Chapter 213: The Fish Takes the Bait
However, before he wants to fish for law enforcement, Pang Xuelin must first determine Davy Hopkins' daily activities.
After a week of tracking and investigating Hopkins' activity route over the past few months, Pang Xuelin soon discovered that Hopkins' life was quite boring.
He has no children, his wife has just divorced him, and he spends most of his day at home except for classes.
His only hobby is to go diving on the beach near California on weekends, and he basically goes there every six months.
Pang Xuelin understood that the so-called diving was probably just a pretense, and going to see "Poseidon" was his real purpose.
In the evening of that day, Pang Xuelin drove to a beach near Los Angeles with Hopkins, in order to prevent him from being discovered, Pang Xuelin just hung far behind his car, but fortunately with MOSS to retrieve the real-time monitoring along the way to report the location, Pang Xuelin did not follow.
Later, Pang Xuelin went to an uninhabited high ground near the beach and set up a telescope to observe Hopkins' actions.
Hopkins drives a pickup truck.
After driving the pickup truck to a secluded corner near the beach, Hopkins changed into a wetsuit and quickly slipped into the water.
After waiting for an hour, seeing that Hopkins did not come out of the sea, Pang Xuelin raised the camera and let MOSS monitor while he rested in the car.
It was a day and a night, and it was not until the evening of the next day that Hopkins came out of the sea and drove back to the city.
Pang Xuelin naturally followed back.
RETURNING TO HIS HOME IN THE EVENING, PANG XUELIN THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT AND SAID TO MOSS: "MOSS, IT'S TIME TO CLOSE THE NET, LET'S SEE WHEN HOPKINS BROWSES THE DARK WEB IN THE PAST TWO DAYS, AND WHEN IT'S RIGHT, LET HIM 'INADVERTENTLY' SEE OUR BOUNTY!" ”
"Understood!"
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"Congress wants to advance the presidential impeachment inquiry, and some key witnesses in the White House refuse to testify......"
On TV, today's latest political news is being broadcast.
"Fuck it, it's all a bunch of actors......"
Hopkins was half-reclining on the couch, with one leg on the coffee table, sipping beer and complaining on TV.
Hopkins was an angry young man who, as a young man, worked for the military, and he felt he could give everything to the country.
But now, he only thinks that these politicians on the stage are disgusting.
It was these guys who, single-handedly, cut off their own projects and kicked themselves out of the Naval Research Laboratory.
Although Caltech's treatment is okay, he is an unpopular major, and he doesn't have much funding all year round, which can compare to the feeling of calling the wind and rain when he was in the military laboratory.
In addition, his wife divorced him some time ago and divided a large amount of property, and in order to keep the house, Hopkins had to give most of the family's cash to his wife.
As a result, with his salary at Caltech, Hopkins found that he was almost unable to pay off his mortgage and credit card.
"It's really not good, I can only risk exposing Poseidon to make money!"
Hopkins muttered to himself.
When the project team was disbanded, because he was really reluctant to bear the results of his years, Hopkins got a dead blue whale from the whaling merchant to replace Poseidon, forged the death certificate of "Poseidon", and deceived the audit supervisor.
Since then, "Poseidon" has become his personal pet.
Over the years, Hopkins piloted Poseidon across the oceans, leaving his trail in the world's oceans.
As long as he was with "Poseidon", Hopkins felt that he was the king of the sea, a unique existence in the world, and the thrill of conquering the sea was more addictive than doing anything.
However, on the contrary, his real life is becoming a mess.
His wife left, and his life became more difficult day by day.
Hopkins took all his anger out on the country he once loved.
After watching today's news for a while, Hopkins felt a little bored, so he opened the notebook on the coffee table and entered the dark web.
Anyway, he didn't want the house he had bought with great difficulty to be taken back by the bank.
There are many transactions on the dark web, such as intelligence trafficking, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and all kinds of murder businesses.
There were even advertisements for the recruitment of mercenaries by the opposition in a certain civil war country.
With enough money, these people can even sell their wives into brothels.
But none of this is what Hopkins wants.
Hopkins flipped through the bounty items one by one, and just when he thought that today, as usual, would be in vain, a message appeared in front of his eyes.
"Find a route that allows you to safely enter the United States without going through a neutrino detector, and offer a reward of $10 million! - Publisher MOSS! ”
Hopkins' eyes lit up.
Isn't this exactly the way I have been looking for to make money?
Is there anything more suitable for Poseidon to make money than this one?!
Hopkins' breathing grew short, and he clicked on his MOSS username, which was blank.
Hopkins is not surprised that the originators of most transactions on the dark web do not leave much trace.
After hesitating for a moment, Hopkins sent a message to the employer who posted the information through the text message function: "I have a way, please contact if you need it!" ”
In a villa three kilometers away from Hopkins' residence, MOSS's voice rang out: "Professor Pang, the fish has taken the bait!" Do you want to contact him now? ”
Pang Xuelin smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, hang it first." ”
After Hopkins sent this message, he was a little uneasy, and swiped the dark web from time to time, but the MOSS never replied.
For the rest of the night, Hopkins slept restlessly.
Even when he got up to go to the toilet at night, he turned on the computer and looked at it.
The next day, Hopkins had classes in the morning.
But he was not in a state during the whole class, and the course he taught was full of mistakes and omissions.
finally survived until the end of class, and Hopkins didn't eat, so he drove home directly, turned on the computer again and entered the dark web.
But MOSS still didn't reply.
For three days, the news was like a stone in the sea, and there was no response.
Just when Hopkins thought that this bounty was just a random hanging up by some boring person, that afternoon, he entered the dark web again and unexpectedly found that a red 1 appeared in his text message prompt.
Hopkins perked up and quickly clicked on it, and there was a message on it: "You really have a way?!" ”
With a tone of distrust!
Hopkins hurriedly replied: "Sir, I promise you 100% that I have a way!" ”
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