"Uncle, where did you get this box?" I asked Chen Donglei curiously.

Chen Donglei was obviously stunned for a moment, staring at me with a burning look: "Isn't this the one you lost before?"

When I heard Chen Donglei's words, a terrible thought suddenly arose in my mind. Could it be that the wooden box in front of me at this time was the one I lost in my shop before? If this is true, the face on my left arm ran over the lid of the wooden box?

I tried my best to suppress the horror in my heart and tried to maintain my apparent calmness: "This turned out to be the box I threw that day. I was like a dream that night. I couldn't remember the specific details. Where did you find it?"

I don’t know if I believed me, Chen Donglei slowly withdrew his gaze, put his hand on the wooden box and groped, and said to me: “Last time after Tieyi and his friends brought the thief back, I asked someone to continue to check it out and finally found a clue. After you fainted for the first time, another person named Mouse sneaked into your study, and said to him that when Shanzi sent you to the hospital, he was there to check it out. After you left, he sneaked into your study. As a result, he didn’t find anything valuable. He thought this box was a few years old and should be able to sell it for some price, so he left the box. When we caught him, he was planning to sell the wooden box!”

When Chen Donglei said this, he paused for a moment, and his eyes at me became complicated again, and he said, "When we found the box, it was empty. When the mouse insisted that when he took the box, there was nothing in the box. Xiao Qi, are you sure this box is empty?"

I tried to make myself feel a little confused and said slowly: "That day I found out that box he put it on the table. Later, I didn't remember what happened, so I fainted again. When I woke up, I was in the hospital. I didn't know if there were anything else in the box."

Qian Shan continued, "I said Lao Qi, you are thinking about it carefully. No matter who gave this box to you, you can't give it empty, right? Is there any mystery in this box itself?"

"The empty box is originally an empty box, is it?"

I don’t know if I suddenly remembered something or was reminded by Qian Shan. Chen Donglei seemed to have entered his own world at once. He muttered to himself for a moment, and his eyes suddenly became deeper. The thug pressed heavily on the wooden box and slowly pushed the wooden box in front of me. It felt like he was playing shuttle. Haha gambler pushed all the chips in front of him onto the gambling table as nervous and solemn: "Xiaoqi, look at it with your ghost eyes!"

Chen Donglei's words suddenly made me stunned, and at the same time, a helplessness surged in my heart. Chen Donglei's brain was really big. Originally, I just wanted to hide the bronze fish on my neck, so I had to tell him that the wooden box was empty, but I didn't expect that Chen Donglei had such a strange idea. Could it be that in his opinion, this box was possessed by a ghost?

"Ghost possessed? Ghost face?"

Suddenly, I remembered the mysterious face on my left arm, and I was like a ghost and rushed from the wooden box to my left arm. My breathing suddenly became rapid. When the familiar feeling flowed through the back of my head again, an eye shining with a dark golden light appeared in the center of the wooden box lid.

The golden eyes were not simply like patterns. I could even feel that when I looked at it, it was also quietly staring at me.

An extremely unreal feeling suddenly surged in my heart. I looked up at Chen Donglei in a daze, but found that he was looking at me with hope in his eyes. On the desk in front of me, a dark native dog was quietly lying there, staring at me with its green eyes: "How is it, what's the matter?"

I don’t know if Chen Donglei believed what I saw, after saying it out, hesitated for a moment and pointed to the wooden box with his finger: “There is an eye here!”

I thought that when Chen Donglei heard my words, he was either surprised, confused, or ignored it, but he didn't expect that he suddenly stood up from his seat, supported his hands on the table, his eyes staring at me, and said to me almost word by word: "Here?"

I could clearly feel that when Chen Donglei said these two words, his whole body seemed to have entered a state of both nervous and excited, so that his voice was trembling.

After getting my affirmative answer, Chen Donglei took a deep breath and said, "You try to click it!"

I nodded and slowly moved my finger to the golden eye. The moment my finger touched it, the golden eye seemed to have real life. I closed my eyes at once, and then several golden lights spread around the cover along a complex trajectory. During several breaths, six patterns of golden light flashing around the surroundings were formed.

Hearing my description, Chen Donglei was excited: "It's true. I didn't expect that the ghost pattern lock that had been lost for nearly two hundred years finally appeared again!"

