The man slowly walked into the casino under the watchful eyes of two rows of security guards, and Gul stepped forward to greet him. Needless to say, this man must be a cobbler. Fang Fan and Zhang Ze glanced at each other, and then stepped forward. When Gul saw them coming, he said to the cobbler.

"Sir, these two are looking for your help."

The cobbler looked Fang Fan and Zhang Ze up and down for a moment and said.

"Let's talk from a different place."

Gul led a few people to the living room, and then ordered some drinks to be prepared, Gul said.

"A few people have something to talk about, and if you need anything, you can tell me at any time."

Gul walked out of the room and said to his men.

"Keep an eye on it, you know what to do if something happens."

"Understood."

Fang Fan and Zhang Ze sat opposite the cobbler, the atmosphere was inexplicable, the cobbler coughed softly and said.

"I wonder what you're looking for me?"

"Your Excellency's case must have been your doing, right?"

"Are you two interested in horror aesthetics?"

Fang Fan's fingers tapped back and forth on the table twice before saying.

"Horror aesthetics combines horror and beauty, so that the viewer can not only enjoy the excitement brought by horror, but also feel the beauty contained in it. Let people appreciate in fear, and keep reminiscing after appreciation. ”

After Fang Fan finished speaking, the cobbler nodded approvingly and said.

"Since you understand this, you and I must be in the same way."

Fang Fan frowned slightly, then said with a smile.

"Don't dare, I'm just an ordinary person, and I can't experience the happiness of perverts at all."

The cobbler's face trembled, and Zhang Ze said with a smile on the side.

"I still want to be close to others, let's eat deflated."

The cobbler looked up to the sky and laughed.

"It doesn't matter if you don't agree, you've already seen my work. I am sure that in the future, you will also fall in love with this kind of art, this art that expresses beauty to the fullest. ”

"I don't have much interest in your art, I'm just going to hand you over to the police."

The cobbler gestured to his lips and said.

"Shhhh Don't break the feeling that you are both witnesses and witnesses. ”

As soon as the words fell, suddenly an iron hoop popped out of Fang Fan and Zhang Ze's chair handle, locking them to the chair, and then two iron cages stretched out from under their seats, at this time they turned into caged birds. Gul clapped his hands from outside and walked in.

"I know it's not easy for the two, this is specially customized for the two, do you like it?"

"Hurry up and let us go."

"It's been so hard to come, how can I let you go so easily?"

Gul kept talking, and the cobbler lay the tools on the table unhurriedly. Zhang Ze said.

"Gul, you sissy betrayed us."

Gul said as he ran his hand through his hair.

"Betrayal? I remember I've only known each other for less than an hour, right? It would be a bit too much to say that it was betrayed. ”

Fang Fan looked at the cobbler intently and said.

"It's not him, it's someone else who betrayed us."

Then the cobbler came over with a syringe and said.

"No one has betrayed you. The two of you are now in the Sanyun Gang, and everyone knows about it. Everyone in the Sanyun Gang plans to use your blood to pay tribute to Qiman, so accept your fate. ”

Just as the cobbler was about to start, Fang Fan had an idea and said.

"It was Jinqiu who asked us to come."

The cobbler's hand hesitated, and he could see that the name Jinqiu touched him a lot.

"No one can save you today."

After that, the syringe in the cobbler's hand pierced Fang Fan's body, and his consciousness gradually blurred, before he fell unconscious, he heard Zhang Ze next to him keep shouting to himself, the voice went from heavy to light, from near to far, and finally became ethereal and insensitive. The cobbler smiled and said to Zhang Ze.

"Please admire my masterpiece."

"You madman, stay away from him."

"I'm really a madman, and I can't live without madness. Let you witness what true art is. ”

With that, the cobbler raised the scalpel in his hand and stabbed Fang Fan's neck, when gunshots and explosions suddenly came from outside. Time stood still and fixed the scalpel that was about to cut Fang Fan's throat in mid-air, and the cobbler said to Gul.

"Get out there and see what's going on."

