Yu Tang prepared a careful plan.
Pu Ying went out for the second time and met a student majoring in photography on the way from the hotel to the investigation team.
The student was carrying a sack and fainted in front of Pu Ying's car.
After waking up, the student told Pu Ying that his rental house had been sealed off, the studio where he worked went bankrupt, he had ten younger brothers and sisters to support, and he had been wandering on the streets for half a month. He was on the verge of dropping out of school because he had no money and fainted from hunger on the side of the road.
The student said that he was willing to accept any funding, and only hoped to have enough money to buy the hundreds of professional photography books he had bought with his frugal life over the years, and a medium-format high-end professional digital SLR camera.
…
Yu Tang controlled the temporarily generated photography student and looked at the system several times, which seemed to be hesitant to speak: "Is there any problem? Does the logic still make sense?"
System: “…No.”
It’s so easy to understand.
If it were Pu Ying, any other person would have called to put this fraudster into a sack and carried him to the police station.
It should have blindly trusted its host yesterday and left the design creation work to Yu Tang and Xiao Hong Ka.
... Fortunately, Pu Ying had no guard against such evil.
Not long after leaving the electronic storm, Pu Ying was taken back by the Pu family. The Pu family carefully trained him as an heir, but only taught him the intrigues of the business world and the open and covert struggles of politics.
Pu Ying has not been taught yet. If someone holding a sack runs into a stationary car at a red light and faints in front of the car with a bang, there is a high probability that they are trying to blackmail him for money.
The system sighed as the screen was full of snowflakes. While Pu Ying was not paying attention, it tried to make up for its mistake and quietly added a few crooked and sad patches to the sack.
“That’s the price of the book and the camera.”
In reality, Pu Ying had already written a check: "Is your photography studio still there?"
"…" Yu Tang, who was manipulating the students: "?"
"No more." Pu Ying said.
Through the Pu family's connections, he asked World Geography about the identity of the ST. The other party protected the privacy of the contributor and did not give a clear answer, only saying that he was a part-time contributor.
When the editor-in-chief of World Geographic mentioned this photo, he spoke in great detail, as if there was some hidden story, and finally sighed.
The editor-in-chief said that although this photo was only recently submitted for publication, it must have been taken very recently.
st's photos of chasing extreme weather were once famous in the entire photography world.
For two years, the best sections of several major magazines and websites were reserved for "Storm". The strong tension and vitality of those photos burst out at any time, which even these purely scientific journals could not help but be moved.
But you know what, in these three years, ST's spiritual energy is almost visibly dissipating.
st withdrew those sections, and the works he provided became lower and lower. Compared with the photos provided by other storm chasers, although they were still of high quality, they had lost the power to shock people.
The spiritual energy appeared with the "storm", appeared for a brief moment, and then disappeared very quickly.
It was as if something was sucked away in some strange way.
Out of respect and protection for the privacy of contributors, although we understand Pu Ying's feelings, World Geography will not provide any relevant information.
When the editor-in-chief saw Pu Ying off, he joked with him with a smile that the main publication would retain the old-fashioned fan letter section. ST was once the idol of many people. If Mr. Pu also wanted to be a fan of ST and wanted ST's autograph, it was not too late to write a letter now.
Pu Ying asked: "Can you write a letter?"
Temporarily generated student: "?"
Pu Ying shook her head and stood up: "That's enough, I'll do it myself."
He stuffed the sack of books into the back seat of the car, then took the camera that the student had carefully held in his arms and put it on the passenger seat.
"Sir." The auxiliary police officer who was maintaining order stopped him, "You must pay these for compensation."
The auxiliary police had seen this kind of fraudulent activity many times. After taking a look at the fair-skinned and tender-fleshed student, he whispered to Pu Ying, "Maybe... he doesn't need help as much as you think."
Pu Ying nodded: "I understand."
The auxiliary police was stunned.
While he was stunned, the student who had fainted from hunger just now stood up, clutching the check, and quickly got into the crowd. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
Pu Ying didn't care and closed the car door.
"Sir!" The auxiliary police officer was very responsible. "The amount involved is relatively high. If you need it, we can assist in filing a case. We need your cooperation..."
Pu Ying frowned slightly: "Our transaction is legitimate, the money is exchanged and the goods are delivered."
Pu Ying: "The products he provided are indeed what I need."
The auxiliary police officer was puzzled and stood outside the car, looking at the sacks full of photography teaching materials in the car.
