On June 12, the sky was hazy. Although the thunderstorm last night stopped in the morning, when I looked up at noon, there were still dark clouds.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Tianyi left the hotel and went shopping. He is a very lazy person, but for some things, it would be inconvenient for someone in the hotel to buy them for him, so he still has to go there himself.
Laptops, mobile phones, cameras, sunglasses, and a few sets of clothing to hide from others, the equipment used in the investigation and planning stage is roughly the same.
Some people may ask, how much cash does Tianyi carry? Is it okay to spend this much money? I have to explain here that in the world of 2101, computers are cheaper than cameras and mobile phones are cheaper than sunglasses.
In the 22nd century of this parallel universe, the prices of consumer electronic products are very low. The profit model of products such as mobile phones, computers, and portable players has been completely overturned. The practice of constantly introducing new hardware has been eliminated. The core of electronic products The idea became application software development and charging.
In that era, the technology for producing mid- to low-end consumer electronics products had become very mature and developed, and the hardware gap between brands had almost disappeared. In the price war, well-known brands were greatly affected because their product prices were generally inflated. high. In the past, they relied on the accumulated brand effects of quality, service, credibility, etc., so that fans were willing to flock to them just for a trademark. But later, when those copycat brands make products of the same quality and set a more reasonable price, market competition will prove that some kind of "loyalty" between customers and merchants is actually very fragile.
As a result, changes occurred in the 1930s, and large companies reached a consensus. Since the imitation of hardware cannot be contained, let's make a fuss about software.
Even if every manufacturer can produce hardware with excellent quality and beautiful appearance that does not need to be replaced for five years, not every manufacturer's application system can satisfy you.
As a result, the era of "soft competition" for electronic products began. The prices of originally expensive electronic products continued to fall below new lows, and there were even situations where they were sold at cost price or at a loss. Later, with ID cards or some kind of event gift certificates, There are many products available for free.
In the future, businesses will not consider whether things can be sold, but whether people will use them. Hardware is just a platform and carrier for charging application software. Using software to charge is the correct model to ensure long-term profitability.
Only those guys who sell electrical appliances continue to make the quality of their products worse and worse, expecting consumers to take them home and scrap them as soon as the warranty period expires, and then buy new ones, otherwise their factory will go bankrupt.
Of course, in such a world, poor people still do not have access to good mobile phones and computers. They can buy the stuff and take it home, but in the long run, if they can't afford the software, they're just buying scrap metal. Therefore, electronic manufacturers of second- and third-tier brands can still occupy the bottom market by relying on various "free" systems and cheap systems with advertising pop-ups and average quality.
Perhaps, technology makes life more exciting, and this is true. But there are some things that technology cannot change.
Back to business, back in the hotel room, Tianyi started to dress up. He is a person who is very good at dressing up. Of course, the dressing up here is to pretend to be a certain person, not to change the appearance.
If he becomes a stage actor, he will definitely become popular. From a slovenly tramp to an elegant socialite, from a young employee with little experience in the world to a calm gangster, Tianyi can play everything perfectly.
Whether it is subtle expression changes, eyes, body language, or even accents, living habits, etc., they can all be imitated to the extreme, giving the impression that he has really experienced that identity.
It only took a few minutes for Tianyi to transform into an amiable and unpretentious tourist. With a dull hairstyle, baggy and saggy pants, a silly T-shirt with the words "I love Paris" printed on it, and a jacket on top, with a sympathetic smile and a kind and friendly look on his face, it is estimated that the members of the reverse cross are Seeing this boss look like this is going to drive him crazy.
He picked up a black shoulder bag, hung a camera around his neck, and walked out of the room again. When Tianyi stepped out of the hotel door, he seemed to have become a different person.
After traveling for a while, he got on a city sightseeing bus, holding a map of Paris and a "city sightseeing guide" in his hand. Along the way, he looked around with his camera like a real tourist. But no one else noticed that this guy never pressed the shutter once.
There are many famous attractions in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, etc., but Tianyi had no intention of visiting them one by one. When the bus reached his destination, he got off the bus.
The Louvre, the pearl on the north bank of the Seine, the heart of Paris, with nine hundred years of history, is a castle intricately intertwined with the tortuous history of France.
At the end of the 18th century, the Louvre was partially opened to the public and has since become one of the greatest museums in the world.
By the advent of the imperial era in 2000, this place had also been severely impacted. "France" no longer exists, replaced by the administrative district of Oakshire. A large number of artworks in the Louvre were lost during the war. Many of them went to the private sector or were taken away by the government at the time. Many more went into the residences of princes and nobles in the later empire and became private collections.
However, the most priceless "Three Treasures of the Museum" were miraculously preserved. Perhaps no one dared to touch these three exhibits. If such priceless treasures were damaged during the moving process, who would dare to bear the eternal infamy.
