The foreign officer also took a long breath, looked at Qiu Gubo with incredible eyes and nodded.

Qiu Gubo stood there with a gun in his hand, looked at the church in front of him, and then beckoned the officers from the periphery to come in.

After the officers came, Qiu Gubo said in a low voice: "Go back to the Governor's Mansion and call the people from the trenches, and also, call people to the police station and the Eight Kings Courtyard to inform Qian Yuanbai and Mr. Cai respectively, and ask them to come over quickly." ”

After hearing this, the officer glanced at the corpse on the ground again, and obviously did not come back to his senses.

Qiu Gubo said angrily: "Right away! ”

The officer immediately nodded, turned and ran away quickly.

Qiu Gubo took off his military hat, shook his head, and said, "What the hell is going on?" ”

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In the north courtyard of the Eight Kings Courtyard, Cai Qianqing was sitting under the plum tree and playing chess with the Snow Lady.

When there was a faint sound of gunfire in the direction of Xingang, the chess pieces in Xue Niang's hand shook and landed on the chessboard.

Cai Qianqing was very calm, she didn't look at Xue Niang, her eyes still fell on the chessboard.

Xue Niang said with an apologetic smile: "Sir, I'm sorry. ”

Cai Qianqing just said lightly: "It's your turn." ”

Xue Niang put away the chess pieces: "I admit defeat, I am not Mr.'s opponent." ”

Cai Qianqing raised her eyes to look at Xue Niang and smiled: "Do you know the reason? ”

Xue Niang smiled: "The skills are not as good as others." ”

"It's not." Cai Qianqing shook her head, "It's because Xue Niang herself is not a chess player, just a chess piece." ”

Xue Niang trembled, and immediately returned to normal: "What do you mean by this, sir?" ”

Cai Qianqing said: "Xue Niang, although I haven't come to the Eight Kings Courtyard many times, I also know that you not only have a lot of rules here, but also the relationship between people is not harmonious, especially between the four heads of the four courtyards in the southeast, east and west, and I don't move around much on weekdays, because I have never seen you sitting around talking and laughing in the Eight Kings Courtyard before." ”

Xue Niang pretended to be calm: "I don't understand what Mr. means?" ”

"I think, it must be after I came to the Eight Kings Courtyard to meet Miss Shen, Xue Niang began to take the initiative to go to the South Courtyard to find Miss Shen, as for what the excuse is, I don't know, but I know that Xue Niang must have expressed to Miss Shen that she is tired of life here and wants to leave, to put it bluntly, she just wants to marry someone from Liang." After Cai Qianqing finished speaking, she raised her hand to a pawn on the chessboard, and after letting the pawn cross the river, she said, "This is the first step, but Miss Shen obviously misunderstood me, and she was worried that my actions would make Qiu Yutan misunderstand, so she simply acted as a matchmaker and wanted to match you and me, and your purpose was the same." ”

Xue Niang didn't dare to look directly at Cai Qianqing, put her hands on her knees, pinched her fingers, and was very nervous.

Cai Qianqing continued: "If I guessed correctly, the role of your chess piece is not only to divide the relationship between me, Qiu Zhutan and Miss Shen, but also to spy on my emotional changes. ”

Xue Niang squeezed out a smile: "What Mr. Cai said, Xue Niang didn't understand." ”

Cai Qianqing pointed to the chess piece that he had moved before: "Once the pawn crosses the river, there is no way to turn back, either stay where you are and wait for death, or you will move forward bravely and complete your mission." ”

Cai Qianqing got up after speaking, and arched her hand: "The girl is so self-conscious, say goodbye." ”

Just as Cai Qianqing was about to leave, the courtyard door was pushed open, and Shen Qingmeng led a herald to walk in.

When the herald saw Cai Qianqing, he immediately saluted and said, "Mr. Cai, Adjutant Qiu, please go to the church immediately, something is wrong!" ”

Cai Qianqing said: "Okay, you lead the way." ”

When Cai Qianqing left, he just nodded slightly towards Shen Qingmeng, and then left with the soldiers.

Shen Qingmeng stood there, looking at Xue Niang, who was sitting at the stone table with a pale face, and didn't know what was going on.

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Before walking into the main hall of Night Dragon Island, Tang Anshu understood why the Night Dragon King and the Paper Bodhisattva would be regarded as gods by the people on the island, because the main hall was built like a temple temple, and it had the feeling of a palace.

After Ma Jiubao entered the hall to report, Gu Feng immediately said to Tang Anshu: "We must leave here immediately and find a way to return to Snake Heart Island." ”

Li Zhaonian echoed: "Yes, if we don't leave, we will die sooner or later." ”

Tang Hualong also stepped up: "Sir, that kind of madness is far more terrible than you said. ”

"Without a boat, can we go? The paper bodhisattva will not let us go. Tang Anshu shook his head and said, "The top priority is to find a way to inform Yongcheng, because this kind of madness will break out in Yongcheng sooner or later, and we must at least let Qiu Gubo and them know how to deal with it." ”

Benzoin asked, "Anshu, I don't understand, why does Yelong Island also have an outbreak of madness?" Could it be that there are also people arranged by your master here? ”

"No, it shouldn't be, the madness on Night Dragon Island should have been brought by those two lucky ships." Tang Anshu looked in the direction of the port, "I think, there must be some kind of mechanism in the lucky ship, and there is an object with this kind of madness hidden in the mechanism, and after the pirates salvaged the lucky ship, they inadvertently activated the mechanism." ”

