Chapter Seventy-Eight: It's Like a World Away
As Vargas's "memory navigation" shuttled through the winding path in the valley for nearly an hour, the boy drove the car to the bottom of the big rock under the cliff, and several people who still looked like bandits jumped out from behind the rocks. The four of them looked up and down, and although they were sure that no one had seen the young man, his code words were correct, so the first one led Li Byrne into the cave, and the rest hid the car.
When he arrived at the fork, the boy who had answered the code correctly again was led by another person to the hole above the middle fork, and 10 minutes later he came to the position of the Bagua Array. After the people who sent him over retreated, the old man motioned for the young man to enter the gossip array, and then Li Byrne bowed his hand to the old man and said as he did in the movie: "The contemptible Li Byrne, who came to visit by the invitation of the East King and the North King, found that the apostle Vargas of Heaven secretly colluded with the enemy to do bad things against me and the Kingdom of Heaven. I know that this pavilion can lead directly to the Tower of Babel below, and I am tired of the old man to say a word, in order to avoid the other party from having a shadow in the kingdom of heaven, can you lead me to enter the Tower of Babel from this stone platform to meet the four kings. There's a device here that will play the evidence of Vargas's mutiny that I recorded by pressing the button above, and you can make a decision after you can see it."
After speaking, Li Byrne threw the video equipment on the stage, and the old man took the instrument and hugged his fist at the young man, and hurriedly entered the Tower of Babel from the high platform. The idle young man overlooked the entire Bagua Array, and the large array with a diameter of more than 100 meters alone made people feel extraordinary, and the Bagua Array that Zhuge Liang listed with a sergeant to cover the entire battlefield was so spectacular! I didn't expect the rumored gossip array to be lucky enough to be seen today, and sure enough, the thousands of years of Chinese heritage in China is unfathomable.
Just when the young man sighed at the profundity of Chinese civilization, the old man also returned to the high platform. I saw him twist a mechanism on the stone platform, and the bulletproof glass around the pavilion slowly sank into the ground, and then two thick iron chains stretched out from the high platform, and at the same time, there was a wooden bridge below that extended outward, until it hit the ground in front of the boy. The old man tugged at the sleeve of his right hand with his left hand and made a gesture of please. Li Byrne held on to the rope and walked tremblingly for 5 minutes before reaching the high platform. He saluted the old man, and then the old man turned off the mechanism, the iron cable, the suspension bridge, and the bulletproof glass returned to its previous state.
The boy followed the old man from the high platform and took a lift all the way down to a circular house, which seemed to be the top floor of the Tower of Babel. Li Byrne looked around the house, there were actually 8 doors, combined with Vargas's memory, the boy guessed that there should be a secret passage above the last passage that could lead directly to the top of the tower, and even the other 7 passages correspondingly have other secrets. Of course, I didn't come here to find out other people's secrets, just to see a surprise. While waiting, the old man rang an antique bell in the middle of the house, and then the floor in the middle pushed upwards to reveal a downward staircase.
When the bell ended, four people walked out of the steps below, all of them were about fifty or sixty years old, some looked easy-going, some looked majestic, and even a little old man looked extremely obscene. Among the four, the middle-aged man who looked easy-going and kind said to the young man: "It's great to have friends from afar. I didn't expect that after so many years, the Kingdom of Heaven would finally wait for someone from a distant mother country! Lao Yu is the king of the kingdom of heaven, and is responsible for the supervision and auditing of the kingdom of heaven. This is the King of the West, don't look at his appearance, this is the wisdom of our heavenly kingdom, he is responsible for the internal and foreign affairs of the heavenly kingdom. Next up is Nanwang, who is in charge of logistics. The last one is the King of the North, the patron saint of the kingdom of heaven, in charge of military affairs. I don't know what Xiaoyou is called, where does it come from? What do you have to do in Colombia?"
