Chapter 2: Heavenly Wrath (Part II)
When he saw the three Buddha statues half-buried in the mudslide, Quan Qianzhang had a strange feeling, as if there were really gods in this world, because the mudslide did not submerge the three Buddha statues, nor did it rush past the location of the three Buddha statues, as if the Buddha statues themselves had a strange force blocking the mudslide from moving forward.
The most peculiar thing is that there are three traces of drying up behind the three Buddha statues, as if there is a magical force pushing the Buddha statues down the mudslide smoothly at the same time as a flash flood.
At this moment, a thought flashed in Quan Qianzhang's mind: Isn't it true that the legend of Qinglong Temple buried in the mountain is true?
Otherwise, how could a flash flood rush out of the three Buddha statues?
Jiro Takahashi asked, "Teacher, how did these three Buddha statues appear here?" What is the origin? β
Quan Qianzhang shook his head: "I don't know, I just know that nature is magical, and anything can happen." β
Quan Qianzhang really doesn't understand, he is a geologist, at best he can only judge the texture of the Buddha statue, but he doesn't understand the age, carving techniques, etc.
Quan Qianzhang stepped forward and looked carefully: "The texture should be talc, that is, ordinary mountain stone, but there are many strange turtle patterns on the surface of the Buddha statue, there should be no such turtle patterns on the surface of the talc, and the talc with turtle patterns has long been broken, and it is impossible to be so complete." β
At this time, a voice came from the side: "This is a Buddha statue from the Ming Dynasty." β
Quan Qianzhang and Takahashi Jiro were shocked, and when they heard the news, they looked for it and saw Chu Lekang standing not far away.
Jiro Takahashi immediately pulled out his gun and said, "Who are you?" β
Chu Lekang faced the muzzle of Takahashi Jiro's gun and was unmoved: "Obviously, I am a Chinese." β
Takahashi Jiro said angrily, "I asked you what you do? β
Chu Lekang smiled: "Anti-Japanese." β
Jiro Takahashi was about to pull the trigger immediately, but Chu Lekang's figure changed, and he directly threw a rope in his hand to cover Jiro Takahashi's wrist, and with a skillful pull, he directly dragged him to the ground.
Takahashi Jiro fell down in embarrassment, and when he just wanted to struggle to pick up the pistol, his hand was stepped on by Chu Lekang, and at the moment when he was about to raise his eyes, he was directly kicked and stunned by Chu Lekang.
Just when Chu Lekang was about to kill him, Quan Qianzhang stopped: "Don't! β
Chu Lekang raised his eyes and looked at Quan Qianzhang: "Don't forget that you are a Chinese." β
Quan Qianzhang immediately explained: "Hero, don't get me wrong, if this Japanese dies, everyone in Zhengjia Village will suffer!" β
Chu Lekang said coldly: "Do you think that if I don't kill him, the people of Zhengjia Village will not suffer?" β
Quan Qianzhang was stunned: "What do you mean?" β
Chu Lekang pointed to the solidified mudslide: "The Japanese will not come to the mountains for no reason, and with this vision in front of them, they will not let the secret leak out." β
As he spoke, Chu Lekang was about to make a move, and Quan Qianzhang stepped forward and grabbed his wrist: "Don't kill him, I will have a way!" β
Chu Lekang looked at Quan Qianzhang and finally put down his hand.
Quan Qianzhang hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, didn't you ask the hero's name?" β
Chu Lekang turned around and left, throwing down a sentence: "China just has too many naΓ―ve people like you, so it will be on the verge of extinction again and again." β
Not long after Chu Lekang left, Jiro Takahashi finally came to his senses, and after he got up in embarrassment, he looked around and looked at Quan Qianzhang again.
Quan Qianzhang said: "He's gone." β
Jiro Takahashi picked up the pistol: "Teacher, this person should be the one who attacked the soldiers the night before." β
Quan Qianzhang was noncommittal, just raised his eyes to look at the vision in front of him, not understanding how all this happened.
At this time, a Japanese soldier hurriedly ran in and was surprised to see the grizzled Takahashi Jiro.
Jiro Takahashi asked, "What's the matter?" β
The soldier stood up and said, "Miyake Nakazo has arrived!" β
Jiro Takahashi immediately dusted his body, straightened his military uniform, and left with the soldiers.
When Jiro Takahashi came to the car in the highlands of the village, the windows were still closed.
Jiro Takahashi stood at the window of the car and bowed, and said in a deep voice, "Miyake Nakasa." β
No one answered in the car, and Quan Qianzhang and Fu Beixue, who were not far away, were also very puzzled, not knowing what kind of big man was sitting in the car.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers below the high ground had already driven hundreds of villagers of Zhengjia Village to the entrance of the village, surrounded by guns and groups, Quan Qianzhang realized that it was not good, and immediately stepped forward to Takahashi Jiro and said, "What are you going to do?" β
Takahashi Jiro was also puzzled, so he simply stepped forward and knocked lightly on the car window.
The window finally opened, and the grim-faced Japanese officer Kyoji Miyake sitting in the car turned his head to look at Takahashi Jiro.
Quan Qianzhang, who was not far away, looked at Kyoji Miyake in the car, and Kyoji Miyake's eyes also glanced at him, and then said, "Has the murder case of Nakasa Shimomura been clarified?" β
Takahashi Jiro hesitated and said: "It's almost over, the murderer appeared again, but unfortunately he escaped." β
Kyoji Miyake gritted his teeth, just said "um", and said, "Clean up this place." β
After speaking, Kyoji Miyake said to the driver in front of him, "Let's go back to Mukden." β
The car started and quickly drove away.