Gu Feng thought for a while and said, "So, this was deliberately set up by the Lingjian Mansion back then?" Just to prevent someone from stealing the ship's treasure? ”

Benzoin also thought of a question: "But is this contradictory?" If that madness hadn't struck on the spot, wouldn't it have been able to stop the treasure thieves? ”

"I've thought about this too, but I don't have a clue, maybe the Lingjian Mansion turned that disease into a poison that can be stored, and this poison has changed over thousands of years, resulting in people not having attacks on the spot after being infected." Tang Anshu said, raising his eyes and looking at the main hall, "No matter what, we must at least persuade the Paper Bodhisattva to send someone to Snake Heart Island to bring back the corpse wind, and inform Yongcheng, otherwise Yongcheng and this place will become hell." ”

As soon as he said this, Ma Jiubao walked out of the main hall, changed into a luxurious costume, and led four guards with knives behind him.

Everyone looked at the strange clothes on Ma Jiubao's body with some curiosity, although it looked really luxurious, but it couldn't say what style it belonged to, some shadows of Ming Dynasty brocade clothes, but it was much simpler.

Ma Jiubao hugged his fists and said, "Everyone, the second master is invited." ”

Everyone immediately followed Ma Jiubao to the main hall.

The moment they walked into the main hall, Tang Anshu and the others couldn't help but be stunned, and looked ahead, only to find that the scene in the main hall they saw before was just a painting painted on the wall, and the wall stood five meters inside the door of the main hall.

"Guys, please." Ma Jiubao led everyone to the left, and then entered a door.

After entering the door, what appeared in front of Tang Anshu was a passage with a width of only one person, and then Ma Jiubao was in front, leading the people who could only march in line to advance in the passage that was completely in the labyrinth.

Tang Anshu used his memory to write down the general direction, and at the same time, he also knew that Ma Jiubao had deliberately gone around several circles, and it seemed that he was also on guard.

After finally leaving the passage, Tang Anshu and the others came to a small room, there was almost no other furniture in the room, only a table and seven stools, and the walls on all sides were also snow-white, with neither paintings nor windows, and the lighting depended on a few braziers around.

Ma Jiubao raised his hand and said, "Everyone, please take a seat, the second master will be here soon." ”

After speaking, Ma Jiubao stood on the side and stopped talking.

Tang Anshu and the others sat down in turn, and at the same time, Tang Anshu noticed that there were seven chairs next to the table, what did this mean?

Tang Anshu and the other five plus the paper bodhisattva are six people, so who is the seventh person?

As soon as Tang Anshu thought of this, a secret door on the south wall opened, and a group of maids came out with wine and food, and left after setting up the wine and food, and then the secret door on the west wall opened again, and the paper bodhisattva came from it, and changed into a dress.

The paper bodhisattva walked to the table, sat directly beside Tang Anshu, and asked, "How is it?" Is it good-looking? ”

Although the paper bodhisattva's actions made benzoin unhappy, she could only refrain from it.

Gu Feng, Li Zhaonian, and Tang Hualong had already seen that the paper bodhisattva seemed to have a little meaning to Tang Anshu, but the three of them didn't know that it was not the real paper bodhisattva, so they felt disgusted when they saw this action.

"Jiubao, you go down." The paper bodhisattva commanded at Ma Jiubao.

"Yes!" Ma Jiubao turned around and left through the secret door, and when he left, although Gu Feng paid attention to it, he didn't see where Ma Jiubao activated the secret door that was opened.

Tang Anshu was worried about the madness, and he didn't care about the etiquette at the table, so he said directly: "Second master, ...... just now"

"Before you have the table, you must see a man." The paper bodhisattva raised his hand to stop Tang Anshu from saying, "If you have anything or any request, you will talk about it after meeting this person, because on this island, I can't actually be the master." ”

Just when everyone was deeply surprised by the words of the paper bodhisattva, the east wall spun around in its entirety, and the other side of the wall turned into the room, and everyone looked at the huge coral chair and the two old men sitting on the chair in amazement.

On the left sat an old man with white hair, wearing soft naval armor and a crown, and some emperors, and next to him sat an old lady with a phoenix in a bun but wearing a military robe.

Gu Feng, Benzoin, Li Zhaonian and Tang Hualong all looked at the two old men in surprise, not knowing what was going on?

However, Tang Anshu had already guessed that the old man must be the Night Dragon King, and the old lady was undoubtedly the real paper bodhisattva.

"Guys, let me reintroduce myself, my name is Yexin, I am not a real paper bodhisattva, but her granddaughter, and her stand-in, the tool she uses to deceive the people of the island." Ye Xin, who had always called herself the Paper Bodhisattva, got up, stood in front of the coral chair, and explained to everyone, "Here are my grandfather and grandmother, who were the Night Dragon King and the Paper Bodhisattva of the famous town of Donghai. ”

Ye Xin's words made everyone except Tang Anshu dumbfounded, stunned, so shocked that they couldn't say a word.

Gu Feng, who was most surprised, took a deep breath, slowed down before spitting it out again, looked at Ye Xin and said, "Second master, no, should I call you that?" ”

"You can call her Princess Yexin." Suddenly, the paper bodhisattva, who had been sitting on a coral chair, opened his eyes.