Chapter 417

A simple mourning hall was set up in the open space in front of the staff dormitory building.

This area, usually accustomed to coldness, was unusually crowded with people today, yet it was all because someone had died.

The old woman's children arrived, bringing their own children along.

The funeral could hardly be called solemn, and it could not even be described as sad.

For an old woman who had been stubborn about not moving away, not relying on her children, and choosing to remain here in solitude, closing her eyes here and finally being buried with her husband was her long-cherished wish.

Zhao Yi offered incense, comforted the deceased's children, and reminisced about how the old woman had taken care of him when he lived here as a child.

Afterward, he went upstairs to wander around the room where the old woman had lived during her lifetime.

When he reached the bedroom doorway, he stopped and stared at that door for quite a while.

There was something wrong with this door; to be precise, there had been something wrong with it.

There was a new, long crack on the door with a corner.

Zhao Yi took the map out of his pocket and unfolded it.

If the first endpoint is considered to be Siyuan Village in Nantong, then the subsequent turning points would be Jinan and here, extending proportionally to the next segment...

"Dandong."

Putting the map away, Zhao Yi put his hands on his hips and said quite dissatisfiedly:

"Fine, so you, the Li family, get to eat and drink well all the way, while I have to follow along and lick the plates to serve you, right?"

After leaving Tianjin, the small yellow pickup truck did not continue along the coastline to leave the pass, but instead went to the capital.

The distance between the two places was too short, so short that Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan decided to pick something up along the way.

After entering the capital, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan came to the alma mater of his parents back then; this could also be considered Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's "mother" school.

If it weren't for that perfectly timed glance Li Lan gave back then, which hooked his father in one go, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan would not have been born.

Even after so many years, this road on campus remained fresh and beautiful; after all, every year a new batch of young people irrigates this place with their youth and vitality.

The Dao of Feng Shui says: Scenery nourishes people, and people also nourish scenery.

Although everyone had brought Grandpa Li to the capital for a trip last time, they had not come to this prestigious institution.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin and Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You could not help but look left and right.

For ninety-nine percent of students in the country, the name of this school is only used for bragging when young and frivolous, just like writing an essay in childhood saying one wants to be a scientist in the future.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "Sigh, A-You, why didn't you work harder and get admitted here back then?"

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "Brother Bin, is this a place you can get into just by working hard?"

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "Look, you're finding excuses for your own laziness again."

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "Then what about you, Brother Bin?"

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "If my dad hadn't been in the crowd watching the scene in Shinan Town and taken a liking to Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan at first sight, and finally even brought Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan home, I wouldn't even have been able to get into college."

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "Looking at it this way, your uncle sponging off the young is quite reasonable."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "Indeed."

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "But Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan's parents were at this school before, and Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan is at our school now; it looks like a demotion."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin: "Who told our school to have a good name? Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan was obsessed with fishing for dead bodies at the time."

"Hello, classmate, can we get to know each other?"

A girl with short hair took the initiative to walk up to Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You to seek an acquaintance, acting in a poised and generous manner.

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You shook his head and spread his hands: "Sorry, classmate."

"Okay, have a great weekend!" The girl walked away, shrugging her shoulders and shaking her head at the few female classmates sitting on the grass in the distance.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin praised: "Tsk tsk tsk, our A-You is truly loyal and unwavering; once he sets his eyes on one, he only recognizes that one."

Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng: "Which one?"

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan walked under that ginkgo tree, turned his head, and looked at the grass opposite.

When he was very young, his father would hold him and sit there, telling him about his chance encounter with his mother.

His silly father thought that was fate and heaven's will, not knowing that he was actually prey targeted by a hunting rifle long ago.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan opened his pocket watch and glanced at the ginkgo leaf specimen tucked inside.

With a wave of his hand, the youth intended to set up a simple, temporary isolation barrier.

Yet at this moment, he perceived the Feng Shui here rejecting his action.

He could have forced the setup, and the problem wouldn't have been big, but Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan still withdrew his hand.

The youth took his partners to eat first; after the meal, the sky darkened, and the group returned here, with the three of them each picking up a Yellow River shovel to dig.

"Found it, Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin held up a rectangular wooden box, very exquisite and ancient, the kind usually placed in the sales cabinet of a crematorium for the client's family to choose from.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan took it and weighed it; there were books inside, but also some powder and fragments.

Feeling the opening, it was a mechanism; once opened incorrectly, lamp oil would flow out inside and self-ignite to destroy it.

To Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan, such a mechanism was not difficult at all.

However, the youth did not intend to open it at this moment; he would leave it to look at slowly after returning.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan handed the box to Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng, and Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng put it away into his hiking backpack.

After backfilling the pit, without delay, the group left the school, got into the car, and set off toward the location of the third radish.

There were two drivers in the car, and when traveling, the people rested but the car did not.

It was just that their luck was not very good; they were stuck in traffic at night due to road repairs.

But because of this, when the sun was about to rise, the vast and boundless Northeast, accompanied by the morning light, unfolded before everyone.

For a long time in the past, the Northeast was one of the most developed regions in the country.

Even now, when young people from the Northeast come to cities like Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou, looking at the local urban infrastructure and supporting facilities, they would still feel it is nothing special.

Driving on its veins, it felt as if one could hear the kind of heaviness and grandeur that belonged exclusively to it.

