Tu Qi
Introduction:
This happened around 2010, when the state had not yet banned the mining of small-scale coal mines owned by the people. Most of the small coal mines are unable to approve their business and mining qualifications, so when a mining disaster occurs, if there are casualties, more of them are private, in order to fear that the families of the victims will surrender to the public security organs, and then the public security organs will "suspend business for rectification" or even "seal" the small coal mines. These treatments are unacceptable to these coal mine owners, and it is precisely for this reason that there are many vicious criminals who coax single migrant workers from other places to go down to work, and then secretly kill people underground, disguise themselves as landslide accidents, and then pretend to be the families of the victims to demand compensation from the coal mine owners. In the criminals' industry, it is called "an idea", so for a while, in the coal mine, murders are frequent, and countless unjust souls are crying blood in it
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It was in the spring of 2010 that I had recovered from the bitterness of the death of my first love the previous year and went to her hometown in private, just to see this beautiful ice city, located in the southeastern province of Heilongjiang Province.
For this trip, I didn't inform any friends or even family members in advance, and I packed up my belongings, brought emergency weapons, changed my clothes, and quietly came to Si.
In the early spring, the late night in M city was still very cold, I walked out of the airport alone, got into a taxi, chatted with the driver about the customs of M city, smoked a cigarette and looked at the quiet streets, I couldn't help but feel that everything was so strange, from the driver's mouth, I learned that M city has three pillar industries, one is tourism, after all, Jingpo Lake is still well-known at home and abroad, and the other is arms smuggling, after all, it is adjacent to Russia, and third, it is a coal mine.
The driver was very hospitable, telling me about the hard life of the people in M City, and telling me about the wine culture of the Northland, and even hospitably pulled me to find a tavern at night and have a little drink. I am very optimistic about this red-faced man from the north, there is nothing to do near the left, the car drove to the county-level M city in the north of the main city, opened the room, put the package, the driver also received the car, we came to a tavern, ordered a table of stew, scalded two bottles of local high number of "old wine", and chatted while drinking.
"Makeover?" The driver's eldest brother said contemptuously with a wine red face, "Sharp game? Fishy? â
"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned, you know, this "Huajiao" is the name of the Taoist priest in the "Jianghu Cut", and "Jianjuer" refers to the Taoist priest who lives in the temple, and "Li'er Fishy" refers to the liar who walks the rivers and lakes, and now in this year, there are not many people who know "incision", so I slowed down, "I said, Selun'er Tangzi (black language, referring to the coachman), do Li Er Fishy (black language, charlatan), and Hei Er go to the mountains (black language, go out in the middle of the night)? â
"Huh? Zhu'er Qing (black language, people who know black language)~" The driver's eldest brother laughed, raised his wine glass, touched it, and drank it all. After a pause, he continued: "Open the door and have a few teas (black words, what are you doing here)?" â
"There is no incense in the furnace (black words, no purpose. ~"I drank it all too."
"Oh~" The driver's eldest brother laughed and burped, "Oh, the Taoist chief is also a person in the rivers and lakes, fortunately, we brothers have to drink better~" Then he turned his head and shouted to the waiter: "Add more wine and meat, I'll treat you tonight~"
"Okay~" The waiter shouted and walked into the back kitchen without mentioning it.
"I said big brother," my face was full of tiredness, "we can be regarded as meeting in Pingshui, can we not spit out our lips (black words, don't speak black words)?" â
"No problem, no problem, haha~" The driver's eldest brother smiled and said, "I'm just on a whim, recently the family has recruited trouble (local dialect, there was an accident), I want to find a family (black dialect, insider) to see, today I happened to meet the Taoist, so I asked, I didn't expect it to be really a leg (black language, respected Taoist)!" I must have a few more drinks today~ Come on, I'll fill it for you~" As he spoke, he got up and poured wine.
