Chapter 331： researchers

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

What's more, over the past five years, the smooth and carefree days have worn away their minds and corroded their will.

Hence, the entire interrogation process did not take much time, and they all explained clearly.

Minister Wen Tao put away the record book and asked people to take them away and continue to detain them. Then he turned to Director Guo and Pei Anzhu and said:

“It seems that they were just following orders, but in their testimony, the short-haired young man looked very familiar. He seemed to be someone close to Mr. Zhou?”

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

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

“Then let’s interrogate him next?” Minister Wen Tao asked for advice.

"No, let's review the researchers next." Guo Ju 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 though he was unable to protect himself, so he might not speak directly.

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

So, under the arrangement of Bureau Guo, the researchers were brought over. This time there were also three people who 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.

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’s real name is Wang Jianwen, and he comes from a moderately well-off family.

An only child, he was carefully raised by his parents. He went to university with excellent grades and became 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 folklore.

While studying for graduate school, Professor Yue saw that Wang Jianwen had an upright 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 men 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 asked 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 the traces of Professor Yue.

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 very important to do.

Thirty years later, Wang Jianwen was sixty-four 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 all started their own families. By chance one night, Wang Jianping was reading literature in his study as usual, and received a phone call from Professor Yue’s voice.

Familiar, yet old.

Professor Yue said on the phone:

“Now there is a research that can shock the whole 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 the age when he knew his destiny, he left home alone and never came back.

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.

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, under 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 office. Whether it was the teacher or I, 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 had to read a lot of ancient documents before, and he was very familiar with ancient texts. It was not difficult for him to have those books in his hands.

During those days of studying literature, he even translated Haoshuo's books into vernacular versions. Except for those professional terms that he could not understand, it can be said that he made great progress.

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

And the first talisman he made by copying the gourd and painting the ladle 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 is precisely because of his success that Mr. Zhou sees 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 one after another.

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

The so-called strength in numbers is due to the foundation laid by Professor Yue and Professor Wang, and the success of the lighting talisman, and subsequent research has been carried out smoothly.