In the last renovation of the antiquities shop, roller shutters and window railings were installed, and the curtains were also very heavy.

Once the curtains are closed, the outside does not want to see the interior.

Similarly, unless the curtains are opened, you can't see the outside from the inside.

After Su Xian walked up the stairs, he didn't move again, but calmed down and listened carefully with his ears.

The previous abnormal sound was made when the roller shutter door was touched, but now the sound is almost inaudible, and it is obvious that the other party is also a little afraid after making the sound.

But after waiting for about half a minute, some small voices still sounded.

It's footsteps!

Footsteps began in the direction of the main entrance and moved to the side windows, and then gradually moved to the backyard.

The backyard has walls, guardrails, and an additional gate.

However, if you climb into the precincts, the back door of the antique shop is still the same wooden door that was originally used.

That's the biggest flaw in this small two-storey building.

A thief who is good at picking locks can sneak into the store through the back door without making the slightest movement.

But in fact, because this store is not guarded many times, as long as you are patient for a period of time, you don't need any professional skills at all to pick people to steal when they are not there.

……

Su Xian didn't make a sound, but stood at the staircase in the center of the store, facing the back door, waiting quietly.

The other party was obviously picking the lock, but it didn't seem to be very good, and he made a lot of noise.

But just as he was considering whether to help, there was a sudden "pop" sound from inside the door, and then the lock popped open, and the door slowly opened inside, shining in the purple moonlight.

The figure of the person at the door also continued to lengthen, and finally arrived at Su Xian's feet.

He looked up and saw the man's face.

It wasn't a human face, it was a mask, a mask like a puppet Pinocchio.

And hidden under the mask is a person who is about 1.65 meters tall and wearing a police uniform.

It's a very ordinary standard police uniform, with no badges on the chest and shoulders, but it doesn't look like a bargain.

At the same time, the man naturally saw the shopkeeper standing there still.

……

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and the "police officer" wearing the puppet mask suddenly raised his hand to his ear, made a saluting motion, and said in a slightly sharp tone:

"Good evening, sir, check the water meter."

His puppet's nose grew a little forward imperceptibly.

Su Xian shrugged: "Good evening, officer, I'm confused that no one has come to check the water meter for the last month, and you're finally here." This is not much time, and after checking the water meter, we may be able to sit down and drink some red wine, have a good chat, and enhance the relationship between the police and the public. ”

"No, no, no."

The officer waved his hand again and again, and walked in very naturally with his steps.

"I'm on official duty, how can I drink? However, if it's coffee......"

As he spoke, he reached behind his back and pushed the door open.

As the lock snapped shut, the moonlight was cut off, and the room fell back into darkness.

The officer's voice seemed to suddenly drift into the distance, but his body was rapidly approaching in the darkness, forming an extremely abrupt contrast.

Su Xian was not confused by the distance of this voice, and he drew his bayonet sword without even the slightest hesitation.

The electric current from the high-speed swing of the sword illuminated the light for an inch, and the officer's puppet mask flickered in the light, and the wooden-like fingers burst into the range of the sword, and the blade piercing from the fingertips reflected a snowy light.

Su Xian's eyes turned sharply, his wrist flipped rapidly, and the sword swept back, swinging towards those five fingers in an instant!

The texture of the wood being cut was clearly heard, and the four fingers fell to the ground in turn.

Su Xian was about to continue to follow up, when an alarm suddenly appeared in his mind, and almost immediately he leaned back into an iron bridge, a trace of blade almost slashed through his face, he struggled to maintain his posture, and kicked it up.

The tip of his foot touched a hard object, and he suddenly applied force, and something was kicked into the air.

"Whew!"

There was a muffled sound in the air.

Su Xian immediately straightened up and approached the place where the sound came from.

As he ran, a glimmer of light emerged from the "inferior guardian ring" on his finger, and the glimmer of light quickly elongated into a curtain of light, illuminating the room.

The figure of the police officer was exposed in an instant.

He was like a spider, his limbs twisted at strange angles, firmly attached to the corners of the ceiling!

Su Xian stopped, his gaze fell on his right hand, where four fingers had been cut off, but there were no bones and flesh exposed, only wood and iron pipes!

