Chapter 239—Asgard and the Book of Wisdom (8)
Saionji Red Pill took out a handkerchief, wiped the grease marks left by Stern King on his clothes, and found that it didn't have much effect, so he immediately took out a small Swiss Army knife from his trouser belt, opened the blade, and began to slowly use the sharp blade to gently scratch the two finger marks on the white suit.
The sunlight reflected the sword light, shining a bright light on his handsome face. His expression was focused, as if he was carving a beautiful work of art, until the clean invisible grease on the suit revealed the black lining, Xiyuanji Red Pill stopped his hand, wiped the sharp blade of the Swiss Army Knife with a hand towel, folded it and put it back in his trouser pocket, looked left and right, Xiyuan Temple Red Pill threw the hand towel into the trash, and then crossed the road into the Triangle Building.
The corridors were lined with toppled wooden doors, and back and forth were filled with agents in French uniforms, wearing improvised exoskeletons, carrying various guns, and speaking fluent English to exchange information with each other.
Xiyuan Temple Red Pill didn't stay long, went straight through the courtyard, and when he walked into the courtyard, he saw that the office with a broken window was full of bullet holes, it was obvious that Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun entered the small building from here just now, Xiyuan Temple Red Pill didn't go over, because the efficiency of the Star Gate was really high, and at this time, someone had already started to repair the bullet holes on the wall with wall paint, even if he wanted to find any clues, there was no chance.
Xiyuan Temple Red Pill stopped for a moment and frowned, he couldn't figure out how Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun escaped in the midst of the heavy encirclement. However, he didn't think much about it, and continued to walk forward, until he reached the residential building near Wangfu Gate, he saw two ambulances parked on the side of the road, and the paramedics were putting the two black men on stretchers and preparing to carry them into the ambulances.
There were several people from the Star Gate standing near the ambulance, and when Saionji Red Pill walked over, he was also asked to show his ID, and he took out the badge and ID of the Star Gate before he was allowed to pass, Xiyuan Temple Red Pill approached the ambulance and glanced at the black man lying on the stretcher, and immediately asked the doctor carrying the stretcher, "Is it serious?"
The doctor wearing a mask didn't look at the red pill of Xiyuan Temple, and quickly replied: "It's very serious, cervical vertebrae fracture, throat organ damage, I don't know if the brain is affected......"
After speaking, the doctor got into the car and closed the door of the ambulance, and soon the ambulance pulled the alarm and drove away quickly, Saionji Red Pill stared at the ambulance and disappeared around the corner of the road, and walked back with his eyes blank, all the way there were people from the Star Gate Engineering Department cleaning up the mess, for them the current situation was just a small problem, and it was more troublesome for the battle between the Chosen One to recover.
Saionji Red Pill made its way through residential buildings to an iron fence with a crowded Wangfumen flea market on the other side. If it weren't for the huge flower-like breaches blooming on the green iron fence, the scene of the police and bandits chasing just now would have been as if it had never happened.
Because of the large number of tourists here, the engineering department did not give priority to the restoration of this place. Saionji Red Pill approached the iron fence, first observed, removed a bit of blue fiber from the iron fence that bloomed in all directions, and then looked up at the top of the fence, and then he looked down at the ground, the black soil planted with shrubs was covered with a layer of withered yellow fallen leaves, and some messy footprints.
He took a few steps back, half-squatted down with his hands on his knees, and studied for a while in the sparse shadows of the trees before whispering to himself: "Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun jumped down from the fence, and the people from the Star Gate came directly to them. Saionji Red Pill straightened up and returned to the fence, bent a few round iron rods that were in the way, and then hunched over and carefully walked through the breach to the small wagon selling barbecue and the vendor selling matchboxes. Looking down at the barbecue that had fallen in the middle, he stepped over and strolled through the flea market like an ordinary tourist, and even bought a few small items that were not expensive before walking in the direction of the warehouse book market.
When I arrived at the warehouse book market, Xiyuan Temple Red Pill went around the book market in a small half circle, and the person in charge of tracking just now didn't dare to get too close, and he was always watching from a distance, but Aleister Crowley was too eye-catching, and Xiyuan Temple Red Pill quickly found the store where Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun stayed for a long time with this iconic character.
