Margaret's Secret

Chapter 28: Thus Said Nostradamus (4)
"Yes, I didn't have evidence at first, but now I have found it, and the evidence is on you."

Yu Li looked down at himself nervously: "What evidence?"

I sneered: "It seems that you have admitted it."

"Bastard!"

"Since I escaped from Voltaire University, I have endured it for several hours. Although I was vaguely aware of something at the beginning, I still couldn't believe it was true. After all, you are my best friend. How could you do such a thing? But after thinking about it for several hours, I really can't think of anyone other than you who would kill Professor Orleans. I saw your eyes in the cemetery just now, and the eyes showed The murderous intent made me shudder. Yes, this is the look in the eyes after killing people, the standard 'eyes with fierce eyes', you have lost your mind, and maybe you will kill more people."

"Shut up."

Yu Li suddenly took out a pistol from his pocket, and pointed the black muzzle at my chest.

Before I could react, Jacques had already let out a strange cry, but Yu Li turned his gun and pointed it at Jacques again. He said in French and Chinese: "You are not allowed to move, whoever moves will be killed!"

In this gloomy cemetery, the three of us faced each other like this. In the early morning, when the ghosts came home, there was a gloomy wind blowing around, which reminded people of many classic horror movies.

I boldly took a step forward: "Why, why are you doing this?"

Yu Li suddenly smiled wryly: "You will never understand me, everything I do is for my father, he paid too much for the study of the 'Mystery of Louis IX', I must complete it His unfinished mission, that's why he came to France to study as a graduate student."

"I know you and Professor Orleans are eager to discover that secret, but why kill people?"

"Originally, I never thought of killing people, but since I joined Professor Orleans' school, I found many things that were wrong. I found that many important papers written by the professor were the same as the manuscripts written by my father, and even their research The results were very similar."

This answer surprised me: "You suspect that Professor Orleans plagiarized your father's research results?"

"It's not a doubt. I have secretly confirmed that it is true. My father worked with Professor Orléans on the 'Mystery of Louis IX' while he was a visiting scholar at the University of Voltaire. The despicable professor not only stole his father Moreover, in order to cover up his crimes, he also intimidated and hypnotized my father, causing my father to go insane and talk nonsense, and he was forced to return to China early, and died unexpectedly not long after."

"So you hate Professor Orleans very much?"

"Yes, I only discovered all this after I came to France. I concealed my identity. The professor never knew who my father was, and I always buried my hatred in my heart. I swore to avenge my father. But Professor Orleans is an expert in the study of the 'Louis IX mystery', I must rely on him to discover that secret, so I must wait for the best opportunity."

I think I have understood: "When we got the real "Marguerite" oil painting, you think you can solve the mystery alone without Professor Orleans, and this is the time for you to kill."

"Yes, I have quietly realized the hint of the oil painting signature, I think I can discover the secret, and your existence is just a scapegoat."

"So you killed Professor Orleans and designed to frame me." But I still shook my head, "If Professor Orleans' death deserves more than guilt, then why should I? Am I not your best friend?"

Yu Li shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have any friends in this world. I've seen through this world a long time ago. It's useless to only study academics. Only by using knowledge to create wealth for yourself is the feasible way. Knowledge is the most important thing. An important right, since one possesses knowledge beyond ordinary people, one must use it to serve oneself."

"I understand. After getting the real painting of "Marguerite", there are only three people in the world who have the opportunity to unlock the secret, that is me, you, and Professor Orleans. You killed the professor and framed me , then you are the only one left, and you can possess this secret alone.”

"That's right, this secret is so important that Marguerite 400 years ago, tried her best to keep it for her children, so that her illegitimate son with La Mole could become the master of Europe. The Moore family spent 400 years trying to crack the secret, during which many people died and many thrilling stories happened. Yes, I am sure that this secret will bring me wealth, fame and status, Even boundless power, completely changed my life."

Under the cold moonlight in the cemetery, Yu Li's expression became extremely ferocious, and the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at me, shaking non-stop.

Is he going to shoot?

My heart almost jumped out of my throat.

"boom!"

I closed my eyes in an instant, but apart from a trembling in my heart, I didn't feel anything on my body.So I opened my eyes in horror, only to see that Yu Li had fallen to the ground, with some blood streaming from his forehead, and there was a lighter with a metal casing beside him.

It turned out that Jacques saved me. He was holding a lighter in his hand all the time. Just when Yu Li was about to shoot me, Jacques threw the lighter and hit Yu Li's forehead.

