447 Secrets (2)
Everyone present immediately perked up and set their eyes on Old Green. The Fallen Angel incident is like a headless unjust case, leaving their small team at a loss as to where to go, and they don't know where to go.
Quinn Adams showed up just in time to show him the way, and they followed the path and rescued Old Green. Next, what Old Green said may be the core of the whole incident.
Only by figuring out the whole thing will they know how to go.
Old Green turned a deaf ear, continued to eat barbecue, drank beer, and everyone was not in a hurry, so it was consumed.
After a few minutes, Old Green burped comfortably, sat cross-legged on the ground, and looked at the cement on the ceiling, "Speaking of which, this was 48 years ago"
Stormy Night, Holy See Archives.
It was half past three in the morning, and in some parts of the Holy See, the lights were lit up all night.
The archives are one of them, manned in shifts 24 hours a day. Sometimes in the middle of the night, people will come to look for information.
Dressed in the silver armor of the Order of Discipline, the Dragon Knight walked through the quiet corridor with a blank face, his grim face reflected in the dim light, making him look more and more impersonal.
The knights of the Order of the Precepts, in the eyes of the members of the Holy See, are unkind, they will stare at you with a cold gaze, and then secretly check your interpersonal relationships, finances and other private information.
Once they find out that you have neglected your duties and abused your power for personal gain, the blade of justice will fall.
As the leader of the Order of the Knights of the Commandment, the Dragon Knight can be said to be hated by people, and everyone is afraid of him, and there are not many people with clean sleeves in these years.
But at the same time, everyone trusts him, because this guy has a tendon in his brain, he doesn't know what a private relationship is, and he has always handled things impartially.
The archives department of the Holy See is the size of a library of an ordinary university, and there are no miscellaneous books in it, and it contains biographies of the Holy See's successive popes, knights, cardinals, and other figures, the chronicles of the Holy See, and the events that took place in previous years.
"Dragon Knight!" the caretaker in charge of the gate stood up and bowed.
The dragon knight nodded and walked straight in.
The crisp sound of boots stomping on the smooth marble floor echoed through the silent archives.
The dragon knight purposefully plunged into the chronicle shelves, looking for the past year after year in front of the timetable.
Walking through the engraved table of time, it is like opening the door to history, experiencing the glory and weakness of the Holy See, which makes people sincerely feel awe of time.
The history books are one of the greatest creations of mankind, and there is no one.
"In 1972"
Got it.
The year 1972 is written directly above the bookshelf, and in addition to the chronicles of the Holy See on the corresponding shelves, there are also some corresponding deeds, which are recorded in the chronicles, probably some personnel appointments and other mundane matters within the Holy See.
The biggest personnel change in the Holy See for a whole year was the fall of the Templar Commander. As the Dragon Knight recalls, it was about ten years later, in 1982, that Pace officially became the head of the Templar Order, taking off the title of acting head of the Templars.
That year, when he was still a young boy, he went to watch as a knight's apprentice, and the Pope himself held the coronation ceremony for Pest.
The dragon knight is a spiritual power awakener, and he turns the pages extremely quickly, and quickly finishes the content of 72 years of personnel appointments.
"Quinn shouldn't have asked me to look at this, well, and then look at the mission log. The dragon knight stuffed the book back and pulled out another book, which was a record of the Holy See's foreign missions and events.
For example, in '72, the president of the Association of the Psychic came to visit, and the Pope cordially received him, and had an in-depth exchange of views on the relationship between the Holy See and the Association of the Psychic and on major international and regional issues of common concern.
The Pope noted
The chairman said
Things like this will not be recorded in the chronicles, but separately.
The dragon knight looked through it carefully, and in 1972, apart from the death of Green Adolf, nothing much happened.
Flipping and turning, the dragon knight was suddenly stunned.
He opened the book to the fullest, and saw shallow, jagged tear marks.
This means that one page, or a few pages of paper, has been torn apart, and the technique is very meticulous, and if it weren't for the dragon knight's carefulness and opening the book to the maximum, he wouldn't have found those few missing pages at all.
If nothing else, what Quinn Adams asked him to find was written down on the missing pieces of paper.
Obviously, something must have happened in 1972, and the people behind the scenes wanted to hide it, so they tore up the pieces of paper that recorded the contents.
"The clue is broken. The dragon knight frowned.
Quinn Adams probably didn't expect this either.
"He asked me to find the 1972 information myself, which showed that I should have found the answer here, but now the clue has been cut off, which can only mean that the people behind it have noticed it. ”
The paper was recently torn off.
The dragon knight turned and walked to the reception desk, where the young caretaker lay on his stomach and snoozed on his desk.
The dragon knight knocked on the table, waking him up, and the administrator stood up in a panic, his waist straight, his eyes still worried: "What do you command?" ”
"Take a look at the monitoring for the past two days. The dragon knight said.
