24. Traces

"Someone has been investigating you lately. Yan Hokusai told Zuo Lin with a grim face. Although the work of covering up cannot be said to be unsuccessful, Yan Hokusai still began to pay attention to the situation around Zuo Lin. And the details that had been overlooked before surfaced one by one.

"A few people who don't know where they came have been staring at you for a while, haven't you noticed?" asked Yan Hokusai.

"I found out, but I didn't think it was a threat. Zuo Lin said.

"Alas," Yan Hokusai sighed, "Naturally, there is no threat to the people who hit the front station, but what I'm afraid of is that there will be more and more trouble in the future." ”

"They're hired by the CIA, and they're just small shrimps. ”

Yan Hokusai said: "It's not just them, a director of the National Security Bureau recently came to me and asked about you. The news in the hospital hasn't gotten out yet, but sooner or later. But Song Tao, you are really ...... That's a lot of means. The meaning of the national security side is that they want to recruit you as a field agent. But I helped you refuse. The more people are curious about you, the more difficult it is to hide it, and one day, your ability will be known by others. I wonder if there's a way to fix all of these things. Times have changed, and now people don't understand and respect those ...... as much as they used to Beyond the power of nature. ”

Zuo Lin nodded. Jin Xiaohua said that he wanted to learn...... Shennong Pavilion's secret technique, what do you think, Old Yan?"

Yan Hokusai smiled and said, "Teach the traditional martial arts you said, it doesn't involve the fighting skills of the druids, just what Sun Lao taught you bits and pieces is enough for the little girl to toss for several years." Multiple useful helpers are better, especially Jin Xiaohua. She's not an ordinary bodyguard, it's her mother who put her with me. I believe that there will be many opportunities in the future, and Jin Xiaohua will be able to help you. ”

"In this day and age, druids don't need acolytes. Zuo Lin said helplessly.

"I think the main question is not whether it is needed, but whether there is anyone willing to be an attendant. Times are indeed different. Yan Lao was embarrassed. Back then, being able to become Sun Lao's attendant, and even enter the peripheral organization of the Druid Council, has always been the pride of Tsubame Hokusai. But now, no one is willing to give up their independent status and be loyal to someone.

Judging from the current situation, after the activation of drugs and the power of nature, if she is trained, Jin Xiaohua has a good hope of becoming an attendant, and the key lies in her own will.

"You mean, keep it from her until she can be trusted enough?" Zuo Lin understood what Yan Lao meant.

"There will be more and more things in the future, and you need to have people around you who can be trusted and have strong work skills. I'm too old to help with a lot of things. "Yan Hokusai will not squeeze the surplus value from Zuo Lin does not mean that the Druid Council will not, although there is no further contact yet, but over the years, the Druid Council has few people and more things, and those who are more capable of doing things have no rest all year round. Cultivating wings is not nice to say, but sometimes it is also an objective need. "Xuexue will always follow you to learn in the future, which is almost the same as Xiaohua always by your side. It's up to you to make up your mind. But personally, having a reliable helper isn't a bad thing. ”

Zuo Lin felt that Yan Hokusai had a point, and was about to agree. Suddenly, the fax machine in the office creaked.

Tsubame Hokusai's office phone and fax are independent, but they have not been used much. All the documents in the company had to be summarized by the secretary and assistant before they were in his hands. In Tsubame-Hokusai's office, these modern office equipment are useless. Because of this, in the secretary's office at the door, fax printing is laser, but there is such an extremely outdated thermal fax machine in Yan Hokusai's office.

"Zuo Lin...... Sun Lao appeared......" Yan Hokusai glanced at the fax machine and rushed over, holding the paper that was constantly being sent out of the fax machine in his hand, and reading it carefully. His face was full of excitement and excitement, and there was a faint glint in his eyes.

"Teacher Sun?" Zuo Lin was also taken aback. Hurriedly stood up and went over to take the fax file.

