Qin Beiyang cleared out a vacant lot and found a closed iron gate. The copper locks are rusted and rotten, covered with cobwebs, and no one has touched them in years. He used a Tang knife to cut the copper lock and burrow into the secret room in the door. The smell of decay, which has been closed for hundreds of years, comes to the face. Qin Beiyang lit rags to make torches, illuminated the stone cracks in the secret room, and found a strange line of letters on the dark corner

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Maybe it's the Greek alphabet? was carved by someone, and the craftsman Qin Beiyang was particularly sensitive to this.

In the chamber lay two skeletons, one was a woman, with a petite skeleton and two deep eye sockets in the skull. There was also a man, with a crooked spine, a skull sunk into the shoulder blades, two leg bones of different lengths, and a deformed figure with rickets.

In the library of Kyoto No. 3 High School, Qin Beiyang borrowed the Japanese version, isn't this the deformed bell tower weirdo Quasimodo? And the girl he embraced to the death must be the beautiful Esmeranda! They were still in the same state as they were five hundred years ago, and when they touched the two skeletons, they immediately turned into dust, disappeared, and died......

There is also an iron door in the depths of the secret room, Qin Beiyang saw that there was a sarcophagus inside, many European churches were next to the cemetery, and the emperor and general would put their coffins in the cathedral.

However, the shape of this coffin has a Chinese style, not a standard square, but a trapezoidal shape like a wooden boat.

Qin Beiyang lit a torch and saw a stone tablet under the iron gate, covered with dense words. Blowing away the dust of unknown hundreds of years, I wiped it with my spit, and found that I actually understood these words and Chinese characters!

It's incredible, how could there be a Chinese stone tablet in the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, next to the bones of the bell tower monsters Quasimodo and Esmeranda?

The firelight vaguely illuminates the opening text, a strong and powerful face

"Epitaph of the Great Venerable Qin Jin of the Craftsman Alliance"

Artisan Union? Great Venerable? Qin Jin?

Qin Beiyang's right hand began to tremble, as if he had come into contact with the history of six hundred and forty years ago!

Didn't my father say that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the Qin family settled in Gulong, Xiangyang, and there were two brothers who kept their elder brother Qin Jin and younger brother Qin Chu.

Qin and Jin are good, and Qin and Qin are too impressive.

The original record of the secret of the tomb beast is on the body of the ancestor Qin Jin.

He anxiously read every word on the stele, but unfortunately many of them were blurred, and he could only make out the general meaning

Qin Jin, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, was born in Xiangyang Mansion, South Jingnan Road, in the first year of Baoqing. The Qin family is a family of craftsmen, and since childhood, he learned the "way of the tombmaker" with his father and was good at making "tomb beasts". The Mongols invaded the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and the Qin and Jin dynasties were captured in Xiangyang, and because of their craftsman skills, they were exiled to Mobei, the Mongol Empire's Khanting Hala and Lin.

Soon, the third Mongol expedition to the west, Genghis Khan's grandson, the sixth son of Tulei, Möngke and Kublai Khan's younger brother Hulegu set out to conquer the Western Regions. Qin Jin was unfortunately incorporated into the Mongol Han army and served under the Han general Guo Kan. The army crossed the middle of the Central Asian River and invaded the famous Assasin Assassin Order in the Persian kingdom of Murayi. Guo Kan wiped out Assasin's 50,000-strong army and conquered more than 100 cities, all the way to the Heavenly Garden on the high mountain. This mountain is a natural danger, one husband is a pass, ten thousand people are not open, and artillery bombardment is useless. The Mongol army was good at cavalry and not good at mountain warfare, and the battle situation was deadlocked.

Hülegü ordered the Han troops to build construction machinery, and this task naturally fell to Qin Jin. In just one month, he built twelve different types of construction machinery, most of which came from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, such as siege chariots, siege crossbow machines, giant trebuchets and so on. Qin and Jin made more than 100 wooden kites, which were primitive wooden flying machines, which could use wind power to drive gliding, just like gliders in the twentieth century, and each wooden kite could carry more than ten soldiers. Guo Kan recruited 2,000 Han soldiers who were good at mountaineering and fighting, flew to the top of the mountain on wooden kites, and rode the wind to raid the heavenly garden of Assasin. For two hundred years, no one could conquer this alpine castle from the ground, and it was finally conquered by the wooden kite "airborne troops" made by Qin and Jin, and the "Heavenly Garden" full of tricks and tricks was burned to the ground, completely eradicating it into ruins.

The "Old Man of the Mountain" Assasin Assassin Order was destroyed, and Qin Jin made great contributions.

The following year, Guo Kan's Han troops entered the Lianghe River valley and conquered the "Baoda City" which is today's Baghdad, destroying the black-clothed empire that was once in vigour alongside the Tang Dynasty. Guo Kan was ordered to attack the Crusader states on the east coast of the Mediterranean, and the stone tablet was written "Fu Lang", which is estimated to be the transliteration of "Frank", which severely damaged the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Antioch and the Count of Tripoli, and finally in Palestine, the people were sleepy and the horses were lacking, and at the end of the crossbow, they were defeated by the Mamluks in Egypt.

Qin Jin followed the Mongol army and participated in all of these battles, and his craftsman skills played an important role.

However, at this time, news came from the east that Meng Ke Khan had conquered the Song Dynasty in the south and was in trouble under the Diaoyu City, and urgently needed the support of the Mongol expedition to the west. Guo Kan was ordered to lead the army to return east, and Qin Jin, as a Song native, couldn't bear to see the artisan machinery he made invade the motherland, so he chose to be a deserter and escaped from the camp single-handedly.

