Yin Xiu lay in the ravine behind the stone, facing the waves of arrows with a comfortable and calm attitude. Even though those arrows were nailed to the side of his head, grazing the top of his head and falling to his feet, he didn't care and just lay like this. Because of the influence of his mood, even Hai Dongqing, who was very nervous at first, couldn't help but relax and just waited for the other end in the darkness to finish shooting the arrow. And at their feet lay the soldier whose neck had been cut by Hai Dongqing just now. By this time, his blood had dried up, his face was pale, and his hands and feet were stiff. "Do you think there will be retribution for killing people?" Hai Dongqing suddenly asked. "You've already killed people, and now you're asking, isn't it too late?" Yin Xiu said this and started to explain to the ignorant Hai Dongqing. "If you kill someone, according to the law, you will definitely be arrested and beheaded. There are royal patrols on Hong Kong Island, and there are also court agents here. But that's what I say, but if we really follow the law, there won't be many martial arts masters anymore, and everyone will become a fugitive murderer and a wanted criminal. "
"Who cares what the officer wants to do?" Hai Dongqing didn't take it seriously, "What else can an official do besides collecting dirty money? It's not my first day out here, so why don't I know what they will do?" "you are right." Yin Xiu grinned and said, "Then what you care about are what happens after the murder?" "Of course that's what I want to ask you." Hai Dongqing suddenly became serious. "For example, after killing him, will he seek revenge from me in the next life, or will I have to pay something back in the next life because of this cause and effect?" she asked. "What you shouldn't care about is whether this guy will turn into a fierce ghost and come to seek revenge on you in the first seven days?" "What am I afraid of? With you two Taoist priests here, can you still watch him kill me?" Hai Dongqing didn't care much about this, "It's not like I haven't killed anyone before. If they turned into ghosts to take revenge, now I would have turned into a hanged ghost or suffered other tragedies, but I'm still alive, right? ?” "Then why did you kill people in the first place?" Yin Xiu asked curiously. Although he vaguely heard Hai Dongqing say that the people who died in her hands were bullies running rampant in the village, he had never heard her mention the specific reasons. Now, for some reason, Yin Xiu was interested again. However, Hai Dongqing's face quickly turned cold. She just said coldly: "This is none of your business. I just killed two wild dogs on the roadside at any time. What does it matter whether I talk about it or not?" "Okay, let's continue talking about the matter at hand." Yin Xiu picked up the hat that fell on the ground and covered the long-dead soldier's face. Don't let his pair of pale eyes stare directly at the two of them. "Generally speaking, the kind of people who follow you after you are reincarnated are called enemy creditors. They often die unjustly and have too much resentment to be reincarnated. Therefore, they will follow the reincarnation of the person who killed them and kill him to find a substitute in exchange for a chance to reincarnate. However, there are not many such things. Otherwise, those generals with great military exploits who have killed many people in this life will not be able to face a lot of vicious ghosts when they are reincarnated as adults in the next life? "
"So, you think this is just made up by the person who wrote the book to persuade everyone not to do evil?" "It's entirely possible." Yin Xiu nodded, "Since laws and rules can't restrict you, then in the end, won't we have to rely on some weird things to scare you, so that those who are timid and superstitious don't dare to do bad things?" "superstitious?" Hai Dongqing chuckled and said, "You, a Taoist priest, are also superstitious?" "It's all the same. Superstition does not mean belief in monsters, gods and ghosts, but it means that when you believe in something and become obsessed with it, or even fall into a state of obsession, this is also considered superstitious. Just like those Qi practitioners who want to become immortals, even if you know that there is a method in this world that may lead to immortality, they are obsessed with it, which can be regarded as a kind of superstition. " "Then I understand what you mean." Hai Dongqing suddenly realized it and looked at Yin Xiu again, "What about you? Don't you plan to become an immortal?" "Do you think I look like a god?" Yin Xiu shook his head. Hai Dongqing looked at Yin Xiu's strong and handsome face and couldn't imagine what he would be like when he was sixty or seventy years old with snow-white hair and beard. Does he look kind-hearted and more like a Taoist with a celestial spirit, or is he just a bad old man who just drinks and squats on the roadside looking at women all day long? However, when he thought that he might not