Early in the morning of August 25, 1977, after we had breakfast at Tao's house, Xiaoda, Jingdi and Lilan took luggage and belongings, bid farewell to Mr. Tao, Mr. Li and Hong Kong students, etc., and we drove to the Material Trading Institute of Stanford CIA Special Technology Research Institute to register for school.

When we arrived at the Stanford campus, we took Jingdi and Lilan back to the dormitory, where they put their luggage and belongings in the dormitory, and then they went to class or did experiments

Xiaoda and I drove to the CIA Material Exchange Institute with our luggage and belongings to report for duty.

When we arrived at the CIA Research Institute, we met the dean here, Dr. Helier, who happened to be the director of the Institute of Material Trading, so Dr. Helier received me and Xiaoda, and after our brief greeting and conversation, he asked the colleagues from the Academic Affairs Office to take us to the admission procedures and arrange a dormitory for us.

After finishing our work, we took the study and living supplies with us, and prepared to leave the office building of the institute and go to the dormitory to settle our luggage and belongings.

We were in the hallway of the office building and met our old acquaintance, Dr. Jonas! At this point, he looked older, more emaciated, and his pale hair became less and less!

Although Dr. Jonas has amnesia, when he saw us, he immediately recognized me and Xiaoda and seemed very excited!

Jonas smiled and said, "Oh! Jack! Tom! Cute Asian Lads! Here you go again! Huh! I asked for a gift from you the other day, did you bring it to me?! ”

Xiaoda smiled and said, "Dr. Jonas! You have a great memory! We remember to bring you a gift this time! When should we send you a gift?! ”

Jonas smiled and said, "Great! Don't give me a gift here, the people in this office building are too greedy and too cold! They're definitely going to take away my gifts! In the evening, you can bring gifts to my dorm and give them to me! I know that you newcomers always live in the same apartment building where I live! They were worried that I would forget where my dormitory was, so they nailed a wooden sign with my name on it at the door of my dormitory! ”

We were amused by Dr. Jonas!

Then, after we had talked, Jonas went madly and went away on his own, alas, what a poor old man!

We've heard from other professors that Jonas is a native of Munich, Germany, and he experienced World War II, maybe his brain was stimulated, so his way of thinking and acting is really different from ordinary people!

After the end of World War II, he was brought to the institute by the Allies as a materials scientist and university professor to teach and conduct scientific research. Dr. Jonas never left the place after that, he was a very devout Puritan, he never married, had no children, and had friends and relatives here!

We took our luggage and belongings to the dormitory, and after putting our things away, we toured the entire dormitory, where there are two bedrooms, as well as a living room, study, toilet and balcony.

In the bedroom, bedding and school uniforms and other daily necessities are complete, and they are all new, the study has been placed in the "curriculum", the content of the teaching is half a month of theoretical study and examination, half a month of internship and visit.

The content of the theoretical course mainly includes the basic knowledge that traders must master, such as "Standards for the Establishment and Equipment of the Military Branches", "International Transaction Law and Rules", "Transaction Process and Operating System", "Negotiation and Contracting", and "Negotiation Psychology".

The content of the training course: visit the Allied equipment and warehouses, etc., and carry out order category verification, order reallocation and review, quotation system inquiry and use, buyer's demand and intention mapping, transaction negotiation, determination of complete purchase order, transaction control process, determination of distribution methods, inspection and delivery methods, transportation and delivery on the transaction operation website based on satellite communication network in the Allied Equipment and Materials Trading Center.

We have all been exposed to and experienced in the past the content of these theoretical courses and training courses they arranged for us, so after we participate in systematic learning such as lectures and practical classes, we should have no problem getting the qualification certificate for the exam!

After flipping through the textbooks, Xiaoda and I went to the cafeteria near the apartment building for lunch.

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At 8 p.m., Da and I went out with coffee and cigars to find Dr. Jonas's room in the dorm building.

In the hallway, we happened to meet some old cadets, and we asked them about Dr. Jobs' room.

"Oh! What are you looking for that old madman?! Dr. Jonas's room is on the same floor as your dormitory, so look for it! There's a very eye-catching sign on the door of his dorm room! ”

An enthusiastic and funny young student answered our questions, and then we followed his tips to find Jonas's dormitory.

