The interstellar passenger spacecraft quickly broke away from the gravitational circle of the capital star and entered the stage of stable navigation in the universe.
A soft announcement sounded in the cabin: "Dear passengers, our spaceship has begun sailing at a fixed speed. During the rest of the journey, you can go to the lobby on the 2nd floor of the spacecraft to buy all kinds of food by yourself. At the same time, on the 3rd floor,
The entertainment center will be fully open 24 hours a day. Passengers who need to participate in various entertainment activities can make reservations in advance using the app in the spacecraft..."
It was the first time for everyone to ride on an interstellar spaceship. This spaceship is similar to a luxury cruise ship. In addition to the rest cabins, other public areas have been transformed into a food court and entertainment center.
If we hadn't taken the princes to escape from the capital planet together this time, everyone could have relaxed on the spaceship for two days.
But now, everyone has no interest in going out to play.
Shao Qingge opened his carry-on suitcase No. 3, took out a large amount of compressed food, and placed it on the dining table for everyone to eat. Lu Jiuchuan opened a pack of compressed beef, stuffed a beef cube into his mouth, and joked with a smile:
"Mr. Shao is really well-equipped, bringing such a large box of food."
For convenience, all of them were empty-handed. Only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi brought three boxes of luggage.
Ye Qi came over mysteriously and lowered his voice and said: "We experienced a weekly trip before, which was a replica of a sea cruise. Mr. Shao was very rich and took us to have an extremely expensive breakfast in the VIP restaurant. Calculated, one
The steamed buns only cost a few hundred yuan. Mr. Shao said, you get what you pay for, and the more expensive ones are always better."
Tang Ci asked with interest: "What then?"
Ye Qi glanced at Shao Qingge: "Then, like those who ate free breakfast, we suffered from vomiting and diarrhea and food poisoning! Hahaha."
Shao Qingge: "...You remember it so clearly."
Ye Qi finally stopped laughing, coughed slightly, and said seriously, "The ace of spades tells us that spending money will also buy you suffering. Therefore, Mr. Shao has learned his lesson and does not want to eat on the starship. Today
I went to a convenience store early in the morning and bought a whole box of sealed food."
Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci had "I see" expressions on their faces.
Shao Qingge: "..."
Regarding this dark history, Shao Qingge had nothing to defend. He patted Ye Qi's shoulder lightly: "Is there anything wrong with being cautious? Go ahead and cook a bag of noodles for daddy. Don't forget that in this world, I
He is your adoptive father, no matter how old or young."
Ye Qi's ears turned slightly red, and he glared at him with a resigned expression on his face. He turned around to cook noodles for "Dad" and also cooked a bowl for each of his other teammates.
After everyone finished dinner, Xiao Lou suggested: "It's still a long time until the terminal, why don't we study those banknotes? Did Mr. Shao bring them?"
"Of course." Shao Qingge opened suitcase No. 1, which was indeed filled with cash.
In order to prevent the banknotes from moving during the dragging process and causing confusion in the order, Shao Qingge filled the vacant positions in the box with white paper of similar thickness. Therefore, the arrangement of banknotes in the suitcase is exactly the same as that of a one-meter-high safe.
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"We put the banknotes in in the original order, and we didn't find any other patterns," Shao Qingge said.
"Let's take it apart and take a look." Xiao Lou took the first stack of banknotes in the upper left corner. After untying the white straps that bound the banknotes, Xiao Lou spread the 100 banknotes on the ground and looked at them one by one.
His teammates also leaned over to watch carefully.
For comparison, Shao Qingge simply summoned an [ATM self-service teller machine] on the spot, took out a few more star coins, and gave one to each of his teammates.
Holding the banknotes that Shao Qingge had just taken out in their left hands, everyone squatted next to the banknotes spread out on the floor in Xiao Lou, comparing details bit by bit. The scene was like playing a game of "find the fault".
Tang Ci concluded: "The designs are all the same. On the front is the portrait of the founding emperor of the Luoke Empire, and on the back is the face value of 1,000, rugged Braille, and the banknote number."
Yu Hanjiang suddenly said: "Look at the lower right corner of the banknotes. There are differences in the anti-counterfeiting marks."
Among this group of people, Yu Hanjiang is undoubtedly the one with the best observation skills. After all, he is a criminal policeman. He has encountered many criminals in his previous cases and is quite sensitive to anti-counterfeiting signs.
In the interstellar era, few people use banknotes anymore. The ID card on their wrist is bound to a bank card, and they can be paid by scanning it directly. But banknotes are hard currency after all, and banks will definitely have reserves, and banknotes must be marked with anti-counterfeiting marks, otherwise
The introduction of large-scale drugs will destroy the market economy.
