Chapter 289: More Extravagant Than Extravagant Hopes
Chapter 289 is more extravagant than extravagant hope
Konstan raised his eyebrows, his face full of surprise: "What happened at the scene of the crime?" β
Uzo was also slightly surprised.
As a country after the Iron Curtain, Ukraine has been isolated from the world for a long time and is a bit estranged from the situation in the world. When the Iron Curtain collapsed, the huge Warsaw Pact army was disbanded, and many retired soldiers were forced to join the "plumber" industry for their livelihood. Initially, these newly rising "plumbers" were majestic at home, but they were immediately deflated when they arrived internationally, and then, as international forces infiltrated Ukraine, Ukraine's intelligence agencies gradually realized that the best people in this industry were all new human beings with mutant specialties. Compared to the skills possessed by these people, the acquired skills possessed by those special forces, which are only slightly stronger than ordinary humans and are obtained through hard training, have fallen behind.
With the emergence of new technologies one after another, the lack of funds of Ukrainian veterans themselves is insufficient, and the lack of high-tech means to support them, and finally had to give up this market......
There has always been a tacit understanding, or "unspoken rule", in the plumber industry: they rarely expose themselves to the world of ordinary people. After all, they are too powerful relative to ordinary people, but they are not strong enough to occupy an overwhelming advantage. They feared that their peculiarity would cause panic among the general population, and they would be completely suppressed. For this reason, no matter how conflicting they may be, these people will never leave the corpse of a mutant at the scene of the crime - whether the body is from a partner or an enemy.
This tacit understanding of the unspoken rules of the industry was the root cause of the dumb losses suffered by Ukrainian veterans - when the veterans' organizations were losing in the face of external forces, the Ukrainian military was greatly panicked, although these veterans were engaged in gray occupations, but their failure seemed to mean that the quality of Ukrainian soldiers was at an all-round disadvantage, and the soldiers in service thought that this was a mistake in their own methods of training soldiers. It wasn't until years of investigation that the secret was revealed.
It was this investigation that made Uzzo aware of the existence of the "plumber". It also made him interested in the former "super soldier" program......
"It is said. At that time, nearby residents heard the fighting and called the police...... It's also that the police came too quickly and they didn't have time to dispose of the body", replied Constan's assistant.
Faced with this answer. Konstan shook his head with Uzzo, and the former saw Uzzo shaking his head as well. As if he knew the inside story, he didn't hide it: "The left hand is not in Paris, maybe his team members didn't answer." As a result, there was no cover-up afterwards...... But that doesn't make sense, does it? β
Uzzo nodded in agreement, "I've only been exposed to two suspected mutant cases before. Left hand...... I was not present at your meeting in Ukraine, but my colleague described him as fast as a ghost. β
Constan understood what the other was trying to say: "If I'm not mistaken, the deceased was a member of the action team, which was formed by the left hand for the Paris mission. Being able to assassinate the members of this group in the street means that the assassins dare to face the left hand, and the confidence is no less than the speed of the left hand. This speed is enough to dispose of corpses. He will not be afraid of police disturbances and complaints from neighbors. So. The corpse left for us at the scene should be a hint - the scene of the crime is the location of the crime planned by the left hand! β
The crime scene was in a back alley of a diagonal street, with a garbage can at the mouth of the alley, and a dead end at the end of the alley. When Constance arrived, the body had been disposed of, and the ground was painted with white* powder frames, but very little blood was found. Judging from the traces left at the scene, the two sides fought very violently, and there were traces of sharp cutting on the walls in many places, and the cutting marks were several centimeters deep into the brick joints, and the edges were smooth, showing that the speed of the sharp weapons was very high and sharp. ..., and the trash cans at the scene seemed to have been hit by a giant hammer, and it was crooked and ugly. Closer examination also revealed a human trace, which the forensic doctor speculated to be a dent left by the deceased's body being thrown onto a trash can and violently impacted. There are many similar impact marks, and the bricks on the wall are shattered in many places, and there are obvious depressions. All signs indicate that in a fight, one party is armed with a hammer and the other is armed with a sharp dagger or sword.
Uzzo knew that Constant's on-site investigation ability was very strong, and after inspecting the scene, he immediately asked sincerely: "What do you think?" β
Constance shook his head slightly: "It's too obvious...... Where are the bodies? β
The assistant immediately replied: "It has been sent to the mortuary." β
Constance raised his face and surveyed the rooms on either side of the alleyway, and the assistant continued: "The trash cans have been inspected and there are no suspicious items; The tenants in the left and right buildings have also been questioned in detail, and no suspicious persons have been found so far. Most of the tenants heard the sound of the two sides fighting, and some witnesses were absolutely certain that the perpetrator was only one man, bare-handed and unarmed. β
Konstan replied indifferently: "Of course there are no weapons, their fists are weapons - if you check the nails of the corpses, you will definitely find bricks and cement powder." These are two aggressive 'plumbers', and yes, leaving this body is telling us that the left hand is going to commit the crime here. β
Uzzo continued: "Does this mean that the group that chased the left hand has completely lost his news, and they also want to use us. β
Later, Uzzo continued: "I don't know much about nanoblood, whether this kind of blood is also like blood cells, has a lifespan limit. β
"It's useless", Constance quickly took over the topic: "The left hand is a person who likes to eat and wipe it all up, and he takes the sheep with his hand, he ...... His personality is a bit like a hamster frightened by the Great Famine, always desperate to store up for the winter. According to the regulations, after each operation, the remaining materials must be destroyed to prevent them from being traced as evidence. But as far as I know, most of the surplus materials were stored by him in violation of regulations, such as the surplus of the Argentine operation in the United Kingdom, the surplus of the Russian operation in the United States, and the surplus of the American operation in Argentina...... Chicken nest, duck nest, pig nest, each of his nests is full of supplies until it can no longer be filled. If you want to rely on the lifespan of nanocells to infer the time of his action, it is ...... at all."
