"You don't need to call anymore. The number she used before has been deactivated for a long time." Wang Xinran said.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan frowning, Wang Xinran said again, "We have been paying close attention to the phone number she used before, and she must know this."

Wu Zhongyuan believed Wang Xinran's statement, but he still tried to dial the number. Sure enough, the machine was prompted to be shut down.

Wang Xinran said, "All signs indicate that she has grasped our whereabouts. Your phone will remain on in the future. See if she will contact you on your own initiative."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded.

"What are you going to do?" Wang Xinran asked.

"What should I do?" Wu Zhongyuan asked back.

"What if she takes the initiative to contact you and asks you to cooperate with them?" Wang Xinran was very serious.

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer immediately, and was silent for a long time before speaking, "What would you do if you were me?"

Wang Xinran thought for a while and said, "The director gave me second-level authority to be responsible for your affairs. I have great autonomy in this matter."

Although Wang Xinran seemed to answer the question irrelevantly, Wu Zhongyuan knew that she was referring to it, "Switched on."

"Your senior brother killed someone and had a criminal record of intentional injury to death. Once arrested, he is a recidivist. According to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, recidivist will be punished severely. If he is arrested, he will definitely be sentenced to death. No one can help him escape." Wang Xinran said seriously. Speaking of this, the topic changed, "But if he is willing to help you and is always with us, I can guarantee his safety."

"How do you guarantee it?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Wang Xinran explained, "The military and the police have different responsibilities. The military is responsible for defending national security, while the police are responsible for maintaining social security. Therefore, the military has greater power than the police. They are both performing official duties. If there is a conflict, the military will enjoy priority."

After listening to Wang Xinran's explanation, Wu Zhongyuan was very happy, but also worried, "Can the superior agree if you do this?"

"I will agree, but I certainly can't agree explicitly," Wang Xinran said, "Fortunately, your senior brother is just a criminal suspect now. There is no public verdict for one day, and he is not a criminal in one day. We have excuses and reasons to swear them."

"But my brother killed someone before because he protected Zhao Dazhong." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"It seems that your brother ran away before he had time to judge?" Wang Xinran smiled wickedly.

"Will you cause trouble for yourself and Director Li when you do this?" Wu Zhongyuan was worried about implicating them.

"No," Wang Xinran shook his head, "We are not sheltering criminals. We are just temporarily inviting citizens to help us with our work. The suspects are also citizens."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Wu Zhongyuan sighed.

Wang Xinran said, "I didn't pay enough attention to your affairs in the previous game, and I don't have such great power."

Wu Zhongyuan stood up and paced back and forth from the room.

"If one day you can really open the wormhole, I don't think I will pull him and not let him go with you." Wang Xinran said.

"I know this." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Then what are you still hesitating about?" Wang Xinran said.

After walking back and forth a few times, Wu Zhongyuan sat down from the sofa and sighed, "You have ignored a very important point. My brother now knows that the elixir in Zhao Ying's hand is effective for Huang Ping. In order to get more elixirs, he will not cooperate with us. He will always help Zhao Ying and the others."

"Yes," Wang Xinran nodded slowly, "This is also their cleverness. First, grasp your senior brother firmly and use him to threaten you."

"I won't persuade my senior brother, but I won't stop him. Let's do their own things first. Anyway, they have no clues. The initiative is in our hands. Sooner or later they will contact us." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran was very pleased with Wu Zhongyuan’s statement of “them” and “we”, which shows that he was really not shaken.

It came to an end, and neither of them talked about the matter again. In the afternoon, Wang Xinran went out and moved the county annals back to the county library.

After dinner, the two started working. Wang Xinran leaned against the head of the bed and looked at it. Wu Zhongyuan sat on the sofa and looked at it. The text changes in the Sui and Tang Dynasties were not very big, similar to traditional Chinese characters. As a dropout majoring in archaeology, both of them had no obstacles to reading.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people believed in ghosts and gods. The county annals recorded everything from ancient times, and there were a lot of content about fairies and monsters. If it were placed in modern times, it would definitely not be allowed to publish it.

Who built bridges and roads, accumulated virtue and did good deeds, and got a child in his later years. Someone killed a wild dog, harmed the law, and the child died young. Which hunter let a pregnant female wolf go, and later got help from the wolves when they were in trouble, etc.

There are many similar things in the county annals, and the authenticity cannot be verified. However, some of them are illogical at all. I guess they were fictional in order to educate the world.

However, overall, similar records are all about guiding people to be kind, and they all preach that good people will be rewarded. In today's words, the ancients' three views were still very positive. Although they were a little superstitious, they at least had faith. Unlike some modern people, they were profit-oriented and pursued sensory stimulation, and had no moral bottom line.

It is precisely because of these records that reading county annals is not boring and quite interesting.

"Fortunately, we are not tomb robbers, otherwise we can find many ancient tombs by just looking at the county annals." Wu Zhongyuan said that the county annals also record where someone was buried after his death, and some directions and places are still recorded in detail.

"The state is still too light for convictions of tomb robbery," Wang Xinran turned the page and said casually while reading it. "The personal reward standards for handing over cultural relics are too low."

"Yes, cultural relics carry the history of a country, and a country without a complete history lacks cultural heritage." Wu Zhongyuan said something in the textbook.

"Tomb robbers destroy not only cultural relics, but also our history. Those who destroy history are sinners throughout the ages," Wang Xinran said, "In fact, the loss of cultural relics in our country is much more serious than you think. According to statistics from relevant departments, in the past 100 years, my country has lost at least 75% of ground cultural relics, more than 30% of cave cultural relics, and more than 10% of underground cultural relics."