have the chance to see Yin Xiu grow old, because he was probably not long gone, Hai Dongqing's relief also dissipated. Somehow, I was still entangled in a faint sadness, and I just felt empty in my heart. Yin Xiu didn't notice Hai Dongqing's subtle changes. He just chatted and listened to the movements outside with his ears. After three more rounds of whizzing arrows, there was not much sound around them. The sound of arrows and musketry had disappeared, and there was silence in his ears. Those who were not dead before were killed by arrows, and those who were still alive after being hit by arrows were either injured by an arrow or had bled too much and completely lost their vitality. After noticing that there was no more movement, Yin Xiu stood up first and looked around. Then someone noticed that he got up from the ground and shouted to Yin Xiu: "Brother, come and help me!" Yin Xiu shook his head, "It's useless. There is a lack of medical treatment here. I saved you, but you won't live much longer. Why don't you just lie there, you are comfortable and I am comfortable too." "I'm not injured, my feet are just weak!" the soldier shouted. "..." Yin Xiu sighed and walked over to take a look. Sure enough, there was a fat man lying on the ground with his legs in the air, like an overturned turtle, breathing heavily. "You're really not hurt?" Yin Xiu glanced at him again. "Your question really hurts my burning heart!" The fat man sighed: "How cold-blooded! We are brothers who have been through life and death, and you don't believe me." "..."
Yin Xiu reached out, took the man's hand and gently pulled the man, who weighed nearly two hundred kilograms, up. After getting up, the fat man just patted the dust on his body with his hands, and then said to Yin Xiu: "Brother, my name is Li Chao, and I am nicknamed Sha Dan Chao. You helped me once, and you were different from others, so I can Allow me to call you Chaoge." "Got it, Fatty." Yin Xiu ignored him and walked around, and then he found that there were many people lying on the ground pretending to be dead. Even the young officer who took the lead did not die. Instead, he lay next to a corpse and survived by using the dead soldiers as a cover. When the officer noticed Yin Xiu's eyes glancing at him, he didn't care. He just pushed the body aside casually and sat up. After staying on the battlefield for a long time, for these veterans, all morals and sense of honor have been forgotten. The most important thing is only how to survive. So he didn't care if a "little pawn" like Yin Xiu saw what he did. Soldiers are soldiers, generals are generals, and they can't talk to each other. Of course, Yin Xiu had no intention of chatting with him. He just sat casually on a rock and waved to Hai Dongqing, indicating that she could come out. At this moment, a hand grabbed Yin Xiu's boots. Yin Xiu lowered his head and saw that the man's hand left an obvious mark on the black boots, which were obviously stained with blood. "Help, help me," the soldier said. Yin Xiu lowered his body and said in a weak voice that could only be heard by the other party: "If it were normal and you were an ordinary person, you would save me if you could. But if you work hard for the court, there is no way I can expose you in public. identity, so unfortunately, I can’t take action.” "Then, can you do something for me?" The man's voice was weak, still unwilling to give up the last glimmer of hope. "Well……" Yin Xiu thought for a while, then leaned into his ear and said, "How about I recite sutras for you later to achieve salvation?" As soon as he finished speaking, the man's hand relaxed and his body went completely limp. Everyone stood up one after another. The officer came out and pointed with his finger. He found that the original team of forty people now had less than twenty people left, and he inevitably felt frustrated again. However, the frustration was quickly overwhelmed by numbness. He didn't even look at the injured who were still on the ground. He just waved and said, "Let's go. If we delay any longer, we may not be able to catch up with Prince Su and the others." "Hey, Fatty, where are you going?" Yin Xiu poked the fat man's waist and asked him in a low voice. "So you came from another barracks?" The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the composition of their team was very chaotic, and they suffered heavy losses in the several battles after entering Changbai Mountain. The current formation members are basically cobbled together from various places, so some people don't know what the mission is, and the goal is not excessive, because they just follow the party with the more people. "That's easy to say." The fat man patted his chest and said, "I am a first-class cavalry member of Feijun Battalion. I wonder what your position is?" Yin Xiu glanced at him and couldn't figure out how this damn fat man became a cavalryman. If any mount was assigned to him, it would be better to die early and be born early. "I'm from the Musketeers." Yin Xiu pulled the gun on her back.
