Endless route

Chapter 233 3. City Gate Key

Jidao looked solemn and walked in a hurry. After Zheng Yun decided to interrogate Jiasi Irene and others again, he immediately threw away the meat skewers that had been grilled for a long time, picked up his clothes and walked towards the wooden house.

The meat skewers were sizzling on the campfire, and the aroma of fat wafted along with the firelight, but Ji Dao couldn't care less about it for a moment.

The change came suddenly.

Jianxiansi personally guarded the island, and it was calm for two or three days. They thought the matter was over, but they didn't expect a sudden noise in the floating city in the deep sea, and ripples on the dead bottom of the sea.

At least nothing has happened yet.

Otherwise, Kedester and he would be considered derelict in their duties. The monitoring headphones were on the table, but none of them wore them.

And this makes people feel depressed.

Something happened suddenly in the Deep Sea Floating City, but the ancient Tiangong books could not find information about the Deep Sea Floating City, forcing the immortal master to interrogate Nia and ask a criminal about the core of the Floating City.

This is also considered dereliction of duty.

Jidao frowned and thought carefully. No matter what, he could not recall the clues about the floating city in the deep sea, let alone where this part of the ancient book was placed in the Tiangong Sutra Pavilion.

Yes, 80% of the time.

Although there is no record of the Immortal Sacrifice Cave in Tiangong, there is a record of Hanxian. As long as you have detailed information, you can find it.

The information they obtained before was found incidentally when rummaging through the ghost figurines, and it may not be the same thing. It was done hastily and they did not find out the core of the problem in the floating city.

Think about it now.

It’s still a question of keywords.

What is the real name of this deep-sea floating city? The name of the floating city came from the expedition team, but until now, they did not know the ancient oriental name of this floating city.

Just ask for your real name.

You must be able to remember it yourself!

How much do you know about Nia?

Zheng Yun and Kedester followed Ji Dao slowly. Zheng Yun asked questions one after another and asked Kedester to answer.

After getting hold of the identities and belongings of these people, Xichang investigated their backgrounds. Nia is thirty-three years old. She is a consultant to the British Royal Museum and a member of many organizations such as the British Museum Adventure Club.

The team members who came to explore the floating city this time are all members of the expedition club, but Nia and Jia Si Aileen are also members of several other organizations. The most critical organization among them should be the Lyle Foundation.

The Lyell Foundation is not well-known, but the organizations under its umbrella are different, including the Royal Museums Heritage Conservation Trust and the Royal Museums Explorers Society.

The last one is the Explorers Association, which is the highest association for all famous and honorary explorers. It is the most stable source of income for professional explorers. After I successfully joined the association more than 20 years ago, I can receive an annual allowance of 70,000 pounds.

Kedester was holding a tablet and talking very fast. The cigar beside his mouth was thrown directly into the bonfire, and his expression was equally solemn.

Go on.

Zheng Yun nodded and asked him to continue.

The various organizations of Western upper class society are extremely complex, and every person, whether famous or not, can carry a dazzlingly complex list of titles.

There are a large number of organizations with similar names.

There is only one word difference between the Royal Society of Museum Explorers and the Royal Society of Museum Explorers, but the former has a very high threshold, while the latter only requires two pounds to join.

To the uninitiated, most people can’t tell which ones are real and which ones are fake.

For Easterners, due to translation problems, there may even be situations where multiple organizations have the same name, and they may even get a black eye and be stunned for a while.

Don't say Zheng Yun can't figure it out.

Even Kedester has never figured out which is the most important secret organization behind his ex-wife.

But it’s okay to start with the Lyle Foundation.

This foundation actually has the organization of the Royal Museum under its umbrella, and it looms over the Royal Museum of England.

Chief, do you remember the name Lyle? This is also the name of a family, and the Lyle Foundation is the foundation of this family. Kedester's tone changed.

I remember it clearly.

Zheng Yun remembered the name Lyle. In the group photo of members exploring the Fairy Cave at the British Museum twenty years ago, the white-haired old man sitting in the center of the first row was named Lyle.

He even remembered Lyle's appearance, with sharp eyes and a straight nose, holding a mahogany cane with both hands, wearing a straight tuxedo and white gloves, hunched over but looking directly at the camera.

Can be felt intuitively.

This person is definitely not simple.

When Zheng Yun looked at Lyle through the old photos, he had a strong intuition that he must be a strong enemy. Looking back now, there is still a faint sense of crisis lingering in his heart.

But Lyle had died in the Fairy Cave.

His body may be at the bottom of a glacier lake in the extremely cold mountains, or deep in the ice of an iceberg.

It's hard to find.

Not necessarily found.

Of course, the most likely thing is that Lyle has been eaten by the Han Immortal, literally becoming a part of the Han Immortal, taken under his command, and driven by the Immortal Supervisor every day.

