At this time, no one knew that the consequences were so terrible. Su Qiang could not have imagined that his kindness, his excuse for wanting to get out, would trigger a series of changes in the future.
The whole cottage was tattooed with black backs. The atmosphere in the cottage was very depressing, KuiQi did not dare to kill people, but hurting people was a common thing. I don't know if Su Qiang's method worked, Kui Qiqi found that the black lines on his back did not move, and he was immediately happy.
Qu Xieyou did not believe that such a method could work, but under the threat of death, no matter how absurd the method was, it had to be tried, and it was not completely ineffective—at least it alleviated the fear in his heart.
Behind the cottage is a large area of primeval forest, although the bandits cut down a lot of trees to build houses and burn fires, but the forest that has existed for decades or even hundreds of years cannot be cut down in half a minute.
On this day, several bandits entered the forest in groups, and several of them had been hunters before they went to prison.
The least lacking in the dense forest is prey, which is also one of the food sources of the cottage. They went to check the trap they had set a few days ago, but they didn't expect to see that the trap was no longer in place, leaving a little blood in place, and the blood stains were draining and extending far away.
It seems that the beast that was caught in the trap actually left with the trap. Several people followed along the blood trail, but they did not expect to stumble into a very strange place. The trees in that place were not particularly dense, and there were a few large trees in the middle that were obviously much taller than the surrounding trees, and the trees seemed to be stretched out by something, which looked particularly stout.
One of the bandits turned back suddenly, and suddenly saw a vicious face that looked like a human and a ghost on the tree of one of the big trees. The face was green and shining, very conspicuous in the dark forest. He screamed in horror, took a few steps back, and hit a tree with his back, and then saw that the tree also had a green face.
A few bandits panicked and fell into a large hole not far away!
Two days later, one of the bandits returned to the cottage alive, and several of the bandits who were with him died. He tells KuiQi that they have inadvertently broken into a mysterious cave. There were three stone doors in the cave, and they all pushed open to see, one of which was quicksand, one was a hidden crossbow arrow, and the contents of these two doors made several bandits miserable, and only one survived. He pushed open the last stone door, and all he saw was that it was full of gold and silver jewelry.
When Kui Qiyi heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately set out with all his men to find the cave where the bandit had spoken.
After finding the cave, Kuiqi was afraid that there were too many people, and seeing that the treasure was out of control, he ordered a dozen of his cronies to go down with him, and the others stayed on it to guard.
Out of caution, Kui Qiqi asked a few of his cronies to go through the third stone gate, and he led several people to wait outside the door. Half burned time if it was all right, he took someone in again. Only a few moments after those few people entered, KuiQi heard a scream coming from inside. A bandit staggered out, and the bandit who ran after him had bloodshot eyes, stabbed the knife into his chest, and then the bandit who stabbed the man threw down the knife and tore his clothes desperately, and the black flames quickly devoured him, turning into a scorched mess in the blink of an eye.
Inside the stone gate were scattered many torches that had not yet been extinguished, and Kuiqi saw from the large open stone door that there was no treasure inside, and in the middle of the empty cavern, there stood a very, very high stone stele, and the shadow on the stone stele could see a strange pattern, but this pattern Kuiqi was not unfamiliar, and the pattern was very similar to the black pattern behind him.
Kui Qiqi only glanced vaguely, his heart began to beat wildly, and he felt something spurting out of his body, and his skin burned like a sharp pain. He jerked his head back, staggered back, and ran out of the hole in the ground in one breath before falling to the ground because he couldn't support it.
KuiQi was carried back by someone, and his skin seemed to have been roasted by fire, so dry that it would bleed when he moved. He had a long eye, and the skin slowly fell off and grew well.
Afterwards, KuiQi ordered someone to find the bandit who was leading the way. They searched for half a day only to find that the bandit who led the way had appeared silently, and his eyes were violent, as if he was scared to death.
During the period of KuiQi's recuperation, several soldiers and bandits overtook power, and the cottage was in chaos. What Su Qiang had always wanted was such chaos. He stole the key to the dungeon, and on a dark and windy night, he released everyone locked up in the dungeon and escaped together.
After Su Qiang and his men fled outside, they went to spread the news of the curse of heaven in KuiQi and the cottage. He did this for fear that the people would not dare to confront the bandits for fear of misfortune, but it was different to say that the bandits were cursed by heaven. At that time, people were very superstitious, and the power of faith sometimes surpassed life and death, and as long as the people were united, the bandits were not opponents at all.
After Que Qi's health was better, he continued to rob people, but they only robbed and did not kill. Still, they met with the fiercest resistance ever. A bandit killed a person by mistake, and was burned clean by the black fire on the spot, and the bandits managed to subdue the others without killing, and then Kuiqi heard the rumor from their mouths.
KuiQi knew that if this continued, sooner or later they would all be wiped out. Either he was killed or burned by black fire. He thought of the story that Su Qiang told, and with a crossed heart, he simply took the people he caught back to the cottage, asked them to tattoo them, and after the tattoos, they let them go.
It was a very chaotic period, and the bandits arrested and kidnapped people not only for robbery, but also for humanity. Later, the tattoo became a talisman for some people, and the bandits would not catch it a second time when they saw the tattoo on their body.
