Li Jingwei had breakfast after morning exercise with his master Cao Guangzheng as usual, and then drove to New York.

He plans to go to the Natural History Museum and study the African rock carvings again to see if he can provide some ideas for cracking the treasure map code.

In the past, every time he came to New York City, he used to take the train. In this way, you can read a book on the road and will not waste time. The reason why he drove today was that he wanted to return to Boston after the visit, so that it would not affect his learning from his master Cao Tianzheng tomorrow morning.

Before leaving, Li Jingwei noticed that S&P 500 stock index futures had fallen. In this way, his short position last night has already seen a certain floating profit. So, he simply invested the remaining 10 million dollars. In this way, he held more than 1,000 lots.

By the time Li Jingwei arrived at the Natural History Museum, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning, and the museum was already full of tourists. However, when he came to the area of the African stone carving wall, he found that it was still empty.

As usual, few visitors are interested in these African rock carvings.

The stone carvings on this wall of the museum come from twelve different caves. These 12 caves have historically belonged to different tribal areas in Africa. For the convenience of the exhibition, the museum put them on the same wall in the process of reproduction.

Since these stone carvings come from different caves, they are now put together to form a unified whole. So, if you look at the whole wall as a whole, it is likely that you will not find anything.

At this time, the museum did not consider the internal connection between these stone carvings from different caves when they put them together. Of course, perhaps there is no connection between them at all.

Li Jingwei was already aware of these after seeing the introduction of the museum during his last visit. Therefore, today he no longer looks at the stone carvings on the entire wall as a whole, but divides them into twelve areas and studies them separately.

For each area, Li Jingwei carefully took photos, and wrote down in detail in his notebook which cave the stone carvings in each area originally came from, as well as the location of the caves and their distribution on the African continent.

After making the records, Li Jingwei began to study these stone carvings in earnest. These symbols, which are composed of five kinds of figures, such as points, lines, gardens, squares and triangles, seem to have some kind of law in his eyes, but they seem to be nowhere to be found.

Therefore, Li Jingwei pondered for a long time, but still had no clue. During this time, perhaps because he was too engaged, he didn't notice that a pair of eyes had been secretly staring at him.

And this person is none other than Rum, who came to the Natural History Museum for field research.

Before that, Rum carefully checked the surveillance video from the Natural History Museum, especially the period from the time of entry to death. In addition, he also checked the identities of the tourists who registered on the same day. However, he found no object that could be suspected.

On a live tour of the museum today, he still found nothing. Just as he was about to leave, he casually flipped through the tourist registration list, and one of the names immediately caught his attention.

This name is Li Jingwei's name. Because, among the many tourists, only Li Jingwei signed in Chinese. When Rum looked through the museum's visitor registration list on the day of the incident, Li Jingwei's Chinese signature left a deep impression on him.

Later, he obtained Li Jingwei's relevant information through the channels of the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret service bureau. However, in the subsequent review process, nothing suspicious was found.

When he saw the signature again today, he was immediately interested. He even suspected for a moment that Li Jingwei had come to pick up the items left behind by Hengwen today. Because, it is possible that Li Jingwei did not take away the items and treasure maps of the horizontal stripes that day, and he came here to pick them up today.

So, Rum immediately went to the monitoring room and called up the video of Li Jingwei when he entered, and carefully observed his every move at that time. But he didn't find anything suspicious.

Subsequently, he locked Li Jingwei's location through monitoring. When Li Jingwei was studying the stone carvings on the wall, he stood in a corner and carefully observed Li Jingwei.

At first, he wondered why Li Jingwei, as a mathematician, was interested in these stone carvings, and then the symbols on the wall made him suddenly think of the password. Could it be that Li Jingwei is trying to crack the stone carvings on the wall?

Then he thought of the treasure map. The code on the treasure map, S.H.I.E.L.D. organized many experts to decipher it, but so far nothing has been found.

As soon as the idea of a password came to mind, it got Rum excited. Because, the password links Li Jingwei's identity as a mathematician with the treasure map.

Rum's intuition told him that Li Jingwei in front of him was likely to be a breakthrough, a breakthrough to find the whereabouts of the treasure map. In other words, it is likely that the treasure map was taken by Li Jingwei.

I have to say that this sudden idea made Rum guess that it was not far from ten. Now, the treasure map is on Li Jingwei's body. However, if you search your body directly, you will definitely not be able to find it, because Li Jingwei put the treasure map in the Sumeru ring.

Rum didn't act rashly, he secretly observed for a while, and then left. He returned to the museum gatehouse, where he sat and waited quietly. He planned to follow and monitor Li Jingwei first to see if he could find anything.

At around 12 o'clock, Li Jingwei's research on stone carvings and symbols still did not yield any results. In desperation, he decided to go back and study it more closely.

Now, he has taken pictures of the stone carvings on the walls. Li Jingwei plans to import the pictures into the computer after he returns, and then study them through an analysis program.

After coming out of the museum, Li Jingwei planned to have a bite to eat and then drive back to Boston. When he saw a café with a sophisticated décor, he walked inside.

