I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

"You mean Ms. Purser's Vault Zero?"

"Hmm." Lin Xu wasn't sure about the name of the vault, so he only answered Mandan's words.

"The No. [-] vault is on the [-]th floor underground of the Gemini Building, and I'll take you there right away." Mandan kept a smile on his face and heaved a sigh of relief.

The board of directors holding the shares can fire him and his team at any time. The former Marlene Anna doesn't care, but who can guarantee that the new heir will not try to make a big splash on the business map of the Purse Group on a whim?

Compared with the group's financial report and project planning, he would rather spend some time taking Lin Xu to look around Marlene Anna's vault, and sincerely hoped that Lin Xu had no interest in business.

Lin Xu put the photo frame back in place, got up and followed Mandan who led the way to the No. [-] vault. During this period, several staff members in suits and leather shoes came to Mandan in a hurry to deal with affairs, but Mandan pushed them back.

Gemini Tower, [-] floors underground.

The group changed the dedicated elevator three times. During the journey, Marlene Anna's estate lawyer, Patterson, rushed to bring the basic key of the vault.

In the end, only Mandan, Patterson, and Lin Xu went down to the [-]th floor of the basement. When the elevator door opened, a gust of cold air rushed in first, making Mandan shiver who was unprepared. Lights up, gradually dispelling the darkness in the deep corridor.

At the end of the corridor is the alloy gate of the vault.

Estate lawyer Patterson stretched out his hand to ask Lin Xu to go first, followed behind Lin Xu, and introduced: "The underground vault can maintain a stable low temperature and dryness to ensure that the stored items are intact. Ms. Purser's deposit in the Imperial Bank safe Most of them are valuables with identification certificates and title certificates, which are convenient for inspection. The ones left in the vault are her personal items and some special collections."

When the three arrived at the alloy gate, Patterson stepped forward to open the smart verification page with the key, and the mechanical prompt sounded: "Please verify iris, voiceprint and DNA."

Lin Xu followed the instructions to complete the verification, and a blue light flashed on the verification page, "Verification passed, Mr. Lin Xu, welcome."

Mandan was behind Lin Xu, and wanted to follow, but Patterson raised his hand to stop him, reminding him to stop in front of the door. Mandan touched his nose, but did not move.

The interior of the vault is designed in the style of an exhibition hall. Several rows of glass showcases stand on the wood-like floor. The soft lights turn on when Lin Xu steps in, illuminating the collections in the glass showcases.

Mainly paintings, antique prints, and manuscripts. Lin Xu saw a pair of "Water Lilies" in the exhibits. If it was authentic, he didn't know whether he should be surprised that this painting has been preserved until now, or whether the Ark fleet left the earth in chaos Don't forget to bring a few pieces of art from the old civilization.

In addition to water lilies, Marlene Anna also collected two rare calligraphy in Chinese language. The yellowed paper is silent under the light after 3000 years.

In the glass showcase against the wall are all kinds of photos printed by Marlene Anna. From her girlhood, to meeting Chen Jingshan, to accepting Lin Xu as a student, her smile has always been as gentle as a pink rose. No marks were left on her face.

Man Dan, who stood far outside the door, watched Lin Xu pace slowly in front of the glass showcase, rubbing his goosebump-ridden arms.

Lin Xu took out a photo of the three of them from the showcase and put it in his pocket, and finally walked towards the airtight safe in the middle of the room.

After the heavy security of the building, Marlene Anna added the last protection to the items in the cabinet. What did she put here?

Lin Xu went through triple verification again. After confirming his identity, the heavy bulletproof metal cabinet door opened to him. The huge cabinet looked like a huge black hole, but there was only a paper notebook and an electronic recording chip inside.

Lin Xu disconnected the network connection of his optical brain, and first checked the contents of the recording chip with the optical brain.

This is an unmodifiable record-keeping chip, which is generally used to store important documents to prevent later tampering.

The reading of the chip content is completed.

Inside was the original will of Marlene Anna. Lin Xu glanced at it and put it back to its original place, then picked up the notebook again.

