Chapter 41: Empty
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้ข้กผ, XV-C, C-area of the minus 15th floor. Flash Dance.
The sound insulation effect in the boat is excellent, Ling Shucheng walked in the alleyway, and could only hear his own slight footsteps, and the echo of footsteps.
In the extreme silence, the echo occasionally evokes strange fantasies, as if there is an invisible little monster pacing slowly after itself.
The lanes circulate like a labyrinth of warm tones. Ling Shucheng rubbed the yellowed curly grass pattern wallpaper slightly, paused for a moment under a facsimile of Monet's "Water Lilies", and finally came to the door of the informant's residence.
The small key he got from Gan Yao was obviously not here to open the door here. In principle, everyone will use the permission of ID to strengthen their door locks. Fortunately, his predecessors have helped him solve this problem.
The door shaft has been destroyed. Ling Shucheng uncovered the door panel that was gently leaning against the door frame, glanced at the traces of the break, and was slightly surprised.
This way of opening the door directly is really unprecedented. He passed sideways, carefully choosing a new fulcrum for the door panel.
I don't remember who said that the style of a room that a person decorates with his own hands is a big reflection of a person's inner world. Ling Shucheng rubbed the soles of his shoes on the cushion at the door, and walked through the hallway where two coat racks were hung.
Then this should be a very rich person, although the word "abundant" seems inappropriate to describe human beings. Like two coats hanging in the doorway โ one that was clearly a bar overalls with a little unwashed wine stain on the collar, and the other a well-ironed blazer. Ling Shucheng had never met this person in the true sense of the word, but he had heard Han Yue say that the informant seemed to be teaching "wine brewing and human culture transmission" at the university, reaching out to the most energetic and creative students, while working night shifts at a bar to serve a beautifully colored cocktail to the decadent parents of the students.
The furnishings in the room were already in a mess, and it was probably the work of the man who opened the door with considerable strength. The fabric sofa was dropped up and down, and the cushions in color from black to white were scattered all over the ground; All the picture frames on the wall have been removed, and some of the wallpaper may have been torn off due to the soaking of water; A whole set of bone china tea sets with gold painted edges on the coffee table shattered on the floor, and several of the broken porcelain pieces seemed to have been stepped on by the soles of someone's shoes, leaving several scratches on the ground. 35xs
The strong man who came first seemed to have already found all the places where things might be hidden, and Ling Shucheng roughly turned around all the rooms. Luckily, at least the mess was even, which at least meant that Hercules didn't find what he was looking for until he rummaged through the room.
Ling Shucheng's only advantage, according to Han Yue, comes from the fact that this informant can be regarded as a teacher from the same school as him. Compared with his colleagues in the military academy who studied with textbooks, Ling Shucheng has been studying directly with the compiler of textbooks since he was a child, and this informant senior seems to be a descendant disciple of one of his teachers.
Han Yue asked him to use himself as a template to analyze where the most important thing would be hidden by the informant.
This is probably a bit difficult for a strong man, Ling Shucheng can only say that he has no habit of hiding things at all, and for all the information, he either remembers it with his brain or forgets it with his brain.
He doesn't keep important documents on paper โ paper is expensive, and it can't be encrypted with much delay like electronic files, so he can eliminate the idea of being caught in a frame; People who are engaged in intelligence work will have a little prank against their peers, so the conspicuous safe that has now been destroyed can also be directly ruled out. Ling Shucheng looked at the small key in his hand, thinking about what size thing could match it.
Truth be told, this poorly made key feels more like the kind that a kid would use to lock an aluminum piggy bank with a few coins, and it looks pretty casual anyway. Ling Shucheng carefully rubbed it again to make sure that there were no hidden patterns engraved on it.
After a little inner struggle, he chose not to waste time and directly chose to ask for help from the sidelines.
"If it were you, you would put the most important things that you should never show casually." Ling Shucheng sent a message to Han Yue and Yuan Sui at the same time, hoping to get a little inspiration.
"As you said, I probably would have chosen to memorize it directly. Flash." Han Yue always replied the fastest, "What, don't you have a clue at all?" โ
"This place has been carefully searched by other minifigures." Ling Shucheng also quickly replied, "He must have much more time than me, if he doesn't even find him, it is estimated that it is indeed very hidden." โ
"Don't you still have a key? Isn't there anything like a lock? โ
"No, or at least I haven't found it at the moment."
At this moment, Yuan Sui's message also came back: "Then it depends on this thing, do I want it to have a chance to be seen by the person I want, or never be seen by anyone - isn't it a bit winding?" โ
"I've already briefly conveyed this matter to your trusted little detective, you have a good exchange, I'll go do something else first." This is Han Yue.
"I ...... Am I clear? Yuan Sui sent another sentence, with the expression of a villain sticking out his head and looking out.
