Atlas of Heaven and Man

Next to the SUV, Master Wei was leisurely waiting. He was already very experienced. When Mr. Chen went out on assignments, if he didn't tell him to go back first, it definitely meant he would be back soon.

He turned on the car radio, and news broadcasts immediately filled the air. Lately, the most frequent topic was the ownership of the Molan Building.

This matter had been a hot topic recently. Many companies were interested, with names like Yuan'an and Canghong Tianqu, both state-owned enterprises, appearing most often. There were also domestic giants like Longde Food and Tiancong Baicao, but some foreign companies also seemed very interested.

However, he wasn't interested in that, so he switched the station to a mystery program. He preferred listening to urban legends and the like.

Besides having good driving skills and being reliable, he was chosen as Chen Chuan's driver because he was interested in these things and felt that following Chen Chuan would allow him to see many things he wouldn't normally encounter.

He had only been listening for a short while when he saw Chen Chuan walking over from a distance. He immediately sat up straight, got out of the car, and opened the door for Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan thanked him, sat down in the back seat, and once Little Wei was back in his seat, said, "Little Wei, let's go back."

"Okay, Mr. Chen, buckle up."

The car started slowly and smoothly headed back the way they came.

Chen Chuan placed the small leather suitcase he had taken from Han Chang to the side. It probably contained many clues, but he didn't plan to open it. He would just hand it over to Director Lei later.

After the car returned to the city, he called Director Lei. When they arrived at the entrance of the Wuyi Academy, Director Lei's special car was already parked there.

Chen Chuan told Little Wei to go back first, then got out with the small leather suitcase and got into Director Lei's car. The latter listened to his account of the mission, had his staff record it, and then opened the suitcase on the spot. The first thing they saw was a stack of gold notes and a pile of Jianyuan coins, as well as some account books, vouchers, and notebooks.

Director Lei ignored the gold notes and flipped through the contents, taking out a booklet. After looking at it for a while, he looked up and said, "Student Chen, have you read the information I sent you these past two days?"

Chen Chuan replied, "I have."

Director Lei handed him the booklet. "Take a look first and tell me what you think."

Chen Chuan took it and flipped through it. He saw some simple drawings and a detailed price list of materials for secret religious rituals.

After reading it, he thought for a moment and said, "The information Director Lei gave me included ritual patterns of the Life Sect and the various secret religious materials needed. However, this booklet is missing a lot. I think they might not want to reproduce the original ritual, but they are limited by conditions and can't gather enough materials, so they have to make a simplified version."

"You're right, but things aren't that simple. Rituals are summarized by secret religious practitioners generation after generation and aren't so easily modified. People who can simplify them are usually extremely rare elites in the secret religion."

Director Lei slowly said, "Although the simplification of the ritual is not as effective as the original, it is more conducive to spreading it, which is not a good thing."

He took out a booklet from the briefcase beside him, turned to a certain page, and handed it to Chen Chuan. "According to the clues, we also found some previous arrangements of this sect. Compare it with the secret religious ritual patterns used a few days ago. What do you see?"

Director Lei said, "Yes, but this is from three years ago. Turn the page and the next one is what you encountered before."

Chen Chuan turned to the next page and compared the two. He found that they were not completely the same, but there were subtle changes. At this moment, he suddenly thought of a possibility and looked up at Director Lei. "Director Lei, I feel that it seems…"

Director Lei nodded and said, "It's just like you think. After our comparison, it can be confirmed that the person who drew the secret map for the ritual in the old factory and the one who drew the map for the Life Sect are the same person."

Speaking of this, his expression was slightly serious. "We have reason to suspect that many secret religious rituals in Yangzhi City are inextricably linked to this person. If we can find this person, even if the entire underground secret religious rituals in Yangzhi City don't collapse, they will definitely disappear for a long time."

Chen Chuan thought to himself that this person seemed to be hiding behind the scenes all the time, and even the collapse of Molan Company had not made him withdraw.

He asked, "Director Lei, since those powerful families need this person to draw ritual secret maps, don't any of them know who this person is?"

Director Lei said, "They really don't know, because they found the person through the Two-Faced Secret Religion. Due to the rules of interaction between secret religions, the followers of the Two-Faced Secret Religion also don't know this person's true identity. We can only wait for him to show up again. We believe that this person should still be in Yangzhi City at this moment."