The corners of the notebook were slightly yellowed, but it was not as old as a cultural relic. When he opened the cover, it was written "Belongs to Marlene Anna Purser" in cursive handwriting on the title page. When he turned to the back, he found that it was Marlene Anna Purse. Vault storage records.

Not many items were exchanged in the vault, allowing the contents of the notebook to be recorded for as long as 13 years.

Lin Xu's hand that turned the page paused, and jumped directly to the time before and after Marlene returned from planet G398 a year ago.

During this period of time, there was only one record in the notebook - "I found a red book in the Antler galaxy, it seems to be a diary, written in Russian, I can only understand part of it... Forget it. There is a poem on the back cover, and the other half is written by me. Tear it up and leave it there to send Caprijosa, maybe Xiaoxu can translate this poem."

Lin Xu looked up at the empty and dark safe. There was no trace of the red book in it. He continued to turn back. Marlene recorded every entry and exit of the items in the safe, but in the end there was no sign of the red book again. typeface.

Caprijosa in the records should refer to Caprijosa Neumann, she is the commander of the First Imperial Army Corps. According to Marlene Anna, Caprijosa only got half a page of the red book .

But now, what about the rest of the entire book?

Lin Xu looked around the vault again to confirm that there were no more storage locations.

"Mr. Lin, are you looking for something?" Patterson asked loudly at the door.

The book isn't here, but it wasn't Marleanne who took it out, and Marlene Anna obviously didn't think about the danger that the red book would bring when she wrote the record, and she had almost no awareness of hiding the information.

Who got the Red Book?What's more, have you read Marlene Anna's records?

"It's nothing."

Lin Xu responded in a low voice, not letting his expression show any strangeness.

He returned Marlene's notebook to the safe and locked it. Before leaving, he asked the intelligent AI to take out "Water Lily" and a pair of calligraphy, and safely transported them to the Ancient Earth Museum, pretending that he was really just here to visit the collection.

After confirming that Lin Xu had no more needs, the lawyer Patterson said goodbye to him. Seeing that the aircraft that sent Lin Xulai had left, Mandan proposed to send him off in person.

After the two got on Mandan's high-end civil aircraft, the president of Purser Group, Mandan turned on the intelligent driving system and asked Lin Xu where he was going.

Lin Xu leaned against the back seat, asked Mandan to wait, and sent a message to Heinrich, asking him where to meet.

Heinrich quickly replied, Third Avenue, White Star Restaurant.

After hearing this, Mandan smiled and said, "That restaurant tastes good, did Mr. Lin invite friends to meet?"

"En." After Lin Xu replied, there was no follow-up, and he turned his eyes to the endless traffic outside the car window, and the flashing [-]D projection billboards among the high-rise buildings reflected colorful blocks on the window glass.

Mandan found that Lin Xu really seemed to regard himself as a driver. He took a few deep breaths and accepted the fact that he was just a senior laborer.

The aircraft took off and merged into the rushing traffic.

Lin Xu withdrew his gaze, bowed his head and sent a message to Ika, asking if he could hack into the network of Purser Group and check the monitoring records of the underground vault.

He couldn't directly ask the estate lawyer Patterson that something disappeared for no reason in the vault that needed to be verified... Either he didn't know it at all, or he was involved in it.

Ika replied that it is possible to try, but please give him some time.

Third Avenue is a high-end commercial street in Capital Star, not far from the Twin Towers. Rows of shops show off the luxury goods in the window to passers-by on the street. Anyone, rich or poor, can walk into this street, but There are very few who really have the capital to enter the store to shop.

White Star Restaurant is located in the depths of the building complex. Compared with the bustling street along the street, this restaurant occupying a three-story building is more quiet and low-key, but in the central city, the price of this quietness is countless money.

The waiter saw the aircraft from a distance, and immediately recognized that it was the car of the CEO of the Purse Group, and hurriedly arranged for a parking space.

The aircraft landed, and just as he was about to go forward to say hello to Mandan, he saw a young man Beta stepping down from the back seat of the aircraft.

The male Beta looked thin and pale, with cold eyes, long hair tied back very casually, and the suit fabric he was wearing was ordinary, even a little unfit.

