Sapphire case

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His "buddy" imitated the beautiful voice, and Gu Sheng was so happy when he yelled, he put the notebook sideways and put it on his back: "Okay, take the food away, will you go back to the mansion with me?"

"Oh, of course, good! You wait for me to buy some wine, I want to celebrate that the theoretical part is finally overcome!" Luke cheered up, and put the half-eaten afternoon tea in the box, "I still wanted to go to Nangang. , just take it as a vacation for yourself, and come here for three or four months without any rest..."

Nangang is the famous fireworks willow alley in Jinzhou. Gu Sheng didn't bother to ask who told him this. They were in the office of the headquarters at this time. Just sleep."

"Even during wartime, soldiers were not prohibited from smoking and drinking..." Luke said, "Oh, no, it's okay if I go to your place?"

"Ok?"

Lu Jia paused, and his expression became a little serious: "That's right, last time you and I were in the restaurant...didn't you meet someone, Jiang Cheng? I think he seems very dissatisfied with me... Uh, last time he put What do you say after you take it away?"

Gu Sheng's face became visibly colder, and he said "Oh" expressionlessly.

"Well, I've always been quite puzzled about this, but...uh, after all, I have nothing to say." Luke hesitated for a moment, and suddenly pulled Gu Sheng's shoulder. Looking at him: "What?"

"Gu, what I said before is true. I did come to China because of you, otherwise I would not have come at all." Luke said each word, his thumb slipping on the hard bone on his shoulder. But, "I want to say, I can give you the idea of ​​this cipher machine, and if you're here... very unhappy, I can take you away."

"What the hell are you talking about!" Gu Sheng pushed him away, "Would you like to go or not, I'll stay all night!"

"Gu Sheng!"

"Luke," Gu Sheng turned around and said without looking back, "Where do you want to go? Back to England? You want to be sentenced but I don't want to!"

"I didn't mean that kind of relationship...I didn't...I didn't mean that..." Luke took a step back, as if he didn't understand what he was thinking, "I'm not a fool, I can guess that person, just give The man you wrote the letter for more than three years is actually Jiang Cheng, isn’t he? He’s too weird... No, it’s you and him who are too weird. I’ve met our army general, the leader of MI[-], and I I have never seen anyone dare to give such a cold face in front of the real power leader.

"To be honest, Gu, I don't care what your relationship was in the past, and I respect your personal choice. I'm not even sure what I think now, I just worry about you, but at least in the UK, I can give you very stable , A life that can give full play to your expertise."

Gu Sheng sat down on the chair, looked up at him, smiled, and said with a sigh: "... Sometimes I really don't understand what you think, and you all rush to give me 'how How to live', hey, you are younger than me, it’s fine if you don’t understand, he... forget it.”

Gu Sheng waved his hand, and clicked on the information on the table: "You should study your mathematics, go to Nangang if you want, don't worry about what you have and what you don't have."

"How much older can you be than me, tsk, he treats you badly, right? At least we are friends." Luke was puzzled, "You came back to China for him, right? I can see...it's okay, I thought very……"

Gu Sheng's face turned dark when he heard it: "I'm not, I came back to China for China, okay? Does patriotism need a reason? In your eyes, is personal affection more important than family, country and society? Are personal likes and dislikes more important than national righteousness? You Are you thinking, young man? Jiang Cheng is a fool, are you too?"

Gu Sheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he pushed him aside with a notepad: "Okay, you go back, I'll finish reading chapters five and six before leaving."

Luke hesitated to speak, but suddenly heard a knock on the door outside, and had to put aside the matter temporarily to open the door. The correspondent rushed in with two stacks of file bags.

Seeing this, Gu Sheng stood up abruptly, and the correspondent nodded towards his suspicious gaze, and said, "Sir, this is the latest Japanese secret report intercepted by the radio station. The major general saw it personally and found something strange, so we sent it to you! "

"Purplecode?" Luke opened a portfolio and glanced up.

"Ah...they've been dishonest since 31 years, it's raining..." Gu Sheng sent the correspondent out and locked the door, "It seems that you don't want to leave tonight."

Secret reports intercepted by various parties are being sent in continuously. In addition to domestic deciphering tasks, there are also secret reports from other countries every day. Papers full of secret messages are piled up in the offices of the two offices, and those that can be successfully deciphered provide strategic information. The advantages are few and far between.

The distinctive Japanese intelligence is called "Purple Code", which is a collective name of many different codes, and it is also the latest development of the other party's intelligence work.