The archives are full of surveillance cameras, and the monitoring content is stored for 72 hours. If someone secretly tears up the data, the surveillance can reveal his true form.
But the Dragon Knight was disappointed, and the surveillance that was facing the 1972 bookshelf was deleted.
"Hey, why isn't there one?" the young administrator scratched his head, too, confused.
"Who was on duty that day. "The dragon knight's face doesn't change.
It is normal for the surveillance to be cleared, as the head of the precepts, the cases he has investigated can circle the earth together, and he is used to seeing strong winds and waves, and more shrewd guys than this have seen it.
Anything, as long as it is done, will leave traces and cannot be cleaned up.
If you don't have a clue about something, it's because you haven't found a clue.
Not a big problem.
"Joseph Charlotte. The administrator replied.
The Dragon Knight nodded, "Help me find the backup data from 1972." ”
Behind the administrator is a ceiling-high locker, similar to the medicine cabinet in an ancient Chinese medicine shop, each small cabinet has a year written on it, and a USB flash drive is stored inside, and the USB flash drive is a backup of the relevant year.
Found the USB flash drive, the administrator said: "The backup data can't be taken away, do you want to look at it now?"
The dragon knight hummed, walked in, and sat down in front of the computer to browse the backup data.
As he expected, the backup stuff was the same as the book, meaning that a small part was missing.
The dragon knight casually asked, "How long have you been managing the archives?" ”
"It's been six years. ”
"Have you seen the 1972 material? ”
A shrewd detective learns to take the initiative to look for clues. Instead of staring at the clues in front of you. A detective like that has no soul.
"Nope. The administrator shook his head.
A shrewd detective must be aware of useless work.
The young administrator cautiously glanced at the dragon knight's handsome face, his brow furrowed, his eyes full of disappointment. This big guy behaved strangely today, which made people scratch their heads, and he had the courage to ask: "If you want to find more backups, this year, there should still be them." ”
The dragon knight raised his head violently, his eyes burning: "What did you say?"
"From 1970 to 2008, my teacher was involved in the compilation of all the materials, and the teacher had a habit of keeping the failed or flawed materials in the printing process. The administrator said.
"Where?" the dragon knight perked up.
"I guess it's still in the basement. ”
"Take me!"
The Administrator was startled by the dragon knight's burning and sharp gaze, and nodded repeatedly.
At the end of the archive there is a door, behind which is a spiral staircase, and along the staircase they come to the basement.
It has been unvisited for many years, and there is a strong musty smell in the air after years of fermentation.
The young administrator found the light switch, the white incandescent light made a sizzling sound, flickering on and off, the bulbs had not been replaced for too long, and the voltage was not stable.
The basement was stocked with books, stacked on top of each other, on rusty steel shelves, and the writing was dusty.
The administrator covered his nose and frowned: "There are too many books, and I can't tell which one is, maybe there is or maybe not." ”
The dragon knight bowed: "You go back to your post, I'll stay here alone." ”
The administrator left, bringing the iron door lightly and heavily, making a crisp, not loud "clang" sound in the dark.
The dragon knight rummaged slowly, not in a hurry, he had a lot of time, these books in the basement were all defective products left over from the printing of the year, some of them were not typeset well, and some of them had problems with the paper during printing, which should have been destroyed, but because of the habit of a certain administrator, they were unexpectedly kept here.
Half an hour later, I found it.
The book in the dragon knight's hand is exactly the same as the one above, but there is a problem with the ink when printing, so it is classified as a defective product.
Holding the book in his hand, he didn't flip through it for the first time, but hesitated for a moment.
What Quinn Adams was going to tell him was in this book, thinking of the recent incident of the fallen angels, the betrayal of the Blood Knight, which was likely related to the two of them.
Take a deep breath and flip it open.
With his feelings, he directly flipped through to the same position, and sure enough, the content on it was something he had never seen before.
"On February 11, 1972, information came from the outskirts of Calus about the activities of cultists, who used human blood as paint to draw circles, suspected of sacrificing evil gods, and imprisoning the souls of the dead innocent, refining them into resentful spirits."
Cultists are crazy, and there is no general name for the blood forces without humanity, they are superstitious, bloodthirsty, and their three views do not match those of normal blood. Terrorists are pure bad guys, or anti-human, or take pleasure in killing and destroying, and there is a difference in the definition of the two.
There have been a lot of cultists in Europe throughout the ages, but in fact they have something to do with the Holy See to some extent, and some small countries with strong materialist ideas usually have no cultists, and some of them are foreigners. Because there is no breeding ground for cults.
"The Holy See sent three knight squads to deal with it, all of which died at the hands of the cultists, including the elite squad led by Deputy Commander Carla Thomas. ”
"More and more knights are being killed in the assassination of cultists. On the 20th of February, the Pope himself led the Templar Commander Glynn Adolphus to fight the cultists."