The address on the anonymous email was the Jacobin Monastery, which was only about a ten-minute walk from the city hall.
This Gothic-style monastery was built by the Dominican monastery in 1215 and has a history of more than 800 years. The bricks and tiles of the entire building are made of red clay and are divided into churches, There are three main parts: the inner courtyard cloister and the monks' dining hall. Thomas Aquinas, the most famous Catholic theologian and philosopher, is buried here.
When Zhang Heng and Leya walked into the church, the first thing they saw were the nearly thirty-meter-high beams. They supported the top of the church, like straight palm trees. The long windows on the vault were inlaid with The hand-painted stained glass and the sunlight shining through the windows on the central bench give people a sacred feeling.
Zhang Heng looked around. In addition to them, there were some other tourists in the church, but he didn't see anyone with special behavior. Edward himself didn't like taking pictures. In the parallel copy twelve years later, Zhang Heng only took pictures from Leya got a photo of Edward on his driver's license when he was sixteen years old. Leya said that Edward had changed a lot ten years later. This is why Zhang Heng wanted to take Leya with him.
However, the latter apparently failed to find his brother in the church.
The two were now pretending to be a couple. Leya held Zhang Heng's arm and visited this ancient building from the 13th century with other tourists. The girl's hair had also been dyed from blue to silver, and she lowered her voice and said, " It feels like we are spies, is my brother so cautious now?"
"The little boy's worries are not unreasonable. The reason why Edward changed his email address to contact us means that he feels that the original email address is no longer reliable, which also means that the Black Nest is getting closer to him." Zhang Heng said.
Considering that his appearance was also exposed when he met the earring man in the bar, Zhang Heng's image has also changed a lot now. He drew on some inspiration from when he first met the fox, put on a suit and sprayed on cologne. , combing her hair neatly, looking like a financial elite.
In the parallel copy twelve years later, Black Nest found Edward in a nursing home three weeks later, and Edward replaced a volunteer there. However, the nursing home was not Edward's first hiding place in Toulouse. In fact, it was to prevent the Black Nest from hiding. The nest came to the door, and Edward kept changing his residence frequently.
Therefore, Zhang Heng didn't know where Edward was hiding before. However, if the connection really didn't go smoothly, he could only choose to go to that nursing home to try his luck in a week. However, this time, because of the addition of players, many things have changed. It’s different, not only on 01, but also on Black Nest.
In addition, it was difficult for Zhang Heng to explain how he knew Edward's hiding place, so he did not act rashly in the previous two months. Those two months of small town life were obviously valuable time left by the system for players to learn, speeding up the process. This process may not bring any benefits, but may bring greater risks.
"Do you want to go somewhere else?" Leia asked. The two of them had been in the church for nearly twenty minutes, but they had not gained anything yet.
"Yeah." Zhang Heng nodded. Behind the church is a very beautiful corridor. This is a place for monks to communicate and meditate. Two sections of it were damaged during the war and rebuilt in 1964. In the center of the corridor is a courtyard. Full of trees and green plants.
The two walked through the red stone pavement and felt the traces left by history. Unfortunately, they still could not find Edward here. In fact, they spent nearly two hours in the Jacobin Abbey, exploring I visited every corner of the monastery, but still couldn't get any clues.
In desperation, the two of them had no choice but to leave the monastery. Someone was handing out leaflets at the exit. Leya also took one. When she returned to the car, she took off her hat and the big sunglasses on her face.
"Could it be that he happens to be away today?"
"This possibility is not very likely." Zhang Heng frowned, "Actually, there is one thing I have never understood. The email Edward sent us only contained the location but not the time. This means that we can come here at any time. And he can't stay in the monastery every day, that would be too conspicuous, so we should have overlooked something. That thing has always been in the monastery but will not appear obtrusive. Let's go there again tomorrow and pay more attention to the changes around us. s things."
As soon as Zhang Heng finished speaking, Leya suddenly let out a sigh, "Is it possible that the things my brother left behind are outside the monastery?"
"Huh? What did you find?"
“When I was little, my brother and I would play a cipher game, a text in Hebrew.”
"Do you know Hebrew?"
"No, no, no, this is a very simple little code. We don't care about the meaning of the Hebrew itself. We just compare it with the corresponding French letters, and then translate it to get the information we want." Ya explained, waving the Catholic leaflet on her hand, pointing to an inconspicuous location on it, and said, "Here, look."
Zhang Heng stretched his head and saw a line of Hebrew. From the layout and contextual explanation, it looked like it came from a passage in the original Bible. He explained it, but Leya found the corresponding letters word by word, and finally got the word garden.
"Garden? Are you talking about the atrium garden we saw before? Is there anything we overlooked there?" Leya asked curiously, feeling as if she was playing a treasure hunt game as a child and was about to unravel the mystery.
The little boy's voice came from the communicator again, "I just searched the gardens in Toulouse and found a restaurant, a boxing training ground and an elementary school. Will Edward be somewhere among them?"
"Choose a location." Zhang Heng said to Liya in the back row.
"Restaurant? I happen to be a little hungry too."
"Okay." Zhang Heng used his mobile phone to navigate to the restaurant called Garden, but as soon as he entered the door, he knew that Edward was unlikely to stay here, because this restaurant is very famous nearby, and there are many customers who come here every day. , this kind of traffic is obviously not very friendly to a person who needs to remain anonymous to avoid tracking.
But fortunately, the foie gras here is very delicious, and the sausages are also good. For Léa, who spent an afternoon wandering around the monastery, it couldn't be better, which rejuvenated her tired body and mind.
After the two of them finished eating, it was almost getting dark. Liya said, "There are still boxing training ground and elementary school. You get to choose this time."
