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When Yelena and Han Jiang released the imprisoned security guards, Ivanov's left arm was wrapped in gauze and had already appeared at the door of the monitoring room, Yelena glanced at Ivanov and said, "What, was injured by Stephen's *?" ”

"Yes, it's just a small injury, it's the first time you've cared so much about me."

"Okay, without further ado, you came to arrest us again on the orders of Ilyugin this time, right?"

"I came on order, but not by order from Ilyugin, but from headquarters." Ivanov suddenly looked serious and said with a serious face.

"An order from headquarters? Good news for me? Or bad news? Yelena wondered.

"Good news! Great news! Ivanov pretended to be mysterious.

"Good news? Let's hear it. ”

"The headquarters has decided to reinstate you with immediate effect, and this case is still in charge of you, and you have the right to mobilize all the forces you deem necessary." Ivanov said.

"Oh! Sure enough, it's good news, but what about Ilyugin? ”

"He's been suspended."

"Hehe, that's better news." Yelena laughed.

"Yes, I think so too."

"So, what about you? Major, you also listen to my command? ”

"Of course, I'm at your disposal."

"Alright, I now order you, Major Ivanov, to immediately take control of the blockade of the entire Winter Palace, search the Winter Palace completely, and not let go of a single blind spot, Stephen has fled, that Tymoshin should still be in it, and the ghost we are looking for. At the same time, the airport, the station, and the dock were ordered to strictly prevent Stephen from taking the jade insert out. ”

Ivanov took the order and left, Yelena looked at Han Jiang and asked rhetorically: "How is it, I can arrange it." ”

"I'm sorry, I didn't understand your orders, you know, my Russian is not very good." Han Jiang shook his head and said.

"And what do you understand?"

Han Jiang smiled and said, "Congratulations on your official reinstatement!" Congratulations also to Ilyugin on that guy being suspended. ”

"Okay, don't be poor, let's go see Tang Feng."

After the two finished speaking, they went straight back to the exhibition hall where Tang Feng was found, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan looked like they had almost recovered, but Tang Feng was still leaning weakly against a display case, Han Jiang kicked Tang Feng lightly and said, "Okay, get up quickly!" Tell me how you got to the Winter Palace, and what happened to that Tymoshin? ”

So, Tang Feng briefly told him what happened to Liang Yuan these days, and after Tang Feng finished speaking, he sat up and asked, "Why did you suddenly appear here?" ”

Han Jiang pointed to an exhibition hall next door, and said: "That exhibition hall has an iron door leading to a cultural relics warehouse underneath, we touched all the way from the sewer to a basement below, and then came up, broke the three iron locks on the iron door with a gun, and forcibly opened the iron door, we came here, and happened to bump into you." ”

"If you arrive a moment late, Liang Yuan and I will be finished...... Ay! How did you get all the way from the sewers to the Hermitage? Tang Feng was puzzled.

"Because of the ghost, it was the ghost that brought us here."

"What? You've seen ghosts too? Tang Feng exclaimed, suddenly, Tang Feng pointed to the corridor outside the door, and shouted in horror: "Look, that ghost is in the corridor." ”

Everyone looked back, the lights in the corridor were all on, but no one saw the ghost, Tang Feng jumped up, at this moment, he suddenly had a good impression of this ghost who had saved his life, he took the lead in chasing out, the corridor, turned the corner, came to another exhibition hall next door, Tang Feng saw the iron door that Han Jiang said, the white ghost flashed, and disappeared into the iron door.

2

When everyone arrived, Tang Feng pointed to the iron gate and said, "The ghost has entered the iron gate." ”

Han Jiang looked at the iron gate, held a gun, and took the lead in entering the iron gate, this is the place they came to just now, at this moment, in this underground warehouse, a dim wall lamp was lit, Han Jiang was able to check the whole picture of this place, he looked around, here are all made of long stones, there is about three or four hundred square meters of space, one of them, there is a room recessed outward, the back wall of the room has been broken, straight to the black sewer pipe outside.

Just now, Han Jiang and the others walked into this underground warehouse from here, Han Jiang walked into this room again, and after a careful inspection, he suddenly found that a looming bloodstain appeared on the ground, he turned around and illuminated it with a flashlight, and found that this bloodstain extended from the iron gate, and extended from his feet to the black hole outside the wall, "Could this bloodstain be left by the ghost just now?" Han Jiang muttered.

"It's very likely." Tang Feng Road.

"The blood trailed outside, and the ghost flashed by, and I think the ghost must have returned to the sewer pipe." After Han Jiang finished judging, he wanted to rush into the black hole on the outer wall to follow the footprints of the ghost, but he was dragged by Yelena: "Don't chase it, the ghost has its own ghost life." ”

Han Jiang looked at Yelena suspiciously, "Ghosts have their own ghost lives?" ”

Yelena said to everyone: "After listening to Tang Feng's narration just now, I finally roughly figured out the ins and outs of all this, let's talk about this place first, this is the first place I came to take over this case, this is an underground warehouse of the Winter Palace, because of the poor conditions, there have been some sculptures and stone carvings and other bulky cultural relics here. More than half a year ago, the Winter Palace decided to renovate here, according to my investigation, at that time Tymoshin volunteered, in addition to his own work, but also to undertake the relocation of cultural relics here, I estimate that it was at this time that Tymoshen found a basement here, which is the basement that everyone sees now, this basement is the place where the first jade insert has been sealed. ”

"It turns out that the first jade interstitial screen has been hidden here! Since Tymoshen and Stephen are in the same group, it is likely that he has known about the existence of this secret room for a long time. Tang Feng exclaimed.

