"Golden Medal?"
Jiang Shishan took the golden medal handed over by Ye Feng, "There was indeed this thing before... It is said that when the Flame Ranger defected, he took away the treasures of the City of Arcane... The clue to the treasure is hidden in the two golden medals..."
"One of the golden medals is in the Supreme Academy of Arcane... but those people have studied for many years and could not decipher its mystery..."
"I guess it requires the complete two golden medals to decipher the clues left by the Flame Ranger..."
Speaking of which, Jiang Shishan turned his head and looked at Ye Feng with a strange gaze, "Ye Feng, you wouldn't tell me that these two golden medals are the ones owned by the Flame Ranger, would you?"
"Yes!"
Ye Feng nodded, "Most likely... but things seem a bit strange..."
"Holy crap!"
Jiang Shishan let out a strange cry, and reached out to block the two golden medals. He looked around nervously, then looked at Ye Feng with a serious expression, "Ye Feng, are you crazy? Did you sneak into the Supreme Academy of Arcane and steal the golden medals?"
"No!"
Ye Feng waved his hand, "One of these two golden medals was found by me during an exploration, and the other was given to me by someone!"
"The person who gave it to me also said that the clue to the treasure left by the Flame Ranger was in the two golden medals, but during the second round of assessment today, the second assessment item actually had a golden medal, which is said to also belong to the Flame Ranger..."
Ye Feng described what happened in the golden hall a few hours ago.
"Is that so..."
After listening to Ye Feng's words, Jiang Shishan frowned, "I don't know much about the Flame Ranger... But what you said about Aunt Wang's Roujiamo, etc., is it true?"
When he said the last part, Jiang Shishan looked incredulous.
"It's true, I've confirmed it repeatedly... it's simply outrageous..."
Speaking of this, Ye Feng's expression was also a bit strange, "Could the treasure be with that Aunt Wang..."
"I..."
Jiang Shishan's mouth twitched slightly, "Even if it is... after more than twenty years, the Aunt Wang that the Flame Ranger mentioned back then... has long since disappeared... whether she is alive or dead is unknown..."
"Seems so~"
Ye Feng scratched his head, "Speaking of which, Shishan, do you know if anyone is going to undergo tribulation... that is, heavenly tribulation, with a huge cloud mass in the sky and tribulation fire falling... I really need this kind of person!"
"This..."
Jiang Shishan's brows were tightly knitted, "The only person I know who has undergone 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 undergo tribulation and make money, just like you announced 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. He turned to examine the two golden medals he had obtained earlier.
"Wait... these cracks..."
Ye Feng stacked the two golden medals together. There were obvious impact marks in the gap between them, and there were many cracks, as if they had been hit by bullets or sharp objects...
Previously, Ye Feng thought it was caused by the Flame Ranger during a battle, but the cracks on the golden medal that Shui Ling took out today gave Ye Feng an inspiration.
"Could it be that these cracks were not caused by chance during combat, but were intentionally made?"
With this thought, Ye Feng immediately concentrated his spiritual power to investigate...
...
More than ten minutes later,
Ye Feng was shocked and joyful.
Because, just as he had guessed, the cracks on the two golden medals were indeed intentional, and the textual information contained within the cracks was quite a lot and quite mixed, and he couldn't sort it all out for the time being...
"The golden medal I saw in the golden hall this afternoon... the engraving and carving were a bit rough... and there was a line of peculiar characters in the cracks..." Ye Feng frowned and thought, gradually realizing, "That golden medal was likely a practice piece made by the Flame Ranger. That line of characters was probably something he casually made because he was in a good mood after eating Roujiamo that day..."
"Knock knock knock~"
"Big brother, I'm back!~"
A knock on the door sounded, and Xiao Xiao opened the door and walked in.
"Big brother, I earned a lot of money with Sister Qiao Ying today... but still no news of anyone needing to undergo tribulation..."
As soon as she finished speaking, a light flashed in Xiao Xiao's hand, and several piles of arcane origin stones and a small pile of arcane 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 him set up a stall on Anle Street to sell arcane energy guns, arcane talismans, and the like.
"It's already very good, people undergoing tribulation are rare encounters~"
"All those arcane coins are for your pocket money~"
Saying that, Ye Feng pushed the small pile of arcane coins towards Xiao Xiao.
"Wow, that's great, over a thousand~"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up, as she had spent all her pocket money on buying a reconnaissance rainbow chicken a few days ago.
"Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, let's eat first~ We're having hot pot!"
...
After a rather sumptuous hot pot, Ye Feng continued to study the two golden medals of the Flame Ranger, while Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying, after playing with the little reconnaissance rainbow chicken for a while, took out paper and pens and started drawing, pausing occasionally to discuss.
...
More than two hours later,
"I didn't expect it to be like this... The Flame Ranger's defection back then was a false accusation... he wasn't the traitor..."
"And the Flame Ranger's departure was not an escape... but to do something extremely important..."
"The Flame Ranger is also the teacher of Yue Yan, the City Lord of the City of Arcane..."
After more than two hours of concentrated exploration, Ye Feng finally deciphered the mystery of the cracks on the Flame Ranger's golden medals.
The cracks in the golden medal given to Ye Feng by Miao Dao at the Explorer's Guild recorded the truth of the Flame Ranger's "defection" from the City of Arcane... The cracks in the golden medal that Ye Feng found in the Goblin Kingdom were a mess of messy patterns...
"Big brother, what are you drawing? A map?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao walked over and pointed at the drawing Ye Feng had just finished, and said.
Previously, Ye Feng had asked her for paper and pen and also drew, so after she and Qiao Ying finished their drawings, they came over curiously to take a look.
"This is the Flame Ranger's within the golden medal... wait a moment..."
Ye Feng stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence. He looked at Xiao Xiao with great surprise, "Xiao Xiao, what did you just say, map? Why did you say this piece of paper is a map?"
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