Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty-Three Suspected Objects
Su Wen was puzzled as to why the original number was thirteen, and then increased tenfold each time it reappeared.
Under the new printing technology, as long as the format is properly typed, it will not take long to print a thousand or hundreds of exam papers, even if the unit is tens of thousands.
But Su Wen knew that these test papers that appeared out of thin air were unlikely to have been printed manually.
Just looking at time, the test papers that appeared out of thin air seemed not to be bound by time.
One thousand three hundred test papers, after the examiner redesigned the test questions, only took two or three hours to appear dozens of miles away from where the test papers were kept.
There is no other explanation possible except for the intervention of mysterious forces.
Su Wen was very puzzled. Why did he think that extraordinary power caused the leak of test questions, but Nangong and others didn't think of it? He closed the thick file and asked Nangong in confusion.
"Because it's completely impossible."
Nangong said depressedly: "That's because you don't know what the storage environment of the examination papers is like."
Hearing this, Su Wen was a little shocked.
How long has it been since then that Nangong still dared to be superstitious about the environmental protection of examination questions? If there hadn't been a problem somewhere, these examination questions would not have been leaked at all!
Moreover, Su Wen also discovered that, for now, the leakage of test questions is not widespread and is not known to the public.
Su Wen believes that this extraordinary power is still in the exploratory stage.
Its understanding of influence currently exists only in terms of quantity.
It is thought that the more copies of test questions are produced, the more they can be disseminated.
Because of this, Su Wen had reason to believe that what caused this extraordinary event was a newly formed taboo object.
Thinking of this, Su Wen felt that his thinking became clearer.
He thought for a while and said: "Taiwan, if you really want to find the real reason why the test questions were leaked, you shouldn't have such a scornful attitude. Think about all possibilities and investigate every possibility.
Otherwise, I believe that more and more exam questions will be leaked, and eventually it will get out of hand."
A forbidden object that can create test papers at will. Once it figures out how to have greater influence, what will it do?
Now the test papers are secretly placed in a black workshop. What impact will it have if it figures out the situation and distributes them on the streets?
Without waiting for Nangong to speak, Su Wen said seriously: "Based on the existing materials, we might as well make a bold guess and make a hypothesis: the root cause of the leakage of test questions has nothing to do with people, or it has nothing to do with the examiners or the people who keep the test questions.
It was caused by an extraordinary item that was not controlled by anyone and had just transformed into a forbidden object."
"Forbidden objects?"
After hearing Su Wen's words, Nangong calmed down and signaled Su Wen to continue.
In the environment where the test questions are kept, there are several taboo objects that protect the test questions. Because of this, Nangong believes that there is no possibility that the test questions will be interfered by extraordinary forces and eventually leaked.
But...if the test questions are leaked, is it related to these taboos that protect the test questions?
"Based on the taboo object, we can further reason why this taboo object did this. The root cause can be traced back to the first holder of the taboo object, or in other words, the extraordinary person who separated the taboo object.
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Su Wen already has enough knowledge about forbidden objects.
The characteristics, storage conditions and taboo conditions of forbidden objects are closely related to the life story, character and ability of the character who extracted the forbidden objects.
The leak of the test questions after the theft of taboo objects probably reflects that the person who created the taboo object hated the talent promotion ceremony in his life and wanted to destroy such a national examination. Therefore, after his death, the person who created the taboo object also inherited his obsession and implemented it.
After realizing his will, he did such a big thing.
"Although this statement is a bit absurd...but, it does make some sense."
After listening to Su Wen's reasoning, Nangong touched the short beard that was as hard as a steel needle and thought thoughtfully: "In this way...it's really a good entry point."
The ideas provided by Su Wen can actually limit the scope of the investigation to a very small range.
Nangong only needs to go back to the inner factory to read the files and check the taboo objects that have been contained in the recent period to get a rough idea.
In particular, the taboo items that were transferred away from the palace to be used in the Talent Recruitment Ceremony are the targets of intense investigation.
In addition to looking for clues from the taboo items in the inventory, there is another possibility that cannot be easily let go. In the recent period, whether any qualified transcendent has passed away, and whether they have extracted spirituality or taboo items, they should also investigate in detail. If they have extracted taboo items,
The abilities and whereabouts of objects and forbidden objects must also be carefully investigated.
"Let's go! Let's go to the spiritual library!"
After Nangong thought it through, he picked up Su Wen with one hand, asked someone to prepare the horse, and rushed to the inner factory.
"...Carriage, I want a carriage! I have to eat something in the car!"
From the time Nangong found him to the time he read the confession file, six or seven hours had passed. During the whole process, Su Wen only drank a few sips of water. As an extraordinary person, Su Wen could go without eating or drinking for several days, but when dealing with so many files,
The amount of energy he spent was huge.
"OK!"
It takes half an hour to get from Qingshan Guild Hall to the headquarters of the inner factory even if we work hard. This is still the speed in the middle of the night when there is no one on the road.
