"Gold Medal?"
Jiang Shishan took the gold medal handed over by Ye Feng. "There was indeed this thing before... It is said that the Flame Ranger took away the treasures of the City of Arcane Arts when he defected... The clues to the treasure are hidden in the two gold medals..."
"One of the gold medals is in the Supreme Academy of Arcane Arts... but those people have studied for many years and have not been able to decipher its mystery..."
"I guess it requires the two complete gold medals to decipher the clues left by the Flame Ranger..."
At this point, Jiang Shishan turned and looked at Ye Feng with a strange look. "Ye Feng, you're not going to tell me that these two gold medals are the ones that the Flame Ranger possessed, are you?"
"Mm!"
Ye Feng nodded. "Most likely... but things seem a bit strange..."
"Holy crap!"
Jiang Shishan let out a startled cry and shielded the two gold medals with his hand. He nervously glanced around, then looked at Ye Feng sternly. "Ye Feng, are you crazy? Did you sneak into the Supreme Academy of Arcane Arts and steal the gold medals?"
"No!"
Ye Feng waved his hand. "One of these two gold medals was found by me during an adventure, and the other was given to me by someone!"
"The person who gave it to me also said that the treasure clues left by the Flame Ranger were in the two gold medals, but in the second round of the assessment today, the second item was a gold medal, which was also said to be owned by the Flame Ranger..."
Ye Feng recounted what had happened in the Golden Hall a few hours ago.
"So that's how it is..."
Jiang Shishan frowned. "I don't know much about the Flame Ranger... But what you said about Aunt Wang's Roujiamo and the like... is it true?"
"It's true, I've confirmed it repeatedly... it's simply outrageous..."
Mentioning this, Ye Feng's expression became somewhat strange. "Could it be that the treasure is with that Aunt Wang..."
"I..."
Jiang Shishan's mouth twitched slightly. "Even if that's the case... after more than twenty years, the Aunt Wang the Flame Ranger mentioned back then... has long since disappeared... whether she's alive or dead is unknown..."
"Seems so~"
Ye Feng scratched his head. "Speaking of which, Shishan, do you know if anyone is going through tribulation... that is, a heavenly tribulation, a giant cloud mass in the sky, and then tribulation fire falling down... I really need this kind of person!"
"This..."
Jiang Shishan's brows were furrowed. "The only person I know who has gone through tribulation is the City Lord..."
"Ye Feng, why are you asking this?"
After a pause, Jiang Shishan spoke again. "Ye Feng, you're not really going to help people go through tribulation for money like you rumored before, are you?"
"Oh, no~"
Ye Feng shook his head. "I plan to cultivate in the tribulation fire..."
"I..."
...
As night fell,
In the pavilion of Tingfang Garden,
Ye Feng eventually gave up the idea of looking for Aunt Wang and instead examined the two gold medals he had obtained earlier.
"Wait... these cracks..."
Ye Feng stacked the two gold medals together. There were obvious impact marks in the gap between them, and there were quite a few cracks, looking like they were caused by bullets or sharp objects...
Previously, Ye Feng thought they were caused by accidents during combat. But the cracks on the gold medal that Shui Ling took out today gave Ye Feng an inspiration.
"Could it be that these cracks were not caused by accidental combat, but were deliberately made?"
With this thought, Ye Feng immediately condensed his mental energy to investigate...
...
More than ten minutes later,
Ye Feng was shocked and delighted.
Because, as he had guessed, the cracks on the two gold medals were indeed deliberately made, and the text information hidden in the cracks was quite a lot and quite mixed, and he couldn't sort it all out for the time being...
"The gold medal I saw in the Golden Hall this afternoon... the engraving and carving were a bit rough... and there was a line of peculiar text in the cracks..."
Ye Feng frowned and thought, gradually realizing. "That gold medal was probably a practice piece made by the Flame Ranger. That line of text was probably what he really ate Roujiamo, and in a good mood, he casually made it."
"Knock knock knock~"
"Big brother, I'm back!~"
A knock sounded on the door, and Xiao Xiao opened it and walked in.
"Big brother, Qiao Ying sister and I earned a lot of money today... but still no news of anyone needing to go through tribulation..."
As she spoke, Xiao Xiao's hands flashed with light, and several piles of arcane origin stones and a small pile of arcane origin coins appeared on the floor of the room.
It turned out that Ye Feng was going to participate in the second round of selection today, so he had asked Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying to help out at Anle Street, setting up a stall to sell arcane energy guns, arcane talismans, and the like.
"That's already very good. People going through tribulation are rare and hard to find~"
"All those arcane origin coins are for you as pocket money~"
As he spoke, Ye Feng pushed the small pile of arcane origin coins towards Xiao Xiao.
"Wow, that's great, over a thousand~"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao, who had just spent all her pocket money buying a reconnaissance hen a few days ago, her eyes lit up.
"Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, let's eat first~ We'll have hot pot!"
...
After a rather sumptuous hot pot, Ye Feng continued to study the Flame Ranger's two gold medals. Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying, after playing with the little reconnaissance hen for a while, took out paper and pens and started drawing, occasionally stopping to discuss.
More than two hours later,
"I didn't expect this... The Flame Ranger's defection back then was actually a frame-up... the traitor was not him..."
"And the Flame Ranger's departure was not an escape... but to do something extremely important..."
"The Flame Ranger is also a teacher to Yue Yan, the City Lord of the City of Arcane Arts..."
After more than two hours of focused exploration, Ye Feng finally sorted out the mystery of the cracks on the Flame Ranger's gold medals.
The two gold medals, the cracks on the one given to Ye Feng by Miao Dao at the Adventurers' Guild, recorded the truth of the Flame Ranger's "defection" from the City of Arcane Arts... The cracks on the gold medal Ye Feng found in the Goblin Kingdom were a pile of messy patterns...
"Big brother, what are you drawing? A map?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao walked over, pointed at the pattern Ye Feng had just drawn, and asked.
Earlier, Ye Feng had asked her for paper and pens and had also drawn, so after she and Qiao Ying finished their drawings, they curiously came over to take a look.
"This is the Flame Ranger's inside the gold medal... Wait a moment..."
Ye Feng stopped halfway through his sentence, looking at Xiao Xiao in surprise. "Xiao Xiao, you just said map? Why did you say that this drawing paper is a map?"
...