Chapter 20: There Are Five Types of People in the World (Part I)
Although it was only a day to go down the mountain, Qiu Fang never forgot everything in the mountain, and when he heard the letter from the master, he was even more overjoyed, and his steps were unconsciously a little faster, and he hurriedly walked to Zhou Zong's side.
"Master, are you alright?" There was a smile on Qiu Fang's face that couldn't be hidden, and even whether Zhou Zong wanted to punish him or not became less important.
Zhou Zong frowned, did not answer in a hurry, but patted the back of the mahogany chair that was just up to his waist, turned around again, and smiled at him while waving his hand to light all the candles hanging on the bi, "Okay, it's too good." My senior brother has the ability to do everything, who dares to provoke him. ”
"That's just as well." Qiu Fang nodded seriously, Master's ability deserves to be the first in this world in his mind.
"May I ask Uncle Shi, what else did Master say in his letter?" The boy asked eagerly.
"Commonplace, let you study the art well, don't miss the practice. But how did you behave in the bazaar today..."Zhou Zong paused when he said this, turned his head, looked a little mysterious, and squinted at Qiufang from the corner of his eye.
Qiu Fang swallowed his saliva, and he didn't dare to look at Zhou Zong directly, so he had to lower his head and beat a drum in his heart, for fear that Zhou Zong would scold him for his rash move.
"Haha, yes, yes, it seems that you took my words to heart." Zhou Zong saw Qiufang's appearance, and no longer sold Guanzi, put his hand on the young man's shoulder, patted it, and laughed and encouraged.
As soon as these words came out, Qiu Fang was relieved, and slowly raised his head, with joy hidden in his eyes.
Zhou Zong also shook his head with a smile when he saw it, and after a long time, the smile on his face gradually faded.
He raised his head slightly, didn't look at the autumn boat, as if looking into the distance, and said faintly: "Our account with Mozong will have to be settled sooner or later." You have played well in this front, but you have to be more careful in the future, after this battle, you can be regarded as being targeted by them, we have been in constant disputes with Mo Zong, but we are not afraid of the front, I am afraid that they will secretly stumble. ”
"They are also famous factions, will they still cheat secretly?" Qiu Fang asked puzzledly, he always spends the belly of others with the heart of a gentleman, and it is inevitable that he thinks that Zhou Zong said this.
Zhou Zong sneered when he heard this, and said disdainfully: "Famous sect? It's just some treacherous villains, otherwise how could your Seventh Uncle be seriously injured like this. ”
"Seventh Senior Uncle..."Qiu Fang paused, and swallowed again, "Was he injured by someone from the Mo Sect?" ”
Zhou Zong nodded, but he seemed to remember something, and then slowly shook his head: "This matter will be difficult to conclude for a while, so I can only wait for your seventh uncle to wake up." However, it must have something to do with the Mo Sect's dogs. ”
Zhou Zong said, snorted coldly, paced a few steps forward, stood in the middle of the inner hall, and suddenly turned his head to look at Qiu Fang: "If you kill that little demon girl, it can be regarded as a breath." ”
Qiu Fang was shocked when he heard this, and looked at Zhou Zong with wide eyes, as if he didn't quite believe what he had heard just now, but when he saw the angry look on Zhou Zong's face, it was not incomprehensible. Their senior brothers are already affectionate, although the seventh uncle seems to have no worries about his life, but who can say clearly what trouble there is, Zhou Zong's words are also understandable.
"Fu Jian double cultivation, you can be regarded as stepping into the threshold. What do you think? ”
"The disciple hasn't thought about it yet." Qiu Fang's words were true, he never thought about what his daily cultivation was for, but when the master explained one, he did it with all his heart.
"You have a good foundation, you are talented, you have a solid foundation, and it is rare to meet opponents among your peers, but you are still far from being a real master. Do you know how the Mo Sect's bone ink envoy broke your talisman? Zhou Zong continued, his expression becoming more and more serious.
"Disciple, I don't know."
"I don't know, it means that you still have a long way to go, especially the road to investigate the case, which is bloody and the tip of the knife is rolling. Do you know how many people are there in the world? ”
Qiu Fang tilted his head and thought for a while, shook his head, and replied honestly: "I still don't know, just the disciples in the sect, I can't count them." ”
Zhou Zong seemed to have guessed Qiufang's answer, a smile appeared on his face, his right hand flicked the sleeve of his left hand, pushed the wide cuffs back, showed five fingers, and said in a low voice: "Five." ”
"Five?" Qiu Fang was startled, he couldn't help scratching his head, he looked at Zhou Zong, and thought of those disciples outside the door, and he was even more stunned.
"Yes, five types of people." Zhou Zong touched the thumb of the head on his right hand and stared intently at the lintel.
"In the first category, there are few alive and many dead."
Qiu Fang didn't know how to answer, just looked at Zhou Zong quietly, waiting for him to continue.
"Your master uncle was the first category when he was alive, and these people who are no longer alive don't need to be mentioned. And the living people, your master, the shadow of the killing pavilion, the lord of the painting city, and the other is a monk Shifang who claims to communicate with the Buddha. In my opinion, these four people deserve this kind of people. ”
"Why are only the four of them deserving of it?" Qiu Fang was still puzzled, he had been in the mountains for a long time, and Yan Qingyun never mentioned these mundane things, and they came to his ears like listening to a book from heaven. It's just that I feel that there are three other people who can stand side by side with my master, and I am inevitably a little unconvinced.