It's easier to find now.

What is far away is now within sight.

Speaking of the hatred with Triton, if Lyle's death is blamed on Triton, then the Lyle Foundation may hate Triton, which will affect the members of the foundation.

Cadest Progressive Reasoning.

Lyle died at the hands of Triton. This was something he was sure of. He was the only one who survived twenty years ago, and everyone else died completely in the Immortal Sacrifice Cave.

If Nia really has a grudge against Triton, it is probably related to the Lyle Foundation, because not only Lyle died that year, but also a lot of Foundation members.

One pot was served.

There was not a single person left in that batch.

Since Nia is a member of the Lyle Foundation, she is most likely a relative of any of the Foundation's deceased persons.

This may not necessarily be related to what happened twenty years ago. Foundation members may have died in any Triton ruins. Without the Immortal Sacrifice Cave, there are other messy caves.

It may not even be Triton doing it.

They can be frightened to death in the Triton ruins, fall to death, suffer from food poisoning, die from internal fighting, get lost and starve to death, or fall into a sea whirlpool and be swept to death...

There are ten thousand ways to die in this dangerous place, and anyone can find their own one, but no matter how they died, they all died in the ruins of the Ming Haiwei.

Hatred is that simple.

Because no one knows the truth at all.

Um.

Zheng Yun nodded calmly.

He had no feelings about Lyle's death. The destruction of the archaeological team of dozens of people had nothing to do with him.

At most, it has something to do with the previous generation supervisor Sensi. The adoptive father seemed to have brought a lot of people with him, and they couldn't be traveling.

If nothing unexpected happens.

It was my adoptive father and the others who did it.

My adoptive father often boasted to himself during his lifetime, saying that during the years when the confrontation between the East and the West was at its strongest, there were people from abroad who were interested in Oriental cultural relics and came to fight and rob them. Lao Jiang's family met one by one overseas, and the two sides fought in the wilderness more fiercely than in a war. .

At the time, I was dubious.

How could it be worse than fighting?

Small countries go to war on the endless route, with the support of big countries behind them. They dare to use any weapons of mass destruction. Does Lao Jiang have white phosphorus bombs or chemical weapons that can be more dangerous than war?

Now Zheng Yun believes it.

Not a word of what the adoptive father said was true, every detail was true, and fighting was more fierce than a war.

Jianxian Division does not have white phosphorus bombs and chemical weapons, but Jianxian Division has more powerful things, which are not much different in power.

But the previous Jianxian Si has nothing to do with him. The previous Jianxian Si was the last Jianxian Si of the Ming Dynasty, and the current Jianxian Si is the modern Jianxian Si. They are related by kinship but have no inheritance relationship.

It wasn't Zheng Yun who cold-bloodedly brushed it off.

But the people of my adoptive father's generation chose to stay away from him in cold blood. This is completely true, and it is also one of my resentments.

all in all.

If Lyle's descendants or students want to ask for Lyle's body from him, then I can only show them the Hanxian, hoping that they can see the shadow of Lyle in the Hanxian.

If they want to take responsibility for the death of Lyle and his archaeological team members, they may even claim any compensation.

Then I can only let them visit Hanxian, let them ask Hanxian for compensation, and see if they can get some Lyle's remains or pension from Hanxian's mouth.

Because I was just starting out, my contemporary supervisory department had just started, my pocket was cleaner than my face, my activity fund was all stolen money, and I had to launder money if I wanted to replace a new piece of glass in the pawn shop.

Master Zhang from the Qianxian Dojo made the blood elixirs smoke and broke the alchemy furnace, so he probably couldn't even save a foundation.

Deacon Bird of the Church of Joy has been extracting jellyfish juice for many years, and he is even worse than Master Zhang. Master Zhang has at least over 100 million in revenue, but he only saved up all the blood pills.

I can't even compare to them.

I was so happy to seize some stolen money.

That's even more incomparable than the senior explorers, all of whom are extremely rich. They are often affiliated with foundations or families, and they don't know where so much money comes from.

There are probably not many things in this world that are more profitable than the Immortality Blood Pill and natural drugs.

Nia is not a member of the Explorers Association, but is directly a member of the Lyle Foundation. This is a key. It may not explain anything, but it may also be the reason.

Kedester concluded.

Isn't she a museum consultant? It's not easy to be a consultant, right? You were also a consultant at the beginning?

Zheng Yun turned his head and looked at Kedester and asked.

This consultant title is of average value. The British Museum pays a consultant annuity every year. As a result, the people who hold the position are of various origins, including retired parliamentarians, wealthy businessmen and celebrities, and well-known explorers. I have also been named.

