In the endless desert in the northwest, a dusty off-road vehicle drove up the churning dust on the road.
The driver of the car has gray hair and stubble on his face. The girl sitting in the passenger seat is dressed in youthful clothes. From a distance, they look like a father and daughter on the road. In fact, they are Cao Rui and Zhang Jie after makeup.
Cao Rui lit another cigarette, and Zhang Jie beside him rolled down the window with some annoyance:
"Can you smoke less? I can't stand it when you smoke without opening the window. When you open the window, you will see wind and sand all over your face!"
Cao Rui didn't have the slightest idea of pity, but he still lit the cigarette leisurely:
"I can explain it to you clearly when you join the mission! The environment is difficult, very difficult, and very dangerous. You have to come yourself, otherwise I will let Xiao Zhao or Xiao Zhou come."
Zhang Jie was unconvinced, but at the moment she didn’t know what to say, so she could only say angrily:
"At first I thought we were going to investigate matters related to extraterrestrial civilizations. The enemies have already moved into orbit. In seven or eight years, they will be on the ground! What are we doing here drilling into the desert?
!”
Cao Rui smoked a cigarette leisurely:
"The threats that are visible in the sky are threats. Some threats that are invisible now are not necessarily smaller than the threats that are visible! This survival is a one-way street, and any obstacle that cannot be passed is a dead end. No matter whether the obstacle is in
In front or behind."
Zhang Jie disagreed and thought Cao Rui was making a fuss:
"I'm asking you what the mission is. Tell me when you get to the place. Then how many times have we changed our outfits, identities, and even cars along the way. You can tell me why."
Cao Rui laughed and said:
"You've changed your identity, your outfit, and your car. You're already an elite in our bureau. How can you guess that? I don't believe it!"
Zhang Jie's anger was still not gone, and she said angrily:
"It's okay to hide your whereabouts, but why do you do this? I don't understand. Could it be that the detectors of alien civilizations are following us!"
Cao Rui still had that careless smile on his face:
"We don't have that much face. To be precise, this is called cloud disappearance. Through the program we designed in the background and the several times we changed our identities, it seems that from the Internet cloud, the previous Cao Rui and Zhang Jie have completely disappeared.
People have disappeared, and if you want to find us through the Internet, we can only reveal our identities ourselves.
As for why we do this, please sit down and listen carefully, the situation may be even more outrageous than you think."
As Zhang Jie watched with wide eyes and full of curiosity, Cao Rui told her about the Rain Man from beginning to end. As Cao Rui's story deepened, the expression on Zhang Jie's handsome face changed from beginning to end.
The initial curiosity has turned into disbelief tinged with fear.
Cao Rui threw the unfinished cigarette out of the window because the wind and sand outside made it difficult for him to open his eyes. He rubbed his eyes:
"Now you know why we made this cloud disappear!"
Zhang Jie tilted her mouth and shook her head gently, saying:
"Then why are we running to the northwest? Do you have any clues?"
Cao Rui smiled slightly:
"There are no clues, it's just a guess at most!"
Zhang Jie showed a disdainful expression on her face:
"You don't even have any clues, so you dare to take me to the northwest? You are really powerful!"
After looking at the desolate scene of the desert outside the window for a few times, Zhang Jie sighed:
"Hey... forget it, I'm here now. Let's hear some speculations."
There was a hint of confidence in Cao Rui's ruffian smile:
"During the encounter in the tunnel, they controlled an unconscious girl with some kind of device on the back of her neck. Although we were unable to obtain the device or find the wreckage at the time.
But from the nine-square grid-like marks left on the back of the daughter's neck, we can deduce that the thing should be controlling humans through nine metal sharp objects inserted under the skin. A device of that level cannot be the one we caught those children in the rain.
Made under the guidance of others.”
Zhang Jie understood some of what Cao Rui meant:
"Then that kind of equipment should have been made by Rainman and given to those children through some channel."
Cao Rui nodded and continued:
"That's what it means, and don't think too high-end of those so-called channels. I guess it was sent by express delivery."
