge Liang's departure from the mountain. But before Zhuge Liang left, he was called to his knees by the most virtuous person of his ancestors and confessed:
Now, if you go out of the mountains, you must refrain from:
To govern people is to use human strength, magic is the ability of people other than human beings, and peace that succumbs to magic power will not last long. If you drive others with magic, you will never be able to understand the human heart.
People should obey people's hearts, magic power, although it can make people obedient, but it will not make the heart obedient, so if you want to last a long time, you can only rule people with your heart! ’
Therefore, when Zhuge Liang assisted Lord Liu, he never used his powerful magic power easily, and only once when he burned Chibi, he borrowed the wind with magic, but because of this, countless innocent people were killed and injured, and this matter has always made Zhuge Liang annoyed. Later, when he died, he asked the family members to inform him that from now on, the Yin and Yang Technique of the Zhuge family could not be used before the world. He also told the clansmen to be buried in an 'empty coffin' and buried in Dingjun Mountain, and the entity was buried in the southern enchantment center guarded by the Zhuge family at that time, in order to comfort their dead souls.
Therefore, future generations have not been able to find Zhuge Liang's true resting place, and those who want to destroy his tomb have not succeeded.
Because of Zhuge Liang's affairs, the people of the Zhuge family have no intention of caring about the affairs of the world, and are only dedicated to protecting the mission sent by the ancient 'King Wen' to protect the south, so there is no information about the descendants after the following three generations of Zhuge Liang.
And the descendants of the Zhuge family have always abided by the ancestral teachings of the family and have never asked about the things of the world.
As the wars in the world continued, people died innocently, and the undead and demons in the world were rampant, and the Zhuge family was also divided into many branches to rush to all parts of the world to calm the world. The Abe Qingming family in the Middle East is subordinate to the outer branch of the Zhuge family, while the West is dominated by exorcists from the earl's family.
But as the saying goes, when the power is great, people's hearts will change, and thousands of years after Zhuge Liang's death, family disputes began to appear in the Zhuge family. The Zhuge family was divided into two factions, one advocated using its own powerful yin-yang art to rule the country and become the overlord. On the other hand, we believe that we should continue to follow the teachings of our ancestors and keep to ourselves.
Zhuge Xun's father was a supporter of the 'conservative' faction. After a long period of conflict between the two factions, the civil strife of the Zhuge family finally broke out, and this family civil strife lasted for twenty-three years, and the 'radical' faction won the victory, and a small number of all the conservatives of the Zhuge family went to the Dongying Abe family for help, and most of them were killed by the clansmen of the 'radical' faction. I thought that the Zhuge family, which was in power by the radical faction, would leave a legendary mark in history, but for some reason, in the two years after the end of the 'family civil strife', all the remaining onmyoji of the 'radical' faction of the Zhuge family were wiped out overnight! Since then, the onmyoji of the Zhuge family has disappeared from the world, leaving only the Abe family, who had settled in Dongying earlier.
"Clues? What is the clue that Mr. Zhuge is referring to? Pude didn't know what Zhuge Xun said. It seems that he was prepared to deal with his own suspicions.
"Yes. The person you see, if I am not mistaken, should be my uncle Zhuge Fangliang, he should have died early, but now he appeared, he should have been used by someone, just like the sandfly this time. Zhuge Xun replied.
"If so, can you explain?" Pudd asked.
"It's not impossible. All right. Zhuge Xun said slowly after sorting out his mood.
"Our Zhuge family has been divided into two factions since the ancestors of Kong Ming, one faction advocates using its own yin and yang art to rule people and become the overlord. On the other hand, the family admonition of their ancestors protects mankind from demons.
In fact, even now, there are still many demons in the world. However, the 'Five Great Sages' of antiquity have been protecting the present world, so as to ensure world peace from the invasion of monsters and alien creatures.
The term "alien creatures" here refers to organisms outside the Earth.
We, the Onmyoji, the 'Exorcist', the Hunter, the Cultist, and all those who protect humanity, are collectively called the 'Guardians'. There is a 'legend' among our protectors that at the beginning of the world, the human world was protected by the 'sages', but the 'sages' are only responsible for protecting human beings from the attacks of other creatures in the universe if they can survive on the earth. At the same time, it also cut off human contact with other extraterrestrial creatures. That's why humans have not been able to find 'extraterrestrial creatures'.
However, the 'sages' do not 'care' about the evolution and growth of human beings themselves, and they are completely left to their own devices, which makes the emergence of 'guardians'. Although we have never seen the legends of the 'sages', we have always believed in their existence.
So when our Zhuge family was 'exterminated', I still fantasized about getting the help of the 'sage'. Zhuge Xun smiled helplessly.
"'Sage'? In this age of science! "Pud doesn't believe in gods or demons.
"I can also understand Pude's feelings, judging from the current 'world', it seems that the 'sages' have given up on humanity. You just know these things, and they don't have much to do with what I'm going to say.
Just now I was talking about the 'civil strife' in our family.
Zhuge Fangliang is my father's brother and my uncle. He was a 'conservative' with his father.,Protected the family during that 'civil strife'.,It's a super-powerful onmyoji.。 At that time, if there was no 'civil strife', Zhuge Fangliang should have been able to become the 'master' after my father. However, because of that 'civil strife', the 'radicals' used many forbidden techniques, and the 'conservatives' were unwilling to kill too much, which led to the extermination of the 'conservatives'.
