Seeing that there was no one around, Wei slowly climbed out of the trash can. He suppressed his nausea and cleaned up the garbage on his body. Then he smelled the sour smell on his body and almost vomited it out.
At this time, he didn't care so much anymore. Wei unzipped his shirt, then let the shirt cover his entire head, leaving only his eyes exposed. Then he picked up his backpack and started walking slowly along the dark side of the alley. move.
Wei listened to the footsteps around him as he walked. When he saw that there was no sound nearby, Wei dared to continue walking forward.
Suddenly, a sound of footsteps came from far and near. Wei quickly stopped and hid in a dark place in the alley.
The footsteps were approaching slowly, but they were intermittent, sometimes heavy and sometimes soft.
When the footsteps approached, Wei took a closer look and saw that they were a drunkard.
Wei wanted to ignore him, but the drunkard happened to be leaning in the direction of Wei 's direction and remained motionless. He staggered there for a while, and finally took out his wine and continued drinking.
Wei didn't dare to go out directly from the darkness, because he didn't know whether the drunk man was really just passing by, or whether he was waiting here specifically for him to appear.
At this time, no matter how cautious he was, it was okay.
Seeing that the drunk man was not leaving, Wei couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
It would be dawn in a while, and he would not be able to find a place to hide at dawn, and he would not be able to sneak to the hiding place he had thought of now while it was dark.
Wei just hid anxiously. Although he always had the urge to rush over directly, his reason told him that such a risk was very high. He could only persuade himself to calm down and wait for the opportunity.
Perhaps because he stayed there for a long time, Wei felt his hands and feet were a little sore, so he moved his hands and feet slightly. After moving for a few times, he saw the homeless man suddenly looking here in confusion. Wei quickly did not dare to make any other moves.
After a while, the tramp saw that there was no other movement here, so he stopped paying attention, continued to drink, and looked elsewhere. Wei breathed a sigh of relief.
Wei carefully stared at the surrounding environment for a while and found a brick next to the homeless man, so a bold plan began to sprout in Wei's mind.
Wei dug around in his backpack for a while, taking out his wallet and other small equipment. After weighing it for a while, Wei finally chose to use his wallet as bait to attract the drunk man to get it, and then knocked him unconscious. . The reason why he chose the wallet was because it made almost no sound when it fell to the ground.
Wei took out all kinds of documents and money in the wallet to reduce the weight of the wallet, and then when the homeless man raised his head to drink and didn't pay attention to the ground, he gently threw the wallet not far from the homeless man's feet.
The tramp finished his drink, smacked his mouth with satisfaction, burped slowly, and then his body began to shake, but he didn't notice the wallet not far away.
Wei was so anxious that he thought about rushing out. Just when Wei was about to rush out from the darkness, the homeless man finally found the wallet.
The homeless man rubbed his eyes, and after confirming that it was a wallet, he struggled to get up, staggered a few steps to where the wallet was, lowered himself, and bent down to pick up the wallet.
Just when the homeless man was about to open his wallet to see what was going on, Wei ran out of the darkness and ran to where the homeless man was.
He picked up the bricks and walked around behind the homeless man, then fiercely attacked the homeless man.
With a snap, the brick split in half, and the homeless man fell down. Wei said sorry to him in his heart. Regardless of whether he was a real tramp or not, he couldn't be soft-hearted at this time.
Wei dragged the homeless man to the place where he had just hidden, checked his breathing, and after confirming that the homeless man was still alive, Wei took out all the banknotes he had.
After hesitating for a moment, Wei randomly took a few for his own emergency use, and stuffed the rest into the homeless man's pocket. Before leaving, Wei didn't forget to take back his wallet.
As for the bricks, Wei didn't leave them behind either. He picked up the bricks and prepared to throw them into the passing river.
In this way, Wei took advantage of the dark night and returned to the house that his father had bought in someone else's name.
Wei entered the door cautiously, and immediately locked the door after confirming that no one was in the house. After finding some food and necessary supplies in the house, he hid directly in the basement, and then began to observe the outside through the narrow glass window in the basement.
He just searched around the house and found that apart from the spare mobile phone, there was no mobile phone charging equipment.
Wei couldn't help but feel helpless. The phone was almost out of power. He had to quickly send the decrypted email information to Lam while the phone still had power. But before that, he needed to make a simple mobile phone message blocker, otherwise it would be easy to be found when sending messages.
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After the mobile phone message blocker was completed, Wei carefully opened the phone.
The phone only had the function of sending messages. In order to ensure that even if the message sent was hijacked, others would not find it out. Wei thought for a long time and finally sent three messages to Lam.
The first one was” The mouse in the Declaration of Independence“, the second one was” The number of Osiris“, and the third one was “The Apple of Discord“
He knew that Lam must know the meaning behind this. After the message was sent, the phone completely ran out of power and shut down automatically.
Wei put down his cell phone and looked outside through the window. The food and water in the basement were enough to last him for a week. Now he hoped that Lam could find him within a week. If he didn't come, then he would have to take a risk.
Lam, you have to come quickly!!! Wei shouted in his heart.
When Lam rushed to Professor Zhou's house, he received three more text messages from Wei.
Lam didn't have time to read them carefully. He just opened the text messages and hurriedly opened the text messages and went straight to Professor Zhou. After telling what happened to Wei, he asked what to do.
