Section 21 Extraneous branches
Lin Tao's heart was feeling weak, but Yu Songyuan was worried about other things.
"Guodong, if all the people in the summer palace drink boiling water, won't your medicine be invalid."
Liu Guodong explained with an incredible expression, "You don't understand this, that's why you say it's amazing." The strains here are harvested from active volcanic craters in South America that are still erupting, and are cultured at high temperatures. This is the latest product developed by a top secret research institute of the CIA in South America. In a mixture of water vapor at about 120 degrees, it is more vigorous and reproduces four times faster than at room temperature. ”
"Delhi went to pick up the mail today, and that's what you picked up?" Lin Zhumin suddenly realized.
"Yes. I had the 'home' specially flown over. Liu Guodong said.
Lin Zhumin glanced at Liu Guodong, "It's so powerful, God." If you smell it, will you also be tricked? ”
"It's not a joke, unless you're sick. Normal people, why do you sniff it, how did you learn chemistry in middle school? The smell you smell when you go to the toilet is actually feces, just small particles of feces floating in the air......" The two of them discussed casually.
Yu Songyuan had a cold face on the side, and finally held back a smile. He glanced at Lin Tao's stomach, and deliberately raised his arm to glance at his watch exaggeratedly, as if he was calculating the time of the attack.
Lin Tao hated his teeth itching, but his backbone was cold and swishing, and he had already begun to feel it in his stomach, and sure enough, he couldn't control it after a while. He glared at Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin fiercely, and saw that Yu Songyuan also had a serious face, and deliberately looked at his watch, and his heart was even more hairy, "Boss, what are you doing with your watch?" This...... It's not a joke......"
Without waiting for Yu Songyuan to answer, he felt more and more pressure in his stomach, so he rushed to the toilet. But after squatting for a long time, nothing happened except for a bunch of exhaust gases such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and methane. When he came back, these three people laughed so much that their intestines hurt, and they hated Lin Tao so much that they gave Liu Guodong and Lin Zhumin a big slap.
Only Derry didn't dare to be presumptuous, and his handsome little face was suffocated.
After dinner, Caterpillar and Sandra returned dejected.
They had been busy for a week, and they had already turned everything they could find in the library. Sandra also sacrifices Hue and launches a gentle offensive against the Administrator. With tears in her eyes, she told the librarian that she needed it urgently to write an important paper. Sandra is usually very popular, and several male and female librarians try their best to help, but the book is still not found.
"Sister, are you a big official, are you stumped about this? In the name of the deputy commander of the ISI, directly order the school to send the books, can't it? Lin Zhumin came up with an idea.
Sandra groaned, then shook her head. The caterpillar also said, "No, the stakes are high, and the KGB has many eyes and ears." Doing that is no different from calling them. ”
Everyone was dumbfounded and at a loss. "Sister, think about it again, will this book be borrowed and not returned? Or, no one reads it, and it's been disposed of by the library? Lin Tao prompted.
"No, it won't. The University of Peshawar is a century-old university that has been emphasizing academic research since the colonial period. Not only will such theoretical books not be lost, but they will also be kept at least a few or more according to the rules. But now I can't find a copy, what's the problem? Did you get something by the school? Sandra said bitterly.
"Since it's a public publication, is this book still precious?" Yu Song asked puzzled.
Of course, the book was written in 1925, when it was published in Paris, and the architect, Professor Taylor, was dead. In accordance with Taylor's will, he donated several copies to the University of Peshawar. The print run of academic books is already small, and so many years have passed. Now, it may only be found in the great libraries of Europe. Sandra said helplessly.
It's easy to find books from European libraries, take pictures, and send them to Peshawar through secret channels. But there are too many uncertainties to be sure. Yu Songyuan really didn't want to alarm too many people, which was a taboo for covert operations. The more people who are alarmed and the greater the range, the greater the likelihood of exposure.
"Boss, it's a bit of a hassle!" Delhi hurriedly walked in and said.
The process of fighting together made Caterpillar, Shandra, and Delhi sometimes follow the team members, called Yu Songyuan. In recent days, radio monitoring has been the responsibility of Delhi. Shandra's ISI radio surveillance team is also in charge of liaison by Delhi. At this moment, he said to Yu Songyuan a little anxiously.
Everyone was frightened, everyone looked at him. "What's wrong?" Yu Songyuan asked in surprise.
Derry took out the message and handed it to Shandra. Sandra glanced at it, then handed it to the caterpillar. After reading it, the caterpillar handed it to Yu Songyuan. "This is a KGB message that the ISI has just intercepted and deciphered," Delhi said. ”
Yu Songyuan took it and circulated it to everyone, and everyone was shocked. This is a telegram between the "Lightning detachment" of the "Signal Flag" infiltrating Peshawar and the KGB headquarters, "Prepare for a rainy day, assist in finding the Architectureandreligiousculture, which has a diagram of the underground system of the summer palace." ”
God, as expected, the name is well deserved, and the "signal flag" is really powerful!
