Cyber Daming

"Now this city is full of Shi Qing's swans and Zhan Shun's yellow ghosts. We don't have much time, so let's make a long story short."

Zhang Siyuan did not exchange too many greetings with Yang Baize. After looking at the embarrassed Shang Li, he asked directly about the causes and consequences of the rebellion in the city.

"After various clans sent people to the coastal states, the Honghu that sneaked into the country disappeared for a time. It seems that all the previous commotions were just the Zhu family testing the bottom line of the chief minister, and they did not really have the courage to break up with us. ”

A wry smile appeared on Yang Baize's face: "But just twelve hours ago, all the ways of external communication through 'Huang Liang' in the city were suddenly cut off. Immediately afterwards, there were a large number of incidents of Huang Liang ghosts seizing the lives of ordinary people."

"These Yellow Liang ghosts gathered in groups and began to attack the government office with self-destruction. The Confucian clan leader who was originally responsible for the garrison ignored Master Li's order and abandoned the city and fled. The lurking swans took advantage of the situation and moved in, burning, killing and looting everywhere. Massacre."

Zhang Siyuan frowned: "Master Li is the third Confucian scholar of 'Yu Yi'. Even if he can't suppress the riot, he won't be killed easily, right?"

"The people responsible for protecting Mr. Li's Faxu rebellion should cooperate with those of the Sixth Tao of Bingxu."

This time it was not Yang Baize who answered, but Shang Lu.

Shang Lu said in a hoarse voice: "Under the siege, Mr. Li was seriously injured by a sneak attack, and then he was killed by Zhu Pingxu."

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Zhang Siyuan let out a heavy breath. The development of the situation was not complicated. The cause of this rebellion was obviously because the Zhu family and Zhan Shun reached a consensus and the two parties joined forces to start it.

"So, Mr. Li's body is now in the government office?"

While speaking, Zhang Siyuan had already turned around and took steps forward.

What he wants to do is obviously self-evident.

"Even if you are here, it is still a trap deliberately laid by Honghu, just waiting for you to fall into the trap."

Yang Baize looked at the back and shouted in a hurry: "Master Li is dead, I saw it with my own eyes. You shouldn't risk another life for this! The top priority right now should be"

"The situation is already in such a bad state, what's the top priority?" Zhang Siyuan said without replying.

"Then at least you shouldn't die in vain like this!"

However, in just one day, a thick layer of green and black stubble appeared on Yang Baize's lips, making it difficult for anyone to guess his true age. His clothes were stained with blood, and although his left arm was empty, the light in his eyes had never dimmed.

"Your life is very important to those of us who are still willing to follow the Chief Assistant."

"What is my life? Is it because I am Zhang Fengyue's son that my life is too precious to be lost? Yang Baize, you are wrong."

Zhang Siyuan's footsteps suddenly stopped and he spoke slowly: "Liu Jinxun can die, Gao Sheng can die, Li Bufeng can die, so many Confucian disciples can die, why is it that only the Zhang family can't die?"

Zhang Siyuan turned around, his handsome face full of a free and easy smile: "Let me tell you directly, I came here specifically to die this time."

Yang Baize's body trembled, as if he didn't dare to look at Zhang Siyuan's calm eyes, and stared at the Wei Wu pawn tightly in his right hand with his head buried.

"Actually, you don't need to use your life to prove it. We all believe that everything the Chief Assistant does is not for himself."

"It's not enough for you to understand, I have to let everyone understand. An old man whose face is almost covered with dirt, who is obviously not tormenting for himself, but still has to be poked in the back in secret, he can bear it, I The son can’t bear it.”

Zhang Siyuan turned around and looked at Yang Baize, who was burying his head in silence.

"Although I don't have much contact with you, Uncle Pei has mentioned you many times in front of me, nagging me to the point where my ears almost get calluses."

Zhang Siyuan warned in a warm voice: "His old man has a cold-faced and sultry temperament with a warm heart. I can see that you are the student he is most proud of, so you can't die. If you die, what will happen to his tone?" But it’s gone.”

"You just kept saying that anyone can die, but when it comes to me, you can't. What's the truth? Is it possible that I, a low-ranking Confucian from a poor family, can be more valuable than you, the biggest dandy in the Ming Empire? "

"Of course it's worth more than me."

Zhang Siyuan nodded solemnly: "The Six Arts of Confucianism, what I studied is archery, which is good at killing people, and nothing else. You are different. What will become of this world in the future depends on you guys." Those who learn 'etiquette' can grasp it."

