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Seven hearts of begonias!

As soon as these four words came out of Reiko Morisaki's mouth, Shi Guoyi's whole person froze. He tried his best to control his emotions and not let his face show too obvious emotional colors, but unfortunately he couldn't see what the effect was, but he weighed it in his own heart, and it felt that it should not be ideal.

"Seven Heart Begonias?" Shi Guoyi repeated these four words, and at the same time sneered, trying to hide his true reaction: "Shi someone has been studying botany for most of his life, and I know the begonia flowers, and there are them in the imperial garden in the palace of the old country." But what is this 'seven-hearted begonia'? Is it a new variety of begonia flowers? I also ask Team leader Morizaki to forgive me for being lonely and unheard of, and I have never heard of such a thing. ”

"Shi Sang, you and I are both understanding people, so you don't need to be perfunctory with me like this. Morizaki Reiko smiled and said: "I believe you also know - what we Fuso will specialize in, not to mention that I am also the leader of the intelligence group, if I haven't done some homework in advance, how can I come to the door to disturb me." That seven-hearted begonia, anyone can say they don't know, but you can't!"

Shi Guoyi knew that this Fusang female spy must have learned some information about her family through some channel, after all, his hometown Shanhaiguan fell before the Forbidden City, and the power of the Fusang Society must have penetrated into all corners of that place. It is not difficult to find out the ancestral house of the Shi family, the genealogy, the history, etc.

But on the one hand, he was unwilling to compromise with these widows so quickly, and on the other hand, he wanted to know more about what unknown conspiracy was hidden behind the other party's search for the Seven Heart Begonia. At that moment, he continued to pretend to be stupid, pretending that he didn't know anything about Qixin Begonia, and at the same time asked with retreat: "When someone only stayed in Shanhaiguan's hometown for a few years, it didn't take long for him to go out to study abroad. But what makes someone a little curious is why Team Leader Morizaki is so obsessed with finding this flower? Could it be that it has something to do with your country's next move?"

Reiko Morizaki's face sank suddenly, and she said gloomily: "This is the top secret of our military, Shi Sang, please keep your mouth shut, don't ask more questions if you shouldn't ask!"

There is no doubt that Reiko Morisaki is very strict-mouthed, but Shi Guoyi himself did not plan to get something out of the other party's mouth, after all, the other party is a spy cultivated by the most famous spy organization in Dongying, if it is so easy to say things casually, it is not normal.

But Shi Guoyi also guessed a thing or two from Reiko Morisaki's suddenly changed look: the other party said that the "Seven Heart Begonia" belonged to the top secret of the Fuso military, which showed that the value of the Seven Heart Begonia to the Fuso people was far greater than he imagined, so big that the head of the intelligence team of the Fuso Society needed to personally go into battle to investigate the whereabouts of this flower. And Shi Guoyi thought carefully for a while, the two major characteristics of the seven heart begonias are nothing more than "long flowering" and "strong toxicity", obviously the latter characteristic can attract the attention of Fusang.

As for what they wanted to do with the toxicity of the "Seven Heart Begonia", Shi Guoyi thought about it for a while, and knew that they must be preparing for a future war of aggression. Now that the flames of war are being ignited all over the world, several countries in the West are stepping up the development of large-scale weapons of destruction like "nuclear warheads." Whoever develops it first will be able to dominate the battlefield. And a small country like Fuso definitely does not have the ability to research nuclear weapons at the moment, it seems that they want to find another way to develop chemical weapons through the characteristics of some strange creatures. Shi Guoyi has heard that the Fusang people have been secretly conducting some kind of secret experiment, but there has been no result;

It's just that even in China, it is estimated that no one has Seven Heart Begonias, and no one knows the relationship between the Shi family and Seven Heart Begonias. This Fusang people are far away in the East, how did they know about this strange flower of the Seven Heart Begonia and its relationship with the Shi family? And this is definitely not something that Pei Lin can tell them!

Shi Guoyi's guess was right, and Reiko Morizaki came to ask for the Seven Heart Begonia this time, precisely because the Fuso military was conducting experimental research on some kind of secret weapon. It's just that in the thirties of the last century, no country had a deep involvement in the field of biological weapons research, and the Fuso military experienced failure after failure, but still could not get a good result.

