Chapter 3554

Lin Wan'er and Ye Chen had not known each other for long, but from the time they had known each other, she felt that the mysterious power behind Ye Chen first surfaced at Qingzhao Hermitage.

At that time, she was with Ye Chen, heading to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, but she did not expect to encounter the false nun waiting there at Qingzhao Hermitage on the edge of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

The other party not only knew of their secret trip to the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, but even knew that the Ten Thousand Great Mountains posed constant danger to Ye Chen.

Lin Wan'er placed a white stone beneath the first black stone.

The black stone above represented Qingzhao Hermitage, and the white stone below represented the false nun.

Afterwards, the two flew directly from the Ten Thousand Great Mountains to Yanjing.

Then she took out another black stone and placed it behind the previous black stone.

Initially in her mind, this black stone represented Yanjing.

And she recalled that when she and Ye Chen had just arrived in Yanjing, Tang Sihai delivered the old photo album of Ye Chen's parents to the Ye family's old residence and then left without farewell, and it was then that Lin Wan'er learned that Tang Sihai and the false nun of Qingzhao Hermitage were actually in league.

Thus, she placed a white stone beneath the second black stone.

This white stone represented Tang Sihai.

Now, what Lin Wan'er needed to do was to locate the third black stone and the third white stone.

However, she suddenly thought of a detail.

When she accompanied Ye Chen back to the Ye family's old residence, she had seen Tang Sihai once, and at that time, Tang Sihai had a faint scent of incense on him, which both she and Ye Chen had noticed.

And at that time, Tang Sihai said he had just gone to Yonghe Palace to worship Buddha.

Ye Chen did not pay much attention, but Lin Wan'er had thought about it a bit more.

She first felt that Tang Sihai's appearance did not look like that of a religious person, but more like a seasoned warrior who firmly believed in atheism.

Then she thought of the nature of Yonghe Palace, which is a lama temple, and this seemed even more incongruous with someone like Tang Sihai.

But at that time, most of her energy was focused on considering what dangers the Ten Thousand Great Mountains hid, and she did not take Tang Sihai's anomaly to heart.

But now, upon reflection, there really are some problems.

Qingzhao Hermitage, Yonghe Palace.

Why are they both temples?

Does this mean that the mysterious mastermind behind Tang Sihai has some connection with temples?

Her intuition told her that her speculation must be correct.

So, she immediately took out a black stone and placed it right after the first two black stones, murmuring: "The first black stone is Qingzhao Hermitage, the second black stone is not Yanjing, but Yonghe Palace, so this third black stone is very likely also a temple."

Thinking this, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Lady Ye left from Jin Ling, and before she left, she must have seen these people, who must have told her about the Young Master's situation, which is why she willingly left the Young Master; where did she meet them? Most likely in Jin Ling, and most likely still at a temple!"

"If the third black stone is a temple in Jin Ling, then it is very likely the most famous one…… Qixia Temple!"

Moreover, Lin Wan'er had once intended to visit Qixia Temple, and on that occasion, as she wished, she saw the false nun from Qingzhao Hermitage at Qixia Temple.

Therefore, the suspicion against Qixia Temple grew even stronger!

Lin Wan'er felt she was getting closer and closer to the truth.

So, she immediately called Old Sun Sun Zhidong, and upon connecting, the other end respectfully said: "Young Lady, you called so late—what are your orders?"

Lin Wan'er said: "Can you get in touch with the operator's confidential data?"

Sun Zhidong immediately said: "Of course, but I don't know what data you want, Young Lady."

Lin Wan'er sternly ordered him: "Help me check the access records left by Lady Ye at the operator's over the past few months, specifically down to each base station, and then plot the locations on a map according to the timeline for me."

"Lady Ye?" Sun Zhidong was somewhat surprised, not knowing why Lin Wan'er wanted to investigate Ye Chen's wife, thinking this should not have been Ye Chen's request to her.

But between Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er, he naturally leaned toward Lin Wan'er, so he gave up questioning and immediately said: "Young Lady, please wait, I'll arrange this right away."

Lin Wan'er thought of something and instructed him: "Remember, absolutely keep it confidential."

"You can rest assured!"

The user data in the operator's hands is highly confidential.

Especially users' movement trajectories, which generally even the police cannot arbitrarily access.

For users, as long as their mobile phone has a network access requirement, using a certain operator's mobile number service will definitely leave access records at the operator's.

When users are at home, the operator automatically matches them to the nearest base station and records the time they accessed that base station.

When users leave home, once they move from the coverage of the previously connected base station into that of the next base station, the operator also records the time they disconnected from the previous base station and the time they connected to the next base station.

These are key data stored on the server.

These data have existed for many years in the past, helping the police solve many major cases.

