Chapter 195: Two Thousand Years Late (3. Traces)

As a modern Xia country with developed network information, various stories that happen in the folk every day will be shared on the Internet for people to comment on and entertain.

Of course, there are exceptions, and a previous video of a light master in Hengcheng was popular in a small area, but then, all its various versions of the consultation disappeared, and the topic was quickly suppressed by the official.

On the surface, the anecdote only caused some ripples among those who experienced it. But in the past few days, Hengcheng has actually been turbulent.

The Security Bureau and the police suddenly got busy. In particular, the labor intensity of the staff who check and monitor is increased exponentially.

Now that he has rescued people, Yuan Xing is mentally prepared to be found, and when he was looking for a job, he had explained to Lao Liu that he couldn't do it for a few days. But he didn't expect the official action to be so fast, on the third day of his part-time job, just after lunch, he felt something strange around him with outstanding spiritual sense.

Yuanxing was very melancholy in his heart, the task had an accident, and the business trip became a free trip and finally became a poor tour. The joint finally had a place to stay after two days, but I didn't expect it to be broken after only two days.

After all, he didn't do anything illegal and undisciplined, he didn't believe that the officials of this world would treat him, but he was afraid of trouble, how could a traverser who didn't have the slightest identity and couldn't lie, explain his origin?

With this kind of time to grind your mouth, you might as well save some money for food and go out to practice. It's better than racking your brains to deal with government inquiries.

So, when there were few guests, Yuanxing solemnly said goodbye to the old Liu Shili who took him in. Then he carried a bag and walked out of the fresh food store slowly.

Sweeping his eyes on the street, he smiled, turned around quietly, and quickly turned into a nearby alley, and when a few strong men hurriedly chased after him, the dead end in front of him was empty, and there was still a monk.

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The next morning, not far from the fresh food store where Yuanxing worked, the Hengcheng Rest House.

There was a knock on the door of Block B 102, and as soon as the door opened, Li Heng stepped forward and grabbed the old woman who opened the door: "Grandma, you miss me to death." ”

"Oh, it's Xiao Heng." The old woman's face was full of surprise, and she also hugged Li Heng back.

"I called a few days ago and said that I was going to work overtime, why did I suddenly come back today." There was a cold snort in the room, and the nanny pushed a wheelchair to the living room, where a spirited old man was staring at the two people standing at the door.

"Grandpa." Li Heng seemed to be very afraid of the old man, and hurriedly explained: "This time it is really official business. With that, he glanced at the middle-aged nanny.

The latter immediately understood, and found an excuse to buy groceries and went out.

"What do you want to tell you at home?" The old man frowned and asked, "I'm already retired, can't I be more idle?" ”

Li Heng helped the old lady sit on the sofa first, but did not directly answer his grandfather's question, but turned on the TV and played a video on his mobile phone.

The two old men first looked at each other suspiciously, and then began to pay attention to the TV, and only when they saw the figure flying into the air on the screen landed, did they gasp in surprise.

"This is a video circulating on the Internet three days ago, and the location took place in Hengcheng," Li Heng explained, "At that time, there were many witnesses, and the firefighters' camera equipment also filmed it, and this incident was quickly taken seriously by the Hengcheng police." ”

Although the video is not a professional photographer, the picture is shaky, but the person who jumped up to save the child was generally taken very clearly, but unfortunately because of the angle, the face was not seen, and the person could only be identified as a bald monk wearing a monk's robe.

"And then? Your Security Bureau won't take over just because a legendary master of light martial arts suddenly appears, right? It was reported to Kyoto, is it true this time? The old man frowned, and he didn't blame him for asking, he retired from the Kyoto Security Bureau, and the Dao inside was naturally clear. Since the stabilisation of the times, especially in recent years, a lot of similar news has emerged, and the relevant departments have really investigated it at first, but unfortunately most of them are liars, relying on the name of ancient martial arts or qigong to deceive. There are one or two people with some skills in the middle, but they can only fight more than ordinary people.

"Grandpa, let me ask you, will Mr. Shi, who we have been looking for before, be able to do martial arts?" Li Heng asked softly

"Huh?" The old man stared at him for a long time before he hesitated and replied: "Until Mr. Liu Ziyu died, he always claimed that Mr. Shi would have magical powers in Buddhism, and others thought he was old and confused, but your grandmother and I believed it. If there were no supernatural powers, how could so many students be rescued from the fire? Speaking of this, he suddenly raised his eyebrows: "This work has been stagnant for so many years, why did you mention it again?" Is there a new clue? His tone unconsciously quickened.

As soon as his voice fell, the old woman next to him also stood up.