Noticing that under the poster was an old man wearing reading glasses and looking about eighty years old, reading a book seriously, Saionji Hongmaru walked over quickly, pretending to be anxious and said to the old man who was reading with a pipe in his mouth: "Sir, have you seen my friend?" Seeing the old man look up, Saionji Hongmaru immediately said again: "One of them is wearing glasses, thin, and the other is a very beautiful Chinese girl....." After a pause, Saionji Hongmaru looked at the old man and smiled apologetically," I just went to other places to visit so fascinating, everything here is so interesting, we don't have such interesting flea markets in Huaxia, so I didn't notice that my phone was out of battery at all, and I couldn't contact them....."
As he spoke, Saionji Red Pill also lifted the plastic bag and glanced at the things he had just bought in front of the old man, which contained antique film cameras, several silver medals, and a World War II-era military binoculars.
The old man looked at the spoils of the red pill in Xiyuan Temple, smiled, he held the pipe between his two fingers, spit out the circles in his eyes and said, "Good harvest, it seems that you Chinese people are interested in war." ”
"No, we are not interested in war, but in that period of history, and we Chinese people hate war very much. Saionji Red Pill said with a serious face.
"This is a good thing! We French people are equally peace-loving..... After the Second World War....." the old man shrugged his shoulders, "your friends have gone to the bank to withdraw money, and they will come later, you can wait here, or I can borrow you my phone." As he spoke, the old man took out an old-fashioned Nokia 7610 mobile phone from the drawer, which was the kind of diamond-shaped mobile phone that could be used to smash walnuts.
Saionji Red Pill smiled and said, "Since this is not in a hurry, I'll just wait here!"
The old man waved his hand and said, "You can take a look at it first." ”
Saionji Red Pill nodded, pretending to browse in front of the bookshelf casually, and after a while, he said casually, "You really have a complete set of books here." ”
"Of course, there is not a single place in the entire Wangfumen Book Fair that has more than one of my books, which have been preserved since my father. The old man replied triumphantly.
Saionji Red Pill held up a magazine from the period of the fall of Paris, turned his head to look at the old man, and said, "Indeed, these old magazines are ..... that you can't see anywhere else."
"Is it necessary? This is cheap, for the sake of you being Chinese, it costs fifteen euros a book. ”
"Fifteen euros? No problem. Saionji Hongmaru casually took a few books and walked back to the desk, put a few magazines in front of the desk, took out his wallet from his pocket and said, "By the way, sir, what book does my friend want to buy?
The old man did not suspect the handsome and Chinese-faced Saiyuan Temple Red Pill, and said proudly: "An expensive collection, I bet that the whole of Europa is an extremely rare book. ”
Saionji Red Pill pretended to accidentally draw out a stack of euros in his wallet, took out a hundred euros and handed it to the old man, first saying, "No need to look for it." Then he was amazed and said, "I don't think there is any book that can make my friends feel expensive, they are rich people." ”
"In this world, you can't buy everything with money. The old man took a hundred euros, struck his pipe, shook his head, and said in a tone in which you had too little knowledge, "I sold Crowley's Book of the Law not for money, but for the ...... fate."
"My Heavenly .....," Xiyuan Temple exclaimed, "It's actually the Book of the Law?"
The old man nodded arrogantly.
"Can you show me?"
The old man hesitated for a moment, looked up and stared at the eager eyes of Saionji Red Pill, but still put on white gloves, took the scarlet "Book of Law" out of the drawer, and put it on the table, "This is it, if you want to read the contents, you can only wait for your friend to buy it back." ”
Saionji Red Pill stared at the red and heart-pounding strange book on the desk, as if he saw the heart of a huge animal beating slowly, he stared at it intently, and asked in a low voice, "Sir.... If I say that no matter how much my friend pays, I will pay ten times as much to buy it, can you sell it to me?"
The old man picked up the book without hesitation and put it back in the drawer, shook his head and said, "I said that selling books is not for money, but for fate......" He closed the drawer tightly, didn't look at the red pill of Xiyuan Temple, just said lightly, "Besides, I'm not a person who doesn't keep my promises, but you, it's not appropriate to do this, right?"
Saionji Red Pill put his wallet back in his trouser pocket, took off his white suit, turned it over to the black waterproof lining, put it on, his hand reached into his trouser pocket, and held the Swiss Army knife that had been used to scrape the grease just now, and the silver blade bounced out of the hilt accurately.
