Chapter 168: The Garden

The anonymous email was addressed at Jacobin Abbey, about a ten-minute walk from the town hall.

Built in 1215 by the Dominican Abbey, this Gothic monastery is more than 800 years old, and the bricks and tiles of the entire building are made of red clay, and it is divided into three main parts: the church, the cloister of the inner courtyard and the monk's dining room, where the most famous Catholic theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas is buried.

When Zhang Heng and Leia walked into the church, the first thing they saw was the beams and columns nearly 30 meters high, which supported the top of the church, like straight palm trees, and the long windows of the vault were inlaid with hand-painted stained glass, and the sunlight spilled through the windows on the central benches, giving people a sense of sacredness.

Zhang Heng looked around, there are some other tourists in the church besides them, but they don't see any special guys, Edward himself doesn't like to take pictures, in the parallel copy twelve years later, Zhang Heng only got a photo of Edward on his driver's license when he was sixteen years old from Leia, and Leia said that Edward still has a lot of changes ten years later, which is why Zhang Heng took Leia with him.

However, the latter apparently failed to find his brother in the church.

The two are now disguised as a couple, Leia took Zhang Heng's arm and visited this ancient building in the thirteenth century with other tourists, the girl's hair had also been dyed from blue to silver, and said in a low voice, "It feels like we are like spies, is my brother so cautious now?" ”

"The little boy's concern is not unreasonable, and the reason why Edward changed his email address to contact us shows that he feels that his original email address is no longer reliable, which also means that the black nest is getting closer and closer to him." Zhang Hengdao.

Considering that his appearance when he met with the earring man in the bar was also exposed, now Zhang Heng's image has also changed a lot, he borrowed some inspiration from the first time he went to meet the fox, changed into a suit, sprayed cologne, and combed his hair neatly, like a financial elite.

In a parallel copy twelve years later, the Black Nest found Edward in a nursing home three weeks later, where Edward replaced a volunteer, but the nursing home was not Edward's first hiding place in Toulouse, and in fact, Edward had been changing places of residence frequently in order to prevent the Black Nest from coming to his door.

Therefore, Zhang Heng didn't know where Edward was hiding before, but if the joint really didn't go well, he could only choose to try his luck at that nursing home a week later, but this time because of the addition of players, many things have gone in different directions, not only on the 01 side, but also on the Black Nest side.

In addition, it was difficult for Zhang Heng to explain how he knew Edward's hiding place, so he did not act rashly in the previous two months, and those two months of small town life were obviously the precious time left by the system for players to learn, and speeding up this process may not be beneficial, but it is likely to bring greater risks.

"Are you going to go somewhere else?" Leia asked, the two of them had been in the church for almost twenty minutes, and they hadn't learned anything.

"Hmm." Zhang Heng nodded, behind the church is a very beautiful corridor, which is a place for monks to communicate and meditate, two of which were destroyed in the war and rebuilt in 1964, and in the center of the corridor is a courtyard, which is full of trees and green plants.

The two walked through the redstone bricks, feeling the traces left by history, but unfortunately they still couldn't find Edward here, in fact, they spent nearly two hours in the Jacobin Monastery, exploring every corner of the monastery, but still couldn't get any clues.

In desperation, the two had no choice but to leave the monastery, and someone at the exit was handing out leaflets, and Leia took one too, and when she returned to the car, she took off her hat and the big sunglasses on her face.

"Could it be that he happens to be absent today?"

"It's not very likely." Zhang Heng frowned and said, "Actually, there is one thing I don't understand, Edward's email to us only has a place and no time, which means that we can come here whenever we want, and he can't stay in the monastery every day, that would be too conspicuous, so we should have ignored something, that thing has been in the monastery but it won't seem abrupt, let's come back tomorrow, pay more attention to the things around us." ”

As soon as Zhang Heng's voice fell, Leia suddenly sighed softly, "Is it possible that the things left by my brother are outside the monastery?" ”

"Huh? What do you find. ”

"When I was little, my brother and I would play a game of ciphers, a kind of text made up in Hebrew."

"Do you speak Hebrew?"

"No, no, no, it's a very simple little cipher, and we don't care about the meaning of the Hebrew language itself, just compare it with the corresponding French alphabet, and then translate it to get the information we want." LÊa explained, waving the Catholic leaflet in her hand and pointing to an inconspicuous spot on it, "Here, look. ”

Zhang Heng stretched out his head and saw a line of Hebrew, from the layout and contextual explanation, it seemed to be from a passage in the original Bible, paraphrased, but Leia found the corresponding letter word by word, and finally got the word garden.

"Garden? Is it the atrium garden we saw earlier, what we overlooked? Leia wondered, feeling the excitement of playing a scavenger hunt when she was a child and about to uncover the mystery.

The little boy's voice came over the communicator again, "I just searched the gardens in Toulouse and found a restaurant, a boxing training ground and a primary school, would Edward be somewhere in it?" ”

"Pick a location." Zhang Heng said to Leia in the back row.

"Restaurant? It just so happens that my stomach is a little hungry too. ”

"Okay." Zhang Heng used his mobile phone to navigate to the restaurant called Garden, but as soon as he entered the door, he knew that Edward was unlikely to stay here, because this restaurant was very famous in the neighborhood, and there were many customers who came here every day, and this kind of traffic was obviously not very friendly to a person who needed to hide his name and avoid tracking.

Thankfully, the foie gras was delicious and the sausages were good, which couldn't have been better for LÊa after an afternoon of strolling around the monastery, rejuvenating her tired body and mind.

After the two finished eating, the sky was about to darken, and Leia said, "There are still boxing training grounds and elementary schools left, you can choose this time." ”