Chapter 055: Shocking Secrets
Blue Sky Community, in the secret room of the study.
Wang Tairan was engrossed in reading the first volume of "Notes on the Book Tomb", his face was a little strange, as if he had discovered something incredible from the book.
"Elder Wang?" Liu Xing stepped forward.
Wang Tairan didn't make a sound, raised his hand and pressed it, signaling Liu Xing to be quiet, and he continued to read "Notes on the Book Tomb".
Liu Xing said again: "Lan Lan almost had an accident, don't you know yet?"
Hearing this, Wang Tairan suddenly raised his head and asked urgently, "What's wrong with Lan Lan?"
Liu Xing said truthfully: "The night before yesterday, Lan Lan was almost kidnapped by five strange men......"
"What?" Wang Tairan suddenly stood up from the soft chair, anxious, "Where is Lan Lan now?"
Liu Xing patted Wang Tairan on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't be excited, Lan Lan is fine, someone saved her that night." ”
Wang Tairan breathed a sigh of relief: "Who wants to kidnap Lan Lan......"
Halfway through speaking, suddenly, the doorbell at home rang, Wang Tairan and Liu Xing walked out of the secret room together, came to the living room, opened the door and looked, and found that Guo Tieming, the captain of the criminal police team, and Professor Juan were standing at the door.
"Elder Wang, you're finally at home!" Professor Juan walked into the hall and asked puzzledly, "Where have you been in the past two days, the police haven't found you for a day yesterday." ”
Wang Tairan frowned: "Is there something the police are looking for me?"
"Mr. Wang, I am Guo Tieming, the captain of the Tianhai City Criminal Police Team, and I want to know about some things to you in person, I don't know if it's convenient. It is mainly about the case of Lan Lan's kidnapping and "Notes on the Book Tomb". ”
"Book Tomb Notes?" Wang Tairan was stunned for a moment, "Come in." ”
Guo Tieming, Professor Juan, and Wang Tairan took their seats in the hall, and Liu Xing watched from the sidelines.
"Lan Lan was almost kidnapped the night before, and the four suspects have been arrested by our police. Guo Tieming got straight to the point, "After interrogation, the purpose of these four suspects to kidnap Lan Lan is to get the "Book Tomb Notes" in your hand. ”
Wang Tairan's face was solemn: "Who are these suspects, and what do you want this "Book Tomb Notes" for?"
Guo Tieming said: "The four suspects are just thugs hired by others, and they don't know the truth. I only know that someone spent a huge bounty of 1 million for them to help rob "Book Tomb Notes", and the auction price of this "Book Tomb Notes" is only 900,000, which must be boring. Mr. Wang, is there anything wrong with this book "Book Tomb Notes"?"
Wang Tairan's eyes condensed slightly, pondered for a moment, and asked, "In addition to the kidnapping case, have there been other similar cases recently?"
Professor Juan interjected: "The coffin of Tianhai University was stolen last night......"
"What?" Wang Tairan's face was shocked, "The coffin was stolen?" After a moment of stunnedness, he let out a long sigh, "It seems that someone else has discovered the secret of the Book Tomb Notes!"
Hearing this, the other three were slightly stunned, and Liu Xing asked curiously, "What is the secret of "Notes on the Book Tomb"?"
"I only recently discovered this secret......
After a pause, Wang Tairan recalled: "Last month, when I was reading 'Notes on the Book Tomb', I found that there were many strange things about this novel. For example, personal pronouns are used very frequently in novels, often not writing the names of people or places, but instead of 'he' or 'it'. Later, I did some research on "Book Tomb Notes" and was surprised to find that it was a poker novel!"
"Poker novels?" Liu Xing was curious, "What is it?"
Wang Tairan explained: "Playing card novels mean that each page of the novel is like a playing card, and the order of these pages can be shuffled to form different stories. This kind of novel can shuffle the pages of the book like shuffling a playing card, and each time you shuffle it, you get a new story. ”
Liu Xing's face showed surprise, there is such a bizarre novel, the pages are arranged in different order, and you can see different stories?
At this time, Wang Tairan picked up "Notes on the Book of Tombs", ripped off the binding line of the novel, and spread the more than 300 pages of "Notes on the Tomb of Books" on the table like playing cards.
Wang Tairan introduced: "When ordinary people read "Notes on the Book Tomb", they will generally read it in the order of page number, first reading page 1, then page 2, and then page 3...... Read all the way to the last page. Reading out in this normal page order, "Notes on the Tomb of the Book" is just an ordinary fictional story. ”
After a pause, Wang Tairan changed his mouth and said, "However, if you read "Notes on the Book Tomb" in the order of the scrambled pages, you will not be able to read another completely different story! And these stories are the real stories of "Notes on the Book Tomb", which hides the secrets of the book tomb!"
Liu Xing asked: "What kind of story is "Book Tomb Notes" after the page number order is shuffled?"
Wang Tairan took out the first five pages of "Book Tomb Notes" and introduced: "The first five pages of "Book Tomb Notes" tell a total of five plots, page 1 The protagonist gets married in Luzhou, page 2 The protagonist goes to the capital to face the saint, page 3 The protagonist learns that the emperor wants to burn the Ma family's books, page 4 The protagonist goes 500 miles north, and the protagonist on page 5 buries the Ma family books in a book tomb in advance. Since 500 miles north of the capital is Taimen County, it can be inferred that the protagonist's book tomb is buried in Taimen County. ”
Liu Xing nodded, when he first read "Notes on the Book Tomb", the plots he read were in this order.