"Puppets?"

I thought that Pinocchio-like face was a mask, but I didn't expect it to be a real face!

Su Xian was slightly shocked in his heart, only to feel that it was not the same as he expected.

The puppet's nose was stretched out extremely long, the lower edge showed sharp serrations, and the eyes reflected the glazed brilliance in the white light, and they were actually two glass beads!

"Found it!"

Suddenly, the puppet's mouth opened and closed, and an excited sound was heard.

And its two eyes were staring closely at the stabbing sword in Su Xian's hand.

……

"Not from the Masquerade, but from the Relic Society's Goson Bryn?"

In a blink of an eye, Su Xian figured out this link.

His face was slightly gloomy, and he asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?" ”

But almost at the same time, the puppet also asked sharply: "Where is the snake of history?" ”

The two looked at each other, and the puppet immediately raised his right hand, and among the four broken fingers, there was a white light flashing in the black iron pipe, which pointed fiercely at Su Xian's head.

"The Serpent of History Again? If I'm not mistaken, [Cursed Moon] is also looking for information related to the Serpent of History. It's just that he was just looking for information, but this puppet directly asked me about the location of the Serpent of History, which shows that it is very sure that the Serpent of History has been summoned! ”

Thinking of this, Su Xian was not in a hurry.

When he attended the relic's dinner that day, he didn't hide any identity in the first place, and if the other party really wanted to investigate, it would be easy to find him.

Now it has indeed been found, and a puppet has been sent.

It's just that if the other party really investigates clearly, why would they only send this one puppet?

That's a problem.

……

Su Xian looked at the puppet's fingers, erected the light curtain, blocked the front, and said, "Your family has not educated you, you have to report your name before asking questions?" ”

The puppet ignored it, and just shouted in a sharper voice: "Where is the snake of history!" ”

Su Xian shrugged: "Why don't you come down and have a cup of coffee and talk slowly?" ”

"Whew!"

The white light flashed, and black smoke came out of the four fingers of the puppet, and four projectiles appeared on the light curtain, and fine cracks appeared around the projectiles, and the inferior guardian light curtain turned into white light and shattered suddenly.

Su Xian calmly clapped his hands three times: "You are also a soul eater puppet?" ”

The puppet finally paused: "How do you know about the Soul Eater puppet?" ”

Su Xian said, "Of course I know, I also know that the Elder of the Relic Society, Elder Gosen Bryn, is also your kind. And Professor Wal-Mart, whose Soul Eater doll you sent me too. ”

The puppet grinned: "So what? There are many of my kind, all over the kingdom. In the future, there will be more! You'll never know whose body is hidden under the skin of a puppet. I can't say it, among your relatives, lovers, and friends, there are also my kind! ”

Su Xian thought about it and said with relief: "It sounds scary, but it's okay......"

Puppet: "Okay what?" ”

Su Xian spread his hands and said, "Fortunately, I don't have any of the examples you gave me." ”

The puppet suddenly sneered, "Pretend to be calm." I have investigated you, your family is in the royal capital, your father is a baron, and you have an older brother and a younger sister. Tell me where the snake of history is, and I can assure you that they, forever, will be them. ”

Sometimes when you tell the truth, no one believes you.

But Su Xian did not refute again: "Guarantee? Can you guarantee it? I thought you were just a puppet being manipulated. ”

"He made us, gave us the opportunity to form, and we swore allegiance to him," said the puppet. But we are not puppets, we have our own independent consciousness, we have independent souls, and the relationship between us and him is only between superiors and subordinates, not between masters and puppets. ”

Su Xian suddenly showed a little surprise: "Then your soul, I mean, how many souls have you devoured?" ”

Puppet: "Sixteen souls!" I devoured a whole sixteen souls, removed their dross, absorbed their essence, and fused into one, forming the present me. I am me, a different me! ”

Su Xian nodded slightly and said, "I believe it, it seems that you are indeed a little different." You have an independent personality, not his puppet. In this case, you take me to him, and I will tell him the whereabouts of the Serpent of History. ”

The puppet shook his head and said, "No." He won't leave the royal capital, you have to tell me here. ”

Su Xian sighed helplessly: "Since this is the case, it doesn't hurt for me to tell you." But when talking to people, you should always report yourself first. I'm Mark Guynon, how about you? ”

The puppet says, "I'm Jim Stephen......"