"Is it really that serious?" Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised.

Wang Xinran nodded, "This is a relatively conservative estimate. In the late Qing Dynasty, countless cultural relics were stolen by the Eight-Nation Alliance. During the Anti-Japanese War, Japan also moved a lot. When the Four Old Deeds were destroyed, the Red Guards ruined a lot. In recent years, tomb robbery was rampant, and most of the buried metal and jade cultural relics were buried underground. These two types of cultural relics were the most severely lost."

"Before the founding of the country, Chiang Kai-shek also transported a lot of them," said Wu Zhongyuan.

"That's not counting. Although he is a reactionary, he is a Chinese. The cultural relics on Taiwan are also ours, and they are not lost." Wang Xinran said.

"Chen Shuibi probably doesn't want to listen to your words." Wu Zhongyuan smiled.

Wang Xinran also laughed, but after only a few laughs, he suddenly stopped. He took a county annals, turned one of the pages over, and then turned back.

"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"It seems like one missing here, which is incoherent." Wang Xinran said.

"Is it a torn by the borrowed study?" Wu Zhongyuan didn't care.

"Not everyone can borrow county annals. Even if you read them, you can only read them in a surveillance place in the library." Wang Xinran said.

"There was no surveillance before." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran did not answer the conversation and moved to the bedside lamp to take a closer look.

Seeing Wang Xinran's expression serious, Wu Zhongyuan came over and said, "What's wrong?"

"Look carefully." Wang Xinran pointed to the gap between the two pages.

Wu Zhongyuan looked carefully and saw a very narrow page remaining in the gap between the two pages, which shows that one page is indeed missing here.

"The broken stubble is very flat, not torn, it should have been cut off by someone." Wang Xinran said.

"Yes, the broken stubble is close to the bound cotton thread, and the person who cuts this page does not want to be discovered." Wu Zhongyuan said.

After looking at it again, Wang Xinran discovered again, "The person who cut this page was very careful. If you look carefully, there were no scratches on the second page. This person used his force very evenly, and his force was very suitable, and the tools he used were also very sharp."

"Who is it?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned.

Wang Xinran did not answer the question because she could not answer this question.

"It's broken!" Wu Zhongyuan's face suddenly changed drastically.

"Hmm?" Wang Xinran turned to look at him.

Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the page behind the missing page, and in the upper right corner of the beginning of this page, there was a half column of text left, "Big axe, put on a hang and see off."

"What's wrong?" Wang Xinran didn't understand why.

Wu Zhongyuan explained, "Wu Lu's weapon in ancient times was a double axe, and the axe was very similar."

"What is missing happens to be the page that records Wu Lu's deeds?" Wang Xinran was surprised.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "It is very likely that there are not many people using axes as weapons, and even fewer people using big axes. The missing page is likely to record his deeds."

"There is a way to confirm it." Wang Xinran took out his mobile phone, "The county annals are historical materials, and every library will scan and leave an electronic version of this kind of thing."

Wu Zhongyuan, who entered the library electronic library within three minutes, was not clear about how Wang Xinran entered the library electronic library, but after he urinated and washed his hands, Wang Xinran's face had become very ugly when he came out of the bathroom, "What have you told her?"

"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongyuan was stunned.

"The missing page, all the electronic pages left in the library have become garbled. Except for them, others have no reason or ability to do this." Wang Xinran said.

"I don't understand what you mean." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.

Wang Xinran explained patiently, "The lost page is probably an important clue. They took the page before us and hacked the library network in order not to let us find clues. The question now is, how did they know that this person is the person we are looking for?"

Wu Zhongyuan was stunned.

"What have you told her?" Wang Xinran asked.

"She definitely knows no more than you," Wu Zhongyuan said anxiously, "She doesn't even know what the use of the spirit stone is, and it's even more impossible to find it with a purpose."

"Facts are better than words," Wang Xinran pointed to the county annals that had been missing a page and shouted loudly, "What kind of ecstasy she gave you? Why did you tell her everything? Do you know what the consequences will be?"

"I didn't fucking say that. I'm even guarding you, how could I tell her this?" Wu Zhongyuan was anxious.

"How did she know?" Wang Xinran asked.

"How could I know?" Wu Zhongyuan said loudly,

"I really didn't say it?" Wang Xinran confirmed.

"I really didn't say that these things are the key to my return, and I can't tell anyone." Wu Zhongyuan said seriously.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan's expression was not like lying, Wang Xinran's tone was a little slow, "Did you let it go without any intention?"

"Impossible, I'm worried all day long, I can't let it go." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head repeatedly.

"Did she flip through your stuff while you were not paying attention?" Wang Xinran asked again.

"No." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head again, "I have always carried my things with me, and when I found the clue, she had already left."

"How did the clue leak?" This time it was Wang Xinran's turn to pace anxiously.

"Is there something wrong with you?" Wu Zhongyuan guessed.

"I only sent it to those at the headquarters BC. They have no clues about this person." Wang Xinran shook his head, "Don't doubt me, the problem must be with you."

"I really didn't say it. I said just now. She had already left when I got the clue. Even if I wanted to say it, I didn't have the chance to say it." Wu Zhongyuan was anxious. He knew very well the severity of the clue leak.

"How did you deal with the things in your flashlight?" Wang Xinran asked.
Chapter completed!