The moment Gul opened the door, he was shot to the head by a gun, and the next second, the bullet smashed his head to pieces at close range, and blood mixed with brains splattered everywhere. The dead bodies fell to the ground, the gamblers outside the house had long fled in all directions, and the corpses of the security guards were scattered all over the field. It was silent everywhere at this time, and the man pointed his gun at the cobbler and said.

"Let them go, I'm going to take these two people away."

The cobbler put away the scalpel and said.

"You're too wide."

"You are not qualified to negotiate conditions with me, if you don't want to die, put down the knife in your hand."

"You dare to kill me?"

"You forced me."

"Kill me, and you will become the enemy of the entire Sanyun Gang."

"It doesn't matter, sooner or later it will become my enemy anyway."

Zhang Ze really couldn't listen to it anymore and shouted.

"What nonsense, shoot quickly."

After that, the muzzle of the gun that suddenly turned was aimed at Zhang Ze, and then he pulled the trigger without hesitation, and before Zhang Ze could react, he shot two shots in a row at the lock on Zhang Ze's wrist and said.

"You take Fang Fan and leave here quickly."

At this moment, the cobbler suddenly took out a handful of powder from his pocket and threw it into the air, and suddenly there was a fragrance in the room, and the man with the gun said.

"Don't breathe, it's drugged."

Zhang Ze hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, and the cobbler said with a smile.

"This medicine can drill into the body along the pores of sweat, so the result is the same whether you breathe or not."

The man hurriedly opened the lock of Fang Fan's cage while he was still awake and shouted.

"What are you doing in a daze, take him away."

Zhang Ze picked up Fang Fan and ran out quickly, the cobbler suddenly grabbed Zhang Ze's clothes, and then raised his hand to stab the scalpel into Zhang Ze's eyes. Zhang Ze subconsciously dodged, the cobbler suddenly screamed, the scalpel fell to the ground, and blood kept flowing down the palm.

"You remember for me, you will have to return this shot sooner or later."

The cobbler fled in a hurry, Zhang Ze carried Fang Fan and said.

"Thank you. If it weren't for you, we'd be finished. ”

"Get out of here first."

The man led them out of the Golden Stack Casino. After leaving the three-way zone, Zhang Ze asked.

"What do you call it?"

The man didn't say anything and threw a car key to Zhang Ze and said.

"Your car has been tampered with, let's drive another car."

Zhang Ze put Fang Fan in the car, and when he came back, the man was no longer there. Zhang Ze brought Fang Fan back to the Spring Flavor Bar, and Mishima hurriedly brought the two of them in and asked.

"Why did you pass out again?"

"I can't say a word or two, but this time it's not a big problem, and I guess I'll wake up in a while."

"Have you been plotted?"

"What a secret calculation, that is simply an open calculation. It's not right, it's really falling into someone else's trap. ”

After Zhang Ze settled Fang Fan, he called Jinqiu and said.

"You hurry up and come to the Spring Bar, there is a situation."

About half an hour later, Jinqiu came to the Spring Bar. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Zhang Ze sitting at the bar, smoking and drinking, and stepped forward to ask.

"What's wrong?"

Zhang Ze suddenly stood up and grabbed Jinqiu's collar and yelled.

"You bastard, you betrayed us."

Jinqiu said with a suspicious face.

"I don't."

Mishima, who heard the noise, hurriedly came over and pulled the two apart and said.

"If you have something to say, it's good to say."

Zhang Ze calmed down for a moment and told all the things about Jin Jiduan. Then he continued.

"You still say it's not you? Why we will know who we are, and the car has been tampered with. You must know the cobbler, and the man paused obviously when he mentioned your name at that time, indicating that his relationship with you must not be simple. ”

Jinqiu said with his hands on his hips panting.

"What is this? I really didn't lie to you, and I didn't betray you. I've only seen a cobbler once, many years ago. ”

At this time, Fang Fan rushed out from behind, he saw Jinqiu here, he wanted to ask the teacher for guilt, but because of the weakness of his whole body, he had to sit aside and watch. Jinqiu said.

"They must have sought revenge on you for the sake of Qiman."

"I don't want to hear you continue to make up lies, if someone hadn't come to us, I'm afraid Lao Fang and I would have been two skinned specimens by now."

Fang Fan coughed and asked.

"Who saved us?"

"A man in a mask."