After waiting for the car to go away, Jiro Takahashi turned to look under the high ground, and did not look at the doubtful Kwon Qianzhang.
Kwon Qianzhang asked, "What does it mean to clean up this place?" What are you going to do? β
Takahashi Jiro ignored Quan Qianzhang, just waved his hand for the soldiers to step forward to restrain Quan Qianzhang, and then strode to the bottom of the high ground and whispered a few words to a military officer.
The soldier nodded in agreement, and immediately made a gesture to the machine gunner next to him.
The machine gunner immediately loaded and went into readiness.
At the same time, Jun Cao also stepped forward with a smile on his face and said to the villagers, "Everyone, please go home first." β
Go home? The whole village is gone, how can it be returned? The villagers looked at each other, but the Japanese soldiers with weapons in hand could only turn and walk towards the village, and soon their attention was drawn to the vision of the village, and they exchanged their heads in amazement, believing that all this was the work of the mountain gods, while muttering curses that the invaders would be damned.
Jiro Takahashi pulled out his pistol and stood there, soothing his breathing, it was the first time he had done such a thing, the first time he had shot an unarmed civilian, and it was from behind.
"Takahashi! Takahashi! Quan Qianzhang, who was crushed to the ground by the soldiers, finally understood what Takahashi Jiro was going to do, and he shouted hoarsely, watching Takahashi Jiro raise his gun and aim at the village chief who was walking last.
The gun went off......
In the woods outside the village, the sound of gunfire shook a little girl who was picking flowers and playing, and she turned around and looked in the direction of Zhengjia Village, listening to the dense gunfire coming from there.
The little girl threw away the wildflowers in her hand and rushed out of the woods, but soon bumped into Chu Lekang, who suddenly appeared.
"God still has eyes." Chu Lekang looked at the panicked little girl, "I left a seed for Zhengjia Village." β
The little girl didn't understand what Chu Lekang was talking about at all.
Chu Lekang squatted down and asked, "What's your name?" β
"My surname is ......," the little girl said two words and swallowed back the following words, "Who are you?" I want to go home. β
At this time, the gunfire continued, and the little girl's face became more and more ugly.
Chu Lekang raised his hands and covered the little girl's ears: "If you can't hear it, you won't be afraid." β
In the midst of the gunfire, the villagers who fled in all directions fell to the ground, and Jiro Takahashi stood in front of the village chief's corpse, looking down.
While this is not the first time he has killed someone, it is the first time he has killed someone he considers innocent and unarmed. He hesitated the moment he pulled the trigger, but his hesitation was quickly overshadowed by the thought of dedicating himself to the Emperor and the Great Japanese Empire.
I did the right thing. Jiro Takahashi kept telling himself that.
The Japanese soldiers began to enter the village, searching for the wounded and still fleeing villagers, and under the orders of Juncao, they stopped shooting and killed the remaining lives with bayonets.
"There's no need to waste bullets." Guncao said to Jiro Takahashi with a smile, his smile was so natural in Jiro Takahashi's eyes.
In just half an hour, hundreds of lives that were originally alive turned into hundreds of corpses.
Quan Qianzhang knelt on the high ground and watched blankly, and finally understood the meaning of Chu Lekang's words.
Yes, I was too naΓ―ve, naΓ―ve to think that the Japanese value me, and I can influence the current situation because of this.
He is just a chess piece in the hands of the Japanese, and how can the chess piece influence the behavior of the chess owner?
Childish, too naΓ―ve, over half a hundred years old, still so naΓ―ve!
When the massacre finally ended, Jun Cao instructed the soldiers to move the corpses into the village, pile them up into small hills, and then pour gasoline on them to prepare for incineration.
Jiro Takahashi stood there indifferently, not turning to look at Quan Qianzhang and Fu Beixue.
The last bit of conscience in his heart controlled his guilt and made him afraid to turn back.
Fu Beixue knelt there, his eyes finally retracted, and looked at Quan Qianzhang beside him, Quan Qianzhang knelt there in pain, tears couldn't stop flowing down, and a weird sound came out of his throat, he wanted to scream, he wanted to reprimand.
But what's the use of all this?
Jun Cao lit a match and threw it into the pile of corpses, the moment the pile of corpses was ignited, something unexpected happened, the moment the flames rose, it also ignited the surrounding mudslide, the flames spread instantly on the mudslide, and the entire Zhengjia Village became a sea of fire in an instant.
"Blue ...... Blue fire? Fu Beixue watched in amazement at everything that was happening below.
Quan Qianzhang also looked at Zhengjia Village who was drowning in blue flames in amazement, and his previous anger turned into shock.
Some Japanese soldiers who did not have time to retreat were also caught up in the blue flames, and they were burned to ashes in an instant without even screaming.
Takahashi Jiro and Guncao led the rest of the soldiers to retreat one after another, until they fled to the high ground before stopping.
Looking down, the fire spread along the mudslide in the direction of the mountain, eventually forming a river of fire that poured into the mountain.
Jun Cao's eyes widened and he watched: "What's going on?" What exactly are those? β
Jiro Takahashi finally couldn't help but turn his head to look at Kwon Chizhang.
At this time, Quan Qianzhang smiled, and said with a smile that was almost crazy: "The gods are finally angry, finally angry......"
Speaking of this, Quan Qianzhang glared at Takahashi Jiro fiercely: "You brutes, you will be damned!" And that's just the beginning! β
The scene of the terrifying blue fire burning the soldiers to ashes in an instant still stayed in Jun Cao's mind, and with Quan Qianzhang's words, his whole body began to tremble.
"Hey-" Takahashi Jiro pressed the soldier's shoulder to calm him down, "Don't forget, we have the Emperor's protection. β