Chapter 8: The Graveyard of the Great Thieves

On June 12, the sky was overcast, and although the thunderstorm stopped last night in the morning, it was still dark clouds at noon.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Tianyi left the hotel to go shopping. He is a very lazy person, but there are some things that it may not be convenient for the hotel people to buy for him, so he still has to go himself.

Notes, cell phones, cameras, sunglasses, and a few outfits for the reconnaissance planning phase are roughly the same.

Some people may ask, how much cash did Tianyi bring with him? It's okay to spend it like this, right? Here I have to explain that in the world of 2101, computers are cheaper than cameras, and mobile phones are cheaper than sunglasses.

In the 22nd century of this parallel universe, the price of civilian electronic products is very low, the profit model of mobile phones, computers, portable players and other products has been completely subverted, and the practice of constantly innovating hardware has been eliminated, and the core concept of electronic products has become the development and charging of application software.

In that era, the technology of producing low-end civilian electronic products has been very mature and developed, and the gap between brands in hardware has almost disappeared. Once, they relied on the brand effect accumulated by quality, service, reputation, etc., so that fans were willing to flock to just one trademark. But later, when those copycat brands make the same quality products and set a more reasonable price, the market competition will prove that a certain kind of "loyalty" between customers and merchants is actually very fragile.

So, the change happened in the thirties of the twenty-first century, and the large enterprises reached a consensus, since the imitation of hardware cannot be contained, then let's make a fuss about the software.

Even if every manufacturer can produce hardware with excellent quality, beautiful appearance, and no need to replace it for five years, it may not be possible for every manufacturer's application system to make you satisfied.

As a result, the era of "soft competition" of electronic products began, and the prices of expensive electronic products continued to fall below new lows, and even appeared at cost price parity or sales at a loss.

In the future, merchants are not considering whether things can be sold, but whether things can be used, hardware is just a platform and carrier to provide application software fees, and software charging is the right model to ensure long-term profits.

Only the guys who sell appliances are still making the quality of the products worse and worse, expecting consumers to buy them home and scrap them after the warranty period, and then buy new ones, otherwise their factories will have to go out of business.

Of course, in such a world, poor people still can't use good mobile phones and computers. They can buy things home, but in the long run, if they can't afford the software, they're buying scrap metal. As a result, second- and third-tier brand electronics manufacturers can still rely on a variety of "free" systems and cheap systems with pop-ups and average quality to occupy the underlying market.

Perhaps, technology makes life more exciting, that's right. But there are some things that technology can't change.

Getting back to the hotel room, Tian started to disguise himself, he is a very good person at dressing, of course, the dress here is to play a certain person, not a bad look.

If he goes to be a stage actor, he will definitely become popular, from describing a sloppy homeless man to a socialite with elegant manners, from a young worker who is not deeply involved in the world to a calm gangster, Tianyi can play it vividly.

Whether it is subtle changes in expression, eyes, body language, or even accents, living habits, etc., they can be imitated to the extreme, giving people the feeling as if he has really experienced that kind of identity.

It only took a few minutes for Tianyi to transform into an amiable, unpretentious tourist. With a dull hairstyle, baggy pants, a silly T-shirt emblazoned with the words "I love Paris", a jacket underneath, and a sympathetic smile and a benevolent, friendly demeanor on their faces, the members of the Reverse Cross are expected to go crazy at the sight of the boss.

He picked up a black shoulder bag, slung a camera around his neck, and walked out of the room again. As soon as I stepped out of the hotel door that day, it was as if I had become a different person.

After a while, he boarded a city sightseeing bus, took a map of Paris and a "city sightseeing guide" in his hand, and looked around with his camera like a real tourist. It's just that no one else noticed, this guy didn't press the shutter once.

There are many famous sights in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame Cathedral, etc., but Tianyi has no intention of visiting them one by one, and when the bus arrives at his destination, he gets off.

The Louvre, the pearl of the north bank of the Seine, the heart of Paris, nine hundred years of history, a castle intricately intertwined with the tortuous history of France.

The Louvre was only partially opened to the public at the end of the 18th century and has since become one of the greatest museums in the world.

By the advent of the Age of Empires in 2000, it had also been affected to a considerable extent. "France" ceased to exist and was replaced by the borough of Oak County. During the war, many of the works of art in the Louvre were lost to the private sector or taken away by the government at the time, and many more were later transferred to the mansions of the princes and nobles of the empire, where they became private collections.

However, the most valuable "Three Treasures of the Town Hall" has been miraculously preserved, and no one may really dare to touch these three exhibits, if such a priceless treasure is damaged in the process of moving, who would dare to bear this infamy.