Shocked, Li Heng hurriedly stepped forward and pressed his grandmother back to the sofa as if soothingly, and then he hesitated for a moment before taking a sheathed knife from his briefcase and handing it over: "Look, do you know this?" ”

The old woman glanced at him before reaching out to take it, took out her reading glasses from her jacket pocket and put them on, and carefully observed the knife in her hand, like the size of an ordinary dagger, the style was simple and old, and on the side of the wooden scabbard, in addition to the swastika logo, there was a line of small characters, and she read out a loud voice: "The sea of life and death, who is the boat." Ignorant long night, who is the torch. This seems to be a sword used by monks. She turned the knife over again, and looked at the other side, which was smooth and without any pattern or text, and her eyes moved along the scabbard to the hilt, and when she saw that there seemed to be a row of small characters on it, she approached, and then her lips trembled, and she suddenly shouted, "Old man, come and see." ”

The old man was watching nervously, and when he heard her words, he hurriedly took the knife in his hand, and was also surprised to see the words on it, turned to his grandson, and asked sharply, "Where did you find this thing?" ”

I saw that on the handle of the knife, there were four small words engraved "Qingzhou Yuanxing", obviously, this is the lost ring knife of Yuanxing.

And these two old men are not bystanders, but the students who Yuan Xing taught in this world last time, Meng Zhaodi and Li Hongyi. With the passage of time, the pair of childhood sweethearts are now gray-haired old men.

"Don't worry, you two, I'll explain." Li Heng had already prepared and operated the mobile phone again, and another picture reappeared on the TV screen.

This is obviously a surveillance video on the street, because the angle is fixed, and there is small print below to show the time when the image occurred.

The picture shows a busy highway, and a monk with a black backpack walks down the street, looking left and right, as if looking for something. Looking at the costumes, it is obvious that he is the protagonist of the previous video. This time, due to the angle, it happened to shoot the front of the monk.

Li Heng clicked on his mobile phone, and the picture instantly froze and zoomed in, and a clear face appeared on the TV screen.

"This person, is it the Mr. Shi we have been looking for before?" He asked.

I don't know when, the old couple's hands have been clasped together, and when they heard their grandson's words, they leaned forward and stared at the picture again and again. After a long time, Meng Zhaodi turned his head sharply and asked urgently, "Where is he?" ”

Seeing the reaction of his parents, Li Heng actually had an answer in his heart. The secret path is really back this time, and the monk is indeed the provider of machine zero.

Thinking of the various speculations of many scientific researchers about the identity of this person in the past few years, he couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement in his heart, the mystery that had plagued the entire Xia Kingdom scientific research community for many years was about to be revealed in his own hands?

He held back his emotions and organized his language before explaining: "Yesterday afternoon, our people actually found this through surveillance video...... Well, Mr. Shi, it's a pity that he seems to have noticed it and mysteriously disappeared again. We spent the night last night checking almost all the surveillance in the city and found no trace of him. ”

"Come, talk about it." Meng Zhao was the first to drag him to his side: "How did you find him?" ”

"This ......" Li Heng hesitated a little.

"Hmph, stinky boy, don't forget that although we are retired, we still hold the title of adviser to the Security Bureau, and we have permission to know these things." Li Hongyi, who was next to him, couldn't stand it anymore, turned his wheelchair to his grandson, and snorted coldly: "Do you want me to call your director?" ”

"No, I'm organizing the language." Li Heng was startled, hurriedly shook his hand with a smile, thought about it, and then said again: "The matter starts with a report......

While explaining to his grandparents, he controlled the phone, and video footage appeared.

It turned out that three days ago, that is, on June 15, Xia Guo time, an enthusiastic citizen reported that the master who rescued the child who fell from the building in the north of the city lost his backpack and was looking around. At that time, there were two police officers in charge of taking over the case. Naturally, they also know about the rescue of people, and they have watched the video on the Internet, because there are familiar firefighters to testify, they naturally do not have any doubts about this matter as on the Internet, at least the child was rescued is true.

The two felt that they couldn't let the hero sweat and tears, so they carefully called up the monitoring at the time. After another day of searching, on the afternoon of the 16th, I found the scavenger who had picked up the backpack.

"It's a pity that the scavenger is not very clear-headed, and when he got the backpack, he only left the money and the knife, and the rest of the things were thrown into the river......" Li Heng sighed with some regret.

At this time, the TV was still playing the picture of Yuan Xing wandering around the corner of the city.

While listening to their grandson's story, the two old men watched the fate of the picture swaying into a park, and then sat down on a bench by the river.

Li Heng glanced at the TV, he had watched these videos more than once, and he was naturally familiar, and his fingers slid down on the mobile phone, and the speed of the image began to accelerate.

I saw that on the screen, people came and went, pedestrians passed by the bench quickly, but the monk seemed to be always stationary, until it was dark, the video became black and white, he still sat down, and he didn't even shake his shoulders.

"Heβ€”He just sat all night?" Meng Zhaodi pointed to the image that had seen the light of the sky, and asked with some surprise.

