Chapter 10 Chapter 9 The Power of Demons

Zhu Xiaohua's office was quiet at this time, and the two scholars who had great reputations in their respective fields all looked at Luo Fei silently.This detective has an indescribable aura, especially his eyes, which often emit a very penetrating light.In the face of such a strange and bizarre event, perhaps only a person like him can unravel the fog and expose the truth to the sun, right? But at this moment, Luo Fei's eyes also showed a deep blur.He looked at the blood bottle on the table, but his thoughts traveled back and forth in an unusually vast time and space: Yunnan in Nanming, Longzhou in August, generals hundreds of years ago, mysterious men, arrogant metaphysicians...these Elements that were originally irrelevant are now linked together by this small blood bottle that appeared out of nowhere.Luo Fei tried his best to follow a clearer thread and organize these messy threads into a neat strand, but this work is so difficult.After a while, he finally shook his head, as if giving up temporarily.

Then he raised his head and his eyes brightened again, indicating that his thoughts had returned to reality. "I'll give Yue Dongbei a call." Luo Fei said while taking out his cell phone. The phone was connected quickly. "I'm Luo Fei...we found the blood bottle...now the Cultural Relics Appraisal Center." Luo Fei's call with the other party was very brief. After hanging up the phone, he looked at Zhu Xiaohua and Zhou Liwei with a meaningful tone Said, "He'll be here in a minute. He sounds very excited." Sure enough, the three waited for less than half an hour, and Yue Dongbei had already appeared at the door of the office.He didn't even bother to say hello, so he hurried in with his big belly.Seeing his appearance, Zhu Xiaohua and Zhou Liwei finally understood the concept of "very excited".

The short and fat man's bare head had completely turned purple, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth and nose were panting heavily.He had obviously just experienced strenuous exercise, and there were huge beads of sweat all over his face.Although he had arrived at the destination at this time, he didn't intend to wipe it off at all. "Blood bottle! Where is the blood bottle?" Yue Dongbei shouted very impolitely, with a tremor in his voice.Before the three people in the room had time to react, his eyes had locked on the target on the table.Immediately, his fat body exploded with astonishing swiftness, and almost in an instant, he jumped to the table, grabbing the glass box in his hand.

Zhu Xiaohua stared at Yue Dongbei, quite dissatisfied with his behavior of ignoring the existence of his master.But Yue Dongbei didn't care, he stared at the blood bottle in the box almost obsessively, his chest heaved violently, and he was almost out of breath with excitement.After a while, he calmed down a little, stroked the glass box wall lightly with his chubby fingers, and said with a sigh: "The blood bottle, it's really a blood bottle! After so many years of research, I finally got the physical proof!" After saying this, he raised his head and looked around at Luo Fei and the others, his face was full of vicissitudes, and tears even welled up in the corners of his eyes.

Luo Fei was taken aback for a moment, the other party's performance somewhat exceeded his expectations.Zhou Liwei and Zhu Xiaohua also showed surprised expressions, and the hostility dissipated a lot. "It's really broken. It turns out it's in Longzhou! No wonder demons appear in Longzhou! But, what's in it?" When Yue Dongbei said the last sentence, the original excitement turned into deep emotion. confusion and regret. Zhu Xiaohua glanced at Luo Fei, wondering if he should tell him the results of his research. Yue Dongbei caught this detail and immediately exclaimed in surprise: "You know the answer! Please tell me quickly!"

Seeing that Zhu Xiaohua was still frowning and hesitating, Yue Dongbei straightened his face and said plausibly: "You should tell me! We are all scholars, and we are solving a secret together. At this time, you shouldn't have anything to hide!" Zhu Xiaohua smiled slightly, apparently disapproving of Yue Dongbei's status as a "scholar". Out of some consideration, Luo Fei nodded to Zhu Xiaohua, and then Zhu Xiaohua told Yue Dongdong the secret about the blood bottle. Yue Dongbei listened carefully with his eyes wide open, and praised excitedly: "Yes! That's how it is! It's very reasonable! There is no conflict with the information I have. No wonder the Burmese records call it a 'blood bottle'." , can hardly find a more suitable title than this!"