Just when the Fuso military was about to abandon this experiment, news came from Dongying that someone from the "Institute of Oriental Culture" had found an ancient book called "Persona of the East". The author of this book is an ancient traveling monk, and the book records what he saw and heard during his travels in the eastern countries, and contains many strange people and strange things. One of them tells the story that the Fuso monk once sailed to China, passing through the Shanhaiguan area, where he accidentally discovered a strange plant.

It is a large flower with stems, which looks like a begonia flower, but it is more gorgeous and dazzling than the authentic four-grade begonia. The Fuso monk saw that he liked it, and was about to reach out to pick it, but just as he stretched out his hand, he was stopped by someone drinking—it turned out that the flower was guarded.

After clearing up the misunderstanding, the Fuso monk was invited back to his home by the flower protector. During the meal, the monk Fuso asked the flower protector about the name and origin of the flower, and the flower protector saw that he was a guest from Dongying, and his character was not bad, and he just drank a few more glasses of wine, and as soon as the wine was strong, he talked more, and immediately told the whole story of the matter.

According to the record left by the Fuso monk in the book: When the family was surnamed, they lived in the Shanhaiguan area. That flower is called "Seven Heart Begonia", which is a strange flower handed down from ancient times, and it is the only one in the world. The flowering period of this flower is as long as ten years, and the flower contains strange poison, which is so toxic that it is enough to rot the heart and bones, even if it is the kind of poison that is poisonous all around, as long as it is contaminated by its pollen, it will turn into pus within a moment or three, which is extremely terrifying.

The Fuso monk later returned to Dongying and wrote down all the experiences he had seen during his travels in this book "Persona of the East". The book was later passed around several times, and finally fell into the hands of the research institute, which was used as a reference for the study of ancient oriental cultures. But I didn't want to find out about the relevant records of "Seven Heart Begonias" at this time, but I helped the military.

The Fuso military believed that as long as they found the "Seven Heart Begonia", they could use the fierce toxicity of this strange flower to create the weapon of mass destruction they wanted. So after the fall of Shanhaiguan, the Fusang army went to raid the ancestral house of the Shi family for the first time, but found that the old house was empty, and the ancestral spiritual positions enshrined in the ancestral hall in the backyard had been emptied.

At that time, the Fuso Society in the Pingjin area had just been established, and it needed a capable assistant to assist the new president in promoting a series of espionage work. The military officer transferred Reiko Morisaki from the northeast and appointed her as the head of the intelligence team, and the task was to find the legendary seven-hearted begonia. Reiko Morizaki searched around the empty ancestral house but couldn't find any clues, and when she was having a headache, her assistant gave her an important clue - the person who originally lived in the house, he should know.

And Reiko Morizaki's assistant is the traitor Pei Lin!

Pei Lin told Reiko Morizaki about Shi Guoyi, and said that he remembered that Shi Guoyi was the Shanhaiguan clan, and he was also surnamed Shi, maybe he was the descendant of the flower protector back then. Morizaki Reiko was suffering from no clue, and suddenly a clue came, naturally she was overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to investigate the information about Shi Guoyi, and learned that he was now teaching in Tsinghua Garden, and then there was the current scene.

Although Shi Guoyi didn't know how Fusang people learned about the Seven Heart Begonia, he knew that this strange flower must not fall into the hands of the other party. He majored in botany in biology at Cambridge College, and after returning from his studies, he has been researching the ancestral seven-hearted begonia, but he has never been able to find out why.

Although Shi Guoyi still doesn't believe in absurd statements such as "fairy flowers", he also knows that this flower is not simple. In terms of the toxicity contained in the flower alone, he has found many kinds of poisons to experiment, and has not found any toxin that can be compared to the seven heart begonias. Once the Fuso people get this flower and extract the toxins in the flower to make some biological weapons, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Thinking like this, I only heard Reiko Morizaki say: "Shisang, if you can hand over the Seven Heart Begonia to us, I can recommend you to join the National Biological Research Institute of our Great Fuso Empire, where you can have better equipment and conditions, and you can better display your talents." As long as you help with this, we will definitely not treat you badly. ”

Huaxia does not yet have its own National Institute of Biological Sciences, if Shi Guoyi can enter the authoritative research places abroad to carry out his research work, it will undoubtedly further improve his professional level, maybe he can still make a breakthrough in academic research, which is definitely the dream of every scholar. Reiko Morizaki thinks that the conditions she offered are very tempting, and a great scientist like Shi Guoyi, who is obsessed with learning, should have no reason to refuse.