Zhang Jie scoffed at Cao Rui's speculation:
"That's not possible! Even if it were, then Rainman would take this package to deliver the express himself, and he would be on the news if he walked on the street..."
Halfway through, Zhang Jie suddenly figured out something. She looked at Cao Rui with wide eyes:
"The organizations loyal to them may not only be the group of children we arrested, but may be everywhere!"
Cao Rui nodded and said:
"Well, that's what I thought too. I checked the express delivery records of that group of children, and I found out that there was an express delivery from the northwest half a year before they were arrested. This caught my attention, because their online shopping
There are no records even of goods from the northwest.
They have theoretical scientific and technological capabilities that far exceed human beings, but they have never appeared before us like the Creator since ancient times. Even in my opinion, in such a crisis situation, they still ask for help from us, which makes me think
A guess."
"What?"
"They came to know us through the Internet. Before the emergence of the Internet, for whatever reason. They may not know our existence at all, and it can be said that they have not even come among us."
"I don't understand what you mean." Zhang Jie looked confused.
"I guess it was some violent activity of ours that caught their attention, or made them aware of our existence, and then they started to understand us."
"What strenuous activity?" Zhang Jie asked.
"Anyway, the only violent activity I can think of after the emergence of human beings is underground nuclear testing." Cao Rui said.
Zhang Jie thought for a while and asked again:
"But that doesn't make sense. According to you, with their advanced technological level, wouldn't it be better to just stand up and rule us?"
"Lao Zhou and I, who you have met, are the scientific advisors of our Secret Service. We have speculated that they should have encountered some big trouble. At least their industrial production capacity has been lost, or their number is very small. They
There must be some reason why you would contact us in such a manner at this special moment."
Zhang Jie is still a little confused:
"Based on a courier message and your own wild guesses. You, Director Cao, wouldn't just go into the Gobi Desert and try your luck in finding a needle in a haystack, right?"
Cao Rui chuckled, with a bit more pride on his face:
"Of course there are more, they are called 'cyber ghosts', I have seen their skills, they are very powerful! This is why we have to take long detours now, so that they can't detect us through highway cameras. But no matter how powerful the hacker is,
He also needs a place to access the Internet! And the network bandwidth needs to be very large to meet their needs for network control."
Zhang Jie seemed to understand:
"Well, that's the truth. Did you track his location through network IP or other means?"
Cao Rui shook his head and said:
"He is a cyber ghost. How can we be his opponent compared to hacker technology? I used a more stupid physical method. I did a series of research and surveys. I basically analyzed the big data centers in each region.
The energy consumption of the station is proportional to the information development level of the area, and the electricity bill does not lie.
If my analysis results are correct, then the energy consumption of the Northwest Big Data Center Station in Shadu obviously does not match the local information development level. Moreover, I also found that the server maintenance rate of the Shadu Big Data Center Station is
It’s higher than in other parts of the country!
This means that the amount of network data processed by the Shadu Big Data Center Station is much larger than the actual demand, and the server is in a high-load working state for a long time. Take these lines together, do you think we should go to the northwest for a visit?
visit."
The previous doubts on Zhang Jie's face have been wiped away. She even took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Cao Rui:
"Director Cao, you can do it! This has given you a clue. I really admire you!"
Cao Rui took the cigarette from Zhang Jie and changed his casual expression:
"Don't call me Director Cao or my name anymore. Don't forget your current identity. My surname is Zhou, and your surname is Zhou! You also know what our opponents are like. The slightest flaw may make us lose all our efforts!"
Zhang Jie also realized that she had said the wrong thing and apologized repeatedly. Cao Rui did not dig into it further, and his face returned to the most common sneer smile:
"But, you really need to practice hard. Isn't it our special skill to connect dots into lines?"
Night has gradually enveloped this desolate desert, and it is common for clear night skies to appear in the dry desert. Even though the afterglow of the setting sun still has traces on the horizon, the stars in the sky have filled the vast night sky.
The canvas and the Milky Way stretching across the sky also began to shine brightly.
On the desert skyline, on the western frontier with thousands of years of history, you can already see the lights of Shadu, the pearl of the desert.