I'm so sorry, Christina, I ...... I don't have the courage to face your ......, the hurt I have caused you is irreparable, I don't know ....... ”

"Don't do that, Rare, I know you'......, we've been friends for so many years, I can understand your feelings." Speaking of this, Riel was even more grief-stricken, he couldn't hold back his tears, he tried to restrain himself, but the lacrimal glands were not under his control at all.

"I really didn't expect it to be like this...... it's just that I didn't expect it to happen like this......" Riel blamed himself again.

The two walked side by side on the path of the cemetery, "Riel, in fact this is Sloanmande's choice, at least he made what he thinks is the right choice for me and my daughter, you and I should respect his choice." ”

"What choice? I don't know what you're talking about......" Riel didn't understand what Christina was about to say.

"Riel, Sloanmand knows what he's doing, and I'm sure he can make a choice that is the best choice......" Christina whispered to Riel with her head down, and Riel could hear what she meant.

Christina stopped and looked at Riel with surprised eyes, she seemed to understand why Riel blamed herself so much, "Oh my God......" Christina looked at Riel in surprise, she suddenly realized that Riel didn't know anything about it, and she seemed to understand the reason, Sloanmander was always like this, she didn't want to worry about anything, she muttered, "Riel, it looks like Sloanmander is hiding something......"

"What's the matter? I'm a little confused. Riel was eager to know what the problem was.

"In fact, Sloanmand had already been diagnosed with cancer before you were commissioned, and it was a ...... of terminal lung cancer, so he didn't hesitate to take your job, if it weren't for that, we might have gone to the Aegean Sea."

It dawned on Riel that "Sloanmande, this bastard, why didn't he say it......" He once again left tears of sadness.

"It's part of his plan, I guess you told him to take another lucrative job, the kind of dangerous and rewarding job, just waiting for a chance, and you just gave him a chance, again with a lot of accident insurance in place, and the beneficiaries were me and our daughter."

Riel nodded, he already understood why, "Sloanmande's guy is always like this, he always moves faster than others think. Riel had to admire that this former classmate and friend was indeed more long-term than he thought.

"And this ......," Christina pulled an envelope from the satchel in her hand, "this is Sloanmande's letter to you, which I received just a few days before his accident. Riel took the letter, still in familiar handwriting, and kicked it into the pocket of his jacket.

"Thank you." Riel wiped the tears from her face, "What are your plans for the future?" ”

"I don......'t know," Christina took a deep breath and looked into the distance, then added, "The only thing I can think about now is to raise our daughter as an adult, I want her to be happy, it looks like we still have a long way to go." ”

The two walked out of the cemetery before they knew it, and before they got into the car, Riel and Christina said a simple goodbye. Riel promises to pay them the agreed continuation commission, and sees Christina and her daughter get into the car and disappear from his sight.

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Sitting at the bar, Riel recalls one night a month ago, when Riel convinces Tonis to re-investigate Sennar Bio Research and Investment and Thomas in order to unravel the crypto plan, he first thinks of his old friend Sloanmande, who is running a small investigative company, and Riel has assigned him to do some DOM investigations.

Sloanmander is meticulous and responsible, and he does everything he does, and Riel trusts his friend and investigator very much.

"Sloanmand, old man, what have you been up to lately? It's been a long time since I've heard from you. Riel dialed Sloanmande's phone.

There was a violent cough from the other party, "I'm fine, it's just that you're much busier than me, I heard that you were promoted?" ”

"Hey, you're really well-informed."

"You know, it's the same as eating and putting it in our business." After saying that, there was another violent coughing sound on the phone.

"Are you coughing? Are you sick? ”

"Don't worry, buddy, it's just a cold, it's not a big deal, what's the matter, you won't talk to me so late, do you, do you miss me? It's going to upset Christina. ”

"Come on, I'm not gay, I do have a tricky job with you, and I'm short on time to do a full investigation, I hope you have time."

"Of course, I'm tired of waiting, let's talk about it."

"I need you to go to Ferlinghill, there is a company called Sennar Biological Research and Investment Company, I need to know all its internal operating models, it would be best if I could investigate the causes and consequences of its establishment in detail, I don't know much about this company, I can say that the knowledge is basically zero, and there are ......" Riel continued without waiting for Sloanmander to speak, "There is also a company named Thomas. Barrico's men had committed a crime there, and had been falsely accused of being wanted, but Fehringhill had recently dropped his charges, which is very strange and I want you to investigate it thoroughly. ”

"Wow, this is a time-consuming and laborious thing, I said it was easier to do?"

"Man, I'm sure you can do it, and we're running out of time, I'd like to get to know about this as soon as possible, and if you will, there's no problem with the price."

"Okay, let me talk about the price first......" Before Riel could speak, he preemptively reminded, "These are two commissions." ”

Riel smiled and said: "Of course, I understand what you mean, you are really a shrewd ghost, the commission is 30,000 US dollars, half of it is paid first, and the rest will be paid after the end, as for all the remaining fees, I will apply for an additional 5,000 US dollars for you, as long as you agree, I will soon call your designated account, you see how it goes." ”

Sloanmand whistled on the other end of the line, "Whoever can resist this temptation, I have no reason to turn you down, man." ”

Riel smiled, "Okay, that's it, I'll send you the information tonight, and I remind you again that we have limited time and hope soon." ”

"Of course, I can do it at any time, and I'll leave tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll send the agreement and materials to your email tonight, and call me anytime if there's anything."

"Okay."

"By the way, I will book you a room at the Rainbow Hotel in Ferlinghill, the environment is not bad, I hope you like it."