Li Boen hugged his fists and replied: "A few of them are at least my uncle's generation according to age, I am young, to be honest, I am really not familiar with this semi-literal language in our country, so don't blame you, I will speak in the vernacular. I am a player of Guangzhou Sun God Football Club, and I am also the owner of Guangdong Rice Sports Development Co., Ltd., this time I came to South America with the team to participate in the game, I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet you, and I invited Haihan if there was something wrong."
"Hehe, it's okay. We knew about Vargas, we didn't expect the form to be so grim. Please forgive me for the trouble I have caused, I really didn't expect it... Alas, it's hard to put into words!" After speaking, the king shook his head.
"If the seniors need help with anything, even if they say yes, although they have not dealt with each other before, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still enjoys a positive evaluation in the country. What's more, everyone is Chinese, you have been living in a foreign land for so many years, you must have suffered a lot, since I have the ability to help you, as long as it will not have a bad international impact on our China, I can agree."
When the old four heard this, they couldn't hide their excitement one by one, and even the king of the north had red eyes, it seemed that it was a big trouble for the kingdom of heaven. Then the five of them sat on the ground, and the old man who guarded the high platform took tea and stepped back to the side. There was a thick blanket on the floor, but it was more comfortable than a normal chair, and the boy didn't mind. Then the king of the east began to slowly talk about the passage of the kingdom of heaven in a foreign land for so many years.
It turned out that Shi Dakai was killed by Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan of the Qing Army, and the eldest son Shi Dingzhong was killed together, and the second son Shi Dingji, who was only 4 years old, escaped successfully under the protection of part of the Taiping Army, and then followed the remains of the Taiping Army to Colombia in South America.In the 70s of the 19th century, that is, in the 1870s, Colombia at that time was also a newly established country, and there was no such thing as a so-called censusBecause of the harsh living environment, there are less than 1,100 people left in the original 1,600 people. Such a large number of people have to worry about food, clothing and housing, and there are contradictions in the middle, because a small number of people really can't stand the hard life in the mountains, they want to move to some islands in the Caribbean Sea in the northwest to settle down, at least the diet and living environment are much better, but several leaders resolutely disagreed, thinking of the wandering all the way from the country, the young master almost died in a foreign country, this time they said that they did not agree to the migration, that is, they were afraid that Shi Dingji's body could not stand it. In the end, the leader gave them some food and water, and left them to find a new life. After five or six years, these people who stayed slowly adapted to this kind of life, and it happened that Shi Dingji also passed his 10th birthday, headed by a military attache of Shi Dakai, the winged king of the year, and he raised his arms, and everyone took Shi Dingji as the king, determined to find a better way out for themselves in this land. In the end, after hard work, I finally lived a good life. Over the next 100 years, the Kingdom of Heaven began to establish its own base and train the natives to supplement its periphery. Looking at the people and things in front of him and listening to their stories, the young man had a feeling of being in a different world, and for a moment felt that these displaced compatriots were the same as himself to some extent, and they did not really belong to this era, and pity arose.
At this time, the king of the east paused, got up with the other three, respectfully saluted the young man and said: "Now that the king of heaven is seriously ill, and I am worried about internal and external troubles, I also ask the little friend to help save my life and save my kingdom of heaven from fire and water, and I will remember it forever." After saying that, the old four were about to kneel down hand in hand, so frightened that Li Byrne quickly jumped up and helped them up one by one, the young man scratched his head and said: "Didn't I promise you before, you are so old, you can't help it. Isn't that going to make me lose my life!" After speaking, the young man seemed to suddenly think of something, and his eyes widened and asked, "That..." That.. That.. Isn't your Heavenly King 135 years old!?"
"Exactly, the king had an adventure in his childhood, and he was still in good health in September this year, and suddenly became bedridden in November. Please..."After saying that a few people were about to make a fuss again, Li Byrne hurriedly stopped and said cautiously: "That? I'll just try? But let's talk about it first, he's so old, I can't guarantee that it will work."
"No matter what the result is, we are grateful for Xiaoyou's efforts and dedication, and will never do anything that will be avenged, please rest assured."
"Good! Then I'll give it a try, I hope he has his own natural appearance!"