Chapter 23: The Night Watch
"If you die in this mission, you will be posthumously recognized as martyrs, honored with titles, and your families will be taken care of. Now, if you want to quit, you can go. After all, you were just ordinary cops. ”
After Jiang Ren finished speaking, the police officers below were also discussing, but in the end, no one withdrew, probably because they felt that there were guns, electric batons and other things in hand, and it was a group of three, so there was no danger.
Seeing that no one had withdrawn, the Qin people turned their heads and nodded to the master and the others, and then each took their divided teams and prepared to start patrolling the entire Lianghe Town. They had already divided Lianghe Town into five areas, and the most dangerous area near the deadly Huang Ge was the Qin and Guoyin people.
Before the official departure, the master gave each of us a triangular talisman made of paper money, and told us that if we encountered a suspicious demon, we would immediately crush the triangular amulet, and all those who held it would sense it and rush over.
As night fell, there were very few pedestrians on the streets of Two Rivers Town, and every house was lit up. Maybe it's because of last night's events in the town, and people on the road seem to be in a hurry, almost all of them are trotting all the way to get home. When I saw us and the police, I felt a little relieved and slowed down.
This actually gave me a sense of accomplishment, although most of the sense of security of these passers-by came from the three police officers in the back who didn't say a word, just watched vigilantly around them.
Qin Yu, who was wearing a Taoist robe, walked next to me, carrying a wooden sword on his back, his face was expressionless, and he looked very serious.
I clasped my hands behind my head, and no one was talking a little bored. I asked Qin Yu, saying that the knights I watched in the movie were all carrying a sharp divine sword on their backs, what do you mean by carrying a wooden sword? Is it useful to meet demons?
Qin Yu gave me a blank look: "If it weren't for the fact that the master was sure that you were the apprentice of the designer of the dark banknote, I would have thought that you were a thug on the street." Don't you even know the peachwood sword? ”
Peachwood sword? What's that? I've been dealing with the underworld money since I was a child, and I naturally don't know the peachwood sword that Qin Yu said.
"Anyway, it's still early, I don't think those demons will come out so early. Tell me, what is this peachwood sword? Also, what's the deal with the spell you stabbed me in the ass this morning? I asked as I walked around Qin Yu.
As soon as these words came out, even the three middle-aged police officers with serious faces in the back couldn't help laughing. Qin Yu was furious: "If you talk nonsense again and your mouth is not clean, I will really be unkind!" ”
"Okay, okay, no kidding, tell me about the peachwood sword. Also, I heard my master say that there are five veins of mountain doctors' fate and fortune, and there are a large number of complex branches and sects under these five veins. We belong to the faction of the Fu Gong branch under the mountain line, what about you? How did you become a big official? ‘’
Although Qin Yu was unhappy, perhaps for the sake of his fellow practitioners, he still told me honestly.
In traditional Chinese culture, the peach is the essence of the five trees, also known as the fairy wood, so it has the effect of warding off evil spirits. In Taoism, peach wood is used to make magic swords used by Taoist priests. This kind of magic sword made of peach wood, although it may not have any lethality for living people, but it has a great restraint effect on evil things and demons who cultivate evil laws, and its effect is much more powerful than that of steel weapons. All in all, this peachwood sword is not used to kill people, but to kill ghosts!
"I see, that means that your vein is using a peachwood sword as a magic weapon? It's kind of similar to the paper money that my master and I used, right? I heard your master say in the office before that you are a branch of Waidan, what kind of Wudang Mountain is it, is it a big sect? ”
"You talk a lot, don't talk a little and no one will treat you as a dumb person!"
In this way, under the vigilant gaze of the three calm middle-aged police officers, and under the noise of Qin Yu and me, we patrolled the town center area of Lianghe Town.
The night was as cool as water, and a full moon hung in the air like a silver jade plate, exuding a cold glow. The five of us walked down the street, and the moonlight stretched our shadows very long.
It was estimated that it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, and basically all the people in the town were asleep, and there was silence and darkness. Only the five flashlights in our hands shone like swords piercing through the darkness.
"Brother Zhao, I'm a little uncomfortable and want to go to the toilet." At this time, the youngest of the three middle-aged police officers said to the police officer surnamed Zhao who was in the lead. The three policemen are called Lao Zhao, Huzi, and Zhang Long. Now it's Zhang Long who wants to go to the toilet.
Lao Zhao nodded: "Go and come back quickly, we are waiting for you here." ”
Qin Yu stepped forward: "I'll go with you." ”
Zhang Long grinned: "Little comrade, you don't need to go to the toilet here, right?" I know you're from above, but all three of us have retreated. It's no better than an ordinary policeman, with a gun in hand, I have it in the world. With this thing, what other demon can beat me? He proudly shook the gun in his hand from me and Qin Yu, and then walked towards the dark alley.
Qin Yu and I also saw at this time that although the three middle-aged police officers didn't say anything on the surface, they looked down on us very much in their hearts. Maybe in their eyes, we are two children, and we don't have any hair, and there is no comparison with those who have been soldiers and turned careers and come back.
Anyway, we were young at the time, and we didn't know how to communicate with adults. If he had insisted on it at that time and followed Zhang Long together, maybe he wouldn't have died.
Zhang Long went to the public toilet while we waited for him outside the alley. Three minutes passed, he didn't come out, and we were already in a bit of a hurry. After another two minutes, Qin Yu frowned: "We can't wait any longer, go over and take a look." After speaking, he didn't care about Lao Zhao and Huzi, lifted the hem of his robe, and went to the public toilet at the end of the dark alley, and I and the two police officers naturally followed.
As we approached the end of the alley, I began to smell a foul smell, which was the smell of a public toilet. In a small town in Sichuan for 90 years, it is rare to have a public toilet, so the environment is naturally not flattering. But we couldn't care about it at this time, and lowered our voices and shouted, "Zhang Long, where are you?" ”
We shouted all the way to the door of the public toilet and didn't hear any response. If Zhang Long was in the toilet, he should have heard our shouts and should have responded. But now there is a dead silence all around, there is not the slightest sound, and the door of the black hole in the public toilet is like the open mouth of a hideous beast, which looks a little terrifying.
"Go in and have a look."
Lao Zhao and Huzi held a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, half-hooked, ready to cautiously walk towards the door of the common toilet. I lowered my voice and beckoned to them: "Wait, don't worry, two big brothers. If you use a flashlight like this, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, and it is easy to suffer. ”
They looked at me and they seemed to say what you can do?
I smiled and reached out to take out a large handful of yellow ordinary paper money from my pocket: "Don't forget that I'm not an ordinary person, and I can still do simple spells." ”
As I spoke, I focused my eyes on the yellow paper money in my hand. At the same time, I silently drew in my heart the one that represented the meaning of "light and flame" among the nine strange characters that the master asked me to practice, and shouted softly: "Hold"!
Suddenly, a warm current erupted from my body and ran down my fingertips, extending to the handful of paper money. At this moment, I threw the handful of paper money in my hand into the air, and all of them were separated and suspended in the air, blazing. This originally extremely dark alley is brightly lit.