"The fog here is the same as the fog around the Mandarin Hotel, and in a little while, you'll see—"

Before Mrs. Wei finished speaking, a blood-red banner suddenly appeared in the mist.

Lin Xuan was taken aback, because those triangular flags were formed by the condensation of clouds, mist and water vapor, and each flag was about half a foot long, hovering straight in the air, like a blood-red arrow.

The head of the flag was facing northwest, and the tail was facing southeast, as if a group of soldiers with battle flags were hurrying to the northwest, and the flags in their hands were all straightened by the wind.

"Qiyun." Lin Xuan only said two words.

He clearly remembered the flag clouds that appeared on Mount Everest, and the shapes and movements of the flags in those clouds were exactly the same as what he saw now—or conversely, what he saw was a replica of the flag cloud on Mount Everest.

The role of the flag in the army is to summon and dispatch, so every time the two armies fought in ancient times, the position of the flag bearer who followed the commander in the formation was quite important. As soon as the boss's handsome flag fell, it meant that the coach had been killed, and the army was immediately defeated.

In fact, the original military flag was actually a reflection of the tribal people's totem worship in military applications. China is recognized as one of the earliest countries in the world to have a military flag. Since the late primitive society in China, the flag has been used as a symbol of the gathering of ethnic groups, and the style of the flag at that time was simple, just a symbolic object or figure tied to the head of the pole.

"Erya" records: There are bells and flags.

"Zhou Li" records: Jiaolong is the hand.

The above saying is to hang a bell on the pole and draw a dragon as a banner on the silk. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor practiced the formation of the army, set up five flags and five commanders, and "Lu" is a kind of banner for commanding the army in ancient times. Most of the military flags often have totem worship colors, and when marching into battle, the flag is held high, and the image of a falcon is painted on it.

In "Releasing Names and Releasing Soldiers", it is said: The bear and tiger are the flags, and the generals are built, like the tigers. This sentence refers to a kind of military flag with a bear and tiger as the pattern, implying that the coach of the team is as fierce and unstoppable as a bear and tiger.

In ancient times, when the generals went out of battle, there was a flag behind them, which was the oldest name of the military flag. The color of the ancient military flag, the size of the flag, the length of the flagpole and the decoration indicate the status of the leader, and at the same time reflect his cultural psychology. The military flags of each dynasty are marked with the words "Dynasty Abbreviation" on the banner. If embroidered with "Tang" Yu, it is the Tang Dynasty army. In addition, commanders and generals often embroidered their surnames on banners to distinguish them from other armies. Like Guan Yu's army playing the "Guan" word flag, and the Yue family army playing the "Yue" word flag. There are also those with titles as flags, such as the rebel army of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, who played the "Chuang" word flag.

With the development of society and the needs of military command, the style of flags has been continuously improved and the types have been increasing. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there were four kinds of flags that were mastered and used by military generals, division commanders, brigade commanders, and commanders. The "Qi Family Army" led by Qi Jiguang, a military strategist in the Ming Dynasty, has a three-army command flag for the main general, and a recognition flag to identify the identity of the general.

Seeing Qiyun, Lin Xuan's first thought was the evolution and change of the above military flags. Of course, he has been in Tibet for three years, and he has studied the legendary "Top Ten Unsolved Mysteries", which naturally includes the "Everest Qiyun".

Ordinary people, reporters, mountaineers, meteorologists regard the "Everest flag cloud" as a pure meteorological change, only from the perspective of cloud map changes, meteorological theory, alpine air flow, wind direction, wind force, etc., and regard the flag cloud as a natural meteorological wonder in the Everest area, and no one will explore the significance of its appearance more deeply.

On the contrary, the elderly cultivators of the major monasteries in Tibet were always worried about the appearance of Qiyun, and many people expressed this concern to Lin Xuan more than once.

The old lama of Drepung Monastery once told Lin Xuan personally: "You want to see the things behind the Qiyun, where did they come from, where did they go, and where did they go?" The flag on the ground represents a direction of progress and a guide for mankind. Above Mount Everest is the sky, and the flag there represents the direction of a kind of god and Buddha. Only by recognizing it can human beings move in the right direction under its guidance. We meditate day and night in order to realize this. Seven of the ten people who comprehended the mysteries of Qiyun among my great masters and ancestors all went away, leaving no hair; Only five of the ten people of my ancestors who comprehended the mystery left relics when the rainbow was transformed; There is no one out of ten that my masters can attain. This is really a sad thing, because the more social civilization progresses, the farther we are from the time of epiphany. Young man, what you have to do is not to look up and record it in pictures and texts, but to bow your head, put it in your heart, warm it with your heart, and feel it until it blossoms on the stone. ”

The old lama Danbai was unable to comprehend the secret of the Qiyun of Mount Everest until his death, so in his last words, he asked his disciples to wrap his relics with a thangka painted with Qiyun and enshrine them in the ice cave at the top of Mount Everest forever. He hoped that his soul would be able to attach to the scriptures he had read during his lifetime, and that he would transform his life into another form in the closest place to Qiyun and continue to meditate on and on.

"It's Colewin true, but it's different." Mrs. Wei said.

Lin Xuan nodded, because the two words he had just blurted out in extreme surprise, and the situation in front of him should be summed up in another sentence in Tibetan. The Tibetan phrase is so obscure that it cannot be described by a Chinese transliteration, but can only be called "blood flag cloud" in a nutshell.

