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Hearing Mo Kongkong's words, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were terrified.

Seeing that the two were silent, Mo Kongkong asked, "Masters, I've said everything I need to say, can you let me go?"

Bai Yutang glared at him, and said, "It's so easy, I have something else to ask you."

"Oh..." Mo Kongkong scratched his ears and said, "If this continues, I will really die. The more I tell you, the shorter my lifespan will be!"

Zhan Zhao patted him, "Don't worry about it, it will ensure your safety."

Mo Kongkong sighed and said, "Ask."

"Does Mo Hua Gong know?" Zhan Zhao continued to ask.

"Uh..." The old man looked at the two of them and nodded, "Of course I know."

"Who is their leader?"

"Ye Yibai." The old man answered seriously, Bai Yutang glared at him, "Is it really Ye Yibai that I need to ask you?"

The old man was a little helpless, and said, "Okay, why don't I tell you the truth...it's another person, but he never walks around the rivers and lakes."

"Who is it?" Bai Yutang asked.

"I really don't know about this." The old man shook his head, "I guess no one knows, I'm serious!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and felt that what Mo Kongkong said might indeed be the truth, so he stopped asking. Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and then asked, "Pang Yu, do you know?"

"Then don't you know?" The old man curled his lips, "An Lehou."

"Do you know what's going on with him?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Uh..." The old man was stunned, looked around, and said in a low voice, "I heard that there are valuable goods tonight, and they are going to board the ship from Yingchang Mansion and ferry west. As for the destination? , I don’t know.”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and asked, "What ship?"

"A painting boat." The old man whispered, "Well...to be exact, it's a gambling boat. The owner's name is Jin Laoliu, and the curtains around the painting boat are all golden."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Seeing that the two seemed to be quite satisfied, the old man smiled and said, "I said you two, are you done asking?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "I'm done asking for now, I'll ask you again if I need anything."

"That's all right!" The old man said cheerfully, "Are they all from my own family anyway? Where do I live?" The old man thought for a while and said, "I don't want to go to the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion. I feel flustered when I see Mr. Bao. Panic."

"Don't worry." Zhan Zhao smiled, "How can I let you live in the yamen!"

"That's good." The old man patted his chest, but Zhan Zhao said casually, "You live in the safest place in Kaifeng City!"

"Oh?" The old man became interested and asked, "Where is it?"

"The prison in Kaifeng Mansion." Zhan Zhao smiled.

"Heh..." The old man almost lost his breath.

Afterwards, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang brought Mo Kongkong back to Kaifeng Mansion, arranged a cell for him alone, and asked him to stay there for two days.Bao Zheng asked the yamen in the cell to treat Mo Kongkong kindly, and asked the kitchen to make whatever he wanted to eat.

Mo Kongkong is a thief, when he entered the Kaifeng Mansion, he saw that the walls were fortified, there were government servants inside and three floors of soldiers and horses, he was so scared that he didn't dare to breathe out.After entering the cell, the food was good, but it was probably Bao Zheng's upright attitude that calmed him down. The old man was also honest, asking what he wanted to eat, two meat, two vegetables and one soup were enough, and he was not picky.It was Mo Kongkong who was addicted to gambling, and he would not be happy if he didn't bet on him. He originally wanted to ask the jailers to start a game, but those jailors raised their eyebrows and said, "Where do you think this is? This is from the Kaifeng Mansion." Big prison, who in the Kaifeng mansion dares to gamble? Do you think Mr. Bao only cares about outsiders and ignores his own people? The crime is aggravated! You bet carefully and let the master find out and beat you!"

Mo Kongkong was so scared that he quickly put away the dice, and could only stay in the cell, hoping that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang would solve the case quickly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang returned to Bao Zheng's study, and told Bao Zheng all the clues they got from Mo Kongkong.

"Blood Curse?" Gongsun frowned, "I've heard some legends before, but I didn't expect it to really exist."

"Sir, is there really a blood curse?" Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Why do I find it unbelievable? Human life can be exchanged for natural disasters?"

Zhan Zhao also agreed, "I also think it's something sensational."

Pang Tong on the side nodded and said, "It's indeed sensational, but the consequences are quite serious!"

Everyone sighed, Bao Zheng said, "In fact, everything is caused by natural disasters, but natural disasters are not the most deadly."

"That's right, if a natural disaster strikes and the imperial court is unprepared, it will trigger other disasters, such as famine, insect plagues, war..." Gongsun sighed, "If someone takes the opportunity to provoke the victims to riot...the country or the world will really die It's a mess!"

"So, the big disaster may be just a coincidence, but someone wants to take advantage of this coincidence." Bai Yutang nodded, and asked, "Blood curse or something, for the purpose of making people panic...but how can such a disaster be possible?" Are you sure?"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao nodded and asked, "Could it be related to the Thousand-Handed Evil Buddha?"

"Speaking of a point!" Gongsun said suddenly, "I took the time to study the thousand-handed evil Buddha... I found that the structure of the evil Buddha is very unique."

"Unique?" Everyone followed Gongsun to the side of the evil Buddha with interest.

"Do you see how many hands this evil Buddha has?"

"En." Everyone nodded.

"Look carefully at the back of the hand." Gongsun pointed to the back of the hand for everyone to see.

"The workmanship is very fine." Bai Yutang said, "The tendons on the back of the hand are all carved out."

"En." Zhan Zhao nodded.

"I thought it was tendons at first, but take a closer look?" Gongsun pointed to the hands next to him.

"Different?" Pang Tong was surprised.

"That's right." Bai Yutang nodded, "It doesn't look like tendons, but some lines...

