Strange Records of Xijing

For some reason, in the exposed half of Jin Yong's body that became a puppet, there was a faint green light flashing in the gap formed by the large and small gears. A thought quickly flashed through Su Yan's mind, urging Pei Jingxing to say: "That is an illusion. The core, break it quickly!"

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan had a good understanding at this moment, the latter didn't say anything, but the former had Fu Ling's heart, swung the horizontal knife in his hand, and slashed obliquely.The horizontal knife smashed the gears that were still running slowly, and the green light flourished because of the loss of these shelters, but was soon split in half by the horizontal knife, and slowly dimmed.

The barbarian on the side seemed to be hit hard, his body on the ground twitched a few times, spit out two mouthfuls of black blood, struggled to raise his right arm while dying, pointed at Su Yan and Pei Jingxing, and said in a frenzy, "You... you ...you two...will eventually...be buried in...the Holy Land..."

The Hu man's face was distorted so much that it was almost impossible to see its original appearance due to pain or hatred. His eyes were full of anger, which never went out even after his death. He stared fiercely at Pei Jingxing and Su Yan.

The last thing Su Yan could see was the death of the barbarians.

With the death of the barbarians and the destruction of the core of the hazy illusion, Pei Jingxing suddenly found that all the dilapidated buildings around him had disappeared, and Zhang Feiran, Gao Zekai and other people who should have disappeared were scattered scattered on the desert.Panic was written on everyone's faces.

Zhang Feiran danced with the gun, as if there was some invisible enemy in front of him; Gao Zekai had a mahogany sword in one hand, and a talisman paper in the other, already profusely sweating.Needless to say, the others were all holding weapons to defend themselves, and all experienced a bizarre and thrilling encounter in the hazy illusion.

"What's going on here?" Zhang Feiran was actually standing ten steps away from Pei Jingxing. Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed the figure of his apprentice. For a moment, three emotions of vigilance, surprise and surprise flashed in his eyes, and finally he stopped at On the joy of the rest of the life after the catastrophe.

"It's an illusion." Gao Zekai looked around, frowned and said, "It's an illusion again."

"Illusion?" Zhang Feiran had already heard about their encounter on the mountain path, and asked, "Is it the same enemy you encountered on the mountain path a few days ago?"

Pei Jingxing didn't know anything about illusions and illusions, and after the illusion ended, Su Yan's left eye returned to a state of blindness, and he stood beside Pei Jingxing without speaking.

In the end, Gao Zekai said, "I'm afraid it is."

He found the two corpses beside Pei Jingxing, walked over, and after seeing the gears in Jin Yong's body, he asked in surprise, "What's going on?"

Zhang Feiran's gaze also fell on Jin Yong's corpse, his pupils shrank, and he felt that this was unbelievable: "A good person, why is there a gear in his body?"

"It's a puppet." Su Yan said suddenly, "When I was in Xijing, I once fought against an old Taoist priest, and he used the puppet to protect himself."

Gao Zekai squatted down, inspected Jin Yong's body, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, shook his head and said, "Fellow Daoist Su, what you said is wrong, the puppet should be made of wood or other materials. But people."

Pei Jingxing asked: "If it's a human, why is there no internal organs in the body, but all gears?"

Gao Zekai was overwhelmed by this question, and he shook his head again: "I don't know about that."

"Take the bodies of these two people back." Zhang Feiran made the final decision. After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said to the soldiers who had gathered, "Three people are missing. You two should go find them."

"Yes."

Soon, the soldiers who were sent to find people came back one after another, and one of them brought back a corpse—a comrade in arms who had set off into the desert with them today.

"Report to the general, we found it in the desert a hundred paces to the west." The soldier who spoke had a look of grief on his face. "His body was sunk in the sand. It should be that his chest was covered by the sand and he was suffocated to death."

"General," another group of soldiers came back with a shoe, "we only found this, there is quicksand next to it, people should be swallowed by quicksand."

"General, there are a lot of snakes over there!" The last group of soldiers who came back was terrified, "Xiao Wang was bitten to death by a boa constrictor. We killed the boa constrictor, but many small snakes flew out of his body. Most of the snake heads were triangular. , I'm afraid it's poisonous."

Everyone looked in the direction where the two soldiers came back, and they saw a black mass approaching them. Those with sharp eyes, such as Pei Jingxing, had already discovered that the black mass was composed of countless small snakes.

There will be sand snakes in the desert, but it is absolutely impossible to have such weird black snakes. Zhang Feiran made a decisive decision and ordered everyone to evacuate immediately.Fortunately, their camels were not far away. Although a few camels had been lost, it was enough for two people to take one.

"Don't be afraid." On the camel, Pei Jingxing temporarily let go of his concern and entanglement with Su Yan's invisible feelings, grabbed the rein with one hand, patted the back of Su Yan's hand with the other, and comforted, "Those snakes have been We were left behind."

He knew that Su Yan's eyes were blinded by the blood of the devil snake. Seeing Su Yan was very silent, he thought it was because Su Yan was afraid of snakes, and he was blind and couldn't see the specific situation, so he hurried to comfort him.

"It's okay, I believe you." Su Yan followed Pei Jingxing's example and wanted to pat the back of Pei Jingxing's hand with his backhand, but unfortunately because of his blindness, he failed.

Pei Jingxing simply squeezed Su Yan's hand, flicked the rein, and urged the camel to speed up.

Back at the camp, before Zhang Feiran could get down in time, he immediately gave orders to the soldiers who came forward to greet him: "Tie that barbarian up for me."