Unexpectedly, what he was waiting for was Shi Guoyi's sharp refusal: "I'm really sorry, Team Leader Morizaki, don't say that someone doesn't know anything at all, even if he knows, I don't have it in my hand, even if I have it in my hand, I will never give it to you invaders!"

Reiko Morizaki's face completely lost a smile this time: "What did you say?"

Shi Guoyi sneered: "You think if you don't say it, I don't know what you Oriental devils want to do, right?! If that seven-hearted begonia is not beneficial to you, you don't have to look for it in such a hurry; and the first thing you do after you find the seven-hearted begonia is to use it against our Chinese people." I'm an upright Chinese, do you want me to learn from that dog traitor next to you and help you slaughter my compatriots!"

Pei Lin heard Shi Guoyi suddenly pointed the finger at himself, the angry look was even more terrifying than when he had a cold face, although he had been scolded by him as a "dog traitor, dog traitor", but he couldn't generate the slightest anger, but was frightened to the point that his face was colorless, and the whole person was like a ball of chaff.

At this moment, the door of the laboratory was suddenly opened again, and I saw Shi Guoyi's old friend Chen Chen walking in. He just pushed the door in, and was about to say hello to Shi Guoyi, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Reiko Morisaki and Pei Lin, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Shi Guoyi's heart suddenly had an ominous premonition, and he hurriedly shouted: "Lao Chen, run!"

Although Chen Chen didn't understand what was going on, he was shouted so loudly by Shi Guoyi, out of trust in his friend, he still pulled out his legs and ran out of the door. Then I only heard a loud "bang", which was deafening, and I saw Reiko Morizaki turn around, put one hand into her beige windbreaker, and when she took it out again, she already had an extra gun in her hand, and pulled the trigger on Chen Chen.

Finally, Chen Chen reacted quickly enough and ran in time, and the bullet avoided the vital point of the head. Rao was like this, he was still hit in the shoulder, and a ball of blood burst out directly. The feeling of a bullet entering his body is not as light as it is in modern film and television dramas, Chen Chen only felt a sharp pain coming from his shoulder, almost crushing him, and suddenly his feet were weak and he fell to the ground.

Reiko Morizaki didn't kill Chen Chen with one shot, but she didn't fire a second shot, so she put the pistol back into her windbreaker, turned her head to Shi Guoyi and said coldly: "Shi Sang, I'll give you seven days to think about it." In seven days, I will bring my people here to find you, and if you can't give me a satisfactory answer by then, then your relatives and your colleagues will probably have to suffer some hardships!"

2.

Seven days.

Shi Guoyi knew in his heart that if he couldn't hand over the Seven Heart Begonias to Reiko Morizaki after seven days, then the people of the Fusang Society would inevitably do something to their families and colleagues in Tsinghua Garden, and judging from their treatment of Chen Chen, it was very likely that they would kill them. But if you want to protect them and hand over the Seven Heart Begonias to the Fusang people, the victims will be 40,000 Chinese compatriots!

Shi Guoyi is not afraid of death, and he does not understand the truth of "sacrificing oneself and taking care of the overall situation". But the problem is - if Fusang can't get the Seven Heart Begonia as he wishes after seven days, he will be the only one who will die; even if his family and colleagues also have this kind of consciousness of repaying the country with death, Shi Guoyi can't help but think about them. It's almost impossible to have both of them in this situation!

He couldn't have escaped alone or with everyone, because he knew that from the time Reiko Morisaki set the seven-day period, the Fuso Society must have been spying on him. If he fled rashly or did something unusual, it would undoubtedly be an advance in his death.

From this point of view, no matter what choice is made, the end is a dead end - Shi Guoyi is almost desperate!

