After Keiichi Ikeda got to know the chaser, he traveled many places with him, and he also gained a deep understanding of the different ways and became very interested, after all, there were secrets hidden in it that he had never heard of before.

However, it was a unique trip to the underworld that completely changed Keiichi.

An Wanghai recalled this and asked: "An Shu, you have been to the underworld market, you should know that there are many rare treasures that are not available on the market in that place." ”

Qiu Gubo asked, "Where is the Underworld?" ”

Tang Anshu explained: "In fact, there is no fixed place, maybe today in Henan, after a while I went to Hebei, this is an underground trade market organized by the organization, in which the people who do business are a group of foreign businessmen, and they all have a disguised identity, these foreign businessmen belong to the kind of money, but they are not easy to show their wealth, and the pursuit is not only wealth, but a kind of satisfaction." ”

Qiu Gubo didn't understand: "Satisfied? ”

An Wanghai continued: "It is a unique satisfaction to be able to have something that others will never get and to know secrets that people in the world do not know. ”

Qiu Gubo shook his head, he still didn't understand, so what could he do?

As soon as Keichi Ikeda first visited the city, he was fascinated by the treasures, but he could not exchange any of the treasures he had in his eye here.

Seeing that Keiichi Ikeda was so interested, the merchant decided to give him a souvenir and go to the stall where he was sweeping the goods, and let him pick whatever he wanted, and he would pay the bill.

The so-called sweeping, that is, tail goods, belong to the things that are considered worthless here.

Kei Ikeda took a look around, and finally his eyes fell on a bamboo tube, and he found a gap in the bamboo tube, and after questioning, he opened the bamboo tube to find a broken map inside.

Although the map is incomplete, it is very exquisite, it seems to be a water town, but it looks very gloomy, he has not seen such a place in China for many years, so he asked the merchant curiously, what is the place drawn on the map?

The chaser also said that he didn't know, so he used a night pearl on his body to exchange the map and gave it to Keiichi Ikeda as a souvenir.

It was Keiichi Ikeda's first and last trip to the city, and soon after, the chaser left him and set out on a journey to find Qimen, and Ikeda returned to Shanghai with the map to report to his superiors about the strange way.

Who knows, no one believed him, and the map he took out was ridiculed by his superiors, who thought that it was just a painting, and that the so-called heresy and the so-called underworld were all conjured up by Keiichi Ikeda, a romantic.

An Wanghai added: "Keiichi Ikeda's information was not valued by his superiors, so he was not reused by his superiors, and he was the only one in that group who did not bring back valuable information. ”

Tang Anshu said with a smile: "Maybe that's the most valuable information, if the Japanese are mixed with different ways, we will be miserable." ”

An Wanghai nodded and said: "Yes, Ikeda Keiichi has been a businessman for many years after that, and has been suppressed, and then he applied to stay in Shanghai, tried his best, and finally his superiors got him to Yongcheng, for him, Yongcheng is far inferior to Shanghai, and his job here is only to collect news, at the same time, he mixed with representatives of British and French countries all day long, but after coming to Yongcheng, when he went to Fu Guodong's Governor's Mansion for a banquet, he happened to see an old map of Yongcheng, a certain part of the old map, It's very similar to the remnant in his hand......"

Keiichi Ikeda looked at the old map for a long time that day, and Fu Guodong saw that he liked it, and the old map was just an ornament for him, so he simply gave it to Keiichi Ikeda.

After the banquet, Keiichi Ikeda went home with an old map, and when he compared it with the remnant map, he found that it was really similar. But there aren't so many waterways in Yongcheng?

Could it be that there are other secrets hidden in this fragmented picture?

At first, Ikeda searched for the elderly people in Yongcheng, asked them about the history of Yongcheng, and finally found a centenarian in a village outside Yongcheng, who was also a painter, and the old map was made by his master.

Keiichi Ikeda took his remnants and the old map with him, and of course, instead of posing as a Japanese, he directly pretended to be the chaser and asked the old man about the map under the pretense that he was the chaser.

When the old man saw Keiichi Ikeda come to ask, he only stretched out two fingers.

When Keiichi Ikeda saw this, he knew that there was a door.

Why?

Because this is a special gesture used by the chaser in a special environment, which means to look at the sky and survey the earth, Ikeda Keiichi should respond: "This trip is not to look at the sky, it is unbearable." ”

When the old man saw that Keiichi Ikeda had answered correctly, he said, "I know that sooner or later someone will find this place......

