Criminal Psychology

Although the Hongjing City Library is old, its floors are not low.

Holding the notebook, Wang Chao rushed to the top of the building out of breath, pushed open the heavy wooden door of the periodical library, and sneezed as a result of the heavy smell that hit his face.

He couldn't see anyone, so he could only shout loudly: "Boss, brother Ah Chen, where are you?"

The young man's crisp and clear voice echoed among the floating bookshelves. Now is probably the moment when Xing Conglian is closest to Lin Chen's heart except when he is going to bed.

He finally understood why Lin Chen always risked his life on too many things, and he probably didn't want to hand over the choice to others.

And now, he still has the opportunity to ask Lin Chen, what is a landmine, is it a metaphor, or is it a real bomb, or is it just a hypothesis put forward by Huang Weiwei to reassure him, but all the truth has been dropped from the sky by that pot. The molten steel is fused into one, and no one knows.

So far, Xing Conglian thought so.

He stared at Lin Chen's back, made up his mind, and said loudly: "Here, by the window."

Hearing this, Lin Chen raised his hand so slightly that it was almost imperceptible, as if he was wiping away tears, but he put his hand down quickly.

When Dynasty ran behind them, it was as if it had never happened.

"Boss, Brother Ah Chen received that text message, which indeed pointed to someone on the dark net..." The young man's words suddenly stopped, his eyes flicked past the two of them, as if he felt the strange atmosphere here, his voice paused, and said , "Uh...I'm here early, am I, I can reopen the door and you all get ready..."

As he spoke, he was about to turn around and run again. Xing Conglian frowned, but he didn't calm down for a moment, just staring at Lin Chen.

"Come back." At this moment, Lin Chen spoke.

Chao Chao suddenly stopped, and turned around in embarrassment: "Brother Ah Chen..."

In this short moment, Lin Chen had regained his composure.

Xing Conglian looked at Lin Chen, but the other party lowered his head slightly, without any desire to look at him.

Lin Chen stood up and walked in front of Chao Dynasty, as if he could see through the mind of a young man, he said peacefully: "Don't worry, I didn't quarrel with your boss and break up."

He regained his usual cleanness and brightness, and Xing Conglian finally understood that all the temperament of Lin Chen was clearly a kind of clarity tempered to the extreme by darkness.

"Oh, let me just say, where did my boss get such a guts!" The young man with a bright smile rushed to the desk and sat down noisily, his indomitable appearance seemed to be able to dilute all the haze.

Lin Chen sat down opposite Wang Dynasty with a heavy periodical in his hand, and said, "The sender's number points to a website on the dark web, right?"

All the pain and anger just now disappeared, and Lin Chen talked about the topic with the dynasty with his usual simplicity.

"Yes, brother Achen, I used brute force!" Chao Chao opened his notebook and turned to Lin Chen.

In the center of the screen is a string of red countdown timers, and in the lower right corner is a cluster of golden flowers.

The website is too simple and the pixels are very coarse. Although there is no bloody feeling deliberately created, it reveals the coldness of indifference to life because of indifference. Indifference is always more terrifying than passion.

This situation is so familiar, Xing Conglian retracted his gaze and connected the cause and effect before and after.He looked at Lin Chen again, probably Lin Chen had sensed it earlier than him, so no matter how difficult it was, Lin Chen had to finish telling him the story.

"Brother Ah Chen, are they... the same group of people we met before?" Wang Chao asked.

Lin Chen frowned and thought deeply, but did not answer immediately.

"There is only a series of countdowns on the website, what do you mean?" Xing Conglian changed the topic and asked Wang Chao.

"It's not just a series of countdowns!"

Dynasty used the mouse to click on the center of the screen to count down, and an equally simple pop-up window popped up instantly.

The following is the routine that usually appears in movies. Since there are websites with pop-up windows, of course there are places where you need to enter a password.

There is only a box on the white background, and a line of simple words——password.

The countdown keeps going backwards, and there is 12:32:31 left, but the unit is not hours, but minutes. If they can't break the password within 12 minutes, who knows what will happen.

"The front is all a gimmick! The password, we need the password to enter the inner world of the website!" Wang Chao tapped the keyboard, "Brother Ah Chen's password...you should be responsible for deciphering it."

Xing Conglian said coldly to Wang Chao: "Aren't you a master?"

"Even if I'm a master, I can't violate the laws of nature. Find me a supercomputer and half a day now, and I can break it for you, but within twelve minutes, I can't!"

Wang Chao acted as if I couldn't do it anyway, he had to say something more, Lin Chen finally moved.

Lin Chen slowly flipped through the periodical in his hand, and turned it to the page with more than 1000 pages of questions. He stretched out his hand and gently stroked the page, and said to Wang Chao: "Did you see the map of the three provinces near us on the dark web? "

"Ah, yes!"

"On the Internet, do our maps appear a lot?"

"It's okay, but most of them match that sentence!"

"A balance game on a tightrope." Lin Chen said.