The Seven Heart Begonia is still blooming so dazzlingly, I don't know how much of a storm the outside world is about to set off for it. Shi Guoyi stood in front of the experimental table and looked at it dejectedly, his hair, which had always been neatly combed, had now been scratched by him, and his face was extremely ugly, pale and bloodless, obviously on the verge of collapse.

It is said that when people are about to despair, many things that they did not believe in before will have some inexplicable beliefs at this time. For example, if you are a person who has never believed in gods, and suddenly there is a person who is very important to you and you are in trouble, and you have tried many ways but failed to help him, so you can only watch him fall deeper and deeper, but there is nothing you can do. Usually at this time, the person who has never believed in the gods will suddenly believe in the gods and ask the gods to bless them - this is a common psychological phenomenon.

At this time, Shi Guoyi was like this, when he was helpless against the pot of seven-hearted begonias, the words that the old man of the Shi family had said to him when he was a child suddenly appeared in his mind: "Do you know Xiaoyi, in fact, our Shi family can be regarded as the descendants of the gods...... The real Immortal Dao method is completely different from the spell in your mouth...... Although the method of transporting the Dao Fa has been lost, the book that records the Dao Fa has been passed down as an heirloom of our family. ”

Shi Guoyi didn't know if he was crazy or stupid, he was a materialist, if he wasn't cornered, he wouldn't have thought of such a ridiculous trick at all.

But he only had one thought at this time: if what his grandfather told him back then was not a story that fooled children, but something that really happened, then it also means that the Taoist secret book that has been handed down is true. As long as you hurry up and learn it in these seven days, how can this immortal's tricks be beyond the reach of mortals, even if it is just to learn one or two moves, is it enough to subdue Reiko Morisaki and them after seven days!

This idea came very crazy, and Shi Guoyi's whole person trembled because of it. He still didn't believe in this set in his heart, but he instinctively gave himself a reason: he had already seen the strangeness of the Seven Heart Begonias, and it was indeed as magical as the old man of the same family said, what if those Dao secret techniques were the same?!

Shi Guoyi immediately jumped up from the chair in the laboratory, ran downstairs, and ran out of the school gate quickly, startling the doorman at the door. He rushed all the way back to the house and slammed open the door of the guest room, which had been unoccupied, and he had vacated some miscellaneous items. Shi Guoyi went crazy and knocked down a few boxes, and found out the big boxes that were pressed on the bottom floor, only to find that those boxes were all locked when he was about to open them. Where was he still in the mood to find the key to open the box, he went directly to the cabinet outside the house, took out a hammer, and smashed the lock on it.

The boxes were full of old items, and most of the things in the old house were moved when I moved from Shanhaiguan to Kyoto. Among them, there are some old objects that are not easy to place and occupy a special position, so Shi Guoyi specially found a few large boxes to pack them all up and pile them into this guest room.

He remembered that the secret book of the Dao Law should also be here.

After rummaging through the boxes and cabinets for a long time, Shi Guoyi was sweating profusely, and the clothes on his body were also covered with dust and dirt; finally found the crumpled and worn-out Taoist secret book at the bottom of the box. He was overjoyed, and immediately ran into the study with the book in his arms, and without even bothering to eat dinner, he lit the lamp and began to read.

Shi Guoyi read it for two days without sleep or food, and was shocked to discover the fact that he had underestimated the depth of this secret book. Not to mention that the words in this book are profound, and the grammar used in writing is also some ancient times, which is obscure to read; it is said that the ancestors of the family at this time first followed the valley master Wei Chengcheng in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers to learn art, and after leaving the valley, he studied under Shi Bin, the "Moon Worship Monk", which also shows that the Taoist secret techniques learned by the ancestors of the Shi family are a combination of the strengths of the two families of Wanhua Valley and Shi Bin, and their cultivation experience is by no means understandable to ordinary people.

Another point is that no matter what level of Dao method you have, if you want to really display it, you must supplement it with superior internal strength, otherwise even if you are given a ready-made talisman, you will not be able to use any tricks. And the cultivation of this internal strength can't be achieved without three or five years of hard work, just the only seven days that Guoyi has on hand at the moment, not to mention the initial results, I'm afraid I can't even touch the way!

