In the wee hours of the morning, they rounded the Imperial Palace of Japan and finally arrived at Nihonbashi.

Taiki Haneda signaled everyone to be careful, and in the fog ahead, the lights illuminated the unicorn and lion on the pillars of the Nihonbashi. The bronze unicorn statue with wings actually resembles the young unicorn tomb beast after the nine-color transformation, but the sitting posture is like the evil dragon in the west. The bronze lion holding the shield resembles the craftsmanship of Chinese craftsmen and has a modern European style.

Qin Beiyang was about to take a closer look, and several shadowy men appeared under the bronze unicorn statue, tall and sturdy than the Japanese just from the back.

Haneda pressed his shoulder and whispered, "They are from the Artisan Alliance!" ”

"The Great Temple of the Far East of the Craftsman Alliance, right here?"

"Well, Nihonbashi!"

Haneda motioned for Qin Beiyang to spend the night by the bridge, and the conference would not start until tomorrow morning.

Qin Beiyang was a little confused, he didn't necessarily have a meeting on the bridge, right? It is the center of Tokyo, next to Fire City Station and the Imperial Palace, and is one of the main transportation routes in Japan. He climbed to the bottom of the bridge again, and it was the dark surface of the Nihonbashi River, and he couldn't see any special mechanism.

Hikari was already sleepy and fell asleep with nine colors in his arms. Qin Beiyang put his coat on her and asked Jiu Se to stay away from her - with the experience of Katya's death and the cancer cells in his lungs, this small town tomb beast was not allowed to go near anyone important to him.

Haneda Taishu also dozed off, but Qin Beiyang didn't sleep all night. A long night waiting for a major earthquake to come at any time.

As the morning dawns and the morning sun shines on the sparkling waters, Tokyo rejuvenates itself and the traffic on Nihonbashi is endless.

The earthquake has not yet come!

Qin Beiyang "chuckled" in his heart—could it be that he and the town's tomb beast had made a mistake in their judgment? The Marquis of Saga's mansion was burned to the light for nothing?

Haneda Taiki bought a few rice balls, Qin Beiyang and Hikari had breakfast, and came to an inconspicuous Western-style western-style building by the Nihonbashi.

"Murderous house!"

Hikari knows that this building was originally built by wealthy merchants in the Meiji era. During the Russo-Japanese War, a wealthy merchant committed suicide and hacked his family of 13 to death with an axe. Because this house is close to the palace, it has naturally become a supernatural legend for the girls of the aristocratic school.

The Great Temple of the Far East of the Craftsmen's Union is buried under this downtown mansion next to the Nihonbashi, just like the Great Temple of North America is buried in the slums of Harlem, Manhattan, New York.

The real one is hidden in the city, and the big is hidden in the court.

Although she is a sixteen-year-old girl, she has a fat guts, because she has been accustomed to seeing the royal relatives and dignitaries since she was a child, and she is not afraid even if she is in a murderous house, so she followed Jiuse into a crumbling door. Nearly twenty years ago, there were several corpses here, and they still exude the resentment of the undead......

At the end of the living room of the murderous house, the bronze unicorn on the Nihonbashi can be vaguely seen outside the dusty window, and the nine colors smell carefully, and it can feel that the ground is full of murderous machines.

Suddenly, a man dressed in a black craftsman's suit, with a European face, a bearded face, and a crossbow in his hand, appeared from the stinger.

"Schmidt!"

Taiki Haneda called out his name - one of the twelve gatekeepers of the Artisan Union.

Schmidt took off his cap and raised the lantern to illuminate Qin Beiyang's face.

“Guten Morgen！”

Qin Beiyang greeted him with "good morning" in German, Schmidt nodded slightly, and he pushed Haneda Taiki and Sagako outside, signaling that only Qin Beiyang and Jiuse could participate in the Craftsman Alliance Conference.

