Chapter 184 When the Mystery Ceases to Be Mysterious
"Finally got you, little fox," Martin took off his glasses and rubbed his somewhat sour eyes.
"Rick, I need your people to assemble right away," Martin picked up the phone and dialed Rick's office.
"Oh? What happened? Rick picked up the phone and frowned slightly when he heard Martin's slightly hurried voice coming from inside.
"I've caught the mystery man, but now I need your help, and I can't do it alone." "We'll meet in five minutes in the big conference room and tell everyone to bring their own computers. ”
This is the second week since Jason led the team to Houston, and Mario has gathered the survivors of the Tampa Institute to refocus on a previously interrupted research project. Rick and the members of the Cyber Warfare Department landed on the institute grounds last weekend, and they met Martin and began a manhunt for the mysterious man.
Martin was already sitting in the large conference room, and she stood up to say hello to Rick as they arrived.
"Dr. Martin, hopefully we'll have a final word this time," Rick said, gesturing for the Cyber Warfare Department to take their seats.
"I'll cut a long story short, the mystery man's activity has been very frequent these days, and I've sifted through a few of the more than a hundred coordinates where he left his traces. I'm sure he's in one of these places. Martin projected the screen of his laptop onto the wall in front of the room, revealing the lines of numbers on it.
"Doctor, I take the liberty of asking, on what basis are you sure you are based?" An engineer from the Cyber Warfare Department asked.
"I followed him for almost two months, and as long as he was a living person, he would have his own habits." Martin explained, "No matter how well he hides it, it's only a matter of time before his habits are exposed. ”
"These coordinates need to be tracked by everyone at the same time," Martin pointed at the image on the wall with a laser pointer, "No matter how powerful the mystery man is, he can't deal with all of us at the same time, so except for the coordinates that he personally handles tracking, the other coordinates will only be programmed by him to react." By comparing the characteristics of each coordinate track, I am sure that his true lair will be found. ”
"It's as simple as that?" Rick asked, spreading his hands.
"It's as simple as that." Martin nodded, "The basis of the program is 0 and 1, and no matter how chaotic the thread is, there is only one thread, and I have spent two months peeling back the cocoon, and now this mysterious person would never have thought that there is a team behind me." He can outperform me personally, but against our whole team, he has no chance of winning. ”
"Alright," Rick nodded, "how long will it take us to get results?" ”
"No later than today," Martin said, "now that you've locked his spot, what's your next step?" ”
"It's time for our Secret Service to take action next," Rick said, "and all you need to do is continue to contain the mystery man online." ”
"The Secret Service? Aren't you from the Cyber War Department? Martin asked, surprised.
"No, they're from the Cyber Warfare Department," Rick gestured to the other engineers beside him.
"I remember the Secret Service was part of the Treasury Department, right?" Martin thought for a moment and said.
"It was, after '03 we were assigned to the Department of Homeland Security," Rick smiled, "I'm headed by Kelly, the four-star general of the United States. ”
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In the Liuyin Hotel on the shore of West Lake, Zhao Kang's brows furrowed together, and his fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard. A series of instructions were typed into the screen by him, and the speed was dizzying.
"The server is abnormally alarmed by high load, what's going on?" Yuan Fang poked his head out from behind a pile of equipment on his desk and asked Zhao Kang.
"Help me figure out how to keep it stable, and I'll explain it to you later." Beads of sweat on Zhao Kang's forehead dripped down his cheeks, and his eyes were still staring at the screen in front of him.
"Do you want to inform Uncle Ai," Zhao Kang's reaction made Yuan Fang a little alert, and there were few such problems before he set up the server here.
"Don't ...... it yet, well, it seems that the veteran must come out," Zhao Kang sighed, "I feel like I am being targeted by several divisions at the same time." ”
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"Doctor, is the data compared?" Rick had already refilled three cups of coffee, and he brought Martin one over and put it next to her computer.
"It's the coordinates of the Eastern Hemisphere!" Martin said excitedly.
"Eastern Hemisphere?" Rick's heart was startled for no reason, and his hand holding the coffee accidentally shook a little.
"It's Huaguo, it's really a behemoth." Martin's eyes lit up, and the look on her face swept away the tiredness of the days, as if she were radiant.
"Hua Guo ......," Rick's heart twitched, and he quickly lowered his head and took a sip of coffee, trying to hide his momentary distraction.
After entering the coordinates on the satellite map, the map began to zoom in, and finally the red mark rested on the hotel next to a lake.