The tattooed person was put back again, and nothing happened afterwards. Therefore, some people feel that this tattoo is not only not a curse, but also a good thing to protect the property of the family. After that, some people took the initiative to tattoo similar patterns on their families, at first only a small number of people did so, and then it was men, women and children who began to tattoo!
The bandits could no longer find anyone without tattoos, but there were still often people in the cottage, and the power of Kuiqi began to wither.
Let's go back to the people who were tattooed with black stripes, they were no longer afraid of the threat from the bandits, but with the black stripes on them, the days were getting worse and worse, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued to occur, and more people died than the previous bandits killed.
At the beginning, an old man strongly opposed the tattoos of the people, saying that this tattoo was a "heavenly mark" - a mark left by heaven, a mark made only for the wicked, and what happened to innocent people tattooing the same mark?
Doom has already found people with "Heavenly Notes" tattooed on them, and they will not leave easily.
People live in fear all day long, and in order to survive, they unite and cooperate with the police armor sent by the government to rush up the mountain and hang many bandits. It is worth saying that Su Qiang is also one of those police armor.
One of the people who escaped with Su Qiang was a relative of a local high-ranking official, and he was very grateful to Su Qiang, so he recommended Su Qiang to a high-ranking official. The high-ranking official saw that he was familiar with the terrain of the cottage and was still witty, so he made him a small staff officer.
Su Qiang was finally bitter, in the end, he just wanted the identity of a normal person and lived a bright and upright life. The high-ranking official asked him to take people to attack the bandit village, in fact, Su Qiang was not very willing, but for this hard-won identity, he did not refuse.
The terrain of the bandit village is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but fortunately, Su Qiang is familiar with the terrain and has found a shortcut to the bandit village. When the crowd was killed, many bandits were still asleep and did not wake up!
When Kui Qiqi returned to his senses and counterattacked with the bandits, he was accidentally stabbed in the stomach by a person. KuiQi's brute force was amazing, and the backhand shook the man off again.
A strong smell of blood spread through the air, replaced by the burnt smell of human flesh being burned. KuiQi was surrounded by a strong black flame, black, extreme black, and people couldn't even see Kuiqi in the flames.
Kuiqi was burned to ashes, and a bandit who once took pleasure in sharen turned into a wisp of nothingness between heaven and earth.
Seeing this shocking scene happening, the bandits did not dare to let go of the shaman, and they were quickly shabbed or subdued. The bandits ended, and the scene of the bandits spontaneously combusting and si still remains in people's minds, because at that time there was no technology to remove tattoos, and because they were too afraid in their hearts, some people cut the necks of the bandits who were still alive and bloodied, and then used their blood to clean the tattoos on their bodies.
As Lu Xun recounted in "Medicine", Hua Xiaotuo's illness was not cured by eating a blood-stained steamed bun, and he eventually became a victim of feudal superstition. The same is true here, even if those people use blood to wash their tattoos, their bad luck is not eliminated, and pregnant women with tattoos actually give birth to children with black stripes! Some parents simply drowned their black-striped children out of fear; those who could not bear to kill their children could only live in fear every day, and the whole county was shrouded in gloom and fear.
The bandits were all dead, but unfortunately the tragedy they brought did not stop. Su Qiang often woke up from his sleep, and he felt regret, although he did not know what he was regretting.
The bandits are like hemp, naturally they should si, it is in response to the sentence "Heaven is clear, retribution is not happy." But what about those innocent people, even those who have just been born out of the womb, and have not yet felt the beauty of the world? Is their si also the retribution of Heaven?
Su Qiang remembered a saying he had heard from Mr. Teaching before: Heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are dogs. Probably in the eyes of Heaven, both good and bad are the same. This conclusion made him a little desperate, so what is the point of him always striving to be a good person?
Su Qiang didn't want to admit that all this loss of control had something to do with him, he thought of the hole in the ground where KuiQi and they went down, although he had never gone down, and Kuiqi didn't let people talk about it, but in the end there were still some clues.
During the time when Kuiqi was bedridden, a few bandits wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to take the position of the owner of the village of Qiqi, and this was how it came out. Although Su Qiang didn't know much about the situation, he felt that the existence of that cave must not be simple, perhaps related to the black streaks on The bodies of Kui Qi and others.
Su Qiang informed the high-ranking officials about the cave, and the high-ranking officials sent his subordinates to go with him to see the end, and there was no news of this trip. The high-ranking officials sent several groups of people to look for them, but they all returned to no avail. The location of the cave is no longer known, but only its legend remains.
Not long after, the all-out War of Resistance broke out, nearly half of the people in the county died, most of the survivors chose to join the army, and some people did not know where they fled.
Most of the people who joined the army died on the battlefield, and only a few people kept words, and later these survivors somehow gathered together and became a family of their own, and their symbol was the black stripe on their bodies, which the world called the cursed people.
The people of the Cursed Evil Tribe are mysterious and disgusted with the yang and the yin, and most of their descendants will have black marks on their bodies, usually have a short lifespan, and sometimes spontaneously combust and die.
People say that they are cursed by heaven, but their fate is not immutable, but how it will change is still unknown.