"I rubbed all these lines." Gongsun said, and took out a stack of thin rice paper for everyone to see.

Everyone saw that Gongsun rubbed a line on the back of his hand on each piece of paper, and recorded the position of the hand in detail.

"There are a thousand of them here?" Bai Yutang looked up at Gongsun, "No wonder you have dark circles under your eyes these days!"

Gongsun smiled, and Zhan Zhao said, "Sir, why did you do it alone? Didn't you call us?"

Gongsun laughed, "If I want to cause damage, I will find you two."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang look at the sky.

Bao Zheng nodded and said to Gongsun, "Thank you, sir."

Gongsun waved his hand, took out a very small and delicate map from one side, and spread it on the table, "This is the smallest geographical map I can find, it just fits!"

"My geographical map of the Song Dynasty?" Pang Tong was very familiar with this, and he understood it all at once, and said, "Those tendons are the lines of the map!"

"That's right!"

Gongsun nodded, and took out a piece of rice paper from the pile of rice paper. The slightly transparent rice paper was placed on the map, and the lines on the map below could be revealed. Gongsun slowly moved the rice paper to the vicinity of Tianshan Mountain, and said, "Here It's the Tianshan Mountains."

Afterwards, Gongsun carefully pulled out dozens of rice papers, and moved them to various places one by one, including mountains and rivers, each of which could perfectly overlap with the lines on the map.

Everyone was quite surprised, Bai Yutang shook his head, "Those thousand hands put together almost covered all the rivers and mountains in the Song Dynasty!"

"It's not the Song Dynasty." Gongsun shook his head and said, "Some places no longer exist after changes and wars. I rummaged around. This should be a map of the Han Dynasty."

"Sure enough, this is something thousands of years ago." Zhan Zhao admired.

Gongsun took another booklet from the side, and said, "I recorded in detail, which hand corresponds to which place." Everyone looked at each other, Pang Tong took the booklet and flipped through it, raised his eyes and said to Gongsun, "Mr. I can tell you frankly that if you can join the army as a sergeant or a counselor, you will be able to accomplish a lot, and being a master in the yamen is really a waste of talent."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and said to themselves——Pang Tong, you have the guts to say that in front of Mr. Bao!

Bao Zheng nodded with a smile and said, "General Pang is right."

Gongsun smiled and said lightly, "I like Kaifeng Mansion."

Pang Tong stared at Gongsun for a long time, and there was a lot of admiration in his eyes.

"By the way, sir." Bai Yutang took a look at the booklet and asked Gongsun, "What's the use of the map engraved on the back of this hand?"

"I also found a very interesting place!" Gongsun took the severed hand that Zhan Zhao and the others picked up, and said, "This severed hand can be put back!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback for a moment, Bai Yutang looked at the smooth surface of the severed hand, shook his head, and said, "Sir, I tried it with the cat before, but I couldn't pretend it."

"It's not connected by birth, there is a mechanism!" Gongsun said, walked behind the evil Buddha, groped carefully, and gently pulled with his fingertips, and pulled out a small hole from the back base of the evil Buddha. When the small jade cover came, a hollow immediately appeared inside, and there was a small iron ring in the hollow.

"This thing is really delicate!" Bai Yutang couldn't help admiring.

"Look!" Gongsun's slender fingers penetrated into the iron ring, and gently pulled it down...and heard a "click".

"It moved!" Zhan Zhao noticed that the Thousand-Handed Evil Buddha seemed to have moved a bit, and those hands spread slightly.

Although it was very subtle, the people around them all looked very carefully, so they all noticed it.

"It really moved a bit." Bai Yutang said, reaching out to touch one of the jade hands, but heard... a click, and the jade hand he touched fell off.

"Uh..." Bai Yutang was startled, thinking that the Thousand-Handed Evil Buddha let him break it.

"Don't worry." Gongsun smiled, put the jade hand back to its original position, and put the jade hand that Zhan Zhao and the others picked up back to the empty position, and said to Zhan Zhao, "Pull the ring."

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand, pulled it lightly, and heard another "click", and everyone saw the Thousand-Handed Evil Buddha moved again, but this time it was not loosened, but tightened...

"Try breaking down again." Gongsun said.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to touch the arm that he just knocked off...it didn't move at all.

"What a trick!" Bai Yutang exclaimed, "So ingenious!"

"Hmm." Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked, "So, those jade hands can be taken off... a thousand hands can be taken off, and there is a map on the back of the hand."

Bao Zheng frowned slightly, stroked his beard, and said, "During the time of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, there were Hou Fengyi and seismographs to predict the disaster situation in various places. It seems..."

"That's right!" Everyone immediately understood that the Thousand-Handed Evil Buddha seemed to be made earlier, but the principle seems to be the same!

"No wonder so many people want this evil Buddha." Bai Yutang said, "They want to use it to predict the location of disasters, so they can prepare for chaos in advance!"

"Well, according to legend, the blood curse can only be implemented once every few hundred years." Zhan Zhao said, "It's just to deceive people! Every few hundred years, there must be a big natural disaster!"

"It seems that they already know that there is a major natural disaster in the near future, but they just don't know where it is." Gongsun said, "Both the Snake Eagle Sect and the Mohua Palace seem to be related to foreign races... It seems that this time my Great Song really There is going to be a life-threatening catastrophe!"

"No wonder they want to kill you." Bai Yutang suddenly turned to look at Pang Tong, "Who will lead the troops to fight when you die? Aren't the Liao people afraid of your army horses?"

Everyone looked at each other—yes!