"Yes!" Wang Chao paused and asked, "How about I type this word in and have a look?"

"How many digits is the password?" Xing Conglian asked.

"11!" Wang Chao replied.

Xing Conglian quickly went through this group of words in his mind, and then said: "There is no language matching that can match this group of words with 11 digits."

"Oh...that's it, luckily I didn't try it, otherwise this website might blow itself up after making three mistakes." Wang Chao murmured.

"No." Lin Chen interrupted him.

"No, why not?" Wang Chao kept asking, still in a state of excitement.

"Because this is a large-scale game involving the entire network, the website will not be destroyed." Lin Chen paused, then said, "You can print out the map, use A4 paper, if it is not enough for A4, enlarge it to A4. "

Wang Chao was stunned: "Yes, but what map do you want, the three provinces around us?"

Lin Chen nodded.

"Do you want a satellite topographic map or a normal 2D map?" Wang Chao said while moving, "Google, Dubai or...?"

"Just the map you found on the dark web."

"Ah?" Dynasty's hands were faster than his brain, and he clicked on the saved map on the computer desktop. The red and blue lines intertwined like blood, as if to indicate something.

Lin Chen glanced at the picture, and said sternly to Wang Chao: "Go and print out this picture, immediately, immediately."

Wang Chao was very smart. He recognized the difference in Lin Chen's tone. He quickly searched for the intranet printer, and then swept it out like a gust of wind.

Xing Conglian walked behind Lin Chen and looked at the picture that was opening on the screen.

On that plain map, the three provinces of Cheng'an, Jiangxia, and Zhelin border each other, and on it are the surrounding cities that they are all too familiar with.

There was a dense dot matrix on the map, and he counted the number of dots on the map, obviously more than 15.

All the black dots are connected by straight lines. If it weren't for the wrong timing and location of this map, it would be easy to be ignored as a ghost thing like a common forum signature.

Xing Conglian took a deep breath, put his hand on top of Lin Chen's head, pointed to the collection of periodicals on the table with his other finger, and asked Lin Chen, "Password book?"

"I'm afraid so."

Like the "Discrete Mathematics" commonly used in the Yongchuan University suicide case, it is clear that the mastermind behind the scenes has not changed his usual methods.

"Then, Song Shengsheng..."

"It should also be controlled by them."

Xing Conglian's heart trembled.

"That's why I said, things will never end." Lin Chen stared at the screen, but his tone was not sad and weak, but sounded clear-minded and calm.

Xing Conglian bent down, one hand was still on the top of Lin Chen's head, the other hand hooked his neck, hugged him, and said briefly in his ear: "I will be here from now on."

This is probably more like a comrade-in-arms than a lover's hug. Lin Chen nestled in his arms, finally turned his head, and rubbed his cheeks, with a slight breath of warmth: "I was in Zhou Rui Pharmaceutical upstairs that day. , I am very sorry, and I am very sorry for many things before. But if I encounter a similar situation again, I should still do that. I have a strong brand of the past. They have decided who I am now, and this will never happen. There will be changes." Lin Chen paused, he rarely needed to organize his sentences, but the current monologue obviously made him hesitate, he said, "But I still hope that you can accept...accept me like this." Lin Chen said sincerely.

Xing Conglian was silent for a few seconds, he let go of Lin Chen and stood up, pressed his shoulder, and solemnly repeated: "From now on, I will be here."

……

When Wang Chao came in again, Xing Conglian had already sat down beside Lin Chen.

Outside the window is the breeze and the rising sun, and the chirping of birds.

There are 8 minutes left in the countdown.

Running like a boy, he slapped the printed map on the table. Lin Chen had already pulled out the ballpoint pen from his pocket in advance and pressed it.

He circled the black dots at the intersections of all the connecting lines on the map, and said: "If I guess correctly, this should be a dot code. Too complicated and modern encryption tools are not conducive to the widespread dissemination of information for those behind the scenes, and , he's an old-fashioned guy with a special taste."

When Lin Chen said this, he began to cover the page of the journal with the penciled words on the printed paper: "The dot code requires everyone to have the same decrypted alphabet. This paper is the alphabet. And these widely appearing The map on the dark web is an encrypted ciphertext. The so-called map and all the intersections of lines are to cover up the dotted ciphertext and directly exclude the instant."

Lin Chen tightly sewed the map paper on the journal, and the letters on the journal showed a little. Sure enough, as Lin Chen said, those tiny black dots actually stuck to some specific letters.

Lin Chen pressed the black dots on the map paper with a ballpoint pen, lightly lifted the white paper, pierced the paper with the tip of the pen, and tapped lightly on the journal on the next page.

Xing Cong counted, and he just poked eleven times in a row.

Finally, Lin Chen opened the paper, reported all the letters marked with blue dots in order, and said: "The password is - I, N, T, O, T, H, E, D, A, R, K."

INTO THEDARK.

Into the dark, in the dark.