There was a Ministry of Science pass on Pu Ying's car, and it was obvious that he already had his own career, not some idle rich second-generation from a family.
… On the other hand, if you want to drive such a luxury car, even if you are interested in photography, you can just hire a professional photographer to guide you, and there is no need to read these primers.
The auxiliary police frowned, glanced in the direction where the students ran away, and then looked at the strange camera that was used to easily extort 400,000 yuan of the case money, and whose name was unknown.
"No need to look for him."
Pu Ying put the car in gear and started it, looking away: "He needs help, and it's me who needs help."
The assistant police officer explained: “What?”
Pu Ying didn't explain any more. The green light came on, he started the car and merged into the oncoming traffic.
The investigation team's work progress is still progressing steadily without being affected by the team leader's new hobby.
Wen Er has no deeper connection with this data theft incident.
This was just an indiscriminate attack by hackers. There was no inside information, no data reselling, and no collusion between the parties. This is difficult to investigate at all, and no one would raise any objections.
In fact, if we only consider work attitude and results, Wen Er is almost the most outstanding one among all the previous persons in charge.
Wen Er has no extra hobbies, no family, and no enjoyment in life.
He devoted all his energy to the electron storm research project. In order to come up with some key conclusions, he could even live in the laboratory day and night.
The investigation team secretly discussed that they heard that Director Wen was so crazy because of their cold-blooded team leader.
Many people know about this.
For quite a long time, this was even a topic used by scientists in the Ministry of Science to inspire their juniors - young scientific geniuses devoted all their efforts and energy to saving their old friends who were lost in the electronic storm, and with extraordinary perseverance, they reaped countless fruitful results.
Pu Ying is the luckiest one, and almost everyone thinks so.
Even this time when he led a team to investigate the main research institute, there were often people who secretly looked at him, casting subtle, envious glances at him.
"My childhood friend has done something like this..."
Pu Ying put down his pen and raised his eyes.
Several agents were discussing the investigation results in low voices, but when they noticed he was looking at them, they quickly shut up.
Pu Ying asked: "What is the conclusion?"
"Team leader, the conclusion is very clear."
The agent sent over the investigation report: "The nature of the data theft this time is too serious. Wen Er is the person in charge and is indeed to blame, but there is also the problem of dereliction of duty."
"Wen'er's workload, work content, and results are all outstanding."
The agent said: "There is no evidence of collusion with foreign parties to steal data and sell it."
The investigation team was responsible for supervising the work at the time, and the agent took another report and handed it to Pu Ying.
"He handled this incident promptly and effectively, and some scientific research teams have already resumed operations."
"The database is too severely damaged. Currently, the research institute is limited in its capabilities. It is very difficult to replenish it, and there is nothing we can do about it."
"During the years that Wen Er has been in charge of the General Research Institute, the research results on electron storms have increased several to dozens of times compared to before, and some have even made great strides."
Agent: "According to the rating, you are already qualified to receive the Alliance B-level Merit."
Pu Ying nodded.
He opened the report and took the seal with his name on it, but did not pass it immediately. Instead, he opened the report summary of the work performance supervision.
The agent was somewhat puzzled: "Team Leader, any other questions?"
Pu Ying: “Yes.”
The agent was stunned.
They were all specially assigned by the Ministry of Science to assist in the investigation. They have been reviewed many times to ensure that there are no errors or omissions in the data.
These are all professional scientific research data, and they have to be repeatedly reviewed internally. No one believes that Pu Ying, the person in charge of the security department sent by the alliance, can hear something wrong just by listening to it once.
"I did hear that." Pu Ying closed the file. "Director Wen has no problem with his work."
The agent explained: "In that case, then you..."
"There is just one question I have."
Pu Ying asked: "How much basic data do these tasks require to support them?"
The agent had never seen such a thing before. He opened his mouth but no answer came out.
This is indeed a very external question.
The scientific department is full of geniuses and lunatics who are obsessed with research. They only know how to bury their heads and rush around in their own fields. If they have data they need, they will directly call it up, and they rarely know where the data comes from.
But now that Pu Ying brought it up, they suddenly realized... the data on electron storms was the same as other ordinary scientific research data.
"I saw Director Wen's solution to this incident."
Pu Ying said: "It's adequate. We have done the best we can do."
Even if he handled it personally, he couldn't do better than Wen Er.
In order to make up for the missing data, Wen Er has recruited a new group of explorers and has carried out several new experimental explorations.
