The three of them changed color simultaneously.
"So the princess has known all along that she was poisoned..." Lin Xiaofan murmured, "She has been secretly taking the antidote!"
Zhuge Liang gently waved his feather fan, "If that's the case, the Crown Prince's order to the imperial physician to 'add more medicine' today was actually to increase the poison?"
"And the princess warned me to be careful with the tea..." Lin Xiaofan suddenly realized, "She was afraid the Crown Prince would poison me too!"
As night deepened, Lin Xiaofan found it hard to sleep. Everything that had happened today kept flashing back in his mind—the princess's pale face, the Crown Prince's hypocritical concern, Liu Rushuang's strange golden hairpin...
In a daze, he felt as if he had returned to a modern road. Cars rushed by, and neon lights flickered.
"Not this dream again..."
Suddenly, a familiar truck came rushing toward him! Lin Xiaofan instinctively tried to dodge but found himself unable to move.
"Bang!"
At the moment of intense pain, a deep, hoarse voice echoed in his ear:
"You should not exist..."
Lin Xiaofan jolted awake, cold sweat soaking his inner clothes.
"Moro..." he murmured, "Does he know I'm a traveler?"
Lin Xiaofan sat up abruptly, cold sweat still drenching his clothes, as if he could still hear Moro's eerie whisper—"You should not exist."
"He knows I'm a traveler..." Lin Xiaofan clenched the blanket tightly, a glint of coldness flashing in his eyes. "That means my crossing into this body was no coincidence."
He rolled out of bed and was about to find Zhuge Liang to discuss matters when he suddenly noticed an envelope on the bedside.
It was a letter sealed with wax from the Western Regions; although the seal was blurred, Lin Xiaofan recognized that familiar symbol at a glance—it was his father Lin Yuan's private seal!
"Father?!"
He trembled as he opened the letter. Inside was a piece of yellowed parchment with several special symbols outlined in red cinnabar, accompanied by a line of small text:
"If my son sees this letter, quickly investigate the Crown Prince's dealings with the Western Regions merchant convoy. —Lin Yuan"
Lin Xiaofan gasped in shock: "Father is really alive?!"
"My Lord!" Zhuge Liang and Huo Qubing rushed in upon hearing the news. "What has happened?"
Lin Xiaofan handed over the letter: "It's Father's letter!"
Zhuge Liang carefully examined the wax seal and handwriting, his brow furrowing slightly. "This is indeed the mark of the Old General, but this symbol..."
"It's too hard to guess," Huo Qubing shook his head. "Aside from these marks, there's nothing else; we can't determine what it means at all."
Lin Xiaofan stared at the map, and suddenly a spark of inspiration struck him. "Wait a minute, what if we connect these symbols?"
He took a blank sheet of paper and, thinking like a modern map user, began to connect the marked points—gradually, a clear route began to emerge!
"This looks like a route map!" Lin Xiaofan pointed at the lines. "But where does this route lead?"
[Ding! The host has successfully used modern thinking to analyze an ancient map. Reward: Space Memory Enhancement!]
In that instant, a fragment of the original owner's memory flashed through Lin Xiaofan's mind—when he was young, he had hidden outside his study and watched as his father mixed two special powders, one red and one blue. After preparing them, he used water to dissolve the blue powder and wrote a secret letter, letting it dry before pressing it flat until it looked like just another blank sheet.
However, only after sprinkling the red powder would the hidden text gradually reveal itself...
"The Secret Writing Method!" Lin Xiaofan exclaimed as he suddenly looked up. "Could there be other hidden information in this letter left by my father?"
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