Chapter 762: The King of Craftsmen Conference
Lin Xuan took a deep breath, the anger in his chest had already surged to his throat, and he was about to explode. Read the full text of the latest chapter
"Tian Meng, you go, I don't force you to stay, is it okay to put Mr. Wei down? He was an outsider and had nothing to do with these things. Lin Xuan forcibly suppressed his anger.
Mr. Wei was kind to him, and he couldn't bear to suffer this kind of forced abduction in the end.
"I'm sorry, I can't make a decision. As I said, everyone is at the mercy of the organization and cannot make any decisions for any private reasons. Mr. Wei is of extraordinary significance to the 51st region, so I have to take him with me, which is not negotiable. Tian Meng replied coldly.
Lin Xuan tried hard to suppress his anger: "Tian Meng, count me begging you." If it weren't for Mr. Wei."
"No way, Lin Xuan, I said it, there are some things that you and I can't decide, goodbye." With that, the call was disconnected.
Lin Xuan put away the phone, and after taking three deep breaths in a row, he let out a series of long howls towards the deep valley to the west, before he could barely vent the anger in his chest.
Tian Meng's answers were impeccable, all of them were official words, not mixed with the slightest personal emotion. However, he once mistakenly thought that the relationship between himself and Tian Meng had gone deep to the point of talking about everything, living and dying together, and it seemed that it was all wishful thinking.
"Roasted wheat, crab meat roasted wheat"
"Wonton, shrimp wonton"
Lin Xuan was startled by these two strange shouts, and he jumped up and looked around, convinced that he was standing on the top of a snow-capped mountain, not on the streets of Hong Kong Island.
The clamor came from the mouths of the staff of the Hong Kong Island seaside restaurant, which was friendly and welcoming, and Cantonese was mixed with the end notes of various local dialects.
"Who's calling? Who is calling" Lin Xuan shouted.
The cries rang out only twice, and then they disappeared completely.
"How can there be such a clamour? This is the Great Snow Mountain of Tibet, not the seaside of Hong Kong Island. What is wrong with my ears, can the sound of selling also travel through time and space? Lin Xuan didn't have a clue in his head.
The strange cloud was rapidly fading and disappearing, and it only took a dozen seconds for it to completely disappear from mid-air. After devouring a soldier and four rockets, the cloud left without a trace, and with it the swallowed people and objects, as if they had gone to another distant world.
Lin Xuan looked to the west, and the mountain shrouded in dark clouds was also revealed, with the white clouds and blue sky as the background, it looked extremely tall and steep.
"Is it all over like this, without a head or an end, without a sound?" He muttered to himself, not even believing that this would be the end.
He only hoped that the suicide attack of the magician had eliminated the strange "nuclear" and also eliminated the huge hidden danger of the human world.
There seemed to be something wrong with Tian Meng during the call, but Lin Xuan thought about the whole process, and the "inappropriateness" loomed and couldn't be seen. txt novel download
"What's wrong? I'm too tired, maybe I should really calm down and rearrange all the doubts to find patterns......" He leaned against a cliff, holding on to his strength, waiting for rescue.
Lin Xuan was finally rescued by the airline's backup team and sent to a five-star hotel in the northern suburbs of Kathmandu, Nepal, where he was finally freed and returned to Hong Kong Island after five weeks of review, interrogation, transcription, and testing.
When the outline of Victoria Harbor appeared under the wings, Lin Xuan exhaled a long breath, and his whole person was completely relaxed.
He was fortunate to be able to come back alive from the treacherous Tibetan land, but he was also annoyed that he was now empty-handed and had found nothing.
"Anyway, just come back, wait for the opportunity, and start again." That's the only way he enlightened himself.
He had been away from Hong Kong Island for too long, and when he stepped out of the cabin, he breathed in the slightly humid Hong Kong Island air, and he felt like he was in a different world. Ghost Lake, Sacred Lake, Sacred Mountain, Donna, Tian Meng, Area 51, Russian Spy ...... Those things faded away from his memory as the geographical distance increased, and the monotonous, barren, and slow life in Tibet would be replaced by a fast, rich, and colorful metropolis life.
Lin Xuan owns a villa by the sea in Tseung Kwan O District, and there is no visitor except for the hourly workers who come to clean it regularly every day.
After more than a month in an extremely quiet environment, Lin Xuan repeated sleeping, reading, exercising, practicing martial arts, and playing chess every day, feeling that his body and mind had been loose like Japanese Kobe beef beaten with an iron pestle. He knows that things must be reversed, and when comfort is at the end, he is about to start a new adventure.
Sure enough, on the third day after this idea came to him, he received a mysterious phone call asking him to meet at the café on the top floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Hong Kong Island at 8 o'clock that night.
"The trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the time has finally come." Lin Xuan's fighting spirit germinated again.
Mandarin Oriental is located at 5 Connaught Road Central, Central, Hong Kong Island, overlooking Victoria Harbour. Built by Hongkong Land, a well-known real estate developer in Central, Hong Kong, and opened in September 1963, the hotel combines tradition and modernity, West and East. There are famous French and Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong, and are connected to shopping malls such as Landmark Plaza and Prince Building, which is a very convenient and attractive hotel for foreign tourists.
Lin Xuan arrived early, and when he entered the café, he noticed that a well-dressed but restless man was already waiting in the café.
As soon as he sat down, the man came over with a coffee cup.
"Mr. Lin, we are from the headquarters, and we have read your information, so I am glad to meet you." The man's attitude was very welcoming.
