Looking at Lion Rock in the north, Victoria Harbour in the south, and across a bend in the strait, is Hong Kong Island. The top of the Taiping Peak, like a giant beast abruptly on the sea. On the sea, white sails dotted, and ships whimpered. The situation of islands, mountains and bays is different from that of Shanghai on the banks of the Huangpu River. At the end of Nathan Road, the Peninsula Hotel is under construction. With a hot and humid wind blowing in the turquoise bay, Qin Beiyang saw the South China Sea for the first time.

At dusk, they decided to stay in Kowloon for one night. Qin Beiyang warned himself of the two words "hidden", this time he went south, he asked not to show the mountains and water, absolutely not to live in the hotel, and the inn was also exempt.

"I thought of a good place!"

There was nothing that Lao Jin couldn't do, so he took his master to the northeast corner of the Kowloon Peninsula, where there was a row of barren and dilapidated city walls. There are four words on the hole of the city gate - Kowloon Walled City.

Countless dilapidated houses and ragged paupers in the city. Bare-ass kid playing on an old antique cannon on the city wall. The city was covered with drying sheets, children's diapers, women's underwear and even foot wraps, and thousands of colorful prayer flags fluttering. At sunset, it looks like a golden ruin of an ancient tomb.

"What is this place?"

"Master, we are standing on Chinese territory." Lao Jin walked through the sewage-ridden alleys, "In the First Opium War, Britain cut Hong Kong Island; the Second Opium War, which cut off the Kowloon Peninsula; In the year of the Pentecostal Reform, the British forcibly leased the New Territories. Only this Kowloon Walled City was managed by the Qing Dynasty garrison, and its sovereignty still belongs to China. ”

"Is this what is called an 'enclave' in international law? But how can you not see China's five-color flag? ”

As soon as the British invaded the New Territories, they forcibly expelled the Qing officials from the Kowloon Walled City, but due to the treaty between China and Britain, it became an extrajudicial place. Theoretically, the Chinese government has the right to exercise sovereignty here, but the Beiyang warlords are too busy to take care of themselves, so where can they care about it? ”

Zhongshan couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Jin, why are you so familiar with this place?" ”

"I've been to Hong Kong twice, both times in the Kowloon Walled City. The first time, in the year of the catastrophe in Taibai Mountain, I went to the South China Sea to look for mermaids, and Hong Kong was a must-pass place. The second time, during the Xinhai Revolution, my father and I were ordered to come here to infiltrate the Hong Kong Governor's Palace in Central and assassinate a Qing Dynasty minister who was attending a banquet. The Governor's Mansion was heavily guarded, and my "Assassin Dao" was a little less proficient, and I was shot in the chest. In order to save me, Ah Hai cut the throats of several guards and stabbed the Governor of Hong Kong! ”

Qin Beiyang gave birth to a picture of "three assassins attacking the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion at night": "Ah Hai has a life-saving grace for you? ”

Don't look at Lao Jin like a rude miner in the northwest, but his brain is better than a monkey, and he can hear that Qin Beiyang has thorns in his words.

"The hosts! It's true that Ah Hai saved my life, but he betrayed Taibai Mountain, even if it was my own father, he would have to cut it with a thousand cuts! ”

"Don't worry about it!"

Zhongshan simply pulled a small bench and sat down: "Uncle Jin, say it quickly!" ”

"That night, nine deaths! Dad carried me on his back, Ah Hai fought his way, and the three of them escaped from the encirclement. The whole city of Hong Kong was under martial law, and the British soldiers, Hong Kong soldiers, and Gurkha soldiers were all dispatched. It was still my father's wit that sent me to the Kowloon Walled City and hid in this Chinese territory. Nominally the territory of the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty was unable to send people over, and the brothers of the triad protected me. I hid for seven days to recuperate, and finally hid in a coffin, pretending to be a leper who had escaped from the funeral. ”

"Fortunately, when the Xinhai Revolution happened, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was immediately destroyed."

"Picking up a life, I don't dare to participate in the assassination operation anymore, stay in the great northwest honestly, put down the dagger, pick up the miner's pickaxe, and deal with the ancient tomb and the tomb beast all day long. I still have a scar on my chest. ”

Lao Jin unbuttoned his shirt and showed off his chest muscles, which were obviously scars from gunshot wounds.

