Chapter Twenty-Three: The Last Guard

The deep mine road is like a long corridor, and this person is standing there, about 100 meters away from Li Xiaoqing.

The man walked over slowly, and Li Xiaoqing only felt that the next moment, he was in front of him. Li Xiaoqing asked: "Are you a human or a ghost?" This kind of words should not come out of the mouth of a Taoist priest, especially a Taoist priest like Li Xiaoqing, this sound ridiculous, but Li Xiaoqing just asked, he repeatedly told himself in his heart, to be in danger, he has the magic weapon left by Hui Lao Dao, as well as the magic passed down by the ancestors for thousands of years, there is no need to be affectionate with a lonely soul and wild ghost.

But this ghost is so human-like, in addition to not being able to see his face clearly, Li Xiaoqing can even feel the heat that this person breathes on his face.

"Does it matter if it's a human or a ghost?" The clothes on his body were very torn, and it was estimated that he had not washed them for a long time, and the sleeves were still greasy.

"Important, if you're a human, I'll take you out, if you're a ghost, I'll take you!" Li Xiaoqing looked at the person, the person's originally gray face was slowly distorted, and finally turned into a human face, this is a Chinese face, the eyebrows are very heavy, the eyes are big, but the appearance gives people a very powerful feeling.

"Someone is coming, let's go inside and sit down and talk slowly. The man stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance, and led Li Xiaoqing into the deeper tunnel.

"You haven't answered my question yet?" Li Xiaoqing knew that if he was human, his spells would be useless, but he would still be able to do kung fu after all, and he believed that his fist skills were enough to subdue the person in front of him.

"Hehe, if you want to ask clearly, I should be a ghost! You don't have to rush to do it, just a few times I knew that if the two of us fought together, it would be the end of the battle. The man smiled bitterly as he spoke, his voice was filled with endless sadness, but Li Xiaoqing felt a fire attribute aura condensing.

Li Xiaoqing suddenly realized that his steps and frequency were very gentle, he was obviously a person who practiced martial arts, and his cultivation should be stronger than his own, and this person breathed in a line, Li Xiaoqing had not heard of any ghost who also breathed, this person should have been on the body by a ghost, and the ghost helped this person to regulate this body.

"You got on him?" Li Xiaoqing took out the ghost torture stick, the ghost test stick is a Taoist magic weapon, wooden, stick-shaped, engraved with various talismans, which has the effect of driving away ghosts and subduing demons. This was borrowed by Li Xiaoqing from the assistant in the city's museum. The altar facing the man's spirit seemed ready to drive out the ghosts inside at any moment.

"Do you want to do it?" The man seemed to be very disdainful of Li Xiaoqing, his eyes narrowed, his right hand clenched his fist, and he seemed to be ready to make a move.

"You are a mortal in your upper body, that is a violation of the rules of heaven, and I should treat you as a matter of course. Li Xiaoqing opened his eyes and scolded. Then he recited, "Tianpeng Tianyou, Zhenwu Zhenjun, Marshal of the Black Evil, General of the Unjust; Catch the shackles, the four heavenly dings, hold the iron rod in their hands, and torture the ghosts by common name; Hurry like a law!" This is a ghost mantra, specially used to ask the origin of the ghost, what kind of grievances it has, why the spell of evil, the general ghost has listened to it, and he has to tell his origin, otherwise it will attract yang thunder, and the yang thunder splits the yin soul, which is quite uncomfortable.

"It's really an acute child, and I was also an acute child back then. The man sat down unhurriedly, then looked at Li Xiaoqing and said slowly: I am the guard next to Emperor Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, a first-class guard in front of the emperor, at that time my father was a Belle master, famous for playing, I follow him, but I don't like to walk birds and fight crickets. I like to fight, so I visited famous martial arts teachers until I was thirty years old, and found that this fight was not interesting.

In the thirty-third year of Guangxu, I was ordered by the imperial court, not the will of Lafayette, I was thirty-five years old that year, and I was still very young.

"In June of that year, I was ordered to send an envoy to the United States to discuss with the United States to return part of the Gengzi indemnity to China, the Americans at that time were very arrogant, and when they arrived at their presidential palace, they did not receive us, so I could only sneak in alone, and the American president was very timid, and I pushed him against the wall, and as soon as I scared him, he immediately signed the refund slip. ”

"Answer: Lafayette in the capital saw that the Yankees actually returned part of the Gengzi indemnity, and he was also very happy that he rewarded me with a yellow coat at that time, and also gave me an official of the imperial guard. ”

Li Xiaoqing looked at him and said this, but he didn't expect that this person's background was so extraordinary, he was the last emperor's guard, but why did he make this appearance of recognizing ghosts and ghosts?

"Don't you want to hear me finish the story?" the man asked, somewhat meaningfully.

"Then go on!" Thinking that he had nothing to bargain with a ghost, he didn't have anything important to do anyway.

