The atlas is easy to understand, and after reading it, Tang Wen also has a feeling - the highway network in the United States is very developed, which is roughly divided into interstate highways, national highways, intrastate highways and county roads......

Of course, this is not of much use.

I flipped through a few pages, and then tossed the hardcover atlas aside, but I didn't control my strength well. Dropped the crusty book to the ground.

There was a soft sound, so light that Tang Wen, a person who could hear a pin drop in a chaotic situation, wondered if he had heard it wrong.

Normally, Tang Wen was definitely reluctant to move while lying on the bed. Today, though, curiosity has risen. He barely reached out and pulled the atlas back from the ground.

I shook it lightly in my hand, and sure enough, there was a soft sound. With a cascade of friction, it's not very clear.

Tang Wen's heart moved, and his face became strange: Can this kind of hard-skin atlas still have a mezzanine? Or is it a quality problem?

Thinking so, he turned his hand around and looked at it, thinking that it shouldn't be a quality problem. After thinking for a while, he decisively turned out a butterfly knife and tore open the inner layer and hard skin of the atlas. Picked up the shell and shook it, and this time the sound was much clearer. With a few clicks of his fingers, the butterfly knife turned a few times on the palm of his hand, and threw the cardboard shell completely along the vertical line......

The yellow cover is not very thick, at best half a centimeter.

After Tang Wen took the knife and cut it open, he broke the narrow opening with his hand and slammed it on the bed. He was stunned at what had been poured out—it was a tiny yellow roll of paper. The volume is thin and long. A miniature hand-rolled cigarette.

'Did someone put this thing in there?'

Obviously, this thing can't be something that fell naturally from the inside of the paper shell cover. Eighty percent of them were deliberately stuffed into it.

The slender yellow strip of paper has been rolled up for a long time, and it will inevitably look a little dirty.

Tang Wen carefully pinched it, took it between his thumb and index finger, and unfolded the paper roll. Above is a free combination of letters and numbers in a row: 9TB5SA46...... Disorganized, clueless. He looked at both sides carefully, and counted them as twenty-three in all.

……

Tang Wen thought about it all night and didn't figure it out, but a smart person like him is actually possible for this kind of thing that seems to have a clue and is actually possible. If you can't figure it out, don't think about it.

Early the next morning, when he came out to Lu Fei's house for breakfast, Tang Wen told him about it. By the way, he threw the atlas and paper scroll to Bai Qing. It's boring for him to think about this kind of thing alone, it's fun to pull everyone into the water together!

"You can't fake this thing, right?" Bai Qing was in a good mood, shaking her hair and not forgetting to joke.

"What's there to fake here. What's in it?" Tang Wen rolled his eyes.

"Hmm, how did you find out?"

This does sound strange, but the few people present are not ordinary people. Bai Qing is not counted, Zhong Chuhong, Yang Zilong, and Lu Fei all feel that there may be other articles here.

Several people talked about it and found that this thing could be threaded.

If it is a little strange to say that the owner of the wooden house runs a hotel, then from here, it may be the origin of the problem......

"So maybe someone set it on fire?" Bai Qing guessed with a wink.

"Possibly. Who knows where the boss, the bearded uncle, has gone? After the fire, we didn't pay attention, so we didn't know where the others went, and the injuries were not serious......

Lu Fei, who was more aware of the situation, slowly spoke: "The notice I received seems to say that the fire broke out in the afternoon. However, during the phone call, the police over there mainly confirmed with me that we were not customers of those two houses. Then I asked if there were any valuables, and said that the two houses we lived in were half burned down by the time the fire was extinguished......"

"Did you mention the bearded boss?" Tang Wen asked.

"Yes! I asked on the other side of the phone, and we knew the boss's contact information other than the mobile phone and the hotel landline. I told him that we didn't even have his phone. Lu Fei shrugged.

"So, maybe this boss can't find anyone now?" Tang Wen frowned. He still has a good impression of this boss, and he can't help but be a little worried that he can't find it.

"Eighty percent of them can't be found. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked. Yang Zilong shook his head.

A few bowls of noodles with a few plates of braised beef were quickly served on the table.

Tang Wen copied it and took a bite, and concluded: "In other words, a fire broke out in the afternoon. Then the boss was nowhere to be found. In our luggage, or when the staff searched for the remaining items, they somehow added something to our luggage. That is, the atlas. ”

"We're not sure if this atlas has been in our room all along, or what's going on. My attention wasn't on that at the time, so I ......"

Tang Wen said and looked at Zhong Chuhong and them.

Yang Zilong and Lu Fei said they were not impressed. Zhong Chuhong said: "We also have an atlas in our house, which is on the decorative bookcase in my room. I also took it down and looked at it, it's a landscape album, if it's packaged. It's pretty much the same as this book!"

"Yo, so there is a little note in that map that someone stuffed in?" Tang Wen said with a smile.

"Well, I didn't feel anything unusual anyway. Zhong Chuhong said with a smile.

Bai Qing listened and ate at the same time, and after a while, the first bowl of noodles had been eaten. She raised her head and took a sip of noodle soup, raised her eyebrows and said, "This matter, this note appears in the book, I think there are two situations." One is a prank, and the other is someone hiding some secret. ”

Several people looked at her.

Lu Fei helped his wife quickly serve a second bowl of noodles to everyone. This kind of food is to eat this kind of food to be delicious enough.

Bai Qing accompanied her, turned to Tang Wen and said, "You tell me in detail about the process of how you found this thing......" Tang Wen glanced at her and said while eating. He remembered what happened last night very clearly.

“…… I read it for the first time and didn't think anything was out of the ordinary. Then he threw it away, and he didn't pay attention to it and smashed it on the ...... with a big one" Speaking of this, Tang Wen paused. First, he was reluctant to explain that he could hear voices, and secondly, he realized something. Looking at Bai Qing, she suddenly sighed, and reached out to pick up the cardboard book cover and fruit knife on the table.

Then he used a knife to completely cut open the book cover, and explained to a few people as he did it: "If this is a prank, it is impossible to have something like viscose to fix this paper roll...... After all, pranks are basically a whim. There is no such thing as a deliberate one. Anyway, if I were to make one, I would definitely hide and wait to see the joke, and then hope that others would find out soon...... It's sure to make the paper roll inside rattle......"

"The more curious and attention-grabbing the better...... But if you want to hide something......" Tang Wen said with a slight tear on his hand, and the yellow cardboard cover completely turned into two halves......