"OK, thanks, buddy." Sloanmander hung up the phone, and Riel was relieved to have the help of his old friend.

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Riel came out of the bar in a gloomy mood, two glasses of tequila did not make him feel better, he returned to the office of the DOM Group in a bit of a daze, although he was still immersed in the grief of losing his friend, he knew that the days had to look forward, and the only thing to do now was to find out the real culprit, give an explanation to his friend and widow, stabilize his mood, take out Christina from his jacket pocket and give him a letter, and cut the envelope with an envelope knife, inside is a three-folded letter paper.

The letterhead inside is the logo of the Rainbow Hotel, and there is no superfluous narrative in the unfolded inside, and in the middle of the letterhead is written in pencil '7:45', and there is nothing, and Riel does not understand what Sloanmander is trying to say, he holds up the letterhead and looks at the letterhead under the light, but the letterhead has nothing but '7:45', and there is no special means of whitening the letter.

Old friend, what are you going to mean? He leaned back in his chair and looked at the letter on the table, he was interrupted by a knock on the door, and he placed the letter and envelope on the table on the table.

Mills came in with a folder in his hand, "Hey, Riel......"

"Hi Mills."

"I've been here in the morning, and I heard you're out on business......" Mills looked into Riel's eyes and continued, "Your eyes ......" Mills pointed to his own eyes.

"Yes, my best friend passed away today and I went to his funeral......"

"Oh, I'm so sorry......"

"It's okay......" Riel said, pursing his lips. Mills, what are you looking for me? Has work been going well lately? ”

"Oh, yes, we recently deactivated some of Taylor's data ......, and the feedback we got from the information department technicians was that the hard drive data recovery was not very optimistic, the valuable information was very limited, and it wasn't all without progress, they found the VPN address, and according to the IP address, the result was San Jose, Spain, and we also found this in Taylor's computer." Mills pulls out a piece of copy paper from the file and hands it to Rare.

Riel looked at the paper and then at Mills, hoping for her explanation.

"We found an email, just two days before Taylor's death, that is, after Taylor tampered with the 'Doberman' project, someone sent him an email through a jsct_2@ mailbox, this domain address is obviously fake, the attached text file is a suspicious piece of garbled characters, we still don't know what the meaning of this garbled code is, but there is a bold guess, the technical staff think it is graphic code."

"How long will it take to crack this code?"

Mills shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know, "It's hard to say, and even the professional and technical personnel can't say." ”

"Okay, so is there any progress on the other decrypted files?"

"No, we found that a lot of encrypted data is also encrypted by pattern recognition, which we can confirm, and we don't know what kind of graph is the key to unlocking the data."

"I don't understand ......"

"Similar to fingerprints, palm prints, face prints or pupils, this is the encryption method of the graph, there is no matching graph is impossible to decipher the data file, as far as the current technology is concerned, it is obviously impossible to crack such a password, only the key person or the person concerned can get the exact graph."

"So what do you guess the relationship between the two? I mean email and what you call encryption. ”

"Yes, I do have a bold guess, I think the encrypted garbled file is the authorization graphic, it is possible that Taylor received a new instruction, and also modified other files, I think Taylor did not immediately execute the email instructions that day, I checked Taylor's work log, and found that he was doing a shielded data audit work in those days, and it happened to delay the instruction, and it just happened."

"By the way, there was a strange phone call before Taylor did this, is there any news about that?"

"The call was an international call, and the specific caller was unknown, so it seemed that he was completely prepared." Mills sighed, and she was a little discouraged in her attitude.

Riel feels that everything is so slim, it seems that the road is actually a dead end, there are no clues at all, everything is a game set up by others, but the attitude towards Mills's work still makes Riel feel gratified, her mind is meticulous, Riel doesn't know if there is a risk in cooperating with Mills in the future, and he has to be careful everywhere this girl who has just joined the company.

"Now the wind is very tight and the group is boiling, plus all the data is currently under strict monitoring, and Taylor can't do this kind of thing alone, I guess there must be a huge organization behind it, now Taylor has an accident, although the other party is currently hidden, but they still have to find someone else to replace Taylor's work, we can't sit back and wait for us to start screening and retrieving previous data records, this will take a lot of time, we will wait for other people to take action again to catch the current."

Riel still trembled a little when he heard Mills say this, he was worried that Mills dug up the record of the data he had copied to Tonys, and he had to find a way to hide himself, so as not to end up with the same fate as Taylor, this is a story for another time.

"Then ......," Ariel knew he wouldn't have an answer if he asked. Well, it seems that we can't get what we need by normal means, so we have to expand our thinking a little bit. Riel paused and then asked, "By the way, is there any news from the Pamir?" ”

Mills pursed his lips and said, "They are very tight-mouthed and refuse to reveal anything. ”

Rare was a little disappointed, he knew he couldn't count on anyone, he decided to go with his original plan to investigate, and his instincts told him to start with Fehringhill's Sennar Company.

"Okay, Mills, I'm going to be out recently, and it's going to take a few days, and we'll be able to communicate by phone or email if there's anything going on."

Mills nodded in acceptance, "Okay......" Mills suddenly sensed that Riel was a little strange, she didn't know what was wrong with him, she finally blamed his grief over the loss of his friend and her own nervousness, and she got up and left the office.

Riel immediately took out the letter from the drawer and frowned at the familiar font on it, he knew that Sloanmand would not leave this for no reason, this must be a valuable clue, he was going to go to Fellinhill in person, and the answer was there.