Under the city gate of the south city of Yongcheng, a square high platform has just been erected in the morning, and the animal pattern incense burner has been erected around the high platform, and the four sides of the incense burner are pasted with banners full of strange spells.

The green smoke from the flags and incense burners danced in the wind, attracting the attention of countless curious people below.

The platform was surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, who built a human wall to keep out those who wanted to come forward to see what was going on.

"What is this for? Asking for rain? ”

"I heard that Fu Dashuai invited a master to exorcise demons."

"Exorcism?"

"The plague is rife in the city, and it is the devil who haunts it."

"Yes, yes, yes! The Poseidon Cult also said the same, and it seems to be true. ”

"Isn't there a Poseidon Sect? Why does Fu Dashuai want to exorcise demons? ”

"Who knows? Let's see later. ”

While the people were talking, on the city wall behind the high platform, Cai Qianqing, who was wearing Langzhong clothes and all kinds of strange spells written on his clothes, stood there and watched coldly.

Qiu Gubo hurriedly walked from a distance: "Mr. Cai, I have prepared the first step you ordered. ”

"The platform is well built, and the other three sides of the platform are the same size and height as this one, right?" Cai Qianqing didn't look back, "Did the remarks of the handsome exorcism also spread?" ”

Qiu Gubo nodded and said: "The high platforms in the east, west, and north have almost no deviation from this, and the remarks have been spread, even the foreigner residential area in Xingang I have sent people, and now the whole city basically knows that the big man wants to exorcise the demon." ”

Cai Qianqing finally turned around: "Now I'm waiting for the second step of the doppelganger technique." ”

Qiu Gubo glanced up at the other end of the aisle, and took out his pocket watch: "We have to wait, Xin Guangyun hasn't arrived yet, and no one else can do this except him." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xin Guangyun appeared at the end of the aisle, led by three masked men in cloaks behind him.

"It's coming!" Qiu Gubo breathed a sigh of relief, "I finally arrived at the scheduled time." ”

Xin Guangyun put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "As long as I promise something, it will definitely be done, Mr. Cai, Adjutant Qiu, please see, are you satisfied?" ”

After Xin Guangyun finished speaking, he made a gesture, and the three of them immediately pulled down their masks, revealing three faces that were almost identical to Cai Qianqing.

Cai Qianqing walked slowly past the three of them, and then stood still: "Very good, basically no flaws." ”

Xin Guangyun raised his eyebrows, glanced at Qiu Gubo, and asked with a smile: "Basically?" ”

Cai Qianqing looked at Xin Guangyun: "The biggest flaw in the disguise technique lies in the shape and sound, as long as they firmly remember the pace I taught and don't speak normally, they won't be recognized." Now, you immediately send someone to escort the three of them to the east, west, and north towers, hidden in the mechanism under the high platform, and remember not to let people see them, and then take the wolf smoke of the south tower as a signal, and let them rise to the clouds as planned. ”

Qiu Gubo nodded: "Understood." ”

After saying that, Qiu Gubo waved to the group of soldiers waiting in the distance, and the soldiers immediately trotted forward to escort the three "doppelgangers" to leave quickly.

Xin Guangyun stood with his hands behind his back and looked at the high platform downstairs: "I didn't expect that Mr. Cai would not only defend the city, but also pretend to be a ghost." ”

"Throughout the ages, whenever there is civil unrest, there must be someone who is secretly pretending to be a ghost. In the art of war, the first thing to bear the brunt of is to defeat evil. Cai Qianqing's tone was cold, "Cults are demagogic and manipulate minds, which are far more terrible than the plague and evil diseases. The plague kills people and harms them for up to 10 years, while cults can be chaotic for a hundred years, and the world is uncertain if the dynasty is unstable! ”

Xin Guangyun nodded with a smile next to him: "If you want to get rid of it directly, I'm afraid it will backfire, so Mr. simply calculates and uses evil to counter evil." ”

Cai Qianqing said: "If the people's wisdom is not opened, the cult will not be able to break its roots." ”

Xin Guangyun disagreed: "Even if one day everyone is literate and full of poetry and books, the cult will not be able to break its roots, because those who establish evil spirits have the desires of people, and as long as they are people, they will definitely have desires." ”

Cai Qianqing asked: "Secretary Xin, in your opinion, if there is really that day, how should you deal with it?" ”

Xin Guangyun smiled: "Religion cannot disappear, and the general public needs faith. I have heard that some countries in the Western Regions are practicing the unity of government and religion, and that China has a vast land and many ethnic groups, so this will undoubtedly be self-splitting, and we can only use the power of the state to control the development of religion and restrict the rise of new religions. ”

Cai Qianqing was silent, but Xin Guangyun was still smiling at him.

After being silent for a long time, Cai Qianqing finally said, "Secretary Xin, has anyone ever told you that your smile is fake?" Don't you have a smile on your face compared to those street hustlers? ”

Xin Guangyun was still smiling: "The smile is not important, the important thing is whether the gentleman I just said agrees." ”

"If you really are Xin Guangyun, I agree with your argument." Cai Qianqing turned to leave, "It's a pity that you're not, you're just a meticulous person who can imitate others, and you can't even forget who you are." Also, you'd better not laugh, because when you do, you'll be exposed. ”

Xin Guangyun looked at Cai Qianqing's distant back, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, but it only disappeared for a few seconds, and the smile crawled back on his face, but this time the smile became extremely heavy.

"If I don't laugh, my husband should cry." Xin Guangyun looked at the city and muttered to himself, and then laughed out loud.