Gu Sheng took on the important task of deciphering the code, deliberating on the key every day in the study of the mansion, while Luke was reading the new edition in Japanese in the foreign guest office.The cipher mechanism he designed was reported to Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng was still commanding the battle in Zhongzhou at that time, and he replied vaguely, saying that he would wait until he returned to Jinzhou to make plans.

Afterwards, Gu Sheng personally ordered someone to send him a telegram, and a reply came in the afternoon, instructing him to prepay [-] silver dollars out of his own pocket in addition to public funds.A week later, the prototype of the cipher machine was put into production.

Jiang Cheng was in the Zhongzhou battlefield, only a few hundred miles away from Jinzhou. In fact, there were many opportunities to return temporarily. For a general of his level, it would be okay even if he didn't come to command in person, but he just didn't return.

During the stalemate, the gunpowder smoke paused, and in the middle of the night, he was alone in the tent, staring at a small piece of void in front of him with his eyes open, not far away, there were only sporadic phosphorescent fires on the battlefield.

If someone nearby lit a match or lit a cigarette at that time, the jumping orange light could reflect his gloomy face at that time.The years and the flames of war have left mottled marks on his body. The outline of the man's cheeks is like a chisel, his eye sockets are deep-set, and his eyes are deep. Suddenly, he can't see the domineering appearance many years ago.

In the dead of night, the images of those years flashed before his eyes frame by frame. He wanted to pick up the gun countless times and went back to Jinzhou to meet that person. When he heard the news of the air raid on the radio, he couldn't help worrying.

He knew that his worries were unnecessary, because that person didn't care about his life or death at all.

Never put him in the eyes.His sentimentality is all a one-man show of his own making.

When Jiang Cheng thought of this, his heart ached to death, as if a hand was tightening his heart to make him cry and cough up blood, he felt that he was really crazy, as if holding a sharpened knife with his own hands, Knowing that the end would be hurtful, but stubbornly refused to let go.

He refused to go back, preferring to cling to his humble feelings alone in the camp five miles away from the battlefield, that is, he refused to go back.

He knew that it would be over when he went back, even though he was over a long time ago, he handed his heart blood dripping into the hands of that person over and over again, and allowed that person to be condescending and fuck him, but he didn't know how to repent, never repented.

At this moment, Gu Sheng's signed telegram was handed over to him.

At that moment Jiang Cheng thought maliciously, look, you are still in my hands, without me, you can't do anything?

His psychology at that time was already very distorted, Gu Sheng had really pushed him to the brink of collapse, he needed something as his spiritual support, no matter whether he clearly knew that he was still being manipulated by that person when he wrote the approval In the palm of the stock.

Jiang Cheng handed the approval document to the adjutant, and said, "I'll go back to Jinzhou in five days. Brothers, you've worked hard these past few days. Please work harder. I don't believe you won't be able to take down those grandchildren of the Shen family!"

The adjutant took the order and left, Jiang Cheng leaned against the edge of the table, and his phalanges tingled violently.

It was bitten by Gu Sheng himself a few years ago. At that time, everything was complicated, and he didn't take care of the follow-up recovery, and he suffered from such a problem that it hurts when he exerted force.

...Luckily I got my finger in at the time.Jiang Cheng thought.

After Jiang Cheng went back, he went straight to the second office after finishing his official duties. The second office was very lively that day, and the staff of the four offices were all crowded into one room, which was rare in history.

"Hey," Jiang Cheng said to Wang Fu, "what is this for? Everyone is dishonest in their work, and instead of working hard, they join in the fun?"

"No no no, Major General, you misunderstood, on the contrary, this is working." Deputy Wang accompanied Jiang Cheng through the corridor, and introduced, "The prototype of the new cipher machine that I reported to you last time just came out today. People from one institute are debugging, and everyone gathers to learn new cryptographic techniques.”

"Oh? The speed is rather fast." Jiang Cheng's heart moved, Wang Fu pushed open the door and led him in, and the room that had been full of discussions just now fell silent.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll come back and have a look, you guys are yours." Jiang Cheng waved his hand, walked to the side of Luke who was studying the circuit, looked at it for a while, raised his head again, looked around the office, and said doubtfully : "Huh? Where's Gu Sheng? Didn't he apply for this project?"

"Report to Major General, Gu Sheng didn't come to work today." Luke wiped his face and looked up, motioned to the linguist next to him, and said, "Since the model machine came out, he took one away, and he hasn't come for two days I have reported to the Second Office. I heard that he was specially approved to work in the Army Mansion, so we didn't ask any questions!"