"Well, now it seems that Timoshen probably knew about the existence of the basement in advance, but he didn't know the specific location of the basement, it was in the process of this underground warehouse renovation that Timoshen figured out the specific location of the basement, and he also knew that the back wall of the basement was very close to a sewer pipe outside, so a bold and brilliant plan was born in his mind, he led people to open the passage from the sewer pipe to the secret room from the outside, and unknowingly took the jade interstitial, Then re-build those long stones, and restore everything to its original state, and if you don't look closely, outsiders won't find anything at all. However, Timoshen was negligent, he still left some clues, so that Victor, who came in later for construction, found out, Victor quickly suspected Tymoshen, in order to block Victor's mouth, and in order to keep the secret of the jade interstitial, he sent someone to brutally kill Victor, and further framed Victor, and imposed the crime of theft of the jade interstitial screen on Victor's head. Yelena described the theft of the jade interstitial screen based on her own inference.

"In this way, before Victor's decoration company settled here, the jade interstitial screen in the secret room had already been stolen!" Han Jiang said.

"Yes, that's it, Victor is innocent, but Victor may have been threatened by Tymoshen, I don't know if it was out of fear or some other reason, he didn't report Tymoshen to the relevant departments in time, that's why ......"

When Yelena said this, Makarov on the side was already in tears and couldn't cry, so Yelena had to stop and comfort Makarov.

3

After being reassured by the crowd, Makarov gradually regained his composure, pointed to the back wall of the basement that had been opened again, and asked Yelena: "Then why is this place like this now?" ”

Yelena explained: "If my guess is correct, it should be so, after the theft of the jade insert, the renovation of the Winter Palace was temporarily stopped, the cultural relics here were moved, the big iron door leading to here was locked tightly, no one came here, and the back wall of the basement was knocked on again, it should be the ghost." ”

"You mean Misha?" Makarov said.

"Now it seems that the ghost is Misha." Yelena said.

"Misha?" Tang Feng had some impressions of this name, but he didn't understand what Yelena said, so Yelena briefly told Tang Feng and Liang Yuan about their discoveries in the past few days. Misha is the ghost? Just when Tang Feng was thinking wildly, Yelena said again: "The ghost Misha should be the person who knows about the jade interstitial, after he found out that the jade interstitial screen was stolen, he opened this place for some reason, I think he opened this place and entered the Winter Palace at night, not just to pretend to be a ghost to scare people, what he did must be related to the theft of the jade interlude." ”

"Misha might be looking for something?" Tang Feng said suddenly.

"Looking for something, looking for what?" Han Jiang asked.

"I don't know. I'm just guessing. Tang Feng replied.

"But even if the ghost Misha chiseled through the back wall and got here, how did he get into the Winter Palace? The large iron gate at the entrance was locked with several large iron locks. Liang Yuan asked.

Yelena was silent in thought, Han Jiang and Tang Feng looked up at the underground warehouse, Tang Feng suddenly found that there was something strange on the wall to the north, he walked over and illuminated the wall there with a flashlight, under the illumination of the flashlight, everyone saw that on this wall, a row of iron ladders similar to fire ladders stretched out, Tang Feng lifted the flashlight little by little, and the light pillar of the flashlight shot all the way to the top of this row of iron ladders, where there seemed to be two stone slabs......

"I see, if you don't pay attention to it, you really can't find this row of iron ladders." Yelena exclaimed.

Makarov then explained: "This is not surprising, as far as I know, the basement here, including this underground storehouse, was dug as an air-raid shelter during the Great Patriotic War in order to prevent the bombing of the Germans, so in order to evacuate the personnel in time, this row of iron ladders was built, and the people upstairs could go down directly from here to avoid the bombing." ”

"Well, that's right, then that means that the ghost Misha entered the Winter Palace through here." Yelena reasoned.

"Alright, let's hurry up the path that the ghost has walked and see what the hell is up there." Xu Renyu proposed.

Tang Feng nodded, the first to climb the iron ladder, followed by Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, Yelena, Makarov and Xu Renyu, Tang Feng climbed to the top of the iron ladder, he gently pushed up a stone slab on the top, the stone slab loosened, revealing a gap, Tang Feng looked out through the gap, it was dark all around, and there seemed to be something blocking the view in front, he was bold, opened the whole stone slab, and then lifted another stone slab, the hole suddenly opened up, Tang Feng jumped out of the hole, and then Han Jiang also jumped out.

In front of Tang Feng was a tall cabinet, he pushed it, but the cabinet didn't move, "It seems that this cabinet is very heavy!" Tang Feng said, and Han Jiang moved away the cabinet in front of the hole, the cabinet was very heavy, Tang Feng and Han Jiang The two big men couldn't lift the cabinet, they could only barely push the heavy cabinet, the cabinet rubbed on the ground, making a harsh sound, Tang Feng was startled, and suddenly remembered something: "It turns out that the strange sound we heard at night is this sound." ”

"In other words, the ghost must have entered the Winter Palace from here at night." Liang Yuan, who had just crawled out of the hole, said.

"Yes, this cabinet is very heavy, Han Jiang and I can barely push it, it seems that the ghost's arm strength is amazing!" Tang Feng Road.

Han Jiang turned on the light, and everyone saw that this was an office, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan recognized at a glance that this was the office they had strayed into, and the hole they drilled out just now turned out to be the luxurious fireplace, at this moment, Tang Feng had completely understood the path of the ghost into the Winter Palace.