However, just as the group was about to arrive at the Dandong region, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan discovered that on the prison wall on the first page of the "Wordless Book," the description of the specific location behind the Posuo Mansion road had disappeared.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan's gaze fell on the woman in the prison; the woman understood, left the first page, went to the second page, and began the interrogation.

Ye Dui on the second page also had a blank look on his Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Human Face, meaning that he could not sense the specific location of the last fellow prisoner either.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan felt that this should not be "it" deliberately making trouble; he was looking at heading straight to the Goguryeo tomb after finishing this round, and it was not worth it to deliberately cause waves here; it was highly likely that some accident had really happened.

An accident that even it could not avoid or exclude.

Without specific coordinates, it is very difficult to find someone in a city, not to mention that the person they were looking for was not an individual.

They checked into a hotel, opened two rooms, and everyone settled down first.

The hotel was not far from the Broken Bridge; in the afternoon, the four of them walked over to visit, and for dinner, they ate beef soup rice nearby.

After eating and drinking their fill, they returned to the hotel, and everyone took a bath and rested, shedding the fatigue accumulated from the continuous travel recently.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan lay on the bed and opened the "Wordless Book" again.

The specific location still had not appeared.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan closed the book and threw it onto the bedside table.

He was not in a hurry; the one who should really be in a hurry was it.

A good night's sleep.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan got up very early, following his daily routine.

He got out of bed, walked to the window, and discovered that the morning market here started much, much earlier than he did.

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin sat up: "Brother Marquis Xiao Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan, today..."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan picked up the "Wordless Book" again to look through it, still no specific location.

"Let's go, let's stroll through the morning market."

A-You was on shift guarding the night; after calling Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng up, the four of them went to the morning market.

The morning market was bustling with popularity, had a wide variety of goods, and more importantly, it was very cheap.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan had eaten his fill early on, while Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng and the others wished they could eat from beginning to end.

After eating, everyone was not in a hurry to return to the hotel, but instead found a flight of steps to sit on and digest their food.

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You suddenly sighed: "If Miss Chen were here, she would definitely eat very happily."

After mentioning it, A-You realized he seemed to have said the wrong thing.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan: "Mm, she would."

Between the youth and the old man of the Chen family, there was still a debt that needed to be settled.

Moreover, it could be seen from Chen Chen Zunfeng that between the Qiongya Chen family and the Goguryeo tomb, not to mention a direct relationship, the two indeed had similarities.

Perhaps, after he came out of the Goguryeo tomb, he would have a clearer understanding of the Qiongya Chen family.

It was just that for the moment, this was the first time he had encountered this river where, as he walked, the waves got stuck and could not be pushed forward.

Admittedly, Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan could skip this place and head straight to Ji'an.

But it was a pity not to be able to eat this third carrot; Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin and Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You had both received gifts, so this time's gift, if nothing unexpected happened, should be for Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng.

Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Lu Runsheng was the cornerstone of the entire team, and his improvement was the top priority.

Let's wait first, wait a few days; if it really doesn't work, then skip it, or see when "it" gives a more straightforward and specific hint.

For the next two days, the four of them really acted like tourists, either visiting museums and memorial halls here or tasting local delicacies.

When walking back to the hotel on the riverside square at night, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin laughed: "If I had known we would stay here for so long, we could have stopped by Shenyang on the way here; find a bathhouse in Shenyang, take a bath, and get a scrub."

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "Lu Yi said in the dormitory that if we go to the Northeast to play in the future and enter a bath center, if there is a second floor, go to the second floor; if there is a third floor, go to the third floor."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin glanced at A-You: "What do you want to go upstairs to play?"

Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You: "I don't know."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin was about to say something more when his mobile phone rang.

He answered the call, gave a series of "uh-huhs," then covered the mouthpiece and said to Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan:

"Little Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan Ge, it's a call from Liang Ge. Liang Ge says the investigation project has been restarted, and he and Luo Gong have already been recalled to Jin Ling. They expect to bring the team to Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Jie Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Jie Jian in three days."

"Liang Ge's meaning is for us to return to Jin Ling now to rejoin the team."

"Tell Liang Ge our current location and ask him if we can join the team locally once they arrive."

Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin consulted with Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Xue Liangliang, and after they finished chatting, he hung up the phone.

"Little Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan Ge, Liang Ge says it's no problem; we can rejoin the team once we get to Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Jie Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Zhao Jie Jian. We have all our documents with us anyway."

"Mm."

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head and glanced at the "Wordless Book" tied to his waist.

He finally understood why the rhythm of this wave had been forcibly interrupted.

It was not only existences at the level of the Great Turtle, the Great Emperor, or the Bodhisattva who could alter the trajectory of the waves.

There are some things that, once they appear, even they must temporarily avoid their edge.

But for ethereal existences to exert an influence on reality, something must land in substance.

It could be understood that because the investigation team was restarted, the progress of his own wave was interrupted, but the realistic factor that truly interrupted this process must objectively exist.

Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Li Zhuiyuan looked around, and he thought of a possibility.

On the way back, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin stretched his back:

"Ah~"

Little Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan Ge's red thread suddenly connected to him.

After a while, Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Tan Wenbin hooked his arm around Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Shu You's shoulder: "Little Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Brother Yuan Ge, since going back just means lying down and sleeping anyway, I'll take A You to experience the local bath culture."