Woe to the wall
I felt that I had done the right thing by handing them over to the responsible staff of the Office of Security Services, who had always gone to great lengths to hide these small scrolls of paper. If we had done this earlier, we might not have been so ruthless and cruel in killing people. Hey, now there's finally a chance to make amends. Now that three small scrolls of paper from different circumstances have been gathered into one, and the feather has been transformed into a Big Dipper Elephant Chart, as if everything has entered the normal orbit, I am finally truly and completely relaxed now, and the next moment is to rely on the security affairs agency's ability to solve the case, and I think this is the end of the role I can play. In the days that followed, life went on as usual, and I continued to do physical training or scenario simulation training with all the team members, and in my spare time, I also collected some historical knowledge and legends about the Big Dipper from the library or from my peers.
The days were uneventful but fulfilling, but unexpectedly, I had just arrived at the training ground with a few companions this morning when I was taken away by two officers in police uniforms. It wasn't so much that they came to ask for me, but that they escorted me away, but not in handcuffs. I was stunned at the first sight of them, and so were the people present, who whispered to each other as they watched me being taken away, except for Amanda, who had led the two officers to the training ground, who did not speak, but looked worriedly at my distant back.
To my surprise, instead of heading to the high-security headquarters of the Security Affairs Agency, the group drove to a small villa nearly 30 kilometers from the city. Surrounded by mountains, the unique path, the delightful green trees around it, and the colorful flowers and grasses, I don't remember how long I haven't seen them, it's really refreshing! Despite the picturesque scenery of this hidden part of the woods, I have no intention of appreciating this wonderful scenery at present, because my heart is so nervous that my heart is pounding like a naughty fawn.
Led by two police officers, I trekkistanced into a small conference hall on the west side of the first floor. The Director of the Office of Security Affairs, Raymond, and four people I didn't know had been waiting in the conference hall for a long time. They were not surprised at all when I entered the room belatedly, but stood up politely. Raymond led me to a square chair across from them, and introduced me to the four men in the room.
"Mr. Ríos, Inspector of the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Tai Lai, Assistant Inspector of the Ministry of Justice, Ms. Merlin, Chief of the International Criminal Investigation Division of the Department of Security, Mr. Horsman, Researcher of Ancient Civilizations of the Department of Security."
None of them smiled, just nodded politely and sat down slowly. I nodded perfunctorily, and sat down nervously. At the moment, I was sitting on the square chair, in fact, I was not comfortable, as if I was sitting on pins and needles, as if there were countless big nails hidden under my buttocks, and they were ravaging me left and right. I felt like I had evolved into a real criminal, and I felt as small as a little mouse from nowhere, under the scorching gaze of their deteriorating suspicion. In order to control my anxiety and fear, my hands involuntarily glued together, and only then did I feel that my palms were already drenched in cold sweat.
They had only sat quietly for a short time, and Raymond began to speak again, and this time he was horribly cold and majestic.
