Just as Wei Ran and Edward reached a deal, Charlotte suddenly asked in English, "Edward, aren't you going to tell this young man what it is you are really looking for?"
Hearing this, Edward let go of Wei Ran's hand and replied with a smile, "I can pay him 500,000 euros for the investigation, but I don't want to give him too much trust."
"This is a trustworthy young man, but it's up to you."
Charlotte responded indifferently, then switched to Italian and said to Wei Ran, "Victor, Edward and I just discussed it. Now that your deal has been established, we are going to go to the lake outside for a walk."
Come on, the scenery here is very beautiful, very different from the UK, especially there is no damn rainy day."
"Do you need me to accompany you?" Wei Ran stood up and asked with a smile, as if he really didn't understand English, "The security here is not very good after the sun goes down."
"It doesn't matter." Charlotte glanced at the dial of the watch, "Ms. Anna will be here soon, and there is Matt following us."
"You can call me if you run into trouble." Wei Ran said with a normal expression.
"Of course, as long as your phone number can be connected." Charlotte joked and teased Wei Ran, then greeted Edward and Matt and walked out, "By the way, do you need to pay the investigation fee in advance?"
Wei Ran smiled and responded as they walked out, "For your sake, we can wait for the investigation results to come out and then pay according to Mr. Edward's satisfaction. I believe you can do it fairly and justly."
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Having said this, Wei Ran looked at Edward again and said in German, "Mr. Edward, if it's convenient, could you keep all the clues and information including the telescope? They may play an important role."
"Of course." Edward pointed to the briefcase on the table, "It fell in there."
"This is why I like doing business with Chinese people"
Charlotte said with a smile, "Doing business with Chinese people is like meeting new friends, and you can always gain respect from new friends."
"Mr. Charlotte, I have always regarded you as a friend." Wei Ran continued to compliment the other person. After all, such words cost nothing, and if you say a few more words, you might get unexpected rewards.
"Don't worry, young man, I also regard you as a trustworthy friend, so even if Edward plans to default on the bill in the end, I will help him pay the agreed investigation fees."
"I have never worried about this matter" Wei Ran waved goodbye to the three old men who came together as he spoke.
“Who in their right mind can say that Europeans don’t care about face and favors?”
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and waited until the three old guys got into the car parked at the door and walked away, then locked the door and sauntered back into the room.
Without rushing to look through the briefcase left by Edward, Wei Ran poured himself another cup of coffee and began to think about what Charlotte just said in English.
He didn't know whether Charlotte was really sure that she didn't know English, or whether she was trying her best to remind herself, but at least from Edward's response at the time, it was certain that he was probably looking for more than just the fallen colleagues that his grandfather had not found.
In this case, what is it that he is looking for?
Wei Ran thought about it secretly. It was obvious that no matter what Charlotte thought at the time and what he said in English, he could not go to the other party to ask. And even if he went to Charlotte to ask like an idiot, there was a high probability that he would go to Charlotte to ask.
You will not get any valuable answers, but will only embarrass both parties.
Now it's time to see if we can find any clues from the known clues...
Wei Ran murmured to himself as he opened the briefcase left by Edward and took out the telescope and map that the other person had just put in.
In addition to these things, Wei Ran also found a USB flash drive in the shape of a dromedary. He pulled out the camel's head to reveal the socket. Wei Ran thought about it, got up and took out the Katenka half-sold and half-given to him from the room.
notebook.
But what he didn't expect was that almost the moment he plugged in the USB drive, a bright red alert pop-up window popped up in the lower right corner!
Weiran frowned, decisively pulled out the USB flash drive, then took out the authenticator from the food box and connected it to his laptop.
After some authentication, a communication document was opened on the desktop, and a line of German language appeared on it, "Your computer was just attacked by a virus?"
"That's why I'm looking for you. I just plugged in a USB flash drive and received a notification," Wei Ran said, "Can you hear me?"
"You can hear" Katenka typed out a string of words again, "Plug in the USB drive you mentioned."
Seeing this, Wei Ran picked up the USB flash drive on the desktop again and inserted it into his laptop. This time, there was no pop-up window in the lower right corner.
A moment later, Katenko wrote on the document, "It is a virus program used for surveillance."
"Monitor my computer?" Wei Ran asked while sipping his coffee.
