According to the idea, the numbers corresponded to the words of the book, but none of the six possibilities listed in the end corresponded to the book and the number was a meaningful sentence.
"Hmm... I guessed wrong. Is the line of thinking completely wrong, or is it more complicated than I thought?"
Thinking in my heart that this matter has nothing to do with me, I will try again, and if it is wrong, I will burn this letter. So Xia De observed the characteristics of those numbers again, and when he saw the last digit of each group of numbers, he thought again:
"Does the last digit not only correspond to the book number, but also correspond to the move? The number one means that after finding the corresponding word, skip to the next word?"
There is no basis for this idea, but it doesn't cost gold pounds to try it. So he tried twelve more possibilities according to "move one or two or three words forward" and "move one or two or three words backward".
Although the densely packed sentences on a page still have no practical meaning, Xia De saw some clues:
""The Western Front Supplement" corresponds to 1, "The Queen and Her Lovers" corresponds to 2, "The Silver Knight" corresponds to 3, after finding the word, the arrangement of the corresponding digits is moved backwards, although it is still not understandable when pieced together sentence, but after skipping the words corresponding to '2', it seems to have some meaning... Could it be..."
Xia De slightly widened his eyes:
"The numbers 1 and 3 correspond to moving backward; the number 2 corresponds to moving forward?"
Shad seemed to feel heat rushing from his back, and then realized that it was the cat's tail running up to his shoulders and sweeping his back.
Excited, he couldn't wait to translate again. This time, you only need to re-search the words corresponding to the last digit "2" in the first 10 groups of words, and then, the first ten words form a sentence and a half:
Grey-headed Eagle, the original emergency mission notification
"Oh, that's easy."
An uncontrollable smile appeared on Xia De's face, and he looked at the alarm clock on the desktop, it was eleven o'clock in the morning:
"What a fun morning."
[But it's pointless. 】
"Yeah, pointless, but very interesting. I'm pretty smart...and boring."
He derives great satisfaction from this puzzle game:
"But Gray Eagle? Yes, I've heard that code name before."
Looking at the misty square outside the window, I thought for a while, and narrowed my eyes slightly:
"I went to collect my salary a month ago. Mr. Gilles Johnson mentioned that this is Kasenrick's top agent. Two years ago, MI6 received word that Kasenrick secretly dispatched two gray gloves The ace agent in the organization is lurking in Tobesk. One was caught half a year ago, but the other party committed suicide. The other is the famous 'Grey Eagle'." (Chapter 368)
Although he was the opponent of the Sixth Division, Mr. Johnson's tone at the time also expressed his admiration for the agent. Grey-headed eagle has done quite a lot of things, the theft of special alloy records in Gondor, the city of steel, the gold robbery ten years ago, the accident at Coldwater Harbor Shipyard eight years ago...
When Xia De overlapped the foreign ace agent who sounds omnipotent but whose identity is unknown with the poor detective who died in a foreign country, in an inexplicable sense of dislocation, he actually felt that the two should be one person .
"Sparrow Hamilton, is Carson Rick's best agent Grey-headed Eagle?"
He sat on a chair, hugged the cat and looked out the window:
"Even though he was so remarkable and had so many wonderful stories, he still died here for a ridiculous reason. No one except me can know where he was buried."
It's kind of sad to think so.
"The first time I heard about 'Grey Eagle' was at the 'Lucky' dinner at the Lake View Manor. I also heard a lot of news that night, which later proved to be directly related to me. So it turned out that I had already obtained it at that time. Clues out. Sparrow...Grey Eagle..." (Chapter 74)
Although the outlander spent no more than ten minutes with the living Detective Sparrow, he still missed that detective very much. After the death of the detective, he pieced together the clues step by step, until now, he has roughly restored the life of the detective who is also a foreigner. Xia De can only say that this world is too much for ordinary people. cruel and dangerous.
The secret letter in his hand is a mission order, requiring Agent Greyhead Eagle to use the upper-level connections he has gained from being with Tobesk for three years before the end of the Big City Players Rhodes Card Tournament in the autumn of 1853, while ensuring his own safety. Under such circumstances, try your best to contact the court jester Virgil Cameron from the Principality of Sete.
In the order, Grey-headed Eagle must personally obtain a secret letter from Virgil Cameron and send it to the determined location in accordance with the regulations.
"Where is the confirmed location? It's not important, but the Grey-headed Eagle risked his identity to be exposed.
To take the secret letter in person, it seems that this is really a great task. "
Xia De sighed in his heart, but then thought of the order given to him by Director An Luosi:
"Director An Luosi said that the Sixth Office suspects that this Virgil Cameron will meet with the Kasenlik people in the finals of the players in the big city, and asked me to monitor the other party as much as possible; and Kasenrik is now letting What I did was to obtain and pass on a secret letter...so, the Sixth Office really got the correct information this time, and the Principality of Seth really has a connection with the Kasenliks."
He seemed to have become a key figure in this mission all at once. To be more precise, Xia De could already say that he was able to lead the development of this incident.
"But Grey-headed Eagle should not be aware of the fact that the Sixth Office is the one who wants to connect with Cameron, because the order that Grey-headed Eagle got was only to do this before the end of the big city players, not as it was known from the Sixth Office's intelligence. Yes, do it at the finals of the big city players. Ummm..."
He looked at the envelope, put the cat on the table, got up to get the brazier, and after lighting the envelope and the letter, he watched them burn to ashes.
