The people standing in the courtyard looked kind-hearted, with a hidden smile on their lips, but their half-lidded eyes seemed to be looking at the ground, just like they were in the abyss.
However, the other half of his face seemed to have been wiped out by darkness, with only one bloody eye flashing slightly in the black shadow.
Lao Diao's first reaction was to turn around and run away, but before he could move his feet out of the door, he retracted the light. The light in front of the house was still on. During all these years of hiding in the world, Lao Diao would not care if he came back. Many nights, there was a light left in front of the door. Even if it was still dark, the old Diao wife would get up and turn off the light whenever he entered the house.
Now the light is still on, but the people in the room don't know whether they are alive or dead. Lao Diao can't turn around. This turn may mean goodbye forever. Thieves also have feelings!
Lao Diao only paused for a second, pulled out the dagger from behind the door fence, quickly rushed to the other party, and stabbed the man's chest with the knife. The other party's body just shook for a moment and then fell to the ground. Lao Diao put him down smoothly. When he found the body and turned his head to look into the room, the cold sweat on his face suddenly fell down like running water. Old Diao's wife was like a clay sculpture, sitting cross-legged on the bed with her hands in front of her, her eyes drooping and looking at the ground. His feet didn't move at all.
Lao Diao took two steps back and suddenly trembled. His wife was now looking down at the ground. Where she was looking...
A chill suddenly appeared behind Lao Diao, and a rustling sound also quietly came from behind Lao Diao, as if something was scraping the ground and touching Lao Diao's heels.
When Lao Diao suddenly turned around with the dagger, he saw his son dragging his legs and grabbing the ground with his hands and crawling towards him. A series of bloody handprints on the ground extended from a place not far from him to the wellhead in the yard. .
There was a buzzing sound in Lao Diao's head, and before his eyes he even pictured a disciple of the Wugui Sect stuffing his son into a well. But his son crawled out of the well again, crawling back to the world from the bottom of the well with his hands full of blood and the cold air of death, struggling for his life to grab Lao Diao's pants.
"No... no..." Lao Diao finally couldn't bear the pressure in his heart, screamed and jumped over the wall, running away without a trace.
Lao Diao ran all night before he stopped and found a place with water, wanting to wash his face and drink some water. But as soon as he picked up the water, a pale face was reflected in the water he held in his hand. The other person was standing lifelessly behind Lao Diao, his face staring down at Lao Diao's head.
Lao Diao's body froze slightly, and he held him up, and the water flowed completely along his fingers. At the same time, the cold feeling from behind was also pressing down on the top of his head.
Lao Diao grabbed the opponent's wrist with his backhand, and with the strength of his arms, he lifted the person up from the ground and fell into the river in front of him.
Lao Diao didn't wait for the other person to react, and he threw himself into the water. He grabbed the other person's throat with one hand and grabbed the person's leg with the other. Wugui Sect disciples are good at using daggers and usually put daggers by their legs.
In the blink of an eye, Lao Diao unsheathed his sword and stabbed the man's chest hard. Until bright red blood poured into the water from both sides of his palm, Lao Diao still didn't let go.
The Wugui Sect disciple who was thrown into the water did not resist from the beginning to the end. He just let the other party stab him through the heart. It was not until Lao Diao twisted the handle of the knife that the other party's head was raised slightly. Behind him, those half-open and half-closed eyes with cold eyes looked at Lao Diao's face again.
Lao Diao was so frightened that he threw down the body and ran out. After he ran a few steps, he felt something was wrong. He turned around and ran back, picked up the dagger on the ground and pinned it to his body. He suppressed his fear, carried the body and buried it until no one was around. The place.
In this way, Lao Diao hid outside for seven days. He looked for Fan Chongyi and also looked for the grotto deep underground.
However, Fan Chongyi left and the grotto was gone.
The only ones you can meet are those elusive Wugui Sect disciples. No matter where Lao Diao hides, they will appear inexplicably near Lao Diao, standing on a high place, clasping their hands, looking at Lao Diao with cold eyes, saying nothing. move.
Lao Diao was like a crazy old wolf, using a dagger to kill the disciples one after another and bury them deep in the soil. However, no matter how deep Lao Diao buried them, they would always appear near Lao Diao in turn, still staring at each other with indifferent expressions.
Lao Diao, who almost suffered a mental breakdown, chose to surrender. He insisted that he mistakenly thought the person who died at his door was a thief, and he accidentally killed him.
Lao Diao's scream before leaving alarmed many neighbors. When the neighbors arrived, the murder weapon, blood stains, and corpses were all there, but Lao Diao's wife and children were not seen.
The police could not find out the identity of the Wugui Sect disciple, nor did they know his motive for showing up at Lao Diao's door in the middle of the night. However, Lao Diao cannot be cleared of the crime of murder. Because there is no evidence to prove that he was acting in self-defense. Lao Diao went to jail as a matter of course.
When I heard this, I interrupted him and said, "Why do you think of going to jail?"
