Chapter 14 Hide and Seek

Everything went smoothly.

CC, the cryptography expert, found the pass option on the computer without any effort.

After confirmation...

The gate of the checkpoint slowly opened, and the stationary garbage trucks started one after another, forming a neat queue and driving towards the door.

"Come up quickly."

Following Lin Xian's greeting, CC and he once again lurked into the gap under the dump truck... and entered the urban area of ​​Donghai City.

…

Along the way, the garbage trucks gradually drove away according to the set route.

In the end, only two garbage trucks were left and continued to drive along the route in front of them towards Thame Bank.

Squeak————

About 20 minutes later, the heavy garbage truck stopped.

Driven by inertia, Lin Xian and CC stuck together.

They quietly poked their heads out... and found that the garbage truck in front of them was parked right in front of the bank, and theirs was parked right behind.

When I looked up, I saw the four big characters of Taimu Bank written on the door.

But maybe it's because it's closed down... These signboards are not lit up like the surrounding signs, but instead have a dilapidated atmosphere.

"Finally we've arrived at our destination."

Lin Xian couldn't help but lament the ups and downs of this journey.

CC blinked in confusion and looked at Lin Xian:

"Isn't this very smooth? Even I feel that it is incredibly smooth."

"These are all piled up with my corpse..." Lin Xian said with a bitter smile.

For CC, this is indeed similar to clearing the level in one life.

But from Lin Xian’s perspective, from

The two sat up, jumped off quietly, stretched their heads and looked at the bank entrance from behind the front of the car——

The first few loading and unloading robots have already begun to be busy, starting to transport the hafnium alloy safes from the warehouse one by one, lift them up, and load them into trucks.

Robots and automated equipment completed all the work, and there was a smoking man sitting next to him with his legs crossed, probably the person responsible for supervision.

"The gunfire is too loud, I'm afraid it will attract the patrolling mechanical dogs."

CC took out the veterinary gun in his pocket:

"I'll knock him out."

"OK, let's watch your performance."

Lin Xian is still very confident in CC's skills.

I saw CC getting out of the car quietly and quietly, all in a cat-like shape, then clinging to the wall and getting close behind the man——

"Ugh——!"

The man's mouth and nose were quickly covered! Then the beast pressed his penis against his neck!

After struggling for about twenty or thirty seconds... the man suddenly lost strength and collapsed.

However, CC did not let go, and still maintained control. She waited until the man rolled his eyes and completely passed out, then released his arm and supported him against the wall.

"As expected of a veterinary medicine, this medicine is really powerful."

When Lin Xian saw that it was safe, he also turned it over.

Normal anesthesia is used for operations in the hospital. Except for inhalation anesthesia, which is faster, injectable anesthesia has a certain effective time, and the dosage is well controlled.

But for veterinary use...

I'm afraid it's just a large dose that works wonders.

"move."

The two quietly passed by the automated equipment carrying hafnium alloy safes and went directly to the bank warehouse.

Because this bank is already in a state of bankruptcy and has issued an announcement for a long time, most of the sundries inside have been removed... After today's announcement expired, the safes in this warehouse became unoccupied. Claimed trash.

As expected, the automated handling equipment does not have an alarm function, and it can also automatically avoid obstacles and pedestrians, which is quite user-friendly.

Soon, the two arrived at the warehouse filled with hafnium alloy safes.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Lin Xian looked at the shiny silver safes in the warehouse and felt nostalgic.

In the first dreamland, I battled wits and courage with these things every day, but today I have returned to the original point.

Originally, these safes were built into the walls, but now they have been "cut out" and are lying in a mess on the ground.

The two of them ran directly to the innermost part.

It didn't take long to find the safe with Lin Xian's name written on it.

"This is it!"

CC was very excited when she saw Lin Xian's name. She squatted down and tried to spin the password wheel for a while.

Click.

Click.

Click.

Lin Xian listened to the crisp sound of the password wheel turning, but what followed immediately was the muffled sound of the lock being unable to open.

CC tried many passwords, but none of them were correct.

"Let me try."

CC stepped aside and Lin Xian dialed the password to 29990203.

Take a deep breath...

Boom!

Press the lock button hard!

…

Not open.

"hehe!"

Lin Xian laughed unexpectedly.

how to say……

Although he has added so many layers of ideological stamps to himself, in fact... he still doesn't have much confidence.

After all, this safe has been tried so many times but has not been opened, and no matter how much self-confidence you have, it has been worn away.

He tried the password for the password door of Zhao Yingjun's office again, but it was wrong.

I also tried all the imaginable passwords related to 42... Still wrong.

"Forget it, it's up to you."

Lin Xian made room for CC again, sighed and looked at the safe.

Since the password 29990203 cannot open the safe...

That means there are two possibilities.

1. This safe is indeed not yours.

2. My future self is not willing to let my present self open this safe.

"My future self deliberately set a password that I cannot open." Lin Xian thought.

If this is the case, then there is really no need to try this safe.

The person who knows you best is yourself.

If your future self really doesn't want your present self to open the safe, then if all your thinking logic is seen through... you won't be able to open it no matter what.

As Zhao Yingjun said.

Passwords without any logic or meaning are the most difficult to crack unless exhaustive methods are used.

