Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Sword Unsheathed
In desperation, the three of them could only take the lead in the cave. Before going down, Liang Ziwen handed them a miner's helmet, with a flashlight tied to it, there seemed to be fluorite in the cave, and with the light of the flashlight, you could clearly see a grass and tree a few meters away. Liang Ziwen followed the three people with a pistol, using them as guinea pigs to find a way.
Continuing deeper into the cave, you soon saw a stone staircase built downward. There were two lampposts on the side of the staircase, and the candles on them had long since been extinguished. The wax is white, and no one has used it for hundreds of years.
After Shen Qingming saw the candle, he said: "They didn't bring a flashlight when they went out at night, how could they choose to enter this kind of place in the dark?"
"Could it be that others will be like us and others will be guinea pigs to open the way?" Yang Xu analyzed, "Traces of a fight were found at the gate of the temple before, since it is not Liang Ziwen and them, that means there must be another group of people." ”
Before Shen Qingming could reply, Liang Ziwen had already put the gun against his back. said coldly: "If you don't want to die, don't stop." ”
Shen Qingming's bones softened in an instant, and he said flatteringly: "Be merciful to your subordinates, be merciful to your subordinates! The little one knows it's wrong! I know it's wrong! I won't hesitate to spare my dog's life and treat you as a cow and a horse in the future!"
"Where are you wrong? You're right, and you won't be wrong if anyone is wrong. It's all my fault, you're always right. Liang Ziwen said.
Shen Qingming did not forget to complain in his busy schedule: "This, this, this...... When you ask, I can't say it for a while. But Brother Liang, why do you sound so familiar with this line?"
Liang Ziwen felt out of his temper, coughed dryly twice and said, "Ahem, cough! Hurry up and explore the way ahead, if you talk more, you will have to ask the bullet for the answer." ”
The stone staircase is not long, and it takes two minutes to reach the bottom. The staircase leads to the entrance of an ancient tomb of the former dynasty, Yang Xu is very interested in cultural relics, and he can see at a glance that this is a Ming tomb. The Ming Dynasty was strong, the tomb built was impregnable, the walls were two layers of stone walls, the middle was penetrated by iron bars, and the gaps were poured with iron slurry to seal them, which was impermeable, even if the outside collapsed, it would not affect the inside.
The three of them swept it with a flashlight for a long time, and only after making sure that there was no beast like a sting before they entered with confidence. The interior of the tomb has been excavated clean, and a large altar has been built out of vain. The specifications of the altar are extremely high, the upper circle below the building structure, the four sides are square, there are edges and corners, smooth and neat, the shape on the top is like an inverted semi-circular rice bowl, called the heaven is round place, the rice bowl is engraved with the astrology on the cover, which is obscure.
Seeing this, Yang Xu could only shake his head: "This is the specification of the royal family's burial, isn't this an imperial mausoleum?"
Shen Qingming said: "Brother Liang has done so much so much, just so that we can help rob the tomb?
Seeing that there was no danger in the tomb, Liang Ziwen was relieved. stepped forward and kicked Shen Qingming, tied him and Yang Xu Linsheng together with a rope, and threw them aside. He walked up to the altar and muttered some words.
Shen Qingming took the opportunity to take out the glasses that Qin Yeyou had lost from his pocket, broke one of the glasses legs with force, and used the edges and corners to cut the rope back and forth. At this moment, a group of people poured out from the depths of the palace, looking dressed like villagers in Luming Village. The leader fired a shot at Liang Ziwen, but unfortunately the range of the homemade firearm was too close and did not hurt him.
Liang Ziwen rolled over and rolled down the altar with a harrier, and shouted over there: "General Fu, when is the time for retribution? ”
The leader over there fired three more shots at the altar before he said, "Usma, you really don't know that there is only one chance for this trick to be a god, and when the next time Shadow Moon comes, who knows what lives on this body." What's more, you set up a demon array back then, killing thousands of my brothers, this hatred is not shared, what else is there to say!"
"Toast and don't eat and drink!" Liang Ziwen was furious and pulled out his gun to shoot back.
The villagers were outnumbered and soon surrounded the altar. Liang Ziwen and the others went back and forth with the villagers on the altar, their weapons and personnel were much better than the villagers, and the two sides were at a stalemate for a while.
General Fu ...... Shen Qingming figured out the ins and outs of this matter between the lightning and the flint. If that's the case, the whole thing is really weird.
Lin Sheng saw that Shen Qingming had an epiphany, and hurriedly asked what was going on.
There was still some time before the rope could be completely cut, so Shen Qingming cleared his throat and began to explain the ins and outs: "This matter starts with the fog of this Luming Village, this fog is not an ordinary fog. We all have personal experience, and in the fog our consciousness will gradually blur and our memories will be broken. If we are sucked into the vortex in the chaotic space, I am afraid that our memories will be completely lost and replaced with the memories of another person. At this time, are you still considered yourself?"
