"Well, now is not the time to quarrel!"

Meng Zitao stopped the quarrel between the two, looked at the male corpse, and said, "No accident, this person should be the shopkeeper we are looking for." It's just that I can't figure it out, how could we come with the back foot, and he was killed on the front foot?"

"You mean, someone among us leaked the news?" Xu Fatzi looked at the panicked shopkeeper Xia.

Shopkeeper Xia said angrily: "Don't wronged people, I haven't left everyone's sight since I ate?

Fat Chen laughed: "I didn't say that you were the one who leaked the news, why are you so nervous?

Shopkeeper Xia was constantly targeted by Chen Fatzi, and he was also annoyed, saying: "I have nothing to say to you, you think that I am me, and you have the ability to kill me!"

Meng Zitao played a round: "I don't think it's possible for the news to leak from us." ”

Chen Fatzi said: "That can't be the news that He Ye leaked, what good will it do him?"

Meng Zitao said seriously: "Of course there are benefits, for example, things have been taken away by him first, and then the matter is planted on our heads." ”

"Yes!" Chen Fatzi clapped his hands: "This is very likely, Xu Yanyan, this old man is very insidious and cunning, and he can do everything." Sending the three of us over this time will definitely not have any good intentions, and it is entirely possible that we will be blamed. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Fatzi saw Meng Zitao observing the corpse, and felt a little strange: "Brother, what are you still looking at?"

Meng Zitao said: "You see, judging from the bloodstains, this is not the first scene, he was obviously dragged here after being assassinated. He may not have died at the time, so he left a message. ”

"What information?" asked Fat Chen and Shopkeeper Xia in unison.

Meng Zitao pointed to the eyes of the deceased and said: "Generally speaking, before the deceased is dying, if he wants to leave clues, he will show them in some special ways. ”

The deceased's eyes widened, and Fat Chen was a little stunned when he saw it, and he didn't dare to look at it anymore: "It's nothing special, isn't it just that you don't look at death?"

Shopkeeper Xia continued: "His eyes are looking in the wrong direction!"

Hearing this, Fat Chen also reacted, obviously the deceased was facing the sky, but his eyes were looking at the upper right front. He looked in the direction and found a painting hanging over there, and was pleasantly surprised: "Is there something wrong with this painting?"

Chen Fatzi hurriedly ran over and lifted the scroll, but found that there was only a wall behind him, and he didn't find anything. He was still a little reluctant and pushed the wall with his hand, but the wall did not move.

"Did you guess wrong?" muttered Fat Chen.

Meng Zitao walked over: "Maybe the clue should be found on the map." ”

Everyone looked at the scroll, only to see a scholar reading on the scroll, in front of him is a desk, on the left side of the desk are placed a few books, on the right is a rectangular smoker, from the top of the smoker is a faint smoke.

After Meng Zitao looked at it, he said: "Let's look in the room to see if we can find similar artifacts on the scroll." ”

Meng Zitao gave an order, and the three of them began to check in the room separately, and it was Meng Zitao who found the clue first, a rectangular smoker that was the same as the one on the picture scroll.

Rectangular furnace, the cover is hollowed out in four groups with a total of 16 "swastika" patterns, which is the source of cigarettes. The body is decorated with fine back lines, and the two sides are decorated with animal head rings. The bottom is cast four-legged, the pulp is pure and thick, the workmanship is exquisite, the shape is simple and generous, the bottom is flat, and there are four legs below.

Meng Zitao looked at it for a moment, and was about to pick up the stove, but he had just picked up the smoker, when there was a sound from a bookshelf next to him, and the whole bookshelf began to move, revealing a secret door, and behind the secret door was a staircase going down.

The sudden movement startled both Chen Fatzi and Shopkeeper Xia, they walked to the secret door and looked down, and there was a black whirring piece below, giving people a weird feeling, like a vicious beast, waiting for someone to throw themselves into the net with its mouth open.

"This ...... Brother, are we going down next?" Fat Chen was also a little stunned.

Meng Zitao said, "Otherwise, don't you want to know what's going on?"

Fat Chen smiled dryly: "I think I want to, but it's pitch black below, and it looks miserable!"

Meng Zitao looked at the shopkeeper Xia, and he didn't want to go down, so he said: "I saw a flashlight in front, I will go down alone in a while, you just wait on it." ”

Fat Chen hurriedly said: "How embarrassing is this, since we came here together, we will definitely share blessings and difficulties for the time being." ”

Shopkeeper Xia also nodded yes again and again.

Meng Zitao smiled, didn't say anything, and went outside to get a flashlight. In addition, he thought that the incense burner was useful, so he took it with him.

Everyone walked into the secret door and walked down the stairs, and Meng Zitao noticed that the walls on both sides of the stairs were still painted with exquisite murals. These murals are lifelike, they are the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, and the Xuanwu.

"How can you draw these things here?" asked Fat Chen as he walked.

Meng Zitao said: "It should be the door god." ”

"Door God?" Chen Fatzi was a little puzzled, he hadn't heard of any place where the Four Divine Beasts were used as door gods.

Meng Zitao explained a little that after the rise of Taoism, the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu were incorporated into its god system as the gods of protection, with majestic majesty.

When depicting the image of Taishang Laojun, "Hug Puzi • Miscellaneous Ying" says: "There are 12 green dragons on the left, 26 white tigers on the right, 24 vermilion birds in the front, and 72 Xuanwu in the back. "It's very magnificent, it's really majestic.

Later, the four elephants were gradually personified and had their titles, such as the Qinglong as "Mengzhang Shenjun", the White Tiger as "the Supervisor Shenjun", the Vermilion Bird as "Lingguang Shenjun", and the Xuanwu as "Zhiming Shenjun".