"I don't want to talk nonsense, and I'm not a respected master, I'm just a middleman, besides, if you really want to do something, then let's talk about things first," I paused, lit a cigarette and continued, "I'm here this time, just to take a look around, I don't plan to do anything, since you have a fate, you have something to say, if I can help, I can't help." â
"Eh," the driver's eldest brother immediately stood up and was about to kneel down and kowtow as soon as he heard this, I held him up, stood up, helped him to sit down, and said, "Driver's brother, don't be so polite, you have something to say and sit down, otherwise I'll go." â
"Don't don't," the driver's eldest brother seemed to regard me as a savior, and hurriedly said: "I sat and said, sat and said, it's like this, my surname is Li, just call me 'Da Zhuang', I have a cousin, just in this M city, work for a big boss mine, his mine, often have accidents, it's evil, two days ago my cousin went down the mine and didn't come up, and the miners who went down the mine with him all said that there were man-eating monsters in the well, which was scary." â
"Oh? Monster? I became interested, "What kind of youkai?" â
"I don't know what it is, but the cry is quite penetrating, only one person who has seen this monster has escaped alive," Da Zhuang said with a frightened face, "But, when he ran out, he was also crazy, just screaming that there was a monster to eat him, and later, we asked the most famous Daxian in the neighboring village, and Daxian said that it was a 'goblin', and asked us to go to the well together, saying that my brother was not dead." Saying that, Da Zhuang wiped a handful of tears, "Our family is poor, when I was a child, I was dependent on my cousin, and after listening to Daxian's words, I found a few buddies to go down to find him, but the lights went out before he reached the general level, followed by a baby cry from the bottom of the well, and then, we ran away, and as a result, the three buddies who went down with me, only one ran out, and the other two are still unknown to life." â
"Hiss~" I gasped after hearing this, "Why didn't you call the police?" â
"It's reported," Da Zhuang said indignantly, "They just recorded a confession and let us go, saying that it was not frozen, and there was no way to rescue it, but my brother's life and death are unknown below." Dao Chief, I beg you to go down with us and have a look, please~"
"You said that the big fairy said it was a 'goblin'???" I suddenly remembered something and asked in surprise.
"Ang, yes, I don't know what that thing is, it's okay for us to fight, but if we want to deal with monsters, we really have to be a Taoist like you, you say, you see how much money is appropriate, my family is smashing the pot and selling iron, I just beg you to save my brother~" said and knelt down again.
"Don't kneel, I'll leave when I kneel," he said, helping Da Zhuang to continue, "Let's talk about money or not, it's not impossible to ask me to go down, but you have to rely on me for three things." â
"Okay," Da Zhuang said with a smile, "Say it, as long as you can save my brother, don't say three, three hundred!" â
"First, go and call me three or five people, I ask that all men be strong, preferably pig killers, and let them bring the pig killing knives." I took a deep puff of my cigarette.
"There aren't so many pigs killed," Da Zhuang pondered for a while, "Have you ever seen blood in a fight?" â
"Well, all right," I sighed, "and second, everyone must listen to me when they go down, or I won't go." â
"No problem, no problem," Da Zhuang said without thinking, "Don't worry, we will definitely listen to you." â
"Third, prepare a few oil lamps for later use."
"No problem, don't worry!"
"I'll go back to my room and get ready," I said, taking a sip of the wine in my glass, "Tomorrow at eight o'clock in the evening, get ready, come and pick me up, and we'll go down the well." â
"Okay~" Da Zhuang jumped up happily, "No problem, you have a good rest, I'll go back and call someone to buy something~" As he spoke, he trotted and ran out of the tavern.
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One day I was speechless, but on the second day, Da Zhuang brought two friends to pick me up, one of whom was about fifty years old, with a fat head and big ears, a fierce face, carrying a boning knife, it was said that his surname was Lu, and he was a butcher; The other self-proclaimed (let me call him) Brother Zhou, about the age of his early twenties, shaved calipers, a scar on his head, a gangster, wearing a non-mainstream dress, carrying a mountain knife, at first glance he looked like an old rascal.
When the three of them saw me, only Da Zhuang was very polite, while Lao Lu smiled symbolically, while Brother Zhou was not angry, and he directly hummed with a cigarette and half leaned against the wall. I didn't say anything, I hurriedly saluted, got into the car, closed my eyes and fell asleep.
