Chapter 285: When the furnace beast burns to ashes
The other people were still immersed in the aftermath of the disaster, and many of them cried bitterly in a mixture of sorrow and joy. Only Yuan Louzi was wandering alone like a lonely ghost.
Jiang Wen followed Yuan Louzi and saw that instead of the joy in his eyes after escaping from death, he looked extremely empty and void, as if he had long ignored life and death - this state was very different from that of the villagers nearby.
It's even more obvious.
"It's not good..."
After Yuan Louzi suffered a major setback, he could no longer rely on natural vitality to regain his vitality. Instead, he suppressed his emotions instead of seeking change. This was not truly getting rid of his obsession.
To put it bluntly, people must have obsessions to live. Once they lose their obsessions and thoughts, they will often feel that death is better than life after weighing it. Absolute rationality replaces the desire for survival, and the state is naturally extremely dangerous.
Seeing that Yuan Louzi's expression became more and more absurd, and the words he murmured became more and more confusing, Jiang Wen quickly called a few relatively sober young men around him, and asked them to support the crumbling Yuan Louzi from the left and right.
"You guys, come here and help me!"
In view of Jiang Wen's previous display of force, several young men naturally did not dare to disobey, and hurriedly rushed forward to lift Yuan Louzi up, while timidly asking: "My hero, what are you going to do?"
Jiang Wen looked at Yuan Louzi with a serious expression and explained in detail: "This senior may have suffered from the disease of losing his soul. The medical book "Miscellaneous Diseases Sources of Rhinoceros" says that the patient has many nightmares and is unable to sleep all night long.
If it is not cured, there may be life-threatening consequences."
When the young men saw that Yuan Louzi's eyes were blurred and his expression was in a trance, as if his soul was possessing him, they quickly continued to ask: "Sure enough! Xiaoxia, is there no way to cure him?"
More importantly, the average height of the people in Japan at this time was only 157cm, but the people who fought with young and strong people one after another were not necessarily much shorter than me. This is also extremely suspicious, and can only be recorded in "History of Ming Dynasty·Japanese Biography"
"Eight out of ten Japanese pirates are small", those people should have been fishermen and pirates along the coast, who used the name of Japanese pirates to cause trouble, and were subsequently surrounded and suppressed by the Qi army and fled, and then hid in the mountains so far away from the sea.
Qing Zhuang also echoed: "Indeed. You see, those people are quite right. I'm afraid there's nothing fishy outside. It's not cruelty, but a disregard for life."
"Book of Jin·Li Qizhuan·Yangxiu" records: "Xiu is luxurious and expensive, and the charcoal is made into the shape of an animal to warm the wine, and the rich and noble people in Luo Shang can use it." It is said to be from ancient times.
At that time, there was no kind of animal charcoal, that is, charcoal made into the shape of an animal. It was impressive even if it was hot and cold, and it looked like a ferocious beast opening its mouth to grow strong at people. However, that kind of charcoal was not made by smashing large charcoal into crumbs and mixing it with other things.
"Don't retreat, there are no evil spirits out there that can eat people!"
What Qing Zhuang was referring to was naturally the identity of the gang of thugs.
Qing Zhuang chuckled and said: "Master Yuanhua is ridiculous, you are as powerful as I said."
"Junior, why does he think those people should be slot workers, but miners?"
Maybe it was because the young man had been useless for too long, and it was inevitable that he had mastered the bad strength. The wooden stick suddenly broke from it with a snap, and Yuan Louzi, who was hit by the stick on his head, was spinning in a daze, but he never fell down, but there was no wave.
The redness rose from the neck to the top of the head, and the veins under the skin were visible to the naked eye.
"Collapse!"
But abnormal ores can be forged at low temperatures and formed into shapes. Why do those people accumulate and use so little "human charcoal", but the weapons they hold in their hands are still weathered weapons? This also shows that we have made many swords comparable to Zhanlu.
A magic weapon comparable to the snake-slaying sword appears?
Yuan Louzi said angrily: "I'm praising him!"
At this time, Qing Zhuang realized that his predictions were still too conservative. I only thought that the criminals who were suspected of being Japanese pirates were sacrificing human beings to their swords, but I never thought that we had actually found a more bizarre method of "human charcoal", sacrificing living people.
Refining swords.
Immediately afterwards, Qingzhuang recited the wonderful incantation that can be tried a hundred times, picked up a thick wooden stick from the side, and pointed it at Yuan Louzi's head.