Lin Sheng replied: "Naturally not. At that time, I didn't even know my parents, my friends, or my girlfriends. ”
"Maybe if you lose your memory, it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people..... Shen Qingming habitually complained, "In short, this is like Li Dai Taozhuang, the person who is lost in the fog will be replaced by another person's thinking memory." I had only seen a child in the village before, young and old, most of whom had been replaced by others. ”
Speaking of which, Yang Xu had already understood a rough idea, and Lin Sheng was still very confused.
Shen Qingming said: "Let's start from the beginning, the Ming Dynasty founded the country, and a group of Miao people moved from Miao Xinjiang to live here, and that group of Miao people is the group of people who believe in the eyeball cult, and they carry out cult sacrifices, attracting the miscellaneous gods and wisdom kings. If that's right, the fog is also related to the King of Wisdom. The government of the Ming Dynasty sent troops to suppress the rebellion, but it strayed into the fog and the whole army was annihilated. It is estimated that the real Fu Yuan also died in the fog, and his memory was replaced by a Miao person, so the stone tablet left by Fu Yuan at the head of the village used the Miao script. After that, these silent traces disappeared, and they disappeared into history, and I guess they returned to YN, and the YN cult of decades ago was definitely related to them. ”
There was still no winner over there, but Liang Ziwen and they were already difficult to resist the attack. Shen Qingming continued: "It wasn't until around the founding of the People's Republic of China, and years of war, that this kind of witchcraft did not work, and the village was discovered. That kind of demon fog is temporarily hidden, and it reappears every time the shadow moon comes, and the people who are replaced by the fog will let the people around them also be assimilated in order to keep secrets, and over time, except for the foreign doctors and old Chinese medicine doctors in the village, they are no longer their original selves. ”
"Why don't they attack the old Chinese medicine doctor? Could it be that they have already colluded with the villagers!" Lin Sheng seemed to have his intelligence skyrocketing.
"I've been with the old Chinese medicine doctor for a while, and he doesn't seem to have been replaced. Shen Qingming said, "Even the replaced person will have a headache and brain fever, and he can't do without the doctor, if the memory of the old Chinese medicine doctor is not a doctor, won't they end up dying of illness." Moreover, the health clinic is the channel of communication between them and the outside world, and if something happens to the health, the village will eventually be exposed to the world. ”
Lin Sheng asked again, "What did the missing doctor say?"
Shen Qingming said: "I was trapped by the fog during the investigation, and I was finally replaced." Including the missing squad, I'm afraid it's the same fate. You also heard that the one named Liang Ziwen should have been replaced by a person named Usma. In this way, the identity of the villagers who were picked up by them at the beginning is also very clear, a poor person who was not completely controlled and still had a trace of mind, but unfortunately was brought back to the village by Liang Ziwen and his party, and completely assimilated into a member of Luming Village. Han Chen, who had gone crazy, hadn't been completely controlled, so maybe he would know something. ”
Yang Xu figured out the ins and outs of the situation, and helped Shen Qingming add: "In other words, Liang Ziwen didn't come to the health center to find us, but he was chasing and killing the captain Han Chen." ”
Lin Sheng sighed: "What did they see.....
Shen Qingming struggled with both hands, finally cut the rope, stood up to help Yang Xu Linsheng untie the restraints, and prepared to take the opportunity to run away secretly. The person on that side of Liang Ziwen has been submerged in the sea of people, and he can no longer be seen, even if his memory is replaced, Liang Ziwen is still in danger after all.
The leader of the villagers waved his hand and shouted, "Arrest all of them, don't let them escape!"
The truth is out of the wolf's lair and into the tiger's mouth. They consciously raised their hands in surrender, and the villagers held them up and led them deeper into the main hall. Inside, on the contrary, it was bare and unadorned, and the long corridor connected a huge stone door, and the gap in the stone door was filled with mist. On the side of the stone gate, Qin Yeyou and Chen Laozheng fell quietly to the ground.
You don't like to talk at night, but now you're tilting your head. Shen Qingming looked at Qin Yeyou and thought, he didn't talk much, and now he has no chance to show up.
The villagers pushed them together to the altar and shouted three times for the King of Wisdom. The leader of the villagers came up from the crowd, carrying a ceremonial dagger in his hand, and shouted at the stone gate: "Evil Usma is dead, please bless us with the great god! Let us be healthy forever! Wise forever! Always sober! The sacrifice has been brought, please allow us to offer this year's sacrifice to the great god!"
"Wisdom King, Wisdom King, Wisdom King!" Under the altar, the voices of the people rang out.
A young villager stepped up to the forefront, and the leader of the villagers handed the ceremonial dagger to the young man. The young man took the dagger tremblingly, and with a shout, he inserted the dagger into Chen Lao's body, cut a big hole, and then fainted.