He ordered a business package and a cup of coffee, returned the menu to the waiter, then took out his digital camera and began to study the photographs of African rock carvings.

At this moment, a very handsome young man did the opposite of him. This person is none other than Hu Wangqing, nicknamed "Silver Fox".

Since having dinner with Tang Qiuyan that day, Hu Wangqing's affection for her has skyrocketed. Tang Qiuyan is not only beautiful, but also generous in dealing with people. In particular, what makes Hu Wangqing appreciate is that Tang Qiuyan has an independent personality and is not as clingy as many girls.

In addition, the two also found that they actually have common interests and hobbies, so there are many common topics.

In this way, Hu Wangqing became a frequent visitor to the café opened by Tang Qiuyan, and has been soaking here for the past few days.

Originally, he was chatting with Tang Qiuyan. However, when Li Jingwei handed the menu back to the waiter, he noticed the bracelet on Li Jingwei's wrist.

"You're also a member of the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance?" asked Hu Wangqing in a low voice.

Li Jingwei was stunned when he heard this, and then he also noticed the bracelet on Hu Wangqing's wrist, and knew that the person in front of him was also a member of the Xuanyuan Dragon League. In addition, Hu Wangqing used the word "also" when he asked, which is equivalent to confessing his own identity.

"Yes. My name is Li Jingwei, may I ask your surname?" Li Jingwei replied. He also felt very cordial when he was able to meet the members of the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance here, even though he didn't know each other.

"Don't be expensive, my name is Hu Wangqing. Are you here on a mission? You're being followed. "At six o'clock, the short, stocky, balding man." ”

He also thought that Li Jingwei's mission today was exposed, and he was followed all the way here by the other party.

"It's not. I'm here today to visit the Natural History Museum. Li Jingwei was also puzzled, not knowing why the other party was following him.

Of course, Li Jingwei definitely didn't think that Hu Wangqing was joking, and he didn't question his judgment.

Because, Li Jingwei can see that Hu Wangqing in front of him is a master. His cultivation is at least higher than that of Sato Takeshita, who was defeated under him some time ago. It is impossible for such a master to make such a low-level judgment error.

Li Jingwei thought about it for a while and immediately realized what the problem was. The person being followed now must have been from the Natural History Museum, and must have something to do with the treasure map.

Then he thought of the horizontal stripes, and the other party must be following this clue. However, he also made sure that he did not show any flaws. At least so far, there is no direct evidence that he has anything to do with the treasure map.

"This man is S.H.I.E.L.D. Rum. Hu Wangqing continued, "This person is quite difficult, and he is targeting, so he must deal with it carefully." ”

Hu Wangqing's father, Hu Yuming, is the person in charge of the Xuanyuan Dragon League in the United States, and naturally knows a lot about the situation of the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret service. Because Rum has been relatively active recently, he has been in contact with underworld organizations such as the Klober family, one of the three major underworld families in New York, so he has also entered Hu Yuming's field of vision.

Because Hu Wangqing participated in the relevant actions about the treasure map, Hu Yuming also asked him to read the material about Rum carefully. So, when he first saw Rum, Hu Wangqing recognized him.

"Thank you!" Li Jingwei sincerely thanked. Then, he asked Hu Wangqing: "If you sit with me like this now, will he suspect you?" ”

"Hehe! Doubt is inevitable. One of the characteristics of Rum is that he is suspicious of everyone. Hu Wuqing said disapprehantly.

Although he found Rum difficult, he did not take him to heart. With his cultivation, there are still many ways to deal with people like Rum.

Then, he said again: "Actually, with your cultivation, it is not difficult to find him. You're just inexperienced. ”

Hu Wangqing just found out that he couldn't see through Li Jingwei's cultivation. At the beginning, he even had the illusion that Li Jingwei was an ordinary person. But he immediately rejected this idea, because it was impossible for an ordinary person to enter the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance. In this case, there is only one explanation, and Li Jingwei's cultivation is above him.

So, he guessed that Li Jingwei might have just come to the United States and didn't know the situation here. He was familiar with Rum's situation, so he reminded him.

"Mr. Hu, thank you for the reminder. Li Jingwei thanked again.

"You're welcome. We, the members of the Xuanyuan Dragon Alliance, just want to help each other. Are you new to the United States?" said Hu Wangqing.

"No, I've been in the U.S. for a few years, first studying at MIT, and then working there. However, I have not been a member of the Xuanyuan Dragon League for a long time. Li Jingwei replied.

Hearing Li Jingwei say that he works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hu Wangqing reminded again: "After you go back, you must pay attention to your residence so that there are no flaws." In particular, it is important not to store sensitive information on computers. Rum may have someone from S.H.I.E.L.D. search your residence. ”

"Of course, you don't have to be too nervous. Apparently, Rum is just tentatively following you. If he didn't find anything, he would definitely give up. ”

When Li Jingwei heard this, he said in his heart: "This time, I'm afraid the people of the S.H.I.E.L.D. will not give up easily. ”

Before he died, Hengwen told Li Jingwei that the S.H.I.E.L.D. would never give up the treasure map easily. Therefore, for any clues about the treasure map, I am afraid they will spare no effort to follow up.