An Wanghai recalled this, shook his head and said, "Guess what, what is this old man doing?" ”

Tang Anshu pondered for a moment and blurted out: "Could it be a corpse painter?" ”

An Wanghai nodded vigorously: "It's true." ”

Qiu Gubo hurriedly said: "Wait, what do you mean by painting corpses?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "Let me explain it to you from the beginning, it is divided into twelve sects in the different ways, also known as the twelve earth branches, and the rivers and lakes say 'Sichuan West Open Coffin, Xiangxi Corpse Drive, Jinxi Land Division', which is the top three sects, our land phase belongs to the Jinxi Earth Division, and the rest are - Lonely Army, Dark Ear, Hunting, Cargo Division, Broken Gold Gate, Iron Clothing Gate, Bone Hunter, Huangquan and Corpse Painter. ”

Qiu Gubo nodded and said, "Oh, I remembered, I heard some of them from my father, and I also knew about them, but I didn't expect that there were twelve sects in the Evil Dao?" ”

An Wanghai said: "I won't explain in detail here, let's talk about the corpse painter, at the end of the Song Dynasty, there was a small official position in the palace who was in charge of the mirror, called 'the mirror', in fact, it was a person who was responsible for the regular maintenance of the mirror in the palace. ”

Qiu Gu Bo wondered: "Where is this?" ”

An Wanghai said: "Legend has a soul of people, in order to prevent some dead people from becoming ghosts, the palace has risen to seal the soul of the dead into the painting, and these mirrors, legend can check yin and yang through the bronze mirror, they have become the best choice, this is the origin of the corpse painter, but I know that the corpse painter is a group of painters, they paint everything, with the painting to record everything. ”

Qiu Gubo said: "I understand, it's a group of painters." ”

Tang Anshu said: "Don't underestimate this group of painters, they can hide a lot of things in the paintings, in the past, in order to leave the secrets they knew, many people in the different ways hired corpse painters to paint, and then hide the secrets." ”

Qiu Gubo nodded: "Understood, continue." ”

An Wanghai continued: "The hundred-year-old man told Keiichi Ikeda that the remnant map in his hand was divided into two parts, Yin and Yang, the Yang picture was the Yongcheng in the past, and the Yin picture was the other city below Yongcheng. ”

When Tang Anshu heard this, he shook his head and said, "I have a bad premonition. ”

An Wanghai asked: "Let's talk about it, let's see if the two of us want to go together?" ”

Tang Anshu looked at An Wanghai: "I found Jinling Jian on Snake Heart Island, Shuiling Jian on Yelong Island, and Muling Jian in Fengyan, although Huoling Jian is in my hand, I don't know what is hidden in it, according to my previous experience, since there is a city under Yongcheng, will it have anything to do with Huoling Jian?" ”

An Wanghai nodded slowly: "That's right, I thought about it." ”

Qiu Gubo was a little worried: "If this is the case, then it will be troublesome, this Japanese also intervened, and Hu Shen was also staring at it." ”

An Wanghai said: "If we have the Japanese as a cover, maybe we can make Hu Shen jealous." ”

Tang Anshu reacted very quickly: "You mean, just let Le Zhengxian get to know Keiichi Ikeda?" ”

An Wanghai nodded and said: "That's right, this is a good way, but the trouble is in trouble, I will be exposed because of this, Hu Shen is not stupid, as long as Le Zhengxian and Ikeda Kei meet, he will immediately guess the relationship between me and Le Zhengxian, and then think of everything." ”

Qiu Gubo shook his head: "It seems that no one can become Li Songming's partner except for you." ”

An Wanghai said: "Yes, this is the most troublesome place at the moment, so I plan to invite Zhang Fuzhi to a banquet tomorrow and ask him to borrow money." ”

Tang Anshu immediately asked: "You borrowed money from Zhang Fuzhi?" ”

An Wanghai said: "If according to the original plan, let Qiu Gubo come forward to save Li Songming, I will be exposed, and if I don't let Qiu Gubo come forward, I will come forward to do this, 150,000 I can't conjure out of thin air, even if I get 150,000 from Yexin, if I suddenly take it out, I will be suspected." I also thought about asking Keiichi Ikeda to pay the money, but he would definitely let Li Songming accept the fake insurance contract, and when he became a partner, we would be completely passive. ”

Tang Anshu said: "Since you have to know sooner or later, why don't you tell Zhang Fuzhi directly and generously and borrow 150,000 from him?" ”

An Wanghai said: "No, my real purpose is not to borrow money, but to force Zhang Fuzhi to suspect this matter, and let him take the initiative to give Li Songming money to tide over the difficulties, it is impossible for Keiichi Ikeda to let Zhang Fuzhi come in, and it is impossible to sit at the table to talk about this matter, and the final result is that the two will start to fight secretly." ”

Tang Anshu nodded and said, "I understand what you mean, but I still have to continue to do a good job of the bait on Le Zhengxian's side, you tell me the name of the corpse painter." ”

An Wanghai said: "The name of the corpse painter is Gongsun Zhu, what are you going to do?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "Pretend not to know that Hu Shen got the telegram, and then ask Le Zhengxian to send a telegram, let Hu Shen guess the name and identity of Gongsun Zhu in the telegram." ”

Qiu Gubo hurriedly said: "Isn't this equivalent to telling him half of the answer?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "The purpose of Wanghai is to hope that the enemy will fight, Zhang Fuzhi and Ikeda Keiichi will fight, it will be chaotic enough, it is better for us to add chaos to chaos, let Hu Shen also be involved, let them eat dogs in the three parties, and we will wait for the opportunity from it, don't forget, as long as Huoling Jian is in our hands, we will always be in the initiative." ”

An Wanghai said: "That's it, I have to go back quickly, there are 10,000 pairs of eyes staring at the Eight Kings Courtyard, if I don't go back, something should happen." ”