Chapter 12: Undercurrents
Everyone stood under the tall ancient tree at the entrance of Yiling Village, looking at the towering canopy, watching the moonlight pouring down from the canopy and sprinkling on everyone's faces.
"When the moonlight is sprinkled on my face......" In this situation, Feng Xuan couldn't help but sing the song engraved in everyone's memory.
"Shut up, shut up, I finally forgot about ......it," Wei Xia covered Feng Xuan's mouth with his hand, for fear that he would leak half a word and come out and sing with him.
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"Have you noticed it, this village seems to be a little weird......" Zhang Hao looked at the lights on every household in the village, and did not feel the tranquility and kindness of a paradise, but he felt a little creepy inexplicably.
"It must be strange, it's early in the morning, a village with a small scale, and every household is still lit up in the early hours of the morning, so it's either sick or ghost." In Qi Sheng's hand, a purple-gold halberd that inexplicably appeared was very bright by the moonlight.
"Everyone, be careful, something is wrong with this village." Feng Xuan picked up the soil from the ground and pinched it, then put it to his nose and sniffed it: "Except for us, someone just stood here for a while not long ago. ”
"How do you know?" Looking at Feng Xuan's professional appearance, Wei Xia asked, thinking that the latter would give a reliable answer, but the result was ......
"Ah, this guy eats a little hot at night, and the smell of urine is so strong......"
…… The crowd fell silent.
"Don't speculate here, guess for a long time your conclusion is just your conclusion, it doesn't mean anything, let's go, let's knock on that door." Old Man Qi Qianqiu pulled up Feng Xuan, who was playing on the ground, and walked towards the village with a few people.
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"Knock knock!" In the night, the slightest knock on the door will be infinitely amplified, and each knock makes Zhang Hao, a rookie who has never participated in similar actions, creepy - in case, there are zombies and female ghosts behind this door...... Zhang Hao shook his head, don't think about it anymore.
"Eh, come on, come on, come on, come on, ......come on" The person who opened the door to everyone was an old woman who looked to be over eighty years old, and the old man's eyeballs were attached to a thick layer of white puffs, and it could be seen that the old man was blind.
Zhang Hao and Wei Xia were slightly stunned, Xu didn't expect that the person who opened the door would be such a person, and they didn't know what to say for a while.
"Old man, we are ......" Qi Sheng was just about to introduce that we were members of the police who had come to investigate the mysterious incident in Yiling Village, but was gently interrupted by Qi Qianqiu waving his hand.
"Old sister, we are passing travelers, it's too late to go down the mountain, can we borrow your empty house to sleep for the night?" Qi Qianqiu said as he took out a red banknote from his bag and stuffed it into the old man's hand.
The old woman felt the touch of the banknote, and immediately said: "Okay, come in, come in, the old man has been gone for several years, my son has gone out to work, and I live alone, and a few of you are still stuffed...... The old woman is going to make you something to eat. ”
This sounds like nothing, but when I think about it carefully, it startles Zhang Hao, and after everyone entered the room, and saw the old woman disappear from everyone's field of vision, he turned his head and whispered to Wei Xia: "Just now, it was obvious that there were only two people Qi Sheng and Old Man Qi who were talking, how did this old woman know that we were 'several people' and not two people?" ”
This reminded Wei Xia, she hurriedly told everyone Zhang Hao's words, Feng Xuan swept his hand on the mattress lying down: "It's the end of March now, her son should come back in February for the New Year, and he should leave at the end of February at the latest, according to what she said, her lover has been gone for a few years, so this mattress hasn't been lying down for at least a month, how can it be so clean, and you can't touch any dust?" ”
"Two possibilities, one, there are other people in this room, and two, this old woman is not blind at all." Qing Ming added.
"There is another question...... Qi Sheng suddenly discovered something, and then said: "If this old man is really blind, why are all the lights in this house turned on?" ”
Everyone reacted at once, the reason why they chose this one to knock on the door just now was because this one had the brightest lights, how could there be only one old blind man inside?
"If we come, we will be safe, and we are not here to hide from disasters, we are here to solve problems, so instead of us looking for problems, it is better to let problems come to us." Qi Qianqiu took a sip of the tea in the thermos cup: "The water is a little cold......
"Actually, since I went up the mountain, I have always had a question, why didn't anyone come to stop us after the first blockade, even though we had already been discovered by the Divine Guards? According to our analysis, Yiling Village should be a very important stronghold for them. Looking at Qi Qianqiu, who didn't care, Zhang Hao asked.
"The question is very simple, no matter what type of organization it is, there may be factions in it, and it was the conservatives in the Divine Guard who came to intercept us before, or in other words, they didn't come to intercept us at all, they might just collide with us or something. The 'confusion' that teleported you into the spiritual power space before is the head of the conservative faction of the anti-god guard, maybe from the perspective of our Huatian Temple, the anti-god guard is a monolith, but in fact, the differences between them are not small, what the 'confusion' wants is that the Huaxia Xuanneng organization is headed by the anti-Shenwei, and behind the president of the anti-Shenwei 'old god' is a joint force from abroad that wants to wipe out the whole of China. ”
"In other words, one is the enemy of Huatian Temple, and the other is the enemy of Huaxia."