"It's the legendary 'Blood Flag Cloud.'" Lin Xuan said.

With his and Mrs. Wei's knowledge, there is naturally no need to explain the particularity of this strange phenomenon, because the ancient scrolls in the major temples in Tibet have said that "the blood flag cloud represents the catastrophe of the slaughter of the city".

There was once such a song among rap artists in Tibet, telling the story of "the Guge Kingdom was slaughtered by the Southern Eagle Demon".

The Guge Kingdom once flourished in the history of Tibet, with developed craftsmanship and strong soldiers, standing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a long time without falling, and beating the surrounding small countries to the wind. It is indeed a very strange thing that such a vast empire has finally disappeared silently, and that no descendants remain. Over time, Guge's disappearance has become an unsolved case.

The emergence of this unique group of rap artists belongs to the phenomenon of "apocalypse", and many secret histories that ordinary people do not know have gradually flowed out of the mouths of these artists who wander all over the world, becoming the only clue to reveal the "mystery of Guge".

In the lyrics, during the heyday of the Guge Kingdom, a "blood flag cloud" suddenly appeared in the sky one day, the red cloud became heavier and heavier, the pressure became lower and lower, and the water vapor all turned red, and finally condensed into a red rain.

After the Guge people panicked, they couldn't imagine that something more terrible would follow, a group of winged eagles and demons descended from the sky and slaughtered everyone.

Lin Xuan had consulted no less than ten rap artists to verify this matter, and came to the conclusion that the so-called "Eagle Demon" should be a team similar to modern pilots, able to fly freely in the air, carrying sticks that can spit out flames. After landing, regardless of men, women and children, all of them were wiped out, and then they sat on the back of a big bird and roared away.

The slaughter was the equivalent of a quick move by a modern assault force, with the "flaming clubs" being submachine guns, the big whistling birds being helicopters, and "flying freely" in the air, which could be small parachutes or gliders often used by special forces.

As a modern person, Lin Xuan was able to piece together the fragments of rap artists' words into a complete story, but in the past, listeners in Tibet didn't even know what a helicopter was, so how could they understand the true meaning of this story? The only thing that surprised Lin Xuan was that in the era of the Guge Dynasty, how could there be such a thing as "helicopter firearms"?

It is easy to destroy an ancient dynasty with modern firepower, which is equivalent to using an adult to eliminate a baby in a hospital conservatory.

Originally, Lin Xuan wanted to pursue the truth by searching for more rap artists, but after the Battle of Ghost Lake, all his energy was occupied by things related to the "Earth Axis". In any case, there is no doubt that the "blood flag cloud" represents mass killing.

Once this was figured out, Lin Xuan and Madam Gu immediately glanced at each other, unable to understand this huge omen. Today's Hong Kong Island is the territory of the People's Republic of China and an inalienable part of the mainland, and it will never allow the enemy to slaughter the city and plunge a pearl city into a sea of smoke and fire.

"Did the omen bring the bad omen, or did the bad omen release it in advance?" Mrs. Wei whispered.

"It's a bit of both." Lin Xuan replied.

Evil deeds and bad omens are inherently complementary to each other, and if someone foresees the bad omens in advance, they will naturally be able to crack the bad omens and turn the evil into naught with careful and careful step-by-step measures. In ancient times, there were always many astrological officials, historians, soothsayers, and sorcerers under the command of kings, which was based on this principle.

Today, Hong Kong Island is a global wealth center, but under the situation of high economic prosperity, many masters of allerie art have avoided the hustle and bustle and fled overseas, resulting in the loss of talent. Otherwise, there will be a large number of magicians who will be able to spot these strange signs and work together to solve the problem.

Mrs. Wei's face suddenly showed a sad look: "In ancient times, Wenchen died in admonition, and military generals died in battle, and everyone was willing to sacrifice their lives, preserve their honor, and abide by loyalty for the responsibility on their shoulders. Today, too many people are so obsessed with the pursuit of power and wealth that they have left their responsibilities behind. Xiaolin, if this battle happens to us people, I hope you can hold high the banner of battle and continue this battle for the defense of Hong Kong Island forever. ”

Lin Xuan felt a little uneasy in his heart, but more than that, he couldn't bear it.

Each generation has its own heroes, and it is only by them that the justice and axioms of this world can be continued. When they get older, this kind of task will naturally fall to the next generation. When the next generation emerges as a leader, the previous generation will stop fighting and killing, retire to the forest, and live out their old age in peace.

For example, Mr. Wei, Mrs. Wei, Mr. Yuan, Yang Tian, Yang Feng, Su Lun, Xiao Keleng, they belong to the elite of the previous generation. They should have retired a long time ago, but because the next generation has not yet matured, they must stay and fight. As long as it is a war, there will be casualties, which is a very helpless thing. Of course, the reputation and exploits they have built up with their life's work can be ruined.

There was such an example in China's gymnastics world, where a gymnastics master who once shocked the world could not find a suitable successor, so he had no choice but to go into battle with an injury and missed in all events, which was rumored to be a joke by the Global Sports Bureau. After returning to China, the man immediately retired and turned to business, never mentioning the courage of the year.

"Don't worry, as long as I have a breath of air, I will save Mr. Wei back." Lin Xuan said.

Mrs. Wei smiled bitterly: "Xiaolin, if the next generation of young people in China are like you, there will be hope for Hong Kong Island——"

While they were talking, the "blood flag cloud" had a new change