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Chapter 267
Chapter 267
Although the Hongjing City Library is old, the floors are really not low.
Wang Chao rushed to the top of the building panting with his notebook in his arms, pushed open the thick wooden door of the journal library, and sneezed at the heavy smell that came upon his face.
He looked around and couldn't see anyone, so he had to shout loudly, "Boss, Brother Achen, where are you?"
The clear and loud voice of the young man reverberated among the bookshelves floating in shadows. Now is probably the moment when Xing Conglian is closest to Lin Chen's heart except when he goes to bed.
He finally understood why Lin Chen always risked his life in so many things, and he probably didn't want to leave the choice in the hands of others.
And now, he still has the opportunity to ask Lin Chen, what is a landmine, is it a metaphor, or is it a real bomb, or is it just a hypothesis put forward by Huang Weiwei in order to reassure him, but all the truth has been dropped from the sky. The molten steel melted into one, and no one knew it.
So far, Xing Conglian thought so.
He stared at Lin Chen's back, made up his mind, and said loudly, "Here, by the window."
When Lin Chen heard the words, there was a slight and almost imperceptible raising of his hand, as if he was wiping away tears, but his hand was quickly put down.
When Dynasty ran behind them, it was like it never happened.
"Boss, brother Achen received that text message, and it really pointed to someone on the dark web..." The young man's words suddenly stopped, his eyes wandered over the two of them, as if he felt the strange atmosphere here, his voice paused, and he said , "Uh... I came early, didn't I, I can reopen the door, you guys prepare..."
He said that he was about to turn around and run again, Xing Conglian frowned, but he did not ease his emotions for a while, just stared at Lin Chen.
"Come back." At this moment, Lin Chen said.
The dynasty stopped suddenly, and turned around awkwardly: "Brother Achen..."
In this short moment, Lin Chen has regained his calm.
Xing Conglian looked at Lin Chen, but the other party lowered his head slightly, without any desire to look at him.
Lin Chen stood up and walked in front of the dynasty, as if seeing through the mind of a young man, he said calmly, "Don't worry, I didn't quarrel with your boss and break up."
He regained his usual clean and bright, Xing Conglian finally understood that all the temperament in Lin Chen was clearly a kind of clarity tempered to the extreme by darkness.
"Hey, I'll just say, where did my boss get this guts!" The young man smiled brightly and rushed to the desk to sit down, his indomitable appearance seemed to be able to dilute all the haze.
Lin Chen sat down opposite the dynasty holding the heavy journal, and said, "The sender's number points to a certain website on the dark web, right?"
All the pain and anger just now disappeared, and Lin Chen, with his usual simplicity and neatness, talked about the main topic with the dynasty.
"Yes, Brother Achen, I used brute force to crack it!" Dynasty opened the notebook and turned to Lin Chen.
In the center of the picture is a bunch of red countdowns, and in the lower right corner is a bunch of golden flowers.
The website is too simple, and the graphics elements are very thick. Although there is no bloody feeling deliberately created, it reveals the coldness of indifference to life because of indifference. Indifference is always more terrible than passion.
This situation is too familiar, Xing Conglian withdrew his gaze and linked the cause and effect. He looked at Lin Chen again, I'm afraid Lin Chen felt it earlier than he felt, so no matter how difficult it was, Lin Chen had to finish the story to him.
"Brother Achen, are they... the same group of people we met before?" Wang Chao asked.
Lin Chen raised his eyebrows and thought deeply, but did not answer immediately.
"There's only a series of countdowns on the website, what do you mean?" Xing Conglian changed the subject and asked Dynasty.
"It's not just a series of countdowns!"
Dynasty used the mouse to click on the center of the screen to count down, and an equally simple pop-up window popped up temporarily.
The following are the routines that usually appear in movies. Since there are websites with pop-up windows, of course, there are places where you need to enter a password.
There is only one box on the white background, and a line of simple words - password.
The countdown kept going backwards, and there was 12:32:31 left. However, the unit was not hours, but minutes. If they couldn't break the password within 12 minutes, the ghosts knew what would happen.
"It's all gimmicks in front! Password, we need a password to enter the inner world of the website!" Chao tapped on the keyboard, "Brother Achen's password... It should be the part you are responsible for deciphering."
Xing Cong Lianchong Dynasty said coldly, "Aren't you a master?"
"Even if I'm a master, I can't violate the laws of nature. You can find me a supercomputer and half a day, and I can break it for you, but within 12 minutes, I can't!"
Wang Dynasty looked like I couldn't do it anyway, what else did he have to say, Lin Chen finally moved.
Lin Chen slowly flipped through the journal in his hand, and turned it to the question on the page of more than a thousand pages. He reached out and stroked the page lightly, and said to the dynasty, "You saw the map of the three provinces near us on the dark web. ?"
"Ah, yes!"
"On the Internet, do our maps appear a lot?"
"It's okay, but most of them match that sentence!"