4

Everyone gathered in this office, Tang Feng led everyone out of this office, and then came to Ji Moshen's office in a hurry, and he introduced to everyone: "This is Ji Moshen's office. ”

Han Jiang and Yelena searched in Timoshen's office for a while, but found nothing, Tang Feng suddenly caught a glimpse of the document called "The Great Tower" that was still on Timoshen's desk, and his heart "chuckled" for a moment, and he suddenly felt bad.

Seeing Tang Feng's solemn expression, Han Jiang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Tang Feng suddenly shouted, "Not good! That Buddha statue. ”

After speaking, Tang Feng rushed out of Ji Moshen's office alone, everyone was puzzled, and followed Tang Feng to the Chinese Pavilion on the third floor of the Winter Palace, Tang Feng couldn't stretch out his trembling right hand, groping on the wall, finally, he touched the light switch, the huge chandelier lit up, illuminating the entire exhibition hall brightly lit, brilliant, but when Tang Feng looked at those Western Xia cultural relics, he was dumbfounded, and the head of the Lushena Buddha that was originally placed in the most conspicuous position was gone without a trace at this time.

Tang Feng couldn't believe that this was true, he threw himself in front of the display case, and after a closer look, the Buddha statue was indeed missing, and the glass in front of the display case was smashed into a big hole...... "Who did this?" What's here? Yelena asked.

Tang Feng flipped the information in his hand to the close-up photo of the Buddha statue and pointed it out to everyone: "This Buddha statue, the Western Xia Buddha statue found by Koznov in Blackwater City, Tymoshen thinks that this Buddha statue contains the skull of the Empress Wuzang." ”

"The Queen's skull?" The crowd was amazed.

"That ghost left a trail of blood, it seems to be injured, could it be the injury it was when it smashed this piece of glass?" Xu Renyu reminded everyone.

"Doctor, you're saying the Buddha statue was taken by that ghost?" Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

Tang Feng carefully inspected the big hole in the glass and said, "From this hole in the glass, no trace of blood was found, so it seems that the blood on the ghost's body does not look like it was left when the glass was smashed." ”

"Alright, you don't study this glass, see, what did I find?" Han Jiang held a bullet casing in his hand and walked over, "Just on the floor not far away, I found this." ”

"It means that there was a ...... here No, there was just a scramble, and in the process of scrambling, shots were fired?! Yelena exclaimed.

"Scramble? Who and whom? Liang Yuan asked.

"This still needs to be asked, it must be Tymoshen and the ghost, they both want to get this Buddha statue, and the bloodstains left by the ghost indicate that the ghost Misha was injured in the scramble, and should have been shot by Tymoshen's gun." Tang Feng Road.

This explanation makes sense, but I don't understand what's so special about that Buddha statue? Do they have to fight for the Buddha statue? Han Jiang asked Tang Feng puzzled.

"That Buddha statue must have a special value and significance, but we don't know it yet!" Tang Feng explained.

"It still doesn't make sense to say this, if Tymoshen wants to get this Buddha statue, why wait until today, he will have the opportunity to steal this Buddha statue at any time." Yelena shook her head.

Tang Feng stared at the display cabinet that lacked a Buddha statue, and said in a daze: "Why can't the other cultural relics in the display case attract them, but that Buddha statue?" And why did Tymoshin wait until now to get the Buddha statue? There is only one possibility, what they are fighting for is not the Buddha statue itself, but the secret contained in the Buddha statue, maybe that secret is in the Buddha statue. ”

"Inside the Buddha statue? Didn't you say that the Buddha statue was filled with the skull of the queen? Han Jiang asked.

"That's what Timoshen said, whether the Buddha statue does not hide the queen's skull, you can only know when you open it." Tang Feng Road.

Yelena interrupted the two of them and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this Buddha statue, let's talk about the two people who fought for the Buddha statue, the ghost Misha was injured and left, then, what about Tymoshen?" He should still be in the Winter Palace, and we still have a chance to catch him. ”

As soon as Yelena's voice fell, her mobile phone rang, it was Ivanov calling, only to hear Yelena scold at the other end of the phone: "Stupid! He hung up the phone angrily.

Yelena shrugged her shoulders at everyone and explained, "That's how things are in the world, some people are always a beat faster than us, and that Tymoshen actually swaggered out of the gate just now. ”

"Out? How is this possible? Horrified, the crowd followed Yelena to the monitoring room on the first floor, where Ivanov carefully reported: "Our men rescued a policeman in the toilet, and his coat was ripped off. ”

"Okay, I'm not interested in your explanation, show me the surveillance footage." Yelena seemed to be a different person, and scolded sharply.

5

On the screen, a picture of the entrance of the Winter Palace appeared, and after a while, a tall and thin man wearing a police uniform, carrying a square leather suitcase, swaggered out of the gate of the Winter Palace, although Ji Moshen on the screen did not bring glasses and changed clothes, but Tang Feng still recognized Ji Moshen at a glance: "It's him, most of the boxes he is carrying are the Buddha statues, the size is just right." ”

At this time, Ivanov on the side reported: "After Tymoshin got out of the Winter Palace, he did not get into his own car, but drove away in a police car. Then we found it in his car. ”

Saying that, Ivanov took out a white robe from a large evidence bag, from Han Jiang to Tang Feng, to Yelena, Makarov, everyone was stupid, how could there be such a robe in Tymoshen's car?

"This is the ghost's robe, the ghost's robe......" Makarov muttered to himself.