He rubbed his hands back and forth several times, and then turned his head to look at Luo Fei: "Then why did this blood bottle appear in Longzhou? Officer Luo, this question probably needs to be answered by you." Luo Fei nodded calmly, and then began to tell the story of the appearance of the blood bottle.During this process, he kept staring into Yue Dongbei's eyes, and any subtle psychological fluctuations of the other party could hardly escape his keen gaze. Yue Dongbei looked at Luo Fei without hesitation, the emotion in his eyes was not only excitement, but also excitement.Luo Fei had just finished his narration, and he impatiently began to express his opinion: "Yes, in this case, everything makes sense. You must be very confused now, right? Haha, I can answer all your questions! "

Seeing his flamboyant appearance, both Zhou Liwei and Zhu Xiaohua frowned, but Luo Fei just smiled lightly: "Then please tell me." Even without Luo Fei's invitation, Yue Dongbei couldn't stop talking. "The matter is already obvious. Back then, the Hamo tribe, the Qing soldiers and the Burmese conspired to kill Li Dingguo. Fearing Li Dingguo's terrifying demon power, the priests of the Hamo tribe sealed Li Dingguo's blood in a blood bottle to make him immortal Unable to upgrade. And that young man found the blood bottle under my guidance and sold it to Longzhou. And the person who broke the blood bottle was actually you, Officer Luo! This is really beyond me Unexpectedly. You must not have realized what you did, you opened the bottle of Pandora! You released the devil! The evil power that had been sealed for many years was resurrected, and Longzhou suffered catastrophe because of it! Haha, it’s so interesting, you are still here To track down the murderer, you are the one who started it!" Yue Dongbei finished the above words in one breath, and at the end of the speech, he even laughed a little gloatingly.

Luo Fei watched the other party's performance expressionlessly, those unscrupulous words didn't seem to cause him any displeasure.Zhou and Zhu on the side had already looked at Yue Dongbei coldly. "You don't believe my words, do you?" Yue Dongbei has long been used to such cold reception, but today, he has every reason to fight back.He pretended to cough twice, then raised his voice and said, "You are scientists, so of course you don't want to accept my point of view. But can you come up with a better explanation? About the weird incident in Longzhou, about that blood bottle! Haha , you have no clue at all! Facts are verifying my theory step by step. If you people didn’t bother to accept my point of view before, then now, you dare not accept my point of view. Because you have already lost In front of me. It’s ridiculous, those of you who claim to defend the truth don’t even have the courage to face the facts.”

"Fact? I think this is more like a scam deliberately run by some people, or a conspiracy." Zhou Liwei finally couldn't bear it at this time, and refuted it seriously. "You mean I'm cheating?" Yue Dongbei looked irritated, with bulging veins on his forehead, "I'm a scholar, and I have a rigorous academic attitude! Everything I say is based on historical data or facts. It’s based on it. You say that, it’s a life attack on me! Scam? Conspiracy? I’m afraid this is a disgusting method that those of you who believe in science unconditionally will use, right?”