âCīŧâ Brother Zhou said to himself, "Look at his bear-like appearance, what's so scary, just rely on Lao Tzu's knife, what kind of mess are you afraid of?!" â
"You don't have to say a word," Da Zhuang said dissatisfied, "this thing is very evil, don't make trouble!" â
"Phew!" Brother Zhou spat out, "I'm not afraid, you'll see in a while!" â
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Not long after, I got out of the car at the place, I stretched my waist, checked the magic weapons and charms I brought, and then ordered Da Zhuang to light the kerosene lamp, let Lao Lu hold the lamp in his left hand, and hold the knife in his right hand, and walk on my left side, while I walked forward on Lao Lu's right with a yin and yang cane, so that Da Zhuang and Brother Zhou could break off.
As soon as I entered the mine, I only heard Brother Zhou say: "C! Big Zhuang, where are you looking for such a waste wood? Don't be old and still have to be on crutches? Go down the mine without wearing a miner's lamp and light a kerosene lamp? â
"Uhhh Da Zhuang was speechless for a while.
âCīŧ You two follow him, I can't wait, go to the front and cut the girl, show you a few deflated calves! As he spoke, he lit the lamp and rushed into the depths with his knife.
"Come back!" I couldn't help but exclaim, "Danger, come back!" â
"Phew~Cowardly goods~" Brother Zhou obviously didn't mean to slow down, but instead quickened his pace, and disappeared into the darkness in a blink of an eye, only his insulting voice and the sound of the knife colliding with the well wall came.
"Dao Chief, what should we do?" Lao Lu said with contempt.
"Don't chase! Step by step, the division of troops is the most taboo here. "I don't think about it.
"Hmph, if you're afraid, just say it," Lao Lu said dissatisfied, "Don't you dare to go by yourself and ask us to accompany you?" Hmph~" said, sneering.
"Don't provoke me, whatever you want, now my request is that we can't separate!" I said calmly.
As he was talking, a scream of "ah~" suddenly came from the front, followed by Brother Zhou's crying voice: "Help~ah~ghost~I'm not afraid of you~ah~help~"
"Huh?" The three of us were stunned for a moment, that Lao Lu was born as a butcher, shook off the kerosene lamp, took out a flashlight, and rushed forward with a pig-killing knife, but Da Zhuang was already so frightened that his face was like gold paper, and he couldn't speak.
"Come back~" I yelled, grabbed the kerosene lamp and walked forward quickly with the yin and yang staff in my hand.
"Wait for me," Da Zhuang cried and caught up with me, "Dao Chief, I'm afraid~"
"Follow me, you carry the lamp." As I spoke, I ran forward without looking back.
After only a few steps, I felt that it was dark in front of me, and a heart-rending cry of "ah~" came.
"It's Lao Lu, it's Lao Lu~" Da Zhuang cried.
"Shut up!" I roared, secretly regretting that I shouldn't have brought Lao Lu and Brother Zhou in, but it was too late, so what was the use. Immediately, he accelerated his pace, and after a while, he saw a pool of blood on the ground in front of him, and among the blood stains was a broken right hand, which was firmly holding a pig-killing knife in his hand.
"Old Lu, Brother Zhou, where are you?" I roared, but there were only overlapping echoes in the empty well, and there was no sound of the two of them.
"Wow, wow~" A piercing baby cry came into my eardrums, and the sound was as sharp and eerie as a steel knife scraping a cow's bone.
Immediately, the kerosene lamps flickered and flickered, and the light instantly became very dim.
"Dao Chief, what should I do?" Da Zhuang asked crying.
"The edict of the beginning of the Yuan, the universal metaphor of all souls, the thunder of the capital, all follow me... I didn't pay attention to Da Zhuang, but I took out a "fire talisman" from my bag and sandiced it in my hand, and recited the incantation to myself, "... Urgently ask Deng Tianjun for the law of fire, and give Lei Wei often support, as urgent as the law~" After reading it, he hurriedly threw the talisman in his hand into the kerosene lamp, only to see that the flame, which was already the size of a soybean grain, instantly became blazing, and under the illumination of the blazing flames, a terrifying scene appeared in front of him.