Han Jiang carefully inspected the robe, and suddenly, he found a mark scraped by a sharp weapon at the hem of the robe, and there was just one missing, Han Jiang hurriedly took out the white cloth he found in the manhole, and compared it to the scratched place where the robe was scratched, not a lot!

"What's going on? Why is there another ghost? Tang Feng felt that his head was about to be blown up.

"Who is the real ghost? Misha? Tymoshin? Yelena was also lost in thought, she had thought she had figured out what was going on, but now it seemed that what she knew was only the tip of the iceberg.

After a period of silence, Tang Feng suddenly remembered something, and said to everyone: "After Liang Yuan and I strayed into the Winter Palace, we happened to hear the call between Tymoshen and Stephen, during the call, Tymoshen said to Stephen that he can now be sure that the ghost is the old guy, and then, he specially explained that it is his teacher, and said that the old guy is not dead, has been living in the sewers, and now he is back in the Winter Palace. ”

"Tymoshin's teacher?" Xu Renyu suddenly lost his voice and exclaimed.

Everyone looked at Xu Renyu, not knowing how Xu Renyu could be so out of shape, only Tang Feng stared at Xu Renyu and slowly said a sentence from his mouth: "I suddenly thought of it...... Will that ghost ...... Could it be Professor Boris? ”

"Nope! This can't be, Professor Boris died eight years ago, didn't the two of us go to his grave again? Maybe Tymoshin has another teacher? Xu Renyu couldn't believe it.

"Tang Feng, do you mean that Professor Boris is the ghost Misha?" Han Jiang suddenly remembered that Tang Feng and Xu Renyu had told him about Professor Boris.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "It can also be said that the ghost Misha is Professor Boris." ”

Xu Renyu also had to start believing this assertion at this time, and his eyes appeared again in front of Professor Boris's voice and appearance, "They are indeed very close in age, and Professor Boris's mentor is also Academician Alec, if Misha went to St. Petersburg University after 1988...... But how did Professor Boris become a ghost? ”

Han Jiang pondered for a long time, and muttered in his mouth, "Ghost Misha? Professor Boris? Tymoshin? Missing the 1964 archive? Who is the real ghost......"

Xu Renyu told Yelena and Makarov about his relationship with Professor Boris back then, and after listening to it, Yelena said to Han Jiang: "Okay, don't think about it, I just need to go to St. Petersburg University to find out about Professor Boris's situation." Now that Tymoshin has also fled, their conspiracy has been completely revealed, and they will definitely jump over the wall in a hurry, carrying the jade interstitial screen, and the mysterious Buddha head to escape, so we must block them in Petersburg. ”

6

Yelena paused, and then ordered Ivanov: "Ivanov, you keep a few people here in the Winter Palace, and the others can be withdrawn, your main task is to take people at the airport, the station and the traffic arteries out of the city to strictly check, and you must not let Stephen and Tymoshin go, and you must notify me in time if there is a situation." ”

Ivanov took the order and left, but Han Jiang said: "It's not a way to just block it like this, and it is inevitable that such a big city will have loopholes." ”

"What do you mean?" Yelena asked.

"We're going to take the initiative!" Han Jiang said categorically.

"But where are we attacking? We don't know where the jade interstitial screen was hidden by them? ”

"I remember that Tymoshen also mentioned on the phone that she asked Stephen to go to that place immediately to pick up the jade insert." Tang Feng tried his best to recall every word that Ji Moshen said at that time, but he was too nervous at the time, and now he could only recall Ji Moshen's words bit by bit.

"That place? Didn't he say what it was? Han Jiang asked anxiously.

"Nope. I think Stephen knew about that place, and they should have had an agreement before. Tang Feng said.

This shows that the jade interstitial screen is not in the hands of Stephen and Tymoshen, and after they stole the jade interstitial, they hid the jade interstitial in an unknown place. What place will it be? Han Jiang wondered.

Yelena said angrily: "Whatever he is, first search the safe of the city's banks." ”

"No, it's too flamboyant to make such a big move." Makarov dissuaded Yelena.

"Then what's the solution?"

"There will be a way, let's all calm down and think about it." Makarov remained calm.

Tang Feng tilted his head and stared at the huge oil painting on the top of the Winter Palace, the oil painting seemed to be a "Passion of the Christ", Tang Feng looked at the painting, and suddenly a large piece of red appeared in front of his eyes, and the red slowly spread in front of his eyes, like bright red roses, and like a large pool of red blood...... Tang Feng closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a peaceful picture appeared in front of his eyes again, and Tang Feng calmly said to everyone: "I thought of a place. ”

"Where?"

"Cemetery, Professor Boris's grave!" Tang Feng accentuated his tone.

"Cemetery? Why where? Han Jiang asked Tang Feng rhetorically.

"Instinct, trust my instincts, that's what you often say." Tang Feng replied.

"That's an unobtrusive place." Xu Renyu nodded in agreement with Tang Feng's speculation.

Tang Feng explained: "Actually, I am not completely intuitive, when Dr. Xu and I went to Professor Boris's cemetery, we saw a large bouquet of red roses placed in front of the professor's humble grave, which should have been placed not long ago, probably before we went; I thought, in such a cold season, it must be expensive to buy such a large bouquet of red roses in Petersburg! Dr. Xu once said that Professor Boris lived alone, had no children, no friends, and the cemetery was very remote, in such a cold weather, who would brave the wind and snow to go to the remote cemetery to see Professor Boris? And he also offered such a large bouquet of expensive red roses, and now that I think about it, I am afraid that the person who offered the flowers is Timoshen! ”

"This time is similar to the time when the jade screen was stolen. But even if Ji Moshen hid the jade insert in the cemetery, what does this have to do with offering flowers? Han Jiang was puzzled.

