please don't believe me

[Time reporting system: There are still 39 days until the deadline for the main task. 】

"This is Matthew's computer..." Dai Bowen's fingers slid across the edge of the display screen, and his eyes scanned the other furnishings in the room. "Does he have other electronic devices?"

This is Matthew's room.Since there was no way to visit the other three boys during the day, Dai Bowen decided to look for clues to the "website" that Patrick called.With the help of Meera, he and Shen Xiuyuan entered Matthew's room.

When Matthew was in the room by himself, he still let Meera come in and tidy up, so the environment in the room was not too messy.The soft quilt that was lifted at will, the desk with a few hero comics, and the computer with the main power turned off, everything remained the same as when Matthew left.

"There is one of his game consoles in the living room." Meera stood at the door of the room. "There is also a mobile phone, but he has it with him, and it was turned off when I called him."

"Shut down all the time?"

"Always."

Dai Bowen glanced at Shen Xiuyuan, and Shen Xiuyuan nodded. It seemed necessary to ask Officer Clark if he could apply for Matthew's call records.

Matthew's computer was turned on, but after a brief splash screen, he entered the user login page.Dai Bowen looked at the blank password line and squinted his eyes.

Although it is unlikely to have an answer, Shen Xiuyuan still asked Meila: "Do you know the password?"

"No, Matthew never let me touch his computer," Meera replied. "Are you going to move the computer?"

Dai Bowen approached Shen Xiuyuan: "Is there anyone among you who can untie it?"

"You can try to arrange it. But..." Shen Xiuyuan was talking, when the phone rang suddenly, he took it out and took a look, "Sorry."

Dai Bowen walked away consciously, and Shen Xiuyuan answered the phone: "I'm Shen Xiuyuan. Yes..." He walked into the window, opened the curtain with his fingers, and looked downstairs, "I see, I'll be right here."

Dai Bowen looked at Shen Xiuyuan and hung up the phone: "What?"

Shen Xiuyuan smiled: "Does the person you borrowed from Russell know about these high-tech equipment?"

"Perhaps." Dai Bowen wondered, "Why do you ask?"

"People are here." Shen Xiuyuan pointed out the window, "It's downstairs."

A young man followed Shen Xiuyuan and appeared in front of Matthew's room.

Caucasian guy in his twenties, with curly brown hair, blue eyes, and some stubble.A casual jacket and jeans, with a suitcase in his right hand.

"Good morning, Mr.D." The young man winked at Dai Bowen.

Hearing this tone and looking at this expression, Dai Bowen can guess how the other party sees him.He approached, pinched his finger on the work card worn by the young man around his neck, and looked at it: "Erwin...an intern?"

Erwin shrugged: "A doctoral student to be precise, I haven't finished my dissertation yet."

"It's already higher than my education." Dai Bowen withdrew his hand and looked at Erwin, "Why did you choose?"

Erwin spread his hands and said, "Maybe it's because I have nowhere to go for Christmas?"

"It won't be worse than those of us who are still traveling in foreign countries during Christmas." Dai Bowen replied, "Tell me, what did James order you?"

"Oh, Mr. James said you would definitely ask that." Erwin smiled and said indifferently, "He only asked me to report what I did every day."

"A usual trick." Dai Bowen sneered, and then asked, "Computer, do you understand?"

Erwin put one hand in his pocket: "It depends on the problem you want to solve."

"Login password... something like that?"

"who?"

"A middle school student's."

"It doesn't seem to be a big problem." Erwin twitched the corner of his mouth, "However, it doesn't sound like I'm here to study lies?"

"Now you belong to me, great doctoral student, just follow my orders." Dai Bowen turned back to his desk, patted the screen with the password field still empty, "Welcome to join the team looking for Matthew."

"It's done." Erwin tapped the carriage return for the last time, and turned around with the swivel chair under his feet. "The middle school students' computers are open to us!"

His suitcase is placed on the table, and he opens it to reveal a notebook, a video camera, and other familiar or unfamiliar electronic devices.A USB-connected device, now plugged into the host, came out of this box.

Dai Bowen walked over from the shelf where games and music were stored, put one hand on the edge of the table, and quickly glanced at the computer desktop, but found no special icons.He reached out and pressed the back of the chair Erwin was sitting on, and turned the young man back to the computer: "Look for any 'cool' websites."

"'Cool' website?" Erwin turned his face sideways, looked up at Dai Bowen, and jokingly said, "Wow, a website that middle school students think is 'cool'..."

Dai Bowen glanced at him: "Good news, please exclude pornographic websites."

"Okay." Erwin moved the mouse, and opened the browser first, "It's either pornography or violence, a middle school student wouldn't think that a website for romance novels is cool... Tsk tsk, this seems to be a very clean boy Son?"

