Finale (Part II) Chapter 14: Clues in Despair
I spent the next few days in a state of confusion, and I was only able to return to this world when something unexpected happened. The rest of the time, I mostly lie down or sit. Mind over and over what happened before. I don't think about all the things, the details, I just put the movie in my head.
But I don't have any emotions.
Despair is the greatest emotion that can consume everything. For a moment I even realized that I didn't have much attachment to life anymore. Either let me know what's behind it, or let me die trying to find out what it all does.
This is the retribution I deserve, because my obsession has killed many people, and if I don't die, then the world is really unfair.
When I think about this, I feel very calm, without the slightest anxiety that I used to have. I feel like I won't feel relieved even if I finally know all the key behind it all.
In the future, I will never have the same strong * as before, and no unknown will impress me. However, just a few days later, I realized that I was wrong. It seems that the development of this matter will never be what I expected.
A few days later, I received the unexpected news that Jude Cow's company had begun to restructure.
Obviously, because of the deterioration in the health of the first shareholder, Jude Cow. Qiu's control over many aspects of his company began to weaken, and other shareholders began to become active. The struggle between dark stocks is becoming more and more intense. Many fell victim to this struggle, including some of Jude's top brass on the team.
These high-level executives had a good personal relationship with me and the fat man when they were in Genting Heavenly Palace, although they were not close, but sometimes, I would still ask them a lot of questions, and they would also give me some advice privately.
After the chaos of the company. Many of these executives started leaving, and a few of them started sending me files that were supposed to be confidential from the company.
These files were top-level secret when Jude Kao was in power, but Jude Kao fell. These things have become chicken ribs, and no one believes the information in the dossier at all. These files were dismantled and destroyed.
The men said. Since the company doesn't pay attention to it anymore, instead of destroying it, it's better to show me, the person who needs it. Is there useful information.
The sheer number of dossiers is staggering. Obviously, these people, as well-intentioned as they were, didn't have the kindness to classify me. Several files add up to at least a few hundred g, all of which are picture files. It was scanned with a scanner.
I brewed black tea and started with the first packet. I read all the files in two days.
The content of the dossier is quite rich, and although not every volume is valuable, the valuable parts of it are quite valuable, and the parts that are not valuable are also strange.
I have sorted out all these documents and divided them into three categories, one is valuable documents, one is questionable documents, and the other is worthless documents.
What struck me the most was one of the review documents on the archaeology of Xisha Islands. The main purpose of this document is to request funding from the board of directors, and such a document must explain to the board why it is necessary to carry out the Xisha project. What is the potential value.
The core of the document is divided into two parts, one explaining why: Jude Cow believes that there is a high probability of an ancient tomb in Xisha underground, and there is a lot of folklore and historical records. There are hundreds of these materials, and many of them are photographs of ancient books. However, the conclusive evidence is not this. The conclusive evidence is an "internal document".
This internal document is peculiar, it is a red-headed document, a death report of an archaeological team member bought at a very high price.
After careful consideration, I realized. This deceased person was the first person to enter the Xisha Tomb. It was he who brought out the first batch of qualifications. Then, there was eyeliner within the company who brought the news to Jude Cow - the situation at the time. It was supposed to be in the dark sea, Jude Cow's ship posed as the organization's ship and intercepted the information.
After that, Jude Kao handed over this information to understand the chain, so there was the Xisha incident of the third uncle.
Well, one thing I've always found strange is how Jude Kao obtained the internal information of the Paracels, and there is an explanation for this.
It seems that the habit of the organization is to use their own people to enter the ancient tomb to explore first-hand to see if they can get first-hand information, and if not, submit all the information to the archaeological team, so that the archaeological team can conduct a second exploration.
There is also a particularly important piece of information that when the third uncle deceived Jude Kao and asked Jude Kao to contribute money and efforts, he used a token, and this token was "Iron Block".
This thing is the iron in several boxes brought out of Banai during the Banai incident. The third uncle used this piece of iron to prove that he had all the information of Banai at that time, and exchanged it for the resources he went to Xisha that time
I don't know how the third uncle got that piece of iron for the time being, but apparently he got it, and there must be steps behind it that I don't know
And the one dossier that puzzles me the most, I need to focus on. There is only one topic in this dossier: on the investigation of geomorphological features near the house of Wu San Province.
There is no specific content of the dossier, and on the cover of this dossier, there is the word "not approved" in English.
The sponsor of this dossier is A-Ning, and I recognized A-Ning's English for a long time.
A-Ning proposed to investigate the geomorphological features near where my third uncle lives, why is this? Is there an ancient tomb near my third uncle's house?
I remember A-Ning as a very reliable and dedicated woman, she can't make meaningless proposals, she must have a purpose.
I looked at the date, it was probably before we first went down. Obviously, for my third uncle, Jude Kao's company has already started to monitor.
However, in the foreign professional corporate system, the capital and the board of directors are always the largest, and this proposal is clearly not implemented.
I leaned back in my chair and smoked a cigarette and thought, completely unaware. I went to the roof of the third uncle's shop and looked around.
The third uncle's shop is in a place with a particularly dense number of peasant houses, and there are all kinds of peasant houses all around, many of which are quite old. In such a place, there is no landform to speak of, not even the ground can be seen,
If I could see the dossier, I might be able to guess what it means, but unfortunately, I can only guess so directionlessly now.
I figured out a general reason for myself, maybe Ah Ning thought that there might be an ancient tomb around the third uncle's shop. Many grave robbers choose a place that looks like they want to do a small business, but in fact it may be used as cover to dig long passages underground to rob tombs. Moreover, a madman like the third uncle, if the treasures in the underground are worth enough, his plan to dig tunnels may last for several years.
In addition to this, there is a lot of information in the dossier that can be supplemented by a lot of my previous information. After I read it, I decided on a lot of wandering ideas, but they didn't mean much.
There's a lot of information in it, but it's so hard to read English. I packed all of these and sent them to my good English friends, and asked them to help me translate them and then check them carefully, all of which were done on my laptop, but there were so many documents that it was difficult for me to operate smoothly on one screen.
That's when I thought that the third uncle has a computer here. I turned on the computer and copied the files with a USB flash drive for comparison.
While doing this, I noticed a very strange phenomenon, on two different computers, many documents show different details. I opened the document that I just read A-Ning, and on the third uncle's computer, there was one more page than before, and there was only one cover before, but on the third uncle's computer, there was one more title page.
I thought it was a little strange, but when I opened it, I found that the title page was an instruction page, saying that the system version was too old to show all the pages
Could it be that there is something strange in these files? I suddenly had a thrill, thinking that many encrypted files must be displayed on a specific machine to display all their pages, and on other machines, they can only display the pages that the other party wants to show you, and the real core information will not be displayed.
I said in my heart, it looks like I have to find a hand to deal with it, and I definitely can't do anything about it. I turned off the power supply, and after a few rounds in my head, I found that I really didn't know many people in Hangzhou who knew how to understand computers. I have friends in Jinan, former college classmates, but it seems too exaggerated to call him over, so let's find time to find a few reliable ones from Hangzhou. (To be continued)