Charcoal God?
Shu Guan looked at the ordinary-looking piece of charcoal with some surprise.
He was certain that there was no spiritual power fluctuation in this piece of charcoal, and there was absolutely no soul present.
"The history of our Tan Gang is very ancient, even older than the history of the Great China Dynasty. Tens of thousands of years ago, our members of the Tan Gang were already cutting wood and burning charcoal in the mountains of Shuzhou."
And now that he had said it, Ji Quanshun seemed to be no longer prepared to hide it, and slowly continued:
"As for this piece of charcoal, it is a treasure passed down from generation to generation by our charcoal gang. Legend has it that five thousand years ago, divine thunder suddenly fell from the sky and hit a thousand-year-old tree in the mountain. After the ancient tree burned, the ashes There was such a piece of charcoal left in the mine, and many of us in the Charcoal Gang witnessed this with our own eyes."
"And in this charcoal, there lives an immortal, and we enshrine him in the ancestral hall in the mountain."
"Mr. Shu, Mr. Du, you may not know that burning charcoal to open a cellar is a very dangerous thing. Especially when the cellar is opened, the poisonous gas from the wood fire in the cellar will escape. If a person accidentally inhales it, he will die. , so the person in charge of opening the kiln would cover his mouth and nose with a wet towel, but even so, before the charcoal god came to our charcoal gang, if he opened ten charcoal kilns, at least three or four of them would kill people."
"But since we enshrined the God of Charcoal, as long as we pray to the God of Charcoal before opening the kiln, almost no one will die of poisoning when the kiln is opened."
"And if a gang gets lost while logging in the mountains, Charcoal God can always help us find those lost people."
"Have you always been able to communicate with this charcoal god in charcoal?"
When he heard this, Shu Guan couldn't help but asked curiously.
Because at this moment, he really did not sense the existence of any charcoal god in the charcoal.
"good."
Ji Quanshun nodded affirmatively and continued:
"In the past five thousand years, the God of Carbon has been responsive to our prayers most of the time, except when he occasionally falls asleep."
"But this time I took Tanshen out of the ancestral hall. Tanshen told me that he could only stay awake in that mountain, and if he left that mountain, he would have to slowly fall into a deep sleep. Only like Only the spiritual power of a practitioner like Mr. Shu can temporarily awaken him."
Ji Quanshun finally finished speaking, but he did not say why he took the Tan God of their Tan Gang all the way from Shuzhou to Shencheng alone.
Of course, Shu Guan didn't pay much attention to this matter at this time.
He stared at the large piece of charcoal with interest. What Ji Quanshun said just now really made him curious about the charcoal god.
Five thousand years ago, a thunder struck an ancient tree, and then such a piece of charcoal was born?
The charcoal god in the charcoal should be the spiritual soul of the practitioner!
This is Shu Guan's current speculation.
For those ordinary people in the Tan Gang, this is something comparable to a miracle, but in the eyes of practitioners, there is not much magic.
However, is the practitioner’s soul trapped in this piece of charcoal?
Shu Guan pondered for a moment, then slowly stretched out his hand, pressed it on the piece of charcoal, and received a ray of spiritual power.
The next moment, the square piece of charcoal suddenly became red and hot.
Shu Guan quickly retracted his hand.
The piece of charcoal now looked like the burning charcoal in the stove, red and bright, but strangely, the piece of brocade under the charcoal did not burn.
At this time, Ji Quanshun also did something very strange. He closed the rattan box with a snap, and then immediately rushed out of the door with the rattan box, so anxious and flustered that he didn't even leave a word of thanks. .
Du Wenqiang couldn't help but smile awkwardly and said to Shu Guan:
"Maybe Mr. Ji really has something urgent to do!"
As for Shu Guan, he was talking to Xiao Yi in his mind with a serious expression.
Because the moment he injected spiritual power into the charcoal, he did feel some wonderful changes within the charcoal.
The originally ordinary charcoal seemed to suddenly have a spiritual fluctuation in it at that moment.
But before he could take a closer look, Ji Quanshun had already left with the rattan box.
"Xiaoyi, do you feel it?"
"I feel it, brother, but that consciousness is not the weapon spirit of charcoal. Brother, your original guess is correct, it should be the soul of a practitioner, so I said hello to him and he ignored me."
"I only heard him say three words to the old man just now: Found it."
found it?
It’s really three words without beginning or end.
Shu Guan thought for a moment, turned around and said to Xiaojian:
"Follow me and take a look."
The charcoal god in that piece of charcoal was awakened by him after all, so Shu Guan felt that if the charcoal god did something in Shencheng, he must know about it, and if it was something bad, he would be responsible for solving it. .
Xiaojian responded respectfully and immediately left the house.
As a practitioner, he would naturally have no problem following an ordinary old man.
