The monks in Wanfo Temple are ordinary people without special training.

What's more, for more than five years, the smooth and carefree life has worn away their minds and corroded their will.

Therefore, the entire interrogation process did not take much time, and they explained everything clearly.

Minister Wen Tao put away the record book and had them taken away and continued to be detained. Then he turned to Bureau Guo and Pei Anzhu and said:

"It seems that they are just following orders, but in their confession, the young man with short hair looks very familiar. He seems to be someone close to Mr. Zhou?"

"It's Tian Jia." Pei Anzhu said, "That's the person I tied up with chains in the laboratory."

Among all Mr. Zhou's confidants, he is the only one who fits the characteristics of "young and short-sighted".

"Then let's interrogate him next?" Minister Wen Tao asked for advice.

"No, the next step is to interrogate those researchers." Director Guo said, "From bottom to top, listen to answers from different perspectives, so that we can restore the entire incident to the maximum extent."

If Tian Jia were to be interrogated directly, in order to protect Mr. Zhou or to escape guilt, he would have to lie or conceal even if he could not get enough protection, and he might not speak at all.

It is better to wait until more evidence is obtained before trying him.

Therefore, under the arrangement of Director Guo, the researchers were brought over. This time, three people came over, namely Professor Wang, Professor Pang and Professor Yan.

Among them, Professor Wang is the oldest at 86 years old, while Professor Pang and Professor Yan are both in their 60s.

It would be much easier for a few professors to interrogate him.

They only want to study metaphysics and don't think about how to get away with lying, because they feel that those things have nothing to do with them.

Therefore, they answered whatever Minister Wen Tao asked, and soon pieced together their own story line——

Professor Wang was the first to speak because he was the oldest and had spent the longest time in the laboratory:

"I was recommended by my teacher to join Mr. Zhou's laboratory twenty-two years ago, when I was 64 years old. Before that, I had been engaged in research on national folklore."

Professor Wang, whose real name is Wang Jianwen, was born in a moderately well-off family.

An only child, he was carefully raised by his parents. He went to university with excellent grades and was fascinated by studies such as national customs and geography, so he applied for a graduate degree under Professor Yue at the school at that time.

Professor Yue is an expert in national folk customs.

During his graduate studies, Professor Yue saw that Wang Jianwen had a good appearance, a good character, and a heart for studying academics, so he brought him and his daughter together.

Later, Wang Jianwen and Miss Yue got married. From then on, Professor Yue became both his teacher and his father-in-law. The two of them often made appointments to go on business trips across the country to explore the stories of different regions.

But one day, Professor Yue went out alone.

When he came back, Professor Yue left all his savings and told Wang Jianwen to take good care of his daughter, then left the house and has been missing since then.

No one knows where he went.

It's not like Wang Jianwen hasn't looked for him before, but he still can't figure it out. He finally got some clues, but after he hurried over, the clues were broken again.

It was as if someone was deliberately erasing Professor Yue's traces.

As time went by, there was no trace of Professor Yue, and Wang Jianping and his wife gradually gave up on looking for him. After all, he left on his own.

At that time, they guessed that Professor Yue must have something important to do.

Thirty years later, Wang Jianwen was 64 years old at the time and was already a leading expert in folklore. While teaching at the school, he also studied academics and even brought his own graduate students.

His wife, Miss Yue, has passed away long ago, leaving only a pair of children, who have also started their own families. Occasionally one night, Wang Jianping was reading literature in the study as usual, and received a phone call, and Professor Yue's voice came from the phone.

Familiar, yet old.

Professor Yue said on the phone:

"Now there is a research that can shock the country and go down in history. I would like to invite you to participate. I wonder if you are willing?"

"Teacher, have you been doing this research for the past thirty years?" Wang Jianwen asked.

"Yes, I have been researching and have achieved some results." Professor Yue said, "You are my most proud disciple and the person who can best inherit my ideas. If you are willing to come, I can introduce it to you, but The premise is that you can’t go home again.”

Just like him back then, after passing the age of knowing his destiny, he left home alone and never returned.

Wang Jianwen thought about it all night and finally decided to go.

He is over sixty years old, and most of his life ahead of him is considered satisfactory. He had his parents to take care of him when he was young, teachers to support him in his studies, and his wife to take care of him when he got married. He has no regrets.

But now, his parents have passed away, his wife has passed away, and his children have their own families and do not need his care. He decided to follow the example of his teacher and pursue his ideals.

In this way, on the recommendation of Professor Yue, he entered Mr. Zhou's laboratory.

Professor Yue was getting old. Not long after he arrived, he felt that he had a successor, so he passed away in an ordinary early morning.

From then on, Professor Wang Jianwen took over all his research.

"At that time, I was the only one in the research room. Whether it was the teacher or me, the main job was to study literature." Wang Jianwen said.

The documents he spoke of were the books of Shu Yunguan.

Wang Jianwen has always studied folk customs. He knows exactly where there are strange things in Long Kingdom and where miracles that cannot be explained by science have occurred.

But after getting in touch with those books, he discovered that all things that science cannot explain can be attributed to metaphysics.

He used to read a lot of ancient documents, and he was very familiar with ancient texts. It was not difficult for him to have those books in his hands.

During those days when he was studying literature, he even translated Hao Shuo's books into vernacular versions. Except for those professional terms that he couldn't understand, he made great progress.

In this way, under Professor Yue's support, Professor Wang stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and further deepened his research on metaphysics, even drawing talismans himself.

And the first talisman he came up with was the lighting talisman.

That is, those luminous talismans in the laboratory.

In the eyes of Taoist practitioners, the role of this lighting talisman is useless, and it is nothing more than a candle.

But for ordinary people like Professor Wang, the success of this talisman represents a big step in his research career.

It was precisely because of his success that Mr. Zhou saw hope.

Professor Wang discovered that the way those talismans operate is a very special energy in nature. However, he is a professor of liberal arts. Although he successfully drew the talisman by mistake, he was unable to study what happened to that energy.

After Mr. Zhou found out, he spent huge sums of money to form a research team. Professor Pang and Professor Yan joined in one after another.

After joining, there is a division of labor according to different areas of expertise.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. Thanks to the foundation laid by Professor Yue and Professor Wang, and the success of the lighting talisman, subsequent research has been carried out smoothly.


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