Chapter 438 Tyrell's Selected Works (Two in One)

Bai Xiaowen sat outside the high wall of the mayor's mansion, like a stone statue, until the evening when he stood up and opened his eyes.

Li Shuyi has been keeping watch for him. When she saw Bai Xiaowen stand up, she quickly asked, "How is it? Did you find anything? I was worried that someone would find out after such a long time."

Bai Xiaowen said with a smile: "The mayor's study is equipped with a magic alarm device, and the shadow assassin was almost exposed. Fortunately, I blamed a cat so that the guards did not become suspicious. I can only wait until the mayor Heller The moment Mu himself entered the study, he sneaked in."

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen said again: "Fortunately, all the hard work was not in vain. I now conclude that there is something wrong with Hiram."

"Is there any proof?"

"There is no direct evidence, but Hiram's behavior is very suspicious. He has been flipping through a book called [Tyrell's Selected Works] in his study," Bai Xiaowen said, "Normal reading is a Read page by page slowly, or browse quickly. However, Mayor Hiram quickly turned the page, stopped to compare, then quickly turned the page again, and compared again... His purpose is too strong."

"Hearing what you said, it really doesn't look like normal reading, it's a bit like a secret agent talking to each other." Li Shuyi said.

Bai Xiaowen nodded: "The page he compared was written with sentences from [Tyrrell's Selected Works]. It looks like a good sentence excerpted, but in fact, it should be a code word for a joint sentence."

"Since it is confirmed that he has a problem, how can we get the evidence next?" Li Shuyi frowned and pondered, "It would be great if we could get that page, from which we can study what the content of his joint is."

Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "It's not difficult. I know the content on that page is very important, so I memorized it."

Li Shuyi: "..."

Bai Xiaowen laughed loudly: "Let's go, go back to Mr. Yahan's house, find a copy of [Tyrell's Selected Works], and study what secrets are hidden in Mr. Mayor's joint code."

The two walked back all the way. When walking through an alley, Bai Xiaowen suddenly frowned slightly, turned around and shouted: "Who is it? Come out."

Li Shuyi put her hand on the hilt of her sword.

"My lord, it's me..."

Jide shrank his neck and walked out of the alley with a look of panic.

"Are you following me?" Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes,

There was a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

Jide hurriedly said: "Sir, how dare I follow you... I came here specially to find you. It's just that you have been at the sheriff's house, and you didn't have a chance yesterday..."

"Tell me, what can I do for you?"

Ji De said carefully: "On behalf of all the members of the crow organization, I am willing to pledge my allegiance to the Lord... We are still useful, and I hope the Lord can let us survive."

Bai Xiaowen was a little bit taken aback at first. The change in the painting style of the Crow Organization really surprised him. However, Bai Xiaowen instantly remembered Joshua, his servant who died before, and probably understood the psychology of Ji De and others, and regarded him as a moody, strong man who kills at every turn...

Although Bai Xiaowen didn't think the crow organization could play any role, it was a good thing for Gideken to surrender. He nodded and said, "I see. Then I'll ask you a question."

Jide felt the chill behind him, and nodded repeatedly.

"Go and get me a book called... The Anthology of Tyrell. My time is limited, the sooner the better." Bai Xiaowen said.

Originally, Bai Xiaowen thought it was a simple request, but Jide made a bitter face: "My lord, those kinds of poems and anthologies are things for the nobles to decorate. There is no way for a low-level person like me to do it... Huo There is no book store in Qizhen, and the nobles buy books from the traveling caravan. If you want this book, you will have to wait at least a week before the traveling caravan arrives to get it."

"What use do I need you for a week?" Bai Xiaowen snorted.

Jide was so frightened that he almost knelt on the ground: "My lord, please calm down...or I will go directly to the mayor's house to steal it. It is said that there are several bookcases in his study, and there should be this one."

"Fart!" Bai Xiaowen scolded, "I'm currently staying at the home of the mayor's son-in-law, the sheriff Yahan. You want to steal books from the mayor's house for me? Yahan found out and accused me of stealing?"