We saw that there were many holes in the ground in front of us, and above each hole, there was a monster less than three inches looking at us greedily, only to see that the monster was less than three feet tall, with green fluff, one foot and two claws, only one big blood-red eye on its face, a mouth full of thin and hairy sharp teeth, and a long nose similar to a mouse, how strange and strange it was.
When they saw our oil lamps coming up, the monsters were extremely irritable, and they made a baby's crying sound of "Boom~". Da Zhuang had already collapsed to the ground at this time, and muttered vigorously: "This is, goblin, it's goblin~ The old immortal family said that this is a goblin... â
"Shut up!" I shouted angrily, "This is not a goblin, the goblin is a 'ginseng doll', this is a 'Tuqi'~ that is~" Before I finished speaking, the Tuqi who had been closest to me had enough strength and catapulted towards my throat, I hurriedly waved the staff to him, only to feel a feeling from the tip of the staff hitting the quilt, and the Tuqi let out a miserable scream and flew out upside down.
When the other Tuqi saw it, they all screamed and were about to pounce, and at this time, Da Zhuang asked at any time, "What is it?" â
"It's the 'charm' in 'The Charm of the Spirit'!!" I roared, swinging my staff and striking the monster that jumped up.
Immediately, among the earthlings, there was a white-haired earthling, which was obviously larger than the others, and suddenly there was a sharp howl, and those earthlings drilled into the hole in the ground one after another.
"Ah, Dao Chief, you are so powerful, they are scared, hahaha." Da Zhuang said excitedly.
"Don't want to die, shut up!" I yelled angrily.
"Uhhh Before Da Zhuang could react, suddenly rows of small bags bulged up on the wall, and a soil elder came out of a small bag, and it catapulted at me, I hurriedly waved my staff to fight, and then pulled Da Zhuang and ran to the depths.
At this time, Da Zhuang was only so frightened that he cried and called his mother, and ran forward desperately, running for a while, feeling that Tuqi was thrown off by us for a distance, and then, I reached out and snatched the oil lamp in his hand, put it on the ground, and took out a "Jedi Talisman" and said: "Tai Shang, search for evil spirits... â
At this moment, rows of small bags were also bulging on the walls around us, and in the midst of the loud shout, the white earth elder slowly jumped to less than a meter in front of me, looking at me with a playful face, a sneer flashed at the corner of my mouth, and then put the charm into the oil lamp and lit it, and then slapped it heavily on the ground, at the same time, "Huh~", a Tuqi stuck out of the bag, but was stuck by the wall, unable to advance or retreat, and was "huh~" screaming, In other bags, there was a "bang" sound of the elders hitting the dirt bag and not being able to open it.
When the white-haired earth elder saw it, a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes, and he turned around and jumped away, but how could I give him this opportunity, at this time, he had already hooked his feet with the handle of the yin and yang staff and hooked him to the ground.
"Huh~" The white-haired earth elder screamed, turned over and bit my right hand, I hurriedly turned the cane in my hand, firmly suppressed him under the staff, and then took out a "demon suppression talisman" with my left hand and said, "Yang Qi Xuantian Great Sage, descend to the spirit god... â
With my spell, the white-haired earthy elder seemed to have seen the most terrifying thing in the world, howling and struggling desperately, but as I slapped the "demon charm" on his head, he fell to the ground softly like a deflated ball, and his mouth actually made a "huh~huh~" begging for mercy.
At this time, the originally sluggish Da Zhuang actually pounced on him with an arrow, and was about to step on it fiercely, so I hurriedly kicked him over, "Don't hurt him, only if he lives, we can get out alive." â
Da Zhuang just wanted to argue about something, but saw that the bags on the walls around him had been slowly broken, and angry blood-red eyes stretched out from inside, and then Da Zhuang collapsed to the ground in fright and urinated on the ground.
