Fan Chongwen pondered for a while before shaking his head and said: "Sorry, I can't promise you. I have many guesses about the secret of the Dunhuang Book. However, guesses are just guesses. I can't say anything until they are confirmed, so as not to mislead. your judgment."
I thought about it and said, "Let's do this! Write down your guesses, no matter how absurd they are. Sometimes, I need these guesses as a reference."
I said before Fan Chongyi could speak: "You are a scholar who pays attention to facts, and I am a detective who walks between reality and myth. Your guesses may bring some inspiration to me. You should Do you know the Magic Hand?"
"I heard Lao Diao say that!" Fan Chongyi pondered for a moment and immediately asked Dr. Bai for paper and pen, sat in the car and started writing.
Fan Chongyi never stopped writing and never talked to anyone again. He didn't stop until he arrived at the research institute.
Dr. Bai arranged him into the room and then said to me: "Wang Huan, this overseas trip is up to you. I'm really not familiar with this aspect of things."
I also started to worry: At that time, I realized that the action team would really be unable to move forward without Mother Fox. No wonder, Mother Fox always says that I am not a general. I can’t even handle the matter at hand, so how can I control the overall situation
When I was feeling worried, Ren Tianqing said, "Wang Huan, how about you ask Sister Xinyao for help? She can definitely do it."
Lu Xinyao? How could I forget her
I turned to Dr. Bai: "Doctor, help me contact Chen Wen and ask her to transfer Lu Xinyao to me. Also, help me check for Fan Chongyi's immediate family members, preferably her wife. "
"Okay!" Not long after Dr. Bai left, Lu Xinyao rushed over in a hurry. The first thing she said when she walked in was: "Wang Huan, how do you want to leave?"
I didn't understand what Lu Xinyao meant, so she explained to me: "The first one is to go abroad through normal channels. The passport will be issued soon, and we can leave immediately. However, you can't take your equipment out. You can only get there. Find other equipment abroad.”
"The second option is that you can go out with your equipment, but you have to stow away. Stowaway boats are definitely slower than planes, and they don't come every day. I have to find a way to contact you."
I hesitated and said, "Can you get equipment outside?"
"There is no problem." Lu Xinyao said: "Besides, before I came here, I had someone investigate the information you need. The results I got were not optimistic."
My heart suddenly sank: "No news?"
"It's not that the information was not found, but that the information was so shocking." Lu Xinyao said: "Actually, there are organizations similar to the Detective Hands abroad, but their organizations are more loose. They usually They are called adventurers, or hunters. Their headquarters is called the Adventurer Guild.”
"The Adventurer Guild also issues missions and explores restricted areas. However, they are not called sects. Instead, they are composed of several adventurer teams that form a union. The predecessors of those adventurer teams were either pirates and thieves. Or an exploring member of the colonist army.”
Lu Xinyao paused for a moment and said: "Adventurers have always followed the law of the jungle where the jungle prevails. They do things without any scruples and without any rules. Stealing, robbing, and cheating are commonplace for adventurers. Killing people and grabbing treasures Things were pretty much non-stop.”
"The Adventurer's Guild will never arbitrate these matters, let alone uphold justice for anyone. They will trade with whoever brings the forbidden treasure to them. When we go out to meet the adventurers this time, maybe something will happen. situation. You have to be prepared."
I hesitated and said, "Who controls the Adventurers' Guild?"
Since there are adventurers similar to the God Explorer in foreign countries, there should naturally be a complete set of operating systems to support adventurers in exploring the secrets. These things cannot be done without a certain background.
Lu Xinyao said: "The Adventurer's Guild is controlled by four major families, and it is not limited to one country. The Adventurer's Guild across Europe is controlled by the four major families."
"Three of them are extremely old families, and their ancestors are all European nobles. Some of them have even been dukes."
Before the end of the feudal era, Europe had always been in a state of feudalism that had long been eliminated by China. The duke was equivalent to the head of a country. The profound background of the three major families is evident.
This kind of ancient nobility that can still stand firm after thousands of years of existence usually exists in black and white. What is really scary among them is their forces lurking in the darkness, and the Adventurer's Guild may be one of them.
While I was frowning, Lu Xinyao said again: "The fourth family of the Adventurer's Guild belongs to an Asian family. There is no clear conclusion as to which country it comes from, but we have always suspected that the fourth family comes from the Wugui Sect. .”
My eyes couldn't help but shrink suddenly: "How sure are you?"
Lu Xinyao shook his head and said: "It's just speculation, there is no direct evidence."