In the next hundred years, the Louvre went through a lot of hardships, and it was difficult to recover the exhibits after the war. It was only fifty years later that the original number of art works was restored to about 40%. The empire's policies also caused many changes here. The lawns that originally covered dozens of hectares were banned, and many new buildings were built around it. They were basically government agencies and royal mansions. The pyramid-shaped entrance at the door was demolished, and the interior was also destroyed. It has been renovated and remodeled. Except for the overall appearance of the U-shaped palace building, which remains unchanged, other parts have undergone earth-shaking changes.
In order to facilitate management, a fence has been built outside the lawn that has been greatly cut around the building. It is not too high, but it is certainly not something that ordinary people can climb over. This way, the place can be easily closed off at night.
Regardless of whether you look at it from a distance or up close, the wall is an eyesore, but the governor at the time did just that. Just like the increase in water and electricity bills, he decided to inform everyone in the future, and then put something like "This policy is quite good" in the news. A poll of sorts will do. To put it more bluntly, I want to inform you that I think highly of you, so don’t show shame. If anyone dares to stand outside with a sign and write slogans such as "Against the Wall", we will send heavily armed HL commandos to surround you, throw tear gas, and serve with sticks.
You can say that the governor here was destroying cultural heritage, but from another point of view, you can also say that the governor made political achievements and changes. Anyway, the Louvre in the 22nd century is purely from a security perspective. It is in an unprecedentedly powerful period in history.
Tianyi bought a ticket, walked into this palace of art, and went directly to the treasure hall.
When they arrived at the place, Tianyi felt an inexplicable embarrassment. The men seemed to have gone to the painting and sculpture hall to look at body art. Most of the people who came here to enjoy themselves were middle-aged women.
After searching for a long time, Tianyi finally saw his target - "Scarlet Pandora".
A 2977-carat round diamond, close to the size of a fist, can undoubtedly be called a rare treasure. Scarlet Pandora has another unique feature. Legend has it that if this diamond comes into contact with the skin of a beautiful woman, it will show a faint crimson color and reflect hazy light.
Of course, this is just a legend. Tianyi thinks this is obviously unscientific. How could a piece of carbon element crystal change like that when it comes into contact with human skin? Besides, it must be a beautiful woman, not a man or an ugly woman? Could it be that this stone is blushing? As a stone, are you a little bit obscene, but also have cute attributes at the same time
Below the exhibits, there is also a long note, which is a related story written for visitors. The only relatively reliable information is that "Scarlet Pandora was discovered in Maple Leaf County in 2033", and the remaining The content below seems to Tianyi to be nonsense.
According to Greek mythology, "Pandora" was the first human woman created by Zeus. The purpose of her creation was to take revenge on mankind. Why does the King of Gods do this? Because his gay friend Prometheus cared very much about mankind and brought the fire with him, which made Zeus very unhappy. Not only did he arrest his gay friend and sm without end, he also wanted to find a way to deal with those stupid mortals.
So Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of fire, to mix water and soil to make a lovely woman in the image of the goddess; then he ordered Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, to sprinkle her with hormones that make men crazy; Hera Grant her self-confidence and self-esteem; the goddess Athena taught her to weave and create beautiful clothes of various colors, making her look more colorful and charming; the god Hermes was responsible for teaching her the talent of language.
Zeus injected vicious evil behind this beautiful image, and an extremely alluring woman was finally completed. He gave Pandora as a gift to mankind, and the woman later opened the "magic box" out of curiosity and released all the evil in the world...
The name Scarlet Pandora symbolizes the status and significance of this diamond in the hearts of women. It is like a magic spell. As if holding this diamond in her hand, when the scarlet light lights up, her mistress becomes just like Pandora. The perfect woman.
Tianyi scanned the contents one by one, and whispered disdainfully: "It's a lot of nonsense, and it's all nonsense..." and then looked away.
After confirming the location of the target, he began to explore the terrain of the museum, observing the distribution of security guards, shift change times, etc. Of course, the most important thing to confirm was the security system here.
There are camera probes everywhere. There is no doubt that the security level during the day is definitely low. At night, if you sneak in, avoiding the cameras is the next best thing. I am afraid that there are some infrared sensors, gravity change sensors, and temperature change sensors. Wait for the cheating system...
After wandering around for several hours, Tian Yi left angrily before closing time.
The shift pattern of security guards cannot be seen in a short time. According to Tianyi's idea, it is best to stay on guard 24 hours a day and use the ability to remotely sense near the Louvre to record the actions of every staff member inside. law.
But the bet he made with Gu Ling beforehand was that he could not use his ability, nor the book of the heart, nor to use force to rob it. Tianyi must plan a way to "steal" things to be successful.