After Xiaojian left, Shu Guan said something to Du Wenqiang.
"Come up here with me."
Then he walked towards the second floor first.
Du Wenqiang quickly followed and asked cautiously:
"Mr. Shu, I don't know..."
"I'll let someone take a look at your leg disease."
Shu Guan said this casually.
Wang Runling happens to live here now, so please ask her to help Du Wenqiang see if there is any cure for Du Wenqiang's leg disease.
Du Wenqiang's body suddenly shook, and his face showed an extremely complicated expression, including anticipation, excitement, ecstasy, and gratitude.
Two hours later, Xiaojian came back holding the dying Ji Quanshun in his arms.
…
At that time, Wang Runling was pulling out a long golden needle from Du Wenqiang's left knee.
Du Wenqiang looked at her with hope.
His leg was a problem that was brought from his mother's womb. After he developed, he spent a lot of energy and money to cure this leg disease. Both Chinese and Western medicine were used to treat it, and he even spent a lot of money to cure it from the Western Continent. A very famous medical expert was invited to examine his leg disease.
However, after visiting so many doctors and spending so much money, his leg disease still showed no improvement. As he got older and older in the past two years, especially in rainy weather, his entire left leg would become numb and painful. Not to mention walking, even standing is a little difficult.
Originally, Du Wenqiang was already disappointed with his leg disease and had no intention of treating it again.
But today, when Shu Guan asked an "immortal" to help him look at his leg problem, Du Wenqiang finally had hope again.
Mortal doctors can't take a good look at his leg disease, so immortals will always have a way.
Although the cute girl in front of him, who is seventeen or eighteen years old and has an apple face, is actually far from the image of the immortal that Du Wenqiang originally imagined who could cure his leg disease.
"Get up and take a few steps."
Then I just heard the girl say this to herself.
Du Wenqiang stood up. The moment he stood up, a look of disbelief appeared on Du Wenqiang's face. His left foot had never been so powerful.
Then Du Wenqiang took two quick steps forward, his face slowly filled with ecstasy.
Those few steps just now were the easiest steps he had taken in his life. He had never experienced how easy it was to walk normally.
"After three days, you do it again, and after two more times, your leg disease will be completely eliminated."
Wang Runling said this lightly.
Du Wenqiang turned around and walked up to her, bowed deeply and said solemnly:
"Du Wenqiang, thank you Miss Wang."
Then he turned to Shu Guan and bowed as well, his eyes full of gratitude and he said:
"Du Wenqiang, thank you Mr. Shu."
He knew very well that without Shu Guan, he would never be able to cure his leg disease in his life.
At this time, Wang Maorong, who was standing aside, rubbed his hands and reminded with a smile.
"Boss Du, I think it's sincere to just say thank you for something like this!"
Du Wenqiang laughed and said quickly:
"Mr. Wang, please rest assured that Mr. Du will be grateful for this."
Wang Maorong thought about the mountains of gifts downstairs and knew that this person was extremely generous. This time his father and daughter would probably make a fortune.
Wang Maorong looked forward to it excitedly, smiling so hard that it almost reached his ears.
But the next moment, the smile on his face suddenly faded.
At the same time, Shu Guan had already moved outside the room and jumped down from the stairs.
Outside the door, Xiaojian, covered in blood, fell in. In his arms, he was holding Ji Quanshun, who was also covered in blood and had his eyes closed tightly.
Xiaojian looked up and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to speak, but then he closed his eyes and fell into a coma like Wang Quanshun.
"Miss Wang, help!"
Shu Guan immediately shouted upstairs.
…
With Wang Runling here, as long as the person is not completely dead, he can naturally be saved.
However, if Xiaojian had been slower than one or two minutes to come back, he and Ji Quanshun might really die.
The injuries sustained by the two people were basically gunshot wounds.
Xiaojian had as many as fifty or sixty bullets all over his body. Although he did not hit such a vital point as his heart, if it weren't for the fact that he had successfully channeled his energy, it would have been impossible for him to come back alive.
As for Ji Quanshun, the gunshot wounds on his body were minor, but one bullet grazed his heart. It can be said that it was impossible to come back even if it was a hair's breadth.
Under Wang Runling's treatment, Xiaojian was the first to wake up, and then he immediately began to tell Shu Guan what happened in the past two hours.
Two hours ago, Ji Quan rushed out of the horse racing hall carrying the rattan box containing the piece of charcoal. After exiting the alley, he hurriedly called a rickshaw.
Xiaojian, on the other hand, has been following him from a distance.
"He got off the car at Xiafei Road, then raised the rattan box in his hand, as if listening to something, and then Mr. Ji looked around and saw a shop on the roadside.
"That's a very ordinary-looking shop that sells suits."
When the story came to this point, Xiaojian showed some weirdness and confusion on his face.