The fax came directly from the Druid Council headquarters. A castle in Scotland, which has been one of the locations of important meetings of the Druid Parliament, has been moved from the Middle Ages to the present day, and although the headquarters have been relocated to an office building in London, disguised as a humble trading company, the castle is still a very important stronghold. Just a few days ago, the castle received a mail addressed to the old butler, who had been serving the castle for almost 40 years. The old housekeeper opened the email and found that it was a series of legal documents, indicating that Sun Lao wanted to transfer a series of his assets to Zuo Lin's name. These assets have been passed down from generation to generation by the druids of Sun Lao's lineage, and Sun Lao has been in control of these assets for more than 100 years. Some of these properties have seen considerable appreciation. Since most of these assets are abroad, the assets belong to the name of one of Mr. Sun's identities in the United Kingdom. After Sun Lao disappeared, these assets have been managed and operated by the Druid Council and the old butler's family.

When a series of authorization documents were transferred by the old butler to the Druid Council headquarters, everyone was taken aback. Sun Lao is indeed alive, and this powerful druid, who is about to become a legend, is still alive. By gifting these assets to Zolin, he was in fact giving him his status as a druid, his identity, and his position in the council. In this way, his status in the parliament does not need to be assessed and confirmed.

Elder Sun expressed a lot of meaning to the parliament through such a move. He already knew that the Druid Council had been in contact with Zuo Lin, and he believed that Zuo Lin's ability could shoulder the responsibilities he had originally undertaken; he didn't want to continue to take on the regular work of the Council, and would rather cultivate silently by himself, but he recognized that Zuo Lin was his heir, and once there was trouble, there was no reason for the master to hide behind and watch the play...... And those who have been looking for Sun Lao have finally confirmed that Sun Lao is still alive in such a more direct way.

“…… You need a good lawyer, a whole bunch of things. Yan Hokusai glanced at Zuo Lin and said.

"What's the matter with property or something? I really want to go to Mr. Sun now. ”

"If Elder Sun is willing to be found by you, then he might as well come to Shanghai to find you directly. Don't you still know about Sun Lao?" Yan Beizhai's years of following Sun Lao are far from being comparable to Zuo Lin, and his understanding of Sun Lao is also much deeper. "The Druid Council will be sending someone soon, and I'm afraid it's not just property, but a lot of other things. Although he was not a core member, Sun Lao was busy enough with the work of the council back then. You must know that it was still a few decades ago, and the pace of life is not comparable to now. ”

Zuo Lin didn't listen, but looked at the faxes carefully. Not only the documents, but also the envelope of the email where it was scanned. On the thick and quaint double-layer brown paper, Sun Lao wrote the place where this thing was sent: Lhasa. Zuo Lin knew that Sun Lao had used a lot of names before and after, the name he used when he was a teacher in the mountain village was Sun Ping, and on the cover, he used the name he used earlier: Sun Yihong.

In just a few words, Zuo Lin's thoughts were taken to distant Tibet.

The bigger shock came two days later. An amazingly large package sent in the name of Sun Yihong arrived at the headquarters of Shennong Group. The recipient's signature is not Zuo Lin - Sun Lao does not know Zuo Lin's current address, but Yan Hokusai. The parcel weighed 2 tons and contained more than 200 books of all kinds, twice as much, filled with notes on various experiences and countless bottles and jars. Those bottles contained almost all of the precious medicinal materials that ordinary people could not think of, and the seeds of various plants that only druids could use, as well as all kinds of medicines, indigo mustard, a very difficult ointment to make, there were 4 large bottles, according to the amount of Jin Xiaohua that day, it was enough to use it more than 400 times. The value of these things is simply incalculable.

"What is Old Sun going to do...... "After moving a lot of troublesome things to the Yan family's mansion and classifying them, and nervously asking his bodyguards to guard them 24 hours a day, Yan Hokusai asked Zuo Lin sweatingly.