Su Wen ate and drank briefly in the car, and even closed his eyes to relax for a while. When he opened his eyes, he had arrived at the inner factory.
"...Why is it so shabby?!"
Looking at the dilapidated inner factory office, Su Wen was speechless for a moment.
He did not expect that the inner factory general office in Daliang City looked even more shabby than the old government office on Jiangnan Road. The lanterns hanging at the door were all broken! The door panel of the huge government office was also missing, and it looked like the same
It is almost like a ruined temple that has been in disrepair.
"...This is not called shabby, this is called simplicity!"
Nangong corrected Su Wen: "It is customary for officials not to build yamen. Especially for a deserted yamen like ours, which has no oil and water, there is no need to make the facade so glamorous."
"Believe it or not!"
Su Wen was very angry.
He is not a newbie here. He knows the income of the internal factory.
The annual allocation from the Ministry of Household Affairs is the basic input of the internal factory. If we only look at the allocation from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the internal factory is indeed a Qingshui Yamen. If Su Wen wants to receive a salary of dozens of taels of silver a month, he will have to dream.
But the inner factory also has allocations from the Shaofu. The Shaofu is the department that manages the royal family's property. The amount allocated to the inner factory is six times that of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In addition, it does not include the special funds for maintaining local spiritual treasury and spiritual prisons. Therefore, the inner factory
The funds of the factory are more generous than any other department in the imperial court. But there is no need to envy other departments, because the factory spends a huge proportion of the expenses on compensating the sacrificial factory guards every year.
The third income from the internal factory is the real big deal.
The inner factory has a certain trading share of extraordinary materials and items. Every year, it makes huge profits from buying and selling extraordinary materials and items. Part of these incomes are used by the inner factory to hoard more extraordinary materials and prepare them into secret medicines.
Sold at a high price, part of it is turned into generous benefits for the factory workers, including money, rice, oil, salt, and even public housing, children's education, employment arrangements, and so on.
After excluding all kinds of expenses, Su Wen had nothing to say except complaining about the fact that the internal factory general office, which had a surplus of at least millions of dollars every year, was in such a terrible state.
"Humph... That's because you don't know the goods."
Nangong didn't bother to explain, and just said depressedly: "This Yamen can't be renovated with just a little money... The little money we have left every year might not even be enough to paint the walls..."
Su Wen ignored these words of calling for poverty.
After entering the inner factory, Su Wencai discovered that the design of the inner factories in various places was similar to that of the general office, except that the main office was larger.
Nangong took Su Wen and went straight to the spiritual vault located underground in the inner factory.
What makes Su Wen feel a little relieved is that the spiritual prison in the inner factory is not placed in the inner factory.
"...Fortunately, it was the inner factory in Jiangnan Road that was so stupid, putting the spiritual prison and the spiritual vault in the same place..." Su Wen complained in a low voice.
But Nangong rolled his eyes and said: "The designs of the inner factories are all the same, so that the taboo items in the spiritual warehouse can be used to suppress the prisoners in the spiritual prison. However, the main office's spiritual warehouse needs to store too many things, which takes up a lot of space in the spiritual prison.
The territory was finally moved to another place, otherwise..."
"..."
Su Wen was silent for a while and then said: "Have the designers considered... the prisoners in the spiritual prison escaped from the prison, and even opened the guard door from inside the spiritual prison, plundered all the items in the spiritual vault, and went on a rampage?
go?"
"Pfft..."
Hearing this, Nangong laughed again: "How can a prisoner who was captured by us in the spiritual prison be able to escape? Let alone break open the prison door and rob the spiritual vault."
Su Wen shook his head repeatedly and thought to himself: "Didn't Xie Lingyun just do this?"
Of course, Xie Lingyun's behavior is still somewhat different from what he said.
Xie Lingyun opened the gate of the spiritual prison from the outside, eventually creating chaos inside and destroying the Jiangnan Dao inner factory.
After the experience of Xie Lingyun, the inner factory has also determined that no one who does not have the status of the inner factory, except His Majesty the emperor, can enter the inner factory's spiritual vault and spiritual prison, and the current prime minister can also
No, if you want to force your way in, you will be killed without mercy.
The files in the spiritual library were quickly transferred, and the taboo objects transferred by the imperial court in the past six months were clearly recorded. However, in the recent period, no taboo items have been loaned out for use in the Cai Cai Ceremony.
Su Wen quickly focused on the list of extraordinary people who had died recently.
The Inner Factory monitors the extraordinary beings in Daliang City much more strictly than any other in the world. The Inner Factory will even come to take care of fallen extraordinary beings and take away the spiritual or taboo objects extracted from the deceased.
Of course, the inner factory will also make corresponding compensation. If it is determined that the precipitated spiritual or taboo objects are harmless, the inner factory will not take them away forcibly. After all, most people who can become extraordinary people have a certain family background.
, it is not something that the internal factory can manipulate at will.