Queeny paused, frowned and saw Felix wave to Ford, who was standing nearby.
Ford immediately sent something up.
Felix took it and handed it to Queeny. “Look at this.”
Queeny took it and saw that it was a map.
“It was a tattoo on his back,” Felix said. “At first none of us could see anything weird, but it was Ford who realized there was something wrong with the tattoo and did some careful analysis to come up with a map and had it drawn.”
Queeny frowns and looks at the squiggly lines. “What is this map of?” she asked.
Felix shook his head. “We had no idea.”
“You don’t know? What kind of good news is that?”
She was a little resentful.
Felix chuckled. “If that’s all it is, that’s not good news. But by accident, when Ford handed me the map, I found it looked familiar, so I took the piece of the Celestial Book we had bid for and compared them. Guess what?”
Queeny looked at him blankly.
Felix took the piece of the Celestial Book from the side and handed it to her.
“Compare them for yourself.”
Queeny took it, put it on a piece of paper, and compared them.
It took her a long time to realize that the map on the paper was the same as the one on the Celestial Book.
What was going on here?
“I suspect that the pattern on the Celestial Book is not a character at all, but part of a larger map,” Felix explained quietly.
“Didn’t we find that there were 12 pieces of the Celestial Book? Maybe each piece has a different pattern on it, representing a part of the map. All we have to do is find these 12 pieces of them, and we can put together a whole map, and finally find what we really want.”
Queeny frowned. It seemed vaguely to her that the matter was getting more and more complicated.
She looked at Felix and asked, “But why is it tattooed on his back? Aren’t they afraid of being discovered?”
Felix shook his head.
“I don’t know for sure, but it does suggest that he was lying to us, at least partially.”
Queeny frowned.
At this point, she thought of it, too.
If what he said was true, he was simply unhappy with what Felix had given them and could not leave without risking Felix’s revenge.
So when the other party came to him for help and promised him a lot of money, he agreed to do that.
So, what about the tattoo on his back?
There was no way he didn’t know what that tattoo was, or why would he agree to have it tattooed on his body?
But if he did, it means he was on to something.
Or maybe he was lying. He agreed to do this with a certain purpose.
They just happened to find him. Or was it all just a ploy to hide himself?
Was he actually the one they had been secretly sending to lurk next to Felix?
Queeny didn’t know and couldn’t be sure. She only felt that things were very complicated now.
Although most people were well aware of the story of the Celestial Book, in fact, only a handful of people had actually seen or read the patterns on it.
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