Facing Qian Shan's face with a confused look on my face, Liu Tieyi, who was standing by, explained to us: "The so-called ghost pattern lock is an extremely clever means to convey information by the Ghost Eye Chen family among the six pillars when the Yinzheng Department was founded. Some information is closed through a series of complex ghost patterns. In addition to cracking the ghost pattern lock solution method, even if it is destructive, it cannot obtain the closed part of the information. If you use an analogy, it seems that a space is closed."

"The arrangement of the ghost pattern lock is extremely complicated. Each arrangement requires a lot of energy. Unless it is extremely important or information, it is rarely used even within the Yinxing Department; at the same time, the unlocking of the ghost pattern lock is extremely special. Although the core personnel of each of the six pillars have a certain understanding of the unlocking process of the ghost pattern lock, they still cannot unlock the ghost pattern lock. Only the ghost eye Chen family can see the ghost pattern lock, just like a password box. Only the people of the ghost eye Chen family can see the numbers on the keyboard and on it, and only the people of the Chen family can complete the unlocking."

Hearing this, Qian Shan and I finally understood the origin of the ghost pattern lock, but we couldn't help but scream in our hearts. If it weren't for hiding the bronze fish from Chen Donglei, he would probably not have thought that there might be a ghost pattern lock in this box. All this was like a free heaven in the dark. In order to hide a secret, another secret was dug out.

For a moment, my curiosity about this ghost pattern lock was also aroused. I didn't know what was hidden in this mysterious wooden box, so I quickly drew the pattern I saw with paper and pen. Then I followed the guidance of Chen Donglei and Liu Tieyi, as if I entered a password, clicking on the patterns one by one.

After every round of input, the golden pattern darkened. Finally, when the last pattern dimmed, the top cover of the wooden box slipped silently.

In an instant, the whole room seemed to solidify, and I could not hear any sound. At Shen Donglei's instructions, I carefully pushed it gently along the direction of sliding the top cover of the wooden box, and a bronze key was embedded in the interlayer wooden board.

I gently picked out the key from the mezzanine and placed it on the table. The eyes of the few of us instantly focused on the bronze key.

Although the shape of this bronze key is extremely ancient, it does not look like something that is particularly old in terms of the material of the key or the oxidation level of the key itself.

Qian Shan was obviously much more expert than me. After looking at Chen Donglei, he said, "This looks like a product from the Republic of China!"

Chen Donglei also nodded, obviously reaching an agreement on the age of this key.

The front end of the key is a complex tooth mouth, and the two sides at the end of the key handle are carved in the form of a positive text with a traditional character "Zhang" and a traditional character "Hong".

"Zhang Hong?!"

Is this a person's name? I tried hard to search for everything about Zhang Hong in my memory, but I didn't get anything. Neither the friends around me nor the people mentioned by my elders had any information about Zhang Hong. In history, I don't remember any famous person named Zhang Hong.

Qian Shan was obviously in a similar situation as mine, so he looked up at Chen Donglei: "Uncle?"

Chen Donglei frowned, and his eyes were pulled back from the bronze key after a while. He shook his head: "I have never heard of a person like Zhang Hong. There is no Zhang surname among the Six Pillars, nor have he heard of Zhang Hong and Liu Zhu. Everything now needs to be zeroed and re-examined. Who gave this box to you? Only by knowing the identity of this person can we further analyze what their purpose is? What kind of connection does everything have to do with Zhang Hong."

I shook my head. I later discussed this issue with Liu Tieyi. According to Liu Tieyi, I should have suffered from some kind of hypnosis that day. Zheng Guangfa I saw was all hallucinations, and the performer should have put this box in the study while I was in hallucination.

Chen Donglei pondered for a moment and said to Liu Tieyi: "Tieyi, is there any progress on Zheng Guangfa?"

Liu Tieyi also shook his head: "I have sent someone to contact Teacher Chen. He has never sent someone to deliver something to Xiaoqi, nor has he heard of this person. He seems to have appeared out of thin air, and there is nothing that can prove his identity."

Chen Donglei nodded and pushed the key in front of me: "No matter who the master behind all this is, since he said that this thing was handed over to you, then you will keep it. No matter what their purpose is, but since you have unlocked the ghost pattern lock, they will definitely appear again. Well, no matter what, we are not making any progress. At least this is the first time in these two hundred years that this ghost eyes appear and six pillars appear!"

Speaking of this, Chen Donglei couldn't help but suddenly shook his whole body, as if he suddenly thought of something. He also instantly entered a state of self and muttered in a low voice: "Ghost eyes appear, six pillars appear; ghost eyes appear, six pillars appear! Could it be?"
Chapter completed!