However, these detectors had no experience in entering electron storms and had to strictly abide by the safety rules set by the Science Department. The quality of the data obtained was very average, and only a few of them were used directly after processing.
The scientific research teams that have resumed operations are all using old data that have been restored and sorted out.
"The hackers only stole half of the database, and the remaining half was patched, which is enough to support several scientific research teams to resume operations in time."
Pu Ying: "These are just unused data."
"The new research results have exceeded 10 times, and the leapfrog development is all supported by a massive amount of basic data."
"Combined with Director Wen's research work, where does this inexhaustible data come from?"
Pu Ying asked: "With such powerful data collection capabilities, why is it so difficult to repair the database now?"
This is too cold and heartless.
Several agents sent from the Science Department were used to resisting these security departments, so when they heard this seemingly reasonable questioning, the first thing that aroused them was a vague sense of excitement.
—But after just a few seconds, all these people suddenly reacted.
An electron storm can destroy any delicate machinery.
In all areas of current scientific research, most data collection is done by machines. However, the characteristics of electron storms mean that relevant data can only be measured through traditional methods, where human detectors enter in person.
Such powerful data collection capabilities indicate that before this, the General Research Institute should have at least had a sufficiently strong and mature team of detectors.
However, the terminal was attacked fifteen days ago, and until now, the General Research Institute still has not replenished the database.
Where did this team that was supposed to exist go
Since we were able to collect such a huge amount of data before, why did we have to make up for it this time
What went wrong with this team
"Contact the General Research Institute and notify Director Wen immediately, asking for a complete list of the original detectors."
Pu Ying stood up: "I will report to the Alliance Security Department and apply for permission to view all data records under ID."
The agents were still in a daze, but after being reminded by him, they quickly responded and turned around to make their own contacts.
Among them, the agent who was responsible for monitoring the main research institute at all times returned to his position and was suddenly stunned.
Just as they were discussing this, the main database, which had been silent for several days, was suddenly filled with new data.
"The database has started to be repaired normally!"
The agent retrieved the data increments from the past few days and compared them several times: "Yes, this speed matches what Team Leader Pu just said..."
Several agents came over and took a closer look at the line graph on the screen.
Compared with the first half of the month, the data that was added in the past ten minutes has already pushed the trend to an almost steep level.
"Is it that the original team has resumed exploration?"
Some speculated: "Or are those newly recruited explorers suddenly enlightened?"
"It should be. We went to observe it yesterday. As for the measured data, if you stay in the electron storm for a full fifteen seconds, it will be wrong."
"The original team took a vacation. Are they back to work now?"
"After such a big incident, you still have a holiday as usual?"
"Electron storms are very harmful to the human body. Although there are no clear regulations yet, it is ethically reasonable to separate the detection days and take a vacation."
"Look, is this the ID for inputting data? Should I click on it? There should be information about the detector..."
Everyone was talking among themselves, but when they noticed Pu Ying coming over, they all shut up.
Pu Ying looked at the screen: "What did you find?"
"We have discovered... some of the information on the probe that is currently importing data."
One of the agents came to his senses and said, "He has a 15-day record of his ID being blocked. It has just been unblocked. The detection record shows two hundred records in the past. When he registered..."
“The registration was three years ago.”
The agent looked at it carefully: "The username is st, storm."
General Research Institute.
Wen Er stared at the new data suddenly imported into the terminal and stood up suddenly.
His gaze was almost frozen as he looked at the significant increase in the data. A slight hint of surprise flashed across his light grey pupils.
… Luo Ran is back.
Why would Luo Ran come back
Seeing Luo Ran's physical condition, Luo Ran's parents actually agreed to let him return to the main research institute to continue the detection of electron storms
How much did Luo Ran talk to his family, and what did Luo Ran's parents say to him
The corner of Wen Er's eye twitched slightly, and he bent his index finger and rubbed the table nervously.
He knew that Luo Ran was hospitalized due to hypothermia - he had discovered long ago that Luo Ran was beginning to feel chills, and this was inevitable after repeated electronic storm detections.
I used to be able to go out in the winter wearing only a jacket, but now even in the summer, I will consciously wear more clothes and try to avoid air-conditioned rooms. I hold hot water all day and let go, and my palms are burned red, but I don’t know it at all.
It was just that he reminded him, but Luo Ran himself didn't notice it.
Wen Er couldn't find any high-sounding reasons in this situation. He just thought almost pathologically that this was good for Luo Ran. This would make Luo Ran more like Pu Ying.