Over the next 100 years, the Louvre was battered with difficulties in retrieving its post-war exhibits, and it was not until 50 years later that about 40% of the original number of works of art was restored. Imperial policies also led to many changes in the area, the original lawn covering dozens of hectares was outlawed, many new buildings were built in the surrounding area, most of which were government agencies and royal mansions, and the pyramidal entrance at the entrance was demolished, and the interior was renovated and remodeled. Except for the overall appearance of the U-shaped palace building, the changes in other parts can be described as earth-shaking.

In order to facilitate management, a fence was built outside the lawn around the building, which had been drastically reduced, which was not too high, but which the average person would certainly not be able to climb over, so that the place could be easily closed off at night.

From a distance and up close, the wall was a big deal, but that's what the governor did at the time, and decided to let you know later, just like the water and electricity bills, and put some "this policy is good" poll on the news. To put it more bluntly, inform you that you can afford you, don't give face. If anyone dares to stand outside with a sign like "No to the Wall", we will send heavily armed HL commandos to surround you, throw tear gas, and serve them with sticks.

You could say that the Doge was destroying cultural heritage, but from another point of view, you can also say that the Doge made a political achievement and a change, and the Louvre in the 22nd century, purely from a security point of view, is in a period of unprecedented strength in history.

Tianyi bought a ticket, walked into this palace of art, and went directly to the treasure hall.

When he arrived at the place, Tianyi felt an inexplicable embarrassment, the men seemed to go to the painting and sculpture gallery to see the body art, and the people who came here to enjoy it were basically middle-aged women.

After searching for a long time, Tianyi finally saw his goal - "Scarlet Pandora".

A 2,977-carat round diamond, the size of a fist, is undoubtedly a rarity. And the crimson Pandora is also different, legend has it that if this diamond comes into contact with the skin of a beautiful woman, it will show a faint crimson color, reflecting a hazy light.

Of course, this is just a legend, Tianyi thinks this is obviously unscientific, how can a carbon elemental crystal have that kind of change when it comes into contact with human skin? Besides, it must be a beautiful woman, not a man and an ugly woman? Is it that this stone blushes? As a stone, are you a little obscene, and at the same time have the attribute of cuteness?

At the bottom of the exhibit, there is also a long annotation, which is a related story written for visitors to see, and the only reliable information in it is that "Crimson Pandora was discovered in Maple Leaf County in 2033", and the rest of the content seems to Tianyi to be nonsense.

According to Greek mythology and legend, "Pandora" was the first human woman created by Zeus, and the purpose of production was to take revenge on humans. Why did the king of the gods do this? Because his friend Prometheus cared so much about humanity that he brought the fire down, which made Zeus very unhappy, and not only did he arrest his friends endlessly, but he also wanted to find a way to deal with those stupid mortals.

So Zeus ordered the god of fire, Haphitas, to make a lovely woman in the image of the goddess, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, to douse her with hormones that make men crazy, Hera to give her confidence and self-esteem, the goddess Athena to teach her to weave cloth and make beautiful clothes of all colors, to make her look more vivid and charming, and the god Hermes to teach her the gift of language.

Zeus poured vicious evil water into this beautiful image, and an incomparably seductive woman was finally completed. He gave Pandora as a gift to humans, and the woman later opened the "magic box" out of curiosity, unleashing all the sins of the world......

The name Pandora Crimson symbolizes the status and significance of this diamond in the hearts of women, like a magic spell, as if holding this diamond in her hand, and when the crimson light is lit, her hostess becomes a perfect woman like Pandora.

Tian Yi swept the content one by one, and whispered disdainfully: "Nonsense, and nonsense ......" and looked away.

After confirming the location of the target, he began to explore the terrain of the museum, observing the distribution of security guards, the time of shift changes, etc., and of course, the most important thing to confirm was the security system here.

There are camera probes everywhere, there is no doubt about it, the security level must be low during the day, and at night, if you sneak in, avoid the camera or second, I am afraid that there is any infrared induction, gravity change sensing, temperature change induction and so on......

After wandering around for several hours, Tianyi didn't leave until before closing time.

According to Tianyi's idea, it is best to come to a 24-hour squat, use the ability to remotely sense near the Louvre, and write down the action rules of each staff member inside.

But the bet he made with Gu Aya in advance was that he couldn't use ability, nor could he use the book of his heart, let alone use force to take it. Tianyi must devise a way to "steal" things out in order to be successful.

