Chapter 344 Headless General
The Ji River slowly flows eastward and passes through the southern end of the Jiju Prefecture, so the place where it is located is Jibei County. The Ji River goes eastward and passes through the Qizhou Prefecture, and because Licheng is located at the southern end of the Jiju River, the area where it is located is Jinan County.
There are many springs in Licheng. There is water in the southwest suburbs of the city. It originates from the Diquan and flows to the northeast and enters Daming Lake. There is Daming Temple in the west of Daming Lake. It is popular on weekdays and is at a temple fair at the time. It is even more lively outside the temple.
In a corner of the temple fair, a large number of people gathered in the theater, men, women, young and old, watching the stage attentively.
The actors on the stage were about to praise the "Xiyang Opera". It is said that it was a drama that emerged from Xiyang, Huangzhou on the edge of the Yangtze River. Now there are opera troupes performing in Licheng, and the actors speak local dialects, so they are very popular among the people.
A drama that is about to be staged now is called "The Headless General".
This name is very terrifying, but it is simple and straightforward, making people who don’t know that the drama tells the story of “headless general”, so it is spread to ten, and ten to hundreds, which attracts men, women, young and old to come to see it.
The headless general, you will know it is a story of a god and monster at first hearing. So what the headless general is talking about, everyone naturally needs to find out.
In the crowd, I only heard the soundtrack on the stage, as if I was passing by the grave at night and heard the howling of ghosts and wolves. Although the sun was scorching, many people felt cold all over their bodies.
The curtain fell, and the narration sounded: The story was purely fictional, if there were any similarities, it was purely coincidental.
Then, the narrator began to introduce the plot.
The protagonist of this drama is Watson. He was originally an orphan. He was adopted by Taoist Taoist Master. When he grew up, he returned to secular life and served in the court. He became an agent of the police station and worked in the office west of the Shita Tower in the capital Chang'an City.
Watson was sent by his superiors and took several subordinates to Liaodong to investigate several murders.
If you want to talk about the Liaodong area, the local government will deal with the case. Why do you need people from the capital to send someone to handle the case?
It turns out that these murders were extraordinary. It is said that the victims were all cut off their heads by the murderer, but the murderer was a headless general with invulnerability and strange whereabouts.
According to local government investigations, witnesses said that this "person" had no head, wearing armor, dressed in general, rode a strange horse, holding a big axe, and a long knife hanging on the waist, without a trace, once it appeared, it would be necessary to live.
When the headless general was committing an offense, he shouted "Give me my head back!" and killed the victim, chopped off his head with an axe, put it on his neck, and laughed wildly.
When the narrator talked about this, the audience felt creepy. On the stage, Agent Watson arrived in Liaodong thousands of miles away and arrived at the place where the incident occurred, an immigrant settlement located outside the "Black Wind Valley": Zhoujiazhai.
Zhoujiazhai was built by an immigrant group led by a wealthy family in the Zhou family, and hence the name.
The immigrants responded to the call of the government to break into Liaodong, reclaimed wasteland here, with muskets and cannons defend themselves, and repelled thieves and beasts attacked many times. Everything went smoothly, but they did not expect to provoke the headless general.
The villagers of the village were hurting him one after another. The local government sent people and even officials to search the neighboring areas many times but found no results.
Whenever the official army leaves, the headless general will commit crimes, which will be operated at night.
Agent Watson carefully investigated inside and outside the Zhoujia Village and initially judged the pattern of the appearance of the headless general. Because his targets were mostly night watchmen, he used flying claws to pull the man off the arrow tower and then kill him, so he made a plan.
Watson personally kept vigilant and waited for the evil thing to appear.
"Under the Night", in the shrill soundtrack, a headless knight "appeared" from the dense forest. The audience saw that it was indeed a "headless general". They were so scared that they didn't dare to show up. It depends on how agent Watson was going to capture the fierce object.