The man actually lifted Erlang's legs and shook the cotton clothes on his waist, felt comfortable, and then slowly opened his mouth and said: In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, the emperor died, and the little emperor was enthroned in the Taihe Palace, and the Guangxu Empress Longyu and Zaifeng were regents.

He also knew that my martial arts were good, so he asked me to protect the little emperor, and when the second year of the spring year was changed to Xuantong, it was only three years, and he couldn't be the emperor.

I was going to Yuan Datou to kill the ungrateful turtle grandson, but it was also that time that I knew the power of firearms, our ancestors and martial arts masters always told me that this is a Western kitsch prostitution, not worth learning, I only knew how painful this bullet bites after being shot, that time I was in Yuan Datou's bedroom, almost killed him, who would have thought that this guy had a gunman in his bedroom? The man shook his head helplessly, as if amused by himself, and smiled and straightened his hair.

He continued: Later, Zhang Xun led 4,000 people into Beijing, drove Li Yuanhong out of power, and mutiny and restoration, at that time they all knew that this Zhang Xun was ill-intentioned, but of course those Qing Dynasty veterans also included me, and they all had a plan to restore the great cause of their ancestors, but who would have thought that this Zhang Xun was not a piece of material, I remember that I had just put on a new dress and took off my clothes in less than ten days.

After that, the days stopped a lot, and then the little emperor grew up, and his wings became stiffer, and one day he cut his own braids, and ordered me to cut my braids myself. I thought that it must be the foreigner's idea, so I took the knife and went to the foreigner's house and drove him away.

After 918, I won't talk about it, the little devil will calculate, and the emperor is also confused, I escorted him to Fengtian at that time, he was raised by me, and I was reluctant to let him go alone, so I accompanied him in Fengtian.

Later, when the little devil talked to him, he always had to break away from me, and I couldn't get used to it, and I felt that life was boring. A child I brought up hand in hand, this work is still hidden from me, you say how uncomfortable I felt at that time. That little devil didn't have a good thing, and if the emperor accidentally betrayed the country to seek glory and was ashamed of his ancestors in the Qing Dynasty, how could I feel at ease? I was bent on death, so I went up and slaughtered the Japanese soldiers guarding the gate, and then broke in.

As a result, I didn't expect that not only did they not say anything about curing my crimes, but also asked me to be their martial arts instructor, which is really ridiculous, this little devil is still worried about the things of our ancestors? I didn't know at the time that the person I killed was the four great martial arts masters in their country. After that, wherever the emperor went, I followed there, and at that time I thought that if the little devil forced our emperor to do something sorry for our ancestors, I would be the first to kill the emperor first, and then cut myself.

In the second year, the little devil said that he had found the dragon vein of our Qing Dynasty under this mine, and asked the emperor to take a look, but the emperor did not dare to go, he was afraid that the devils would harm him, but it was related to the fortune of the country, and a large number of Qing Dynasty relics forced him to go. Speaking of this, the anger in this person's heart was a little unsmooth, and he stopped and rested. Li Xiaoqing couldn't help but sigh that this person was really a loyal and patriotic person, but it was a pity that he didn't catch up with the good time.

"Those brutes probably just want to break you apart and then control that puppet emperor!" Li Xiaoqing said lightly.

"That's right, as soon as I entered this mine, it was pitch black, and they brought me here to see this!" he waved his hand and pulled out a piece of white ore the size of a human head from the wall behind him.

"This stone was twenty or thirty meters long, but unfortunately the longer I lived, the fewer it became, and now it is only that big. The man was reluctant to touch the stone.

Li Xiaoqing finally knew why this person was not a ghost or a ghost, it turned out that there was a spirit stone more than 20 meters long here, this spirit stone was a spiritual thing created by heaven and earth, ordinary people could not see it, this person could actually see such a large piece of spirit stone, but it was a pity that he did not know how to practice the exercises, otherwise it is estimated that he would have already given birth to a yuan baby.

"After the little devils waited for you to go in, they blew up this mine?"

"That's right, there were 214 people buried alive in the mine at that time. After the man finished speaking, he looked at Li Xiaoqing, and then kicked his feet, and a corpse appeared under his feet, the bones were pale gold, but the muscles and bones on his body were broken, and he obviously suffered extremely serious injuries.

"Don't say much, I've lived for so long, and I have left something behind, this is some of my experience in practicing martial arts, I have been trapped in the well all these years, and I am written here, I am sorry for my ancestors, I didn't take care of the emperor, and I should go down to meet them." As for these few other people, they are the enemies who tricked me into coming here, if you can help me avenge in the future, help me kill these people, and if they die, help me cut off their inheritance!" The old man pointed to the spirit stone in his hand, and then put his bones up, and said with some anxiety, "I have killed a lot of people in my life, and I have also done a lot of foolish things with the little emperor, when you do it, read me the Crossing People Sutra a few more times, I am afraid that I am guilty of this sin, and the underworld will not accept me!" As he spoke, he withdrew from the man's body, and then a black gas began to gather, Li Xiaoqing hurriedly collected the old man's soul with the eight-treasure bag, and then slowly bowed to the bones three times before giving up.