"You are the businessman of the merchant, right?"

Before Yang Baize could speak again, Zhang Siyuan turned to look at the blood-stained Faxu man beside him.

"I can understand that you, Fa Xu, are betting on both sides. Confucian Xu also does this kind of thing. Everyone's butts are dirty, so there is no need for you to feel guilty. But since you didn't kill Yang Baize, it means you still remember the old man. So I’m going to ask you something now.”

"Shang Lu will do his best."

"Go west. When I entered the city, I killed all the swans and yellow ghosts in that direction. I should be able to leave smoothly if I follow the fleeing crowd."

Zhang Siyuan said in a deep voice: "Help me get this kid out of the city safely."

Shang Lu lowered his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes: "Yes."

"Okay, don't delay, otherwise we'll be in trouble when the hyenas catch their scent and follow us."

Zhang Siyuan strode away, but before taking a few steps, he suddenly froze again.

"Damn it, I'm still unhappy if I don't vomit."

Zhang Siyuan muttered, turned back to Yang Baize and said, "There is something I still want to ask you."

"Um?"

"Don't you think that the old man sent Uncle Li here as if he deliberately sent him to die? Like Gao Sheng, if he had not been left in Beizhili and under Zhu Yiyan's nose, maybe he He won't die at all."

Zhang Siyuan looked complicated: "I don't understand what the old man's purpose is. If he is sure that the Zhu family will not take action, then why bother to make these arrangements? But if he knows that the Zhu family will fall out sooner or later, wouldn't he be ignoring Li Li? And Gao Sheng ignores them?"

"I don't understand either, but..."

Yang Baize was silent for a moment and said slowly: "But I believe you can see it, and these adults can also see it. Even though they knew they would die, they still did it without hesitation. Maybe just like you, in their eyes Come on, it’s more important to die than to live.”

"It sounds reasonable, but I still don't understand. Obviously everyone is a Confucian scholar, and they usually talk about a gentleman not standing behind a dangerous wall, but at times like this, everyone seems to be afraid that they will live better than others. long?"

"If I have a son, I must let him take the martial arts order. How can a good death depend on being alive?"

While talking to himself, Zhang Siyuan no longer stayed, and his figure flashed and disappeared.

The city was filled with smoke and the air was filled with a pungent stench.

Yang Baize looked around and saw a devastation, with bodies lying on the roadside everywhere.

But it is true as Zhang Siyuan said, he seems to have cleaned up the Honghu and Huangliang ghosts in the entire Xicheng District, and the dilapidated streets are exceptionally quiet.

Along the way, Yang Baize and Shang Lu did not encounter any enemies, nor did they encounter any fleeing people. It seemed that the entire city had been slaughtered.

"If you encounter any accident later, don't hesitate. Run as fast as you can. I will try my best to delay you."

Shang Lu did not relax his vigilance because of this. He squinted his eyes and looked at the movement around him. From time to time, he raised his hand to wipe the scarlet dripping from his nose.

"Life and death are destiny, wealth is in heaven."

Different from Shang Lu's caution, Yang Baize seemed particularly relaxed at the moment and said with a smile: "If we can get out, our brothers will be lucky. If we can't get out, it's not a big deal, as long as we can support ourselves."

"No, I promised Mr. Zhang that I will send you out of the city safely."

Facing the stubborn Shang Lu, Yang Baize could only smile helplessly.

"Brother Tu, we are now friends who are destined to be friends. I have a few questions that I can't figure out."

"you say."

Yang Baize looked at the figure leading the way in front of him and asked, "Where has your Dharma been all these years?"

"Most of them were sent to major criminal areas far away from the mainland of the empire. Only a small number of people were unwilling to leave and were left to serve in the Jinyi Guards. However, they were also in some state capitals that were not based on Confucian order. ”

Yang Baize suddenly realized that indeed only in this way could the weak Fa Xu avoid being persecuted by Confucian Xu.

Otherwise, even if Zhang Fengyue comes to protect the old grudges accumulated over thousands of years in these two sequences, it may be difficult to avoid the family members using excuses to cause trouble.

"What is your relationship with Shang Sigu?

"He is my clan uncle, and he is also the source of the current legal order. Over the years, he has been following the chief minister, secretly protecting his old man's safety."

As if he wanted to explain something specifically, Shang Lu said in a more serious tone: "He is actually not a heinous and evil person. On the contrary, he has always respected and appreciated his old man. But he does not agree with the concept of universal connection between heaven and earth. I don’t think Zhang Shoufu can achieve this goal in the end, so he chooses to betray.”