Qi Qianqiu nodded approvingly: "This is exactly what I mean, after the recent investigation by the relevant organizations of the Huatian Temple, the Anti-God Guard currently has a faint tendency to split into two organizations, so it is very likely that the mysterious person standing behind the incident in Yiling Village is the 'Old God', and for our going up the mountain, 'Confusion' may not have told the 'Old Gods' at all, and even said that 'Confusion' does not recognize the methods of the 'Old Gods', hoping to help him get rid of the 'Old Gods' with the help of our hands." ”
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With Qi Qianqiu's vigil, the other people were not worried about what would go wrong, they all lay on the bed and took a nap, waiting for the dawn.
"What, can't you sleep?" Looking at Zhang Hao, who was sitting on the bed, Qi Qianqiu suddenly asked.
Zhang Hao shook his head: "I don't know why, but I'm panicking now, and I always feel that something is going to happen." ”
"The first time I went on a mission, I was also flustered and relaxed, which is normal." Qi Qianqiu was comforted.
At the entrance of Yiling Village, a few crows perched on the treetops and chirping, squinting at the lights in the distance, not chirping, not hiding......
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"Master, I'm afraid that these so-called tourists will become a variable in our plans." The old woman was on one knee, and in front of her was a tall man in a mask.
"Since I've asked you to take them in, then I naturally have my own way of dealing with them, and they'd better be real tourists...... Otherwise, even if it was really Huatian Temple that sent those old guys, I would be able to let them come and go. The tall man held a cyan dagger in his hand, and the space around him was slightly distorted by the high temperature rising from the dagger: "I'm looking forward to our next meeting...... Lin Tianling. ”
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"Vice President, if there is something about Emperor Linzi, don't you really need to tell the president?" If Zhang Hao was here, then he would definitely be able to recognize that this person was the Fourth Elder of the Divine Guard, 'Wuchen', who was "killed" by him in the spiritual power space, and the thin man in front of him was naturally the mysterious Vice President of the Divine Guard, 'Confusion'.
"In the primeval years, the five major Xuanneng organizations in China once signed a contract, whether it is the world's anti-Shenwei, Huatian Temple, or the Kunlun Ruins of the heavenly realm, Lingxiao Palace, or the mysterious 'Taoist', they can compete for orthodoxy on the territory of Huaxia, accept believers, and only do not fish the people, oppress the people...... 'Old God' has gone the wrong way, he is not qualified to lead the anti-Shenwei, my Chinese Xuanneng Organization can naturally fight among themselves, but if he wants to introduce those foreign jackals, tigers and leopards to carve up my Chinese cake...... I am 'deranged,' not because I have no means for him. Confusion said lightly: "Do you know why I told you these things? ”
"Because...... Do you think I can be trusted? ”
"Hehe, I don't trust anyone except myself, and the reason why I tell you these things is because I think you are a smart person, you know what to choose, how to choose, in fact, many times, choice is more important than hard work." The arm of the 'Confusion' that was "injured" by Feng Xuan's power had already returned to normal, and if Qi Qianqiu was here at this time, he would definitely be shocked to find that the strength of the 'Confusion' seemed to be overnight, far beyond the range of his senses.
"Wuchen, remember one sentence, under the true spirit, everything is an ant......" said in confusion, and his body gradually dissolved into nothingness, dissipating into a space that human beings can understand: "Tell us that the people of this faction don't need to make trouble for Huatian Temple, and even in some cases, we can provide them with some 'convenience', and we should also usher in a great purge." ”
The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is naturally behind, and the "confusion" naturally wants to be that yellow finch, so this mantis ...... Whether it's half of the Divine Guards under the Old Gods, or the Huatian Temple, it doesn't matter.
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"Damn, why are there high-level powerhouses on the border of China!"
In Tibetan Province, on the border of China, three powerhouses of the Primary-Order Void Immortal Realm were intercepted by a mysterious man in the sky.
"Friend, we are members of S.H.I.E.L.D., make it convenient for us to put us in." The three men stared at the mysterious man, even though the strength of the other party may be much higher than them, the sense of superiority in their hearts still existed, because they were from the United States.
"I warned the 'Old Gods' long ago about the affairs of our own country...... Fix it yourself. ”
The one who intercepted the next three Mi people was "confusion".
"And Qi Qianqiu, I can't let go of the fight, I'm afraid I'll beat him to death, but deal with you...... Since I broke through to the True Spirit Realm, I haven't killed anyone. In the hand of 'confusion', a fire of vanity rose up, and with a slight wave of his right hand, the space for dozens of miles seemed to be cut by something invisible, and in an instant, only three blurred pieces of flesh and blood were left, falling from the sky......