Qin and Jin fled to Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire, and then crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Italy on a Venetian sailing ship. He traveled all over Europe, just before the Black Death and in the Middle Ages, where churches were being built on a large scale. Qin Jin was able to display his skills and become the greatest craftsmen in Europe, passing on the skills of the "Tomb Divine Beast" to the twelve disciples.

In 1279 AD, artisans from all over Europe convened a convention in the tower of Notre-Dame Cathedral to formally establish a union of artisans.

Qin Jin became the first generation of Great Venerables, and his twelve disciples became the twelve "gatekeepers".

The epitaph is engraved with the three tenets of the Artisan Union

Love, non-attack, and rescue

In 1919 AD, in the secret room of the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, Qin Beiyang gazed at these six Chinese characters Wasn't it Mozi's claim in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

The artisan federation spread across Europe and became the mainstay of civilization. The Great Venerable Qin Jin sent a Venetian named Marco Polo as an envoy to the Yuan Dynasty in the hope of getting in touch with the Qin family in China. It's a pity that this Marco Polo, who was famous in later generations, died before he returned to Europe.

The inscription concludes with the death of the first Great Venerable of the Craftsmen's Union.

In 1290, in order to avenge the Assasin Assassin Sect, the Assassin League was re-formed and sent men to Paris to assassinate the Great Venerable. The Gatekeeper killed the Assassin on the spot with his sword and crossbow. Qin Jin was seriously wounded, and before he died, he wrote this epitaph for himself, and instructed his disciples to draw these Chinese characters and engrave them on the stone tablet.

The epitaph instructed that no funeral should be held, and that the sarcophagus should be placed directly in the secret room of the Notre-Dame Cathedral tower. Qin Jin ordered his disciples not to leave any biographies about the first generation of Great Venerables, hoping that they would quietly hide in the epitaph, and the normal state of craftsmen was to leave no names, as long as they left great works.

Just as Qin Jin set the motto for the Craftsmen Alliance, the craftsman will die, but the work will live on.

After reading the entire epitaph, Qin Beiyang faced the sarcophagus, the ancestor of the Qin family's tombsmith clan, knelt down again and was in awe.

This is the magnificent but little-known life of the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance!

Notre-Dame Cathedral must be the first temple and pilgrimage site of the Craftsmen Union.

The first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, who actually died in the revenge of the League of Assassins? It is no wonder that these two secret organizations in human history have been entangled with old enemies as feuds for more than 600 years.

Qin Beiyang remembered another thing in the underground temple of Harlem, Manhattan, New York, the World Congress of the Craftsman Alliance, when he said his surname and the tombsmith family, everyone present immediately stirred, and his surname was of great significance to the Craftsman Alliance.

By the way, on the night of the Great Temple in North America, Schmidt, the gatekeeper, looked at his back and saw his antler-shaped red birthmark, and his face was unusual. Obviously, the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, as a member of the Qin Clan's tombsmith clan, also had the same birthmark. And this secret has been passed down among the top echelons of the Craftsman Alliance for more than six hundred years, and it is also an important evidence to confirm Qin Beiyang's identity.

As a member of the Tombsmith Clan, why did the Great Venerable Qin Jin enjoy a lifespan of sixty-five years? Because he was exiled to Mongolia when he was young, and later traveled to Europe and settled in Notre Dame Cathedral, he did not make tomb beasts again, nor did he touch the life-consuming spirit stones, so he escaped the short-lived spell of the gravesmith clan and lived until the year of knowing the destiny of heaven before being assassinated.

Thinking of the issue of short life and long life, Qin Beiyang naturally thought of the nine colors of the tomb beast in the town.

He came in with the injured Nine Colors in his arms, stroked the red mane of the tomb beast, and hugged each other and slept in front of the tomb of the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance. The four-winged angel squatted outside to watch over them.

Lying on the ashes of Quasimodo and the gypsy girl, Qin Beiyang fell into a drunken sleep......

Dreaming back to the Bailuyuan Tang Dynasty Necropolis Palace, he saw the fifteen-year-old little prince in the depths of the thousand-year-old coffin, Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County.

When he woke up from the dream, Qin Beiyang opened his eyes dimly. There was a strange sound outside, which made him walk out of the secret room and come to the edge of the Notre-Dame tower, where the night sky of Paris was not yet bright, as if something was wrong?

The little monster stone carvings erected on the outer wall are gone!

He boldly leaned out of his upper body and was almost swept down the Seine by the wind. The sky of Notre Dame Cathedral hovers dozens of small black dots, like a magnified version of a bat, a miniature version of a four-winged angel. One of them swept in front of him, and sure enough, it was the monster with its cheeks in thought, its wings flapping happily, and it turned its head to glare at Qin Beiyang.

The stone monsters are alive!

Do they fly out of the towers of Notre-Dame and soar over Paris every night? Or because of the presence of the Tomb Beast, some kind of mysterious induction occurred? This scene once again proves Qin Beiyang's judgment: all antiquities shaped into human or animal shapes will produce similar souls, ready to move in the middle of the night when no one is around, just like what happened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

It is these little monsters with spiritual powers, not the story of Quasimodo and the gypsy girl, that attract the four-winged angel to take refuge in Notre Dame Cathedral.

Qin Beiyang stretched out his arm, and a flying little monster actually stopped on his elbow, like a hunter and a falcon. When the sun rises in Paris, all the demons return to the Notre-Dame tower and are transformed back into stone statues that have been frozen for centuries.........