"Xu Meng, hello! We should be old acquaintances, and we thank you very much for giving us all the three small scrolls of paper that you got by chance! But that doesn't mean you're fine. You've been involved in these three little scrolls, and it's impossible to settle things anymore, and you're the only person in the know, and now I can tell you responsibly that you're in a rather bad situation. Only by joining forces with us to uncover the criminals hiding in the shadows will you be able to save your life, and this is definitely not an alarmist statement. He paused, looking at me like a wolf preparing to hunt, and then added, "The country is facing a major crisis, and all the clues point to you, and more than three or four spies have reported your movements to me, and they have unanimously decided that you have important confidential information in your hands and can help us defuse this dangerous disaster. Now it's time for you and the pan to come out! ”
I gasped and fell completely into the layers of fog, Raymond's words were incredible, how could I have any important confidential information?! What's wrong with my life, what's going on, and even threatening my life?! I stammered, "Director, I'······ Didn't understand what you said at all. ”
"Maybe you should take another look at this." Raymond unfolded the memorable sticker again, "What do you think of this thing?" ”
Oh, this is the astrological chart, which hovers around in my dreams every day, "As far as I know, this is a chart of the Big Dipper." This Big Dipper is made up of seven stars. The ancestors linked these seven stars and imagined them as the bucket shape of scooping wine in ancient times, with Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, and Tianquan forming a fighting body, and the ancient Kui and Dou Kui; Yuheng, Kaiyang, and shaking light are composed of bucket handles, which are said to be ladles in ancient times. If Tianxuan and Tianshu are connected in a straight line and extend about five times the distance, you can find the North Star, forming the North Star Region. ”
All five of them listened very carefully, and none of them interrupted me. "The anniversary of the Big Dipper revolves around the North Star. The pre-Qin "Crane Guanzi" and the Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi" both wrote: "The bucket handle points to the east, and the world is spring." The bucket handle refers to the south, and the world is summer. The bucket handle refers to the west, and the world is autumn. The north finger of the bucket handle, the world is winter. 'Refers to the method of determining the seasons by observing the pointing of the bucket handle at dusk, which is also known as the annual visual movement; Due to the rotation of the earth, the Big Dipper also moves in a circle around the North Celestial Pole every day, so it is also called Sunday apparent motion. This is why the ancients fixed the point of observation of the bucket handle at dusk every day to determine the time. As the seasons change, the handle of the Big Dipper moves in a clockwise direction. "I didn't know what to say, so I brought out some of the traditional cultural knowledge about the Big Dipper that I learned in ancient historical books recently.
"But the natural environment is so bad now, there is smog and dust everywhere, and even in the dead of night, you can't see a star in the sky, so I don't think this astrological map has any practical use."
"I think the astrological chart may be just a layer of ideology, but the deeper meaning is unpredictable, for example, it involves ancient astronomical horoscopes. What do you think? The woman sitting across from her said that she was Merlin, the head of the International Criminal Investigation Division of the Security Affairs Agency, and her face was full of seriousness and orthodoxy. The deepest impression she gave people was that she was quite tall, a foot of 1.8 meters, and she sat there taller than the men around her.
Her question did coincide with my thoughts.
"The ancient astronomical horoscopes are indeed very profound. Ancient China has attached great importance to the Big Dipper, and the ancient Han astronomical monograph and observation record "Ganshi Xingjing" once wrote, "The Big Dipper is called the Seven Politics, the princes of the sky, and also the emperor's car." 'The emperor sat on the Big Dipper and inspected the four directions, setting four o'clock, and dividing the cold and heat. The change in the direction of the handle of the Big Dipper is one of the signs of judging the season. ”
After the development of Taoism, it absorbed many names of ancient astronomical astronomical horoscopes, and deified them, and after years of development, it gradually became the Beidou worship of Taoism and folklore. They have their own origins in naming the Big Dipper. ”
"But the folk Beidou worship is even more bizarre, one of them, the symbol of the ancient pig worship - the story of catching a pig to save the son of the king's grandmother is even more true and illusory."
I stopped, took a long breath, and wondered in my heart, what happened to me today, not a lot of words, what kind of occasion is this, and I still talk so endlessly, I don't even have a door on my lips.
I looked up at the five people across from me, all of whom were staring at me intently, and I immediately felt uncomfortable, and I hung my head again, trying to hide my unnaturalness.
At this point, Raymond broke my dilemma by passing me three large 10-inch photographs through Mr. Hossman, an ancient civilization researcher in the Security Affairs Department, who was sitting on the outermost side, "Look at this again." ”
I took the three photos, placed them on the table in front of me, and looked at them carefully. The first photograph shows Rick, the man who died in the International Building, lying on his bed in the dissection room, his arms curled up so stiffly that he couldn't lie flat at all. The second photo shows the sole of the man's left foot, which has been dead for a long time. The third photo shows the sole of his right foot. Thankfully, the man's body shown in the photo is not very corrosive.
What caught my special attention was that this man had a tiny tattoo on each toe, which was so different. I leaned closer, looking at it suspiciously.
No, it's not ······