Chapter 672: The Cause and Effect of Dragon Slaying (1)
At noon, Lin Zhiming had a simple lunch and left the Lin Group.
Under the escort of the car arranged by Dong Jian, Lin Zhiming successfully avoided all the eyes and finally drove into a hill on the outskirts of Strait City. There was a temple in the hill that did not show off the mountains and water.
The temple is very dilapidated. There is only one main hall that is in disrepair. Next to the main hall is the Zen room.
The temple has no walls, so the car carrying Lin Zhiming drove directly to the front of the main hall of the temple.
Lin Zhiming got out of the car and looked around.
Surrounded by mountains and ridges, you can't see the edge at a glance.
Lin Zhiming withdrew his gaze and walked straight into the main hall.
There is a Buddha statue placed in the main hall. The Buddha statue looks to be some years old. It is relatively old overall, but it is very clean.
In front of the Buddha statue, two monks were chanting sutras and chanting Buddha's name with their backs to Lin Zhiming.
Seeing the backs of these two monks, Lin Zhiming felt a familiar feeling.
"No way?" Lin Zhiming's brows couldn't help but jump.
At this moment, the two monks turned around at the same time.
When Lin Zhiming saw the faces of these two monks, ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped past him.
These two monks are none other than Xue Tianyu and Zheng Bowen!
The originally thick hair of both of them had disappeared and was replaced by bald foreheads. Moreover, both of them were wearing gray cassocks and looked no different from ordinary monks.
"What are you doing?" Lin Zhiming asked in surprise.
"We have become a monk." Zheng Bowen said with a smile.
"Renunciation? Come on, you two are not married anymore, why should you become a monk?" Lin Zhiming smiled and shook his head.
"Who said that if you become a monk, you have to break off the worldly ties? Although we have not broken off the worldly ties, we can still be regarded as monks by chanting sutras, chanting Buddha's name, eating vegetarian food and abstaining from killing." Zheng Bowen said.
"It seems that this period of time has made you so depressed that your brain is a little abnormal." Lin Zhiming said.
"He is indeed a little abnormal, insisting on shaving my head." Xue Tianyu said expressionlessly.
"You got someone to shave their heads?" Lin Zhiming looked at Zheng Bowen in surprise.
"Being happy alone is not as good as being happy together." Zheng Bowen said.
"Fuck you, I had a lot of guesses about your appearance when I didn't see you just now. I didn't expect that your appearance now is beyond my expectation. It seems that the events in the past few months have not affected you at all!
Lin Zhiming said.
“That’s not to say there is no impact at all, at least it’s a lot of perspective.” Zheng Bowen said.
"Look away? How come you look away?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"In the past, I always thought that I was doing things for the Dragon Clan. As long as I got things done, even if there were any conspiracies and tricks, they would not affect me, because I did everything for the Dragon Clan. Now I understand that no matter how well I do things, they are not as good as conspiracy.
Well, a simple and rough frame-up can erase all the great contributions I have made for the Dragon Clan over the past many years. Can’t those people at the top see that I am being framed? No, they can, but they would rather see it.
I fell because I am not from their faction, and my existence is a mistake, whether I am for the Dragon Clan or for myself." Zheng Bowen said.
"It's really easy to see." Lin Zhiming said.
"Amitabha." Zheng Bowen clasped his hands together and recited the Buddha's name.
"What surprises me is, Tianyu, you actually went to rob the prison." Lin Zhiming looked at Xue Tianyu.
"The Dragon Clan needs people like Bowen. Their death is their fault. I can't die with them." Xue Tianyu said lightly. His performance had always been very calm and calm, even a little cold, but Lin Zhiming admired him very much.
When everyone thought that Zheng Bowen deserved to die, he resolutely chose to stand on the opposite side of everyone.
Abandoning the identity of a high-ranking member of the Dragon Clan and entering the prison of the Supervision Department requires great courage. If it were not for Xue Tianyu, Lin Zhiming might be the one who would rob the court in the future.
If that time really comes, Lin Zhiming will undoubtedly fall into a more passive situation than now.
"I admire you." Lin Zhiming said.
Xue Tianyu shook his head and said nothing more.
"I heard that Tulong attacked the Dragon Clan headquarters, and then you stopped him when he was about to successfully assassinate Mr. Sun?" Zheng Bowen asked.
"Yeah." Lin Zhiming nodded.
"All the people who killed the dragon were killed, right?" Zheng Bowen asked.
"Well, not a single one was left alive. They were all killed in front of me." Lin Zhiming nodded.
"Hey!" Zheng Bowen sighed.
Seeing Zheng Bowen's expression, Lin Zhiming frowned slightly and asked, "What? From your tone, it seems that you feel sorry for them?"
Zheng Bowen shook his head and said, "The crimes committed by Tu Long are outraged by both humans and gods, and he is more than worthy of his death. But...you know fate, do you know the origin of Tu Long?"
