We asked you to solve cases, and here you are sharing your criminal experiences?

At the makeshift interrogation table set up by the roadside.

Garbage truck driver Wang Qiang was handcuffed to the door handle, his legs trembling like a leaf.

Gu Tingchen stood in front of him, holding the sealed bag containing the national treasure.

"Do you even know what you're carrying in your car?"

Wang Qiang glanced at the exquisite bag and shook his head in fright.

"I really don't know, officer! I'm just a garbage truck driver!"

"A few days ago, a man wearing a baseball cap approached me. He gave me 20,000 yuan and asked me to drive the car to an abandoned auto repair shop in the middle of the night when no one was around, and weld a hole in the back of the car."

"This morning, he messaged me on some website, asking me to go to the backyard of the museum to collect the trash at 3 pm. He said that once the trash was in the car, I didn't need to worry about it anymore. He said he would settle the remaining 30,000 yuan payment after I drove the car back to the auto repair shop."

Old Zheng, listening from the side, kept shaking his head.

"Three million to steal national treasures, fifty thousand to transport them. These criminals are buying people's lives for the price of cabbage!"

Lin Wan arrived with Xiao Wang from the technical department.

"Captain Gu, we've checked the driver's phone. There are no call records; it's completely clean." Xiao Wang held up a hacking device connected via data cable. "However, we recovered an encrypted email attachment from his hidden photo album cache."

Song Qianxia's eyes lit up, and she leaned closer.

She was all too familiar with this encryption method. It was a common peer-to-peer self-destructing program used on the dark web. The driver's phone was too old, and the cache hadn't been properly cleared, which allowed it to be compromised.

"Can you open it?" Gu Tingchen asked.

Sweat beaded on Xiao Wang's forehead as his fingers flew across the keyboard: "This encryption algorithm is a bit complex, it uses a dynamic key. Give me half an hour, I'll run a dictionary attack on the bureau's server..."

"Hey Wang, why are you looking at the dictionary?"

Song Qianxia casually approached Xiao Wang and pointed to a piece of code on the screen.

"Look at this string of gibberish, it's hexadecimal. Back when I was an NPC in escape rooms, the boss loved making these kinds of brain-teasing combination locks. Try reversing the hexadecimal values ​​and inputting it in reverse?"

Xiao Wang hesitated for a moment, then, as a last resort, he casually typed in the reversed code that Song Qianxia had mentioned.

"Clatter".

The progress bar quickly filled up, and a file dialog box popped up.

Xiao Wang stared at Song Qianxia in astonishment: "Amazing! Song, your luck is incredible!"

Song Qianxia quickly waved her hand, laughing heartlessly, "Hehe, just a lucky break! I'm a pro at escape room tricks!"

Gu Tingchen watched coldly from the sidelines, realizing that Xiao Wang, this science and engineering guy, had really been fooled by her.

The cracked attachment was an electronic image.

The background of the image is a deep, dark sea, with a half-open bronze door in the center.

Above the door, a line of text was written in cursive English:

Deep Sea.

"Deep Sea..." Lin Wan uttered these two words, her expression changing. "Captain Gu, isn't this the Deep Sea Auction that Yin Que mentioned, the highest-level auction in the underworld?"

Gu Tingchen leaned closer to the screen and used his finger to zoom in on the bottom left corner of the image on the touchpad.

In the shadows of the sea, a very faint dark pattern emerged.

It was an owl with its eyes closed.

The symbol of the night owl.

Song Qianxia stared at the screen, her heart pounding uncontrollably.

Night Owl used the Star Ocean Foundation's charitable facade to sponsor the exhibition, exchanging fakes for genuine artifacts worth 80 million, and it was not for his private collection at all.

They intend to use this national treasure, which has official backing, as the grand prize at the deep-sea auction three days later!

With this level of hard currency, laundering the 50 million is just a formality, and it will attract countless underground buyers to enter the market.

But what truly excited Song Qianxia was not the revelation of the case.

It's not a ticket!

Silver Sparrow's physical invitation was declared dead by White Crow of the Archives, rendering it completely useless.

But now, this digital image of the invitation has fallen into the hands of the police!

Although it was just an image without any biometric information, for Qianmian, a top hacker who used to treat network defense as his backyard in the underground world, having the source code of the entry point made forging an electronic invitation incredibly easy!

"This is not just a case of cultural relic theft." Gu Tingchen straightened up, his voice chilling. "Night Owl is using charity and exhibitions as a pretext to promote their auction."

He turned to look at Lin Wan.

"Immediately contact Director Zhou of the Provincial Department's Inspection Division. Tell her that the museum artifacts case and the Night Owl case have been officially merged. Have them activate network interception and investigate all users in Jiangcheng who have sent or received this image."

After Gu Tingchen finished giving his instructions, he keenly noticed the barely suppressed excitement in Song Qianxia's eyes.

"Advisor Song, what are you thinking about?"

Song Qianxia immediately composed herself, straightened her chest, and looked righteous.

"Reporting to Captain Gu! I'm just excited about our successful cracking of this major cultural relic theft case! Evil cannot prevail over good! Justice will triumph!"

Gu Tingchen twitched the corner of his mouth.

"I know justice will prevail, and I also know that if you don't go back and take a shower, Old Chen from the technical department will beat you out with a broom."

Lin Wan also pinched her nose and said,

"Chika, how about... you ride a shared bike back to the police station?"

Song Qianxia lowered her head and smelled her sleeve.

The strong, pungent smell of garbage hit her nostrils, and she almost vomited on the spot.

"Ugh! You guys have no heart!" Song Qianxia gagged as she ran towards the police car. "I've given my youth and soul to this task force!"