Zhang Ze briefly described the man's appearance, and Fang Fan said in surprise.

"How could it be him?"

"Lao Fang, do you know this person?"

"He's the one who sent me to the cemetery that night and gave me the whip."

Fang Fan and Zhang Ze looked at Jinqiu at the same time and asked.

"Do you know each other?"

"I don't even know who you're talking about, how did I know each other."

At this time, a tall man walked into the bar and said.

"Okay, the person who betrayed you is not Jinqiu."

Everyone looked towards the door, Fang Fan said.

"Why are you here?"

The masked man walked over and looked at Fang Fan and said.

"Are you alright?"

"Hmm."

"I warned you not to pursue the Sanyun Gang anymore, if I hadn't shown up at the time, your family would have been crying at your grave now."

"Thank you for saving us. We're old acquaintances, so we might as well take off our masks and be honest with each other. ”

The masked man took a few steps back, stretched out his hand to remove the mask from his face, and Zhang Ze exclaimed.

"How could it be you."

The atmosphere of surprise spread in the bar, and everyone looked intently at the face behind the mask, this person was none other than Guo Huairen, the middle-level cadre blaster of the Sanyun Gang. He put the mask aside and said with a smile.

"Why are you so surprised, don't you already know all about my information?"

Zhang Ze circled around Guo Huairen a few times and said.

"How could it be you?"

Jinqiu walked up to Guo Huairen and said.

"He is an undercover agent I planted next to Lei Zhen, and we have been cooperating with each other for so many years. You should all know what happened to him before, in fact, Lei Zhen's brainwashing of him did not work. ”

Fang Fan walked over and stretched out his hand in front of Guo Huairen and said.

"I've been misunderstanding you."

"Nothing."

"But what did you mean by blowing up my house before?"

Guo Huairen suddenly said with some embarrassment.

"That's just to keep you out of trouble."

"Oh, the repair fee is yours."

As soon as the words ended, everyone looked up to the sky and laughed. Fang Fan said.

"The trickiest thing now is the cobbler, this time let him run, I don't know when I will meet him again next time."

Guo Huairen continued.

"And now that he knows my identity, I can't guess that Lei Zhen will learn about my defection in three days."

Jinqiu thought for a while and said.

"Then we'll strike first. I'll go back to the Sanyun Gang in a few days to find out with my mother about the cobbler's whereabouts. In the past few days, Huairen has gone to the Security Bureau to avoid the limelight, just like you just said, if Lei Zhen knows, he will definitely ask around about your whereabouts, and it will be dangerous at that time. ”

Fang Fan touched the stubble on his chin and thought about it, and said.

"Then we won't act for the time being, and we'll make a unified plan when you're arranged."

"It's okay, you guys have been recuperating for a while recently."

After Jinqiu and Guo Huairen left, Fang Fan went to the shroud shop. Recently, the gourd has been shaking a few times from time to time, and he plans to come to the old man of the shroud shop to see what is going on. Pushing open the door of the shroud shop, there was another gust of cloudy wind, Tong'er was pasting paper in the corner, Fang Fan walked over and asked softly.

"Tong'er, where is your master?"

Tong'er was holding a brush and preparing to draw the eyes of the paper man, when he put the pen aside and turned around and said.

"Who should I be, it turned out to be a nasty embryo who peeked at other people's sleep at night."

Fang Fan was confused, and after a while, he remembered the bizarre scene he had encountered in the cemetery that night, and said.

"Could it be that you were the one who pretended to be a ghost in the house that night?"

Tong'er glanced at Fang Fan and said.

"I'm not that bored, but if it weren't for me that night, you'd probably be dragged to bed by the female ghost."

"So you saved me?"

"Don't say that, I'm not so kind, everything is Master's will. I wondered why Master was so attentive to you. ”

"Where is he now?"

"Backyard, go find him yourself."

Fang Fan opened the curtain and saw that the old man was watering the flowers in the backyard, and stepped forward and said respectfully.

"Old man, I've come to see you."

The old man straightened up and said.

"Why did you come to see me?"

With that, the old man stretched out his palm and stretched out in front of Fang Fan, Fang Fan smiled and then put the gourd in the old man's palm. The old man held the gourd in his hand, and after a while, his hand glowed red, and the gourd shook violently. Fang Fan said.

