Chapter 11: The Hunt
Mr. Shu saw that I was determined to get to the bottom of it, and he knew that he couldn't put it off today, so he lowered his head and pondered for a while, and said, "You let me say, I don't know where to start, or you ask!" ”
I can see that Mr. Tree didn't mean it, he was usually crazy, this kind of person generally doesn't pay attention to any logic, if you want such a person to tell the story of adulthood, you have to start him, just like the entanglement between grandpa and the big black snake.
Anyway, I have a stomach of mysteries to ask, and I'm not polite at the moment, and I ask like a cannon: "Who killed my father?" Why won't my father allow me to take revenge? What exactly is hunting? What is the connection between father and hunting? ”
Mr. Shu stretched out his hand and scratched his messy hair, looking embarrassed: "I don't know who killed your father, I was far away in Bashan at that time, and I didn't see the scene of your father's murder with my own eyes." However, your father did leave me a message, and although he did not mention the name of this person, he said that this person is very powerful, and even if I arrived, it would not necessarily be his opponent. ”
"To tell the truth, although your father is not as qualified as you by nature, he is much stronger than me, and he has many eyes, Lao Tzu's Qimen technique has been almost set by him, and his strength is far above me, he said this, in fact, it is just to save some face for my old man, he has been poisoned by others, and I will go in vain."
"This is also very likely the reason why your father does not allow you to take revenge, after all, the person who can kill your father must not be an ordinary person, as far as I know, there will be no more than ten in the world."
"As for your last two questions, they are actually one question, to put it simply, your father represents the hunt, which we call the commander."
"Hunting is an organization, inherited for thousands of years, with the goal of protecting ordinary people from supernatural forces and confronting objects from otherworldly objects, which has existed since the Tang Dynasty, and has been secretly funded by those in power in all dynasties, but has not been granted any title."
"Hunting people, if each one is either born with a different talent, or has a unique knowledge, which is very different from ordinary people. The first generation of commanders was Wei Zheng, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty. This person can kill foreign objects and thousands of miles away in his dreams, come and go in a flash, wake up a generation of famous ministers in a dream, and be ruthless in his dreams. ”
"At that time, there was a giant snake in the East China Sea to ascend to heaven in order to obtain the Tao, making waves, drowning countless fishermen along the border, devouring corpses and meat, although it had to turn into a dragon, but it violated the rules of heaven and could not fly, and was targeted by Wei Zheng, chased and killed it repeatedly, drove it from the East China Sea to Qinling, and trapped in Bashan."
"Its thing is a dragon, and when he enters Taizong's dream at night, he begs Taizong for mercy, saying that it is the same dragon vein, and asks Taizong to ask Wei for mercy on the second day, so as not to be killed."
"Taizong thought that it was also a dragon vein, and on the second day, he really sent someone to invite Wei Zheng to the palace to play chess, and begged each other in the game, Wei Zheng pretended to agree, and took the opportunity to general, and then took advantage of Taizong's low head to think hard about cracking, closed his eyes and wanted to sleep in his sleep, and first kill the evil dragon and Bashan, with the idea of absolute Taizong."
When I heard this, I looked at Mr. Shu with a puzzled expression and said, "Crazy old man, you won't bluff me, will you?" I've heard this story before, but it's a little different from what you said. ”
Mr. Shu didn't reply to my words at all, and continued: "Unexpectedly, this evil dragon's fate should not be extinguished, when Wei Zheng was killed, he suddenly broke the chess game, pushed it awake, only picked the dragon tendons, broke the keel, and beat it back to its original form, but it did not end its life. ”
"This thing has become a dragon, although it has been beaten back to its original form, the spiritual root has not been lost, and if it is cultivated again, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort, and it has devoured the human body, and the ferocity is stimulated, once it comes back, it will be even more vicious. But after the evil dragon was beaten back to its original form, it was no different from an ordinary little snake, Wei Zheng had been woken up halfway, and it was useless to fall asleep again, where could he still find it in the reckless Qinling Mountains. ”
"These spiritual creatures have a thousand-year lifespan, and Wei Zheng can't wait for this thing to come back, so in desperation, he summoned the nine strange people at that time and formed a hunt, the purpose is to pass it on from generation to generation, and when the evil dragon comes back in the future, there are good people who can compete with it, which is the origin of hunting."
"Among these nine strange people, each person's expertise is different, and it is divided into five groups according to the field: congenital, feng shui, qi men, gu art, and insect master, the congenital group wei zheng and wang yuanlang, the feng shui group is yuan tiangang and li chunfeng, the qi gate group is tianyi changhe and jiang yuancheng, and the gu art and insect master are unknown."