Haneda helplessly defended a few words, in vain, the rules of the craftsman alliance are strict, and non-members are absolutely forbidden to enter. Qin Beiyang took care of the two of them to stay outside, and they must not wait in the murderous mansion, in case the earthquake hits, it will be over.

"Brother! So why are you going underground? ”

"I can't let the world's top craftsmen die underground in Tokyo." Qin Beiyang stretched out his hand and stroked Guang's cheek, "If I don't come out, you should hurry back to find your father!" ”

He took out another letter from his bosom and handed it to Haneda Taiki: "Mr. Haneda, if I have three long and two short, please send this letter to the Ink Tiangong Aircraft Company in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai." ”

"No!"

Haneda wanted to say something encouraging, but thinking that a major earthquake was imminent, he fell silent and kept the letter firmly in the inner pocket of his suit.

Last night, Qin Beiyang wrote this letter on an improvised basis, to the effect that if he died, he would ask Ah You to re-inherit the position of master of Taibai Mountain, the heir of Assasin, and the leader of the Assassin Alliance. The factory of the Tomb Beast Flying Machine in Pudong, Shanghai, please be sure to continue to operate.

Saga Guang said goodbye to his brother with tears, Qin Beiyang patted the nine-colored mane of the town's tomb beast, and followed the gatekeeper Schmidt into the basement.

The lintel overhead hides a sign of the "One-Eyed Pyramid......

The twelfth year of the Republic of China, the twelfth year of Taisho in Japan, September 1, 1923 AD.

It is a day to remember the annals of history, both in the open history books that everyone can see, and in the secret history books that no one can see.

Nihonbashi, which straddles the Nihonbashi River in the center of Tokyo, was built during the Tokugawa Ieyasu era and became the base point of five streets throughout Japan. In ukiyo-e of the Edo period, Nihonbashi often appears in the same picture as Mt. Fuji. In 1911, the 44th year of the Meiji era, Nihonbashi was rebuilt into a Western-style granite double-arch stone bridge, and bronze statues of winged unicorns and shield-holding lions were cast on the bridge, symbolizing the take-off of Japan in the Meiji era and serving as the base point of all roads in Japan. If there is a dragon vein in Tokyo, Nihonbashi is the eye of the dragon vein.

In the Meiji era, a wealthy Japanese merchant passed on his mastery of lacquerware, and as the first-class lacquerware master in the East, he became the first Japanese member of the Craftsman Union. He contributed his mansion in Nihonbashi to the Craftsmen's Union. He spent his life's work and time secretly digging under his house to build an underground circular temple, which is said to be located under the riverbed of the Nihonbashi River on one side against the moat of the Imperial Palace of Japan.

This is the origin of the Great Temple of the Far East of the Union of Craftsmen.

Nineteen years ago, on the same day that the underground temple was completed, the Japanese master lacquerware craftsman suddenly lost his mind and hacked his entire family to death with an axe. The house on the ground became a murderous house, but the underground was owned by the Artisan Union.

Qin Beiyang and Jiuse walked through the deep tunnel, followed the back of the gatekeeper Schmidt, and came to the steps of this circular temple. It was surrounded by men in black robes and artisan uniforms, all of whom entered Japan in secret to avoid attracting attention, but fortunately Tokyo is the most foreign city in Japan, and it is not uncommon for Westerners to populate the streets.

The lights are on, and above the temple hang two huge portraits, one of Aristotle of ancient Greece; Mozi of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China represents the tradition of the two great craftsmen of the East and the West.

Since 1279 A.D., the twenty-fourth generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsmen Union has sat on a chair with a back under two portraits of the ancestors. Four years ago in New York, Qin Beiyang saw that the Great Venerable was still half black and half white with a beard, but now his beard and hair were all white.

Behind the Great Venerable stood three white-robed people, one holding a compass, one holding a ruler, and one holding a book.

Schmidt introduced Qin Beiyang in a low voice: "These are the three major deacons of the Craftsman Alliance second only to the Great Venerable: the deacon of the compass, the deacon of the ruler, and the deacon of the classics. ”