"Mr. Ji rushed into the shop and shouted at the people inside, 'Where is my son?', 'Hurry up and hand him over', 'I know he must be here'..."
From what I heard, Ji Quanshun's behavior at that time indeed seemed very strange.
"The people in that store just thought Mr. Ji was a madman and wanted to drive him out of the store. However, Mr. Ji was very skilled. He knocked down all the white counters inside with three punches and two kicks, and then... then When Mr. Ji started taking the exam, he really went crazy and smashed the cabinets and doors in the store, as if he was looking for something."
"But he didn't seem to find anything, and not long after, the patrol officers arrived. Originally, the patrol officers wanted to take Mr. Ji back to the patrol bureau, so I stepped forward at that time. The patrol captain who led the team knew me, and he I will no longer insist on taking Mr. Ji back to the patrol station."
"But Mr. Ji still refused to leave. He insisted that his son must be hidden in this shop. I persuaded him to come back first and guaranteed that Mr. Du would definitely help him find his son. If his son is really in this shop , then it’s better for Mr. Du to come forward than to mess around here."
"It was only then that Mr. Ji was willing to come back with me. We called two rickshaws back. My car was in the front and Mr. Ji's car was in the back. When we just left Xiafei Road, I heard a gunshot. Looking back, Mr. Ji rolled out of the car..."
"Who did it?"
Shu Guan asked in a deep voice.
"Three people, three white men in suits, with handguns."
Xiaojian's answer made Shu Guan frown.
"Practitioner?"
In his opinion, three ordinary people, even if they all hold pistols, would not be able to injure the little arrow like this.
In fact, if it were an ordinary shooter, after Xiaojian reacted, there would never be another chance to shoot.
However, Xiaojian's next answer was beyond Shu Guan's expectations.
"No, those three are ordinary people."
"But there are some problems with the guns they used. I have played with guns before, so when I heard the sound of the gunfire, I knew that the sound of an ordinary pistol would never be so loud, nor would the rate of fire be so fast. And I was shot Later, I discovered that those bullets were much more lethal than ordinary pistols, almost equivalent to the power of my full-strength punch."
"In addition, every time those people pull the trigger, there will be a weak spiritual energy fluctuation in their pistols."
Shu Guan suddenly raised his eyebrows.
Psychic pistol? Magic weapon?
"But in the end, I killed two people and the other one escaped. At that time, I knew that I couldn't hold on for long, so I rushed back with Mr. Ji."
Xiaojian did not go into details about how he killed two of the gunmen, but looking at his appearance when he came back, you can imagine how intense the battle was at that time.
After Shu Guan finished listening, he immediately turned to Du Wenqiang and said:
"Immediately send someone to see if the two corpses are still there, and if there is anything left by the gunmen at the scene, such as blood stains, hair, etc., bring them all back to me."
Du Wenqiang quickly turned around and went out.
Shu Guan thought for a while and then said to Han Biao, who had already come out of the room:
"Uncle Han, you should go and take a look too."
And when Han Biao left, Ji Quanshun finally woke up.
When the leader of the Tan Gang from Shuzhou opened his eyes, he immediately jumped up from the ground.
"My son is in that store!"
"I'm going to find him!"
The old man's eyes were red, he was shouting like this, and he wanted to rush out the door immediately. His expression was so anxious, painful, and panicked.
Shu Guan pressed his shoulder and at the same time received a ray of spiritual power.
"Mr. Ji, don't be anxious yet."
He stared into Ji Quanshun's eyes and said in a very calm tone:
"I promise you that as long as your son is in Shanghai, I will do my best to help you find him. You know who I am, so you shouldn't doubt my ability!"
Ji Quanshun trembled when he heard the words and looked at Shu Guan blankly. He was held down by Shu Guan on the shoulder. Naturally, he could no longer rush out. Coupled with the ray of spiritual power that Shu Guan crossed in, he finally regained some sense. .
"And even if your son was actually in that shop, he probably isn't there now. Besides, you just went to that shop, and someone came to kill you with a magic weapon. Believe me, this matter will never be that simple. Yes, Mr. Ji, you alone will definitely not be able to find your son."
Ji Quanshun looked at Shu Guan with a pleading look in his eyes.
"Mr. Ji, why don't you tell me the whole thing first."
Shu Guan asked Ji Quanshun to sit down, made him a cup of hot tea and placed it in front of him.
Ji Quanshun held up the cup of hot tea in a daze and began to tell.
…
Ji Quanshun has a son.
According to Ji Quanshun, he only has one son, who is forty years old this year.
Normally, Ji Quanshun and his son lived in the ancestral hall of the Tan Gang in the mountains, and would only come out of the mountains unless there was something necessary to do.
A month ago, Ji Quanshun's son went out to the mountain to deliver a batch of newly burned charcoal. Of course, he did not go out alone, but brought dozens of helpers with him to deliver the charcoal. Shipped in batches.