Shang Lu said in a deep voice: "But he is not doing it for himself, but for the entire legal order."

Yang Baize sighed secretly. He did not feel disdain or contempt for what Shang Lu said, nor did he think it was just an excuse to protect the elders.

Because once upon a time, he had personally experienced the same thing.

"I don't know if you, Brother Tu, know my origin clearly. In fact, I also hate Ruxu from the bottom of my heart because my family was killed by the clan."

"It's not because my family hides any great treasure, it's just a slice of brain tissue that has been stored for who knows how many years. Is this thing valuable?"

Yang Baize shook his head and said: "If I look at it now, it is actually worthless at all. Even if someone handed it to me, I would probably dismiss it."

"But at that time, my grandfather and uncle deliberately pretended to be at odds with each other in order to keep even a little bit of the slice. One was willing to lead the children in the family to resist to death. The other was willing to endure all the insults and kneel down. Go up and lead the way for those robbers."

"I didn't understand why they did this before, but now that I've experienced it more, I gradually understand."

Yang Baize sighed: "As the old saying goes, fame and wealth are all important in life. As a human being, you will either die chasing fame or live in a dream of profit. But how can there be so much fame and fortune for everyone in this world? Fighting? Just like what you said, the weak have no choice but to gamble on their own lives. "

"Under the sequence, they are all just ants"

"Ant."

Shang Lu repeated these two words in a low voice, with a complicated expression on his face with his back to Yang Baize.

Thousands of emotions surged through his flashing eyes.

The order of law seems to be staying away from disputes and accumulating strength for revival in recent years. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just hiding from place to place and struggling to survive.

They are also a group of slightly larger ants.

"So I believe in Prime Minister Zhang and am willing to give up this position."

Shang Lu's voice stopped abruptly, and the ruler in his hand trembled slightly.

Yang Baize looked in the direction of his gesture and found that in a dark corner of the ruins, there were two small figures curled up.

"Brother, it hurts."

"What's the pain? Bear it! If you don't take this thing off, you will become a ghost sooner or later!"

In the dim night, the boy's forehead was sweating like rain, but even if the sweat slipped into his eyes, he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it. He held a dagger in his hand and carefully cut the skin on the back of the girl's neck.

Yang Baize could see clearly that the boy was using a knife to dig out the brain wisdom buried in the back of the girl's neck.

The clumsy knife cut open the flesh and blood, and the intense pain made the girl's face pale instantly. Tears rolled down her eyes, but she bit her lips tightly, not daring to make any sound.

The finger-sized spiritual orifice was gently picked out by the tip of the knife. Until this moment, the boy's tense expression was slightly relieved, and the breath he held was finally released.

But just a deep breath to calm the violent heartbeat, but inexplicably brought a faint cry, and countless grievances seemed to burst out of the boy's eyes.

As if to vent, he grabbed the bloody spiritual orifice and was about to throw it away, but the arm he just raised was tightly grasped by a trembling little hand.

"Brother, you can't throw it away. Dad spent a lot of money to buy this. Dad said that this is more important than his life."

"Don't talk nonsense, Dad has already..."

The corners of the boy's mouth twitched, but he couldn't say it out loud. In the end, he could only put down his arms and hug the girl in his arms.

"Brother, we are all human beings, why did we become ghosts?"

The girl buried her face in the boy's arms, and scarlet blood flowed down her neck.

"What is Honghu? Why did my father kill my mother?"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

How could the boy know how to answer? He could only stroke the girl's hair with his side face.

But the next moment, the boy saw two figures standing in the distance.

"Get out! I told you to get out!"

The boy suddenly jumped up from the ground, holding the dagger in both hands, like an angry tiger cub, blocking the girl behind him.

Unconsciously, a black shadow quietly emerged behind him.

"Guilty, surrender!"

The ruler fell on his head, and the boundless fear crushed the boy's courage to resist.

But he did not forget to cover the girl with his body after he dropped the knife and collapsed.

"Brother!!"

Puff!

The ruler cut off the cervical vertebra, and a head soared into the sky.

As blood was splattered, Shang Lu looked around, and the sound of footsteps around him surged like a tide.

"Shang Lu, hand over the things. The Huangliang Law Realm belongs to the entire legal order, not your private property!"

"A bunch of bastards!"

Shang Lu stared at a few familiar faces hidden among the many Huangliang ghosts, his eyes were red with anger.