The dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore glowed with rosy light in the sunset. Tang Xiao bit into a gelato ice cream, and the cream dripped onto the tourist map in his mind. Su Chen suddenly stopped walking - where the map was spread by the melted cream, a light golden Q watermark suddenly appeared.
"This is not an ordinary map!" Qin Feng snatched the map and held it to the sun, saying with excitement, "The coating will show up when it is exposed to heat..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a cry of surprise from not far away. The goldsmith shop on the old bridge suddenly exploded, and countless gold foils flew out in the thick smoke, forming the verses of Dante's "Divine Comedy" in the air. Tang 꿦 picked up a pizza baking tray from a roadside stall as a shield, but saw a piece of gold foil inserted diagonally into the wooden board, with dark red blood stains on the edge.
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When the sirens sounded along the Arno River, we had already rushed into the smoking goldsmith's shop. The half-broken emblem left in the gold melting furnace made my pupils shrink - it was the lily emblem of the Medici family, but with a dark Q pattern embedded in the pistil.
"Look here!" Qin Feng squatted in front of the broken window. The cracks in the glass just formed the shape of a hell circle. Tang took out the bronze key obtained in the London case and inserted it into the crack of the booth. A roll of parchment popped out from the secret compartment. Dante's handwritten manuscript was full of pinholes.
Su Chen activated the system analysis, and the pinholes corresponded to the letters of the third song of the Inferno in The Divine Comedy. When Qin Feng recited the poem in Florentine dialect, the floor tiles suddenly collapsed, revealing a secret passage leading to the Vasari Corridor.
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The wet murals on the walls of the secret passage were peeling off. Tang Xiao raised his flashlight and shone it randomly. When the beam of light passed by a certain place, he suddenly exclaimed: "This, this angel's eyes are moving!"
I took a closer look and found that the right eye of Cosimo I's portrait actually had a moving mechanism. Pressing the eyeball, the entire wall turned into a star map, with the tail needle of Scorpio pointing to the statue of Poseidon in the Piazza della Signoria. Qin Feng touched the Latin inscription on the base of the statue and suddenly concluded with an exaggeration: "October, the moon phase on October 31st!"
When we arrived at the observatory, Don Giovanni accidentally touched a celestial globe from the 16th century. The copper ball rotated to project a star map, and the beam of light passed through the rose window of Dante's tomb at midnight on Halloween. We sneaked into the Basilica of Santa Croce in the dark and found a bloody Venice boat ticket number engraved on the bottom of the sarcophagus.
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The gondola hit a reef in the mist, and the boatman took off his straw hat to reveal a scar on his forehead-the Q organization that escaped from the Tokyo case was trying to kill him! Tang picked up the oar and chopped him off, and the other party turned over and fell into the water, leaving the trembling glass craftsman in the cabin.
"They forced me to modify the Murano chandelier..." The craftsman handed over the colorful glass pieces, which were pieced together to form the mosaics of St. Mark's Basilica. Qin Feng discovered that the reflection track of a piece of golden glass pointed to the dungeon of the Doge's Palace at high tide.
We sneaked into the cold dungeon at night. Tang Feng was entangled by the iron chain and pulled out the Byzantine gold coin from the crack in the wall. Su Chen used the system to scan it, and the tooth marks on the gold coin were exactly the same as the mooncake mold in the Bangkok case. When Qin Feng embedded the gold coin into the armrest of the trial chair, the entire stone wall collapsed, revealing the bronze gate of the canal.
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At the stroke of midnight in the Sforza Castle, we followed the waterlock clues to the armory. When Don Giovanni fiddled with his armor, the mechanism was triggered, and the display cabinet flipped over to reveal an authentic copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus. In the yellowed pages of the aircraft design, the propeller blades were replaced by the letter Q.
"Look at the watermark!" Qin Feng pointed the draft at the moonlight, and the fiber texture actually looked like the Milan Metro line map. We rushed into the last train that was still in operation, and the carriage billboard suddenly played the Mona Lisa smile, and the curvature of her mouth changed with the speed of the car. When the smile reached the golden ratio of "Vitruvian Man", a fluorescent arrow lit up on the tunnel wall.
Chasing the arrow to the abandoned platform, the new chess master of the Q organization stood in front of the steam locomotive. He opened his windbreaker, revealing a body covered with ancient book pages - stolen civilization books from all over the world. The moment Tang 꿦 threw out the iron chain to wrap around his ankle, the train whistle sounded long, and the copper bell on the locomotive shook off layers of copper and rust, revealing the bell number: 2023 Autumnal Equinox