"The browsing history and file reading and writing transfer records of this computer on the network"
Katenka paused for a while after writing this sentence, and then wrote again, "I copied the virus program, and I will find a good home for it later. I have copied the contents of the USB drive to your computer.
In addition, do you need me to trace the source and see who is monitoring you?"
"Check it out if you can," Wei Ran replied nonchalantly.
A moment later, Katenka wrote again, "The surveillance data flowed to a small financial company in the Isle of Man, England, but it couldn't be broken through in a short time. Even if it was broken through, it would be noticed."
"Finance Company?"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Katianka had already controlled the computer to open the web page of a financial company, and then opened a second web page, found a photo from it, then pulled up the document and continued to write, "He is
The owner of this financial company, Edward Berger."
Glancing at Edward in the photo, Wei Ran was basically certain that Edward, who had left, was probably worried that he would find out the things he deliberately concealed during the investigation, so he left such a USB flash drive with private goods.
for myself.
"It can be done by letting that program monitor some content that people from the Yin Kingdom like to watch, right?" Wei Ran suppressed his anger and asked, "Of course, I am a historian, so I'd better find some tasteful content.
"How about a royal scandal? Or British fans being beaten up by Russian fans?" Katenka typed out a line of text, "There are many such things."
"Okay." Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "Besides, there is no need to investigate further, this is just an insignificant prank."
"No problem" Katenka simply replied on the document.
"How is the situation over there?" Wei Ran asked with interest.
"As always" Katenka responded briefly.
Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped chatting, first unplugged the USB flash drive, and then unplugged the authenticator.
He stood up and walked to a place where the computer camera could not see and put away the food box. Wei Ran sat down again and carefully read through the contents that had been copied from the USB flash drive to the computer.
There are a lot of things in this USB flash drive, but most of them are scanned copies of notes, and the contents of the notes are mostly professional content related to oil exploration, as well as some carefully marked maps of North Africa.
It can be seen between the lines that the person who left this note has been to many places in North Africa, but at the same time, Weiran can also see that there seem to be a few pages missing from these scans. Apart from this, the only thing that can be calculated is
The valuable harvest is a group photo.
In this black and white photo, the background is the endless desert, and the focus of the camera is 12 muscular men who are shirtless and wearing shorts, holding large wrenches or shovels in their hands.
But this photo seems to have been burned by fire, so that a piece of the boss is missing in the upper right corner, and several men can only see their bodies below the shoulders.
Putting this photo alone on the computer desktop, Wei Ran began to secretly calculate. According to Edward, his grandfather Mr. Claus was captured by the British in the desert of North Africa on September 27, 1941.
At the same time, the fighting on the North African battlefield has entered the third stage. The Germans and their lovely, pasta-minded allies are trying to push the battlefield to the border of Libya and Egypt, and then occupy the crucial Saloum. And in
Less than two months after Claus was captured, the British army launched Operation Crusade.
It can be said that the time when Klaus was captured happened to be when the German-Italian forces were relatively well mixed in the North African desert. If this is the case, does it mean that they were not far from the battlefield at that time?
Wei Ran temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart and began to think about what he should bring with him if he returned to the battlefield with the help of a metal notebook.
Obviously, just like last time, fresh water is undoubtedly the most precious and crucial. But whether he will be restricted by the metal book this time like last time, he has no confidence at all.
"Regardless of whether you will be restricted or not, let's make preparations first."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, reached out to close the notebook, and then walked into the storage room in the corner of the first floor.
There is nothing else in this storage room. Vodka, gin, large bottles of Great White Bear beer and mineral water are placed on the shelves in a circle. Of course, there is also a refrigerator full of chocolates and various
Chinese seasonings, even tea, coffee and other things can be put in the food box.
First, he filled the food box with chocolates, and threw in an extra pack of seasonings and a small pack of jasmine tea that he brought from China but rarely drank. Then he filled the two oil barrels with beer and mineral water respectively.
water. Finally, he ran to the garage outside with the last titanium alloy bucket specially used to hold fuel, and filled it with gasoline.
However, just when he was fully prepared and was about to walk into the room to summon the metal notebook, the cell phone in his pocket rang without warning. He took out his cell phone and glanced at the screen. The caller turned out to be