Qin Beiyang climbed onto the highest roof of the Walled City and looked at the entire Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong Island: "Okay, tonight, we will live in this Chinese enclave!" ”

Although the Kowloon Walled City is a three-way street, in fact, someone is in charge, it is the Hong Kong triad, and it is more resounding name: Triad.

It was night, and the crescent moon was high.

The brothers of the triad feasted Lao Jin and set up a banquet of dark cuisine in the middle of the slums densely packed like pigeon cages.

Lao Jin wanted to give up his seat to Qin Beiyang and introduce the new owner of Taibai Mountain. As soon as Qin Beiyang came up, he interrupted Lao Jin, a craftsman who claimed to be a nobody, and followed "Uncle Jin" out to see the world. He was young, dressed in shabby craftsman clothes, with long, greasy hair that hadn't been washed in days, and a big dog on a leash, and no one doubted his words.

What surprised Qin Beiyang even more was that Lao Jin could speak a few words of half-baked Cantonese. It turned out that he was taught by Meng Po when he was a child, and that was the native pronunciation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the language of the old king and his brothers in the Tianjing court back then. If the Taiping Revolution was victorious and the change of dynasty was successful, today's Chinese language is Cantonese.

The so-called triad is the rudder of the Hongmen Heaven and Earth Society. There was a boss of the Chaozhou Gang at the table, saying that Chen Jinnan, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, died in battle, and his successor Tianyou Hongying was known as "the time, the place, and the people", so it was called the "Triad". Hongmen Hongshuntang seal letter is a triangle, and the triad also uses a triangle as a symbol, and the British translate it as "Triad".

Hongmen's purpose was to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and many remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fled to Hong Kong and became triad bosses. As an authentic descendant of the Kingdom of Heaven, Lao Jin was hospitablely entertained by the triad bosses, and put on a "Kowloon Walled City Feast" - osmanthus cicadas, fresh blood clams, sand worms in western Guangdong, black chickens dismantling and stewed old cats, fried earthworms, and finally the indescribable joy of the cow.

Qin Beiyang only ate a few bites, then he was frightened and stopped moving. Lao Jin was very happy, French red wine with dry fried beef river, and finally hugged two Japanese prostitutes left and right, and entered the spring festival tent arranged by the triad.

Zhongshan also saw that his eyes were shining, and Qin Beiyang warned: "You don't want to follow him!" ”

"Master, why would you allow Lao Jin to be presumptuous?"

"I need to observe the nature of each and every one of you. Lao Jin is the opposite of things, and sooner or later there will be a lesson. ”

Qin Beiyang rented a pigeon cage, squeezed in with Zhongshan and Jiuse, and survived this night for the time being, and then looked for a boat to go to sea tomorrow morning.

The long journey was tiring, and I fell asleep as soon as my eyelids were closed......

He dreamed of the Kowloon Walled City, where more and more people poured into the rapidly changing sun, moon and stars, living like rats in a hole in the ground, building buildings layer by layer like building blocks. The greatest anthill hive on the earth is comparable to the miracle of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, and it is like a reverse-growing underground palace tomb, like the Bailuyuan Rubik's Cube Tomb, with thousands of tombs and coffins, expanding the rancid territory to the sky. That's the real steel jungle, the darkness of the Amazon rainforest. The starry sky is tainted by the lights of the night, the earth is raped by flowing desires, and the firmament is filled with flying beasts. The body is part of the neural network, and the soul becomes a wanderer who wanders around the tree and has no branches to rely on.

In those days, the Tomb Beast was just a distant legend......

When I wake up.

Qin Beiyang opened his eyes and returned to the Spring Night of 1922 AD, the Kowloon Walled City in the hinterland of Hong Kong.

There was noise outside the pigeon cages, the cries of children, the screams of women, the roars of men, and the howls of animals......

The nine-colored eyes glowed green, the antlers on the top of the head were magnificent, and bronze scale armor grew all over the body. Nakayama panicked and pulled out a quick gun from his arms. The slums are in a mess, as if a hornet's nest has been stabbed by a child, but the hornets don't know where the enemy is?

It's going to be a big deal again.