"I have heard of Wei. His scientific research ability is indeed very strong. It can be said that he is likely to be a leader among your younger generation in the future. However, the distance is too far away and we are indeed beyond our reach." Professor Zhou finished listening to Lam's description. After pondering for a while, he said with some embarrassment.
"Professor Zhou, Wei's ability to send me this message proves that he has complete trust in me. I can't live up to his trust. It's very likely that he now places all his hopes on me. Besides, if something happens to him I think this must be a loss to the academic community. If you really have difficulties here, can I apply to go there by myself?" Lam looked at Professor Zhou with firm eyes.
Looking at Lam's eyes, Professor Zhou knew that he would definitely not be able to persuade him. Even if he stopped him, Lam would find a way on his own so he finally agreed.
Before leaving, Professor Zhou brought everyone to see him off. Professor Zhou was worried about Lam's safety, so he applied to the bureau to send Wang and Han to accompany Lam, and told Lam not to do anything if something was impossible. The most important thing was to return safely. .
Lam looked at Wang with some surprise. Just now Professor Zhou said that Wang had won the national Sanda championship before and was also a firearms master, which really frightened Lam.
Seeing Lam looking at her in surprise, Wang smiled indifferently, playfully gestured to Lam's arm muscles, and then waved her fist to show that she was very good at fighting.
Lam clasped his fists in a gesture of admiration, then looked at Sun beside him.
When Sun heard that Lam was going to Longland to rescue Wei, she also wanted to go there, but was later persuaded by Professor Zhou and Lam. Wang and Han only have enough energy to protect Lam. If Sun was added to the list, they may not be able to protect them. Moreover, one more person would further increase the danger for everyone.
Sun had no choice but to ask Lam to pay attention to his safety, and then reported his safety regularly.
When they arrived in Longland, the Embassy sent someone to pick them up. Lam looked at the people one by one and couldn't help but feel happy. She was an acquaintance. It was Mathilda who he had dealt with before.
On the way to the embassy, Lam told Mathilda in detail what happened to Wei, and said that there must be something wrong with Wei not directly calling the police and notifying the embassy.
Therefore, Lam thought it would be better not to go through the local police.
If something goes wrong in the end, it is not too late to resolve it through the embassy channels. As for the embassy, Lam admitted that although the embassy deserved his trust, he suggested that the embassy tried not to get too involved and just provided them with normal security strength.
Mathilda nodded and said that she could make the decision on this matter. Now she was solely responsible for rescuing Wei. She would work hard to cooperate with Lam if he asked her.
When they arrived at the embassy residence, under Mathilda 's arrangement, Lam and the others quietly entered one of the relatively hidden rooms.
In the room, in addition to Lam and three others, Mathilda was also present. At Lam's request,Mathilda also assigned several network security and information communication-related staff.
"For some time in the future, you will not be able to leave this room. Thank you for your hard work. Now please lock your communication equipment in the cabinet and leave the key to Mathilda for safekeeping."
Lam said to everyone apologetically, and repeated to explain the importance of confidentiality. As for his mobile phone, it contained messages from Wei, and he would continue to analyze its meaning.
As soon as Lam turned on his phone, he looked carefully at the three messages Wei sent him, which were the Mouse in the Declaration of Independence, the Numbers of Osiris, and the Apple of Discord.
Reminiscent of the three encrypted emails Wei sent to himself before, Lam knew that these three messages corresponded to the passwords of those three emails.
During this period, Lam also thought about continuing to try to contact Wei, but Wei did not respond to messages he sent and no one answered his calls.
Lam gave up completely and determined that Wei had officially lost contact.
The current task was to decipher the information hidden in these three pieces of information, but this information had no beginning and no end. For a while, Lam didn't know where to start.
In the order of the three messages, the first one was the mouse in the Declaration of Independence.
Lam asked Mathilda to get a copy of the Declaration of Independence, but after reading it for a long time, he still had no clue.
Thinking that there might be a version problem, he found the original English version and carefully searched for mouse-related words in it, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any description of mice.
"Could this be a metaphor? The Declaration of Independence is a declaration of independence from the United Kingdom by the thirteen British colonies in North America. And now we are in the United Kingdom, so we may have to look for clues from the Anglo-American War." Mathilda saw that piece of information.
"This is the historical background of the Declaration of Independence. If we look at the Declaration of Independence alone, it may make sense. But how can we explain the rat in the Declaration of Independence?"
Lam asked doubtfully after hearing her speculation. However, he could look up the history of the Anglo-American War and saw if he could find anything.
After looking through the materials for a long time, he found nothing in the end.
The message Wei gave was really strange. Just say the Declaration of Independence. What kind of rats were involved? Could it be that the American Declaration of Independence was written specifically for rats?
Mathilda also held her forehead and sighed, turning over and over again without any clue.
In the end, she could only sigh helplessly: "If Adams and others knew that his Declaration of Independence was used in this way, I don't know what their expressions would be."
Lam couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard the words, but suddenly an idea flashed and he seemed to think of something, so he anxiously asked Mathilda: "What did you just say?whose declaration of independence?"
"Adams, Jefferson was responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence, and people like Adams and Franklin were responsible for participating in the compilation." Mathilda was confused.