The other three locksmiths were stunned on the spot when they saw the human skull that was still steaming in the cold winter wax moon. The remaining old locksmith knelt on the ground and cried hoarsely: "Little calf, little cow wow! Why don't you listen to Master Zu? How do you ask us to explain to your father? Calf Wow ......"

Xie Bangui wiped the blood from his face and said, "Clean up here, send someone to watch over, and don't let people approach that skeleton." Take the old locksmith to another room, I have something to ask. ”

After a few people scrubbed a little, they hurried to the house where the old locksmith was staying.

Xie Bangui untied the wine gourd on his waist and handed it over: "Do you want to suppress the shock." ”

The old locksmith named Uncle Wang took the wine gourd and poured it twice, before touching his tears and saying, "If you have anything to say, just ask!" ”

Xie Bangui found a chair and sat down: "What is a spirit lock?" ”

Old Uncle Wang sobbed and said: "Listen to Master Zu, the spirit lock is the lock that was cursed by the mage, and when you see this kind of lock, you can only kowtow and burn incense, and you can't touch it, otherwise you will find trouble." I had already given the calf a look, and he just didn't believe it......"

Xie Bangui asked again, "How do you know it's a spirit lock?" Have you seen it before, or have you heard it said? ”

"I haven't seen it." Old Uncle Wang shook his head and said: "Even Master Zu has never seen it, he just said that the spirit lock is a lock that makes people afraid when they see it, and he can't tell what the spirit lock looks like." ”

"The ancestor you said is still alive?" Xie Bangui originally thought that the ancestor that Uncle Wang said was Lu Ban who knew the lock, but it sounded like the ancestor in Uncle Wang's mouth was a person who was still alive.

Old Uncle Wang glared and said, "Master Zu is the lock king Wu Laosan!" You don't know? ”

"Oops! How did I forget about him. Damn, damn it......" Lao Qian patted his head and said: "Lock King Wu Laosan is a well-known locksmith, and eight out of ten people who repair locks in Qingzhou are his apprentices. ”

Xie Bangui stood up: "Let's go, let's go find him." ”

"Slow, slow down......" The tall fat man grabbed Xie Bangui: "I also know that Wu Laosan, he is not an ordinary locksmith, he is a famous squire, and he has a lot of prestige in the local area." He may not be willing to help with this kind of thing. Let's send someone to say hello to him first. ”

Xie Bangui sneered: "If you don't help, you have to help, the person who can repair the lock will open the lock, I don't believe that old man has nothing to do with the local empty road (thief)." ”

The tall fat man cried and said, "Brother! Don't play this big, right? After you get into trouble, you can slap your ass and leave, but I still have to be an official here? Offending the squire is no fun. ”

"Don't worry, I'll be as kind as possible!" Xie Ban Ghost didn't walk out.

Wu Laosan is also a locksmith and an empty road, he has seen a lot of winds and waves, and naturally knows what it means to "know the times as a handsome man", and he is very cooperative with Xie Bangui's inquiry, and when he said that he wanted him to take a look at the skeleton lock, Wu Laosan burst out laughing: "My lord is also willing to seek the near and far!" The most clever locksmith is in the county office, why do you want me, a bad old man who doesn't even deserve to lift his shoes, to be embarrassed. ”

The tall fat man didn't know that there was such a tall man under him, so he hurriedly asked, "Who are you talking about?" ”

"Li Zhuzhu! Oh, his big name is Li Zhuxian, and he got such a nickname because he can use a bamboo stick to open the lock. He's in prison right now, and he's the right thing to look for. ”

The tall fat man turned his head and asked, "Is there such a person?" ”

"Yes!" A servant said: "That person is not only a habitual thief, but also a tomb robber, a tall and tall light skills and flying knife kung fu are very good, wanted by the government for many years have not been caught, some time ago, somehow, he came to surrender." The previous adult was promoted because he was arrested. ”

Xie Bangui stood up and said in a deep voice: "This time it's interesting, let's go meet this Li Zhuzhu." ”

When the tall fat man saw Li Zhuzhu, he thought he had met a ghost, and rubbed his eyes vigorously: "You are Li Si?" Is it Li Zhuzhu? Aren't you dead? ”

Li Zhuzhu said with both surprise and pride: "It turned out to be a few of you, I thought you were always shocked?" Did you know about the torture table? ”

Xie Bangui nodded and said, "It's been dealt with, how did you survive?" ”

"In what we do, there are some means to save lives." Li Si explained: "At that time, I was chased and killed by the torture platform, and when I saw that my life was about to be guaranteed, I suddenly had an idea and ran to the government to surrender. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, if one government sentenced me to beheading, other government officials did not need to interfere anymore. I didn't expect to make the right bet. ”

The tall fat man said coldly: "According to your sins, it is enough to cut you ten times." If the matter of the torture table has not been resolved after the autumn, are you planning to escape from prison? ”

"That's right!" Li Zhuqi admitted it straightforwardly: "With this little yamen, I can't be locked up, and the edict of Jinyiwei is almost the same." ”

"That's because we didn't come!" The tall fat man said gloomily: "Do you think there is still a chance to escape from prison now?" ”

Li Zhuqi smiled bitterly: "I really don't have a chance now." However, you must have come to me at night for help with something, right? If I am willing to cooperate, can I save my life? ”

"You're smart. You can think that cooperating with me is helping yourself. Xie Bangui said with a smile: "Don't worry about me lying to you, in my opinion, there are not many tomb robbers in this world." Maybe one day, we will have a chance to work together. ”

These words came out of Xie Bangui's mouth, and Li Zhuqi was naturally convinced, the secret hunt who dealt with demons and monsters all day long had entered more ancient tombs than ordinary people had entered, and tomb robbery was not a big deal in their eyes. Li Zhuzhu didn't think about it, and agreed to it.