Hearing this, I already believe Mr. Shu's words, these people are all famous figures in history, if Mr. Shu lies, there is no need to pick these people to talk about things, just say a few names, no one knows whether it is true or false.
Mr. Shu continued, "These ten people have done a lot of earth-shattering things together. But with Wei Zheng's death and the loss of the dream killing, there were gradually disagreements between the nine people, mainly on the way to hunt abnormal creatures, there were different opinions, and the opinions became bigger and bigger, but fortunately, although they looked like they were separated, they could still get along safely, and they were passed down from generation to generation. ”
"With the passage of time, until the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the nine people finally turned against each other, and the two groups of four people of Gu Shu and insect master had similar interests, thinking that there should be no end to evil, as long as it is an abnormal creature, it must be hunted, regardless of good or evil, unscrupulous means, and never die."
"The five people of Congenital and Feng Shui and Qimen believe that this is against the will of heaven and harmony, and the killing is too heavy, and advocates that as long as the things of different kinds do not commit evil deeds, they will not be investigated, and it is better to let nature go."
"The war between the two factions finally broke out, the five-on-four situation, after several battles, the four Gu Shu and the insect master were defeated, went to the southeast, escaped into the barbarian land, and rarely set foot in the Central Plains since then. But it is also because of this that the four veins of Gu art and insect master have taken root and multiplied in the southeast generation, and even spread to the land of Nanyang, because of the ferocious means, they are deeply respected by some people with unrighteous hearts, and they have become evil arts, which is now what everyone calls Gu magic and head lowering. ”
"And the remaining three gates, congenital abnormalities are easy to be unacceptable to the world, Feng Shui metaphysics is obscure, most of the descendants know little about it, and the art of Qimen has also been ruined by those divine stick spirit mediums, but it is gradually declining."
"Rao is like this, the descendants of the three doors still stick to their beliefs, while hunting those alien creatures who have committed evil deeds, while strictly investigating the traces of the evil dragon in Bashan, and looking for suitable candidates to recruit and hunt to supplement the shortage of manpower. However, the selection system is extremely strict, and there are always very few people who can get started. ”
"Until 1926, the Qimen Jiang family finally came out of a great figure, called Jiang Feiyun, self-proclaimed general, this person not only has innate instincts, but also talented, in just 18 years, not only learned all the legendary door of the arts, but also worshiped the Tianyi Qimen heir Shu Dongming as a teacher, the fusion of the two Qimen techniques, but also the metaphysics of feng shui is very deep, at the age of 20 he was appointed as the hunting commander, at the age of 25 single went to the southeast, subdued the descendants of the Gu art and the insect master, revived the hunting hero, can be called a millennium wizard."
"Under the leadership of Jiang Feiyun, the hunt has been carried forward to the extreme, its prestige has grown day by day, its strength has become more and more huge, and it once controlled the lifeblood of the alien things on the land of China."
"Extreme power will breed extreme expansion, and the hunt will finally be divided again, and it will take the old path hundreds of years ago. One faction is dominated by Jiang Feiyun's father, Jiang Baihe, who advocates the elimination of evil, unscrupulous means, and no distinction between good and evil. One faction is dominated by Jiang Feiyun's senior brother, Shu Haifeng, who advocates not to commit evil deeds. ”
Hearing this, I was taken aback, isn't Shu Haifeng just a crazy old man? That Jiang Feiyun once worshiped under the door of the Shu family, learning the art of Qimen, and it is not surprising that he is a senior brother, but Jiang Feiyun was born in 1926, and he is eighty-eight years old, and the crazy old man is his senior brother, how can he be a little older than Jiang Feiyun! But the crazy old man looks like he is only about fifty at most, and if this is true, it is really a miracle.
Mr. Shu was completely immersed in the past, not paying the slightest attention to the expression on my face, and continued: "This makes Jiang Feiyun very embarrassed, on the one hand, his biological father, and on the other hand, he is a brother who is like a brother, both of them have a certain truth, and neither side is easy to help, so I have to desperately suppress both sides. ”
"If Jiang Feiyun was an ordinary person, this matter might be forgotten, but this thousand-year-old genius drilled the tip of the bull's horns in this matter, and suddenly went crazy without warning, not only did the person become delirious, but also put forward a terrifying idea."
Speaking of this, Mr. Shu's face suddenly became solemn, and my heart tightened for no reason, and blurted out, "What do you think?" ”