"Of course, there is no necessary connection with the offering of flowers, I think if Professor Boris is the ghost Misha, and Tymoshen harmed his teacher, maybe he is ashamed! Of course, this is just my conjecture. ”

Yelena also began to believe Tang Feng's conjecture, "What Tang Feng said makes sense, it is very likely that Ji Moshen hid the stolen jade insert in the tomb. Okay, let's stop guessing, let's start to act separately, regardless of whether the jade interlude is hidden in the cemetery or not, Han Jiang, Tang Feng, and father, you go to Professor Boris's cemetery first, to prevent someone from digging the grave, and wait for dawn; I'll go immediately to open the official document for the excavation of the cemetery, and in addition, go to St. Petersburg University to check on the situation of Professor Boris at the school, Dr. Xu, you better go with me, and then we will meet at the cemetery. ”

Xu Renyu nodded and left with Yelena, while Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Liang Yuan, and Makarov rushed to the Shuvalovo Cemetery on the outskirts, and at this time, it was dawn the next day, and the Winter Palace had experienced a sleepless night.

7

Before dawn, Tang Feng, Han Jiang, Liang Yuan and Makarov rushed to the Shuvalovo cemetery, in the cemetery, it was surprisingly quiet, no birds could be heard, no human figures could be seen, two rows of cedars sandwiched a path leading to the depths of the cemetery, four people stepped on the snow, making a "crunch!" Crunch! Liang Yuan snuggled in Tang Feng's arms, looking at the rows of uneven tombstones and crosses on both sides of the trail in horror, and the four of them walked to the end of the trail, Tang Feng relied on his memory to point to a small hillside on the left, and whispered: "It should be on that hillside." ”

The four of them continued to move towards the small hillside, suddenly, they heard a gentle grinding sound, Han Jiang alertly pulled out the pistol, this is the pistol that Yelena gave him to defend himself when she left the Winter Palace, Han Jiang walked in front of Tang Feng, stood in the snow, observing the surrounding environment, the sky was almost dawn, the fog rose in the cemetery, Han Jiang couldn't see the situation ten meters in front of him, he could only listen quietly, he heard the gentle rubbing sound again, at this time, there should be no one in the cemetery, could it be Stephen, or Tymoshen? When Han Jianghu was suspicious, Makarov walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, it's two naughty little squirrels." ”

"Squirrel! Where is it? Are you so sure? ”

"Let's go! I'm sure squirrels. ”

The four of them continued to march up the hillside, and ten minutes later, they came to the small hillside, Han Jiang stood on the hillside, looking around, he still couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly, and could only vaguely see a dense pine forest on another hillside not far away. Han Jiang turned around and carefully illuminated their position with a flashlight, and he saw a huge black stone tablet, which was engraved with two big Chinese characters "不愠", when Han Jiang was surprised, Tang Feng pointed to this tombstone and introduced: "This is the tomb of the famous Chinese master Academician Alec." ”

"Misha's teacher?" Makarov asked.

"Yes, many sinologists in Russia were his students." Tang Feng replied.

"What about Professor Boris's grave?" Han Jiang asked Tang Feng.

"It should be around here."

Saying that, Tang Feng was about to go to find Professor Boris's tomb, but was pulled by Han Jiang, Han Jiang carefully used a flashlight to shine around the tomb of Academician Alek, until it was far away on the snow, Han Jiang said with a little relief: "Except for our footprints here, no one else's footprints have been found, it seems that apart from us, no one else has been here in the past two days." ”

Tang Feng soon found Professor Boris's tombstone among the messy tombstones, because he saw the bouquet of red roses again, and the red roses were still lying quietly in front of Professor Boris's tomb, but after these days of wind and snow, it had lost its former bright color.

Tang Feng's flashlight shone on the tombstone, it was still an ordinary, even simple tombstone, with the name "Boris Mikhainovich Ustinov" engraved in Russian, and nothing else, Tang Feng's flashlight slowly moved to the back of the tombstone, which was the burial place of Professor Boris. Tang Feng walked closer and carefully inspected the place with a flashlight, and suddenly, his eyes widened and he exclaimed, "You see, this place seems to have been turned over." ”

Several people gathered around, only to see that Professor Boris's tomb was covered with snow, but the snow was obviously thinner than that on other tombs, and it was a little messy, Tang Feng said with certainty: "There must be something wrong with this, I remember the last time I came here with Dr. Xu, the snow here was very thick, and it was not so messy." ”

"Looks like you're right!" Han Jiang Road.

Liang Yuan suddenly asked Han Jiang: "If the jade interstitial screen is really buried here, then wouldn't it be dangerous for us to be here now?" Stephen and Tymoshin could be here at any time. ”

Han Jiang nodded and said, "Yes, we must be ready for battle at any time." ”

"I hope Yelena can bring someone there soon." Makarov prayed silently.

8

When Yelena and Xu Renyu rushed to Shuvalovo Cemetery with a large group of people, the sky was already bright, but the fog in the early morning had not yet dispersed, Tang Feng and Han Jiang saw Yelena, the strings that had been tense were relaxed, the police set up several layers of cordon on the periphery of the cemetery, and Yelena also brought experienced forensic doctors.

"We can now conclude that Professor Boris's grave has been tampered with recently." Han Jiang was straightforward about their findings to Yelena.

"Oh! So it's very likely that the jade interstitial screen is hidden here? Yelena said with some excitement.