"West Lake, Liuyin Hotel." Rick stared at the map on the screen and muttered, "This is a scenic spot in Huaguo, could we be mistaken?" ”
"There's no mistake," Martin said categorically, "and you have to believe in the results of our efforts." ”
"Okay, I'll get in touch with the above." Rick also realized the importance of this result, and he went outside the conference room, pulled out a custom-made phone with satellite phone function, and dialed the only number on it.
"Rick, tell me if it's good news or bad news," Kelly's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Your Excellency, it's good news, Dr. Martin has found out the exact location of the mysterious person," Rick said, "The other party is from Huaguo, and the location is in Bianzhou City, and things are a little tricky."
"Hua Guo," Kelly was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, "It seems that the conventional means will not be used this time, and we will have to find a few people who do the dirty work." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency." Rick nodded.
"You go and arrange it, there are our people over there, find a few closest to do it," Kelly knocked on the table in front of him, thought for a moment and said, "Let the Peregrine Falcon go too, I don't feel at ease with the others." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency," Rick's heart sank, and he glanced toward the large conference room, "if the Peregrine Falcon offers us terms?" ”
"Say yes," Kelly put away the smile on his face, replacing it with the fortitude of a veteran.
Back in the conference room, Martin was sipping coffee when she saw Rick coming in through the door and walked over to him.
"Discussed with your superiors?" Martin asked.
"yes, this guy can't escape now," Rick smiled and nodded.
"You're not going to use ICBMs, are you," Martin asked suspiciously, Hua and Mi are in the eastern hemisphere and the other in the western hemisphere, and now that the disaster has struck, the whole world is full of zombies, she can't think of how Rick is going to deal with an enemy on the other side of the world.
"Missiles used to work, but now it's different, the lion of Huaguo has awakened," Rick thought for a moment and said, "Are you interested in our work?" ”
"Well, it's okay if you're not comfortable talking," Martin took a sip of his coffee and put his hair coiled behind his head, "Thanks to your help this time, we can catch this mysterious person, how about you have a meal in the evening?" ”
"I don't seem to have that word rejected in my dictionary," Rick laughed, revealing a mouthful of beautiful white teeth, "It's an honor." ”
Back in her office, Martin lay on the bed for a while, and when the dust settled, a feeling of exhaustion began to come over her.
Martin stared blankly at the ceiling, his eyes beginning to drift when a figure appeared in front of him. Martin blinked, and began to take some interest in him.
With an idea in his head, his body naturally couldn't lie down, Martin got up from the bed, went to the computer and began to type in the website of the Department of Homeland Security, and then at the end of the website entered a series of commands, and the screen immediately jumped to another page.
"Wilbur Kelly, Chief of Staff of the White House, served in the Marine Corps, served as commander of Southern Command, with the rank of general, became Secretary of Homeland Security in January 2012, and his son George Kelly died in Afghanistan in 2010," Martin flipped through the resume of the white-haired old man at the top, and continued to flip down.
Kelly is not someone Martin is interested in, the general has often appeared on television before, and many movies have characters based on him.
Martin searched for the person she wanted to know on the computer, and after searching for a long time, she didn't see a single piece of information about him.
"Well hidden, looks like an important person," Martin muttered, his fingers typing another URL on his keyboard.
The information of various secret services quickly gathered to Martin, and Martin quickly browsed through the information, and a lot of confidential content in it made her smack.
"What kind of person is Rick?" Martin thought to himself, "The people in such a secret service must be very difficult, I hope he doesn't wear a disguise mask in front of him." ”
But Martin shook his head again and laughed self-deprecatingly, "What do you have to deceive him?" ”
After trying to find no information about Rick, Martin couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, and she lay back in bed, ready to close her eyes for a while.
The experiences in the Everglades began to play out in her mind like a slideshow, and they successfully boarded a cruise ship in Tampa in Everglades. When he met the surviving colleagues at the institute, Martin had mixed feelings.
The sea breeze on the cruise ship swept away everyone's boredom, and the impact of the disaster seemed to be minimized at sea, far from land. Once in Houston, under the leadership of Dr. Martin, the Tampa Institute's interrupted project was restarted and quickly hit the ground running.
During this time, most of Martin's energy was spent on fighting with the mysterious man, and Rick joined the Internet War Department, which effectively supplemented Martin's strength, and improved the efficiency of tracking a lot, and the final result was gratifying.
Martin, whose brain was in a state of emptiness, gradually felt sleepy, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in her head, and she sat up from the bed, and suddenly she was completely sleepy.
Martin came to the computer again and began to cut into the Skynet system of the United States, and the scope of the search was no longer limited to the United States.
Through facial recognition, she finally found some clues related to Rick online.
"Cai Wenyue, is this your previous name in Huaguo?" Martin muttered as he looked at the familiar faces and unfamiliar names on the screen.