"If you shuffle the order of the pages, the plot will also be shuffled and it will become another story. For example, reading the story in the order of page numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 2 is completely different now. ”
Wang Tairan continued, "Reading in the order of page numbers 13452, the story of "Notes on the Book Tomb" becomes: the protagonist gets married in Luzhou (page 1), the protagonist learns that the emperor wants to burn the Ma family's books (page 3), the protagonist travels 500 miles north (page 4), the protagonist buries the Ma family's books in a book tomb in advance (page 5), and the protagonist goes to the capital to face the saint (page 2). Since Luzhou is 500 miles north of Yuzhou, therefore, in this story, this book tomb is buried in Yuzhou, not Taimen County in the first story before. ”
After a pause, Wang Tairan asked, "Have you found a problem?"
Liu Xing was stunned, and had an idea: "Yuzhou, is it Yufeng Mountain?"
"Not bad!"
Wang Tairan affirmed, "More than 800 years ago, Yufeng Mountain was called Yuzhou, and it was not until 50 years ago that the name of the place was changed. ”
Liu Xing raised a little eyebrow when he heard this: "Elder Wang, do you mean to say that the "Book Tomb Notes" is related to the book tomb in Yufeng Mountain?"
Wang Tairan nodded: ""Notes on the Book Tomb" is not an ordinary novel, but a novel that hides the secret of the book tomb. This novel uses a special creative technique to present different stories in different page sequences. If you follow the normal page number order, only ordinary stories can be read. However, if you read it in the order of the page numbers, you may find the burial site of the book tomb. ”
According to the contents of the "Book Tomb Notes" after renumbering the pages, there are a total of eight book tombs, one of which is buried in Yuzhou, that is, Yufeng Mountain. If the book is true, it means that there are seven more book tombs similar to Yufeng Mountain!"
As soon as these words came out, Professor Juan and Captain Guo Tieming were shocked.
And seven book tombs?
Liu Xing asked, "Where are the other seven book tombs?"
Wang Tairan shook his head: "To know the locations of the other seven book tombs, you need to first arrange the correct page order of the "Book Tomb Notes". The novel is more than 300 pages in total, and it took me thirty days to get out the first 50 pages. If we can arrange the more than 300 pages of books in the correct order, we may be able to know the location of the other seven book tombs. ”
Hearing this, Liu Xing suddenly had some more expectations in his heart, if there were really seven book tombs, he would be able to read more good novels!
What novels will be stored in the seven book tombs?
Will it be other works by martial arts masters such as Jin Yong Gulong, such as "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "The Condor Heroes", "Xiao Li Flying Knife Series", "Peerless Double Pride" and so on?
Will there be classical masterpieces, such as "Water Margin", "Liao Zhai", "Journey to the West", "Fengshen Bang" and so on?
The answer is currently unknown, unless the correct page sequence of the "Book Tomb Notes" is first arranged.
Thinking of this, Liu Xing suddenly admired Wang Tairan a little more, worthy of being a master who has studied reading for more than 80 years, and was able to discover such a shocking secret from "Notes on the Book Tomb", and read the novel in a chaotic page order.
If it is an ordinary person, even if he reads "Notes on the Book Tomb" for a lifetime, I am afraid that he may not be able to discover this secret from it.
"Mr. Wang, when did you know the secret of "Notes on the Book Tomb"?" asked Guo Tieming.
"Almost thirty days ago. "However, at that time, I was only skeptical, not sure. ”
"Have you ever told anyone else about this secret?"
"No, the three of you are the only ones who know the secret. ”
"That's weird. Guo Tieming was puzzled, "The person who kidnapped Wang Lanlan came for "Book Tomb Notes", and the mastermind behind the scenes is likely to know the secret of "Book Tomb Notes", who is this person?"
Wang Tairan thought for a while and said, "If there is, it should be someone from the Book Appreciation Association!"
There are only four batches of people currently handling this "Book Tomb Notes", the first batch is Liu Xing, the second batch is the book connoisseur of the Book Appreciation Building, the third batch is Cai Fugui, and the fourth batch is Wang Tairan.
It is impossible for Liu Xing and Wang Tairan to kidnap Wang Lanlan, Cai Fugui is suspicious, but he may not have the courage and strength. After screening, the biggest suspect is the book connoisseur.
It's just that there are not many book connoisseurs who have participated in the book appreciation of "Book Tomb Notes", and after "Book Tomb Notes" was included in the library of the Reading Alliance, many book connoisseurs have the opportunity to contact this novel and conduct related research.
It is estimated that there are at least 200 book connoisseurs who have come into contact with the Book Tomb Notes.
However, the secret of "Book Tomb Notes" is not something that ordinary book connoisseurs can discover, and those who can gain insight into such a hidden secret from the novel must be a top book connoisseur who is very proficient in book connoisseurship!
The level of this book connoisseur is not below Wang Tairan, and he is likely to be a high-level figure in the Book Connoisseurship Association.
After sorting out these clues, Captain Guo Tieming left first and decided to seize this clue and immediately start an investigation.
Liu Xing and Professor Juan both chose to stay, and they were going to work with Wang Tairan to study how to arrange the page order of "Book Tomb Notes"!
Once they are arranged, it may be possible to know where the second book tomb was buried.
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PS: The "playing card novel" also exists in our real life.
The novel "Work No. 1" written by the French writer Sapota is the first playing card novel in the world today, with 151 pages, no page numbers, blank back, and no binding like playing cards. Each page has a separate story, and the whole book is taken together into one book. Read in different page order and you'll get different stories. It is claimed that "you can't finish a book in a lifetime". →_→