When Zhou Jun woke up, he found himself lying on the cold ground, his head feeling dizzy.
Slowly opening his eyes, he looked around and recognized where he was - the main hall of the Seven Stars Buddha Temple.
Struggling to sit up, Zhou Jun moved his arms, legs and feet, and looked at the two people standing in front of him.
One person is wearing red clothes and has a feminine face. He is Qin Xiangbi, a disciple of the Hidden Sect. The other person is wearing a colorful feather hairpin and has fair skin and beautiful appearance, but he is rare.
Qin Xiangbi looked at Zhou Jun and smiled softly: "Supervisor Zhou is really good at it. The profit-catching business that Yinmen has been running for decades has been ruined by you."
Zhou Jun: "Are you here to seek revenge?"
Qin Xiangbi shook his head and said: "I wanted to kill you in the past because of the red reward on your body. Now that the officials have been uprooted, why should I waste my efforts?"
Zhou Jun looked at Hanguli again and asked, "What about you?"
Hanguli looked struggling and whispered: "I have my own reasons." She was reading a book.
After Zhou Jun thought about it, he looked at the two men and asked, "Someone ordered you to do this?"
Qin Xiangbi did not answer the question and said to Zhou Jun: "Since you are awake, come with me."
Zhou Jun stood up and looked around.
Qin Xiangbi stared at him and said: "Don't think about messing around, otherwise don't blame me for being cruel."...
After weighing it up, Zhou Jun said: "Lead the way."
The three of them left the main hall of the Buddhist temple and walked towards the dragon cave at the foot of the mountain by the dim light of the lantern.
When he arrived at the entrance outside the Dragon Cave, Zhou Jun saw a man in black robes, standing there motionless.
After carefully recalling what he had heard before, Zhou Jun suddenly understood the identity of this person.
He walked up to the man in black robe and asked in a deep voice: "Are you Ming Po, the master of the Yinmen Punishment Hall?"
The man in black robe turned around, his face hidden in his robe, and said in a hoarse voice: "Zhou Jun, we meet again."
Zhou Jun frowned: "Again? We have met before? Wait, I remember your voice... You are Tuoba Huaisu's senior sister! Ayimu!"
Ayimu stretched out his withered palms and laughed sharply: "I knew you would remember me."
Zhou Jun: "Are you actually the master of the Yinmen Punishment Hall?"
Ayimu: "I have many identities, and being a member of the Hidden Sect is just one of them."
Zhou Jun turned to look at Hanguli and Qin Xiangbi: "Are they your apprentices?"
Ayimu: "The two apprentices each have their own thoughts, which always makes me worry."
Qin Xiangbi lowered his head in fear, and Hanguli turned her gaze elsewhere.
Zhou Jun looked at Ayimu again: "When did you find me?"
Ayimu: "After the last meeting at the bandit camp, I have been paying attention to your every move. I had already guessed that you would go to Yanqi, so I arranged everything in advance."
Zhou Jun: "Hanguli came to Shicheng Town from Qiuci Town and met me again. Was it actually your arrangement?"
Ayimu: "Hanguli is a smart person. She knows how to complete the task I gave her in the most hassle-free way. There was civil strife in the Hidden Sect. The sect leader recommended that Shi Zucai be eliminated, and then he used to catch the red secret treasure as bait.
, lure away the group of people around you. From beginning to end, she did a great job.”
Having said this, Ayimu paused for a moment, looked at Qin Xiangbi and said: "In comparison, my other apprentice is very restless. He wavers between me and Shi Zucai, using those insignificant little cleverness to deal with
I serve Yin and violate Yang." When Qin Xiangbi heard this, his face turned earth-colored, his knees softened, and he knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.
Ayimu smiled: "Get up. Although you are stupid, you are still useful."
Qin Xiangbi took a long breath when he heard this.
Ayimu said to Zhou Jun again: "Let's go, only you can unlock the mechanism of this temple."
Zhou Jun looked at Ayimu, stepped forward, and walked into the cave.
Seeing Zhou Jun unlocking the two machine doors, Ayimu could not help but feel excited in her words: "What is recorded in the ancient books does not seem to be wrong."