This time, he really smiled, from the bottom of his heart.

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At noon, the wind suddenly rose, and Qianliguang, who was standing on the north tower of the city, looked at the banner that was blown by the wind on the high platform, frowned slightly, and whispered: "God, there is really wind at noon." ”

At the same time, the Sophora ginseng and realgar guarding the West City Tower and the East City Tower also stood in the wind in surprise, their faces full of incredulity.

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On the top of the South City Tower, Qiu Gubo covered his pocket watch and took a deep breath: "Cai Qianqing actually understands celestial phenomena, strange people." ”

"In ancient times, people's understanding of nature was self-centered, and people's understanding of all things was limited to their eyes and ears. Yan Sun walked forward slowly with a cane, "Some people know the principles of heaven, but they use them to establish evil, create illusions for personal gain and deceive others, but after being recognized, they claim to be the spiritual peace of the public." ”

Qiu Gubo was a little puzzled by Yansun's words, but just stood there and listened quietly.

Yan Sun looked down and said: "History is the traces of the past where truth and falsehood coexist, and history will also be deliberately created because of the need to erase certain traces, so history needs to be studied, the contradiction is that everything has rules, but history has no rules, just like the battlefield, soldiers are not tired of deceit, and the art of war has no laws to follow, so history will give birth to the generation of the earth." ”

Qiu Gubo shook his head slightly: "I don't understand much." ”

Yansun looked at Cai Qianqing, who was slowly onto the stage below: "What is the purpose of the existence of the earth phase?" For yourself? Or is it for the world? Just like politicians, people hate them with lies, but they can't do without them, but politicians can live forever, and the earth may one day be drowned by the tide of history, because according to legend, they can reverse the days and change life and death, and the greater their ability, the deeper the grave they dig for themselves. ”

Qiu Gubo finally understood what Yansun was trying to express: "You are too worried. ”

Yansun said lightly: "You are still too young, you won't understand the truth of the master, right?" ”

Qiu Gubo didn't say anything.

Yansun said again: "Then what about the rabbit dead dog cooking?" ”

Qiu Gubo smiled slightly: "If you want to describe it like this, then we are all dogs." ”

Yansun raised his head and felt the wind blowing: "Yes, standing in the wind, I don't know whether I am alive or dead."

When Cai Qianqing slowly stepped onto the stage, the people in the audience suddenly became quiet, not only because of his strange dress, but also because of the violent wind at this time.

Cai Qianqing walked to the middle of the high platform, crossed his hands on his shoulders, and chanted a spell that others didn't understand at all, and his whole body slowly trembled, moving with the wind, slowly and calmly. Suddenly, he raised his arms high and made a gesture of worship to the sky, and then spread his arms, letting the long sleeves on both sides fall, and showing the runes above in front of everyone in the audience.

Sure enough, the crowd immediately boiled over, and people began to talk about it.

"What kind of clothes is that? What is written above? ”

"How many words do I know, it seems to be Chai Hu?"

"Chai Hu? Isn't that medicine? What does this mean? ”

"I remember! When I went to Yuzhou, I saw it in the temple, and it was Hua Tuo, the god of medicine! ”

"Yes, yes, when you say that, I also remember, it's Hua Tuo!"

"No wonder, only Hua Tuo came into the world to drive away the plague god."

While people were talking fiercely, Cai Qianqing suddenly turned towards the city tower, waved his arms and then put his hands together, and after letting go, three paper figures appeared in his left hand.

Then, Cai Qianqing walked around the stage with the paper figure in broken steps, deliberately letting the people in the audience see clearly that he was holding a paper figure in his hand. Then he walked back to Taichung, stepped on the mechanism in the middle, and let the smoke rise from the audience, and then threw the three paper figures into the smoke and shouted: "Get up!" ”

After this code, Qiu Gubo immediately waved his hand and ordered the soldiers on the city tower to light the wolf smoke.

At the moment when the wolf smoke rose, Cai Qianqing pointed to the location in the city and shouted: "Points!" ”

At this time, the soldiers near the tower in the city threw a huge paper kite, and after flying a few times, they quickly retracted the line and pulled it back, during this time, the attention of the people was attracted by the kite that Cai Qianqing pointed to, and they did not pay attention to the black wolf smoke rising in the distance.

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When the officers on the upper floors of the east, west, and north cities saw the wolf smoke, they immediately issued a secret signal and activated the high platform mechanism.

Like the high platform of the South City Tower, these three high platforms rose white smoke almost at the same time, so that when the smoke was thick, the "clone" jumped out of the middle of the high platform and stood in the smoke, looming.

"Someone showed up?"

"Where did you come from? Didn't you see anyone on stage? ”

"Are there really immortals?"

"I look like it, it appears in the clouds, isn't it a fairy?"

The smoke gradually dissipated, and the three "clones" in the three places were also like Cai Qianqing downstairs in Nancheng, and after showing the clothes with the incantation on them, they began to pray to the sky.

At the same time, some people in the audience exclaimed "Hua Tuo, the god of medicine".

The crowd in the three places was suddenly boiling, and the "clones" also began to dance the peculiar dance steps according to what Cai Qianqing had learned before, sometimes slow and sometimes fast, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, plus the strange spell in their mouths, which attracted the attention of all the onlookers below.

The people were pleasantly surprised, but at the same time worried.

Can the "God of Medicine Hua Tuo" really drive away the plague god completely?

That's something that Poseidon hasn't even done.