Although the other party did not supervise him at all, he could cheat, but Tianyi knew that if he violated the basic principles of this game, it would not be a matter of having a product or not, but proving his incompetence in disguise. What's more, there is a guy who can expose lies in the reverse - blood lords. With the urine nature of the consultant, he must have already revealed the information of the members of the Reverse Cross to his sister, so Gu Aya at least had a way to verify whether Tianyi had committed a foul. And judging from the blood lord's urine nature, it is appropriate to sell the boss in the well, don't expect him to open his eyes and say nonsense to cover himself.

In short, the relationship between the Reverse Cross and the Cross is ...... I feel that the other party is unreliable, and I feel that this kind of bastard teammate is too reliable.

Tianyi wasn't the kind of person who would take a telescope and squat on the roof overnight to get some incomplete information, and he was lazy, so he went back.

For him, wasting so much time here in half an afternoon was very interesting, and he couldn't come up with a good idea without coffee.

Back at the hotel, changing his clothes and freshening up, Tianyi turned on the computer and paid for the use of this computer application for a month with a public account of Reverse Cross.

Then he took the photos taken with the camera in the treasure hall, the distribution of the cameras secretly taken by the mobile phone, and the audio of several security conversations quietly recorded, and then created a new file and began to draw the structural diagram of the building.

Tianyi's efficiency is very fast, a can of coffee is down, and the sketch of the crimson Pandora display area of the Treasure Hall has basically been completed. Of course, this is only the first step, and he plans to draw a diorama of the entire Louvre, including the surrounding city within a radius of 300 meters, preferably even the layout of the sewers.

But at this moment, the lazy worm began to make trouble again, and the premise of Tianyi to ensure high efficiency was not only coffee, but also concentration, when concentration decreased, he would immediately put aside what he was doing to do something else for a while.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Tianyi has a lot of cat habits, he has to sleep for a long time every day, likes to eat more and eat less, can't help but want to touch it when he sees a regular moving object (such as a pendulum), can't stand the pressure, hates the smell of toothpaste and oranges, can't help but want to pounce on it when he sees a fly and kill it, and likes to provoke a leashed dog......

A guy with this kind of personality is only suitable for running a bookstore slumped in a sofa chair all day long, drinking coffee and yawning.

"By the way, it's good to look up the information provided by others on the Internet. Tianyi had a whim, opened a random portal, typed the three keywords in the search bar: "Louvre, theft, security system", and pressed enter.

There are thousands of search results, many of which are related to movies and television or related information. Tianyi quickly flipped back a few pages, and a category appeared that interested him, and after clicking on the link, he entered a video website, which seemed to be a video transferred from someone's blog, with the title: "The Louvre - the graveyard of legendary thieves." ”

The video is a recorded clip of a documentary talk show, and the protagonist of the film is an old man named "Radish Selling Cakes", with gray hair and an old age. According to his own account, he was an international thief when he was young, successfully handled countless sensational cases, and participated in the improvement and improvement of the Louvre's security system for more than 40 years.

Then the video showed a series of thieves who tried to enter the Louvre from 2057 onwards and their fate, the only one of these people who managed to escape from the gate of the Louvre and run outside, using the method of entering the museum during the day, hiding a hammer, smashing the glass and picking up things and running, who knew that the goods were knocked down with a hammer at that time, and the tempered glass was not smashed. As soon as the alarm bell rang, he panicked, threw down his hammer and turned his head away, running as fast as a thief, and finally was surrounded by a large group of security guards outside the door and fell to the ground.

This guy is probably the lower limit of thieves who dare to attack the Louvre, you know, this place can be described as a holy place in the eyes of professional thieves all over the world, and stealing things from here is like picking up the ruby in the crown of the thief's realm, enough for you to blow for a lifetime, and run away with a hammer in your arms, is this what people do?

Sure enough, the next characters in the video have all lived up to expectations and adopted various high-end techniques, from bone shrinking skills to high-tech, hiding, parachuting, digging tunnels, pretending to be guards, etc., each showing their magical powers, anyway, there is no one who will not be discovered in the end.

Of course, it is impossible to go into detail about the specific security system in the Louvre, in short, it is "very advanced" and "no loopholes".

In this kind of video that the public can see casually, naturally there will be no words or people such as "ability", Tianyi analyzed it, and it is estimated that those with ability above the strong level will succeed if they want to grab a few things from it, but there are not many strong masters who will be "thieves", most of them are not worried about money, and if they do such a vote, it is appropriate to be thrown into the tide prison, and there is no life to spend if you have money.

In this way, even if those thieves have one or two people with paper-level or parallel abilities, with the help of their abilities, they still can't get past the security system, and they are still caught...... This shows that eighty percent of the Louvre's security personnel are also equipped with some reformers.

Tianyi turned off the computer screen, lay down with his hands behind his head, looked at the ceiling and complained: "It's harder than I imagined, I really have to design a long-term plan......"

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