Although the other party did not supervise him at all and could cheat, Tianyi knew that if he violated the basic principles of the game, it would not be a matter of quality, but a disguised proof of his incompetence. What's more, there is a guy in the reverse cross who can expose lies - the Blood Owl. With the consultant's urinary temperament, he must have disclosed the information about the members of the Inverse Cross to his sister long ago, so Gu Ling at least has a way to verify whether Tianyi committed a foul. Judging from the Blood Owl's urinary temperament, it would be perfectly fine to sell the boss out of trouble. Don't expect him to tell lies to protect himself.
All in all, the relationship between the reverse cross group of people is that... they feel that each other is unreliable, but they also feel that this kind of bastard teammate is too reliable.
Tianyi was not the kind of person who would take a telescope and squat on the roof overnight to obtain some incomplete information, and he was lazy, so he went back.
For him, it was enough fun to waste so much time here for half an afternoon, and he couldn't come up with good ideas without coffee.
After returning to the hotel, he changed his clothes and freshened up. Tianyi turned on his computer and paid for one month's use of this computer application using a public account belonging to Inverse Cross.
Then he input the photos taken with the camera in the treasure house, the distribution of cameras secretly taken by mobile phones, and the audio of several security conversations quietly recorded into the computer, and then created a new file and began to draw the structural diagram of the building.
Tianyi works very quickly. After a can of coffee, the sketch of the Scarlet Pandora display area in the treasure hall has been basically completed. Of course, this is only the first step. He plans to draw out the entire Louvre, including the surrounding city area within a radius of 300 meters, preferably even the layout of the sewers, and build a three-dimensional model.
But at this moment, the lazy bug started to cause trouble again. In addition to coffee, Tianyi's prerequisite for high efficiency is concentration. When concentration drops, he will immediately put aside what he is doing and go do something else for a while.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Tianyi has many cat habits. He sleeps for a long time every day; he likes to eat more frequently and less frequently; he can't help but want to touch objects that move regularly (such as pendulums) when he sees them; Can't stand pressure; hates the smell of toothpaste and oranges; can't help but want to pounce on flies when he sees them; likes to provoke leashed dogs...
A guy with this kind of personality is only suitable to run a bookstore while sitting in a sofa chair all day long, drinking coffee and yawning.
"By the way, let's go online and check the information provided by others." Tianyi had a sudden idea and opened a portal. He typed in the search bar the three keywords: "Louvre, theft, security system". Pressed Enter.
There are thousands of search results, many of which are information related to movies, TV shows or novels. Tianyi quickly flipped back a few pages, and a category that interested him appeared on the browser. After clicking the link, he entered a video website. This seemed to be a video transferred from someone's blog. The title It’s: “The Louvre—the graveyard of legendary thieves.”
The video is a recording of a documentary interview program. The protagonist of the film is an old man named "Carrot Selling Cake", who is gray-haired and senile. According to his own account, he was an international thief when he was young and successfully committed numerous sensational cases. He washed his hands of the crime in a golden basin for more than 40 years and participated in the improvement and improvement of the security system of the Louvre.
The video then showed a list of thieves who tried to enter the Louvre to steal treasures from 2057 and their fate. The only one among these people who successfully escaped from the Louvre gate and ran outside did so by entering the museum during the day. At that time, he hid a hammer, smashed the glass, picked up the things and ran away. Who knew that this guy knocked down the tempered glass with a hammer but the tempered glass was not broken. As soon as the alarm bell rang, he panicked, dropped the hammer and ran away. He ran very fast, and was finally surrounded by a large group of security guards outside the door and pushed to the ground.
This guy is probably the lowest limit for thieves who dare to attack the Louvre. You know, this place is a holy place in the eyes of professional thieves all over the world. Being able to steal something back from here is like picking the ruby in the crown of the thieves' field. It's enough for you. Is this what people do when they have been blowing for a lifetime and run away with a hammer in their arms
Sure enough, the next characters in the video lived up to expectations and adopted various high-end skills, from bone-shrinking skills to high-tech, hiding, parachuting, digging tunnels, posing as guards, etc. They all showed their magical powers, and no one was undetected in the end. of.
Of course, it is impossible to introduce in detail the specific security system equipment in the Louvre. In short, it is "very advanced" and "without loopholes."
In this kind of video that can be seen casually by the public, naturally there will be no words or people like "ability user". Tianyi analyzed it and estimated that people with abilities above the strong level would like to grab a few things from it. You will still succeed when you come out, but not many powerful experts will become "thieves". Most of them are not worried about money, and if they do such a thing, they will be thrown into the Tidal Prison. If they have money, they will not spend their lives. .
Inferring from this, even if there are one or two paper-level or average-level ability users among the thieves, with the help of their abilities, they still cannot get through the security system, and they are also caught... This shows that the Louvre Museum is well protected Eighty percent of the personnel are also equipped with some reformers.
Tianyi turned off the computer screen, lay down with his hands behind his head, looked at the ceiling and complained: "It's harder than I thought. I really need to design a long-term plan..."
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