——The old one is dead, but the young one is still there, and the clues have not been broken.

Among the three corpses brought back, those of his own soldiers had to be buried in a safe place, while the corpses of the Huren who planned to murder them and Jin Yong, who was suspected of rebellion, were thrown on the ground and left to be exposed to the scorching sun.

The young barbarian was quickly brought over by the gangsters. When he saw the two corpses on the ground, there was no panic on his face, but his face suddenly sank.

Zhang Feiran saw it, calculated in his mind, and asked: "Your grandfather is dead, do you have anything to say?"

The young barbarian raised his head, closed his eyes, and spit out a long series of foreign words.No, not so much words as songs.

After he finished singing this ballad, he opened his eyes, looked directly at Zhang Feiran, and said in fluent Zhou Dynasty official dialect: "He died to protect the Holy Land, and he died a glorious and great death."

"Why, you also want to die with honor and greatness?"

The Hu man didn't answer, but the upturned corner of his mouth was the best answer.

Zhang Feiran handed the gun to the soldier beside him, took off his helmet, walked in front of the barbarian, and stopped when he was about three steps away from the barbarian.

"Your official words are correct. It seems that you have stayed in the Zhou Dynasty for a while."

The barbarian didn't speak.

"There is a popular saying in Xijing called 'Kunlun girl, Silla maidservant'. Do you know where the Kunlun slaves come from?"

The barbarian still didn't speak.

Zhang Feiran continued: "Kunlun not only refers to Kunlun Mountain, but also refers to those dark-skinned aliens. Kunlun slaves are as powerful as cattle. One Kunlun slave can hold the strength of three adult men in the Zhou Dynasty, but they are also gentle and hardworking. , are the servants of the nobles and rich men of Xijing who are vying for it. Many of these Kunlun slaves come from the islands in the South Seas."

The barbarian was particularly impatient, so he simply closed his eyes, trying to keep out of sight.

Zhang Feiran added: "But there are also some Kunlun slaves brought over by Persian merchants for sale."

After speaking, Zhang Feiran turned to Pei Jingxing and the others standing behind him, and asked, "Do you know where these Kunlun slaves come from?"

As Zhang Feiran's beloved disciple, Pei Jingxing was well aware of his master's temperament, he knew that it was absolutely impossible for Zhang Feiran to say something insignificant at this moment.Therefore, Pei Jingxing shook his head very cooperatively: "The apprentice is stupid, so please ask the master to clarify."

Zhang Feiran smiled, then turned to the Hu people, and explained: "Some of these Kunlun slaves were captured by the Persian king after the war with the countries in the west, and some were captured by Persian merchants. The former were given by Persia as a 'tribute'. Your Majesty, the latter was transported to Xijing by Persian merchants and sold at a high price."

"I was a guest at a friend's house in the past, and I had a conversation with his Kunlun slave. The Kunlun slave told me that in their country, there is a process that must be experienced between the death of the emperor and the burial." Speaking of this , Zhang Feiran paused for a moment, and purposely put it off.

Hu Ren is young after all, he was a little curious about what Zhang Feiran said, but since the other party was his enemy, he couldn't show a wavering expression, so he simply closed his eyes.Now Zhang Feiran suddenly stopped talking, Hu Ren subconsciously asked: "What is it?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Feiran showed a smug smile, and Hu Ren's face changed drastically.He opened his eyes and stared at Zhang Feiran viciously, as if he wanted to scrape his flesh off piece by piece with his eyes.He closed his mouth tightly, afraid of what he would say.

Zhang Feiran stopped whetting his appetite and said: "He said that after the death of their emperor, the internal organs of the body would be taken out one by one and put into special jars for preservation. Oh, yes, they would also Take an iron rod, put it through your nostrils, stir it, and all the things in your brain will come out."

While talking, Zhang Feiran reached under the barbarian's nose, turned his wrist a few times, and said, "White, red, and gray, tsk tsk, it looks like paste."

The Huren finally had a frightened expression on his face: "You are not human! You, you don't want to do anything to me!"

Zhang Feiran heheed twice, and walked to the side of Jin Yong's body: "I didn't think about this old thing at first, but later I found that Jin Yong's internal organs were gone, and there was a strange smell from the skin and inside of the body, so it happened. I remembered what the Kunlun slave said to me at that time. With this method, can the corpse not rot?"

The barbarian took a deep breath and didn't answer.

"Don't tell me?" Zhang Feiran seemed a little troubled, he shook his head helplessly, and sighed, "Since this is the case, in order to prove whether my guess is right or wrong, I have to do something."

Hu Ren trembled all over: "What do you want to do?"

"Right now, here are all the people of my Zhou Dynasty. Besides you, tell me, who should I try?"

"You!" The Hu man was full of fear, "You can't do this to me!"

"No? Why not?" Zhang Feiran sneered, "You were the ones who planned to kill us first, if you hadn't missed it, we would be the ones who died now! Come, bring a table over here, and take a red-hot iron rod!"

"Yes!"

After a while, the Hu man was put on the table, his hands and feet were tied tightly, and it was extremely difficult for him to struggle.

Zhang Feiran drew out the saber of a soldier beside him, and walked to the table: "A life for a life, four of my subordinates died, today is a good deal for you."

When the tip of the knife pierced Hu Ren's chest, a few drops of blood oozed out, and the fear of death completely shattered the enthusiasm in the young Hu Ren's heart, and he shouted: "I say! I say! "

Zhang Feiran stopped what he was doing, but he didn't hold the knife, but let the tip of the knife gently walk around the barbarian's belly with great interest: "Speak."