Lao Diao said bitterly: "Isn't there a saying that the prison is where the king's law is, and it can suppress ghosts and evil spirits? I can't go back to the Ghostless Sect, so I can only hide in the prison. If not, I would still be alive in prison. Not until now.”
I frowned slightly and said, "Since you went to prison, those things haven't come to you?"
"Why haven't you found it? Are there any cigarettes?" Lao Diao asked me for another cigarette: "My wife has only come to see me a few times. Every time she comes, she stands by the window and doesn't say anything. She keeps looking like that. Me. I don’t want to see her, but I don’t feel at ease. When I see her, I don’t dare to ask her whether she is dead or alive. What the hell... "
Ye Xun asked: "What about your apprentice?"
"Fu's disciple!" Lao Diao said: "Those are people from the Wugui Sect. They thought I discovered some secret by hiding in the prison. They kept sending people to look for me. They still sent people to sneak into the prison, but , both me and Fan Chongyi were killed. The Wugui Sect did not dare to rob the prison on a large scale, so they could only negotiate terms with me. They sent people to me regularly to bring me some food and drink, and the little money I needed. I occasionally gave them A little information, that’s all.”
I squinted my eyes and looked at Lao Diao: That guy didn't tell the whole truth. He wasn't just taking refuge in prison. If he has no intention of going out, it is impossible to ask Wugui Sect for outside information. He even knows about me and Ye Xun, which means that Lao Diao has been paying attention to the world. More importantly, if he wanted to say these words, he could have said them in prison. There was no need to play such a trick of pretending to be dead.
He wanted to run. Someone should be waiting for him nearby.
Although I guessed Lao Diao's intention, I didn't point it out to him face to face. Instead, while the other party was talking, I suddenly asked: "What's going on with your Wugui Sect occupying a Tianshakou?"
Lao Diao said: "The Wugui Sect's Tianshakou has been destroyed a long time ago. After the Wugui Sect occupied the Tianshakou, they dug up the secrets below. The Tianshakou collapsed accordingly, and no one from the Wugui Sect was killed. Didn’t come out. Not many people knew this secret. I also overheard the news because I was sent to Dunhuang to search for the Wordless Heavenly Book. Later, the news about Tianshakou released by the Wugui Sect was just to expose other people. People are attracted here, and through them we can find Tianshakou."
"As far as I know, the Detective Hand also occupies a Tianshakou, otherwise, they would not have caused the battle at the Hell Gate."
"Yeah!" I nodded slightly and suddenly asked, "Do you know Tie Qing?"
Lao Diao raised his head: "Do you know him?"
As our eyes met, I said in a deep voice: "Not only do I know Tie Qing, I have also fought against him."
Lao Diao said in surprise: "You know Tie Qing, why don't you go find him? He was the person in charge of Tiansakou back then, and he was also the only person who survived after Tiansakou was breached."
I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows: "I wanted to find him, but he disappeared."
Lao Diao said: "It's not difficult to find Tie Qing, as long as you dare to find someone. That person is not in the country, but if you find him, you will definitely find Tie Qing. That person's name is Zhang Zuiyuan. Back then, the Wugui Sect was at its peak. You can find the characters by asking around."
I said in a deep voice: "Let's not mention him first. What I want to ask is, what happened after you met Fan Chongyi?"
Lao Diao said: "I didn't expect to see Fan Chongyi in prison. Later, when I thought about it, it seemed normal. I was forced to kill someone, so his assistant couldn't drive him crazy? I didn't expect that. Yes, Fan Chongyi did not forget to study the incomplete book of heaven even after he was in prison."
"He drew all the remaining characters in the Heavenly Book and looked at them whenever he had free time. He didn't know what he was saying. If there was something he couldn't understand, he would pull me to ask this and that. Sometimes, I don’t think his idea is reliable, but he thinks it’s quite right.”
I stared at Lao Diao's face and said, "What has he asked you?"
Lao Diao scratched his head and said: "You ask too many questions. I can't remember so many things for a while. You have to let me sort it out..."
Lao Diao deliberately didn't say anything. The information Fan Chongyi left behind is the foundation for his livelihood. It is not in his interest to speak out now. This kind of old Jianghu has the best grasp of people's hearts. He will not say anything to anyone without the ultimate safety guarantee.
I changed the subject and asked, "Is there anything strange about Fan Chongyi?"
Lao Diao said: "Fan Chongyi is very good at beating. It is not a problem for him to beat seven or eight prisoners in the prison. He is not afraid even if they send him to the 'Five Finger Mountain'. On the contrary, it is those people who suffer."
I suddenly became interested: "What happened at that time?"
Lao Diao said: "At that time, there was a big brother who didn't like Fan Chongyi and wanted to deal with him, but he suffered a loss in his hands. It was like he wanted to find a place back. He gathered more than ten strong prisoners and went there Go to Wuzhishan for Fan Chongyi."
"In the end, those people failed to catch Fan Chongyi, but let him fly away. Fan Chongyi beat them all over the ground alone."
Dr. Bai didn't understand what Lao Diao meant: "What is Wuzhishan?"