"Tony, Professor Moriarty has a letter for you!" Monet was sleeping in a daze that morning, and Nicole suddenly woke him up and said with an anxious face.

Hearing the name of "Professor Moriarty", Monet suddenly became energetic and asked repeatedly: "What is written in the letter?!" It can't be another misunderstanding like last time, right? ”

Nicole shook her head and replied, "I don't know if it's a misunderstanding, because I can't understand what is written in the letter at all, only a string of numbers!" With that, Nicole handed the letter to Monet.

Monet took it and took a look, only to see that there was only a string 20180601131331956 of numbers written on it, and there was nothing left, but the question was what did this string of numbers mean? Monet was confused.

Then he asked, "What about the envelope?" Where did this letter come from? ”

Nicole shook her head again and replied, "I don't know, the envelope only says that the sender is Professor Moriarty, but there is no sender's address and stamp, and I don't know how he sent it!" ”

"Where did you get this letter?" Monet asked.

"It's in our mailbox."

Monet looked at the envelope and thought for a moment, then replied: "This letter was probably not sent, but someone stuffed it directly into our mailbox." ”

"So that means this Professor Moriarty is still in New York?" Nicole asked tentatively.

Monet shook his head and replied: "Not necessarily, because if Mary told me the truth, then this Professor Moriarty should be in England now, and this kind of trivial matter of sending a letter does not need him to come forward in person, just send a subordinate or a street child to send it, the point is to find out what the number he wrote to me means." ”

"Could it be the kind of code in a detective novel?" Nicole guessed.

Monet nodded and replied: "It's very likely, because the name Professor Moriarty can be called, which means that he must be very fond of reading detective novels, so it is normal to get a string of password numbers, but I have never seen 17 digits in this format." ”

"Why don't you go to Sheriff Klein for help, after all, they must have more contact with this kind of stuff at the police station!" Nicole suggested.

"Good idea, I'll go to the police station!" Monet immediately got up and said.

"What are you anxious about, now the police station is not open, let's eat breakfast first!" Nicole persuaded.

But now Monet is in the mood to have breakfast, so after eating the omelette and milk in less than a minute, he drove to the police station, but to his disappointment, Sheriff Klein has not seen a number similar to this format here, and there are no surveillance cameras in this era, so there is no way to know who stuffed this letter into Monet's mailbox, so this matter can only be put on hold for the time being, and will be talked about after there are clues in the future.

So Monet had no choice but to come to "Comet", as soon as he arrived at the office, Beasley knocked on the door and came in and reported: "Editor-in-chief, these are application materials, please see when the interview is!" ”

Because Christina resigned, Beasley temporarily took her place, so Beasley's position was vacant, and Christina's work ability was so strong that it took at least two people to take her job, so now "Comet" has to hire at least two new employees.

When looking through the information of these applicants, Monet unexpectedly saw Catherine's name, and then looked at the contact address and phone number, and determined that this was Hule's wife Catherine.

So he hurriedly dialed the phone and asked Catherine, "Catherine, why did you come to "Comet" to apply?" ”

Catherine replied with a wry smile: "Isn't there nothing I can do, Hule is like this, not only can he not make money, but he also has to be sent to a mental hospital for treatment, if I don't work to earn some money, then this family will not be able to live." ”

Monet thought about it, so he sighed and said: "Then if you don't dislike the low salary of our magazine, then come over tomorrow!" ”

"Thank you so much, Tony!" Catherine replied gratefully.

"We're all friends, why are you so polite, and didn't I tell you before, if you need help, just tell me!" Monet said with a wave of his hand.

After chatting with Catherine, Monet continued to check the applicant's profile, and suddenly received a call from Rick, only to hear Rick say to him very excitedly: "Tony, guess who I met today?" ”

"I'll guess where I'm going." Monet replied casually.

"You will definitely be thrilled to hear his name, he is the famous writer Mr. Jack London, how do you want to know him? Let me introduce you! ”

But to Rick's surprise, Monet only thought about it for a few seconds and refused: "No, although I like his works very much, especially "Call of the Wild" and "Sea Wolf", and I also admire his experience very much, but I am diametrically opposed to him in some opinions, so it is better not to meet, so as not to quarrel and be rude!" ”

"Oh? What do you disagree with Mr. London? Rick asked curiously.

"Views on China!" Monet replied succinctly.

In fact, many friends who are not familiar with Jack London may not know that this great realist writer was actually a crazy racist, especially extremely Sinophobic, and wrote a large number of works in this area, such as "The Yellow Peril" in 1904, "White and Yellow" and "Yellow Handkerchief" in 1905, "Chinese Dog" in 1909 and "Unprecedented Invasion" published in 1910, in which he even fantasized about using a plague to wipe out China......

For such a person, Monet naturally didn't have a good impression of him, and if he didn't let Chen Yuanqi assassinate him, how could he get acquainted with him? But then again, even if Chen Yuanqi doesn't do it, Jack London himself will die of a drug overdose in two years.

PS: Of course, we have to look at Jack London dialectically, although his anti-Chinese remarks are unacceptable, but it cannot erase his literary achievements, especially in exposing the nature of capitalism, in fact, his works are more profound than Dickens, because he has really endured hardship, worked as a child laborer, stevedore, sailor, gold digger and wandered all over the United States, so his works really write about the misery and numbness of the bottom. (No matter how bad Dickens's family is, his father is also a civil servant, and he also attended Wellington College, so he is not really at the bottom.) ）

PS2: The chapter name of this chapter uses the reader number of the "source" brother......