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Chapter 287: Chapter 235 Harvest Season (Subscribe, please!)_1
Standing in the command room, listening to the ’familiar’ lines from Naidan’s mouth.
Although some time has passed, but every time Tang Qing recalls the entire process of the last soldier interrogating Ba Song, he still feels a chill in his heart. At this moment, technology has triumphed over humanity, triumphed over human thought and emotions, which reminds him of the ’terrifying’ scene of the big data era in the future.
Because when enough data is collected from a person, basically his life can essentially be predicted, there will be no secrets, no real personality, all people are just ’simple’ data that can be seen through.
When Tang Qing used to read novels where the protagonist developed civilian artificial intelligence, or so-called ’convenient tools’ like little helpers, he didn’t consider it that much sci-fi or enviable. Instead, he felt like he was reading a horror story.
When such a thing has mastered all your joys, sorrows, lifestyle, social relationships and family situation, you are transparent to the company behind it, your every emotion and reaction are data, and if possible.. These data can be sold.
Sometimes he wondered, is the era of big data really good? Tang Qing considered it had two sides, it’s great when used in production and consumption fields, its effect is tremendous. But when it’s used to develop an individual’s ’artificial intelligence’, it’s not so great. Having ’stuff’ constantly around you collecting and deeply mining all your information is not something to be happy about.
Anyway, if someone else develops this thing in the future, Tang Qing will never use it.
Even if he had to use it, he would make it himself.
...
Inside the manor.
At this time, the scene was really ’embarrassing’ for a moment.
"We’ll know without you saying," the soldier said indifferently.
Naidan also looked at the few soldiers in front of him as if they were crazy. His gun was on a table far away, so he didn’t make any extreme actions. After all, there were four fully armed soldiers in front of him, there was no way he could escape any way.
"Dream on if you want my money," Naidan sneered. He had enjoyed smooth sailing since he was a child, and was the little emperor here. Even when facing death he could not beg for mercy.
The soldier whispered softly, "Six kilometers east, the secret door underneath the arms depot."
Hearing these two places, Naidan panickedly asked, "How do you know?"
The latter was a warehouse, at most a secret spot warehouse, it’s not surprising that these people know it. But the former was his father’s treasure trove, in case of any accident, it would be the capital for their family to make a comeback. They hadn’t gone there in three months, could it be that these guys have been watching his family for three months?
The soldier didn’t answer Naidan’s question and continued, "Now, only your bank account is left."
"Give up on that idea, I won’t tell you," Naidan said resentfully. Dammit, a bunch of lunatics. He felt he was wrongly condemned to die.
The soldier didn’t respond.
He just slowly glanced around the room. Two of the soldiers were rummaging around the room, and the last soldier was staring hard at Naidan.
At this time, Naidan was also puzzled, he could only attribute these people to the category of lunatics.
Three minutes later.
"Thank you."
The soldier suddenly spoke.
Just as Naidan was surprised, the speaking soldier walked over to the window, smashed the bamboo window and pulled out a roll of paper from the robust bamboo, what one might call the bearing, of the bamboo window.
How the hell did they find this?
Naidan was dumbfounded for a moment.
At the same time, it solidified his suspicion of being watched by these people for several months. The thought of being watched for several months gave him a chill, but he was not discouraged. Because only a few accounts in there are written in Arabic numerals, but the passwords are all ’ciphers’ only he can understand. Changed once a month, even if the other party gets them, it’s useless.
Naidan saw that the talking soldier glanced at the paper and stuffed it into his pocket, then pulled out his gun.
Just when Naidan thought the other party would threaten him with a gun, Naidan, who had prepared to ’die than yield,’ heard the soldier’s final words: "Okay, you can go now."
"Wait, how are you going to withdraw money without a password," Naidan hurriedly said. He wasn’t begging for mercy, but it was just too damn strange, he couldn’t figure out why the soldier didn’t coerce him for the password, just jumped straight to the execution.
"Seven two one five four one, you have a journalist here, don’t you?" The soldier stated matter-of-factly.
