In the morning, Songhai Fujiawan.

Fu Qingyang, who was in a video conference, saw the screen of his mobile phone on the desk light up, displaying the caller: Xiao Zhang.

He frowned and immediately paused the important meeting: "Pause for half an hour!"

After exiting the online meeting room, Fu Qingyang answered the phone, opening with sarcasm:

"I thought you were lost while playing abroad!"

After Yuan Shi Tianzun returned to The Way of the Extraordinary, Zhang Yuanqing changed his phone number, and Fu Qingyang naturally had to change the remarks. The name "Xiao Zhang" was the easiest to overlook.

"Boss, I'm in trouble," Zhang Yuanqing said.

Hearing this, Fu Qingyang sneered again: "I expected it, you wouldn't call me if you weren't in trouble, after all, you're busy with video calls with Guan Ya when you're free."

What he said made it sound like Fu Qingyang was for trouble and Guan Ya for leisure? Actually, it's not just Guan Ya, there's also the Palace Master and Xiao Yuan. Zhang Yuanqing silently complained, pretending not to hear his boss's complaint, and said:

"I sent you an encrypted email."

Hearing this, Fu Qingyang pulled out his chair, sat down, opened his laptop, logged into his email, and downloaded the attachment.

After entering the password, he clicked on the document and looked at the contents of the file, while listening to Zhang Yuanqing's description:

"The thing is, the President learned from Hades that the owner behind the 'Bounty Hunter Guild' is the Free Federation. He wants me to infiltrate the enemy and find the Free Federation members lurking in the Lawful organizations.

"The Hunter Guild has arranged a mission for me..."

He babbled about the cause and effect of the matter.

"In war, espionage comes first! Intelligence warfare is even more important than the real battlefield, but your mission is the focus of the President's plan, you shouldn't have told me," Fu Qingyang commented.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately said, "Boss, that's too much to say. I don't even trust my own mother in this world, but you are someone I can trust without reservation."

"That kind of sugar-coated bullet can be used on Guan Ya, there's no need to use it on me."

You don't need sugar-coated bullets for Guan Ya, you use the ancestral chromosomes. Zhang Yuanqing said loudly: "My trust in the boss is higher than Guan Ya's, um, don't tell Guan Ya that."

"I'm not that bored." Fu Qingyang stopped dwelling on the topic and said:

"I've read the information. Since you called me, it means that Star Observation cannot locate the other copper pieces. You can only bet that the Pope gave the entire disc to Huo Zhengkui, otherwise, you won't be able to find the copper pieces."

"Yes, yes!" Zhang Yuanqing echoed without thinking. In front of Fu Qingyang, he could appropriately abandon his thinking.

"So, Huo Zhengkui divided the relic into four pieces, one heirloom, and the other three hidden away."

"Where would he hide them?"

"This requires thinking about why Huo Zhengkui made the copper piece a family heirloom." Fu Qingyang's thinking was clear and he spoke eloquently:

"You got one of the copper pieces, but you still can't deduce its location, which means the copper pieces cannot be divined or deduced. In that case, the best way to completely conceal the existence of the copper pieces is to sink them into the sea."

That makes sense. Zhang Yuanqing nodded and followed the train of thought, saying: "But Huo Zhengkui passed it on to his illegitimate son, which means..."

Fu Qingyang "hmm" said,

"It means he wanted someone to get the Pope's relic, but he didn't know who to give it to. After the fall of the Holy See, the Lawful organizations became untrustworthy, and the Evil professions were even more impossible, so he had to pass it on to his illegitimate son.

"Remember what the founder of the Anti-Black and White Alliance said when you saw Jia Feizhang receiving the relic in his memory?"

Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice: "Cannot give it to foreigners; cannot give it to the incompetent; cannot give it to the wicked."

"That's right, that account is the best verification." Fu Qingyang said: "Since Huo Zhengkui wanted someone to get it, he would definitely leave clues. The character information you got from Heavenly Retribution is too complicated, and it would take a long time to check them one by one."