Luo Ran is more like Pu Ying now, so he continues to please him and stay in the main research institute.
In Wen Er's opinion, all the value of Luo Ran was given by him. He asked Luo Ran to be like Pu Ying and only collect a part of the remuneration.
Wen Er raised his eyes and looked at the book "World Geography" on the magazine rack.
He asked someone to get the loan of Pu Ying's magazine. The photo collected by Pu Ying kept poking his nerves.
Wen Er repeatedly told himself that Pu Ying would be interested in this kind of thing, which was both respectable and stable. The elite education of the Pu family would also allow the children of the family to do this kind of so-called "extreme pursuit" and "exciting challenge" which was reasonable.
Pu Ying would be interested in this kind of thing back then, and she is even more interested now.
Now that thing... is ice-cold, without any breath or temperature. Even the intact ones are considered defective products.
Wen Er held on to the edge of the table tightly.
He should go see Pu Ying. Every time he saw Pu Ying, his emotions would completely get out of control and he had to vent his anger on something.
… Luo Ran brought it up himself.
He did not let Luo Ran go. Now that Luo Ran had reconnected with his parents, it would take more effort to control him again, not to mention that the investigation team had not left yet.
With Mr. Luo's temper, if he really knew what his son had experienced, he would definitely go to the investigation team to report him.
If Luo Ran had stayed with his parents all the time, he would certainly have done nothing.
But Luo Ran happened to be idle and bumped into him. As soon as the ban on his ID was over, he ran off to do storm detection.
Wen Er lowered his head, and the darkness in his eyes gradually deepened.
Since Luo Ran sent it up himself... there's nothing we can do.
…
"That can't be helped."
Yu Tang asked, "Is the hallucinogen ready?"
The system flashed a small red light excitedly: "Ready! We have 400,000 experience points!"
Yu Tang nodded and raised his hand to turn off Wen Er’s surveillance screen.
Card was not taken by the system to steal snacks as usual. He was exceptionally quiet, staying in the place farthest from the light screen in the sea of consciousness.
Yu Tang went over and poked it, but before he could raise his hand, he was pulled back by a weak force.
"Stop it."
Yu Tang also raised his head and said: "There is no bubble gum, go and look for it yourself..."
The red light on the card flashed steadily.
It was still recovering, and although its power was strong, it still held Yu Tang's consciousness tightly.
Yu Tang was slightly startled and raised his eyes.
He carefully felt the emotional fluctuations of Zhen Luo Ran and couldn't help laughing: "Why are you worried about me? The electronic storm has no effect on me... and Wen Er has no effect either."
"If you have time, why not practice calligraphy?"
Yu Tang said: "Wait for Pu Ying to come and ask for the autographed photo of the idol, and write "The most handsome one" for him."
The card was half-believing and half-doubting, and it floated up and circled around Yu Tang.
Yu Tang stood with his arms outstretched, allowing it to examine his entire body at will.
…
In the original plot of this period of time, Luo Ran, like he did today, conducted detection of the electron storm in five groups, and completed three groups in three days.
According to the original novel, Luo Ran actually had no purpose.
He just felt tired.
The electronic storm took away his sense of "fatigue" and "pain".
He ran away because of his bad behavior and missed the chance to make his parents proud in front of everyone. He learned from the phone call that his willfulness would distract his parents. He listened to Wen Er more. Wen Er coaxed him and said that as long as he could detect 100 times more, he would invite another subordinate research institute to exchange and report.
Luo Ran had nothing else to do but to go detecting again and again.
The detection instrument can withstand overly strong electronic pulses and has an automatic protection function. It will sleep for 15 hours after every five detections.
When the instrument was in sleep mode, Luo Ran would sit there quietly, watching the second hand move forward one tick at a time.
He thought to himself, why did he have to complete the detection hundreds of times under such circumstances
What could make him open his eyes and become the "Pu Ying" that Wen Er wanted
He finally fainted next to the instrument.
Without his body's early warning system, Luo Ran had no way of detecting the limits of his body. Due to severe body temperature loss, his blood pressure was incredibly low, and his body began to stiffen, but he shivered when he was cold, and even took off his clothes when he was hot.
He hadn't felt so comfortable in a long time, as if he was immersed in an illusory and warm ball of light.
He tried to unbutton his coat, but before his stiff, pale fingers could even touch the collar, he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
…
Yu Tang took advantage of Luo Ran's inattention and covered the little red card with a sack.