"Is there anything else to say?" Lin Zhiming asked doubtfully.
"Let's talk while walking. There is a mountain road behind the main hall and the scenery is very good." Zheng Bowen said, turned and walked towards the back of the main hall.
Xue Tianyu followed silently, and Lin Zhiming also followed. He had an intuition that the matter of slaying the dragon might not be as simple as it seemed.
The three of them passed through the back door and came to a mountain road leading to the mountain.
The mountain road is very rugged and full of rocks.
Lin Zhiming, Zheng Bowen and Xue Tianyu were walking among them, enjoying the breeze and feeling quite good.
At this moment, Lin Zhiming's cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Lin Zhiming picked up the phone and took a look and found that it was a message from Bi Feiyun.
"I have submitted a letter of greeting to the Wu-Tang Clan and will visit the Wu-Tang Clan tomorrow."
"Be safe." Lin Zhiming replied, and then put the phone away.
"Zhi Ming, do you know how many years I have been in the Dragon Clan?" Zheng Bowen asked.
"I don't know." Lin Zhiming shook his head.
"Twenty-five years to be exact," Zheng Bowen said.
"Twenty-five years? How old are you this year?" Lin Zhiming asked with a frown.
"I am thirty-six years old this year." Zheng Bowen said.
"Then you joined the Dragon Clan at the age of eleven?" Lin Zhiming asked in surprise.
"Well, when I was eleven years old, my whole family died in a feud between Jianghu and Jianghu. My adoptive father was the leader of the dragon clan investigation team at that time. He saw that I was pitiful and took pity on me. He included me in the dragon clan and accepted me as his righteous son.
Son." Zheng Bowen said calmly.
"The whole family died in a vendetta? What kind of hatred is this?" Lin Zhiming asked in horror. You must know that this is the 22nd century, not the ancient times. It is rare to kill a whole family, let alone
It is almost impossible to kill an entire clan. You must know that the number of people in a clan can be as few as a dozen or as many as dozens. It is impossible to kill them all.
"Back then, my parents were members of the Dragon Clan. They were ordered to investigate and hunt down a group of evil-doing warriors, and brought most of them to justice. However, they offended some people. On my father's fortieth birthday, those people took advantage of the opportunity.
When our family was celebrating my father’s birthday, they invaded our clan and killed our entire clan, but I was the only one lucky enough to survive.” Zheng Bowen said.
"What about those people?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"All those people were captured by my adoptive father, and finally everyone was sent to see God. The incident was a big deal at that time. Because of that case, my adoptive father was promoted to be second only to the five elders.
Finally, he became a member of the Five Elders a few years later," Zheng Bowen said.
"In that case, it is Mr. Guo who avenged your family." Lin Zhiming said.
"Yes." Zheng Bowen nodded, and then said, "This incident had a huge impact on me. From that time on, I determined to become a Dragon Clan member and let all warriors who do evil accept punishment. So,
Under the recommendation of my adoptive father, I entered a school within the Dragon Clan. From that time on, I became a member of the Dragon Clan. I graduated from the school with the best grades and became a member of the Dragon Clan under the arrangement of my adoptive father.
An official of the Dragon Clan became the middle-level leader of the Dragon Clan at the age of thirty-six. According to the plan, I will enter the senior level of the Dragon Clan at the age of about forty. After that, my adoptive father will pass on his mantle to me little by little. At the age of fifty
If I don't do that, I might become one of the Five Elders."
"You are on the right track, but what does this have to do with dragon slaying?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"It has something to do with it." Zheng Bowen said, "As my status within the Dragon Clan increased, I came into contact with more information about our clan's extermination case, and that information made me determined to do something different.
"
"What information?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Those who killed our entire clan back then were not actually the so-called evil warriors. They were all combatants of the dragon clan." Zheng Bowen said.
"What?!" Lin Zhiming asked in horror, "They are all Dragon Clan combatants? Then why are your parents ordered to hunt them down?"
"Because they are all losers and victims." Zheng Bowen stopped and looked at Lin Zhiming and said, "There is a struggle within the Dragon Clan all the time, and when there is a struggle, there will be victory or defeat, and the winner often has to step on
The bodies of losers go up, and those people my parents are chasing are losers!"
Hearing Zheng Bowen's words, the shock on Lin Zhiming's face was beyond words.
"Those people didn't commit too many mistakes, but because they failed in the struggle, they were destined to be sacrificed. However, who wants to die in such a meaningless way? So they defected from the Dragon Clan, and my parents
I was ordered to hunt down those people. Since it is a hunt, there must always be a just and fair reason, so those people became warriors who did evil. My parents are very capable. They successfully hunted down most of them, but there were still some who slipped through the net.
The fish that slipped through the net used the connections within the Dragon Clan to find out all the information about my parents, and was able to find our family on my father's birthday and massacre our entire family. This is the cause and effect of the whole thing!" Zheng Bowen