Faced with Mr. Zhu Da's somewhat aggressive tone, Zhang Cuishan was not annoyed. Instead, he cupped his hands and asked, "May I ask Mr. Zhu Da, where do these weird things come from?"
Mr. Zhu Da rolled his eyes strangely and said slowly: "Although I have been unable to leave Lin'an City these years, I have been entrusting people to help me collect any books about strange objects. In the past hundred years, there were no records about strange objects in any history books. , I am very curious about the source of their appearance, and I have rummaged through countless ancient books over the years."
At this point, Mr. Zhu Da suddenly stopped, touched his beard and stopped talking.
Song Xing asked jokingly: "May I ask Mr. Da, where does the strange thing come from?"
Mr. Zhu Da nodded with satisfaction, took over the conversation and said: "I have listed all the incidents of strange objects, and found that except for a few strange objects appearing in the mountains, forests and wilderness, most of the strange objects have only one opportunity, and that is a large number of strange objects. of killing.”
"Killing?" Zhang Cuishan couldn't help but frown when he heard this.
Mr. Zhu Da said quickly: "Yes, since ancient times, there has been a place where there has been a lot of killing, and that is the battlefield. Later, I read a lot of classics and found that the strange things that appeared in the mountains and fields were also silent wherever they appeared. Many years of ancient battlefields confirmed my guess."
Hearing this, Song Xing also raised a question: "If we talk about battlefields, there have been countless large and small wars in the past dynasties. Why have no weird things been born before, and only in the past fifty years have weird things been born?"
Song Xing's words seemed to question Mr. Zhu Da, "Well, I haven't found out the specific reason. Maybe we only need to go to the source of the first appearance of the strange thing to find out the reason for this change."
Song Xing keenly grasped the key point of Mr. Zhu Da's words, "Sir, do you know the location where the strange thing first appeared?"
Mr. Zhu Da nodded: "I read through many classics such as "Yiyuan", "Hundred Demons Book", "Duyi Zhi", "Dong Ming Ji" and so on, and finally located the location where the earliest record of strange objects appeared, which was sixty-three years ago. , the most brutal battlefield before the Mongol army destroyed the Song Dynasty, Xiangyang City!"
As soon as Mr. Zhu Da said this, everyone present except Chi Xin looked confused, and the eyes of the other three people flashed with surprise.
Just because they all know what the Battle of Xiangyang sixty years ago meant to the Song and Yuan Dynasties at that time.
It took the Mongols a total of forty-five years to destroy the Song Dynasty, and they went through countless wars. However, in just three years after the city of Xiangyang was destroyed, the Mongolian army arrived at Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Song Gongzong, who was only 5 years old, was forced to surrender.
The Battle of Xiangyang was the largest, most far-reaching, fiercest, and longest-lasting major battle between the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia.
Xiangyang is located in the hinterland of the plains in the middle reaches of the Han River. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. It is known as "the first city in China" and "the waist of the world".
Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, accepted Liu Zheng's advice to surrender in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Without Xiang, there is no Huai, and without Huai, Jiangnan is easy to conquer." He "attack Xiangyang first and withdraw its defenses." He concentrated his forces to attack Xiangyang.
So for decades, both sides mobilized the most elite troops in the world at that time to fight for battles around Xiangyang, with the cumulative number of casualties exceeding 400,000.
It can be said that the city under Xiangyang City at that time was like a millstone of human flesh. No matter how many troops were put into it, it was like a bottomless pit.
It doesn't seem particularly strange for a terrifying monster to be born in such a flesh-and-blood battlefield.
"If you have the chance, you can go to Xiangyang City to explore. You are still young and have not experienced the scene of Hero Guo guarding Xiangyang City and dying heroically. If I hadn't been unable to leave Lin'an City, I would have gone to commemorate him."
Mr. Zhu Da rambled for a while, and then said: "It is true that where strange things are born, a lot of killing power is needed, but that alone should not be enough. If you read books about strange things carefully, you will find that the so-called strange things Most of the creatures have some similarities with the ghosts and ghosts recorded in some kind of books about gods and monsters by previous generations. For example, the Diyangyi I just mentioned can turn human internal organs into sand and stone, and the strange things that appear in Longmen Escort Agency , but he also has that ability."
Song Xing thought thoughtfully: "Mr. Da, what you mean is that the monster relies on the power of a large number of killings and relies on some kind of folk legend of ghosts. It turns from false to real and appears in this world?"
Mr. Zhu Da nodded, "That's pretty much what it means, but I still haven't figured out why this phenomenon didn't happen before, but strange objects appeared sixty years ago."
Song Xing clasped his fists and said, "Listening to Mr. Da's words has already solved a lot of our doubts."
Mr. Zhu Da waved his hand, "Researching strange objects is just my own interest. If it weren't for Li Tianyuan's sake, I wouldn't have talked so much with you this time."
After saying that, he looked at Yin Susu and said, "Girl, for the sake of you being Li Tianyuan's junior, let me say one more thing. I have never seen any record of the monster who killed Longmen Escort Agency before. His ability is too weird. Maybe you can see It is the moment of death. Listen to my advice and don't get involved. Monsters are different from people."
Seeing Mr. Zhu Da's advice, Yin Susu responded with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Da, for your advice. Su Su understands the importance. This visit is also to clear the grievances of this Wudang Wuxia. I will not overestimate my ability."
Hearing this, Zhang Cuishan stepped forward and said with cupped hands: "Mr. Zhu Da, it's not that Mr. Zhang is ungrateful. It's actually that the Shaolin sect now misunderstands me as the real culprit who killed Longmen Escort. If we can't find that weird thing, Mr. Zhang will die." , I am afraid of causing a conflict between Wudang and Shaolin, so for the sake of the master and myself, I have to grit my teeth and investigate. If Mr. Da has any clues to tell, Zhang Cuishan will be grateful!"
Mr. Zhu Da sighed and shook his head, "That's all, it's hard to persuade the damn ghost. Since you insist, I will help you one last time."
Without waiting for Zhang Cuishan to thank him, Mr. Zhu Da turned around and walked back to the tiled house.
This time he didn't wait long, and after about a few breaths, he appeared again. The book in his hand was gone, replaced by a black sheep that was completely black.
As Black Sheep's eyes turned, his green eyes stared at the people outside the house. Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu felt a chill in their hearts for no reason.
Song Xing raised his eyebrows, curious: "Is the sheep in Mr. Da's hand also a strange thing?"
Zhang Cuishan and others were suddenly surprised when they heard that the black cat was a strange thing.
Mr. Zhu Da nodded approvingly: "Young man has good eyesight." After speaking, he looked at Yin Susu with some dissatisfaction: "Didn't Li Tianyuan say anything about me?"
Seeing Yin Susu shaking her head and snorting coldly, she felt dissatisfied.
Yin Susu became more and more curious about what happened to her uncle and Mr. Zhu Da back then. Looking at Mr. Zhu Da's behavior, it was obvious that he still remembered his uncle's kindness in saving his life, but he didn't understand why his uncle didn't want to interact with him later.
Mr. Zhu Da touched the black sheep in his hand and said slowly: "Ninety-nine percent of the weird things in the world are vicious, but nothing is absolute. There are also some weird things that are not bloodthirsty and murderous. This was something I had no intention of doing back then. The only purpose of a strange object obtained is to use it for divination."
After saying that, the black sheep in Mr. Zhu Da's hand suddenly turned into a black light, flew to his bare head, and transformed into a strange-looking Haechi crown.