The system helped on the side, quickly deployed a shielding space, and was a little worried: "Host, he is the only one in the small dark room, is this okay..."
Yu Tang smiled: "Yes, that's great."
The system persuaded the host on behalf of its good friend, and the little red light flashed happily. Just as it was about to continue talking, the camera suddenly went dark.
system:"… "
"You two are in the small dark room, come out now."
Yu Tang also put the system into the sack: "There are snacks, Coke, TV, the latest switch and dual-core game cards inside."
System: “…Host.”
"Wait for me out there."
Yu Tang: "Tell Luo Ran that his responsibility is to move forward happily and never look back."
The system was stunned for a moment, flashed a small red light, and said nothing.
Yu Tang tied up the sack filled with the empty space in the small dark room, concentrated his mind, and left the sea of consciousness.
…
Wen Er has reached the detection area of the electron storm.
On the way here, he discovered that Luo Ran's detection times were abnormal and far exceeded the standard times under safe conditions.
After discovering this, Wen Er slowed down the car and stopped at the edge of the area.
He looked at Luo Ran through the surveillance camera, his eyes filled with an almost paranoid fanaticism.
… He guessed that Luo Ran’s body’s early warning system was out of control.
Human perception of pain and fatigue is far more important than it seems. Once this perception is lost, it means losing control of the body's state, which can lead to fatal danger at any time.
Although Pu Ying looks normal, he is actually wearing a vital level monitoring system that the Pu family has invested heavily in. It will immediately provide feedback on any abnormal physical condition of Pu Ying to prevent him from overloading his body without realizing it.
For the Pu family, this is even more worrying than Pu Ying's lack of emotions.
Wen Er gripped the steering wheel, staring at Luo Ran's detection records intently until Luo Ran's detection suddenly stopped at the fifth group.
He knew that this was probably the limit of what Luo Ran's body could support.
Under such strong stimulation, Luo Ran's physical body and personality will definitely change. He needs to record these extremely precious data as first-hand information for researching treatment plans.
Wen Er didn't respond, deleted all of Luo Ran's abnormal detection records, turned off the surveillance, and started the car again.
He soon saw Luo Ran.
Wen Er stopped the car. He glanced at him casually, but his brows suddenly frowned and he stared at the figure again.
…
Luo Ran didn't faint.
Luo Ran is taking a rest.
When he was in the hospital, Luo Ran still had a head of eye-catching red hair, but I don't know when he dyed it back these days, and it has returned to a refreshing black half-broken short hair.
It was already dark, and the blue light from the instrument screen fell on Luo Ran's profile, making his brows look even more cold and solemn than usual.
Luo Ran lowered his eyes and was flipping through the instrument operating manual in his hand attentively. His collar was blown open by the wind, revealing a striking red birthmark on his neck.
He knew it was cold, so he only wore a fitted silver-gray shirt.
The shirt was made of high-quality fabric, with sharp folds outlined by the body. The sleeves were neatly rolled up, revealing half of the forearm, and a tourbillon on a metal wristband was stuck on the well-defined wrist bone.
Hearing the sound of the engine, he threw down the manual, stood up, walked over and opened the car door.
The buzzing sound in Wen Er's head chilled him from head to toe.
He lost his voice, staring at the figure in front of him in a daze, all his thoughts were completely confused.
He saw Pu Ying.
"Wen Er?"
The man outside the car leaned over and looked at him: "Can you do something?"
Wen Er's throat moved slightly, he calmed down, and asked in a hoarse voice: "...What?"
"What on earth are you doing?"
The man outside the car reached out his hand, took the pack of cigarettes from his dashboard, and knocked out a cigarette: "Your current status, your identity, the merits and rewards you have received...are they all given to you by me?"
Wen Er's pupils contracted slightly.
The person in front of him had Pu Ying's face, but the words he said were quietly in sync with the voice in his memory.
Wen Er had said these words to Luo Ran countless times.
He always reminds Luo Ran that everything Luo Ran has, everything that makes his parents proud, is given by him.
A chill ran down Wen Er's back. Looking at the figure in front of him, he almost fell into a bizarre and absurd dream.
"Without me, you would have done everything."
"Has it been proven?"
The man outside the car was playing with the cigarette, his eyes fell on Wen Er, and his words were exactly the same as his.
"Just do something to make me happy. Why should I continue to help you?"
"Do you really think... that I would suddenly fall in love with someone like you?"