"Although some people always call him a madman in the literary world and a monk who breaks the precepts of murder, he is a cultivator, and he has always been ......," Li Hongyi sighed.

Li Heng couldn't help but resound the scene after decrypting the various deeds of Yuan Xing before and after the defense of Hengcheng last year, and the world also knew that Qin Kong and Buddha Chan, who were active in the southern literary scene during the war, were actually two pen names that were actually the vests of one person. As a result, all kinds of remarks on the Internet are still hot, and they can be described as mixed. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The man in the picture openly teaches at a school as a monk, and the newspapers are unabashedly intimidating the literary world, and he is arrested and released for harboring the murderer of his husband, and he abandons his pen to experience the brutal defense of Rong before dying in the enemy's shelling. These experiences are really full of stories. But many people don't know that this person is still the provider of Machine Zero, and is more likely to be the only person in the world today who can confirm the theory of time travel......

"What's going on with your thoughts, go on." Suddenly, he felt a pain in his head, and his grandfather's scolding brought him back to his senses, only to realize that the video on TV had stopped.

Hurriedly controlled the mobile phone, the video continued to play, the picture could already see the skylight, the monk on the bench finally moved, he moved his hands and feet, and then carried his bags, as when he came, quietly out of the park.

Li Heng continued to explain to his grandparents: "The two police officers couldn't wait for the owner to find something, so they could only report it, which is a coincidence, the sub-bureau chief participated in the search for Mr. Shi back then, and was deeply impressed by the law name of Yuanxing, as soon as he saw the dagger, he hurriedly contacted the local security bureau, and our investigation team flew to Hengcheng." We mobilized a lot of manpower and went through all the surveillance in Hengcheng to find these clues. ”

They watched as Yuanxing washed and drank water at the park's faucet. Then he wandered the streets aimlessly, and then entered a jewelry store.

"He should have nowhere to go and no money." Li Heng said the inference of the investigation team: "We went to investigate this shop, and we were ...... at that time" He just wanted to talk about the monk, but after receiving a knife from his grandfather, he quickly changed his words: "Mr. Shi exchanged a piece of silver for five hundred summer yuan here." He raised his chin and clicked at the screen.

I saw that on the screen, the monk walked out of the jewelry store with a smile, carefully received the money into the backpack, and then he touched his stomach and began to wander left and right.

I've seen the next scene before, and it's the scene where he saves people.

"It is worth mentioning that Mr. Shi seems to have some kind of teleportation method, some people say that this is a Buddhist supernatural power. You see, the time when he rescued people was around 11 o'clock on the 15th, and suddenly disappeared for a period of time in the middle, appeared on the adjacent street, and seemed to return to the scene at 13 o'clock in the afternoon to look for the lost backpack because the road was unfamiliar, and then suddenly disappeared again. We searched the nearby street cameras and found nothing, but finally found him in the south of the city, only a minute apart, and it was not so fast to fly from the north to the south of the city. ”

The old couple glanced at each other, but they didn't speak, because of the appearance of the zero machine, they have also made various speculations over the years about their teachers, combined with Liu Ziyu's vow, there will be some kind of Buddhist supernatural powers, it seems that there is nothing strange.

"So he's completely out of money? Didn't eat either? Women are always more careful, Meng Zhaodi stared at the picture and muttered.

"It should be." Li Heng sighed and nodded.

"Buddhists pay attention to not eating at noon, and at this point in time, they will definitely not eat."

They watched the monk run to hide from the rain and stand under the canopy until late at night.

"From the point of view of time, he stayed in Linjiang Street Lao Liu Fresh Food Store to work, and all he asked for was a lunch, until yesterday afternoon when he found out about our covert surveillance, and then suddenly resigned and left."

"What?" Meng Zhaodi raised his eyebrows, and said in disbelief: "I only went to ...... yesterday" Speaking of this, she thumped her hands in annoyance, it turned out that it wasn't her own delusion at that time?

Li Heng pursed his lips and continued in a low voice: "I was busy all night last night, and all the monitoring equipment in the city did not find him, and there are currently two speculations, either he left Hengcheng with his magical powers, or he ......"

"Back in eighty years?" Li Hongyi collapsed and leaned on the back of the wheelchair, looking very trance-like.

"Shenzu Tong, also known as Ruyitong, is said to be able to travel freely and unhindered to the three thousand worlds. Now it can be confirmed that Mr. Shi is a master of the Buddhist family, and it was rumored that he was killed by shelling. Li Heng saw that the two old men were not in the right state, so he hurriedly stepped forward to comfort them.

"We have sent a notice to the surrounding cities to assist in the investigation, and we will get the news as soon as we find it. I had a gut feeling that sooner or later, he would show up again. ”

"I hope it's good to see each other when we come." Meng Zhaodi looked at her husband and grandson for a long time before lowering her eyelids and sighing faintly.