Listening to the numbers reported by the soldier, Naidan looked as if he had seen a ghost.
"I.. you... how.. how is this possible? I used my own unique recording method." Naidan’s eyes grew wide, his speech incoherent.
"Your diary gave you away," said the soldier calmly.
Naidan still couldn’t believe it and defended himself loudly, "That’s impossible, I..." He knew for sure that there was no information about this ’code’ in his notes.
But before he could finish speaking, the fighter pulled the trigger.
"Bang..."
Naidan.
Dead.
Tang Qing in the command room was slightly taken aback by this scene.
What just happened?
They skipped the interrogation this time?
Since when did Little Two become so tough?
"Tang Yi, how did you guys know the code?" Tang Qing turned his head curiously to ask.
"Commander, Naidan had a habit of keeping a diary. A few days ago, one of our fighters infiltrated his manor and obtained all his written materials. Based on long observation, analysis, and simulations, as well as the ’style’ exhibited by his code, we determined four types and logical forms of codes. We cracked the code on our second attempt," explained Tang Yi.
Tang Qing was left with just one phrase in his head after hearing that.
Is that even possible?
It doesn’t seem scientifically possible.
But it is evidently highly scientific.
"Er... nevermind, I won’t ask about the theory. You guys better start relocating the property. Keep the nearly one million dollars on the card for now, after all, this place is going to be our territory in the future, and we will need money for development and expenses." Tang Qing took a deep breath. Once again, he was glad these guys weren’t his enemies, or else... he’d really be dead by now.
"Yes, commander," said Tang Yi.
Next, the soldiers began removing Naidan’s collection from the manor as planned, gathered it and prepared to transport it. As for the property in the cave, it had been moved to a different location yesterday.
The items in the manor mostly consisted of cash and easily cashable valuable items. Naidan had used the money from his other bank cards to pay his last remuneration and to silence his ’high-ranking’ subordinates. Hence, he only had about one million dollars left in his account and was quite poor.
Half an hour later, all the property in the manor had been taken. Of course, not everything was taken, only the valuable jades and unearthed gold and jewelry and cash were all loaded into vehicles. The items in the Manor alone were worth nearly RMB 300 million after calculation by the command room. The various goods in the cave also valued around RMB 500 - 600 million. In total, the direct gains from this mission were close to RMB 1 billion.
Although none reached into Tang Qing’s accounts.
But those things could be cashed in, couldn’t they?
To avoid complications, other than cash, all other items were sunk into a nearby river. After all, they didn’t need them anytime soon, and these tons of heavy items would be inconvenient to carry, they would just dig them up when needed in the future.
Tang Qing wasn’t afraid of theft either, because two soldiers armed with long-range weapons were watching from the distant hilltop. He didn’t want to make the wedding dress for others with these things worth several billion.
After the soldiers finished their operations, they released all the dozens of people imprisoned in the manor and gave each of them some property. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
Those who had been imprisoned for a long time looked at the bodies all around. Some of them were numb, some were sobbing, but they all tried to control themselves to avoid upsetting these group of fighters. They knew that everyone in the manor must have been dealt with by these people, their eyes were filled with fear and gratitude towards the soldiers.
Seeing some ’familiar’ faces on the ground, many directly punched and kicked them, the soldiers did not stop them. Some even wanted to pick up guns for revenge but were robbed by the soldiers.
If a shot was fired here at night, while the soldiers wouldn’t be afraid, it would probably be difficult for them to evacuate. Once the soldiers explained the situation, everyone became honest.
Then, a soldier led them away from Naidan’s territory through a safe route. To secure this safe escape route, a small outpost of over thirty people nearby had been cleaned up.
At this point, the first phase of the plan was completed.
The rest of the plan would be carried out in an orderly manner. After escorting those women to evacuate, the soldiers hid in nearby mountains again, ready for the next action.
...
The night was deep.
Everything returned to calmness, leaving only the bugs and birds chirping, adding a sense of terror to the night.
PS: One more Chapter coming later tonight.