Especially during the era when the Sky Eye system was not yet perfected, many criminals cleverly fabricated alibis for themselves, only to have one oversight, and the police discovered that their phones had once been near the crime scene.

Lin Wan'er deeply knew she did not have Ye Chen's AI model, so she could not locate Xiao Churan's movement trajectory in the shortest time via municipal surveillance, which is why she thought of this method.

Although this method is not as precise or clear as video surveillance, Lin Wan'er only wanted a simple answer: she just wanted to know whether Xiao Churan had visited Qixia Temple in the past few months.

Sun Zhidong's efficiency was very high.

Within twenty minutes, a video file was sent to Lin Wan'er's phone.

The starting frame of this video was a map of Jin Ling City and a red dot coordinate.

After clicking play, the coordinate jumped around different areas of the map, with the upper left corner showing the corresponding time, indicating which base station Xiao Churan's phone connected to at this time point and the next, and where that base station was located on the map.

Since there is distance between base stations, the movement of this red dot is in a jumping form.

Most of the movement trajectories jumped back and forth between Tang Chen Yi Pin and Xiao Churan's company, occasionally going to other places, which Lin Wan'er did not care about; she kept her eyes on the part of the map showing Qixia Temple, wanting to see when the red dot would light up there.

Effort is not wasted on those who have heart.

When the time advanced to the eve of the lunar new year, the red dot representing the base station where Xiao Churan was located suddenly lit up at Qixia Temple!

At that moment, Lin Wan'er's mouth curled into a smile.

The third black stone was formally defined in her mind as Qixia Temple.

Then, it was time to look for clues about the white stone.

Xiao Churan went to Qixia Temple—just who did she go to see?

Is it a fake nun, or Tang Sihai, or perhaps the "white piece" here is someone else entirely?

Thinking of this, a name suddenly flashed in her mind.

Ye Chen once said that Ito Nanako had, by a stroke of luck, been given a dharma talk by a monk with the dharma name Jingqing at Qixia Temple.

Thinking that the other side's position had never left the temple, she realized that this monk Jingqing must also be a member of the opposing faction.

So she placed the third white piece beneath the third black piece and smiled, saying: "It seems this white piece is very likely the monk Jingqing."

Afterwards, she searched for some news about the monk Jingqing and found that although he was young, his Buddhist attainment was extremely high, and he had even once represented the Chinese Buddhist community in exchanges with the Japanese Buddhist community's leading figure, the abbot Kongyin of Kinkaku-ji, on Mount Putuo.

A thought struck her, and she searched for the monk Kongyin; although he had not appeared before the public in the past two years and left no news, Lin Wan'er still saw, through the search engine's automatic association feature, an announcement that Kinkaku-ji was closing for renovation.

Looking at the start date of the temple closure, it was exactly the eve of Ye Chen's birthday, and it was not more than a week away from now.

She couldn't help muttering: "Although there is still no direct evidence, the indirect evidence has already formed a chain that can mutually corroborate, which should mean that the other side is currently at Kinkaku-ji!"

Ye Chen could never have dreamed that Lin Wan'er, using only the time of a movie and borrowing just six chess pieces, had already figured out the situation roughly.

"Kinkaku-ji..."

Lin Wan'er murmured these words, then immediately thought to call Ye Chen to tell him her analysis.

But at the moment the phone number was about to be dialed, she exited the dialing interface.

In her view, since it concerned Xiao Churan, Ye Chen's rationality would surely be affected, and if she told him her speculation now, he might immediately set off for Japan.

But the other side was obviously far more capable than him, not only knowing his movements inside out, but also to some extent monitoring her; otherwise, that fake nun would not have appeared voluntarily when she deliberately went to Qixia Temple.

After thinking for a long time, she called Sun Zhidong again.

On the phone, she said to Sun Zhidong: "I need to depart for Japan before dawn, using a new identity; please help me arrange that. Also, please help me find out where that famous Buddhist scholar, the monk Jingqing, currently is."

Ten minutes later, Sun Zhidong called back, respectfully saying: "Young Lady, your identity is being arranged; the plane is now taking off for Jin Ling, you just need to arrive at the airport in three hours, and I will arrange for someone to meet you. As for the monk Jingqing you asked me to check, he went to Osaka, Japan a week ago with some domestic Buddhist figures, and the information I found shows he was invited to attend a non-public Buddhist exchange event in Japan."

Lin Wan'er's smile grew wider; having lived in Japan for many years, she knew Japan well, and the transportation to Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto was not very convenient; from China, flying to Osaka was the first choice, then Nagoya.

Since Jingqing also went to Osaka, he was very likely at Kinkaku-ji.

Could it be that this monk Jingqing is the true mastermind behind the scenes?

Lin Wan'er felt that, having seen that fake nun last time, the other side was obviously just a messenger, unwilling to reveal more; now she only had to go herself to have a chance to figure out what the real context behind this matter was!