"How do I know...... I've never seen these books, these notes. At my current level of study, I can't understand more than half of the spells. ……”

Zuo Lin looked at the things written on the yellowed and brittle papers, and his heart was immersed in the ocean of knowledge. There is a distance between a qualified druid and a powerful druid, and the gap is even more significant compared to a druid who has almost become a legend for a generation. These notes of Sun Lao have been completely recorded from Sun Lao's ability to learn the druids until now, as well as a large amount of knowledge and skills about other systems, and following these notes to practice step by step, Zuo Lin will one day become a great druid like Sun Lao.

However, what is Sun Lao going to do? After handing over his assets and taking out the more precious years of accumulation, the most intuitive feeling is that Sun Lao has made any decisive decision? With Sun Lao's ability, unless he is willing to die, there is hardly any energy that can destroy him, not even the ultimate power such as a nuclear bomb. What the hell happened to Sun Lao.

Zuo Lin and Yan Hokusai are like sitting on pins and needles. Mr. Sun sent these things, still using the name Sun Yihong, and the location was in Chongqing, a few days earlier than he sent those asset transfer documents from Lhasa, but due to the large number of items, the road was delayed. Yan Hokusai immediately mobilized all the forces he could muster to follow all the clues about the name.

Two more days later, the men from the Druid Council arrived. This time it wasn't Insula, but an Englishman named Calle.

"Excuse me, do you have any news about Elder Sun?" Calle also looked quite anxious about this question.

"No, all the means that can be used have been used. Sun Lao took a fake ID card from Chongqing to Lhasa, and then he could no longer be traced. Yan Hokusai said regretfully that he really wanted to see Sun Lao again.

"In any case, let's finish what we need to do first, whether Sun Lao is here or not, there are still so many things that need to be done. Calle said indifferently. He looked resolute, as if nothing would shake him. "On behalf of the Parliament, I came to carry out the transfer of assets with Zorin, as well as the official appointment of the Parliament. After all is dealt with, I will stay in China for a long time, and my task is to continue to track down the whereabouts of Sun Lao. However, I think that Yan Lao is eager for Zuo Lin to master the new technology and have more money to use, I am afraid that it is because Yan Lao already knows some recent things, but he doesn't feel the need to come forward in person. ”

"What's the dynamic?" Zuo Lin asked curiously.

"Someone's going to do something about the Druid Council. "The Druid Council is a ...... How to put it, a very complex organization. Speaking of which, many of the things we do are very similar to the so-called 'Greenpeace', where we cherish nature and strive to eliminate the negative effects of economic development on nature in various ways. Things like protests and lobbying for legislation are rarely involved, and our approach is more direct and effective because we have a lot of power in our hands. But in recent years, many druids who were on missions outside have gone missing. 3 in Africa, 1 in the Americas and 1 in Asia. There aren't many people in the Druid Council who can carry out complex tasks on their own, and the loss of so many people is simply unbearable. Sun Lao is a respected druid, probably the most powerful druid in the world, and everyone in the council hopes that Sun Lao can come back to preside over the investigation and fight back against such a thing. ”

Kale glanced at Zuo Lin and continued: "Because Elder Sun's original position was to undertake such a job, although several druids have temporarily taken over this responsibility in the past few decades, according to our inheritance system, it is impossible to continue like this forever after all. And now, Elder Sun's actions make it clear that he wants you to do it. Mr. Yan, please give us a moment later, I need to read the official appointment to Zuo Lin. Zolin, I would like you to have a separate house that can be used to accommodate the relevant documents that are about to be handed over to you, and if you do not have a squire who can take on the duties of guarding the documents and so on, the council will appoint several peripheral members to assist you. These are other people's shalves and friends, and there are other things to do after you have your own candidates. Also, there's one more thing I want you to be prepared for. ……”

Zolin was a little stunned by Kalai's words, he never thought that the Druid Council would be so troublesome. "What preparation?"

"All the members of the Druid Council, who undertake all the work, do so at their own expense. We are a complex and tight-knit collective, but we have a big problem. That is, everyone is poor. Everyone has a lot of real estate and other things, but no one has much liquidity. ”