Constantine stopped abruptly, and Uzo continued: "You once said that if the left hand is cut off from the company, then his crew can only get supplies through him. Supplies can only come from the storage of the left hand, and the figure is dormant, so ......"
Constance immediately answered: "His female assistant is with him." So his crew had no way of knowing where the supply point was, so. Before the end of the nanocell lifespan. He had to rush back - yes, that's what it meant to leave that body, and the assailant told us the deadline for the left hand to return. β
"Where are the personal belongings of the deceased?" Constance asked.
The assistant apparently had done his homework and replied without hesitation: "On the deceased." All the pockets are empty...... Because the fight was so intense, the witnesses did not dare to see the final outcome. But judging from the traces of the scene, the assailant did it as if it was an ordinary robbery, and he turned over the body. Looting of all belongings of the deceased - including mobile phones and ...... Personal terminals. β
The last few words were struggling to be spat out by the assistant. Because the "personal terminal" is related to the secret of the plumber's information transmission, it is also a means of tracking and locating it in many cases.
Uzo looked dazedβpretending to be dazed, perhaps; Constance immediately asked, "Is that for sure?" β
The assistant replied embarrassedly, "Maybe...... Since they dispersed and hidden, if they are not on a mission, these people basically do not have personal terminals, and only rely on civilian mobile phones to communicate, but if they are on a mission. Then he must have a personal terminal with him. "The adversary is already ahead in terms of intelligence", Constance mused, "not knowing that they cracked the encryption program in the terminal." How long does it take...... Investigate in detail the dynamics of the deceased before his death, and arrange manpower near this street, and return with his left hand. β
"There are still six days to go", in the Romanian mountains, Lily greeted Sergei. When the latter got the signal, he immediately turned on the flashlight and flashed to the nearby hill to make a signal.
Lily and the others were in a valley in the middle of two mountains. To change the fact that the town in the valley is exposed to direct sunlight for only a few hours a day, the townspeople have raised funds to build an "artificial sun" β a big sounding word, but two fully automatic solar mirrors: one on the top of the mountain and one on the mountainside. The mirror on the top of the mountain will always face the sun or the moon, and the mirror on the mountainside will reflect the sunlight from the top of the mountain into the deep valley, so that the residents of the town will always be bathed in sunlight and moonlight...... Of course, the two sets of mirrors also function as satellite signal relay towers, which can transmit TV signals and network signals into the town.
Six hours after the small cargo ship entered the Romanian seas, Lily diverted to the Balkan mountains, posing as a signal tower maintenance worker, hiring a crew of ten and carrying the required equipment in a vehicle, as well as Wang Cheng, who was asleep, and traveled through the mountains for a whole day to arrive in this mountainous mountain town. The small freighter continued on its way, passing through the Bosphorus to divert possible trackers.
"We must do it in six days," Lily said firmly, "and then spend another three days on your journey to Paris, where you will get a ship, equipped with the most advanced computers in the world, and enough money to spend all your days drinking until the end of the world." β
Sergei rubbed his hands together and said excitedly: "Then what are we waiting for, hurry up and finish things so that we can leave this hellish place." β
Lily nodded, turned around and got into the electric control room under the reflector, Sergei whistled loudly, ten hired crew members showed their personal weapons, and guarded all around with guns, Sergei checked the posts again, and leaned into the electronic control room.
As soon as he entered the door, Sergei whispered: "Why should we leave that ship, aren't the conditions on board better than here?" β¦β¦ Oh, have you already started? β
In the center of the room was a massage table, on which lay the sleeping Wang Cheng, who was naked, and more than a dozen medical sensors were connected from him to the nearby ECG and respirator, and the physiological condition of Wang Cheng displayed on those medical instruments could not be more normal.