Shad wasn't going to do it because he had absolutely no reason to, and Detective Sparrow just told him to burn the letter. He didn't even intend to tell MI6 what he had learned, that would cause him to have to explain more things.
Xia De whispered to himself in his heart.
Because of the "Whispering Verse" and the matter of the chosen one, he has enough troubles, but he must not be involved in the matter of foreign spies.
After burning the envelope and letter paper, I planned to take the cat out for dinner. It was a celebration that I finally settled all the contacts with Detective Sparrow. This mission that lasted for two and a half months was over, and he could be regarded as the real successor. All the legacy of a detective.
But thinking of the envelope that was burned, the eight-digit password seems familiar. Then I remembered that on the weekend when Rezia returned to Tobesk, Shade was hit by someone while waiting for the carriage to pick him up at the alley of Silver Cross Avenue, and then he picked up a newspaper, which also wrote something like password.
"Is there such a thing?"
He sat on the chair in front of his desk and recalled that day.
The way Dorothy told him to connect with the carriage was to wear gray gloves on both hands and an animal brooch on his chest. The brooch was a brass brooch in the shape of an eagle's head that Shade found in the bedroom desk of the late Detective Sparrow.
"Um......"
Later, he met President Stan of the Prophet Association on Silver Cross Avenue. Of course, Shad would not say that he was waiting for Princess Rezia, so he casually said that he was on a detective mission and was preparing for a meeting.
So President Stan gave Shade a fortune-telling on the spot, and gave the suggestion of "wear the gray gloves backwards, replace the newspaper in your hand with "Threepenny", and then buy a red rose and hold it in your hand." .
"Is there really such a thing?"
Chairman Stan is the best fortune teller in the Tobesk region, and the fortune telling about the "Knight" he once performed for Shad was very accurate. And if Chairman Stan was really divining "how to make Shade's connection go smoothly" that day, then the suggestions he gave might really be helpful to the "connection".
Thinking of this, Xia De rummaged through the row of bookshelves behind him and found the newspaper he brought back that day. After copying down the digital code on the edge of the newspaper, he cracked it according to the rules he just obtained, and then he actually got a complete sentence:
[Confirmation that the Grey-headed Eagle made a single-line contact request, and now gives a dynamically changing intelligence network—]
This is the sentence on the edge of the first page, which means that the person who threw the newspaper did not know the true identity of the "Grey Eagle" because he did not see through Xia De. Detective Sparrow, on the other hand, seemed to be able to only receive information, but not take the initiative to communicate, so he was unable to report his own death.
[Special missions that will be carried out in September, there is currently no information change. If you give up the mission, please go to the old place tomorrow night and write in Delarion - Eternal Loyalty. If you haven't completed the task and haven't given any response, it will be considered as your identity exposed, please evacuate by yourself. 】
This is the sentence on the lower edge of the first edition, and "tomorrow night" is long gone.
Xia De finally knew why he was asked to burn the letter. Of course, it seems okay if Detective Sparrow just dies without looking for anyone, but the detective is probably worried that the sudden closure of the detective office in the city center or the strange change of ownership of this "haunted house" will cause military concerns Six points of attention.
Judging from the location and the status of the neighbors, this is almost a certainty. Therefore, Xia De, a person with "some problems in his head", was recruited and temporarily operated for three months. When everything disappeared and the gray gloves gave up the "gray eagle" who hadn't responded for a long time, it was over.
"It really is 'eternal loyalty'."
Xia De was quite amazed.
[The information you have obtained, please pass it on to No. 1 Vic Street before the harvest month, and receive this year's 2,000 pounds of action funds. 】
"2000?"
Xia De knew now that the detective agency in the Sparrow era was obviously only doing pet hunting and mistress investigation, so why could it still support his consumption of high-end black tea.
【Will you go to get the 2000 pounds? 】
"Of course not. I am now playing the role of a loyal Delarion. How can I pass information to the enemy country?"
[What about the truth? 】
"I am not short of money now~www.mtlnovel.com~ There is no need to get involved in trouble for 2000 pounds. However, the address is not written on the order. Detective Sparrow must know the address, but for everyone else, except me I happened to meet Chairman Stan and got this secret information, otherwise even if I got Mr. Cameron’s secret letter, I wouldn’t be able to get involved in this matter.”
This is followed by the last line of ciphertext in the newspaper:
[If there is no special need, please do not activate the information network frequently. 】
This sentence is written in the cracks in the advertising area of the second edition.
Xia De sighed, and threw the pen in his hand onto the desk. "
He is very sure that what he has seen so far is only a corner of the complex intelligence system of Kasenlik's "Grey Gloves" organization. Detective Sparrow is dead, and no one knows how that complex system works.
But what is certain is that Sparrow Hamilton's mission is to lurk for a long time, and he cannot actively provide any information to his superiors, and even his superiors may not necessarily know his true identity. His only function is to remain silent, accept the task, and complete the task.
"This kind of spy is really powerful. If it weren't for getting some information, I wouldn't have imagined that an ordinary detective would have such an amazing background."
Thinking in my heart, I threw all the newspapers and translated texts in my hand into the brazier and burned them to ashes.
In the light of the fire, the paper was burned little by little. Looking at the bright brazier, Xia De understood in a trance that the last trace of the former detective had also disappeared in this home.
He sighed softly:
"Farewell, Detective Sparrow Hamilton."