Chen Chuan thought for a moment and strongly agreed. "I think so too."

"Is that so? Tell me your reasons." Director Lei looked at him, seemingly very concerned about the reasons for his conclusion.

Chen Chuan pondered and said, "I feel that this person is seeking a breakthrough in his skills, just like those of us who practice fighting, always pursuing higher and stronger boundaries, trying to challenge one peak after another."

He pointed to the two pictures above. "He gives me the feeling that he is also pursuing something, and this spirit is expressed very intensely, making it difficult to ignore. I think this kind of person will not easily retreat without reaching his goal, even if he encounters setbacks for a while, he will not give up."

Director Lei looked at him a few times and slowly said, "You are very observant." He took out a hard file folder from his briefcase, opened it, and motioned for Chen Chuan to take it and read it.

Chen Chuan put down the booklet and took the folder, finding that it contained an analysis of this person's secret religious pattern drawer.

Judging from the handwriting, it should be from Director Lei himself.

It also believed that this person had a very obsessive personality and an absolute pursuit of perfection.

And at the end, there was a comment: Such a person will definitely not succumb to temporary setbacks and will definitely continue to improve his works in Yangzhi City to prove the perfection of his skills.

Director Lei said in a deep voice, "The principles are the same. You fighters need to challenge opponents and defeat opponents, and he is the same. Looking at his ritual works, they are always getting bigger and bigger, as if he wants to use scale to compensate for the original simplified effect. But now the situation in the city makes it difficult for him to have room to play."

"If he wants to complete this kind of ritual, he may only be able to find a way outside the city, or introduce external forces to disrupt the city and attract the attention of others, so as to win space and time for him to set up the ritual. And Yangzhi City happens to have such a force, which has not disappeared even after the Molan Company fell."

Chen Chuan immediately reacted, "Director Lei, are you talking about the resistance organization?"

Director Lei nodded: "The so-called resistance organization in Yangzhi City has been carrying out various malicious attacks under the banner of resisting the government, completely disregarding the lives of the people."

Chen Chuan nodded. Fang Dawei's group had traces of the resistance organization's cooperation in their actions, and in the Foreign Affairs Bureau incident, he had witnessed the unscrupulousness of this group, directly shooting at the crowd, which was completely inconsistent with what they claimed.

However, judging from Director Lei's meaning, there seemed to be differences within this resistance organization? But this topic was very sensitive, so he didn't ask.

Director Lei said, "Due to the lack of clues, we can't do anything now. We can only wait. You should read the information I gave you as much as possible and know how to prevent the key places. Fighters are very good at frontal combat, but some secret religious rituals are difficult to defend against. Knowing a little is good for you."

Chen Chuan deeply agreed. Although Shen Zheng was invincible in the academy at the beginning, he still fell under the planning of secret religious rituals.

Moreover, in addition to being interested in the mysterious nature of secret religious rituals, it seemed that secret religious rituals could restrain strange tales.

If this could be done, could strange tales be used as another source of drugs?

After ending the conversation with Director Lei, he got out of the car and walked into the academy. While walking on the road, he was also thinking about this matter.

If you say there are no clues, that's not necessarily true.

When he was checking the bodies of the remnants of the Bloodscar Gang today, he found several people who were suspected of not being members of the Bloodscar Gang, because the Bloodscar Gang members would draw five bloodscars on their chests and clothes, so it was easy to distinguish the two, and these people had nothing on them to indicate their special identities.

Could these people be members of the resistance organization?

While thinking, he walked into the dormitory building. The dormitory teacher suddenly stopped him, "Student Chen, Supervisor Cheng is looking for you. Call him back after you go back."

Chen Chuan came back to his senses and said thank you. He returned to the dormitory and called Cheng Zitong. After the call was connected, Cheng Zitong's excited voice came from inside:

"Xiao Chuan, get ready. The Grade A Certificate Review Committee will be at the school tomorrow. They will conduct an on-site review of you at that time. If you pass, you can receive the Grade A Certificate."

Chen Chuan asked, "On-site review?"

Cheng Zitong said, "Most of them just ask you a few questions. The process always needs to be followed, otherwise the review committee would have no reason to exist."

Chen Chuan understood, asked about the time, and said, "Okay, teacher, I will be there on time tomorrow."

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