Soon, we found Dr. Jonas's dormitory in a remote corner of the same floor as Jonas.

At this point, Jonas's door was open, so we knocked on the door.

However, there was no echo from inside for a long time after we knocked on the door, so we had to push the door in.

Inside, we saw Dr. Jonas sitting at a desk in the dim light, intently writing.

We walked over to his desk before he got up, put down his pen, and invited us to sit on the couch and chat.

Xiaoda handed Dr. Jonas a large bag of cigars, a large bag of coffee, and other gifts.

Jonas smiled and said, "Oh, kids! You guys are so nice! Jack, hand me the lighter, I'm going to try a cigar first! ”

Then, I handed him the lighter on the table, and he was very skilled at opening the mouthpiece and lit the cigar!

He sucked hard, and he began to swallow the clouds with great enjoyment!

He closed his eyes and said, "This is the best tobacco in the world!" Jack, you must have spent a lot of money! ”

Xiaoda smiled and said, "No! This is what we took in the store, and they didn't dare to take the money! Because, we are robbers! ”

He smiled and said, "Oh! I know you're not robbers! You can rest assured! I don't take other people's stuff from you! These are gifts you gave me, and therefore I will not pay you for them! ”

Everyone laughed!

Xiaoda and Jonas were chatting, and I walked over to Jonas's desk to see what he was just writing.

I picked up a copy of the manuscript he had just learned and looked at it, and I was stunned by the words and symbols! Actually, these words and symbols are, strings of Arabic numerals or some weird symbols that I've never seen before!

I walked over to the couch with a copy of the manuscript and asked Jonas curiously, "Doctor!" Your brain is really different! What are you learning? Are you writing computer programs? ”

Jonas smiled and said, "Oh! This is the text I invented, and I am keeping a diary to record my thoughts and feelings in life! ”

I smiled and said, "Oh my God! Mr. Doctor, why are you doing this? ”

Jonas said, "Alas! When others see these weird manuscripts, they think I'm crazy! Actually, what I do has to do with my life and experience! I was born in the autumn of 1910 in an ordinary town near Munich, Germany, to a blacksmith and shoemaker father and a housewife mother. Ever since I was sensible, I was full of curiosity and infinite reverie about nature and everything, and at the same time, I loved to read, and before I was a teenager, I read all the science books in the town where I lived several times! I like to use the scientific method to guide my thinking and behavior, and as a result, my parents, family, and friends feel that I am abnormal! They think I might have fallen for it! When I was eighteen years old, I said goodbye to my parents and was admitted to a university! In this way, by working as a handyman, I began to think and experiment scientifically that I had never stopped in my life! World War II broke out when I had achieved a lot of research results, and I was very worried about those war maniacs who would use my scientific results for the war effort! So I invented this strange language and used it to record my thinking and experimentation! Actually, strange is not complicated! That's the truth! ”

Xiao Da said, "Mr. Doctor! You are so great! Not only are you a scientist, but you are also an angel of peace! ”

Jonas said, "Alas! Science and technology should be used to improve the life and well-being of mankind, and they must not plunge humanity into new predicaments and crises! ”

I said, "Mr. Doctor, you are 67 years old this year, and you have lived here for a long time, don't you feel lonely?" ”

Jonas said, "Kid! I've spent my whole life in solitude and I'm used to it! Loneliness is freedom and happiness for me! ”

After the conversation, Jonas went to write at his desk again!

We made him a cup of coffee and left his dorm room and we went back to our room to rest.

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On September 9th, after half a month of theoretical study, we passed the examination and defense of professional qualifications such as salesman and trader of the Allied Equipment and Material Trading Center, and completed all the credits.

From September 10th to September 25th, we visited the Allied equipment exhibition halls, factories and spare parts warehouses in the region, and at the same time, we practiced the whole process of trading at a trading base.

In this way, we obtained the "Salesman Qualification Certificate" and "Trader Qualification Certificate" from the committee, which means that Xiaoda and I are already official salesmen and traders of the Allied Equipment and Materials Trading Center.

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Late one night, Jonas knocked on the door of our dorm room, and when we opened the door, he moved two boxes of things into our dorm room.

He opened two boxes for us to see, one was bottles of samples for various materials tests, and the other was dozens of notes he had written in that strange script.