But the 8-digit password needs to be cracked using the exhaustive method... With only a few dozen minutes of traveling across mountains and rivers every day... I'm afraid it won't be possible to crack it in decades.

He looked at CC on a whim:

"now that

This safe was left to you by the bearded man. Shouldn't you first try your birthday and the date related to you? "

CC chuckled:

"The first thing I tried was my birthday, and I even tried it on my birthday every year... It made me feel like I was being sentimental."

"Actually, it's unlikely that it's a date related to me, because from what the man said, he had put the things in the safe for a long, long time. It doesn't look like it was specially kept for me."

"You can continue trying here. I'll look for information about this bank." Lin Xian said goodbye to CC and went directly to the second floor of Taimu Bank.

The second floor is basically filled with offices, but most of the stuff inside has been emptied, leaving only some garbage covered with dust.

Lin Xian felt that it was impossible to open the passwords one by one here. The probability was too small, and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It would be better to look for clues from other places.

He rummaged through the debris in the office on the second floor one by one. Some were printed waste papers, some were bills, and some were empty paper boxes...

I found many offices

room and found nothing useful.

It wasn't until the penultimate office that he found a torn speech in the trash can.

It's amazing... I didn't expect that 600 years later, despite having such advanced audio-visual equipment, leaders still like to read from scripts when speaking.

Maybe it’s the sense of formality that has existed since ancient times.

He picked it up and wrote at the beginning:

Since the establishment of Thame Bank in 2023, it has gone through 600 years of ups and downs. During these hundreds of years...]

"2023?"

Lin Xian noticed this familiar year!

Isn't this the year I live in the real world?

He read the speech carefully again... There was no other useful information. It was probably just a sensational speech at the bankruptcy ceremony, with little nutrition.

But the year when Thame Bank was established was indeed a very important year for Lin Xian.

"Since Thame Bank was established in 2023...if this safe is indeed mine, when should I store things in it and set the password?"

Lin Xian is not sure whether he is one of the first users of Taimu Bank, but thinking about it, there is still a possibility.

Lin Xian had searched the Internet before and could not find any news about Taimu Bank.

That means...

Perhaps in the next few months, Thame Bank will be established, anyway no later than New Year's Day 2024.

"Perhaps this is a link that connects 600 years of time!"

Lin Xian has always thought before, is there a way to find a place to hide items from 600 years ago and then take them out 600 years later?

But originally there were no common coordinates between the first dream and real life, and there was no corresponding place at all. Even if we dug a hole and buried it, it would be in vain.

Not to mention the second dream, it is completely different from the Donghai in real life.

But it's different now.

As long as Taimu Bank is established in real life in 2023, he can go there to handle a safe business, and then easily transport materials from 600 years ago to 600 years later!

Although I can't think of anything that can span 600 years and still be useful in the short term... But it's better than nothing. A bond is better than nothing.

"It would be great if there was a way to send things from 600 years ago to 600 years ago, but unfortunately... you can't turn back time."

Lin Xian leaned against the dusty iron cabinet and began to think about his plans for the next period of time.

At present, it seems that this safe will not be opened in a short period of time.

But Lin Xian didn't care very much.

First, Thame Bank will be established soon, and the answer will be revealed by then.

Secondly, since my future self doesn't want my present self to open the safe, there must be some important reason.

Lin Xian still firmly believed that his future self would not deceive him. He must have his own purpose, so he deliberately set a password that he could not guess anyway.

"Then, let's put the safe thing aside for now and wait patiently for the establishment of Thame Bank in 2023."

"The next focus is still on the cat-and-mouse game mentioned by Huang Que] and the invitation letter to the Genius Club."

These two things.

One is the crisis he faces, and the other is the key to solving all mysteries.

Equally important.

But at the same time, they are all clueless, not knowing which step to take or where to go.

Obviously, that woman Huangque must know all the answers, and everything she said is very certain, but she just insists on being a riddler and saying nothing.

Comparing these two things, Lin Xian still cares more about the cat-and-mouse game.

To put it bluntly, the cat-and-mouse game is hide and seek.

Since Huang Que reminded herself of this,

…

That means you are about to fall into, or have already fallen into, a certain danger.

In fact, Lin Xian also has a certain degree of self-awareness on this point.

If the cat refers to the murderer of Xu Yun...

Then it would be easy for them to follow the clues and find out the "interest relationship" between themselves and Xu Yun.

Although these interests cannot directly explain anything, they at least mean that there are some unknown secrets between himself and Xu Yun.

These secrets may be what the murderers care about most.

Fortunately, Xu Yun had already destroyed the manuscript he gave him, so the murderers should not be able to find any direct evidence that they helped Xu Yun conduct research.

But this does not prevent them from treating themselves as an object of suspicion and a suspect.

For what purpose do they want to kill?

Don't know.

If they want to kill me, will they do it at 00:42 on time?

uncertain.

"But... at least one thing is certain."

Lin Xian turned his head and looked out the window at the robot that was constantly transporting safes to the garbage truck. He thought of the hide-and-seek game he played with his friends in the family home when he was a child:

"Since it's hide-and-seek, then they have to come out to find me, right? They have to have some contact with me, right?"

He closed his eyes and began to recall the people who appeared around him actively or passively during this period...

"Who is the one?"