I was only 17 years old at the time, and I was protected by my uncle and escaped from the family, but I was cornered by the 'radicals' who caught up. At that time, in order to protect me, my father placed a seal on my body before he died, to prevent my spiritual power from being detected by family members, so I was just an ordinary person at that time. My uncle, who fled with ordinary people, was also seriously injured. Later, Fang Liang set up a 'formation', so that those Shikjin and people who caught up thought that we had fallen off the cliff and died, so we escaped their pursuit, and we hid in a secluded forest and waited for the crisis to pass.
However, a vampire appeared in front of us, and he didn't know he was at the time, but he was not human. My mortally injured uncle is not capable of fighting it, and my ability is sealed, so for us, we can only wait for death.
When he saw me and my uncle, he forcibly turned me into a ......, perhaps because it was 'fun' Subspecies, the power sealed by his father was also lifted.
The shock of the 'First Embrace' made me desperate for new blood after I became a subspecies, so the first person I killed was my uncle who was seriously injured! I will never forget the look in Fang Liang's eyes that was first frightened and then calmed when my teeth gritted into Fang Liang's neck...... It seems that he thinks that he can save me before he dies, which is right to call my father......" Zhuge Xun said this, and stopped, whenever he recalled that time, he would always have remorse and remorse.
And the people in the house also felt sorry for Zhuge Xun's matter.
"I swear to kill the man who turned me into a vampire! And I've been looking for him all these years. During this period, I avenged my father and my people, just like the ancestors said, relying on magic to rule the world will not bring peace to the world. Originally, I was left with the 'conservative' faction, and I killed all the masterminds of the 'radical' faction, so I should be the only one left in the Zhuge family's onmyoji...... You see me now until I became a subspecies.
That's why I didn't help my homeland with the power of Onmyoji during the 'World War'. It's not that I'm boasting, but now I'm fully capable of changing the pattern of this world!
The last time my barrier was destroyed at Pude's house, I thought it was an onmyoji, but it should be a descendant of Qingming...... It wasn't until I caught the first sandfly that I found a paper figure in the body of the infected person to manipulate. The aura left above was that of the dead Zhuge Fangliang! That is, the person seen in Pude's video. ”
"How do you think it's him? Didn't you say he was dead? Or did you save him again at the time? Also, are you a 'subspecies' still sucking blood? Like the vampire you saw last time? Pudd asked.
"I'm a subspecies, but a long time ago, I was shot a silver bullet in the heart by a vampire hunter so that I could borrow the vampire's abilities and not live like a real vampire. Until now, in my heart, that silver bullet still exists.
I know Pud has always been suspicious of me, and has never even trusted me and Ling, because you have been hiding things from us. If you don't tell us, maybe it's your problem, so I don't care. But this time, someone should have used Fang Liang, who was already dead. Like a sandfly, bring him back from the other side of the Yellow Spring. As for how I did it, I didn't see Zhuge Fangliang, and I can't be sure. ”
After listening to Zhuge Xun's words, Pude didn't say anything. Just reminiscing about his words, as if trying to find something in them......
"Then Mr. Zhuge means that the one who manipulated those zombies this time is also the one who manipulated Zhuge Fang Liang?" Brie thought of one thing.
"It's not sure who is manipulating whom, but it is also possible that that person saved Zhuge Fangliang and asked him to manipulate this attack. Or maybe Mr. Brie said, really behind the scenes. By the way, the flight unit hasn't been sent out yet, right? At this time, if those zombies are really manipulated, then it is very likely that ordinary people will also be used, and there should be people piloting the aircraft, if the aircraft is intercepted by the enemy and attacks us in turn, I heard Ling say that there are weaknesses above each circle......"
"Not good. I'll go and call back the flight unit right away! Brie remembered that the Flying Force had just been sent out by himself to support Joe on the other side of the wall.
"Pudde, I'll apologize for Henry's 'sending the spirit'."
"Father, with this sample, I will analyze the antidote as soon as possible, and my father's second circle will return to the previous one." Elian got up with Orr and Rhodes to go back to the Institute.
"I'll go back with you." Zhuge Xun said.
"Let me ...... Can you take another look at Henry? Pude's current expression is just that of a bereaved old man, which makes people feel sad.
"Not anymore, father. Henry has ...... Let him remain in your father's heart as he was......"
The others had already left, and only Pude and Ling were left in the house.
In Ling's eyes, Pude seems to have aged a lot all of a sudden, after all, Pude is now 87 years old, but he has experienced this kind of thing again.
"Now, Ling, do you think this is really good?" Pude asked Ling for no reason.
"I don't know. What do you think? Maybe we're all conflicted...... I don't think Kaoru's 'sage' really exists, so the world is still dominated by people. People are inherently contradictory, so I can't answer what you want to know. What's more, you've also experienced that 'world war', haven't you? ”
"It's because I've been through it that I'm so confused now...... Don't you ask me what I'm hiding from you? ”
"Since Kaoru has decided not to ask you, I don't want to know because I don't know in the first place. For Henry's business......"
"Don't apologize to me! Ling: Do you think that's really good? Pudd didn't know what kind of answer he wanted from Ling's mouth. What are you expecting......
What does Pude think? In Pudde, you think, 'Is this really good?' ’…… I'll go to Joe's side and take a look. ”
Pude was the only one left in the room, and the sound of a heartbeat could be heard. "I'm sorry Henry, but I won't let you die in vain! The people of the New World will remember your sacrifice today! ”