Chapter 196: Fake Book
"Secret book... However, it has been here before the fire!" said Qiu Hanran.
"What? The "Iron Warehouse Secret Book" is missing? Have you read that book?" Tie Wandao asked, trying to lower his voice.
"I haven't seen it!" Qiu Hanran replied.
"Then how do you know that the book is the "Iron Warehouse Secret Book"? " Tie Wandao asked curiously.
"The four words 'Iron Warehouse Secret Book' on the cover are very obvious. I have seen it before and have an impression of it," said Qiu Hanran.
"What?" Tie Wandao didn't expect Qiu Hanran to say that. He looked directly at Qiu Hanran and asked, "Is everything you said true?"
Qiu Hanran looked him in the eyes and said, "That's absolutely not a lie!"
"Oh..." Tie Wandao's expression has changed from anxiety to confusion.
Qiu Hanran looked at Tie Wandao and didn't dare to say anything.
At this time, Xiang Sibin happened to come back and said that he had something to report to Tie Wandao.
Qiu Hanran breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his master coming back.
Tie Wandao and Xiang Sibin entered a secluded room in the hall and locked the door, while Qiu Hanran stayed in the hall to guard.
Tie Wandao didn't understand why Qiu Hanran said that the book cover had the words "Iron Cang Secret Codex" on it, because when he came here to look at the book before, there was no words on the cover. Xiang Sibin whispered to Tie Wandao: "The book with words on the cover is a fake book. After you reminded me last time, I made a fake one and put it in the original place."
When Tie Wandao heard Qiu Hanran say this, he finally let go of his worries. He said with a happy look on his face, "So that's how it is!"
"The reason why I put words on the cover is to make it easier for people who want to steal the Iron Cang Secret Book to find this fake book. After they steal the fake book, they will take it as the real one and don't have to worry about the real book anymore." Xiang Sibin said, "It's a good thing that the real book was not in the fire in the Gusuo Palace this time."
"You have really thought it through! But what is in the fake book?" Tie Wandao asked.
"It's just a bunch of random symbols, drawn randomly, even I can't understand it."
Tie Wandao thought for a moment and asked, "If the person who stole the book can't understand it, will he be more likely to suspect it's a fake?"
"The fake book has the words 'Part 1' on the first page. The person who stole it couldn't understand it, so he might have thought that he had to find the 'Part 2' to solve the mystery." Xiang Sibin whispered.
"In other words, you have a sequel?" Tie Wandao was very interested in this matter.
"I only made the first part, not the second part. After I found out that the first part was stolen, I was working on the second part, but I didn't have time to finish it. After I finished it, I put the second part in another place in the hall and sent people to monitor the situation in the hall in secret. If the person who stole the first part is unwilling to give up and steals the second part, we can catch him red-handed. In this way, we will naturally know who wants to steal the "Iron Warehouse Secret Codex". Anyway, no outsider has read the real "Iron Warehouse Secret Codex", and my apprentice Qiu Hanran didn't know it at all. When he became my disciple, I had already put the fake book in the place where the real book was originally placed. He has been seeing the fake book since he came here." Xiang Sibin said, "After I found out that the first part was missing, I was about to report it to you."
"Well, although the book lost is a fake one, the theft itself cannot be underestimated. The theft of the fake book means that someone has already taken possession of the real book!" Tie Wandao said.
(End of this chapter)