Zhou Zong looked at the ignorance on Qiu Fang's face, and his face did not change, all of this was in his expectations. He continued to pac back and forth in the hall, "Because the four of them are the strongest, your master Yan Qingyun, before the seclusion, was called..."
Zhou Zong's words came to an abrupt end, and Qiu Fang had no choice but to look at him expectantly. But he pretended to be mysterious, and his face was treacherous.
"What's it called?" Qiu Fang asked impatiently, his eyes seemed to glow, and this was the first time he had heard his master's name.
"It's called, Murder Dao Master." Zhou Zong smiled mysteriously, and then said, "Can't let him know that I told you about this." ”
Hearing the word "killing", Qiu Fang was so shocked that the hairs on his whole body stood up, although the Taoist is usually cold and not gentle, but it is even more 108,000 miles away from killing.
Seeing Qiu Fang's shocked expression, Zhou Zong smiled proudly, and got rid of a naughty child who had succeeded in his conspiracy, he walked to the young man's side in three steps and two steps, put his hand on Qiu Fang's head and touched it, and said in a low voice: "I can't let the old Taoist know about this matter." ”
Seeing Qiu Fang's ignorant response, Zhou Zong was relieved and continued to speak: "As far as I can see, your master should be the strongest of the four of them. I don't know how strong the other three are, I haven't seen them shoot, and I'm afraid there are few people in the world who have seen them shoot. ”
"And the shadow who killed the pavilion, the people who saw him shoot were all dead."
"Why?"
"You see, looking down from this direction, outside Los Angeles, there is a Luo River, and on the Luo River, there is a water pavilion, and in the water pavilion, there is a half-dead old man." Zhou Zong pointed to the west, his eyes sharpened, as if he was standing in front of the Water Pavilion.
Qiu Fang followed his fingers to look, except for the golden and brilliant walls of the inner hall of the East Pole Gate, where could he see any mountains and rivers, Qionglou Yuyu.
"Killers, naturally, make a living by killing people, they make wine with blood, and sencha with their lives. As long as they are paid in full, they will use it regardless of whether they are good or bad, strong or weak, bright or dark, yang or yin, as long as it is a means that can kill people. ”
Zhou Zong suddenly popped out such a sentence that did not match the preface and afterword, which made Qiu Fang even more confused, but the young man looked at Zhou Zong with a little misty eyes when he spoke, as if he was recalling something, but he didn't dare to interrupt.
"Just outside the city, by the river, there is a water pavilion, this water pavilion has been there for many years, I remember when I first came to Los Angeles, the water pavilion was there."
"The Water Pavilion is called the Killing Pavilion, if anyone wants to kill, go to the Killing Pavilion to find the little old man who guards the door."
"Is that little old man very powerful?" Qiu Fang asked with wide eyes, this sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy always feels very interesting when he hears stories.
"It's not amazing, I think he's always sick, and I can't feel what he can do."
"Uncle Shi, have you been there?" Qiu Fang suddenly took the liberty of asking, which made Zhou Zong stunned, stretched out his right hand and gently knocked on the young man's head, and scolded with a smile: "Why are you talking too much at this time?" ”
Qiu Fang tilted his head and touched Zhou Zong's knock on the head, and he didn't know whether it was better to continue talking or shut up.
"The old man is a go-between. There is a scroll in the Killing Pavilion, and the most powerful killers in the world are ranked on it, and if you want to ask anyone to kill, you can tell the old man who you want to find, who you want to kill, and what you can give. If the killer you're looking for is willing to do this, the old man will get back to you within a day. ”
Qiu Fang nodded thoughtfully, it always sounded a little mysterious.
"The killer who ranks first, everyone calls him Shadow. The world knows nothing about him except for the code name Ei. Zhou Zong shook his head with a sigh, his face full of admiration.
Zhou Zong is also the head of a faction that is famous all over the world, and he doesn't have a few people in his eyes, but as soon as this sentence came out, Wu Qiufang naturally understood how powerful this person called Ying was.
"Then he's so powerful, wouldn't he kill whoever he wants, and no one can stop him?"
"But as long as he took over the business, there really wasn't a single mistake."
"If every man in the world went to him to kill people, wouldn't that be..."
When Zhou Zong heard this, he laughed, "No, no, no, the reward for finding him to kill people is not something ordinary people can afford." ”
"What's the pay?"
"Shadow, give him your shadow."
"Shadows?" Qiu Fang said, turned around and looked at the marble floor tiles under his feet, his shadow was cast on the ground by candlelight, and for a moment, Qiu Fang actually felt that the shadow reflected on the ground also had life.
"I don't know what he wants a shadow for, but it's not everyone's shadow, it is said that he only needs a pure shadow."
"What is a pure shadow?"
Zhou Zong smiled and waved his hand, sighing: "This is unknowable, masters are weirdos, there are always some things that we can't understand." He said for a moment, and then said, "Qiu Fang, are you a weirdo?"
Qiu Fang's eyes flashed with a strange look, and he was stunned for a moment and said, "The disciple is not." ”
Zhou Zong laughed when he heard this, and continued to rub Qiu Fang's head: "Then you are not a master." ”
Qiu Fang also showed a shy smile and continued to ask, "How tall does that tall person have to be?"
Zhou Zong glanced at Qiu Fang, pretended to ponder for a moment, stretched out his right hand and gestured at Qiu Fang, and said with a smile: "Xing may be higher than the sky, Xing may be as high as you." ”
Qiu Fang was puzzled by this, so he had to look at Zhou Zong in a daze. Zhou Zong saw that the young man was at a loss, so he smiled heartily: "You will understand in the future." ”