"Musketeers?" The fat man scratched his head and touched the gun on his back. "Those who come out to fool around now, oh no, who is a soldier nowadays doesn't carry a gun? How can there be any musketeers?" "Fat man," Yin Xiu glared at him, "This is an ancestral system. The older generation called it that. Can't I call it that now? Shenji Camp, Mighty General Camp, we have to call it Armstrong Artillery Camp instead." Can’t make it to Camp Gatlin?” "That can't be done, that can't be done." The fat man was obviously frightened by Yin Xiu's momentum. He didn't expect that he was such a traditional person, so he could only wave his hands to show that he had no objection. "Stop talking about what is available and what is not." Yin Xiu's expression was still unkind, "Let me ask you, where are we going?" "It's next to Prince Su." The fat man looked quite innocent, with a pair of green bean-sized eyes twinkling. "Actually, I don't know much about it. However, after we fought a big battle with the White Lotus underground, and we fired thousands of bullets and arrows at each other across an underground river, it seemed that various parts of the army were separated. It's coming. I originally thought that our cavalry battalion suffered heavy losses and should retreat to the ground to rest. Damn it, but Prince Su... the prince said that we should go to the front to assemble, saying that we wanted to protect a certain place. " "Where?" Yin Xiu already had a vague answer in her mind. "It's the dragon vein." The fat man's voice was lowered, and it was like a mosquito buzzing when it came out of his fat mouth. "I heard that Prince Su and the others found the dragon's veins somehow, so they are gathering people and they are in front." Hai Dongqing also listened attentively and couldn't help but feel incredible. He cast a questioning look at Yin Xiu. However, Yin Xiu just waved her hand secretly, indicating that she would pretend not to hear and wait to see what the fat man said. "Dragon Vein, you know it, right? But you probably don't know either. Because this is inside information. It was told to me by a good brother of mine, the miscellaneous soldier who is responsible for delivering water to Prince Su's camp. Why did you only tell me? It’s because Fatty saved his life, you know? Just last autumn, when we were fighting with the rebels in the suburbs of Beijing, a volley of guns came from the opposite side. This kid was not hit, but was so frightened that he fell off his horse. Fortunately, Fatty, I have sharp eyesight and quick hands, otherwise that boy would have been trampled to a pulp by the horse behind him. In order to thank me, Fatty, he recognized Fatty and me as his big brother, so what a secret... Oops! " The fat man screamed, and it turned out that the officer in front threw a stone in his face. "Li Chao, if you keep making such noise, I will push you down later and ask the White Lotus Sect to take care of you." "Sir, it's not that I want to make a noise, it's..." The fat man turned around, only to find that Yin Xiu and Hai Dongqing, who were still questioning him next to him, had disappeared without knowing when, leaving him alone standing here. "What is it?" The officer escaped from death and was very angry at this time. "Nothing, nothing."
The fat man slapped his mouth to indicate that he would definitely be silent next time. Fatty naturally didn't find Yin Xiu and Hai Dongqing, because they had already walked to the other side of the team, a few people away from Fatty, walking in the shadows near the bottom of the rock wall. "Is it possible? They found the dragon vein so quickly?" Hai Dongqing couldn't believe it. "Maybe it's fake, but I can't guarantee it." Yin Xiu said cautiously: "After all, there are all kinds of strange people in the imperial court, and among them there are fortune-tellers who are not inferior to Liu Banxian. With such people, it is only a matter of time before the dragon veins are found underground." "Then what will they do if they find the dragon vein?" "How to do it?" Yin Xiu grinned, "Then it depends on what the White Lotus Saint is planning to do?" He looked up and looked ahead. The front was brightly lit, and groups of soldiers were gathering there. (End of chapter)