Anyone who gets hit on the forehead by this kind of metal lighter will at least have a concussion. I quickly lowered my head and looked at Yu Li, it seems that he has indeed been knocked unconscious.

God has eyes for escaping from the dead!
At this time, I was almost paralyzed, and before I could hug Jacques, I took out my mobile phone and called the police.

A few minutes later, the roar of the police car awakened the ghosts from their sleep, and the police broke into the cemetery and took the three of us away.

Goodbye, Archabault Cemetery.

I am free.

In the early hours of the morning, when I just stepped into the police station, I found that the wall was covered with my photos. I really became the most wanted murder suspect in France.Fortunately, there were Chinese translators in the police station. I told the police exactly what happened, and Jacques was willing to testify for me.

But the most important thing is that I have the evidence of Yu Li's murder—

When I saw the body of Professor Orléans, I saw a button clutched in his hand, but I did not notice it at the time.Later, when I saw Yu Li in the cemetery, I found that a button was missing from his jacket pocket, and the button on his other pocket was exactly the same as the one in the professor's hand.Originally, I was only skeptical about Li, but after discovering this, I was sure that he did it, so I said the evidence was on him.As for why I didn't tell Yu Li immediately, because I was afraid that Yu Li would throw away the clothes if he found out, so that it would be impossible to prove that the buttons in the professor's hand belonged to him.When Yu Li was arrested wearing a shirt with one button missing, he himself was completely unaware of this.

After the forensic examination, a small amount of the professor's blood was found on Yu Li's clothes, and he did have the opportunity to commit the crime.

In this way, the truth came out, Yu Li will be prosecuted for murder, and I have regained my freedom.

As for the "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead" found in the cemetery, it was handed over by the French government to the Louvre Museum for research.

As the discoverer of the "Book of the Dead", I certainly have the right to know the contents of the book. Experts from the Louvre received me very politely, and they have deciphered part of the "Book of the Dead".

One of the experts once studied Sinology and studied abroad at Peking University for seven years when he was young. He told me in fluent Chinese: "Do you want to know the great secret in this book?"

"Yes, it is said that many people died to obtain this book."

The expert shook his head and said with a smile: "Actually, there is not much mystery about it, but its origin is really strange. After the preface in ancient Greek in "Book of the Dead", it is the beginning of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The first sentence is very meaningful—therefore Books are written by the souls of the future."

"The undead of the future?"

I have never heard of this saying, don't all the undead come from the past?How could there be one from the future?

"Because the author is a future undead, this book is called "Book of the Dead."

"Then where did the undead come from?"

"Of course it is the future. The beginning of the book records an astronomical vision in the 'Era of the Ancient Kingdom'. On an autumnal equinox about 4000 years ago, a mysterious spaceship appeared in the sky of ancient Egypt and landed on the famous On the top of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The people who came out of the spaceship wore exotic clothes. They possessed extraordinary technology and means, and were highly civilized in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians. They claimed that they came from the future world more than 4000 years later, in a time travel Accidentally came to the ancient Egyptian era."

"Is it time travel for future human beings?"

The expert nodded slightly: "Yes, so the ancient Egyptians called them 'future undead'. They said that their spaceship was destroyed, and they could not return to the era after 4000 years. They could only live among the ancient Egyptians. One of them was 4000 years old. As the last historian, he was determined to write down all the human history he knew before he died, so he wrote this "Book of the Dead".

"Isn't the history recorded by people 4000 years later a book of prophecies about the future for people 4000 years ago?"

"Just like the memoirs you wrote when you were old, if you travel through time and space to your young age, it will be a prophecy of your own life." The expert was a little excited when he said this, with a few French sentences mixed in from time to time, ""Book of the Dead" uses ancient Egyptian Written in hieroglyphs, it was regarded as a sacred object by the Egyptian pharaohs at that time, and it was kept in the temple on the banks of the Nile until the fourth century BC, when it was sealed in the pyramid by Alexander the Great."

"Is human history really predicted in this book?"

"I've read some of it. If the "Book of the Dead" was indeed written 4000 years ago, then its predictions are quite accurate. For example, the destruction of ancient Egypt, the Trojan War, the rise and fall of the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's expedition, Qin Shihuang's unification of China, The history of the East and the West, such as the Spartacus Uprising, the Chibi War, etc., are all accurately stated in this book, and only contemporary historians can be so knowledgeable, and it is by no means what the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago could predict of."