Tao Yu told me: One of the reasons why Wugui Sect can still exist today is that their headquarters is not in China, but overseas.
Tao Yu didn't tell me the specific location of the Ghostless Sect's headquarters, but looking at what the Adventurers Guild did, I had reason to trust Lu Xinyao's judgment.
I nodded slightly and said, "Besides these, are there any other clues?"
Lu Xinyao said seriously: "I heard that the Adventurer's Guild listed the Dunhuang Code as an S-level mission, which attracted many adventurers to participate. There were adventurers who sneaked into the country quietly and prepared to attack Dunhuang. In the end, they were not captured by the police. He just died under the sword of the detective. So the mission of Dunhuang Code has come to an end."
Lu Xinyao continued: "In the past, we also tried to understand what the mission of the Dunhuang Code was, but found nothing. In the end, it was the intelligence department that conducted a comprehensive analysis and came to a conclusion. That is, the mission of the Dunhuang Code should be From the third family of adventurers, the Bloody Tulip Family."
"Blood Tulip? Dutch?" I asked curiously: "Didn't you say that the adventurer's headquarters is in Britain?"
Lu Xinyao shook his head and said: "Blood Tulip is a pure British noble, and his ancestors were once nobles. This family has a crazy obsession with various classical arts. Among the three major families of the Adventurer's Guild, they have the largest collection of Dunhuang cultural relics. Regardless of quantity, , the quality is still higher than the collection of the British Museum.”
"The intelligence department suspects that they discovered some secret in the collection, so they released the Dunhuang code mission!"
I said in a deep voice: "What is the specific content of the Dunhuang code?"
Lu Xinyao said word by word: "Looking for Lezun Grottoes."
When I heard the words "Lezun Grottoes", I couldn't help but trembled in my heart.
According to records, the "Lezun Grottoes" should have been excavated in the Pre-Qin Dynasty, while the main artistic achievements of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes were made during the Tang Dynasty, especially after the large-scale integration of Buddhist culture and Chinese culture during the Wu Zetian era.
"Lezun Grottoes" is well-deserved as a holy place in Dunhuang culture, and it also plays a decisive role in the study of Dunhuang culture. However, when it comes to artistic achievements, it will never be higher than that of the Tang Dynasty, let alone compared with later generations.
The Blood Tulip family is definitely not looking for Lezun Grotto to steal art. There must be something hidden in it.
I asked anxiously: "Can you find a way to get into the Blood Tulip family, or contact their senior officials?"
Lu Xinyao shook his head and said: "I'm afraid this will be difficult. Without someone's recommendation, we won't be able to meet Tulip's senior management, let alone contact them. I can only say that we will do our best."
"That's fine!" I also knew that my request was a bit too much, and the rest was just a matter of taking it one step at a time.
While I was lowering my head and thinking, Dr. Bai came back quickly: "Are you ready? Dr. Fan has finished writing his notes."
I looked at Fan Chongyi behind Dr. Bai: "We will set off soon. Putting aside the mission, I want to know if you have any other requirements? After all, this is a transaction between us, and I don't want to rely on nothing. I owe you a favor.”
Fan Chongyi hesitated for a moment before saying: "If it's not troublesome, I hope to know the real reason why I killed people. When I confessed, I kept saying that it was because Xiao Zhao stole my research results and killed people. In fact, , I still don’t know the real reason why I killed someone.”
I looked at Fan Chongyi, who smiled bitterly and said: "It sounds strange, doesn't it? I remember clearly that before I killed him, there was a voice in my head, constantly telling me that I must kill him. kill him."
"I know that no one will believe what I said, so I didn't say it to anyone. Once I say it, I will either be regarded as a quibble or a madman. I don't want to be regarded as a madman."
Fan Chongyi said solemnly: "If I were not crazy, some people would believe my research results. Once I become crazy, no one will believe me. Although I have pleaded guilty, I have always been worried about this matter. Huai, it’s just a bit of obsession!”
I suddenly said: "Have you ever known martial arts before?"
"I have practiced martial arts before..." Fan Chongyi stopped here: "You want to ask me how I suddenly became a martial arts master, right? I won't tell you anything until you find the secret of the Dunhuang Book of Heaven. You guys. Believe me, there are some things that it’s better not to know until you encounter the answer.”
I know that I can't ask anything more from Fan Chongyi's mouth. For a person with obsessions in his head, unless you break his psychological defenses or torture him, you can't even think of finding out the secrets.
However, I don’t have time to do that now, and Dr. Bai won’t allow me to do that.
I said in a deep voice: "Do you have any other requests?"