"What's going on?"

"Nothing. When you go back, you can do what I told you. ”

"Understood."

Fang Fan then asked.

"What shall I call you, old man?"

"This is the second time you've asked me. If you have to call me daddy, then you can call me daddy. ”

Fang Fan was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and the old man stroked his beard and laughed. Fang Fan asked again.

"There's something I want to ask you."

"How?"

"It's about the nightmare inside me."

The old man pressed his hand on the position of Fang Fan's heart, and there was a powerful beating in his palm, and the old man said.

"The power of the Three Holy Relics can't be closed for long."

"You mean the Nightmare is coming back out?"

"Well, when it comes out again this time, the first thing it will do is to take over your body and lock up your soul."

"So what should I do?"

"Don't get angry, the more angry you are, the easier it is to hasten its second birth. It's going to stay in your body for a while, but it won't be long. What should come will come, and you must remember to come to me the moment your heart warehouse breaks. ”

With that, the old man shouted outside.

"Copper, copper."

Tong'er lifted the curtain of the door and came to the backyard and said.

"Master."

"Go and get the spirits scattered."

"Yes."

After a while, Tong'er came over with a small box, and the old man said.

"This is the Enlightenment, and it can help you when you can't control your anger."

Fang Fan took the box in the old man's hand with both hands and said.

"Thank you so much."

Tong'er pouted and said.

"It's going to be a joke."

The old man glanced at Tong'er, and Tong'er hurriedly went to the front to work again. Fang Fan put away Qi Lingsan and asked.

"Why are you helping me?"

The old man looked at Fang Fan with a kind gaze and said.

"My father is Fang Haotian?"

"Exactly."

"You go and ask him if he remembers the old ghost of Tuoshan."

"It seems that you have a good relationship with your father."

The old man smiled and turned around to pick up the kettle and continue to water the flowers, Fang Fan bowed and said.

"Juniors say goodbye."

After Jinqiu settled Guo Huairen in the Security Bureau, he set off for Chifeng Mountain. Since leaving Chifeng Mountain that year, he has never returned, and no matter what his mother has tried by all means, he has not been able to win back his stubborn heart. In the end, it was his mother who chose to compromise, but fortunately he was left to go. A few years have passed in a flash, and the scene in Chifeng Mountain has basically not changed, the old tree is still standing there, and there is still a pile of stones with unknown meaning standing next to the tree.

Jinqiu looked at the towering mountain top and thousands of steps in front of him and was worried, when will this go? He may have forgotten that when he was a child, his mother often held his little hand and walked back and forth many times a day, and the warmth of childhood would always fade in his brain with time, and finally be worn out.

At this time, a rush of footsteps came from above, and Jinqiu could vaguely see a short figure in the dense fog that shrouded the top of the mountain, and she seemed to be carrying something in her hand. The voice was getting closer and closer, and Jinqiu stood to the side, intending to make a way for her. The figure flashed past Jinqiu, but came back after a while. A pair of bright big eyes looked at Jinqiu and asked.

"Who are you?"

Jinqiu looked at the cute little girl in front of him and said.

"And who are you?"

"I'm Qing'er."

Jinqiu raised her hand and slid it lightly on her pink little face and asked.

"Is my mother here?"

"Ah, you're my brother. Sanniang is here, she looks forward to you going back every day. ”

A trace of guilt flashed in Jinqiu's eyes, and then he saw the bucket in Qing'er's hand and said.

"Is Qing'er going to fetch water?"

Qing'er nodded vigorously, and the two pigtails also trembled. Jinqiu then asked.

"Do you want me to help you?"

"No, Qing'er can. Hurry up and see Sanniang. ”

With that, Qing'er went down the mountain with a bucket. About half an hour later, Jinqiu finally reached the top of the mountain, gasping for breath as he knocked on the door. There was no response for a long time, and then he noticed that the door was open. Jinqiu pushed the door in, and in the courtyard he saw the familiar back again, which seemed to be a little hunchbacked. Jinqiu put his backpack aside, then took a deep breath and shouted softly.

"Mom."