"I can read it." Ling Shucheng successively removed several listening devices left by his predecessors on the window frames, under the coffee table, and on the inside of the cabinet door, and replied, "If it is inconvenient to type, you can call directly." โ
Three seconds later, the call request lit up, and Ling Shucheng pinned the earphones to his ears while smashing all the dismantled devices.
"Boss?" Yuan Sui habitually asked, "Good morning, can you hear me?" โ
"Yes." Ling Shucheng paused for a moment, but still emphasized, "Time is pressing, let's just continue with the topic we just had." โ
Yuan Sui had to swallow back the greeting that was holding back his mouth, and thought for a while before saying: "Since the other party left you the key, it means that he must be sure that you can find what he hid, but it is difficult for other people who don't have the key to find it." All in all, the key is certainly useful. โ
"Well, but I don't think the key looks like it can lock anything...... It's small, which means that the keyhole should be small. โ
"Look again! However, it is really difficult to answer the personal question of where you hide your things...... Especially if I've never been in contact with someone hiding something. โ
"So where do you think I would hide my stuff if it were me?" Realizing that this question was a bit inexplicable, Ling Shucheng explained, "Han Yue said, I and this person have received similar education, and maybe the choice of hiding things is similar. โ
"Isn't that the answer to this question the most likely for you?" Yuan Sui seemed to smile, "I can't say I know you......"
"I might just need a hint."
"I think you're someone who remembers with your head, and doesn't entrust important things to an object that can't choose its owner through self-awareness......"
"Items?" Ling Shucheng was stunned for a moment.
"Keys like that...... How so? Anything can be explained in both concrete and abstract directions, right? For example, the key is a tool for unlocking, and in the abstract, it can also be said to be a method for opening something that has been 'blocked'......"
"I see." Ling Shucheng let out a long sigh of relief, "You're right, if it were me, it would indeed only be possible to keep important information in my head...... Even if my life is threatened, I will not leave an item that can be easily found by others to record it......"
โโฆโฆ You'll go straight to your nearest trusted person to entrust and continue to store information with your human brain. Yuan Sui also understood, "By the way, who gave you the key?" โ
"Someone I should have gone for right away." Ling Shucheng replied.
The meaning of leaving this key is not a simple "unlock", but a method to "solve the puzzle", to put it more explicitly, it is a "token" prepared by the informant in advance to connect two people who have never known each other to verify each other's identities.
Gan Yao definitely knows everything. This key can give a cushion to both parties, allowing Gan Yao to prove that there is indeed some kind of connection between himself and the informant, while maintaining the opportunity to investigate Ling Shucheng, and the same is true for Ling Shucheng.
"I won't say more about thanks." Ling Shucheng tilted his head and listened to the movement outside, "I will let Han Yue stay on duty during the New Year." โ
"Poof, good, good!" Yuan Sui laughed gloatingly, paused suddenly, and added, "But in fact, there is another possibility, that is, ......"
"I'm sorry, I cut it off first." Ling Shucheng leaned against the door of the inner bedroom, lowered his head and took out his pistol, "It's only been two minutes and twenty seconds since I disposed of the bugging here, and it's quite fast." โ
Maybe it's the Hercules? Ling Shucheng dragged the door open again, slowly took a few steps forward, thought about it, turned around and picked up the door panel.
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"Finished calling?" Han Yue stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Yuan Sui, who was obviously distracted, "Hurry up and do the things in hand, I'll let you go back early in the afternoon, so you can pack up your things." โ
"The boss hung up too fast......"
"You just get used to it. When he wants to find you, he wants you to leave everything in his hand and answer the phone for a second, and when you want to find him in turn, you have to pray that he can check the new message sooner. โ
"To the extent that you are quietly smearing the boss behind your back, it is reasonable for the boss to decide to let you be on duty alone during the Spring Festival......" Yuan Sui's words were smooth, but he still looked in a semi-daze.
"I didn't expect him to give me a day off." Han Yue didn't care, "It's you, I think what you said just now makes a lot of sense, it's like talking about a brain teaser." โ
"I'm worried that the brain teaser I just talked about won't make the little boss hit his head against the tree......
"Huh? Why? โ
"Compared to what I just said, there's actually a more basic possibility, isn't it?" Yuan Sui patted his face, "It's just that our informant didn't have time to leave any information at all, and that key was a trap to lure the boss into the bait......",
"Well, probably not." Han Yue was also stunned by her, "Can the other party really make up a lie in advance and see through the identity of the little boss in the crowd at a glance?" Or, if the person who handed the key to the little boss was really the other person, the little boss should have been caught the first time, right? โ
"What if that's the case...... Because at that time, they couldn't confirm the identity of the little boss, so they planned to put a long line to catch a big fish? โ
"Wouldn't it be bad if that was the case?" Han Yue paused, "...... Now they must have known who the person who went to Zhuan alone. โ