Soul Painter

On the way to the city library.

Lu Zhi briefly introduced STK to Gao Fan.

STK is an organization similar to Interpol. It has branches all over the world. The purpose of STK is to maintain world peace. Don't laugh, it is indeed the case. The threats they face are generally called 'pollution incidents' .”

So Gao Fan asked, what is a pollution incident?

It's basically some evil existence trying to invade the world. I haven't really encountered it, so I just heard that the survivors of the incident are generally unable to describe what they encountered.

According to the old-fashioned classification method, STK classifies pollution incidents into ABCDE grades. This time, it is a C-level incident.

About me, I was able to use some resources of STK because my parents held high positions in STK. I can’t go into details, but I have also received some training. If there is no accident, I will join STK after graduation.

Now, I hope to add a little leverage to my resume. If I can alone... um, no, if I solve this C-level incident with you, my resume will be more convincing, and I will be able to become a real in the future. investigator.

Gao Fan asked about the power Henry Guo had used.

That's the command spell. Investigators have their own unique skills. They are generally called command spells, old seals and laws. Using command spells is very expensive. Compared with them, the old seals are much safer. As for the final Mysterious 'Laws', some of the strongest, have the power to pollute entire worlds.

As for where to get mantras, seals and laws.

If I knew, I would have bought a bunch of them on me long ago, such as a Command Spell that 'knows the truth immediately'. As long as I read it like this, I will know everything immediately. However, the price is very likely to be death, which is terrible. The stronger the effect of the spell, the more terrifying the backlash.

So far, Gao Fan has a general understanding of STK.

Whether what Lu Zhi said is true or not, we will know later.

Now what Gao Fan wants to rely on is still a certain degree of law enforcement power possessed by STK. For example, Lu Zhi made a few phone calls and immediately obtained information about the painting behind the Gate of Hell from the National Museum of Art. story.

This line doesn't work. Lu Zhi said that this is bad news, The painting was donated anonymously, and the art museum doesn't know who the owner is.

Then why did the museum mark the painting as 'from an ancient house in this city'? Gao Fan frowned.

Because the information left by the donor includes this piece of information, which is the only information, and even the name of the painting was named by the appraisal experts later. Lu Zhi said.

Therefore, 'from an old house in this city' is the only clue.

I don't know if it's true or not.

...

City library.

The local chronicles of the city are hidden here.

Local chronicles record the history of changes in a city.

Tianshi was just a county a hundred years ago, and if it goes back further, it can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, which is quite historical. Of course, Gao Fan and Lu Zhi don’t need to trace that far, they only need to trace back to 1920 Just before and after.

The local chronicle in front of the two of them at the moment is open to the public and has been revised by experts, so it is not a mouthful and is very easy to understand.

It records that before liberation, a certain family's scholarly fragrance was handed down from generation to generation, and there was a strong Yuan Dynasty. A certain family did good deeds and accumulated virtues.

its not right.

After checking all morning, Gao Fan suddenly felt something was wrong.

What? Lu Zhi asked.

Gao Fan took out his mobile phone and showed Lu Zhi a piece of information he found on the Internet.

The information is a picture of a book page, which is a vertical version of traditional characters, and there are a few lines written on it. Since the children of Huaxia have the instinct of automatic translation between simplified and traditional, Lu Zhi can also understand it.

...On the eighteenth day of the fourth month of the Wuwu year, the mansion was completed, and the whole city was moved, admiring its magnificence... In April of the following year, King Zhu Rong came to visit, and he poured a hundred buckets of gold and collected strange stones to rebuild it... On the day of completion, the day was born Charm, people dare not approach...

After reading, Lu Zhi asked Gao Fan, What do you mean?

The year of Wuwu was 1918. There was a big family in Tianshi, um, it was called Tianxian County at that time. They built a very beautiful house. In April of the following year, there was a fire, and the big family used a hundred Gold restored the mansion again, perhaps to prevent fires, so some special building materials were used, and as a result, no one dared to approach the mansion during the daytime.

Gao Fan translated it.

I can understand, but what do you mean by showing me this? Lu Zhi still didn't understand.

This is the content of the original local chronicles I found on the Internet. It is in the Renjie chapter, but the local chronicles compiled by these experts do not have this content. Gao Fan said.

The Chapter of Heroes mainly records the figures who have made outstanding contributions to local construction in Tianshi over the years.

So someone deleted this article on purpose? Lu Zhi understood, Could it be that someone wanted to hide the existence of this ancient house? Why?

We can only ask the experts who revised the local chronicles. Gao Fan said, There must be some purpose. We have to find the original Tianshi local chronicles. There is only a little content on the Internet, which is not enough to speculate on their purpose.

Do you think this damn house is the old house where the painting The Gates of Hell was found? Lu Zhi asked.

Tianxian County around 1920 was not rich, and there were buildings that could be called 'big houses'. According to the local chronicles, there was only one county government, one general's mansion, and one champion's mansion. After several wars, these places were destroyed, but here……

Gao Fan showed Lu Zhi the local chronicles around 1940.

It is written here that a group of rogue bandit soldiers swept across the area, but when they robbed a mansion, disasters occurred, with heavy casualties, none of them survived. The words used to describe this mansion are not the ones I mentioned above. Gao Fan said.

You mean, the existence of this ancient house was deliberately erased from the compiled local chronicles, but it is still there in other side descriptions. Lu Zhi understood what Gao Fan was referring to, The reason why the gang of bandit soldiers caused disasters when they robbed this house was because it... had a charm during the day?

My guess is this... Although there is no record of that ancient house in the local chronicles, as long as it doesn't say anything, you can deduce a hidden clue. Gao Fan said.

Amazing~ Lu Zhi praised Gao Fan.

In just one morning, Gao Fan found out such a line from the cumbersome written materials of the local chronicles, which is the D-level investigator of STK, which is only at this level, very good.

Gao Fan nodded, he didn't take it seriously, it was all 20... oh, no blackjack investigation skills.

When the skill value of 'investigation' rose from '20' to '21', Gao Fan felt that his two guesses should be correct.

The first guess is that the skill of 'investigation' requires practice in order to continue to increase the skill value.

The second guess is about the guess that the ghost house is an ancient house with paintings.

If he guesses wrong, the system will not increase his skill points.

Eleven is really busy, the renovation of the house is coming to an end, buying materials everywhere and hiring workers and so on, after the eleventh, let's update quickly and work hard for the day!