The boy fainted, and the villagers in the audience became even more excited, and the shouts of the Wisdom King rose higher and higher. Shen Qingming's heart was cold, this is to sacrifice these living people one by one to what kind of wise king.
Another villager came to the stage, picked up the ceremonial dagger, glanced at it like a pig and a sheep, and finally fell in love with Shen Qingming. The villager happily raised his dagger and stabbed it towards Shen Qingming's heart.
"You can't kill me!" Shen Qingming shouted at the critical moment.
The villager moved the dagger away a little and asked, "Why can't I kill you?"
"Because there's because of this. Shen Qingming just shouted out in a hurry, how could he have thought about why, "Because, I am an immortal! You can't kill me!"
"Immortals, hehe, this kid says he is an immortal. The villager's mouth was crooked, "You are an immortal, how can you still be caught by us?
I use Shentong Express a lot.
Shen Qingming said: "That's the one standing behind you." It's called Fu Yuan! Fu Yuan, General Fu!"
The leader was stunned and asked him, "Who are you? How do you know who I am?"
Shen Qingming heard Liang Ziwen shout this person just now, General Fu, it is estimated that it is Fu Yuan's own memory inheritance.
Shen Qingming pretended to be very calm and said: "I am an immortal, of course I know who you are, you are a Ming soldier, a general of the defeated army, but you are in cahoots with the Miao cult, I ask you, do you know shame!"
Fu Yuan didn't answer, he was guilty, he was running away. His own attack worked.
Shen Qingming took advantage of the situation to pursue, further expanding his guilt, and said: "You are incompetent to lead your troops and let your soldiers be wiped out. It is disloyal to eat the king and join the enemy. It is unjust to collude with the Miao people, mutilate the Han compatriots, and sojourn in the bodies of others. It is unkind to kill each other and use swords in vain. Fu Yuan, you are not only incompetent, but also disloyal, unrighteous and unkind! Today I will do the right thing for heaven and eradicate you monster!"
"General, how should this be?" the villagers were at a loss, not knowing whether to trust that side.
"I don't care what kind of immortal you are, you can't escape death today. Fu Yuan's face was gloomy, "Hundreds of years ago, someone replaced me. Now, no one can stop me from taking the place of someone else. ”
"I'm going to give it a try. Shen Qingming whispered in his ear, "Today, this Heavenly Master is going to kill demons and demons." ”
Fu Yuan heard Shen Qingming's words, turned his head, and shouted to the audience: "He is an immortal, then he must have magical powers." Now, let's leave the victory or defeat to God to decide, fight to the death, and see if God favors the gods or me. ”
As soon as he spoke, the audience was in an uproar. Shen Qingming said in his heart that this is good, the person Fu Yuan replaced was already full of muscles, and he had the fighting skills of a military general in his memory, so he was definitely not Fu Yuan's opponent when he really fought. Unless......
After Fu Yuan finished speaking, he picked up the ritual dagger from the ground as his weapon. He said to himself: "I haven't used a big knife for hundreds of years, so I'll warm up with this dagger today." ”
This man may seem reckless, but in fact he is very cunning. Be sure to take advantage of his weakness and take it down with one blow.
Fu Yuan held the dagger in his backhand and said to Shen Qingming: "What kind of immortal is this, go find your weapon quickly, lest I be hacked to death with a knife." I cut my throat, and it was very uncomfortable when I died. ”
"You killed people to sacrifice to the Wisdom King, right?" Shen Qingming didn't take a weapon, but for him a question.
Fu Yuan said, "Yes." ”
Shen Qingming asked again, "How can you be sure that after you sacrifice the sacrifice, this wise king will definitely fulfill your wish, and how can you be sure that this god really exists?"
Fu Yuan replied: "There must be a god in the world, if you see a stone on the road, it can be considered naturally generated, but if you see a sword, you must think that there is a blacksmith sword behind it." Things under the world are so complicated, and the structure of man is a hundred times more complex than the sword, it must be that God created man. This god is the master here, the King of Wisdom. ”
When the King of Wisdom was mentioned, the audience shouted loudly Long live the King of Wisdom.
Recursive upwards, there are flaws in the logic.
Shen Qingming pointed at Fu Yuan and retorted: "Big mistake! Since complex people were created by God, then who created more complex gods! If God existed when the world was opened, then why can't people exist when the world was opened?"
Fu Yuanli was at a loss for words, and changed his words: "You can't prove that the Wisdom King doesn't exist, right?"
Shen Qingming fought back bluntly: "You can't prove the existence of the Wisdom King. Now that I say that there are thirteen geese hidden in the sun, can you prove that there are no thirteen geese in the sun? Do you think it is really possible that there are geese hidden in the sun?"
Fu Yuan was speechless for a while, where did he think about so many things, but now that Shen Qingming said this, he really couldn't tell the truth of the Wisdom King for a while.
Doubts, doubts, there was a loophole in Fu Yuan's remarks between a few words. The feeling of school night is back, and the knife is out of the sheath.