They stayed in Chang County for two days, and after delivering the batch of charcoal to the buyer, they were ready to return to the mountains.
But something happened the day before returning.
After dinner that day, Ji Quanshun's son, the young gang leader of the Tan Gang, said that he wanted to go shopping alone on the streets. He only went out to the mountains once every few months to approach them. It was normal to want to see more of the scenery outside the county. things.
So after eating, Ji Quanshun's son went out alone, and he never came back that night.
Initially, the gang members thought that he was going to do something that men only know how to do, but when it was almost noon the next day, the young gang leader had not returned yet, so the gang members began to look for him anxiously.
It's just that they searched the entire Changxian County and couldn't find the young gang leader.
Changxian County is a very small city, and the Tan Gang is the largest gang force there, so it is impossible to find someone.
So they finally realized that something was wrong with the young gang leader.
Then Ji Quanshun also rushed over from the mountains and mobilized the entire gang to search for his son in Chang County for three days and three nights, but could not find his son.
However, it was not that there was no discovery at all. They still found some traces of the young gang leader's stay in the city, and judging from those traces, their young gang leader was kidnapped.
But there are no clues as to who kidnapped the young gang leader and where they took him.
Ji Quanshun waited in Chang County for several days, but no kidnappers came to ask for ransom.
So Ji Quanshun realized that this might not be an ordinary kidnapping, so he went to Tanshen for help.
Because the Charcoal God has a very magical ability, that is, he can sense anyone who has appeared in front of that piece of charcoal, as long as he is within a certain range.
In the past, when the gang members got lost while logging in the mountains, they relied on this ability of the Carbon God to find their way back.
"Then why didn't you just ask your charcoal god for help in the first place and why did you have to wait so many more days?"
When Shu Guan heard this, he felt a little strange and couldn't help but ask.
"Because our Tan Gang has an ancestral rule that cannot take Tan God away from that mountain. No one can do this, otherwise it will be a traitor to the gang!"
Ji Quanshun said bitterly:
"Actually, this time I secretly brought Tan Shen out of the mountains. What I did has violated the gang rules. Even if I am the leader of the Tan Gang, I cannot do this. But in order to find Xiaojie, I can only do this... "
Then Ji Quanshun continued to tell.
He went back to the mountain and secretly brought the piece of charcoal, which was a sacred object of the Tan Gang, to Chang County. As expected, the Charcoal God sensed the whereabouts of his son. Then Ji Quanshun followed the Charcoal God's guidance and pursued him all the way from Shuzhou. Shanghai.
It's just that the God of Carbon told him that as long as he left the deep mountains, he would fall into a deep sleep soon and would need the spiritual power of a practitioner to wake up again.
After arriving in Shanghai, Tan Shen finally seemed to be unable to hold on and fell into a deep sleep. At that time, he only sensed that Ji Quanshun's son had arrived in Shanghai, but he had not yet determined the specific location.
That's why Ji Quanshun came to ask Shu Guan for help today.
"After Tanshen woke up today, I followed his guidance and found the store. Tanshen said that Xiaojie was in that store. Tanshen will definitely not be mistaken."
Ji Quanshun finally finished explaining the reason why he came to Shencheng, and then looked at Shu Guan with extremely pleading eyes.
"Mr. Ji, do you have any of your master's belongings with you?"
After listening, Shu Guan asked this question.
The rattan box that Ji Quan had brought with him containing the Carbon God of their Tan Gang had been left at the scene of the recent battle. Under the circumstances, Xiaojian didn't bother to bring the rattan box back.
However, Shu Guan didn't care. As long as Ji Quanshun could provide his son's belongings, Shu Guan was confident that he could divine Ji Quanshun's son's whereabouts at this time.
"I didn't bring him Xiaojie's things..."
Ji Quanshun shook his head first, then thought of something and quickly took out a photo from his arms and said:
"But I brought his photo with me in case I need to use it."
When Shu Guan took a look at the photo, he saw that it was a boy of 16 or 17 years old, and his appearance was 50-60% similar to Ji Quanshun.
"Mr. Ji, why don't you bring a photo of your young master as an adult? You must know that there are many differences between his youthful appearance and his current appearance."
Shu Guan then asked this question.
"...This is what Xiaojie looks like now. This photo was taken last year..."
Ji Quanshun said this, and as he spoke, the old man's expression became extremely strange.
After hearing his answer, Shu Guan looked at him with confusion.
Because he just heard Ji Quanshun say that his son is already in his forties, but the person in the photo definitely looks like a real teenager.
Immediately afterwards, Ji Quanshun said something hesitantly.
"...Xiaojie...Xiaojie...he is actually...not a human being."
"...Xiaojie's mother is a demon..."
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