"Like the great prophet Nostradamus' "The Century"?"

The expert suddenly laughed: "Haha, speaking of "Centuries", I discovered the secret about "Centuries" at the end of this "Book of the Dead."

"Did the Book of the Dead also predict Nostradamus and the Ages?"

He shook his head and said, "It was Nostradamus who signed his name at the end of the Book of the Dead!"

"What? How did Nostradamus sign a book 4000 years ago?" Hearing this, I couldn't believe it anyway. "Could it be that he is really a ghost who travels through ancient and modern times?"

"Of course not, but Nostradamus once collected this book. Since Louis IX was captured in Egypt, this "Book of the Dead" was brought to France and has been kept in the court. And Nostradamus The ancestors of Damas used to be court doctors, and some of his ancestors must have stolen the "Book of the Dead" from the palace, and passed it down to Nostradamus after several generations. Because Nostradamus was proficient in Ancient Greek, so he was able to understand part of the ancient Greek translation of "Book of the Dead", knew what happened in the future world, and became a great prophet."

"It's unbelievable, so Nostradamus's "The Centuries" actually plagiarized this "Book of the Dead", right?"

"That's right! Nostradamus used the form of poetry, the language is very cryptic, just to be different from the "Book of the Dead", but the content is different. You know why Nostradamus didn't Did you die after writing "The Centuries"?"

"Because his secret was discovered by the Queen Mother?"

The expert didn't expect to be broken by me in one sentence. He nodded and said, "Your reasoning ability is very strong. Obviously, it was Queen Catherine at that time. She discovered the secret of Nostradamus, so she poisoned and killed you." Nostradamus, and snatched the "Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead". The queen mother will definitely look for content related to herself from the "Book of the Dead", but she found that her three sons will not die well. The House of Loir will be replaced by the House of Bourbon."

"So the Queen Mother was so frightened that she hid the Book of the Dead in the Abbey of Archabault?"

Everything has been figured out here. Princess Margaret must have discovered the secret of her mother 400 years ago, so she passed the information of Archabault Abbey to her children in the form of the painter's signature.

The expert suddenly sighed: "Now I understand why the Queen Mother planned the bloody St. Bartholomew's Night, because she knew the secret of the future from the "Book of the Dead", and she understands that the Valois family is not good. Bao, her sons will die one by one. But the Queen Mother is a very strong woman, she is not willing to succumb to history, for the sake of the family, for her beloved sons, she must change history, just when her daughter and On the occasion of the nuptials of the Protestant chief Henry, the insane massacre of St. Bartholomew's Night took place."

"My God! But she still hasn't killed Henry of Navarre."

"Yes, no one can change history. The queen mother knew that Henry would inherit the throne in the future, so she prepared a book to poison him, but unexpectedly, her son Charles IX read the book. As a result, Henry was alive and well, but Charles IX was poisoned to death, and the queen mother wanted to keep her son's throne, but instead killed her son."

I finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It's really all the tricks, and I missed Qingqing's life! History cannot be changed."

"Yeah, how many people have wanted to get this book for hundreds of years, using it to seek power, wealth and status, and even delusional to dominate the world. In fact, just look at what happened to Queen Catherine, get this book It won't change your fate, and it will even make your tragic fate come faster."

"It's like the Queen Mother originally wanted to kill her son-in-law, but instead she poisoned her beloved son to death."

The expert smiled knowingly: "Everyone who searched hard for this book in later generations hardly got a good end. Although Margaret was so smart 400 years ago, she arranged such a clever book. The password, to leave this book to her descendants. But the result is tragic. Her descendants are forever hidden in the deep mountains of the south, suffering for hundreds of years to find the secret, and I don’t know how many people have given their lives for it .If Queen Margaret knows, I think she would rather let this secret rot in the graveyard forever!"

"I finally understand that, in fact, no prophecy can change history. All we can do is to grasp today."

Speaking of this, I suddenly feel much more relaxed. After so many days in Paris, this moment is the happiest for me.

After bidding farewell to the experts, I briskly walked out of the Louvre. At this moment, the lights are on in Paris, and many tourists are competing to take pictures of the night scenes. At least there will be no Phantom of the Louvre to disturb them anymore.

Suddenly, a hand patted my back, and I turned around nervously, only to find that it was Jacques with a hippie smile.

Alas, it's my turn to treat again tonight.

(End of this chapter)