After the greetings, the man pulled out a letter containing the latest instructions from his superiors: "Participate in the King of Craftsmen's Tournament and obtain a tool called 'Aether'." ”
"I'm Jin Yu, and this time I'm your assistant, and I'll accompany you to this King of Craftsmen Conference." The man said.
Lin Xuan ordered a cup of coffee and calmed down to chat with Jin Yu.
Lin Xuan has also heard about the "King of Craftsmen" conference, which is a conference spontaneously organized by skilled craftsmen around the world, with a very long history, and it is said that it can be related to the public loss plate in the Spring and Autumn Period at the earliest, and it has been passed down to this day, and it has been more than 1,000 sessions. This title of "King of Craftsmen" doesn't matter to ordinary people, but for craftsmen, it is no less than great honors such as the leader of the martial arts alliance, the king of kung fu, and Huashan Lunjian.
"Going back two times, the penultimate king of craftsmen is the most famous skilled 'Heavenly Craftsman King', and the penultimate is a Korean nicknamed 'Golden Right Hand'. The story of the two of them."
Lin Xuan nodded, signaling that Jin Yu could skip the introduction of the "Heavenly King" and the "Golden Right Hand", because the stories of those two people were circulated a lot in the rivers and lakes, and they were already open secrets, so there was no need to repeat them.
"Our mission this time is to obtain a tool called 'Aether', and several espionage organizations around the world will also take action, so this is not an easy task." Jin Yu said.
"That's why you're restless?" Lin Xuan asked with a smile.
Jin Yu nodded: "That's right, because the content of the mysterious tool 'Aether' is not known to everyone, and it is only mentioned in the information that it can change the world." ”
"How?" Lin Xuan asked.
"Aether" is a kind of substance conceived by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, and it is an imaginary concept of matter in the history of physics, and its connotation has evolved with the development of physics. In fact, the word "ether" is a transliteration of the English ether or aether, which the ancient Greeks used to refer to the blue sky or upper atmosphere. In Aristotle's view, in addition to water, fire, air, and earth, there is also an ether that dwells in the upper heavens. In the history of modern science, it initially had a mystical tinge. Later, people gradually increased its connotation, making it an imaginary substance that physicists in some historical periods relied on to think.
Naturally, the person who named something that could be named after such a mysterious object had a great deal of knowledge and great ambitions. Unconsciously, Lin Xuan also became interested in the maker behind the "ether".
"The organizers of the King of Craftsmen Congress received a video of a person who saw different clips from different periods of history through that tool and recorded the real video, which is very impressive. The tool is like a clairvoyant and an ear in ancient mythology, you can see whatever you want, listen to whatever you want, it's really amazing. I have a copy of the video stored on my laptop, do you want to watch it now? Jin Yu asked.
Lin Xuan nodded in agreement.
Jin Yu took out a small laptop from his leather bag, pressed the switch, and was ready for video playback in a matter of seconds.
Before pressing the play button, Jin Yu took a deep breath and added, "Mr. Lin, I know that you have a lot of doubts in your heart, and you also have a lot of answers, and you are even snickering at my ignorance"
What Lin Xuan was thinking in his heart was indeed guessed by the other party, because he was secretly laughing at the moment that this "ether" was a deceptive thing pretending to be a ghost.
However, unlike the charlatan's tricks, at least more than a hundred video experts have concluded that this video is really ancient, not a drama built by extras. What's even more terrifying is that as long as the maker is willing, he can change history, grab something in history, or add something to history, and do it through time and space at will, and manipulate the world......"
Lin Xuan nodded: "Please play it, I must put aside my prejudices and watch it carefully." ”
The video started playing, and at first the images were quite ordinary, it was supposed to be a grand ancient wedding scene, and it happened somewhere in Tibet, because most of the people were wearing Tibetan costumes.
Lin Xuan has been in Tibet for three years and is used to seeing this kind of clothing, so he is not surprised. In the picture, in addition to the people who hide their clothes, some of the other people are wearing ancient clothes. Judging from the Yingluo ornaments and clothing styles, they are completely imitating the dress of the Tang Dynasty. To put it simply, the first video that Jin Yu asked Lin Xuan to watch was "The Marriage Ceremony of Tibetans and Han Chinese".
The video was three minutes long, and when it was finished, the screen went dark.
"Mr. Lin, what do you see?" Jin Yu asked.
Lin Xuan replied calmly: "It's a video related to marriage, it's relatively ordinary, and there's nothing strange about it for the time being." ”
Jin Yu nodded: "That's right, it's such a video, but then, the video camera will be closer." ”
Lin Xuan made a gesture, signaling that Jin Yu didn't need to explain in detail, just continue playing.
Jin Yu pressed the play button again, and the second video began.
Strangely, the footage of this video is basically a repetition of the first video, except that the camera is pulled in halfway, changing from a long shot to a medium shot.
This time, Lin Xuan felt that the atmosphere was a little weird, and all the people in the picture showed different skin tones on their faces. That kind of extraordinarily rough is not what ordinary actors should have, only when they have been in the wind and cold for many years, and there is no proper skin care product maintenance, will leave this kind of traces similar to wild boar skin.
In other words, when the crew is looking for actors, it is no longer possible to find 100% "Tibetan-like" actors, and if they want to achieve realistic results, they can only let Tibetans perform in their true colors.
"If I say that they are 100 percent Tibetans, you don't have any objections, do you?" Jin Yu asked.
"Well, that's right." Lin Xuan agreed.
Jin Yu stretched out his finger and pointed at the "Tang Dynasty people" in the picture: "If I say that they are 100% Tang Dynasty people, what do you think?" ”