222 Map of the Mekong River

"What about you?"

Fan Junxiong didn't take it seriously, but Ruan Jichang in front of him may not, otherwise he wouldn't have returned here and rented this room. Moreover, he would not have said such a sentence when he begged for mercy just now.

Seeing Wu Ming's evil gaze, Ruan Jichang knew that if he continued to hide it, he would inevitably be beaten again. I had to say, "I just found the mechanism on how to open it." ”

"Where and how to open it?"

"Switch the bedside lamp."

Wu Ming walked over and pressed the switch button with his hand, and the result was that the bedside lamp was on, but the raised platform still did not move.

"Press it three more times and it's on."

According to Ruan Jichang, Wu Ming pressed the ancient push-button switch three times in a row. Without warning, the platform, which seemed to be about twenty centimeters over, bounced up a little silently.

Lifting his foot and picking it with his toes, the iron plate twenty centimeters square was immediately picked open, but there was nothing below it except a groove that was only two or three millimeters deep.

"On the lower surface of the removed iron plate."

Glancing at Ruan Jichang, Wu Ming bent down and turned over the iron plate in his hand, and sure enough, when he saw a map pattern similar to a map similar to a river on the lower surface of the twenty-centimeter-sized iron plate, the first feeling that came to his mind was that he had been deceived.

"What is this?"

"I don't know. However, looking at the pattern, it looks like a section of the Mekong River. ”

"Which paragraph?"

"The section of Cambodia's border with our country."

Wu Ming didn't pay attention to the map of the Mekong River, but looking at Ruan Jichang's expression, the other party should not be lying. I think he's been studying it for a while.

Holding the iron plate and looking at it repeatedly for a while, it is true, as Ruan Jichang said at the beginning, the contact surface of the two layers of iron plate is very smooth and flat. It is not known what technique was used to leave a river map pattern that did not affect this in any way. If a metal flaw detector were to be used, it would be impossible to find anything other than the tiny gap left between the two iron plates. Based on this analysis, perhaps Fan Junxiong was really in a hurry to continue looking for the mechanism to be opened because he considered that it was impossible to hide any valuables in it.

I put the iron plate with the map pattern in my hand back in its original position, and I easily lifted it up, and I didn't notice any obstruction. But when Wu Ming turned the bedside lamp back into place and returned to the off state, he couldn't hold it anymore.

"Is there an electromagnet hidden underneath?"

"Yes, I once crept into the room on the first floor and observed, and there was indeed a small hole in the corresponding position, and there was an electromagnet converted from a small transformer."

"Hasn't anyone found out after all these years?"

"Not surprising. According to local residents, after the prison was demolished, it was used by the government as a warehouse for the construction of a memorial. Later, it was left unused until we bought it, and no one officially moved in. ”

"Is there still power when it's not working?"

"Yes. It turned out to be a warehouse used by the memorial hall to store heavy items, so there was always a gatekeeper. ”

Forget it, since this thing isn't of much use to you, there's no need to bother figuring out everything about it.

Wu Ming pointed to the iron plate that he held in his hand again and asked, "What do you think, do you want to go and see it?" ”

"Yes." Ruan Jichang didn't hide his thoughts anymore, after all, he also saw it, and Wu Ming was not interested in it.

"Okay then, I'll give it back to you." As he spoke, Wu Ming casually took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the so-called Mekong River map on the iron plate, threw it on the big bed, patted the dust on his hands and turned to leave.

"Your government is looking for you."

I don't know if it's because Wu Ming didn't kill him, so I reminded him with gratitude. Wu Ming, who had just walked to the door of the room, stopped his steps when he heard Ruan Jichang's words, turned his head and said lightly: "That's not right, you can call the police immediately." ”

Walking out of the small building and coming to the street of Dien Bien Phu, Wu Ming did not speculate whether Ruan Jichang would denounce him, but he was a little dissatisfied with Jiang Gongqing in his heart. Wu Ming didn't believe that Old Man Jiang would not know that the Vietnamese government was wanted by him, but he still let himself come to carry out the mission, isn't this a deliberate attempt to embarrass himself?

Just suddenly remembering the new identity information in the backpack behind him, Wu Ming cracked his mouth and laughed again.

"Visiting family?" The purpose of going abroad on the visa is indeed filled in with the word "visiting relatives", Wu Ming thought to himself, the ghost has relatives in Vietnam.

Wu Ming, who was walking on the street, suddenly stopped when he thought of this. Because in the new identity information given to him by Jiang Gongqing, the relatives he wanted to visit were in a small town called Ji Gong Mao, which produces rubies on the banks of the Mekong River into Vietnam, close to Cambodia. And the so-called relative is one of the investors from the ruby mine in Jigongmao Town, a middle-aged man named "Zhao Zhengqi".

In particular, the task assigned by Jiang Gongqing to Wu Ming is to find a way - whether it is to lure or control it, as long as Ruan Fuchun can be sent to Ji Gongmao and Zhao Zhengqi, the task will be completed.

"Is it such a coincidence?"

Out of pure curiosity, but also to spare time on the next five or six hours of the long train, Wu Minh bought a ticket and bought a map of Vietnam. Sitting on the bus to Hanoi, first find the location of the small town on the banks of the Mekong River called Ji Gong Mao. Mentally writing down every road from Hanoi to there, he took out his phone from time to time and looked at the pattern in the photo he took to compare the Mekong River on the map in his hand.

It is indeed a bit like, except for some subtle inconsistencies, and it seems that the map pattern taken by the mobile phone is the section of the Mekong River when it has just entered Vietnam from Cambodia. According to the scale, it is probably no more than 20 kilometers. What Wu Ming didn't expect the most was that the end point of the map pattern taken in the mobile phone happened to be where the chicken grass was.

In this way, Wu Ming couldn't help but feel curious. If it was just a prank, how could it be so coincidental? If it wasn't a prank, then what was the real intention of the person who left this picture?

Treasure map? Wu Ming shook his head with a smile, and immediately denied this kind of idea that only poor and crazy people would have.

Where to hide the munitions? It doesn't seem likely. There was no reason for the French to hide their arms there.

What else is possible? Wu Ming didn't believe that the French had taken a fancy to the ruby mine in Jigongmao Town. Because, even if you really like it, it's over if you go to mining in a bright way. You must know that Vietnam was a French colony at that time, so if you can't do anything, why bother to leave such a map?

After thinking about it, it was impossible for Wu Ming to give an answer that satisfied him. Even if it was really the French who hid something there, calculating the time, more than 70 years have passed since the victory of the Vietnamese against the French, and even if the thing is still there, I am afraid it will have long been decayed.

Besides, although Ruan Jichang said that no one knew the secret except him and the dead Fan Junxiong, Wu Ming didn't think so. Let's assume that the son of the French prison director didn't tell anyone else, and Ruan Jichang didn't say it to anyone, how can you guarantee that the dead Fan Junxiong has not revealed it to the public?