As a result, the heroic agent actually directly fired with a special fire gun. This fire gun was made of Western Regions Black Iron, with excellent accuracy and a blessing from the Taoist master with high magic power. He will definitely hit the distance of a hundred steps and can break through twenty armor. Only the Beijing Police Station is equipped.
Watson sat alone in the Arrow Tower and hit the headless general with one blow, but heard his "screaming" and turned his horse's head and ran away.
The men who were ambushing in advance released a hunting dog and soon captured the headless general. It turned out that the evil thing was originally pretended to be a human, and the person was made by Goguryeo, pretending to be a ghost and harassing the immigrants of Zhou to create panic.
The armor he wore was very strong, so he could not penetrate ordinary bows and crossbows or even muskets, which made people mistakenly think that he was immortal.
At this point, many young audiences in the audience felt very bored. Everyone came here to see the righteous way and wanted to see the headless evil thing. As a result, they tried their best to exaggerate for a long time, but they were just Goguryeo pretending to be a magician.
Such a plot makes people feel disappointed.
Fortunately, you don’t need to buy tickets to watch the show, otherwise someone would have picked up the guy and threw it on the stage, but the rewards would definitely be gone. Just as everyone was about to cheer up, things changed.
The captured "Goguryeo Seihua" only admitted three murders, and as for the deaths of several others, they denied it.
Everyone thought it was a stubborn person and planned to take him to the government for severe interrogation. However, the next night, another general appeared again. He approached Zhoujiazhai while the night was dark, took out his flying claws and wanted to pull off the night-time person from the arrow tower.
But he was shot by one of his guns.
It turned out that Watson judged that what Goguryeo had done was correct, and determined that there were other people in the murderer and set up an ambush again. Now that the ambush was successfully set up, he directed the villagers to pursue him and surrounded him in the deep forest.
Unexpectedly, the opponent I met this time was really an invulnerable "headless general".
Even a special fire gun cannot be killed!
During the fierce battle, several village citizens were killed by the headless general one after another. The audience watched the headless general catch a person, throw it into the air, then grab the legs and "tear" it on both sides, tearing the person in half.
Seeing the actor who played the Zhaimin on the stage being "teared" in half, many people below the stage screamed. Seeing that one of the protagonists suffered heavy casualties, the audience was so shocked that they didn't dare to show up.
At a critical moment, the protagonist showed off a long sword, but it was the sword of the imperial gift of the upper horses (the narrator said). The reason why he was sent to Liaodong by his superiors was to use the sword of the emperor to kill demons and eliminate demons.
Watson was muttering something, and in an instant, the dragon roared, and the sword turned into a ray of light and was out of the sheath. With a "swoosh", it split the headless general and the strange horse under his crotch in half.
The sword really turned into a ray of light and unsheathed it! It really split the headless general in half! Just in front of everyone!
Such an exciting scene made the audience stunned and completely forgot that they were watching the show, as if they were really outside the Zhoujia Village in Liaodong, in the dark woods in the middle of the night.
Watching the resourceful agent Watson, confronting the cruel headless general, and using the sword given by the emperor to kill demons and eliminate demons!
Just as everyone thought the evil thing was finished, they heard a few strange screams. The headless general who had become two petals actually "merged" with his people and horses, moving freely, shouting "Give me my head back" and rushed towards the protagonist.
Such a strange scene left many people's heads blank. Seeing Watson and the headless general fighting on the stage, they all clenched their fists and breathed rapidly.
Watson waved his sword several times and split the headless general in half, but the evil object was "merged" repeatedly, unharmed and completely immortal.
After fighting hard, Watson was injured on many sides, but the headless general became stronger and stronger. He saw that he was about to grab the person and throw him into the air, and then grabbed his legs and tear him...
Many viewers who were sitting were so anxious that they stood up. The audience in the back row didn't bother to shout and curse, and tried to tiptoe to watch the stage.
Chapter completed!