Those are just false names. Compared with the lofty reputation of Xichang, the so-called British Museum is not worth mentioning.

Kedster answered with a calm expression.

He has always been quite knowledgeable and has indeed done in-depth research on Eastern culture. Speaking is an art.

good.

Zheng Yun did not give an evaluation.

Whether Xichang has a high reputation is still open to debate. It depends on the historical positioning and contemporary interpretation of the word Xichang. It depends on how Keldester thinks about it.

However, Zheng Yun's meaning in raising this question is not superficial curiosity, but has other deeper meanings.

Kedester was once a nominal consultant to the British Museum, and Nia and Jasmine were probably also consultants.

This consultant title is quite easy to obtain.

But why does the British Museum take care of these people all day long? What can you ask? How to destroy ancient oriental ruins? I want to ask how to dig a hole, or use explosives to demolish it?

They are all unlearned and unskilled.

Might as well take care of yourself.

He is a senior practitioner of the Triton Site, a stakeholder in dangerous places of gods and ghosts, a scholar of ancient Eastern history, a collector of ancient Eastern gods and ghosts, a researcher of ancient Eastern sea routes and charts, and an apprentice of Eastern metaphysics.

Take care of yourself, send a lot of related practitioners and stakeholders, and bring a secret organization - the oldest endless route exploration organization in human history.

Just take care of yourself.

The mystery that the British Museum has been trying to explore will appear directly in the British Museum's backyard.

pity.

Zheng Yun sighed softly.

The undercover candidate can be yourself.

But I am also afraid of hypnosis, otherwise I can really work as an undercover agent and ask Jasmine to write a letter of introduction to me, and I can get the title of the British Museum tomorrow.

while speaking.

Zheng Yun and Kedester stepped into the fairy gate one by one and entered the secret realm. The Milky Way above their heads was vast and vast. The secret realm was above the clouds and could be clearly seen all year round.

The gatekeeper Taoist priest stepped forward to lead the way.

The two walked into the Tiangong from the second section of the hall, and continued along the Tiangong stone corridor until they reached the house of imprisonment in the Tiangong. The scenery was beautiful, but it was located on a cliff with only one exit.

Nia and others are here.

Ji Dao was already prepared. When he saw Zheng Yun coming, he immediately took out the key and opened the door. He pushed open the heavy iron door and walked along the stone corridor branch road, walking on the edge of the cliff of the Immortal Burial Valley.

There are many elegant villas on the right side.

Several people walked directly to one of them, opened the door and entered the courtyard. They saw two rainwater tanks in the courtyard, several peach blossom trees, and a stone table with four stone chairs.

Nia was lying on the vine lounge chair at the door, watching Zheng Yun walk in from the door, but her eyes penetrated Zheng Yun and focused on the scenery of the Immortal Burial Valley in the distance, as if her mind was crazy.

This woman doesn't have long to live.

Zheng Yun held Wang Xi in his mouth, and an intuition arose in his heart. Nia's time was running out and she was no longer of use to him. He should let this useless person die wherever he liked.

Eliminate other distractions.

The core message is that Nia is going to die.

Sinner Niya, don't pretend to be crazy. The contemporary Supervisor will interrogate you again. You have blood pills to extend your life and your body and pulse are in good condition. You cannot bear the consequences of resisting the interrogation.

Kidou scolded Nia in a low voice.

Regardless of whether Niya is a Yin soldier or not, she is still a prisoner of the Jianxian Division. If she had not been seriously injured, she would not even be qualified to be transferred to the house of house arrest, and she would still be squatting in the prison.

What are you asking?

Nia's eyes refocused, her weak and pale face flushed, her neck, chest and legs were bandaged everywhere, almost like a mummy in the underground sea.

What is there in the Deep Sea Floating City? What is your purpose of exploring the Deep Sea Floating City? What are you looking for?

Zheng Yun directly asked about the core key, using Wang Xi when asking questions, and ordered Niya not to lie or conceal.

I can't say no to you.

I seem to have become your slave.

Nia's voice was hoarse and weak, and her vision lost focus again. She looked at the ethereal fairy scene in the Immortal Burial Valley of the Heavenly Palace and said:

The Deep Sea Floating City is a city that was abandoned and isolated by the Ming Dynasty Haiwei. The time was the early to mid-Ming Dynasty. All the abandoned cities that were isolated in the same era have city gate keys with the same format. The Deep Sea Floating City is the best preserved. As long as you find it With the key, you can open other abandoned city gates in the same period.

There is a city of the same era in E-07. That city was larger in scale, and the reason why it was abandoned by Triton was even more bizarre. It was related to the most dangerous case in the mid-Ming Dynasty.

We want to enter that city, but we don't have the key, so I want to come to the Deep Sea Floating City to look for it.