The group of people came to the dragon cave. Ayimu slowly walked to the Yinglong stone statue and stopped for a long time.
Qin Xiangbi looked around and asked fearfully: "Did Shi Zucai and the three hundred masters in the Hidden Sect die here?"
Zhou Jun ignored him and asked Hanguli, "What did you do to Sun Aying and the others?"
The latter looked at Zhou Jun and whispered: "It's funny for you, at this time, you are still thinking about the safety of your men... They are all fine, I just drank some in tonight's meal
Take the medicinal powder and everything will be as usual when you wake up."
Zhou Jun: "So that's it. I didn't eat tonight, so that's why I didn't fall down."
Hanguli: "Since I followed you to Yanqi, your maid named Huayue acted cautiously and paid attention to everything. I couldn't find any chance to administer the medicine. I finally lured them away by catching the red secret treasure.
After paralyzing the guard, I was able to add medicinal powder to tonight's meal. However, you didn't eat. As a last resort, I had no choice but to report the matter to the master, and she would personally take action to arrest you.
"
Zhou Jun asked Hanguli: "What exactly do you want to do?"
The latter looked at Ayimu and said quietly: "You will know soon."
After seeing the Yinglong statue, Ayimu seemed to be in a rare good mood. She walked over and said to Hanguli: "Go."
Hanguli nodded, and under Zhou Jun's surprised gaze, she took out the Yinglong Cone from her arms, walked to the innermost dragon gate, and opened the mechanism.
Looking at the exposed corridor, Ayimu stretched out his withered hands, leaned down again, performed the Zoroastrian pilgrimage ritual, and then led the others deeper into the cave.
Walking in the dark and long corridor, facing the destination that was getting closer and closer, Ayimu rarely felt interested in talking: "Zhou Jun, I think of the aphrodisiac flowers in the horse bandit camp. I thought you
would accept them, but you would burn them to the ground.”
Zhou Jun: "You have not seen their harm."
Ayimu laughed: "Harm? In this world, is there anything more harmful than the human heart? Intrigues, selfish desires, violence... In the final analysis, they are just reflections of the human heart. Common people often do it, and fools often do it.
Yes, but wise and wise people are rare. If there were fewer useless people in the world who are only greedy for profit and pleasure, and more sages who are willing to plan for the future and think deeply, the world would not be like this at all."
Zhou Jun: "Using poison to control others, is this what Zhixian did?"
Ayim: "In the Western Regions, there is an ancient method to train obedient slaves. Bury a person in the sand, expose only the head, and then shave his hair. A piece of camel stomach is cut off and soaked in water.
Wrap it around his head."
"Under the sun, the water evaporates and the stomach sac tightens, which will produce huge pressure, compressing every part of the head. After a long period of huge pressure, the slave will gradually lose it after experiencing pain, struggle, fear, and despair.
All hope, will, dreams, family, and dignity will be erased bit by bit, leaving only the basic needs for survival and feedback to external orders."
"He can eat, sleep, and excrete like a puppet. The rest is to complete all the tasks assigned by the master. And such a well-trained slave can be bought for as much as a hundred gold in the slave market."
Zhou Jun was shocked when he heard this, and shouted in a deep voice: "What is the difference between such a person and the walking dead?"
Ayimu: "Yes, there is no difference, but don't you think that having more of these walking zombies in the world would be a good thing for the entire world?"
Zhou Jun: “Absurd!”
Ayimu: "Compared with this method, if you think about it now, is Afurong much kinder?"
Zhou Jun stopped and turned to look at Ayimu.
In the darkness, Zhou Jun's eyes reflected the faint firelight, and his voice echoed in the corridor, never dissipating for a long time: "Human nature has been an incomplete and defective product since its birth. It contains selfish interests.
, cruel, destructive and self-destructive, however, on the contrary, it also possesses wisdom, curiosity, enterprising and empathy. Using a mortal's will to influence a world is a gamble in itself, betting on whether this mortal's human nature is more biased.
Which side? Only those so-called omniscient gods can grasp every change in the world."
Ayimu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I am becoming more and more interested in the world of that prophet."