Shi Guoyi didn't know the key to this, and thought that the Taoism left by his ancestors was too profound, and he didn't have enough understanding to comprehend the knowledge in it. But he was not discouraged, but continued to read page by page, believing that there would be one or two quick spells in the book that would help him get through the difficulties in a few days.

But sometimes the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Seeing that this book is getting thinner and thinner, Shi Guoyi has not yet found a spell that can be quickly learned, and there are only three days left before the seven-day period.

Shi Guoyi buried his face in a basin filled with cold water, forced himself to calm down, and then returned to the study, picked up the secret book and continued to read. Just when he was about to give up, he saw the newly opened page, and at the title on the right, there were four large traditional characters written in square italics-Seven Heart Begonia.

Shi Guoyi was shocked, and the fatigue caused by sleepless days for a while was swept away. He straightened his glasses and looked at them word by word, and the more he looked, the more gloomy his face became.

...............

The seven-day period was soon approaching.

Reiko Morizaki took Pei Lin and more than a dozen agents of the Fuso Society's intelligence group into the gate of Tsinghua Park and went straight to the laboratory where Shi Guoyi was.

As soon as the door opened, a strong smell of smoke came to my face. The Fuso people have been proficient in the tea ceremony since ancient times, and this is a very sacred thing in their hearts, and the Fuso people will bathe in incense before making tea, and burn a furnace of incense when boiling tea. When the tea is boiled, the fragrance of tea and sandalwood are intertwined, and the smell often makes people fascinated and fluttering.

This smell is even more charming than the aroma of boiling tea, and Reiko Morisaki herself is obsessed with the tea ceremony, and suddenly smells this smell, and can't help but smell it twice. At first glance, she saw that Shi Guoyi was not in the laboratory, but she saw a hidden small door open there, so she beckoned and said, "Go in and search!"

Several people rushed in together, and the person who entered in front of him briefly swept around the room, screaming so loudly that the whole person jumped.

Reiko Morizaki pushed aside the few people and stepped forward, suddenly stopped, looked at the scene in front of her, and the whole person was stunned. Pei Lin followed behind her, and also saw that scene, and suddenly rolled his eyes in fright, and fainted directly.

Shi Guoyi is dead!

His death, as long as a person with a little heart, can't bear to describe his current appearance......

The look on Reiko Morisaki's face was uncertain, she looked at Shi Guoyi's miserable death, turned her head to look at her subordinates, and asked in Dongying language: "Where does Shi Guoyi's son, whom you investigated before, work?"

One of them replied, "Shi Guoyi's son is a staff member of the Forbidden City Museum. ”

Morizaki Reiko said coldly: "Go to a few people at once and arrest him for me!"

Several spies answered, turned around and were about to go out, when suddenly several people stopped their steps in unison, their bodies staggered and unsteady, and some of them made a "ho-ho" sound in their throats, as if they were stuck in their throats, and they fell to the ground together with a few "goo-dong" and "goo-dong" sounds.

Reiko Morisaki couldn't help but be startled, frowned, and said, "What's the matter?!" Then I saw that several people in front of me also showed painful expressions, and they all curled up one by one, and the seven orifices began to overflow with blood. Reiko Morisaki was even more panicked at this moment, and just wanted to say something more, when she suddenly felt a hot current gushing out of her nose, and when she reached out to touch it, it was a hand full of blood.

For a while, Reiko Morisaki only felt as if her seven orifices were being pierced by ten thousand needles, and the sharp pain to her bones instantly made her unconscious. She rolled to the ground with her face covered in blood, and through the thick layer of blood in front of her, she saw purple-black lines slowly crawling all over her skin.

"This ...... What is this......" Before she finished speaking, Reiko Morisaki kicked her feet, and her seven orifices sprayed red, and she swallowed her breath. The other agents struggled a few times, but gradually lost their breath, and the room returned to a deathly silence.

All of them died.

Their deaths are exactly the same as Shi Guoyi!

The murderer is Shi Guoyi...... Or - it's the Seven Hearts Begonia!

【To be continued】