Ouyang Hongsheng had sent out everyone he could spare to find the place called Ninth Vault.
But after an entire day, they still had not managed to find out where Ninth Vault was.
He said over the phone that he suspected it might not be Ninth Vault but Jiuxiang. Jiuxiang was an ethnic township, but when he sent people to investigate, they found that no outsiders had visited the township. However, he had also found a place called Seventh Vault. Seventh Vault was a natural village under Chijiu Township, divided into Upper Kū and Lower Kū. Likewise, no outsiders had been to Seventh Vault.
In other words, neither of the two places he had found was the Ninth Vault we were looking for.
That was because the other three addresses Goudan had discovered earlier had all yielded clues that Goudan'er and the others had appeared there.
I asked Ouyang Hongsheng to send me the addresses of Jiuxiang and Seventh Vault. No matter what, now that we had a lead, we had to check it out in person.
But when I received Ouyang's text message, I froze. His message was short, containing only the addresses of Jiuxiang and Seventh Vault. Yet after the text, there was unexpectedly a string of numbers. This time, the string was very long, with special symbols mixed in, such as asterisks and hash marks.
Just as I was about to call Ouyang Hongsheng and ask what was going on, another text notification came in. This one was from Xie Yi. I remembered the call he had made early that morning. He had said that once he confirmed the flight information for the codebreaking expert, he would send it to me so I could arrange for someone to pick her up.
What shocked me was that Xie