Ji De really knelt down now: "My lord, I really didn't expect this...By the way, since you live in Yahan's house, you can borrow books from Yahan's wife Ginny. It is said that Ginny likes to read books , when I married Yahan, I brought a lot of books from the family."

"You know Ginny too?" Bai Xiaowen was a little curious.

Ji De blushed a little: "This... Ginny was the dream lover of the young people in Hodge Town back then, but we low-level civilians don't have the courage to pursue..."

Bai Xiaowen shrugged: "Okay... I don't need you for the book. Go and do one more thing for me."

Jide looked like a dog leg: "Please tell me, my lord."

...

Back at Yahan's house, I saw Ginny. At this time, Yahan hadn't returned home, so Bai Xiaowen directly proposed that he hoped to borrow a few books to read the following to pass the time.

Ginny was very happy and generous, leading the two to the bookshelf and letting them choose. She herself went to the kitchen and began to prepare dinner.

Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes and scanned, found the [Tyrell Selected Works] in the corner, and pulled it out immediately.

"Ginny is really a book lover. Look at the yellow and wrinkled pages of this book. I don't know how many times it has been turned over." Li Shuyi said.

"Well, let's compare it first. For the sake of safety, all our conversations are through the team channel." Bai Xiaowen said through the team channel.

Li Shuyi (team channel): "OK."

"The first sentence: 'There is our family in this town, please take us with you!'" Bai Xiaowen recalled the content on the excerpted paper that Hiram held in his hand at that time, and repeated it smoothly.

The sound of flipping the book was heard. To find such an ordinary sentence from a book is very difficult for two people who have never read the book, at least it is a waste of time. However, what Bai Xiaowen is most afraid of is reading. After reading it once, he can memorize the whole book. The ancients said that ten lines at a glance and recitation from memory are nothing more than that.

"It's page 21, line 18." After Bai Xiaowen turned to the corresponding sentence, Li Shuyi followed Bai Xiaowen's prompt and recorded the page number and line number.

"The second sentence: 'That iron man, how dare he lie to me!'" Bai Xiaowen said with narrowed eyes.

"It's page 40, line 5."

"The third sentence..."

Bai Xiaowen recited all the sentences written on that page, and then recorded the page numbers and line numbers one by one against [Tyrell's Selected Works]. Eventually, the two end up with a long list of numbers.

"What do these numbers... mean?" Li Shuyi held her chin, and looked at Bai Xiaowen again with pleading eyes.

"This is a relatively common digital password. Have you noticed that regardless of the number of pages, the number of lines in it does not exceed 26?" Bai Xiaowen tapped his finger on the table lightly and said with a smile, "Every line Each number corresponds to a Latin alphabet. By combining these letters, a code word can be obtained."

"The order of the alphabet? The number 18 corresponds to R... 5 corresponds to E..." Li Shuyi was a little stunned, and wrote down the letters one by one in front of all the numbers in the lines.

A string of code words finally surfaced:

"On the twelfth day of the Bruma month at the Night Owl Wharf."

Li Shuyi read this sentence softly, and said: "There is a time and a place. It seems that this is the secret signal for the joint."

Bai Xiaowen nodded: "That's right, I checked the date. The foggy moon is the second month of the year in the Kuroshio Continent, that is, this month. The twelfth... is today. That is to say, tonight, in Night Owl Wharf, the two sides will meet."

"Amid the evil slave trade, we are about to appear as messengers of justice." Li Shuyi said with a smile.

"We still have to find a way to let Yahan witness this scene with his own eyes," Bai Xiaowen thought more, "The mission goal is to assist the sheriff Yahan to solve the missing persons case. That is to say, if Yahan doesn't agree with our conclusion , we may not be considered to have completed the task."

...

At dinner time, Yahan came back. He was somewhat downcast and not in high spirits.

"What's the matter, is there no progress?" Bai Xiaowen asked.

Yahan nodded heavily: "Two more residents went missing, just last night, in the West District."

Bai Xiaowen angrily said, "The man behind the scenes is too rampant!"

