Time passes like water, taking away life experiences like the Thames flowing into the North Sea, never to come back again.
After the discussion between Chu Long and Corporal Lin En, they checked several Bibles on the table from beginning to end. At the beginning of the inspection, Chu Long made a discovery in the old version of the Old Testament.
The wavy mark caught Chu Long's attention. The fifth word on the first line on the page was marked, which means 'sacred', and there was a circle drawn above the word.
"I also found something here. It is marked with the word 'angel'." Corporal Lin En opened the Catholic version of the Bible and handed it to Chu Long.
He took it and put it on the table and looked at it. It was the same as Chu Long found, with wavy marks and circles. Chu Long flipped through the Bible. There were notes and marks on the first few pages, but they were all used as guide words. There were no
Any one that is marked individually is based on one sentence.
"We need to find words that are guided by such marks." Chu Long pointed to the wavy marks and circles in the Bible.
"good."
In the following time, Chu Long and Corporal Lin found the same marked words in three Bibles.
'Pray for', 'Swear' and 'Bless'. At first, Chu Long was not sure that these words were what he was looking for, but there was one thing in common that made Chu Long convinced that he was correct. There was a similarity in these chapters.
The word 'Gabriel'.
Then Chu Long and Corporal Lin En quickly read through the remaining chapters and found nothing. They took a piece of white paper from their hands and used a pair of sharp scissors on the corner of the window sill to cut the white paper into bookmark strips.
I clipped the page with the text.
"This seems to be a kind of text password."
"I feel the same way."
"Corporal, can I get a camera?"
"I'll let them look for it." After saying that, he left the study and walked downstairs.
Chu Long looked at the several Bibles in front of him, closed his eyes and recalled the John introduced to him by Inspector Upton, imagining how if he were John, he would use these words to hide the clues to find the gem necklace.
While Chu Long closed his eyes and meditated, Corporal Lin En went downstairs and found a tall police officer sitting on the first floor drinking coffee, and asked him if it was possible to find the camera.
The police officer stood up and thought for a moment, then walked towards the counter facing the door. He found a brand new camera in the drawer inside the counter and handed it to Corporal Linn. He said that he had found this camera during a previous inspection.
It's in the drawer, and now that I ask about it, I immediately think of it.
Corporal Linn tried the camera and found that the camera was broken. There were slight scratches on one side of the camera. He probably accidentally dropped it and put it in a drawer without having time to repair it.
After thinking about it, I turned around and walked up to the second floor and walked into the study. I saw Chu Long leaning on the chair with his eyes closed. He thought he was sleepy!
Without disturbing Chu Long, he picked up the three Bibles from the table and walked out of the study. When Corporal Lin turned around to leave, Chu Long opened his eyes and closed them again.
"Buy the same copy of these three Bibles." Corporal Linn came downstairs again and ordered as he looked at the police officer sitting back at the door.
"Corporal, this money?" the police officer looked at Corporal Linn and asked, holding three Bibles.
"Bring back another copy of the Bible as it is, and it will cost me."
"Okay, Corporal."
"Why haven't you seen him, Inspector Upton?" Corporal Linn noticed at this moment that he hadn't seen him for such a long time.
Another police officer at the door immediately said: "Upton was called away when he was searching downstairs just now."
"Oh!" Corporal Linn sat on the chair of the police officer just now, chatting with another police officer, waiting for the police officer who went to buy a Bible.
Chu Long closed his eyes and meditated, and the words in his mind were swirling around the gem necklace. If these words were passwords, what place would they open? Could there be a gem necklace or related clues hidden in that place?
?
While he was meditating with his eyes closed, his right hand unconsciously rested on his left hand. He accidentally touched the family heirloom ring on the index finger of his left hand. Chu Long, who was deep in thought, thought that the most likely place was a bank, although there are also some savings banks on the market.
Store items and money, but it’s not as good as state-controlled bank insurance!
At the beginning, Chu Long also thought of the bank, but after considering the complicated procedures when picking up items, he put it aside. However, the moment he touched the family ring, he suddenly thought that the bank's storage procedures include the insurance of valuable items. To put it simply,
That is to say, the value of the item is appraised. One percent of the appraised value of the item will be regarded as insurance money. Once the item is lost, the bank will pay compensation in addition to the appraised value of the item plus one-tenth of the compensation.
Aldrich's father stored it in this way, but the difference is that because there are auctioned goods, the one percent insurance premium will be offset by the bank's profits after the auction. Between the auction house and the bank
There is an agreement between them, which also allows Chu Long to save a lot of money.
One advantage of this storage method is that there are fewer procedures. There is a secret identification agreement between the bank and the depositor, so that the stored items or money can be easily retrieved in the future.
When Chu Long thought about this, he felt more and more that his guess was correct. Only by depositing it in the bank in this way can its safety be guaranteed.
"Then the remaining problem is to unlock the text code." Chu Long said to himself.
"Corporal, I bought the Bible. A batch of new books just arrived at the bookstore on the corner. There are three kinds of Bibles you need." The tall police officer who went out to buy books came back not long after, holding a book in his hand.
The plastic bag came in.
"You did a great job!"
Corporal Linn took the bag and took out the Bible inside. A total of six Bibles were placed on the counter. Three new ones were clearly visible at a glance. The other three were much different in appearance, but the content was the same.
Yes, this reassured Corporal Linn.
Corporal Lynn casually took out a one-pound note from his coat pocket and handed it to the police officer, then walked straight upstairs.
Looking at Corporal Lynn's back, the police officer opened his mouth to tell him that these three Bibles cost 10 shillings, but he didn't say anything. There was a mini black man inside his head.
'Zi' said: "The corporal is not short of this little money, otherwise I wouldn't give it to you."
The police officer thought for a moment and agreed with the idea, then sat back on the chair at the door and chatted with another police officer.
Corporal Lin En walked into the study and saw Chu Long looking through the notepad. He walked to the table with the bag and put it on the table. He looked at Chu Long and said, "Chu, the camera is there but it's broken. I
Let the police buy three identical Bibles and come back."
"good."
"I want to go back to the hotel and try to crack it, but after all, these books are evidence at the crime scene and cannot be taken away. Then I can only take photos and record them, but it is no problem if the same Bible is marked again."
Chu Long looked at Corporal Lin En sitting across the table and said.
"We can just mark these and take them away."
"Are you still writing the annotations?"
"Mark them all!" Chu Long looked at the annotations of John in the Bible and thought about what if they might be useful!
"Oh! Let's get started, it's a lot of work!" Corporal Linn looked at the annotations and muttered, feeling like he had dug a hole and jumped in. He was talking too much!