To be honest, before opening the message Nietu Sanqian had sent him, Yu Sheng had considered all sorts of possibilities. He had even imagined that the "online friend" he had only chatted with a few times might immediately identify the origins of the strip of cloth in his possession. But he had never imagined that the other party would produce another fragment of fabric instead...
The color of that fabric fragment was actually somewhat different from the one he had found in the room, but the patterns along its edges were absolutely identical!
Yu Sheng instantly perked up. He sprang to his feet and quickly typed a message on his phone: "You have one too?! Where did you get it?!"
"It was something kept by a fellow disciple. I don't know its origins either." Nietu Sanqian's reply came rather quickly. "I saw it once many years ago. When I saw the picture you sent just now, it struck me as vaguely familiar. After thinking about it for a long while, I finally remembered."
After a while, the phone vibrated again, and a new message from Nietu Sanqian appeared in the chat window: "After we discussed that object last time, I was held up by various trivial matters and never had time to think about it carefully. I only recently found some free time. Looking back now, the 'writing' on the object you discovered before is actually four or five parts similar to the patterns on this piece of cloth. They seem very much to have come from the same source."
"I think so too." Yu Sheng immediately typed his reply. "This is already the second time I've found something like this 'foreign object' in that strange room. I sent the metal component I found before to the Special Operations Bureau,