Xie Bangui explained the matter of the skull lock in detail, but Li Zhuzhu's face turned blue when he heard it, and he said after a long time: "This matter is too big, I may not be able to hold it!" ”

Xie Bangui was not in a hurry, and waited quietly for him to answer. The tall fat man couldn't hold his breath anymore, and said sharply: "If you dare to say the word 'no', I will sentence you to a decisive sentence now." ”

"I didn't say no!" Li Zhuqi muttered and continued: "There are many kinds of spirit locks, and the simplest is to hide Gu in the lock and rely on Gu poison to kill people. The kind of spiritual lock that can burst out and hurt people like you said is almost already a sperm......"

"Chengjing?" Xie Bangui raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean that lock can absorb the essence and blood of the human body and cultivate on its own?" ”

"How can it be so powerful!" Li Zhuzhu shook his head and said: "The lock is the lock, no matter how powerful it is, it is also a man-made thing, even if it becomes a fine, he will keep in mind his mission and do his best to protect the things he guards, even if it is broken bones, he has to wait until someone with a key comes to him." Therefore, the lock will not leave the lock nose, no matter how powerful the spirit lock, as long as you don't touch it, it will not take the initiative to hurt people. ”

The tall fat man was stunned when he heard this: "Do you have a way to open it?" ”

Li Zhuqi said truthfully: "I dare not guarantee it. I've got to get something ready before I try it. ”

Xie Bangui suddenly stood up: "Let's go back and see, what do you want, say on the way, let the fat man hand over to his subordinates to prepare." ”

"That's not going to work!" Li Zhuzhu shook his head and said: "The things that open the spirit lock are very particular, if something goes wrong with the people below, I don't know how to die." I'll have to keep an eye on it. ”

Xie Bangui couldn't help but pull the fat man out and leave: "Old Qian, girl, you two accompany him." The fat man will come back to Sufu with me, and bring your hammer and earth nails with you. ”

In the Su Mansion, the two officials who were responsible for guarding the skull locks, although they were duty-bound, they were terrified in their hearts. Especially that Liu Bantou, somehow, always felt that the skull black hole eyes kept looking him up and down behind his back all the time.

I didn't want to look back at the skeleton, but I couldn't help but look at it twice, but every time I turned around, I was facing the pair of black eyes, and I didn't know how much cold sweat came out, and the undershirt inside was wet and sticking to my back, which was uncomfortable.

Liu Bantou settled down and said to the little servant beside him: "San'er, you are watching here, I will go out to smoke a bag of cigarettes, and I will come back to change you later." After saying that, he threw down the reluctant little servant and ran out, hid behind the rockery in the front yard and lit a dry cigarette.

Before Liu Bantou finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, he was startled by the footsteps behind him, and scolded without looking back: "Damn, what are you scared away in the middle of the night, I didn't tell you...... -"

The squad leader who was squatting on the ground first saw a pair of bloodstained leg bones, and then the entire hip bone entered his sight, and he screamed on the spot and lay on the ground. The skeleton standing behind him swooped straight down on the squad leader like a plank.

The skeleton's two arms, like knives, were inserted from the shoulder sockets of the squad leader, and the palms of his hands ran down his arms into the squad leader's human skin.

The finger-shaped bulge under the human skin was sliding from Liu Ban's head and shoulders to his hands.

Liu Tou only felt that his skin had been lifted up from behind little by little, and the flesh and blood that should have belonged to him were being squeezed out of his body by the cold human bones, and the pain was so heartbreaking that he couldn't shout, so he could only wait for death.

Xie Bangui, who hurried back, smelled a pungent smell of blood as soon as he arrived at the door of the study.

The window of the study was shattered into holes, and a few pieces of blood-stained cotton clothes hung on the upside-down wooden bars, and the room was covered with blood, and the two halves of the corpses of the little servants were thrown on both sides of the room, one on the left and one on the right. A trail of bloody foot bone marks stretched from the house into the snow, and finally disappeared in front of the arch.

It seemed that the servant standing at the window was dragged into the study from behind by the skeleton and torn in half. After the skeleton committed the murder, it pushed the door out and went in the direction of the back garden.

"Let's go!" Xie Bangui rose and fell a few times, and flew into the back garden. I happened to see the skeleton completely squeeze Liu Tou's flesh out of the human skin, and the bloody official was thrown into the snow and slid out a few feet.

The human skin, which was still hot, was slowly wrapped around the bare skeleton, tightly wrapping the bones, and at first glance it looked like a skinny living person, except for the angular square in the abdominal cavity, and it seemed that the purpose of the skeleton lock was to wrap the secret box.

Xie Bangui and the tall fat man exchanged glances with each other, one left and one right separated a few feet and was about to outflank, but they heard a muffled sound of wheels behind them.

The tall fat man was not turned around, Xie Bangui slowly raised the weapon in his right hand, and the mirror-like soul claw not only shone a cold glow on Xie Bangui's face through the moonlight, but also reflected the scene behind him at the same time.

The soul hook car that came out of thin air stopped on the arch, the wheels swayed back and forth on the top of the wall less than a foot, and the few hook blades hidden in the carport, I don't know if they were locking on to the tall fat man, or Xie Banghost.