However, Meng Zitao is also quite strange, under normal circumstances, except for Taoist temples, it is rare to take these four as door gods, and these are the four divine beasts, ordinary people can't afford to use them as door gods, is it really as previously speculated, the clues here are related to the "Inheritance of the National Seal"?

The staircase was estimated to be the length of an ordinary one-story building, and soon, the servants reached the bottom, and in front of them, there was another door.

Fat Chen stepped forward and pushed it, the door soon opened, he looked inside, and found no danger, so he walked in.

"Wait!"

Meng Zitao grabbed Chen Fatzi: "Believe it or not, you will have a few more holes in your body in a while?"

Fat Chen was stunned: "What's the matter?"

"Didn't you notice that the floor tiles in the doorway were a little different?"

Meng Zitao squatted down and touched the floor tiles at the door with a flashlight, and with a little force, the floor tiles began to rotate downward, revealing a hole more than one person wide.

Following the light of the flashlight, Chen Fatzi looked at the bottom of the cave, only to see that there were spikes shining with cold light at the bottom, and if a person fell into it, there must be several more holes on his body.

Even, Chen Fatzi faintly saw that there were some black blood stains on it, maybe someone had already fallen into it before this.

Seeing this, Chen Fatzi was afraid, if it weren't for Meng Zitao pulling him, he would have been struggling painfully at the bottom of the cave now, and he could only wait for death.

"Let's go. ”

Before Chen Fatzi could react, Meng Zitao jumped over the hole and entered the room.

The corners of Fat Chen's mouth twitched: "Brother, you are really bold, what if there is another mechanism in it?"

Meng Zitao looked at the environment in the room by the light of a flashlight, and said: "If there are too many such mechanisms, how can the master enter this room? ”

Chen Fatzi thought about it, it is impossible for people not to make a mistake once in their lives, or in other words, they will not make mistakes under normal circumstances, but if they get drunk and fall into the trap, it will be funny.

"My brother is really bold and careful!" Fat Chen stepped over the trap and entered the room, also looking around, and when he saw the situation around him clearly, he let out a soft sound on his lips.

"Why are there only these things?"

It turned out that there were only three walls in the room, east, west and south, each with a statue, namely the green dragon, the white tiger and the Xuanwu statue. Other than that, it's empty, nothing.

"What the hell are you doing!" Fat Chen was a little annoyed, he was really impatient by the organs.

Meng Zitao said lightly: "If it is the national seal, do you think it is so easy to get it?"

After speaking, he didn't care about Chen Fatzi and the silent shopkeeper Xia, and observed the three statues, not surprisingly, the statues should be the clues to open the mechanism.

After a while, Meng Zitao opened his mouth and asked, "Which direction is the door of this antique shop facing?"

Fat Chen said, "Let's face south." ”

"Then it should be it. Meng Zitao walked in front of the Xuanwu statue, the other two statues were in the correct position, only the Xuanwu statue was placed in the direction of the Vermilion Bird, and the mechanism was probably on it.

Meng Zitao studied the Xuanwu statue, if it was someone else, it might take a long time to find it, but he was different, he had the ability, but after a while, he hit the position of the mechanism, which was the tail of Xuanwu.

Meng Zitao pressed Xuanwu's tail down, and he heard the sound of a throat, and a secret door appeared next to it.

"Haha, brother, it's really yours, so you can find the mechanism in a while. ”

Chen Fatzi laughed as he spoke, and walked towards the secret door, but this time he only dared to stand at the door, worried that there was a mechanism inside, but maybe because of this, he picked up a life.

Suddenly, a black shadow rushed out, as fast as lightning, the cold light of his left hand flashed, Chen Fat Man screamed, and a bloody flower bloomed on his hand.

Meng Zitao rushed forward, and the other party stabbed with a dagger, but it was easily flashed by Meng Zitao. The man in black saw that Meng Zitao's speed was actually faster than him, and a little surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he pointed at Chen Fatzi, perhaps wanting to take him as a hostage.

Of course, Meng Zitao couldn't let him get his wish, so he rushed up directly, grabbed it, and the man in black actually flew out and smashed heavily on the wall next to him, making a heavy sound.

The man in black was a real killer, and he didn't fall under Meng Zitao's heavy blow, but slammed his right foot

Step on it and run towards the exit.

Meng Zitao walked behind the man in black in three or two steps, like a ghost, the man in black's expression changed greatly, and waved his right hand violently, not letting Meng Zitao get close.

However, Meng Zitao grabbed the right hand of the man in black with lightning speed, and then pinched it hard.

The man in black couldn't bear the pain, his right hand was released, and the dagger in his hand fell into Meng Zitao's hand, he endured the great pain again, turned around and waved his fist with his left hand, and the target was Meng Zitao's temple.

Seeing that the man in black wanted to kill himself, of course Meng Zitao would not be polite, twisted his right hand hard, and slapped the waist of the man in black.

The man in black let out a miserable scream, his eyes were about to bulge, his expression was extremely painful, and he had no power to fight back.

In order to prevent the man in black from committing suicide, Meng Zitao quickly removed his chin, however, when he pulled down the black cloth on the face of the man in black, the other party showed a strange expression again, and then, just like the previous one, a trace of blood flowed from his nose and mouth.

"Made!" Meng Zitao couldn't help but scold, he finally caught a living one, he had already used measures, and the other party actually committed suicide and died, really depressed!

"How the hell did this man kill himself?"

Meng Zitao was very puzzled, and then guessed that it could be implanted under the skin and used a special way to release toxins?