The consumption of a meal at the White Star Restaurant can almost cost a month's income of an ordinary Capital Star family. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes about paying the bill, the waiters here will persuade some inappropriate "stray entrants" to return according to the situation.

This Beta obviously met the criteria of a "mistaker", but he stepped out of Mandan's aircraft and stepped into the restaurant door without squinting.

The waiter didn't know whether to stop or not.

Just as he was struggling, he saw Mandan coming out of the driver's seat. He didn't keep up with the strange Beta in front of him. He just walked over and told the waiter at the door, "This is Mr. Lin, treat him well, and record the consumption in on my account."

Mandan saw Lin Xu through the door and was guided to sit down at the table by another waiter before leaving. The waiter at the door conveyed his request to the front desk, thinking, is this a boss coaxing a lover?

A quarter of an hour later, he saw the military aircraft with the logo of the Abyss Fleet land in front of the White Star restaurant. The stern marshal he had only seen in the news and posters walked up to him in uniform and asked him: "Hello, my friend." Come find a Mr. Lin."

At present, there is only one customer surnamed Lin in the restaurant, and the waiter is in a mess, why is one big boss not enough, why is there a second one?What kind of plot is this?

However, the superb professionalism kept the waiter from showing any abnormality on his face. With an elegant professional smile, he led Heinrich to the table where Lin Xu was.

Lin Xu was looking at the menu, when he heard the voice of Heinrich taking a seat, he looked up.

Heinrich was still wearing a military uniform, which was exactly the same as the one he wore on the podium of the Imperial Parliament in the news report just now.

As soon as the meeting ended, Heinrich rushed over before he had time to change.

"Sorry, it's a little late."

"It's okay." Lin Xu turned the menu screen in front of Heinrich, "I can't see what these dishes are, do you have any suggestions?"

"I haven't been here either. It was Honda Agana who recommended this restaurant." Heinrich manipulated the menu, adding the dishes recommended by Honda Agana to the selection, and asked Lin Xu for his taste opinions from time to time.

Marshal Chu spent most of his life wandering in the universe. Even if he returned to the capital planet occasionally, most of the time it was just for work and he never went shopping in the commercial district.After receiving the news from Lin Xu, he took advantage of the gap between loud debates among members of the parliament and asked Honda Agana, who was also present at the meeting, what restaurants in the capital star tasted good.

Honda Agana glanced at Heinrich strangely, thinking that Marshal Chu had been pierced by his soul, then belatedly remembered that Heinrich and Lin Xu were currently in love, and gave Heinrich Rishi recommends the White Star Restaurant, which has a nice atmosphere.

"This restaurant uses all acquired artificial ingredients, I think..." Heinrich said, "The dishes on the ancient earth on the capital planet are not authentic to you, it is better to try something new."

Man-made food may not be monotonous, it just depends on whether there is a big price to invite chefs to spend their time on it.

Next, Lin Xu saw the weird imagination of human beings in the interstellar era, artificial protein made into the shape of a starship, the skin was wrapped in starch, fried to a crisp, and some kind of food was painted purple by vitamin dyes. galaxy soup, or a web of artificial plant-like fibers for digestion...

After eating at this magical White Star restaurant, Heinrich proposed to Lin Xu to go to Goring's custom clothing store on Second Avenue.

"Arnold said that the dress you wore at the banquet earlier was custom-made by Goering."

Heinrich's wardrobe only has military uniforms all year round, and he doesn't know much about regular clothing stores. Thanks to the almighty adjutant Arnold, he even checked the brand of Dr. Lin's suit clearly.

"so?"

"Let's go buy some more clothes for you."

"Why do you have to go to his house?" Lin Xu has passed the stage of having requirements for clothing. Except for the love from Marlene Anna, the rest of the clothes he wears on weekdays are all ordered from the star network at will.

"nice."

Heinrich's expression remained unchanged, and he was still as cold as ever. What he said just now seemed to be saying that a batch of new particle cannons should be purchased for the Abyss Fleet, and the most powerful version should be selected.

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