Finally, Jonas took a Bible out of his body and handed it to me.

Jonas said, "Jack! Don't ask me why I'm doing this! You are good people! You've got this Bible! These two boxes of stuff are of no use to me anymore! But they may be useful to you and your people! Remember! You should help the poor people, you can't do any more bad things! ”

When he had finished speaking, he handed me another letter!

"Jack! I have to go! Leave me alone! Read this letter and you'll understand! ”

So, Jonas pushed the door open and went out, and he left our room in a hurry!

Xiaoda and I tore open the letter under the light!

The letter reads: Children! I'm leaving here and going on a long journey! Recently, they wanted to take me to a horrible nursing home! So, I used my savings to buy a brand new motorhome, and by the time you read the letter, I was already driving away! I brought the cigars and coffee you gave me. We may not see each other again, but I will watch you in Heaven! Take care of the kids! May God bless you all!

By the time Da and I rushed downstairs, Jonas had already gone far in his motorhome!

At this time, the whole campus was silent, and the silver-white moonlight was sprinkled everywhere, and we could only hear the sound of the evening wind blowing through the trees.

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On Saturday, September 10th, early in the morning, I asked Jing Di and Lilan to drive downstairs to our dormitory and pick us up to Mr. Tao's house for the weekend.

When they arrived at our dormitory, Xiaoda and I carried two boxes of things and the Bible to the car, and when we got in the car, Jingdi drove the car out of the graduate school and the university campus, and I headed for San Francisco.

In the car, Lilan said, "Little Da Ge! What did you move into the car? ”

Xiaoda smiled and said, "Alas! Some of the things we picked up on the road, as well as our school supplies! You can't tell outsiders about these things! ”

Jing Di said: "Lilan! I've told you so many times, don't always ask! Do you understand?! ”

Lilan said a little angrily, "Okay! After that, I won't ask anything! ”

When we arrived at Mr. Tao's house, Jing Di and Lilan went to the living room to drink tea and chat with Mr. Li and Hong Kong students, and Xiaoda and I moved two boxes of things into the basement of Tao's house.

Teacher Tao said, "Ah Cai! What is this? ”

I said, "Teacher Tao! They are our learning materials! ”

Teacher Tao said, "Oh! In the basement, there is a reading room, where you can study and study these things! ”

After we moved our things to the reading room in the basement, Xiao Da went outside to chat with Mr. Tao and them.

I started flipping through Jonas's work diary in the basement reading room, and I wanted to decipher the words and symbols he had invented right away.

I looked at the notes, and the text on them was all "0" or "1" to form the data channel, and some symbols for classification!

These symbols are obviously not binary numbers, they are more like a variant of Morse code!

However, I believe that Jonas must have had a way to redefine the 26 letters and the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9, otherwise he would not have been able to read them himself.

Then I remembered the Bible that Jonas left me when he left, and I thought it was the key to unlocking these codes!

So, I began to flip through the Bible, looking at Jonas's notebook and trying to decipher the code.

I would first like to find out the master of Morse code as defined by Jonas, and I think it should be related to the page number of the book, and the first letter of the first word on each page, or the last letter after the last word, because in this way we can create a new master of Morse code that is fixed and recognizable.

When I got to page 108 of the Bible, I began to decipher the 26-letter Morse symbol.

Jonas's encoding rule is that no matter what the first letter of the first word from this page is, the Morse code of this letter is the code of standard A, and if the last letter of the last word does not return to the first letter, the Morse code of this letter is the standard B code. And so on, after repeating, you know that the twenty-six letters are recoded.

I succeeded in listing the one-to-one correspondence between the twenty-six letters and Morse code in the manner of 0 and 1.

As for the "0" to "9" digit encoding, Jonas did not do too complicated calculations, that is, at the beginning of the page that completes the twenty-six letters, the page number of this page is multiplied by 2, and the Morse code that counts the second number from the front to the back makes the "0" code, and so on, and repeats until the encoding is completed.

In this way, I had the encoded master of the twenty-six letters and Arabic numerals, and I began to read the text on Jonas's notes!

After finishing the deciphering of the text, I finished the coded master of Jonas script and sandwiched it in a notebook.

After I repacked and sealed the two boxes, I left the basement.