But as soon as Stephen was mentioned, a crunch suddenly came from the puppet's body.

Its tone suddenly changed, and it said vigilantly: "Don't talk nonsense! Where is the snake of history? ”

Su Xian lifted his sword: "No, the person who talks a lot of nonsense, it's you!" ”

The puppet was stimulated and jerked up its right hand, and the iron pipe in its four fingers flashed white again.

Su Xian knew that he couldn't ask anything more, so he immediately dodged and moved sideways, and suddenly four projectiles passed through where he was standing and hit the floor.

He didn't hesitate, raised his right arm, and threw the sword in his hand like lightning!

Almost immediately, Link's bayonet pierced the puppet's heart, nailing it to the Skyguard.

It certainly doesn't die from a stab in the heart.

Su Xian didn't have such thoughts at all, he just fixed its body with his sword, and then jumped up with his strength, grabbed its two arms, and pulled it hard!

With a devastating sound, the roots of the puppet's arms were torn apart.

Even though the puppet didn't feel pain, it screamed, "No! ”

Su Xian jumped up again, this time grabbing its head and ripping it all off!

After the head, there is the body.

Even the "Link's bayonet" was ripped off together.

In the blink of an eye, the Soul Eater puppet named "Jim Stephen" was torn apart.

From its broken wound, a large amount of black gas suddenly gushed out.

The black gas circled around the room, then drilled through the crack in the door and fled in a hurry.

Su Xian dropped the puppet's body, took out the "Luo ●'s Card Book", opened the door and walked out of the courtyard.

Soul Eater dolls will turn into black gas and escape after being destroyed, but they can't escape far and can only find a hidden corner nearby and wait for recovery.

Generally speaking, as long as the place they find is hidden enough, they have a chance to start over.

It's a pity that this Soul Eater doll has met someone with an experienced experience.

Only a few minutes later, in "Luo ●'s Card Album", there was an additional "Broken Heart of the Soul Eater Doll".

Su Xian returned to the store, looked at the puppet's body fragments and the broken police officer's uniform, so he simply stepped on the puppet's body into pieces, then packed it with the police officer's uniform, and lit a bonfire in the courtyard.

He leaned against the wall, watched the campfire burn, and looked up at the sky.

The sky was unusually beautiful tonight, like the night he had just arrived.

The color of the sea is reflected in the night sky, and the dark blue is from light to dark, exuding purple rhyme, undulating layers and magnificent waves.

The cursed moon that hung over the night sea was still wrapped in a deep mist.

The red glow of the fire reflected on his body, making it a little blurry.

This familiar scene made him feel a little.

Back to reality.

"Jim Stephen, if his surname was not taken by himself, then the person who made it is likely to be Stephen as well. Stephen, who now lives in the royal capital, seems to have such a family. ”

Su Xian recalled carefully, and finally found a clue in the deepest part of his memory.

The surname Stephen is actually not uncommon in the Kingdom of Longne, but if you narrow it down to the nobles in the royal capital, there is only one.

It was a very down-and-out baron, but his ancestor was actually an earl of the Kingdom of Longne, but he was transferred to the border and died in battle for offending the king at the time.

Since the death of Count Stephen in battle, his family has been in a slump, under the conscious suppression of all parties, the Stephen family is almost declining day by day, and Count Stephen's son is even more addicted to gambling under the bewitchment of a group of fox friends and dogs, and has since embarked on the road of no return to sell his property.

Until that son died of alcoholism, the Stephen family completely declined, and finally only retained a barony, and was an empty nobleman with no capital.

Judging from the experience of the Stephen family, if this family really produces an extraordinary person, it is indeed very likely that he will take revenge on society.

Of course, if the ruler of the Eater of Souls is not an aristocrat, and Stephen is just Jim's last name for other reasons, then all is in vain.

But we have to guard against it.

"Perhaps, it's time to write a letter to the family?"