"You'll have to dig it up to find out!" Makarov tract.

"I have also made new discoveries, and we have figured out the experience of Professor Boris at St. Petersburg University," Yelena said. He did come to St. Petersburg University in 1988, and Tymoshin was indeed his student, and about eight years ago, Professor Boris died of a terrible supposedly contagious skin disease, so almost no one came to his funeral, and few people knew where his grave was. ”

"According to the memories of Professor Boris's colleagues, Professor Boris was always taking care of him when he was dying, and after Professor Boris died, it was Tymoshin who organized his funeral and built this tomb for him." Xu Renyu added.

"I see! Then our inference can be fully established, Misha lost the protection of the KGB after 1988 and came to teach at St. Petersburg University, he could have spent his old age like this, but he was killed by his student Tymoshin, but Misha did not die, he escaped into the sewer pipe and became a ghost! Tang Feng said.

"And what will be in the tomb? Has it been empty for so many years? Liang Yuan suddenly asked.

"Dig it up and see!" Yelena said, ordered two policemen to start digging, the tomb was very shallow, and after five minutes, a small tomb was revealed, in the tomb, there was a coffin made of mahogany, Makarov carefully observed the coffin, and said: "Judging from the texture and workmanship of the coffin, it is a good coffin, eight years old, there is no sign of decay at all." ”

"Such a good coffin, it won't be empty inside, right?" Liang Yuan said.

Yelena glanced at a policeman who used a crowbar to pry open the peachwood coffin in the tomb, and the crowd gathered around the tomb, staring nervously at the coffin in front of them. The lid of the coffin was lifted, and a skeleton with a missing skull appeared in front of everyone, and everyone was shocked when they saw this, "A headless skeleton? Everyone exclaimed.

Two minutes later, only Tang Feng quickly calmed down, and without waiting for the forensic doctor to make a move, he reached out and picked up a humerus from the coffin, looked at it carefully, and then said to everyone: "This skeleton is very clean, you see that the whole coffin is very clean, obviously not like those coffins that really bury the dead, this headless skeleton reminds me of the queen who did not hide the queen that Tymoshen told me." ”

"The queen wrapped in the Buddha statue?" Yelena asked rhetorically.

Tang Feng nodded, "Well, it's the Queen of the Hidden Treasure." ”

Yelena didn't say anything, turned around and motioned to the experienced forensic doctor to investigate the skeleton, and the forensic doctor quickly came to a preliminary conclusion, "This headless skeleton is a female skeleton, and the preliminary judgment is that it is a woman of the Tibetan-Arian-race, about forty years old, maybe older. ”

This conclusion shocked everyone again, Professor Boris's grave actually appeared the skeleton of a woman, and it was also of Mongolian race, "that is, this skeleton cannot be the skeleton of a Russian?" Yelena asked the medical examiner in surprise.

The medical examiner nodded and replied affirmatively, "This skeleton should be from the East, and it should be very old, at least hundreds of years, and she is older than every soul in this cemetery. It's an unbelievable oddity, and it's the first time I've seen it in my decades-long career......"

Yelena could no longer hear the words of the forensic doctor, she only felt that her brain was spinning and a mess, and it was a long time before he heard Makarov say: "It seems that Tang Feng's inference is correct, this skeleton is indeed the bones of the Empress Wuzang, she is from the far east, but she is buried here." ”

After Makarov finished speaking, he drew a cross on his chest, but Tang Feng had a new question: "But according to Timoshin, the bones of Empress Wuzang were lost in the Great Patriotic War, how could she suddenly appear here at this moment?" ”

"That's for Tymoshen and Misha the ghost." After Yelena finished speaking, she instructed the forensic doctor to collect the headless female bones and bring them back to the laboratory for detailed examination. "Now the question is what about the jade interstitial? There is no one in the coffin, could it be that Tymoshen and Stephen have already taken the jade interstitial screen? Yelena said disappointedly.

As soon as Yelena's words fell, Tang Feng jumped directly from the tomb and stood in the coffin, Liang Yuan exclaimed: "Tang Feng, what are you going to do?" ”

"I believe the jade interstitial screen is here." Saying that, Tang Feng leaned down and touched the wooden board at the bottom of the coffin with his hand, and knocked it with his hand, and then, Tang Feng took the crowbar in the policeman's hand, inserted it into the bottom edge of the coffin, and pried it upward, the wooden board at the bottom of the coffin was pried up, and everyone was surprised to find that it was under the coffin board, and there was actually a compartment, Tang Feng excitedly pried open all the wooden boards, and uncovered a layer of sponge covered under the wooden board - a warm and beautiful jade was displayed in front of everyone, and the jade surface was faintly shining with golden light, Tang Feng recognized at a glance that this was the jade interstitial screen they had found in the black-headed stone room.

Tang Feng took out the jade interstitial screen from the coffin, Makarov carefully took the jade interstitial, and placed the jade interstitial on the snow in front of the tombstone. Immediately afterwards, Tang Feng found a neatly arranged row of * assault rifles and a large amount of ammunition from the compartment under the coffin.

"Tymoshin uses this as his pantry!" Yelena sighed as she looked at the guns that had come out of the tomb. As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion behind everyone.

9

The people around the tomb looked behind them together, and on the path not far away, more than 20 policemen, loaded with loaded guns, were surrounding a tall man wearing a white robe and a cloak on his head, and the policeman shouted at the man, asking him to stop and be examined, but the man ignored the policemen and still walked this way......