Both sides have their eyes on Architectureandreligiousculture, and if the University of Peshawar Library doesn't have it, and the Aga Khan Museum doesn't have it, where will the books be? The "Signal Flag" also thought of plugging the holes in the defenses of the Summer Palace. Now the situation is complicated, and there is a possibility that the attack will fall short.
"Shandra, what's the library's most precious collection?" Yu Songyuan asked.
"The library is full of works, and the precious collection should be in the school's Aga Khan Museum. There is a collection of works by many Buddhist sages before the fifth century AD, and a large number of Buddhist scriptures! They are the treasures of the University of Peshawar Library and the Aga Khan Museum, and are national treasures. I've only heard about it, and it's all treasured in the underground cave of the school's Aga Khan Museum. Sandra said.
"Where's the secret room?" Lin Tao asked urgently.
Sandra shook her head, "The University of Peshawar was founded by the British back then, and it has been more than a hundred years. No one knows where the underground chamber of the Aga Khan Museum is, only the previous headmasters have the right to know. With that, she took out a piece of paper, drew a sketch, and marked the location of the library, the Aga Khan Museum, and the principal's office. All these main buildings are century-old buildings, all of which are European-style buildings built in the colonial era. ”
Judging from the map, the teaching area is far away from the office and library buildings. The school is a huge space, but one of the most striking features is that the library, museum and office building are connected together. They are all five-story buildings, and the two buildings have made a ninety-degree bend and straightened, with a length of about 100 meters.
Liu Guodong looked at the picture carefully, thought for a while and said, "Boss, if I built this building, I will build the secret room outside the university, even if the university is destroyed by the war, the treasures will be safe and sound." But this building was designed by the French and built by the British. Therefore, the secret room must still be within the colonel. ”
Everyone looked at him puzzled, "Weishenme? Explain. ”
Liu Guodong said, "The ancestors of Europeans were pirates and colonizers. They plunder all shijie and regard treasure as God. Where the gold and silver treasures are kept, they are generally underground. So, if you look at all the ancient castles in Europe, the most secret and ingenious, is the underground facilities. From hiding wine cellars, hiding treasures, to hiding the bones of ancestors, the idea is exactly the same. ”
"Makes sense. The question is, the school is so big, where will the secret room be built? Will it be under the office, the library, or the Aga Khan Museum building? Yu Songyuan looked at Liu Guodong and asked.
"Definitely. The hundred-year-old school, a secret and safe secret room, should not only make it convenient for ancient books to enter and exit the library and the Aga Khan Museum, but also make it convenient for the principal to enter and exit at any time, only under this building. Liu Guodong said affirmatively.
"That's what Brother Guodong said." "Every building has a basement, but there's an area under the office building that is not open to the public," Sandra said in English. The basement is a forbidden area, isolated from the rest of the area. Could it be that it goes straight to the principal's office? ”
Yu Songyuan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, nine o'clock in the evening. "The stakes are high, without further ado. We must get ahead of them and steal all the books. Lin Tao, Guo Dong, Shandra, and I will secretly inspect the principal's office tonight, and Zhumin, Caterpillar, and Derry are responsible for defending the lair. Let's take a nap and move at 1 a.m.! ”
At half past twelve in the night, Lin Tao went out, and after a while, he stole a dilapidated van and drove it to the door.
Although it is already the middle of the night, the new town is also quite lively. Many refugees set up makeshift tents for the night in front of the grove next to the road. The weather was dry, and there were still cars passing by on the streets, kicking up clouds of dust.
Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire broke out in the distance, and even the explosion of a grenade. Sandra leaned on the window of the car and whispered, "This should be the British Consulate, it must be the agents of the Polar Bear 'Lightning' detachment who attacked the British Consulate at night." ”
"Captain Rooney's office, wasn't it just attacked? Why attack the consulate, a group of diplomats full of lies, a group of sanctimonious European bureaucrats, is it worth the 'lightning' to raise the butcher's knife again and again? Liu Guodong asked puzzled.
"Gates, a native of country M, became a turtle with a shrunken head, and the CIA paid for the ISI of the halal country to be out, and it was inseparable from the KGB. In recent days, more than a dozen mujahideen training camps have been attacked, plus the British consulate has been attacked, all in retaliation by 'Vympel'. Sandra whispered.
In front of the school is a wide road, with street lamps and busy pedestrians hurrying by in the night. Lin Tao followed Shandra's instructions, turned the car into a road, and then stopped next to a large bazaar called Saber behind the school. In the bazaar at night, although it has closed, every few stalls, there is a small light flickering, and a few people who patrol the night and keep watch shuttle back and forth.
Several people climbed from behind a small forest into the iron fence of the school. At night, the campus is very quiet when the street lamps shine alone on the lonely road. Sandra led the crowd around the small buildings and came to the back of the tall office building.