"Two days? Didn't report it?" Jiang Cheng stared, "Okay, you guys continue to study, I'm leaving first."

Jiang Cheng was simply worried at that moment, because judging from Gu Sheng's living habits, he was not a person who was good at taking care of himself. Let him stay alone for two days. The possibility is not small.

He didn't have the key to the army mansion, and Gu Sheng had someone change the door lock since he broke in last time, otherwise he wouldn't live there at all.The guard looked perplexed and didn't know what to do. Jiang Cheng thought about it, sighed and said forget it, then took off his coat, climbed over the wall and entered the yard, and climbed up to the third-floor building along the downspout and the protruding decorative wall bricks. windowsill.

At noon, the sun was in full bloom, and it was early summer again. The tasseled curtains in the study on the third floor were more than half drawn, and the sunlight shone into the gap two fingers wide. Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes, and he could just see Gu Sheng. Stretching out a porcelain white hand, he adjusted the cipher machine one by one.

The slightly hazy light behind the curtain and the people in the window instantly looked like an old oil painting. Jiang Cheng subconsciously blocked the sunlight in front of him, trying to see it more clearly, but unexpectedly a shadow was cast when he raised his hand .

For some unknown reason, Gu Sheng fell into deep thought. He probably sensed the change in the light, and subconsciously raised his eyes.Jiang Cheng's movements were restricted, and he couldn't dodge for a while, so he reluctantly showed a very ugly smile: "... Hello."

Gu Sheng probably didn't expect him to appear suddenly, and was stunned for a few seconds. Jiang Cheng thought that he was going to ask someone to drive him away, but when he heard the curtains being pulled open, Gu Sheng pushed away the person next to him. Window, sighed, and said, "Come in."

He probably said something later, Jiang Cheng was so surprised that he didn't hear it clearly, but later thinking about it, it should be something like "Don't act like a fool", but thinking about it, Gu Sheng obviously doesn't look like someone who can curse , Jiang Cheng didn't take it seriously.

"That... I just... don't want to disturb you..." Jiang Cheng stood firm in the room, looked around quickly, and landed on the cipher machine he just touched and the pile of drafts below, " That, um... I heard from Deputy Wang that you recently focused on Japan's 'Purple Code', how about it, if you need something, feel free to ask?"

"Fortunately," Gu Sheng said, "no progress."

"...Oh." Jiang Cheng nodded embarrassingly, "Normally, the devil is way ahead of us in this respect, so don't be discouraged if there is no progress, it's okay. How are you... how is your life?"

Gu Sheng let out a breath, leaned on the back of the chair with his legs crossed, and said in a rather lazy tone, "It's nothing, you don't have to worry about it."

"Oh, oh..." Jiang Cheng nodded. He really didn't want to end this conversation like this, but Gu Sheng obviously didn't intend to continue. Suddenly he said: "However, I found something unusual here, and I want to ask you."

"Oh! Oh, you ask." Jiang Cheng quickly agreed.

"That's right." Gu Sheng dug out a portfolio, took out a few of the secret reports with ease, brushed a few strokes on them and handed them to Jiang Cheng, "You also know that the 'Purple Code' is from the Japanese intelligence agency." The exclusive password is used for the internal communication of the Japanese army. It is a matter of course that Japanese is used. But the intercepted telegrams are a bit strange. Although Luke and I have not guessed the real encryption method of the 'Purple Code', these words The distribution and use of , obviously do not conform to the Japanese structure."

He took out another comparison table and said: "For example, the simplest and most obvious verbs are taken as an example. Japanese verbs are placed at the end of a sentence. This is very similar to the basic structure of Chinese 'subject-verb-object'. It’s different, I use distribution frequency statistics, you can see it if you look carefully.”

"Hmm..." Jiang Cheng paused and asked, "What does this mean?"

"I think these secret reports encrypted with the so-called 'purple code' are Chinese codes." Gu Sheng said, his tone was a bit cold, "If it is true, this will be a very serious problem."

"I can check the location of the call." Jiang Cheng said.

"It's too difficult. If the other party does have the support of Japanese forces, you won't be able to find out." Gu Sheng said indifferently, taking back a few secret reports, "I must tell you about this matter, not someone who is more knowledgeable. The reason Luke and the others said is that the encryption method of these telegrams is different from the large number of purple codes we have intercepted before, and is closer to our own cipher machine developed for the first time."

"What?" Jiang Cheng frowned severely.

"I suspect that the cipher machine has been leaked, and there are ghosts in Jinzhou." Gu Sheng said softly.