"OMG! The ghost has really appeared! Tang Feng saw this scene, and such a sentence came out of his mouth stupidly.

Seeing this, Yelena hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to order the policemen: "Don't stop him, let him come." ”

More than 20 policemen "hula" dispersed, making way for the ghost, who walked alone towards the hillside, white cemetery, white robes, white cloaks, white world, the ghost seemed to merge with his surroundings, he walked lonely and hobbled on the snow-covered path, like a prisoner exiled in Siberia...... Finally, he climbed the hill, and he reverently knelt down in front of the tomb of Academician Alec, and prayed silently for a long time, and everyone looked at the scene before them, and could only wait quietly for the ghost prayer to end.

The ghost finally ended his prayer, stood up, and walked towards everyone, and when he was still five meters away from the people, the ghost stopped, Tang Feng couldn't believe that this was the ghost he saw in the Winter Palace, and he couldn't believe that the ghost in front of him could be Misha? He wanted to see the ghost's face clearly, but the ghost lowered his head, the wide cloak completely covered the ghost's face, and Tang Feng carefully observed the robe worn by the ghost, such a strange robe, Tang Feng couldn't tell if the style of this robe came from the West or the East!

"Misha, is that you?" Makarov spoke first.

"Ivan, although you are getting old, I can still see what you were like when you were young." The ghost Misha spoke, in a strange and hoarse voice.

"Why can't you take off your cloak?" Makarov asked again.

"Because that scares you." The ghost Misha replied, after speaking, Misha slowly took off the cloak on his head, raised his head, everyone saw this, all of them were shocked, Misha Pit's potholed face was covered with large and small pus, some pustules were red and swollen, and some pustules had festered, flowing pus from the inside out, it was the most terrifying face in the world, no one could describe that face in words.

"What? You ......" Makarov was speechless for a moment.

Xu Renyu was shocked and asked tremblingly, "Do you remember me?" I used to listen to your class more than ten years ago. ”

"Xu, of course I still remember you, I didn't expect to see you here today, I know that you are also here for the jade interstitial, this secret that I have kept for half a century, it seems that I can no longer keep it!"

"Misha, Professor Boris? Were you the one who saved my life in the Winter Palace? Tang Feng asked.

The ghost Misha suddenly laughed dryly, and the voice was not like a laugh, but like a cry and wail, "Yes, Misha is Boris, Boris is Misha, young man, whoever you are, I don't want to see you die at the hands of Tymoshin." Misha replied to Tang Feng in proficient Chinese.

"Misha, how are you doing after you came back from China? Since you're not dead, why don't you come to me? Makarov asked.

"At least before I 'died', I had a good life, of course, the requirements of being a man should not be too high, the KGB arranged everything for me, I have no choice, I just need to live a step-by-step life, in my step-by-step life, it is impossible to find you."

"We found the KGB file about you, and by 1988 there was no record of you anymore, what was going on?" Makarov asked again.

The ghost Misha let out a long sigh and said: "When I came back from nine deaths, Sherepin arranged everything for me, so that I could no longer choose my own life, I used to resent him, but today in retrospect, I found that Sherepin is worthy of being a far-sighted politician, he seems to have predicted the lives of many people, including mine, of course, he did not anticipate his own life fate, he has long expected that once I lose the strong protection of the KGB, danger may come at any time!" In fact, in 1988, the once unbreakable alliance was in turmoil, the KGB itself could not be protected, I had long been fed up with the 24-hour surveillance protection of KGB agents, I lost most of my personal space, so I applied to work at St. Petersburg University, the KGB could no longer afford to install their people in the university, plus I was old, there were no accidents for so many years, so at that time, the KGB lifted the surveillance protection of me. ”

10

Misa paused, as if reminiscing about a good time, "The first days of college were turbulent years, but I was obsessed with my research, and although life was hard, it was the happiest time of my life, until Tymoshin appeared. It was he who ruined my life and everything about me, and it was he who made me the person I am today, not like a person, not like a ghost. ”

"How did Tymoshin hurt you? And why did he harm you? Tang Feng asked boldly.

"Because of the jade interstitial, because of the secret of the jade interpolation! I have to admit that Tymoshin is indeed the smartest, hardest-working, and most talented of all my students. The first time I met him, I was convinced that with a little effort, he would be able to surpass me, and even one day, be on par with my mentor, Academician Alec, and it was for this reason that I told him so many things that he should not have known. ”

"For example, the basement of the Winter Palace where the jade interstitial screen is hidden, and the secret of the jade interlude." Makarov interjected.

"Yes, and what happened to the expedition team back then, although I still kept some of the most important secrets to him, I have said too much, I have seen his talent and talent, but I have not recognized him as a person, and neglected to know him as a person. It wasn't until later that I discovered his ambitions, but when I tried to go to the KGB and get them to transfer the jade interstitial in the basement of the Winter Palace, the KGB was long gone, and I went to the police station, and several other departments, and no one believed me, they all thought I was a madman, but Tymoshin knew about my actions, and he didn't think of me as a madman, but as a great threat, and for the sake of their grand plan, he decided to get rid of me. He secretly poisoned me, turned me into this, and then bought a few policemen, claiming that I was dead, but I was not dead, so Timoshin poisoned me again, he found a killer to kill me, I hid in Tibet, once, I was chased into the sewer pipe by the killer, the killer fired several shots, one of the shots hit me, I fell into the sewage, unconscious, the killer thought that the result was me, so I went back to my life, but I escaped again, was saved by some scavengers. From then on, I learned to live like a beggar with the scavengers, I chose to live in the sewer pipe, and just like that, after a few years, Tymoshin thought I was dead and never came to hunt me down. ”

"Was you the ghost we first encountered in the sewer?" Xu Renyu asked.