Erwin confirmed that the history has been cleared, closed the browser, and tapped on the keyboard with the fingers of both hands again: "To be honest, I'm not professional, and I may not really find what I need..."

Shen Xiuyuan was answering letters on his mobile phone, when he heard the words, he interjected, "Deep network?"

"It's unlikely." Erwin stared at the computer screen without turning his head. "The firewall of this computer is not advanced. If you go to the deep network, I'm afraid it will be paralyzed long ago."

Shen Xiuyuan didn't say a word to the young man's rebuttal.He walked up to Dai Bowen and showed him his mobile phone interface: "The police sent the picture of Matthew's last appearance under surveillance."

"The one near the station? Haven't you found the vehicle he was in?"

Shen Xiuyuan shook his head.

"Bad news." Erwin raised his hand, "I didn't find any useful information."

"It's okay, brother." Dai Bowen pressed the forward button on the email interface, and then handed the phone to Erwin, "Enter your email address, then click send, and your best field will come."

Behind the big TV in Meera's house, the game console's wires were removed and replaced with wires connected to Erwin's notebook.

Erwin clicked to play, and the monitoring screen appeared on the TV screen, with the time jumping in the upper right corner and the location written in the lower left corner.

Dai Bowen whispered next to the ear of the man beside him: "I seem to be watching the surveillance all the time recently."

Isn't it true, from monitoring the studio of the "claustrophobic" Ivan to the monitoring room of the casino owner Sean, the two have a strange sense of familiarity with this scene.

Shen Xiuyuan smiled, turned his head and replied in a low voice: "It means that everything can't escape your eyes."

Dai Bowen pinched the man's chin, stopped talking, and focused on looking at the screen.

Within a few seconds, Meera, who was sitting by the side, suddenly pointed at the screen and reminded, "Matthew...the one in the black vest and gray hoodie! He went out in this outfit that morning!"

Everyone looked in the direction she was pointing at. A young boy's figure had just entered the camera, and he seemed to be walking leisurely from the other end of the road.He put his hands in the pockets of his down vest, and turned his head to look from time to time as he walked forward.

"Erwin." Dai Bowen said, "Wait a minute, step back a little... yes, this is here. Zoom in on Matthew's face."

Matthew happened to look in the direction of the camera at this time, Erwin slid his finger on his notebook, and locked and zoomed in on the boy accurately, locked again, zoomed in again, locked for the third time, and zoomed in for the third time .

"Very good." Dai Bowen rubbed his chin with his fingers, "What did you see?"

Erwin looked at the screen and frowned: "... nothing."

"Correct." Dai Bowen leaned back on the sofa, "Continue."

Obviously "nothing", but you want to stop and check?The conversation between the two made Shen Xiuyuan and Mei La a little confused, but it was obviously unwise to disturb the professional research and judgment at this time, and Shen Xiuyuan didn't want to accept the blank stares of the two psychologists.

Erwin releases the lock and lets the video continue.

Dai Bowen didn't stop him this time, and Matthew walked straight out of the surveillance camera.Dai Bowen glanced at the time in the upper right corner of the monitor at the moment he came out of the camera, and it showed that Matthew appeared in the video for a total of 22 seconds.

"The expression is relaxed, and the steps are brisk." Erwin set the automatic repeat playback, and looked at Dai Bowen, "It seems that the little boy was in a good mood when he went out."

"Yeah, there is still room to pay attention to the interesting things around." Dai Bowen pointed to the screen, "According to the ratio of the roadside cars, this section of road is about 40 to 50 meters long, but he only used It's gone in 22 seconds."

"About 2m/s pace?" Erwin turned his head to look at the screen, and Matthew walked across the street "over and over again", "He has a purpose, either he is late, or he is very concerned about the upcoming event. Looking forward to... you know what, I don't think this little brat would care about being late, so it must be his goal that makes him fly with joy."

The conversation between Dai Bowen and Erwin was so seamless that Shen Xiuyuan couldn't get in a word.Fortunately, these two people no longer "whisper in code" as before, and finally said something that ordinary people can understand.

"I've been missing for more than 48 hours, and the last video showed that I didn't carry any backpack." Dai Bowen also looked at the screen and said, "Relaxed expression, too fast pace..."

"He didn't want to run away from home, but this exciting appointment dragged him from the public eye to an unknown place." Erwin said, freezing the screen at the scene of Matthew checking his phone, and zooming in again, " I seem to read it right? Did he look at the phone and smile? Did he still have dilated pupils?"

Dai Bowen looked at the TV screen: "...I think you read it right."

Shen Xiuyuan was finally able to intervene: "Sex and desire."

"Poor little boy..." Erwin raised his eyebrows, "I hope this is not his 'First Night Journey', otherwise there may be psychological shadows in the future."

Dai Bowen glanced at the phone in Matthew's hand: "I think our previous conjecture was correct... It is indeed time to ask Officer Clark for the call records."