There was a crackling sound in the fire pit, and the smoke was mixed with the roars and screams of two people.

I began to get scared, thinking to myself, could Shu Jin really die in this place as the prophecy scroll said?

I shouted twice, but no one responded to me.

The fire grew smaller, but there was nothing in the pit except for the coffin that had been burned to ashes.

I sat on the ground, feeling that no one with me seemed to end well, Mr. Huang, Yin Xiujuan, and Shu Jin, who had been burned to ashes.

At this time, a person stood up from the ashes, and his whole body was burned black, but it could be seen that this person was Shu Jin.

He climbed up from the pit naked and lay down beside me, gasping for air and two lines of tears running down the corners of his eyes.

He said: Qiu Yan, do you know that what I just killed was growing up with me, joining the army and working together......

In the end, his voice was a little choked, and he said: We have known each other for more than thirty years, but he died at my hands, my brother.

I sat aside, not knowing what to say to comfort him, an iron-blooded man who was forced to kill his brother for more than thirty years for me.

After a long time, he sat up from the floor and asked me if I had any clothes. I said there was a set of clothes and pants in the outside travel bag, but there was no underwear, and he said it didn't matter.

After the change, Shu Jin seemed to have sorted out his emotions, and he asked: How did you check the matter of the scarlet mandarin duck?

I said it was still like that, and I didn't dare to look it up.

Shu Jin said: Well, it's okay, I'll check with you when I go back, otherwise you will never have a good life, do you remember what I told you before?

I asked what it was, and he said it was the four puppets.

I said I remember.

He nodded with a smile and said: Those four pieces of wood have a lot to do with whether or not you can solve the mystery of the Scarlet Mandarin Duck, by the way, have you met one of the puppets?

I said no, I wouldn't know if I did meet a puppet.

Shu Jin was silent, and continued to walk outside the cave with his bag on his back, and I followed closely behind him and asked him what the four puppets looked like.

He said: Actually, I don't know what these four puppets are, I just heard rumors, one of them is a leopard-headed human body, one is like the wind, the other can control the ghost, and finally no one knows, because all the people who have heard of her are dead;

I said, "Female?"

Shu Jin said that he didn't know, and even the person who told him this was not very clear, but I always felt that it was not unclear but that I couldn't say it.

After leaving the cave, the sun was just right, and it made me feel warm, Shu Jin put his hand on my shoulder and said, "We should be friends, right?" ”

I said, "We have a lifelong friendship, how can a friend describe the two of us?" ”

He smiled and said yes, and then his face changed and he asked me what was the matter with these leopard prints? Got a tattoo?

I said, where is there a leopard print? Then as soon as I ripped off my clothes, the skin on my entire chest turned yellow, and there were some black spots, which at first glance looked like the patterns on a leopard's body.

Shu Jin asked me if I had ever seen the puppet with the head of a leopard?

I said, I don't know, I've been on this journey......

Speaking of this, I stopped, because I really came across that thing on the way, and told Shu Jin about it, because the one lying on the roof at that time was making a cat meow, so I didn't think about the leopard's head and human body, and now I think of the footprints under the corner, and I doubt that it was one of the puppets that I was looking at that night.

Shu Jin said that the eight achievements were one of the four puppets, but this time he did not become as worried as before, but behaved very indifferently, he said: Since one of them has found you, it means that we are one step closer to the truth of the blood-colored mandarin duck, you don't have to worry, these leopard prints are just a reminder he gave, he wants to tell you that he has noticed you; By the way, Qiu Yan, has Bai Yixue appeared recently?

I said I don't know, because I came to you without even resting after coming back from Hainan.

Shu Jin laughed and said that in fact, this matter was arranged by him, and it was he who asked him to tell Beard the news that he was here, and then Beard would definitely go to me, so things have been going according to his plan step by step, and the only accident may be the puppet with the head of the leopard.

Shu Jin said that he found a wisp of ownerless lonely soul here, just to fill the wisp of soul I lost in the sulfur spring, at first he didn't know that the beard would harm me, so he let the beard come to me, just to return my soul, but later he found out that the beard wanted to harm me, so he told me that the dead could not come out of the cave to scare me away, but also to see what his status in my heart was.

In the end, he said that I did not disappoint him and that it was worth his continued help.

After staying in Longhu Mountain for a day, Shu Jin and I left Yingtan and returned to Shicheng, but what we didn't know was that after we left, two people appeared outside the door of the hotel where we were staying.

One of the two wore a Taoist robe, and the other wore a long robe, which was extremely weird.

After returning to Shicheng, Shu Jin was in a good mood, saying that he was going to have a banquet tonight, and Mr. Huang and I must go when the time came, as for Granny Li's words, it didn't matter if he came or not, because Shu Jin still didn't want to see Granny Li in the end, or a little repulsive, he felt that the people who played Gu were villains.

Although I think so, Granny Li has saved me a few times.

I said I would definitely go then, and don't forget to tell me the address.

Shu Jin laughed and took a taxi away, and I took a taxi back home.

As soon as I entered the house, I found that there was already a person sitting in the room, he had a gourd baby mask on his face, but his whole body was covered by white, white clothes, white pants, white shoes, white socks, white gloves, and even a white scarf around his neck, which was simply a white-faced gourd baby.

Seeing me come back, he stood up directly and walked over to me step by step: You are Qiu Yan.

I said I am, what's the matter?

He said it was nothing, he just wanted me to do him a favor.

When I heard this, I finally didn't panic so much, as long as I didn't kill me, I could say anything, I would let him sit down and talk.

He said, "I want to go into that old mansion and find something, but I need you to help me get my attention, and if I find it, I'll give you everything you want."

I said: Including the Japanese Prime Minister's neck?

He may have been stunned for a moment, because I couldn't see his expression, but he paused for a moment before saying: I can't help you with this, although Japan is a small country, the background is extremely complicated, since the Tang Dynasty, Japan has entered a highly developed stage, whether it is science and technology or people like us, but if you want to kill the Japanese prime minister, you need to defeat someone.

As soon as I raised my hand, I said: I don't want to kill the Japanese prime minister, I just want to live in peace and stability, as long as no one comes to trouble me.

He said, "This is easy to do, tonight you go to the third floor of the Bai family's old mansion and take out the prophecy scroll."