For example, those people who are suspected of being Japanese pirates can indeed understand Japanese, and their daily language and culture are also very different from those from far away. But it stands to reason that as early as the Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates had not been basically put down, and it was not even nearly a hundred years ago.
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As soon as it was over, Qingzhuang had almost not concluded that those people were not coastal Japanese pirates scattered in the mountains. After all, Ohoda Nairo, the "front-runner" in the Seventh War, could hold on for 20 years before surrendering. The information is that this kind of situation occurred in developed ancient times.
Also very unusual.
But very slowly, Yin Wan discovered something suspicious again.
With the support of two Jiang Wen, Yuan Louzi stood up hurriedly and led Qingzhuang towards a deep cave in front of the shade shed - I didn't detect it by mistake at first, and I was horrified for a moment.
Only then did the traces leak out.
Perhaps because the stick was too weak, Yuan Louzi was helped aside by the weaklings to rest. Qingzhuang also quickly slipped away to organize the Yin Wanians who were still active, and first went to the shed left by the murderers to find some drinking water to satisfy their hunger.
thing.
Otherwise, if there are any old, strong women and children in such a hut, all of them are from Jiang Wen, it can only be explained by "manual screening"...
Qingzhuang continued to laugh and said, "Just take it as a compliment."
Hearing Qing Zhuang's question, Yuan Louzi stood up hurriedly, first took the boring palladium held by Jiang Wen beside him, and handed it to Qing Zhuang's face.
After a while, the situation in Shengxi was finally under control. The mountain people took the initiative to drag the corpses of the murderers to a centralized place to prevent the spread of corpse plague. At the same time, they also collected the weapons scattered on the ground.
Many old men have a hand, and it seems that only in that way can we briefly gain a sense of danger.
Several Jiang Wen quickly held Yuan Louzi firmly. The old Taoist was not completely confused due to the sudden blow. He covered his head with one hand and pointed at Yin Wan with one hand. His eyes were so bloodshot that they were about to explode. His fingers
He couldn't speak a word without trembling.
"Those guys really have some humanity!"
Part of our body has not completely turned into white gray soft charcoal, while the other part retains some soft human characteristics, but is as long and haggard as tree bark, and the naked eye can distinguish little traces of transformation.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Qingzhuang looked into the depths of the cave and understood that all the truth must be hidden outside, but Yuan Louzi stopped Qingzhuang easily,
He warned firmly.
In order to control the mountain captives, the thugs basically gave us food and drink. We could only rely on the weeds and rainwater beside the wooden prison to support us. If we got too happy, some of us would die suddenly.
"He took a careless look."
Qing Zhuang hurriedly threw the half-remaining stick far away, and said quickly: "Junior, how is he feeling now? Is he less confused?" while gesturing with his eyes to the Yin Wans to hold on tightly.
Damn, don't let the old Taoist priest break free of his shackles and run over to chase you.
Yin Wan speculated that it was among those who came before them that they gradually formed their own independent system. They communicated with each other in the Japanese language, killed passers-by for a living, and at the same time absorbed other refugees to join them, so that such a scale of settlement could be formed -
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However, in recent years, I suddenly became interested in ancient swords. I stopped wandering around and visited famous mountains in Yecheng, trying to find out the whereabouts of many young swords. That time, I found clues at the old prison site in Feng County, Yuzhang.
Later, they searched for treasures in the Zhanlu Mountains of Fujian Province.
When the people in the cave heard the exclamations, no one came towards the mine. Soon we were arranging in a row among the miserable "human charcoal" in the room, and found out whether we were alive or dead.
Relatives and bad friends.
But what I had thought was that in that deep mountain and old forest that should have been abandoned long ago, there would be such a group of extremely vicious villains. Not only did they kill people like nothing, but they were also proficient in the art of ambushes in battle formations. Yuan Louzi was originally just a gangster.
It was an unusual visit, and Shen naturally fell into a trap and was heavily besieged by the gangsters. The only disciple I accepted was actually attacked by the gangsters in turn with poisonous arrows, lime and other evil tricks due to his strong temper, and finally died heroically in battle.
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I saw that the mine was vast and chaotic, and there were no wooden supports to reinforce it. I knew that after so many years, it was still cold and breathless, but when a few people walked into it, Jiang Wen, who was holding Yuan Louzi,
They all vomited to stop, and were so frightened that they couldn't move.
Qing Zhuang relied on his true energy to heal Yuan Louzi's injuries. The relationship between the two became a little more friendly, and they were finally able to sit down and chat for a while.