The life of a black gang boss is destined to be wonderful. He has made too many acquaintances and done too many things. It would take a long time to investigate and verify to find clues about the copper pieces.

"So, according to the information in the will, we can take a gamble!" Fu Qingyang said.

"How to gamble?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

"I bet he is a patriotic person!"

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up on the other end of the phone, and he remembered a record in the character information, blurting out: "In 1955, he donated a cultural relic lost overseas to the country."

That cultural relic is called "Zhou Ji Fengniao Zun", a bronze ware from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Fu Qingyang said: "In the era when Huo Zhengkui was active, the The Way of the Extraordinary of the Second District had just risen, and the predecessor of the Five Elements Alliance, the Five Great Organizations, had not yet become official organizations. It was impossible for Huo Zhengkui to give the copper piece to them, so hiding it in a cultural relic and donating it to the country was the safest method."

Compared to real scouts, my insight is still far behind. Zhang Yuanqing said excitedly: "That makes sense!"

"That's it for today, I'll handle that cultural relic. I have an important meeting. Also, send me the phone number of the President of the Merchant Guild." Fu Qingyang hung up the phone directly.

He leaned back in his chair, his eyes deep, lost in thought.

A dozen seconds later, his phone dinged, indicating that a message had arrived.

Zhang Yuanqing sent the President's private number.

Fu Qingyang immediately dialed the phone number. A dozen seconds later, the other side answered the phone in a deep voice:

"Who are you, how did you know this number?"

Fu Qingyang sneered: "Your arranged spy betrayed you."

"." The other side was silent for a few seconds, the President sighed: "This ungrateful wretch!"

Fu Qingyang said coldly: "You want him to infiltrate the Free Federation and find the corrupted members in the Lawful organizations?"

"Is there a problem?"

"No problem, this move is very ingenious. The game between camps is never just about fighting and killing." Fu Qingyang's tone became low: "But it's too dangerous, I'm worried."

"The chess piece has been placed and cannot be turned back."

"Then add chips and strength to the chess piece." Fu Qingyang said bluntly: "I want you to apply for assistance from the Five Elements Alliance in the name of the Merchant Guild. The struggle between the Merchant Guild and the Dionysus Club is behind the struggle between the two major camps. As a Lawful camp, the Five Elements Alliance has an obligation to assist its allies."

"Continue."

"I will send several teams to New York County to assist you. I think the members of the Returned Dead gang are very good."

"No Dominators?"

"Assistance is just a guise, Yuan Shi needs a team, Saints are fine, Dominators are too conspicuous."

"Okay!" The President agreed.

Fu Qingyang hung up the phone, picked up the landline, and notified the bunny girl downstairs:

"Prepare the plane, I'm going to Beijing, contact the Beijing Museum."

New York County, Red Brick Building.

Zhang Yuanqing put down his phone, left the bedroom, and knocked on Annie's door.

"Good evening!" The blonde beauty in a silk nightgown opened the door and smiled sweetly.

"Good evening." Zhang Yuanqing nodded slightly, entered the bedroom, and sat down on the single sofa by the bed, "Annie, have you heard of a person named Catherine, a Lust profession, Dominator level."

He described Catherine's appearance in detail.

"You think Catherine is a high-level member of the Lust profession in the New York County branch in disguise?" Annie shook her head slightly:

"If you think so, the association's high-level officials will also think so, and so will Heavenly Retribution. The high-level officials of the Hunter Guild who are out in the open must have no problems with their identities, and it is impossible for them to have identities in the Lawful organizations."

"That makes sense, maybe I'm overthinking it, but let's change our thinking, is there a possibility of darkness under the lamp?" Zhang Yuanqing said conspiratorially:

"Catherine may not be a high-level member of the Beauty God Association. If her identity within the association is Extraordinary, or Saint, would she be able to perfectly hide herself?

"No one would think that the bottom and middle levels of the Beauty God Association have anything to do with the vice president of the Hunter Guild, right."

Annie frowned: "That makes some sense, but this is just your speculation without evidence."

