Chapter 14: A Fork in the Road
Because of Samuel's mercy, the Condor Commander received a moment of peace and sobriety, leaving this bloody letter.
If Samuel is really an external force intervening in this matter, then it seems to indicate that Samuel is not behind the Tides of Shadows.
Samuel's motives are not difficult to explain, if someone is plotting against him in his temple and intends to frame him, then he will definitely not sit idly by, so he intervenes and creates a variable and flaw in the plan of those behind the scenes.
This is not difficult to understand, if someone plans something under the banner of Qi Xuansu, even if the ultimate purpose of this plan has nothing to do with Qi Xuansu, after Qi Xuansu knows about it, for the sake of his reputation, he must stop this plan.
So what does "the sky is going to wake up" mean in the blood book?
Who does this "day" refer to?
If it is in the context of the Central Plains, "heaven" can refer to three concepts.
The first concept is the Heavenly Father, the Heavenly Emperor, and the Haotian God. The second concept is Tianli, which is the supreme god respected by the Confucian school of science, and is also what the people often call God. The third concept is the Heavenly Dao, that is, the existence of the immortals who are specially unable to get along with the immortals and send disasters from time to time to test the existence of the immortals, the Heavenly Dao is not a person, nor is it a will, it is more like the law of the operation of heaven and earth.
If understood in the context of the Central Plains, there are three explanations.
The Emperor of Heaven has never fallen asleep, nor can he wake up, he just can't return to the world, unless the Emperor of Heaven has cut out the incarnation, but the incarnation is also in the Central Plains, and it has nothing to do with the Southern Continent.
Somewhere between the concrete Heavenly Emperor and the abstract Heavenly Dao, Heavenly Principle is somewhat similar to the Supreme Will, with no concrete image, and even further than the Supreme Will, without a concrete sign. The worship of the heavens is similar to the worship of the sun, such as the shamanic immortal heaven. said that Tianli was going to wake up, and this was the only one that touched the edge.
As for the Heavenly Dao, not to mention that the Heavenly Dao is a collection of rules, it may be called by names like "fate" and "law", rather than a certain person or will. Even if Tiandao is a person, then he definitely hasn't slept, and a few years ago, he just burned Yi Zangnuozun to death.
In this way, the above possibilities can be roughly ruled out.
In addition, an aboriginal of the Southern Continent, even if the degree of Central Plains is very deep, is not a native of the Central Plains after all, and it is always a little unreasonable to insist that he has a connection with "heaven" in the context of the Central Plains.
Then it is more likely to be the sky of the Southern Continent.
Could it be that there is a similar existence to the Immortal Heaven in the Southern Continent? Or does this "day" refer to Kukulkan or Itsumna?
Could it be that It-Sumner is not dead? Or these people don't understand the first death of the gods, and think that the gods who have entered the state of the first death are actually asleep. So does the "Heaven is waking up" in the blood book mean the resurrection of It-Sumner?
This also seems reasonable. Deconstructing immortals is something that only Daomen can do, and Daomen even divides the immortals into three deaths, to put it mildly, that is, "on how an immortal can die thoroughly". And a person who grew up under the system of gods and spirits would never dare to despise the gods like the Taoist priests, they did not dare to say that the gods were dead, they would say that the gods had fallen into a deep sleep.
Sleep corresponds to wakefulness, i.e., death corresponds to resurrection. The resurrection of immortals requires a lot of divine power, which can correspond to acts such as harvesting souls and flesh in the tide of shadows.
Qi Xuansu thought about it and felt that there was not much problem with this assertion logically, but it lacked the necessary evidence to support it.
At the same time, there are a few points that do not make sense.
The first point is that when Kukulkan has not completely replaced It-Sumner, he can let the believers launch the "History Book of the Years" operation to erase the traces of It-Sumner's existence, which shows that Kukulkan's power is great, and at that time, the followers of It-Sumner are losing and retreating, not opponents.
It doesn't make sense that after Kukulkan completely replaced It-Sumner, his followers were not as strong as before. The followers of Kukulkan will only be stronger, and the remaining remnants of Itsamra are just surviving, and it is still difficult to protect themselves, and they cannot operate such a big conspiracy.
Now it seems that there must be gods behind such a conspiracy, and Itsamna has not yet been resurrected, and it is impossible to support his own followers, is it really related to the Heron Society? And behind the Heron Club is Ihichel?
Second, if it comes to the It-Sumner resurrection, then Kukulkan should not be indifferent. Even if he can't leave the kingdom of God and come to the world to intervene directly, he will definitely let his followers be on guard and hunt down all suspicious people.
But here's the problem, since the outbreak of the Shadow Tide, the Sun Temples in various places have been affected, but Kukulkan is completely indifferent as if there is no such thing, and the Sun Temple is not very interested in the matter of thoroughly investigating the Shadow Tide, but the Absolute Holy Temple's side is shaving its head.
Could it be that something is wrong with Kukulkan and that he must use such extreme means to obtain a large amount of divine power?
If this assumption is true, then the silence of the Temple of the Sun is well explained. Because it's not silence, it's the confusion after losing guidance, so naturally there will be no action.