Although that inference was outrageous, it could barely explain the cause of the formation. Before Qing Zhuang came up with those conjectures, Yuan Louzi nodded hurriedly, but also put forward his own conjecture.
"He wants to ask you where the other people who were arrested went. Then he will go with you to the front of the shed to see."
Qing Zhuang turned around and saw that Yin Wanna's hair and beard were open with a look of shock. She was not joking at all. At the same time, he also found that these shallow or deep footprints on the ground almost spread rapidly to the depths of the cave, followed by blood.
The stumps, together with the mud on the ground, were all swallowed up by a deep white darkness, and then there was no sound again...
Yin Wanna was desperate and wanted to die, so she was imprisoned by us and the mountain people. In addition to being enslaved every day, one person was taken away every few days. From then on, no one came back.
When Yuan Louzi said this, he said bitterly, "Although my body is old, it is still very strong, so I can faint and fall down when I hit a stick. From my horizontal kung fu training, I can see how much I have trained in my old age."
Yuan Louzi let out a long sigh and recounted that experience.
Qingzhuang straightened up and watched for seven weeks. Seeing that the situation was basically calm, he asked about Yuan Louzi's affairs.
"If you want to cure it completely, you have to use the Eighteen Needles of Guimen. Unfortunately, I have learned it in school and dare to try it again."
Yuan Louzi loved to visit immortals throughout his life. When he was young, he explored many ancient tombs. If Li Zicheng and Sun Chuanting fought fiercely in Shaanxi, they would have almost found the entrance to Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum.
Yuan Louzi said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the papermaking industry in Guangxin Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, gathered in Zhichang, a small number of industrial paper mills, to engage in moso bamboo cultivation and paper production. At first, it was found that the paper mill households in Qianshan Shitang Paper Mill were from above.
There are more than eighty troughs, and each trough has about 1,000 to 7,000 helpers. Those people are recruited during the day and passed through at night. Most of them are scattered in the hilly areas at the foot of Wuyi Mountain.
But what we saw at this time was a bloody knife-testing place on one side, with bamboo and wood racks for stacking corpses underneath. The remains of human bodies were scattered on the ground layer by layer, while on the other side, there were pieces shaped like kneeling corpses.
The human body was a huge piece of charcoal, with all its clothes stripped from the inside and outside, eyes open and mouth open, as if it had been tortured by extremely small pleasures.
Yuan Louzi said anxiously: "In addition to using people to test the sword to test the quality of the sword, the murderers also fed some kind of medicine to the living people. Those poor people could speak and see, and were tortured every day.
They were turned into charcoal by humans, and we threw them into the furnace to forge and sacrifice the swords we wanted..."
Qingzhuang was stunned. What kind of ghost cave did he find? There was no such appalling "human charcoal" in the world!
Even according to historical records, in July 1624 (the seventh year of the Apocalypse), Japanese pirates first appeared and invaded the coast of Fujian, and there were traces of them before that. Those people should have been isolated from the world for eighty or seventy years, and they may not be older than Yuanlou.
How could it be possible that even though the son was much younger, Jiang Wen was still so incompetent that he was organized into an army?
"I see that those people's iron smelting skills are not very clever. I'm afraid they are paper trough workers who sneaked into the Forbidden Mountain."
Yuan Louzi touched the head of his head that was still not swollen and sore. He was shocked by Qingzhuang Zhenqi's miraculous method of healing wounds. He said without any hesitation: "No wonder Junior Brother Yuanhua asked you to pay attention to him in the letter. He is really brave."
A deadly attack..."
"Crack——"
"Everyone is there..."
Qing Zhuang ordered a few people to destroy Yuan Louzi, and he must let go. He then smiled confidently: "It's okay to let this matter go. You once learned some treatment methods from the land of Taixi, and you can cure the apathy disorder."
It's easy to catch."
You must know that the Wuyi Mountain area where Songxi County is located, according to local archives and documents, has "dense mountains and ridges, overlapping rock formations", "no obstacles from caves, creeks and ravines", and "good for lead ore and timber".
Because the officials of the eight provinces "originally came from Qin and Yue, they were conspiring against each other", so that the internally displaced people were "coveted by thieves". The poor people had a way to make a living, and then "learned to steal mines to support themselves", which turned into a
There is a huge gap in governance.
Qingzhuang took the boring and palladium, and felt that the long weapon had been looking new for a long time. It was still shiny and cold, but when he looked at it from such a close distance, he found that the boring and palladium seemed to be older than imagined, and there were numerous pits underneath.
The depression looks like it has been left over from thousands of small battles.
"Junior, what happened to him that time that made him trapped outside?"