"Okay, now is not the time to attack each other." Luo Fei waved his hand, and decisively called a pause to the tense situation, and then he redirected the topic to the right path he cared about: "Who is going to find the blood bottle?" What kind of identity is he, and what purpose does he have?" "I've already said it once, I don't know him well, we just met through the Internet." Yue Dongbei curled his lips, as if this was not an important issue, "He believes in my theory and has excellent jungle survival skills Skills, full of curiosity about the secrets of the blood bottle, this is enough for me. His identity, I guess he is an explorer? Purpose, now it seems that he is going for money." "Didn't he even leave his name?" "I asked him about this, and his answer was rather strange." Yue Dongbei thought of something, and scratched his bald head with his hands. Luo Fei immediately asked: "How did he answer?" "He said eight words: 'Among a hundred surnames, the ranking is Zhou'." At this point, Yue Dongbei raised his eyes to look at Zhou Liwei, and provocatively said, "Professor Zhou, he is still in the same family as you Woolen cloth." Zhou Liwei was taken aback for a moment: "He said his surname is also Zhou?" Yue Dongbei's provocation seemed to have had an effect, and his expression seemed quite confused. Luo Fei also frowned slightly, and murmured in a low voice: "'Among a hundred surnames, the ranking is Zhou'?" This sentence sounded a little weird, and he tried his best to figure out the speaker's mentality and hidden meaning at the time, but for a moment I couldn't find any clues, so I had to continue to ask, "Is it just this sentence? There is no other context?" "No." Yue Dongbei shook his round head, "Actually, we only met once in reality. And most of the time we were discussing the research on Li Dingguo. We chatted very speculatively and had no time to worry about other things. boring topic." "Discussion?" Luo Fei keenly caught the key words in it, "Does that mean he also studied Li Dingguo's original?" "Yes. But his previous research is basically superficial." Speaking of this topic, Yue Dongbei couldn't hide his smug expression, "It is conceivable that when he saw my deep and secret things on the Internet What a shocking feeling it must be when talking about theory! So he got in touch with me immediately." "Do you really believe in your theory?" Luo Fei didn't hide his doubts.Even though many inexplicable events have happened now, what Yue Dongbei said still sounds absurd.So, before that, has anyone accepted his statement about "demons"? "Of course!" Yue Dongbei widened his eyes, "Before he left, he took one of my academic papers with him." "Oh? Academic papers? Can I have a look?" Luo Fei gave Yue Dongbei a strange look. With his personality, he should have shown off such things long ago. Yue Dongbei lingered for a while, then took out a crude bound book from his bag, and handed it to Luo Fei: "This is it, just look at it." Everything is on a stack of A4 paper, about twenty or thirty pages thick.The homepage made a simple cover with large fonts, on which the main and subtitles of the article were written: "Revealing the Power of Demons——Analysis of Li Dingguo's Characters in the Late Ming Dynasty". "The power of the devil?" Luo Fei muttered softly, raised his hand and opened the title page. The second page is an introduction that reads as follows: "Li Dingguo, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi. His style name is Ningyu, or his style name is Hongyuan. He was a famous Han general in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. According to historical records, Li Dingguo was an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, known for his bravery. In 1630, when he was ten years old, he started an uprising with Zhang Xianzhong.Zhang Xianzhong loved him very much and accepted him as his adopted son. In 1637, the seventeen-year-old Li Dingguo led 20,000 troops into Sichuan and Hubei and shot and killed the Ming Dynasty general Zhang Ling. On February 21, 1641, Li Dingguo led 28 cavalry to deceive Xiangyang into opening the city gate with the captured soldier amulets, captured and killed Xiangyang King Zhu Yiming, and forced Yang Sichang, a scholar of the Dongge University of the Ming Dynasty, to commit suicide.Since then, people have been called "ten thousand enemies" and "little Yuchi". After the Qing soldiers entered the pass, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, and Li Dingguo led the rest of his troops to support Yongli, the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. On July 1, 1652, Li Dingguo fought at Yanguan, Dingnan King Kong Youde (one of the most famous San Francisco in the late Ming and early Qing).The two sides braved the rain and fought bloody battles. In the terrifying atmosphere of thunder and lightning, the Qing army was finally defeated and fled. Li Dingguo swung his troops to cover up the killing and killed them all the way to the Rongjiang River. Kong Youde retreated to Guilin. On July 2, Li Dingguo attacked Guilin non-stop, day and night. On the 4th, Li Dingguo's troops captured Guilin, Kong Youde had