Since it is a warehouse, it is naturally not small. Therefore, after the deacon Taoist priest gave a general direction, Qi Xuansu easily found the specific location.

From the outside, the storeroom looks as tall as a two-story building, but once inside, you will find that the second and first floors are opened, and the wooden boxes placed against the wall are piled up to the roof.

However, there are not many wooden boxes, which makes the vast warehouse slightly empty.

At this time, there was only one person in the warehouse, dressed in the presiding crane, with his back to Qi Xuansu, who was standing at the entrance, and it was Su Ran, the Taoist priest who was in charge of the branch of the Huasheng Hall here.

Qi Xuansu closed the door of the warehouse, and his nose twitched slightly: "Master Su, what sachet do you use?" Or is it a perfume from the West? The smell is so special that it makes people spin. ”

Su Ran didn't turn around, and said lightly: "It's not a spice, it's not a perfume, it's a unique incense of our Huasheng Hall, which was first used to deodorize, corpse smell." Later, it was used to cover up all kinds of peculiar smells, after all, there are always all kinds of strange things to come into contact with in the Avatar Hall, and it is inevitable that they will be contaminated with peculiar smells. The smell of this incense is pungent, but not too bad. ”

"I see." Qi Xuansu said clearly, "In this way, this incense can also mask the smell of the Lei Gong pot." ”

"It's nature." Su Ran's voice was still calm, "There are a lot of Lei Gong pots in the Huasheng Hall, because the stems and leaves of the Lei Gong pot can be used as medicine, and the sac at the tip of the leaf is the main body. Harvested in autumn and cut into sections to dry. Sweet and cool taste, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, water, detoxification. Treatment of dry cough, whooping cough, jaundice, stomach pain, dysentery, edema, carbuncle, insect bites. Take the decoction internally, one to two taels, or mash it externally. ”

Qi Xuansu stroked his palm and said: "Master Su is worthy of being from the Huashengtang, and his business is profound and skilled, which is admirable. ”

For some reason, there is a statue of the Taishang Dao Ancestor about two zhang high in this warehouse, facing the entrance of the warehouse, and the wooden boxes are stacked on both sides, Su Ran always looked up at the Taishang Dao Ancestor while facing away from Xuan Su, and said calmly: "You are going around, just to ask me if the Lei Gong pot in the chest of those who were killed has anything to do with the Huasheng Hall." ”

Qi Xuansu was silent.

Su Ran said: "I can answer you, related, not only related, those Lei Gong pots that were stuffed into the chest to replace the heart were originally from the Avatar Hall. ”

Qi Xuansu took a deep breath and asked, "Why is it the Lei Gong Pot?" Is there any special meaning? ”

"Let's just take it as an allegorical." Su Ran said calmly, "The Lei Gong pot also has a name, which is called 'pitcher plant', because the leaf cage at the end of the leaf is very similar to a pig cage. And on the Jiangnan side, there is a kind of lynching called 'immersion in the pig cage'. That is, the prisoner is put into a pig pen, tied with a rope at the opening, hung up, and put into the river to be drowned, and the misdemeanor has his head exposed to the water, and he is immersed in some of them

Time. Felonies can be drowned to death, usually by those who commit adultery, both men and women. ”

Qi Xuansu somewhat understood: "The dead people are all people related to the 'Heavenly Paradise', and they are all punished by immersing themselves in a pig cage in disguise. ”

"Suffice it to say, even if I don't explain, you can figure it out." Su Ran still turned his back to Qi Xuansu, "I have to admit that I underestimated you, you almost caught me red-handed, and you saw through my intention to frame Liu Futong." ”

Su Ran paused: "But ...... I don't think you have made a final conclusion, and you haven't completely speculated about the cause and process of the incident, and if you knew, you wouldn't have come to see me alone. ”

Qi Xuansu's body gradually tensed: "Who are you?" ”

"I am Su Ran, the chief Taoist priest of the Transformation Hall." Su Ran said lightly, "A genuine four-grade wine priest, not an imposter like you." ”

Qi Xuansu was startled, then calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "Did you kill so many people just to deal with Liu Futong?" I think that with your city government methods, Liu Futong is not your opponent at all. ”