Saionji Red Pill smiled and said to the old man, "Since that's the case...... I don't have to think about it. ”
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Saionji Red Pill carried the Book of the Law back to the safe house near the Place de la Bastille, on one side of the Canal Saint-Martin, with a view of the yachts of the Parisian magnates, and on the other side near the magnificent Opéra Bastille, whose curved transparent dome looked like the shell of a spacecraft from afar. And beneath the Opéra Bastille is the headquarters of the French Iris.
Entering the courtyard of the safe house through the back door of a French restaurant, this old three-story villa has been renovated and has been renovated to a new look, from the original European opulence to the low-key luxury, and the courtyard has also been changed to a Japanese style of tranquility, in addition to classic Japanese elements such as pools and water lilies, as well as smiling stone Buddhas.
Walking through the courtyard, Saionji Red Pill went straight to the second floor, he first threw the bloodstained suit into the fireplace, then went into the bedroom and put the red blood-stained "Book of Law" under his pillow, and then went into the bathroom to start bathing. In the steaming bathroom, Saionji Red Pill sang "Showa Last の秋のこと" while letting the hot water drench his skin red, until he was sweating profusely in the bath, Saionji Red Pill came out of the bathroom in a bathrobe.
"Mr. Saionji, when exactly are we going to wait?"
Jing Xing's anxious voice came from the living room, and from Jing Xing's impatient inquiry, Saionji Red Pill guessed that Jing Xing had been staring at him in the room when he would come back, and when he saw him enter the courtyard, he immediately came to look for him, so he should have been waiting in the living room for a while at this time. Saiyuansi Hongmaru unhurriedly wiped his hair with a bath towel, walked out of the bedroom, and said casually: "I can probably complete the transaction in a few days, I have already given you a piece of Ulopolos, what else do you have to worry about? There is no need to rush these two days!"
Jing Xing subconsciously looked at Uloporos on his wrist, softened his tone, and whispered: "I'm not in a hurry, but my brother has been running around with hostages for almost a month, and he said that he has to be urged by that girl every day to ask when he will see Lin Zhinuo...... He's also overwhelmed....."
Saionji Red Pill threw the bath towel on the sofa and said with a smile, "Your brother can't handle it even a woman, right?"
Jing Xing smiled bitterly and said, "I think what you said is unfair, you want to change someone who can easily kidnap such an important person from Huaxia to Europa......?
"Okay! I can only say as soon as possible, after all, this matter is not up to me, it depends on the other party. In short, the place of trading is set in Paris. Your brother should be in Paris too, right?" asked Saionji Red Pill as if casually.
Jing Xing replied without leaking: "I don't know where he went, I only know that he took Gao Yuemei to Europa, and I don't know where he is." ”
Saiyuan Temple Red Pill said indifferently: "I don't care where your brother is hiding, as long as I trade with Lin Zhinuo, he doesn't make any moths ......"
"Don't worry, you won't be delayed....."
Saionji Red Pill nodded and said, "That's good." In short, you tell your brother to be ready at any time, and the transaction can happen at any time....."
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When Cheng Mo got up from bed after practicing gladiatorial fighting all night, it was still early in the sky outside, and Paris was still immersed in a dark blue. He couldn't get out of bed because of his inconvenient legs and feet, so he could only wait for Xie Minyun to wash before helping him go to the bathroom, and the two of them had nothing to avoid now, although Xie Minyun was a little embarrassed, but he didn't pretentiously avoid it when he helped Cheng Mo to stand by the toilet.
Cheng Mo finished washing, sat at the desk and endured the pain to read on the Internet, and when it was almost nine o'clock, Cheng Mo activated the carrier and asked Jiang Jun to send him to Wangfumen, but when he arrived at the Wangfumen Warehouse Book Market, the entire warehouse had been surrounded by a cordon, and two or three people in French police uniforms were guarding the door of the warehouse.
Cheng Mo, who incarnated as Lin Zhinuo, directly used teleportation and entered the interior of the warehouse, he walked directly to the corner of the warehouse, and a human figure was drawn with white chalk on the desk under Crowley's poster, and the figure was lying on the table, and there were still congealed blood stains on the table and terrazzo floor......