nowhere to go, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire.Li Dingguo captured Liuzhou, Wuzhou and other places, and occupied the whole territory of Guangxi.Then they conquered Yongzhou, Hengyang, and Changsha in Hunan, and the forward advanced to Yuezhou (now Yueyang).At the same time, the troops were divided and marched eastward, all the way to Ji'an in Jiangxi.In just half a year, Li Dingguo captured the twelve prefectures of two prefectures, opened up three thousand miles of land, and his army was almost unstoppable. In November 1652, the Qing government sent Prince Jingjin Nikan and 100,000 elite soldiers to launch a counterattack against Li Dingguo.The two armies fought fiercely in Hengyang. After four days and nights of bloody battle, Li Dingguo personally killed Jingjin Prince Nikan in the army. While the history books recorded Li Dingguo's brilliant military exploits, they failed to fully analyze the secrets behind it.According to my years of painstaking research, Li Dingguo once possessed the 'power of the devil'. As early as the Battle of Yanguan, there were rumors of the surviving Qing soldiers. In this battle, Li Dingguo's army used a terrifying and mysterious power, which is said to have originated from the border of Yunnan. Some people even claim that Li Dingguo himself is the embodiment of the devil.He has vicious wrists, and he caused the Sichuan Massacre as early as when he followed Zhang Xianzhong.Later, when they fought against the Qing Dynasty, they treated the captives even more cruelly and did everything they could.Manchu and Qing officials all regarded Li Dingguo as a devil, as can be seen from the following cases: Wang Yipin, the governor of Guangxi in the Qing Dynasty, returned to Beijing due to illness and survived the calamity of Guilin.In the eleventh year of Shunzhi, he had recovered, and the Ministry of Officials still recommended him to be the governor of Guangxi. It is understandable that the Qing army was afraid of Li Dingguo.The strange thing is that Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo's adopted brother and the de facto ruler of the Southern Ming Dynasty at that time, also had a grudge against Li Dingguo.When the anti-Qing situation was excellent, he cut off his support for Li Dingguo.Li Dingguo moved to Guangdong and Guangxi to seek alliance with Zheng Chenggong, but he also received a cold reception. The whole story is intriguing. In 1656, Sun Wangwang raised 160,000 troops to conquer Li Dingguo in the name of "killing demons", but he could not escape the fate of defeat.As a result, the strength of the Nanming Dynasty was greatly weakened. In February 1658, the Qing government took the opportunity to attack Guizhou and Yunnan in three ways with Duo Ni as the commander.The north road is Wu Sangui, king of Pingxi; the south road is Dutong Zhuobutai; the middle road is Hong Chengchou. In April, Wang Ziqi, the former subordinate of Sun Kewang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, rebelled against Li in Yongchang. Due to domestic and foreign difficulties, Li Dingguo was defeated and fled into the jungle on the border between Yun and Burma. Li Dingguo's defeated army was less than 10,000 people, but he broke out with amazing fighting power in the jungle.Three years without a single defeat, the place where it lived was later named the 'Valley of Terror', which is said to be the source of 'demonic power'. In 1662, Li Dingguo, who seemed invincible, was suddenly killed by the Qing army, Myanmar and the local Hamo people. The "power of the devil" was also sealed up and never appeared again for hundreds of years.But legends about demons spread along the border and are recorded in Burmese history books. What exactly are 'demonic powers'?What kind of secret is hidden behind Li Dingguo's brilliant war history and inexplicable defeat?These are the contents that will be discussed in this article. " After reading this introduction, Luo Fei paused for a moment to organize his thoughts, and then he asked a question: "How did the Burmese get involved in this matter? Wasn't Emperor Yongli still hiding in Burma at that time? " "The Burmese actually put Emperor Yongli under house arrest. They bullied the weak and feared the strong, feared the strength of the Qing soldiers, and even wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob Li Dingguo's army and horses. As a result, Li Dingguo was furious, rectified his troops, and ordered a counterattack. According to documents, the main force of the Burmese army There were "hundreds of thousands" lined up on the other side of the river, ready to fight. Li Dingguo's army crossed the river to attack, and only a hundred riders defeated the Burmese army. Li Dingguo was ordered to retreat. After this battle, the Burmese feared Li Dingguo like a demon. It is said that Burmese children did not dare to cry loudly when they heard Li Dingguo's name. Li Dingguo has always been ruthless, and the Burmese of course regard him as a serious problem. You just said , The person who bought the blood bottle is a Burmese, right? He must be a descendant of the border natives, afraid that the blood bottle