"Dare to hypothesize, carefully verify!" Zhang Yuanqing said: "It doesn't matter if you guess wrong, the point of finding spies is to suspect everyone. Annie, I'm going to arrange a mission for you now."

"You want me to go to the New York County branch?" Annie is a smart girl.

Zhang Yuanqing nodded: "I will continue to contact Catherine to get more information and details about her. You stay in the New York County branch and help me find someone. You've been bored as my personal secretary lately, right."

Annie was indeed full of fighting spirit: "I'll pack my luggage now!"

One o'clock in the afternoon.

The curator of the Beijing Museum, dressed in a smart suit, stood in front of the museum gate with two staff members, waiting for the arrival of the distinguished guest.

At noon, he received a call from the director of the Beijing Cultural Bureau, informing him that a distinguished guest would be visiting the museum at one o'clock in the afternoon.

The director did not specify the identity of the distinguished guest, but asked him to entertain him well, meet all the requirements of the distinguished guest, and never say "no".

The curator waited under the hot autumn sun at half past twelve.

Soon, a shiny black business car drove into the museum square, and the driver in a smart suit and white gloves hurried out of the car and bowed to open the door.

Seeing the distinguished guest getting out of the car, the curator and the two female staff members behind him lit up.

The distinguished guest was wearing a white suit, his facial features were carved, and he was so handsome that it was difficult to look directly at him. He had an elegant and aloof temperament, like a lotus blooming in the snow mountain, or a white orchid on a cliff.

The curator hurried up to greet him, "Hello, I'm Xu, the curator of the Beijing Museum."

The white-clothed nobleman nodded slightly, without expression or smile, and said, "I want to see the Zhou Ji Fengniao Zun."

Zhou Ji Fengniao Zun. The curator was stunned, and quickly looked at the staff behind him.

The female staff member on the left immediately said:

"The Zhou Ji Fengniao Zun is in Exhibition Hall No. 3, I'll take you there."

Her eyes were shining as she looked at Fu Qingyang. Being able to see such a romantic figure with both temperament and appearance is a gain in this lifetime.

So, led by the staff, Fu Qingyang came to Exhibition Hall No. 3 and saw the cultural relic.

Its appearance is a gorgeous phoenix bird, covered with bronze green, with its head raised, four legs, a drooping and slightly upturned bird's tail, round convex eyes, and a large curved mouth. The inside of the Zun is hollow, and there is a cylindrical wine vessel on the back.

It stood quietly on the display stand, covered by tempered glass.

The female staff member enthusiastically introduced:

"This is a bronze ware from the Western Zhou Dynasty, 56 centimeters long and 44.5 centimeters wide. He was lost overseas in modern times. In 1955, a Chinese American spent 100 million federal currency to buy him and donate him to the country."

Fu Qingyang said coldly, "Take it out!"

The female staff member was stunned.

The curator was also stunned, but immediately reacted and said, "Xiao Wu, ask someone to open the cover."

"Ah, ah, okay." The female staff member hurried away.

Not long after, two male employees in work clothes came over, wearing white gloves, and carefully removed the tempered glass cover.

Fu Qingyang slowly put on white gloves and picked up the bronze ware, which was quite heavy for ordinary people, with one hand.

He flipped the Fengniao Zun over, and his thick sword eyebrows furrowed.

As a scout, he knew exactly what the weight of a bronze ware should be. If there were any foreign objects hidden inside, he would be able to detect it upon入手 (shou = hand, ru = enter; meaning: as soon as he picked it up).

But this bronze ware was completely normal, just a precious, but also ordinary cultural relic.

Did I judge wrong? Fu Qingyang frowned and pondered, holding the bronze ware in one hand, and the information about Huo Zhengkui quickly flashed through his mind.

The curator and staff members next to him were worried and frightened, but they didn't dare to speak, preparing to jump to save the bronze ware if it fell.

But as time passed, this distinguished guest's arm remained motionless, was he still a noble young master with the strength to lift mountains and cover the world?

At this moment, Fu Qingyang showed a look of realization, he knew where the mystery was.

ps: I'll update the typo fixes later.

(End of this chapter)