"Balance game on the wire." Lin Chen said.
"Yes!" Wang Dynasty paused and asked, "How about I type this word in and see?"
"How many bits in the password?" Xing Conglian asked.
"11!" Wang Dynasty replied.
Xing Conglian quickly went through this group of words in his mind, and then said: "No language match can match this group of words with 11 bits."
"Oh... well, fortunately I didn't try it, otherwise the website might explode after three mistakes." Chao Dynasty murmured.
"No." Lin Chen interrupted him.
"Nothing, why not?" Dynasty, still in a state of excitement, kept asking.
"Because this is a large-scale game that the whole network participates in, the website will not be destroyed." Lin Chen paused and said, "I can print out the map and use A4 paper. If it is not enough, enlarge it to A4. "
Dynasty was stunned: "Yes, but what map do you want, do we have the three surrounding provinces?"
Lin Chen nodded.
"Is that a satellite topographic map or a normal 2D map?" Wang Chao said while moving, "Google, Baidu or...?"
"Just the map you found on the dark web."
"Ah?" Dynasty's hand speed was faster than his brain. He easily clicked on the saved map on the computer desktop. The red and blue lines were intertwined like blood, as if to indicate something.
Lin Chen glanced at the picture and said sternly to Chao Dynasty: "Go and print this picture, immediately, immediately."
Chao Dynasty was very smart, and when he heard the difference in Lin Chen's tone, he quickly searched for the printer on the intranet, and then rolled out like a gust of wind.
Xing Conglian walked behind Lin Chen and looked at the open picture on the screen.
On that ordinary flat map, the three provinces of Cheng'an, Jiangxia, and Zhelin bordered each other, and on it were the surrounding cities that they were familiar with.
There are dense dots on the map, and he counted the number of dots on the map, obviously more than 15.
All the black dots are connected by straight lines. If it wasn't for the wrong timing and location of this map, it would be easy to be ignored as a ghost thing like an ordinary forum signature.
Xing Conglian took a deep breath, put his hand on top of Lin Chen's head, pointed to the collection of periodicals on the table with the other hand, and asked Lin Chen, "Code book?"
"I'm afraid so."
Like the general "Discrete Mathematics" in the Yongchuan University suicide case, it is clear that the mastermind behind the scenes has not changed his usual methods.
"Then, Song Shengsheng..."
"It should also be controlled by them."
Xing Conglian trembled in his heart.
"That's why I said, things will never pass." Lin Chen stared at the screen, but his tone was not sad and weak, but sounded with a clear goal and calmness.
Xing Conglian bent down, one hand still pressed on top of Lin Chen's head, the other hand hooked his neck, hugged him, and said briefly in his ear, "I will be here in the future."
This is probably more like a comrade-in-arms hug than a lover's hug, Lin Chen nestled in his arms, finally turned his head, rubbed his cheek, and breathed slightly with warmth: "That day I was upstairs at Zhourui Pharmaceutical. , I am very sorry, and I am very sorry for many things in the past. But if I encounter a similar situation again, I should still do it. I have a strong imprint of the past on me. They decided who I am now, and this will never be the case. There will be changes." Lin Chen paused, he rarely had a moment to organize his sentences, but the current monologue obviously made him hesitate, he said, "But I still hope that you can accept... accept me like this." Lin Chen said sincerely.
Xing Conglian was silent for a few seconds, he let go of Lin Chen, stood up, held his shoulder, and solemnly repeated: "In the future, I will be here."
...
When the dynasty came in again, Xing Conglian had already sat down beside Lin Chen.
Outside the window is the breeze and the rising sun, and the chirping of birds.
There are 8 minutes left in the countdown.
Like a teenager, he rushed over and patted the printed map on the table. Lin Chen had already pulled out a ballpoint pen from his pocket and pressed it open.
He circled the black dots at the intersections of all the lines on the map and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be a dot code, too complex and modern encryption tools are not conducive to the widespread dissemination of information for the behind-the-scenes, and , he's an old-fashioned man of special interest."
When Lin Chen said this, he began to cover the printed paper on the page of the journal with the pencil words: "dot code, requires everyone to have the same decryption alphabet, this paper is the alphabet. And these widely appearing The map on the dark web is the encrypted ciphertext. The so-called map and all the intersections of the lines are to cover up the ciphertext of the point code, and it can be directly excluded."
Lin Chen sewed the map paper on the journal, and the letters on the journal showed a little bit. Sure enough, as Lin Chen said, those tiny black dots really fit on some specific letters.
Lin Chen pressed the black spot on the map paper with a ballpoint pen, lightly lifted the white paper, punctured the paper with the tip of the pen, and tapped on the journal on the next page.
Xing Cong counted, and he just poked eleven times in a row.
Finally, Lin Chen opened the paper, reported all the letters with blue dots in order, and said, "The password isβI, N, T, O, T, H, E, D, A, R, K."
IN TO THE DARK.
Into the dark, in the dark.