Chapter 181 Background Check
Barbara dragged a chair and sat down beside Roy, and the spirited old gentleman sat back in his seat
Roy said: "Barbara will be a vital help in my work, so if you don't mind, Mr. Drozds, please repeat the commission, and I will just scan it to see if there are any details I missed." β
Mr. Droz looked at Barbara, then nodded, "Okay." β
He cleared his throat and asked, "Do you know Sister Edward Nigma?" β
Barbara nodded.
Edward Nigma's name is also a household name in Gotham City. But more people remember not the name, but his self-proclaimed code name, "The Riddler". As his name suggests, he is a riddler who loves riddles and is good at it. His greatest joy in life is to leave clues and puzzles for the police and Batman to solve and track him. He likes to watch the detectives get tossed around by himself, although he always ends up playing with it, which is why he is always defeated by Batman again and again.
Droz continued: "That's right. Two days ago, our company's main server was maliciously hacked, and although our technicians tried their best to patch the vulnerability as quickly as possible, a large amount of sensitive information was still stolen. As you know, our company is the premier security company in Gotham City, and the private information of many politicians and entrepreneurs in Gotham is stored in our database so that we can tailor a protection plan for each of them. β
"Then they were stolen by Nigma." Barbara had already guessed the ending.
Mr. Drozzi nodded, "Not bad." Edward Nigma hacked into our systems and stole a lot of valuable data. Everyone in a high position is bound to want an enemy to try to pull them down, and this has not changed since the early days of human society. You can imagine. The enemies of politicians and entrepreneurs are willing to pay a lot of money to buy this precious data, and when it falls into the hands of their enemies. How much blood had to be shed. β
Barbara nodded knowingly, "So, our mission is to recover the lost files?" β
"Not bad. If you can do it. It is certainly better to find out the location of the Riddler. β
Mr. Drozzi said, pushing the opened dark blue document bag on the coffee table to Barbara.
Barbara pulled out a few pages from her file bag and looked at them, which were mostly full of information about the Riddler and records of past arrests.
"This is all the information about the Riddler that our own detectives already have, and Mr. Green has just gone through it." "These are copies, you can keep them, and they contain all the reconnaissance reports we've investigated the Riddler up to now, but unfortunately it won't be of much help, as we've made little progress in the past two days," explained Mr. Drozzi. β
There was a pause. He added: "However, the clients recommended to us have praised your work very much, and our company has also learned a little bit about you privately, and we know that you have solved many difficult cases, and my boss and I have great confidence in your ability." Be sure to find out where this lost information is, and once you're successful, the price will be negotiable. β
Roy stood up, stretched out a hand, and said, "We take this case, Mr. Drozd." Tell your boss to wait for our good news. β
Mr. Drozzi shook his hand vigorously. "Thank you very much, you are doing a good for others, Mr. Greene. β
With that, the old gentleman took his leave and left.
"How?" Roy asked nonchalantly.
Barbara said: "His temperament feels very tough. It's like ...... Military-alike. β
"Yes, the imprint of being a soldier will not be easily erased, and the temperament will be somewhat different." Roy agreed. "Also, when you enter the door, he inadvertently looks through the reflection of the teacup on the table to see who is approaching behind him. This casual habit is an advanced espionage technique, not something that the average security company manager can learn. β
"This Drozd. It's not simple. Barbara concluded.
"Or maybe this guy's name isn't Droze at all." Roy said, showing Barbara the screen of his phone, "I was given the opportunity to take a picture of him just now when you greeted him and distracted him. Since then, I've been sending photos to the base's computer for facial recognition, and the results should be available immediately...... Pregnant. β
Barbara leaned over to him and looked at what was on his phone's screen.
"As expected, Drozzi is just a pseudonym." Roy snorted, "This old fellow's real name is ArtΓ³v Mondstadt. Well, pretty gorgeous resume. Nearly 40 years ago, he graduated from the Officers' Preparatory School, joined the special forces training, and after leaving the army, he worked as a systems analyst for a communications company, and later left because of the revelation of his CIA undercover identity, and now works for the Satsuma Security Company. Interesting...... It looks like we're dealing with a government agency this time. β
"What?" Barbara asked unexpectedly, "Even if this Alsovmond's past resume is almost all military deeds, you can't just say that he is a government official, right?" Do you want to say that he is still working for the CIA, and UU reads books (www.ukansu) to go undercover for security companies? β
Roy shook his head, "No." I want to say that this Satsuma company itself is owned by the government, but it is hidden deeper. β
"Are you kidding? We're talking about the top big companies in Gotham. β
"That's why it's more suitable as a shell for some ulterior government agency." Roy said, "Notice the documents in the bag he left us, do they have a serial number in the upper right corner of each document?" β
Barbara took it out and checked it, and there really was, although it wasn't very conspicuous, and most people might ignore it when they got the documents.
"These serial numbers speak for themselves." "The 'Prism System' is a program developed by the government specifically for the NSA, and all documents issued by the Prism System will have a unique number like this in the upper right corner, just like a birth certificate. This is the evidence that they come from government agencies. β
"They came to us with this shell identity, obviously not wanting us to know that we were working for the government, or that they didn't want us to know that this institution exists. We can even guess that Edward Nygma also discovered the organization under the shell of the Satsuma Security Company, and the information he hacked was probably not customer information, but perhaps something more top-secret, so that the agency had to mobilize all the forces it could to find these things, even at the expense of finding a civilian detective who was an outsider. β
Speaking of this, he paused, his eyes lit up slightly, and said, "Interesting." Now, I can't wait to find out what the hell is going on. Get dressed, Xiaoba, let's go directly to meet the client and ask the real situation. "To be continued.