Lily was controlling two computer keyboards at the same time, crackling on the keyboards continuous and dense, hearing Sergei's complaint, Lily did not raise her head and replied: "I didn't want to leave, but the opponents we encountered are too strong, and I am worried that the last few coastal patrol ships will leak our secrets." β
Sergei sat down next to another empty computer, picked up the keyboard and began his work, and said very naggedly: "Hahaha, there were many ships in the fog area at that time, how did you know that we would be exposed?" β
Lily buried herself in her work and did not answer, and after a while, she whispered without a tail, "We have lost three people. β
"What? To be clear? What to lose three people in Odessa? β
"In Paris!" Lily crackled at the keyboard and stared at the screen and replied, "There are eight of us in total, and one person was lost in the previous operation. Just now I went online to send out a contact signal, and only two people responded. β
Sergei took a deep breath. But his hand didn't stop. Lily finished typing the last letter heavily, stopped what she was doing, and said, "Do you know the danger now?" Do you still want to be a hero? Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man...... It's not that easy to do! Sergei's voice trembled slightly: "I admit that I was scared by you...... But my blood is boiling, and that's the life I want to live. Wow, I'm ready. Ready to start? β
Lily's hands hung over the two keyboards, and Sergey raised his wrists. At Lily's signal, the middle fingers of both sides fell on the keyboard almost simultaneously, immediately. Three computer screens. A large stream of numbers consisting of "0" and "1" poured out, and the two stared happily at the flickering on the screen, and Sergei asked, "How much longer?" β¦β¦ What I really want to ask is: how much is this chip worth? β
Lily stared at the screen and replied, "I promised you, I will keep my promise!" But to be honest, I don't know how to transform you. I don't have a clue about it, the only thing I know for sure is: if he wakes up. There must be a way. β
Sergei's blood boiled: "I hope there are spare parts for this chip...... Ahem, I don't really expect to have the same abilities as him, as long as I have half of him, I'm already satisfied. β
"Hmph", Lily's delicate nose snorted with contempt: "If this is not extravagance, then there is no such word as extravagant hope in the world." With half of his capabilities, the whole of Paris, no, the whole of Europe, you can run amok at will. β
"Here it begins", Sergey changed the subject: "He is being transferred, do you need us to control it?" β¦β¦ Oh, okay. β
The first step in restarting the job is to back up your files. Wang Cheng first had to use the cloud computing function to find possible storage space, and then encrypt his program, split it into fragmented fragments and store it until he emptied his storage space. Later, Lily and Sergey will clean up the program one by one and reinstall it......
The reason why this mountain town was chosen is because it belongs to the "network clearance", and there is no other wireless signal for hundreds of miles nearby except for this broadcast tower. Lily can adjust the transmission intensity of the signal tower, so that the signal is in a sensing state but cannot reach the broadcast strength, and then test which set of software hides the backdoor one by one......
Time passed slowly, a day passed, the program emptying period was safely passed, and then the information began to flow back, Sergey looked at the flickering information stream, and suddenly teased: "You say, if at this time a memory suddenly shuts down, and the owner goes to sleep, what will happen?" β
Lily gave Sergei a roll of the eye: "It's rude - someone like you is a hacker himself?" If you can't even do 'remote boot', what are you still messing around in the hacking world? β
"What happens if someone withholds the message?" Sergey continued to nag.
"Incomplete pieces of information are the equivalent of viruses to most computers, and most people remember that the first thought is to delete. If someone does intercept our message, it's just a fragment and doesn't make any sense, if he's as curious as you are and wants to hack the whole program...... Then I'll know! β
Sergei was bored, but he continued to talk: "I've always wondered, how do you say this machine works? How computers are connected to the nervous system......"
"Found it!" Lily cheered, but immediately a little at a loss: "Actually, in the early warning system, the brain automatically emits induction waves, and after sensing the nearby wireless signal, the body is in a state of alert, and this signal is transmitted to the nearby network domain, and then ...... Oh, if this 'back door' is cleared, will it reduce alertness? β
Sergei laughed wildly: "This, I'm the best at it - it's a big deal to rewrite a set of copycat programs and replace the original ones." I've been in this business for three years, three years, the world's greatest war machine, from my copycat software, what could be more exciting?! β
........., three days later, on the terrace of a high-rise building near the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es, Uzzo was boredly observing the street with a telescope, and on the platform behind him, a helicopter was landing, the whirring of the propeller was deafening, and when the helicopter stopped, Constan walked out of the building to meet the passengers who got off the helicopter. Uzo didn't care about Constan's guests, and he continued to observe the street with a telescope. Later, when the helicopter took off again, the roof platform was emptied again, and the surroundings finally quieted down, and Constance came over and asked, "What did you find?" β
Uzogan smiled: "Do you know how many people walk through this street in a day? Million? Million? Looking for one of the millions of people, what breakthrough do you think we can make in this way? β
Constance took the glasses and replied: "Tomorrow we will put in place a face recognition system to automatically identify the flow of people on this street...... We just got the exact information: the mission target of the left hand will arrive tomorrow? β
Uzo's spirit was shocked: "When did the target appear on this street?" Where do you guess that person will start? β¦β¦ Can I know what his goal is? β
Konstan coughed and replied in the calmest of words: "I guess he is awake - I just received the news that something happened in Ukraine thirty minutes ago, and in terms of modus operandi, this is likely to be his revenge?" β
"What is happening in Ukraine?" Uzzo immediately asked: "You mean: he was in Ukraine thirty minutes ago?" He's already sober? β