At noon, after lunch, I said to Mr. Tao, "Mr. Tao! I'd like to send those two boxes back to Port City right away! It's not safe for them to be here! ”

After thinking for a moment, Mr. Tao said, "Oh! I see! Ahh You're not locals, so it's definitely not convenient to send things here! I'll ask my lieutenant to take you to send these things, and you tell my lieutenant that you can receive the goods and the delivery address in the port city!" He's in charge of checking in for you! Hurry up and deal with these things! ”

So, Xiaoda and I took two boxes of things and went to send them with Mr. Tao's adjutant.

When we arrived at the cargo department of the airline near our home, the inspector checked the contents of the boxes, and they only contained some bottles, notebooks and books, and they asked us to repack the two boxes.

The sender is Mr. Tao's adjutant, the recipient's address is the Magic Star Villa in Hong Kong City, and the consignee is Qin Wenjuan.

After returning to Tao's house after handling things, I called Sister Wen Juan and told her the waybill number of the mail, so that she could pay attention to receiving these goods, Sister Wen Juan said, okay! Then, she hung up right away!

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At 9 o'clock in the morning of September 26, Xiaoda and I got the "Salesman Qualification Certificate" and "Trader Qualification Certificate" at the CIA Research Institute, and the "Pass" for the Allied Equipment and Materials Trading Center Base.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Xiaoda and I left the institute with our luggage and belongings, and Jingdi and Lilan drove us to Tao's house.

In the car, Xiaoda was in charge of driving, and I talked to Jingdi and Lilan.

I said, "Jingdi, Lilan! In the future, you can concentrate on learning about science and technology! Don't pay too much attention to business knowledge! ”

Lilan said, "Okay! Brother Jing Di said that next year he will major in computer and communication! We don't have to finish our Ph.D. before we go back to China! We strive to learn everything that should be learned in this university at one time! In the future, we don't have to ask for help when we do research! ”

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After arriving at Tao's house, Xiaoda ordered a flight to Port City at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

After handling the matter, we had dinner and chatted with Mr. Tao, Mr. Li and Hong Kong students in the home restaurant.

Teacher Tao said, "Alas! Time flies! It's the end of the year again! When you return to Port City, it's time to start preparing for your wedding and Chinese New Year! ”

Teacher Li said, "Ah Cai! You should try to keep it simple and don't spend money indiscriminately! If you have money, keep it for later life! ”

Hong Kong students smiled and said, "Good! According to Dad, our home in Port City is called Rose Garden, and it is a very beautiful place! I could stay there right away! ”

Teacher Li smiled and said, "Hong Kong students, look at your happiness!" Your sister already knows that we are going to Hong Kong City for the Chinese New Year, and now, your sister has started to help us sort out the house! ”

Everyone laughed!

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Early in the morning of September 27th, Adjutant Tao sent me and Xiaoda to the airport, and Mr. Tao, Mr. Li, Jing Di, Lilan and Hong Kong students saw us off in the courtyard of their homes, and we went to the airport after getting on the bus with our luggage.

Once at the airport, we enter the airport lounge through a special passage.

At 9 a.m., we boarded our flight to Port City on time.

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On September 28, at 9 a.m. Hong Kong City time, we arrived at Port City Kai Tak International Airport.

Ah Fu from the service station picked us up at the airport and we went straight back to the service station.

After arriving at the service station, Ah Fu sent us directly back to our home in the Magic Star Villa.

When we arrived at home, Sister Wenjuan was waiting for us at home, and after we put away our luggage and belongings, we drank tea and chatted in the living room.

Sister Wen Juan smiled and said, "Ah Cai! I received two boxes of things you sent! I'll lock them in the basement of my home, and you'll go see the treasures for yourselves! ”

Sister Wenjuan handed me the key to the basement, and Xiao Da and I went to the basement to check the items.

The two boxes of stuff are packaged in perfect condition!

We opened the box and checked, and there was nothing missing in the two boxes!

I looked at the notebook I had in and the coded copy was still there, and when I looked through a notebook, I saw that there was a letter in it, and we had the letter and the coded copy in the Bible, and we repacked the two boxes and hid them in the secret room in the secret passage.

And just like that, my trip to my alma mater in San Francisco came to an end!

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