Genius Club.

Chapter 153 Hide and Seek

Everything went smoothly.

Cryptography expert CC found the option to pass the pass on the computer without any effort.

After confirmation...

The gate of the checkpoint slowly opened, and the stationary garbage trucks started one by one, forming a neat queue and driving out of the gate.

"Come up quickly."

Following Lin Xian's call, CC and he once again hid in 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.

Finally, only two garbage trucks were left, continuing along the route in front of them toward Taim Yin.

Squeak————

About 20 minutes later, the heavy garbage truck braked to a stop.

Inertia drives the lower Linxian and CC together.

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

When I looked up, I saw four big words "Tem Bank" written on the door, with a string of English words below.

But perhaps because the business has gone bankrupt... these signs are not lit up like the surrounding signs, and instead have a dilapidated feel.

"We've finally reached our destination."

Lin Xian couldn't help but sigh at the hardships he had experienced along the way.

CC blinked in confusion and looked at Lin Xian:

"Isn't this going very smoothly? Even I feel it's going incredibly smoothly."

"This is all made up of my corpses..." Lin Xian said with a wry smile.

For CC, this is really similar to completing the game with one life.

But from Lin Xian’s perspective, starting from the garbage dump below, he didn’t know how many times he died before he successfully arrived here.

The two of them sat up, quietly jumped down, and stretched their heads to look at the bank entrance from behind the front of the car.

The first few loading and unloading robots have already started to get busy, carrying out, lifting and loading the hafnium alloy safes in the warehouse one by one.

Robots and automated equipment completed all the work. A smoking man was sitting next to them with his legs crossed, watching everything. He was probably the person in charge of supervision.

"The gunshots are so loud, I'm afraid they'll attract the patrolling mechanical dogs."

CC took out the veterinary tranquilizer gun from his pocket:
"I'll knock him out."

"OK, let's see your performance."

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

CC crouched down, got out of the car quietly and quietly, and then stuck close to the wall, approaching the man's back——

"Ugh——!"

The man's mouth and nose were quickly covered! Then the veterinary anesthesia gun was pointed at his neck!

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

But CC did not let go and still maintained control until the man rolled his eyes and completely fainted, then he released his arm and supported him against the wall.

"As expected of a veterinary tranquilizer gun, the drug is really powerful."

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

During normal anesthesia for surgeries in hospitals, except for inhalation anesthesia which is faster, injection anesthesia has a certain effective time and the dosage is well controlled.

But for veterinary use...

I'm afraid it's the large dose that works miracles.

"move."

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

Because the bank was already in a state of bankruptcy and the announcement had been issued for a long time, most of the debris inside had been moved away... After the announcement expired today, the safes in the warehouse also became unclaimed garbage.

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

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

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

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

In the first dream, I fought wits and courage with these things every day, and today I am back to the starting point.

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

The two of them ran straight to the innermost part.

Not long after, the safe with Lin Xian's name on it was found.

"That's it!"

CC was very excited when he saw Lin Xian's name. He squatted down and turned the code wheel to try.

Click.

Click.

Click.

Lin Xian listened to the crisp sound of the combination wheel turning, but it was immediately followed by the muffled sound of the lock failing to open.

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

"Let me try."

CC made way and Lin Xian dialed the password to 29990203.

Take a deep breath...

Boom!
Press the lock hard!

……

Not open.

"hehe!"

Lin Xian laughed as expected.

how to say……

Although he had added so many layers of ideological stamps to himself, in fact... he still wasn't very confident.

After all, I have tried to open this safe so many times but failed, and all my confidence has been worn away.

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

I tried all the passwords I could think of related to 42...but they were still wrong.

"Forget it, it's your turn."

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

Since the password 29990203 can't open the safe...

There are two possibilities: 1. The safe is definitely 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 can't 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 my future self really doesn't want my present self to open the safe, then if my whole thinking logic is seen through... I won't be able to open it no matter what.

Just as Zhao Yingjun said.

Passwords without any logic or meaning are the most difficult to crack, unless a brute force method is used.

But it would take decades to crack an 8-digit password using a brute force method... With only a few dozen minutes of time to travel through mountains and rivers every day...

He suddenly looked at CC:

"Since 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 every birthday I had every year... It made me feel like I was being too sentimental."

"In fact, it is unlikely to be a date related to me, because from what the man said, he had kept the things in the safe for a long time. It doesn't seem like he kept it specifically for me."

"You continue trying here. I'll go find some information about this bank." Lin Xian said goodbye to CC and went directly to the second floor of Tam Bank.

The second floor is basically composed of offices, but most of the things inside have been moved out, leaving only some garbage covered with dust.

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

He searched through the sundries in the office on the second floor one by one. Some were waste paper, some were bills, and some were empty paper boxes...

I searched many offices but couldn't find anything useful.

It wasn't until he reached the second-to-last office that he found a torn speech manuscript in the trash can.

It’s quite magical… I didn’t expect that 600 years later, with such advanced audio-visual equipment, leaders still like to read from scripts when they give speeches.

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

He picked it up and wrote at the beginning:

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

"Year 2023?"

Lin Xian noticed this familiar year!

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

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

However, the year when Tam Bank was founded was indeed a very important year for Lin Xian.

"Since Taimu Bank was established in 2023...if this safe is really mine, when should I have stored things in it and set the password?"

Lin Xian wasn’t sure if he was one of the first users of Tam Bank, but he thought that there was a possibility.

Lin Xian had searched the Internet before, but found no information about Tam Bank.

That means...

Perhaps in the next few months, Tam Bank will be established, and at the latest no later than New Year's Day 2024.

"[This may be the link that connects 600 years of time!]"

Lin Xian had always wondered if there was any way to hide items from 600 years ago and then take them out 600 years later?
However, there were no common coordinates between the first dream and real life, and there was no corresponding place at all. It would be useless even if a hole was dug to bury it.

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

But it's different now.

As long as the Taim Bank is established in 2023 in real life, he can go in to handle a safe deposit box 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 come in handy in the short term... but something is better than nothing, and having a bond is better than having nothing.

"It would be great if there was a way to send something from 600 years later to 600 years ago. Unfortunately... time cannot flow backwards."

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

From the current perspective, this safe will not be able to be opened in the short term.

But Lin Xian didn't care much.

First of all, the Tam Bank will be established soon, and the answer will be revealed 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 cheat him. He must have his own purpose, so he deliberately set a password that he could never guess.

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

"The focus from now on should still be on the [Cat and Mouse Game] that Huang Que mentioned, and the [Invitation Letter from the Genius Club]."

These two things.

One is the crisis you face, and the other is the key to solving all mysteries.

Equally important.

But at the same time, I have no idea which step to take or where to go.

It was obvious that the woman named Huang Que must know all the answers. She was very sure of everything she said, but she insisted on being a riddle teller and said nothing.

Relatively speaking, Lin Xian is more concerned about the "cat and mouse game".

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

Since Huang Que reminded me of this...

That means that 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 about this.

If the cat refers to the murderer who killed Xu Yun...

Then they would easily be able to trace the "interest relationship" between themselves and Xu Yun.

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

These secrets may be what the murderers care about most.

Fortunately, Xu Yun had destroyed the manuscripts he had given him long ago, so the murderers should not be able to find any direct evidence that they helped Xu Yun with his research.

But this does not prevent them from considering themselves as suspects.

Why do they want to kill people?
Don't know.

If they wanted to kill themselves, would they do it on time at 00:42?
uncertain.

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

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

"Since this is hide-and-seek, they will eventually come out to find me, right? They will have to have some contact with me, right?"

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

"Who is the one?"

(End of this chapter)