"...I just inspected the West District two days ago!" Yahan gritted his teeth and said, "If I hit you...I will make those damned guys pay the price!"

"I believe you will catch them, Mr. Yahan." Bai Xiaowen said.

"That's right, I will definitely catch those rats, hang them up, and let all the residents of Hodge Town take a good look at their faces!" Yahan clenched his fists and made a bone-cracking sound.

After dinner, Ginny cleaned up and washed up. Yahan picked up the helmet from the table, got up and went out: "Today, I'm going to patrol the southern district. Try not to go out at night."

Bai Xiaowen stood up: "Let's go together too."

Li Shuyi followed: "Yes, Mr. Yahan, we can definitely help."

Yahan remembered that the two of them could kill the voodoo alchemist, and recognized their strength. He nodded and said, "Okay. But night watch is not an easy job."

Walking out of the gate of the house, when going to the militia assembly point, Bai Xiaowen suddenly walked in front of Yahan and stopped him.

"Huh?" Yahan cast a puzzled look.

"Mr. Yahan, if you don't want to be played like a fool, please change the night watch plan for tonight." Bai Xiaowen said.

"Why?"

"After this day's investigation, I have every reason to suspect that there are spies behind the scenes in the patrol team," Bai Xiaowen said lightly, "Don't you find it strange? Why do missing persons always happen in unpatrolled towns?" district?"

Yahan's thick eyebrows frowned: "It's impossible, my subordinates are all good guys, and they will never do such a heartless thing."

"It's a good thing to trust your subordinates, but blind trust is not advisable," Bai Xiaowen said, "If Mr. Yahan is willing to believe me, change the night patrol plan and take the militiamen to patrol the Eastern District! And this process must It is absolutely confidential to outsiders, and after the militiamen get the news of the plan change, they must never leave your sight and contact the outside world..."

"It's hard for me to believe you," said Ahan seriously.

"I understand that for you, I am just a neighbor who has met a few times, and I only lived in your house recently, and the militiamen on the patrol team are comrades who have fought side by side with you for many years. But you can also think Let me tell you, is there any loss to you and Hodge Town for my suggestion?" Bai Xiaowen said lightly, "There is an abandoned pier in the East District called 'Night Owl Wharf'...you just have to go there and be troubled for several months All mysteries can be solved.”

Yahan stared into Bai Xiaowen's eyes: "What are you hiding from me?"

"Actually, the things I found out are too unbelievable. If you tell them directly, you won't believe them. Only seeing is believing." Bai Xiaowen said.

"...Okay. I agree to your request. If I can't give me a satisfactory answer tonight...my trust in you will disappear." Yahan said solemnly.

"Trust me, I will never betray your trust." Bai Xiaowen replied calmly.

...

Night Owl Wharf has become an abandoned garbage dump.

Yahan led a team of patrolling militiamen, silently laying in ambush among the trees on the outskirts of Yexiao Wharf.

All the militiamen were pulled over from a temporary change of direction during routine patrols. Bai Xiaowen also asked the militiamen to monitor each other in groups of two, and no one should behave abnormally, even when going to the toilet, they must not leave Bai Xiaowen's sight.

Bai Xiaowen's spiritual power narrowed the scope even more, monitoring all the militiamen.

No way, although the world of the Kuroshio plane does not have such a thing as a mobile phone, it does have magic items such as "warning stones" that can be used to transmit messages. Although the mayor of Hiram may not have such a strong sense of vigilance and gave the "insider" a magic item of communication in advance, there is nothing wrong with being careful. If he was negligent for a while, the news leaked out, and the transaction was cancelled, Bai Xiaowen would definitely face Yahan's doubts, and he would not be able to explain clearly at that time.

For Bai Xiaowen's grouping and monitoring, Yahan has taken a tacit attitude. He is like a brewing volcano that could erupt at any moment.

From the moon to the middle of the sky, the night owl pier was quiet.

Suddenly, a team of carriages drove slowly along the abandoned path until they came to the abandoned pier. Afterwards, several drivers jumped down one after another, opened the carriage behind, and lifted down the broken sacks.