Ignoring Da Zhuang anymore, I reached out and grabbed the white-haired soil qi, and said angrily, "Let them stand back, otherwise, Poor Dao will kill you first!" â
"Huh~" The white-haired Tuqi hissed for a while, and the group of Tuqi were like obedient little brothers, all of them were pushed into the hole, and after a while, they appeared twenty steps behind us.
"What about our people?" I continued to scream at the white-haired earth elderly.
The white-haired earth elder glared at me with anger in his eyes, I couldn't help but say, and took out a "Taiyi Corpse Extermination Talisman" incantation, "Qianyuan Qianyuan, shine through the Quartet, Huo Tian's big axe, drive away the ominous... At this time, suddenly "hiss~" sounded, and a mist appeared in the big eyes of the white-haired earth-aged man in his right hand.
The white-haired Tuqi closed his eyes and said "Huh~" twice, and soon a sound of rustling came, and a group of Tuqi actually dragged four humanoids out of the way, but when they checked, they found that one was Lao Lu, who had no right arm, he was covered in blood, and stood up with severe pain on the wall of the well, nodding to me; One is Brother Zhou, who lost his left leg, and at this time he was already fainting from pain; One is a big and strong cousin, and the other is a big and strong friend who has lost half of his head.
When Da Zhuang saw his cousin, he cried and crawled over, and before he could speak, I hurriedly said: "Lao Lu, Da Zhuang, hurry, help those two panting ones to go out quickly, my palace!" â
"That..." What else did Da Zhuang want to ask?
"Don't want the dead one, go away! Get lost! I screamed angrily.
Immediately, I saw Da Zhuang and Lao Lu carrying their cousin on their backs, and the other supporting Brother Zhou, stumbling towards the well, while I followed them with a staff and a white-haired Tuqi, and a group of Tuqi also jumped up and down behind me.
When I arrived at the mouth of the well, I saw that Da Zhuang and they had escaped and ascended to heaven, and I also came to the mouth of the well and turned to look at the soil in the well.
"Dao Chief!" Brother Zhou, who had just woken up, gritted his teeth and said, "Catch him, I'm going to kill him!! â
"Huh~" The white-haired earth elder in his hand screamed and closed his eyes.
The Tuqi behind them made another sharp sound, and as the last "Huh" of the white-haired Tuqi ended, they also fell silent.
And I, after thinking about it, still relied on the yin and yang staff, reached out to uncover the rune on the top of the white haired earth elder's head, put him on the ground, touched his white hair and said: "It's not easy to read that your cultivation is not easy, you can go, but you are not allowed to hurt people in the future, including your clan!" If you ask me to meet again, I will not be merciful, go ahead~"
The white-haired old man blinked, as if he understood, stood up, and yelled at me for a while, and then, bouncing on the ground, out of my field of vision. So, I picked up my staff, and turned to leave, just when I was about to get into the car, there was a leisurely "goodbye~see you~" behind me, and when I looked back, it was, a white-haired clay elder, standing at the entrance of the cave and looking at my departing back, seeing me turn my head, and then disappeared into the hole.
When he returned to M City, he first sent several of Da Zhuang's friends to the hospital, and then went to the tavern where Da Zhuang had been drinking before.
"Dao Chief, thank you," Da Zhuang said sincerely.
"It's okay, don't think about it, it's all over, take good care of your brother." I took a sip of my own drink.
"Dao Chief, what is that Tuqi?" Da Zhuang wondered.
"Tuqi," I lit a cigarette, "that thing was originally only the size of a thumb, and like the fang, it was an animal that grew hundreds of meters underground, and when they sucked human blood, they would change into this form, and legend has it that after absorbing the blood of a hundred people, they would grow white hair, open their minds, and when they were full of thousands of people, they would spit out human words." â
"So, what was that just now..." Da Zhuang couldn't help but be stunned.
"I don't know," I said, looking up at the night sky, "I guess there have been a lot of mining disasters in the past, and he must have sucked the blood of a lot of mining corpses." â
"What? You don't know? Da Zhuang was full of suspicion, "We were here before, and there were the most people who made ideas... â
"Eh, a vicious circle~" I spat out a sentence leisurely, and then poured a sip of wine.
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