"You're complimenting me." There was a little more smile in Su Ran's voice, "But women always like compliments." Since this is the case, then I will say more, after all, wealth does not return to the hometown, just like a brocade at night. I did something like this, and it would be very depressing if I couldn't tell anyone about it. ”

Qi Xuansu asked, "Why did you kill people?" Mutilating these innocent people? ”

"Innocent?" Su Ran's voice gradually turned cold, "I have already explained just now, they are all people who should be immersed in the pig cage, and they deserve to die, as for targeting Liu Futong, it is just a convenient action, and it is not that he was wronged, the things he did were enough for him to die several times." ”

Qi Xuansu frowned and said: "If you say that killing people is to fight for power and profit, I don't approve of your behavior, but I can understand your thoughts, and it is nothing more than doing everything." But now you say that targeting Liu Futong is just a casual one, and killing people is your real goal, I can't understand it. ”

Su Ran patiently explained: "It's also very simple, I don't recognize the 'Heavenly Paradise', this is the city of no day, the city that never sleeps, and it is also a city of complete depravity. The people here, from the high-ranking priests to the lowliest ordinary prostitutes, have forgotten their morals and rules, so I would like to remind them and apply appropriate means of punishment. ”

"Worldly pleasures and sins of lust are always the enemies of morality. The decay of the inner mind always begins with the erosion of the outer body, and the decay of the moral precepts always begins with the unbridled desires. Look at this city, look at these people, they are like maggots on a rotting corpse, destroying this world

One day, it will destroy this world and devour all living beings until a new cycle begins. ”

"I knew that no matter what I did, I couldn't turn the world around, but I did it anyway. Kill to kill, fight poison with poison. I'm going to spend the rest of my life destroying the 'Heavenly Paradise' and erasing the stain that left on the upper of the Xuansheng's shoes. ”

"Think about the targets I chose, an Oiran who wanders among all kinds of men, a Qingqi man who thinks of himself as high and hates Taoism, a good old prostitute who seduces a married man, and Yue Lian who is willing to fall to meet his boss, which one should not die?"

"They do not deserve to live, but their death awakens the living, deters the living, and keeps them from such depraved places, and returns to the limits of moral precepts."

As he spoke, Su Ran spread his hands and seemed to be bathed in the brilliance of the Supreme Dao Ancestor.

Qi Xuansu's response was brief, with only two words: "Crooked." ”

Su Ran withdrew his hands and laughed: "As for you, there is no moral precept in your eyes, and your murderous aura also shows that you are a person who despises the rules, and people like you should be cut by a thousand knives." ”

Qi Xuansu's arms were staggered, and his hands held the hilts of the double knives at his waist: "There are many people who want to kill me, but most of them are already dead." I have killed many people, but walking the rivers and lakes is life and death, and I never kill people indiscriminately, let alone kill innocents indiscriminately. As for you, no matter how lofty your thoughts may be, that is not a reason for you to go on a killing spree. ”

Su Ran finally turned around, facing Qi Xuansu, with his back to the statue of the Taishang Dao Ancestor behind him.

She wore the furry white fox mask on her face, and the fox's eyes were narrow and narrow, as if narrowed, and her mouth was pointed, as if sarcastic.

The last time the two played each other, they didn't win or lose, and they didn't do their best.

"I didn't try to convince you." The mask on Su Ran's face was not happy or angry, only sarcastic, "It's just my own thoughts, I have nothing to do with others, I don't care if others approve or not, it's too troublesome." Instead of reversing a person's mind, it is better to just get rid of all those who disagree. ”

"Incorrigible." Qi Xuansu slowly pulled out his twin knives.

With the infusion of true qi, the blade turned red, and then a raging flame ignited, and the light and shadow were confused in the dimly lit storeroom.

There is no doubt that since the Daomen believes in the Taishang Daozu and worships idols, then there must be some kind of fanatical believers within the Daomen, even if the Taishang Dao Ancestor's concept of inaction is not related to fanaticism, it is inevitable that some people will read the scriptures crookedly according to their own imagination.

Rather than debating the Bible, it is better to use weapons to make the most direct criticism.

At this point, Qi Xuansu and Su Ran see something in common.