will break and the demon will be resurrected. It can be seen that the fear Li Dingguo caused them has not been eliminated until now!" Zhu Xiaohua has also studied history, so he nodded slightly at the side.Li Dingguo's defeat of the Burmese army is indeed recorded in official history. Luo Fei listened to Yue Dongbei's explanation while flipping through the contents of the manuscript.However, he soon discovered that these twenty-odd pages were just an expansion of the introduction.He closed the manuscript in disappointment, and patted the cover lightly with his hand: "The two questions you raised at the end of the introduction do not seem to have been answered." "Because I don't know the answer right now." Yue Dongbei looked a little embarrassed, "As a scholar, such things are really difficult to come up with..." "I think the question is, can something like this have an answer?" Zhou Liwei said calmly. "Of course." Yue Dongbei replied loudly without showing any weakness, "And now someone already knows the answer!" Luo Fei immediately understood Yue Dongbei's meaning: "Are you talking about that young man?" Yue Dongbei nodded, his expression suddenly became very depressed: "It's a pity that the devil has controlled him, and he can no longer tell what he knows." Luo Fei gently stroked his chin with his hands.He hadn't shaved in days since he was involved in this bizarre incident.The dense beard stubble pricked his fingertips, bringing a slight prickly sensation. Luo Fei felt that this seemed to help improve the agility of his thinking. "Who is he? After entering the jungle, what happened to him?" Luo Fei whispered to himself.Although the whole incident is still a cloud of fog, certain behaviors of young people undoubtedly played a role as a trigger.In fact, Luo Fei had already focused his investigation on this mysterious patient.It was precisely for the purpose of inquiring about his identity that he asked Liu Yun to publish relevant reports and photos on the Internet, and Yue Dongbei followed him, and he threw out a lot of jaw-dropping theories.After going in a circle, everything seems to have returned to yesterday's starting point. "This is an issue we all care about." Yue Dongbei's eyes widened, shining with a strange light of excitement, "The truth, the truth is hidden in it, and we must pursue it to the end. Officer Luo, your purpose is to uncover the hidden secret; And I can complete this academic work; as for you two scientists, hey, you actually gain the most, because this will help you rebuild a correct view of truth." "Pursue to the end?" Luo Fei sensed something from his expression, and immediately raised his head to look at him, "What plan do you already have?" "Yes. A plan! When you told me that the blood bottle appeared in Longzhou, I had a plan!" Yue Dongbei rubbed his hands together triumphantly, "I will go into the jungle and revisit the place where the young man walked. The distance. I know his every step very well, because he is walking according to my guidance. You can imagine how difficult this journey is for me, and it is even very dangerous, but it is definitely worth it! The plight of young people has just confirmed the correctness of my theory! Now, all the secrets are hidden in that jungle, waiting for me to unravel." Luo Fei looked at him in surprise, he didn't expect this fat man who could even walk out of breath, to be determined to go on such an arduous jungle trip.What the latter said immediately was even more beyond Luo Fei's expectations. "Officer Luo, two scientists. Now I invite you to take part in this interesting journey together." Yue Dongbei's shining eyes swept over the three of them one by one. The invitation was too sudden, and the three of Luo Fei couldn't help being stunned for a moment.Then Luo Fei laughed and asked, "Why did you invite us?" "There are a lot of people, so you can be bold." Yue Dongbei seemed to say something jokingly, but then he said seriously, "Although we believe in very different views, we all have excellent observation and analysis capabilities, and each Expertise. I'm going to need your help." "Okay! Then I'll walk with you." Luo Fei always acted decisively. After thinking for a while, he made a decision. Then he turned his head to look at Zhou Liwei and Zhu Xiaohua, and asked, "How about you two?" Zhu Xiaohua shook his head first: "I won't go. My work has always been carried out only in the office and library. On-site investigation is the business of the archaeological department." Zhou Liwei remained silent, and the eyes of the other three people in the room were all focused on him. It seemed that after some careful consideration, Zhou Liwei finally spoke. "Okay. I will also participate. But this does not mean that I agree with your point of view. On the contrary, I want to use science to overthrow your fallacies." After a pause, he added: "Your spirit of exploration is Let people respect, at this time, as a representative of the scientific side, it seems that I should not shrink back." "Okay." Yue Dongbei welcomed Zhou Liwei with a smile, "I have already designed the road map. Let's prepare separately and set off in a week!"