Chapter 478: 232 Zhang Saint Cultural Treasure (Fog)_2
"Let me be frank with you, if you get admitted to the University of Cambridge, I’ll eat that axe on the spot!"
Having said that.
Mr. Thomson couldn’t help but let out a long breath.
Now that I’ve said this much, Xu Yun should no longer insist on his ideas, right?
But to his surprise.
The Xu Yun opposite did not make any response but reached into the inner pocket of his chest and took out something, handing it to him:
"Mr. Thomson, take a look at this."
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Thomson was slightly taken aback and instinctively took what Xu Yun handed over.
It was a neatly folded letter paper, looking quite ordinary, even without an envelope to serve as a protective shell.
Could it be a recommendation letter from some professor in the Netherlands?
Or a check from the Bank of England, and Xu Yun intends to bribe me with it?
With a myriad of questions.
Thomson unfolded the letter and instinctively read the opening words aloud:
"Dear Mr. Feiyu..."
Thomson immediately stopped reading, blinking his eyes.
Feiyu?
Why does the name seem somewhat familiar?
Then Thomson shrugged his shoulders as if trying to banish that peculiar feeling and continued reading:
"...Mr. Feiyu, it has been a full five years since your abrupt departure, and Uncle William, Aunt, and Lilani still miss you dearly..."
".....Back then, you left only a note at the stall, informing that you had encountered family near the Grantham District, and soon left without even paying for your meal."
As he read on.
Thomson’s voice grew smaller, yet his pupils widened, and his body began to tremble.
A moment later.
He looked like he was in the late stages of Parkinson’s disease, with the letter in his hand rustling noisily.
However, Thomson didn’t notice the peculiarity of his body at all; he just stared intently at Xu Yun and asked word by word:
"Luo Feng, is this... Lord Newton’s handwritten letter?"
Upon hearing this.
Maxwell, sitting beside him, immediately couldn’t sit still:
"What, Lord Newton’s handwritten letter?"
With a quick dash, he found himself beside Thomson, face full of eagerness to snatch the paper yet fearing to damage it, ultimately only weakly saying:
"Can you let me have a look, Mr. Thomson?"
Seeing this.
This time Xu Yun shrugged his shoulders at the two and nodded:
"Yes, Mr. Thomson, this is precisely the letter Lord Newton wrote to Mr. Feiyu, genuine and authentic."
"Using this letter to exchange for a student spot at the University of Cambridge, I think it wouldn’t be too difficult, right?"
Indeed.
What gave Xu Yun the confidence to choose this task labeled "quite difficult" to "extremely difficult" was precisely this handwritten letter from Little Niu.
At the time, when Old Su went to Five Continents Mountain for his burial, Xu Yun unexpectedly received a letter of request from Little Niu.
In the letter, Little Niu raised some questions, and Xu Yun replied with a letter addressing those problems, sent back through the halo.
That reply letter triggered a secondary change in Little Niu’s timeline, ultimately directly leading to the third dungeon, or the special era background of this dungeon now.
At that time, the letter paper and pen Xu Yun used to reply were new items provided by the halo - back then, the halo even generated a table, with a large-head sticker of Jia Ran stuck on it.
In other words.
Throughout this process...
Little Niu’s letter remained untouched in Xu Yun’s hand.
When Xu Yun left the space, the letter was received along with Hawking’s invitation letter in the bag.
Thus, upon learning the third dungeon started in the Western world of the 16th century A.D.
Xu Yun stuffed the letter into his backpack as part of his travel supplies.
Though in conventional history, Little Niu actually never wrote this letter.
But Xu Yun didn’t necessarily have to give it away in its entirety, right?
If the opportunity was right.
He could cut out sections not involving ’Mr. Feiyu’ and sell some of the contents as letters between Little Niu and friends.
Little Niu’s handwriting is highly distinctive; given enough font samples, discerning authenticity becomes easy. (You can find Little Niu’s handwriting in the Chapter review of Chapter 23)
The University of Cambridge is Little Niu’s alma mater; in the real world, Little Niu is always revered as supreme, even down to the cup Little Niu used.
If it falls into Cambridge University’s hands, perhaps there’ll be unexpected rewards.
After all, it’s just a palm-sized piece of paper.
What Xu Yun didn’t expect was.....
He had traveled to a twice-altered timeline where, post-receiving ’Mr. Feiyu’s reply, Little Niu genuinely left a substantial theoretical wealth.
In this background.
For the University of Cambridge, how valuable could Little Niu’s ’Source of All Evil’ be?
No exaggeration.
This thing, placed in a literary fortune novel, would be undoubtedly the Saint’s Personal Treasure, precisely the ’Dao Foundation’ at the moment of proving the Dao!
In reality, also a national treasure-level historical relic.
Just like the beast heads of Yuanming Garden, the "Mona Lisa" of Gaul, the staff of the Pharaoh of Egypt, and across the sea... what’s across the sea?
Oh, I forgot.
The two-hundred-year nation has a meager history.
As for knowingly pretending to be unaware of Little Niu while acting as a stranger, one can fully apply the template of using an alias like classmate Wheat and explain with one sentence:
Back then, not being familiar with you two, of course, I didn’t dare to reveal it.