"It was me, but I was scared, I was afraid that Tymoshin would find out that I had entered the Winter Palace, know that I was not dead, and come to hunt me down, so I ran, moreover, I vaguely heard you talking in Chinese, which frightened me even more, how could anyone speak Chinese in the sewer pipes in Petersburg? I clearly remember that the killer who killed me was a Chinese. ”

"What? The killer is Chinese? Han Jiang was surprised.

"Yes, I suspect they are in league with Tymoshin."

"So you think we're also Tymoshin's people." Han Jiang Road.

"Don't forget, you were still with guns."

"But when we found that underground cabin, you seemed to have left somewhere? Did you abandon that hut? Han Jiang asked the question in his heart.

Ghost Misa sneered and said, "Tymoshen seems to have sensed that I'm not dead lately, especially since he found out that I had infiltrated the Winter Palace, and he went to the sewers several times to look for my traces, and he also disguised himself as me, and he found my underground hut, and I had to move to another underground hut, which is what you call ' Ghost House', thousands of rats are blocking Tymoshen's path, and I, this look, can make the rats make way for me, maybe those rats don't want to get the virus on me, hehe...... I want to thank the rats for keeping me alive today. ”

"No wonder the second time I went into the sewer pipe, I kept feeling a pair of eyes staring at me, it turned out to be Tymoshen." Han Jiang recalled the second time he entered the sewer pipe.

11

"But how did you get into the Winter Palace?" Tang Feng asked Misha.

"It was a few days ago, I stumbled upon the sewer pipe very close to the Winter Palace, and when I went in and looked at it, I understood that the hole led to the basement where the jade insert was kept, and I immediately thought of Tymoshen."

"So, you opened the hole again, and from there you entered the Winter Palace, and pretended to be a ghost every night, but I still have some doubts, how did you open those doors? And how did they escape surveillance? Tang Feng asked again.

"Don't forget, I've worked there for decades, I know every room in the Winter Palace inside out, and I've learned from the agents who protect me a few small techniques, such as making simple * that can interfere with surveillance signals, such as how to open a door."

"But why did you sneak into the Winter Palace?" Tang Feng raised the biggest doubt in his heart.

"If they get the jade interstitial, a catastrophe will start, so I'm going to do my best to stop Tymoshin and their plot."

"Tymoshin's conspiracy? Is it for the Buddha statue? When I first entered the Hermitage, I found that the Buddha statue in the Chinese Pavilion was missing, but the next day it appeared intact in the display case. Tang Feng bluntly raised this most concerned issue.

Misha the ghost lowered his head and stopped talking, as if he was thinking, as if there was something unspeakable, and on the hillside, there was silence, only the occasional cold wind blew and made a terrible sound in the woods. Tang Feng noticed that Misha's left arm seemed to be a little unnatural, he looked down at Misha's left arm, blood, he saw that blood was dripping from Misha's left arm on the snow, this was probably the wound of Misha being injured by Ji Moshen, Tang Feng stepped forward and asked with concern: "Your wound is still bleeding!" ”

Tang Feng wanted to step forward again, but suddenly the ghost Misha raised his head and yelled at Tang Feng: "Yes, it was for that Buddha statue, I could have succeeded that time, but because of your appearance, the alarm was triggered, I was in a hurry to get out, and I had no choice but to put the Buddha statue back." ”

"What's inside the Buddha statue? Is there no hidden queen's skull? Tang Feng asked.

"The Queen's skull?! She is so beautiful, the beauty of the Orient in perfect condition. As he spoke, the ghost mitsock let out a low howl, like a wolf's howl, and like a ...... Tang Feng couldn't imagine what the sound was. But at this moment, Misha's body suddenly shook violently, and then, again, the terrible sound of gunfire pierced the quiet forest......

"Get down, there's a sniper!" With Han Jiang's shouts and the piercing gunshots, a large area of blood spread out on Misha's chest, and the red blood quickly stained the robe on his body.

Tang Feng stood in front of Misha in a daze, and was at a loss, Han Jiang rushed up and dragged Tang Feng behind a tombstone, "You don't want to die!" Han Jiang yelled at Tang Feng loudly.

Tang Feng was still thinking about what Misha had just said, when Han Jiang had already pulled out his gun, pointed at the small pine forest opposite, and shouted to Yelena: "There, in the pine forest on the other side." Han Jiang, Yelena, and many other policemen hid behind the tombstones and shot at the pine forest on that side, but soon calm returned to the pine forest.

Misha was shot several times, still standing on the hillside, it seemed that the shouts around him, the sound of firearms, had nothing to do with him, he moved two steps with difficulty, facing his own cemetery, that was the tomb built for him by Timoshin, the name on the tombstone, that was the name given to him by the KGB, everything here seemed to have nothing to do with him, but he finally fell in front of this tomb fatefully, Misha's body twitched violently, the corners of his mouth and body were still bubbling blood, he stared at a pair of terrible eyes, Looking at Tang Feng, unwilling to close it for a long time, Tang Feng looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, and suddenly, he heard the last sentence coming out of Misha's mouth vaguely: "Buddha...... Buddha statue...... There you ...... What was needed......"

After saying this, Misha's body twitched again, and then stopped moving, his blood splashed on the simple tombstone, splashed on the jade interstitial, and slowly stained the bouquet of red roses that had withered in front of the tomb......