If we continue to speculate from this direction, the "heaven" in "the day is about to wake up" refers to Kukulkan and not to It-Sumner.
Qi Xuansu's speculation flashed in his mind, and he vaguely felt a road, but there were too many forks in this road, and he couldn't find the right direction for a while.
It's like the three forks in the road in front of Qi Xuansu at this time.
Each fork in the road has a corresponding footprint, and the more than 100 Condor Guards seem to have been divided into three groups, each entering a different fork in the road, because the footprints are too messy, Qi Xuansu can't even tell which way the Condor Guard commanded the servants towards.
What's even more bizarre is that there is no one who turns back, as if something is chasing after them and blocking the way they came.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but be dissatisfied, sometimes he likes to hide things at the top level, such as the matter of Cuo Wenbu, he doesn't know at all.
This time, he asked Qi Xuansu to investigate Kukulkan, he expected that Jin Que had other sources of information, although Jin Que gave him a lot of autonomy, but he did not tell him the whole situation, and seemed to want to corroborate each other with other intelligence sources through his investigation results. If the information on that line is also communicated to him, it may have an impact on his investigation, and it will not have the effect of corroborating each other.
It's just that in this way, it will inevitably bring a lot of unnecessary obstacles to Qi Xuansu's investigation.
For example, he doesn't know what happened to Kukulkan right now, and he can't make accurate judgments, and most of his conclusions are based on his bold assumptions based on a small amount of evidence.
Qi Xuansu shook his head, put aside these negative thoughts, and rearranged his thoughts.
Now there are three divine forces involved, namely the Kukulkan faction, the Itsamlna faction, and the Hell Apostle faction.
The Apostles of Hell, in particular, are very eccentric. At first glance, there is an association with them. If you think about it, it doesn't really have anything to do with them. In the end, there are still some connections.
Affirmation, denial, affirmation.
This is quite similar to looking at a mountain as a mountain, looking at a mountain as a mountain, or looking at a mountain as a mountain.
Take Samuel, for example, at first suspected that he was behind the scenes, but later Qi Xuansu rejected the idea, and finally found that it may be because of Samuel's covert intervention that he was able to leave a bloody letter as a clue.
What role did the Apostles of Hell play in this? Is it a fisherman? Is it a yellow finch? Or is it just an audience that just watches a good show and has fun?
Qi Xuansu couldn't be sure for the time being, so he could only look at the present.
"Chief Tantai, how did you last come here to explore?" Qi Xuansu asked.
Taiying stretched out her hand and pointed to the fork in the road on the left: "I chose this road, I walked in it for about twenty miles, and then I found that it was a dead end, there was nothing along the way, and then I went back." ”
"Wait." Yu Taiying seemed to suddenly remember something, "It's still a bit of a gain, I picked up a knife, it seems that a certain Condor Guard accidentally dropped it, but I didn't see the body of the Condor Guard, and when I walked to the back, even the footprints of the Condor Guard were gone." ”
Qi Xuansu asked, "What does the end of this road look like?" ”
"It's like digging a tunnel halfway, and there are only traces of artificial excavation of the soil. I did a detailed inspection and it was solid. ”
In fact, Qi Xuansu didn't trust Taiying's inspection ability, whether it was her sloppy coping, or the shadow interference at that time, in short, she missed a lot of details. If this is Zhang Yuelu's subordinate, then wait for Zhang Yuelu to scold. Qi Xuansu doesn't like to scold people, and he will also be angry and put on a cold face to express his dissatisfaction.
However, Daomen has always put unity first, don't do things that are not conducive to unity, don't say things that are not conducive to unity, although Qi Xuansu has always had a slight derogatory attitude towards these two sentences, but he still implemented it, so he didn't blame Taiying at this time, and didn't even immediately ask why Taiying only went to the left road instead of walking all three roads, and said: "Since you chose the left road, then we will choose the middle road this time." ”
Yu Taiying asked, "The soldiers are divided into two ways?" You go in the middle, I go to the right? ”
"Nope. Let's go together. Qi Xuansu gave a high-sounding reason, "I suspect that Samuel can still influence his own temple, just in case." ”
Of course, Taiying would not think that Qi Xuansu was afraid. Jokes, Qi Xuansu is a person who can fight with Huangfu and fight head-on with the Huen brothers, how can he be afraid, even if he is afraid, he will not pin his hopes on one more person, this is obviously to take care of her as a female Taoist.
Taiying had no choice but to accept this love.
The two walked into the middle road together.
The road is still very long.
After walking for a while, Qi Xuansu asked: "Chief of the Divine Guard, there is one thing I haven't figured out, you only took the left road, and after finding out that it was a dead end, you went back, and did not explore the other two roads, so how can you conclude that the Condor Guard is all missing?" ”
Yu Taiying was stunned for a moment, and then her back was cold.
It was like the lights were dark, and she hadn't even noticed it. It wasn't until Qi Xuansu broke through that she suddenly realized that she had made such a big mistake.
It's so unusual, and it's too bizarre.
Qi Xuansu continued: "In addition, you also missed a lot of details, such as Samuel's holy emblem, Samuel's portrait, this kind of mistake is too low-level, and it is too unreasonable. The last time you came in, what happened? ”