Hearing Yu Hanjiang's words, everyone turned the banknotes to the back. Ye Qi quickly discovered this: "The colors of the light are different? The banknotes left by Mr. Shao, the light of the anti-counterfeiting mark changes horizontally, and it was just removed from the ATM machine
The banknotes taken out changed vertically?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "There will be light-changing ink on the banknotes to prevent copying and counterfeiting. The anti-counterfeiting ink of these two versions of star coins is printed in different ways, so the angle of color change under light will be different. Mr. Tang, could you please check it out?
Has the empire made any announcements about the revision of star coins in recent years?”
Tang Ci took out his portable optical computer and quickly told everyone the result: "There are a total of four editions of banknotes issued since the founding of the empire. The one in the safe is the third edition, and the fourth edition of banknotes was issued in August 2975.
, it has been used to this day, and this is the version I just took out from the ATM machine."
Xiao Lou quickly realized the crux of the problem: "In other words, the banknotes left by Mr. Shao were the third edition. This edition stopped printing in August 2975. Starting from August, all new edition banknotes were issued.
, wants to take out old banknotes with a face value of 7.5 million from the bank, and prove that he took out these banknotes before August 2975?"
After the new version of banknotes is issued in large quantities, the old version will stop printing, and it is impossible to withdraw the entire 7.5 million old version of banknotes from the bank. Then, the only explanation is that Shao Qingge's father had already withdrawn 7.5 million of the old version of banknotes before the new version of banknotes was issued.
cash and deposited in a safe.
The date of July 15, 2975 indicated by the placement of the coins coincided with the time when he withdrew the cash. At that time, the new version of banknotes had not yet been issued, so what he took out was naturally the old version.
Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou and analyzed: "This also proves our speculation about the date. July 15, 2975, must be the time when the Noah's Ark project was first launched. Mr. Shao doesn't know why.
For what reason, a large amount of banknotes were taken out of the bank when the plan was launched, and were left as clues to Shao Qingge."
He must have been uneasy or had a bad premonition about this plan, so he took precautions and left a clue in advance.
Xiao Lou suddenly asked: "Mr. Shao, do you remember when your father passed away?"
Shao Qingge thought for a moment and said, "It should have been 18 years ago, shortly after the Noah's Ark project was restarted."
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Ye Qi again and said: "Ye Qi's biological parents also died shortly after Ye Qi was born 18 years ago. According to the information, they died in a battle on the front line, but I always feel that something is wrong
It’s not that simple. I saw Ye Qi’s father’s name in the signature of the Noah’s Ark restart plan.”
Ye Qi scratched his head and said: "I have no impression of my parents at all. I grew up in an orphanage since I was a child."
Shao Qingge frowned and pressed his temples. He suddenly remembered the reason why he adopted Ye Qi in the first place - that year, he went to the orphanage to do charity and donated a sum of money to the orphanage. Ye Qi, as a representative of the children
, went on stage to give him flowers. Shao Qingge, who was still very young at the time, saw the child's clear eyes and felt inexplicably familiar, so he adopted Ye Qi.
Shao Qingge looked at Ye Qi: "Ignore all our past experiences, just in this secret room, we didn't know each other at first. I adopted you because you are Ye Bowen's son, and I have met your biological father."
This sentence was quite convoluted, but Ye Qi quickly understood: "It means that the fact that you are my adoptive father is not a random arrangement, but involves some clues about the Noah's Ark plan? Your father,
Both my biological father and I participated in this plan? And you have also met my biological father?"
Shao Qingge nodded: "Yes, although the impression is not clear, your biological father must have been to my house and had a dispute with my father. I was very young at that time and did not hear what they said. I only heard them talking.
Quarreling. What is certain is that they all died unexpectedly in those two years. My father was in a car accident, and your parents died on the front line."
Xiao Lou frowned slightly: "Could it be that the death of your parents was not an accident?"
Yu Hanjiang asked: "Where is the list?"
Shao Qingge also took out his portable optical computer and enlarged the downloaded Noah's Ark restart plan in front of everyone.
There are more than a dozen names on the signature page. In addition to the directors of the investor Noah Medical Technology Company, there are also several important senior officials from the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Military Ministry...
Yu Hanjiang suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. He looked at Tang Ci, who understood and quickly typed these names into his brain to search, but the results of the search made Tang Ci's expression change.
He said solemnly: "Mr. Shao died in a car accident on August 10, 2982; Major General Ye Bowen died in September of the same year; Professor Qi Zhao of the Academy of Sciences died of poisoning in the laboratory in November of the same year; the scientist Liang Lu also
Died of sudden heart attack in November..."
Every time he pronounced a name, the faces of his teammates became uglier.
After he read out the death news of nine people in succession, Ye Qi couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Are they all dead?"
Tang Ci said: "There is only one left, Lin Yan's mother, Professor Zhang Shaohua."
Yu Hanjiang frowned: "Except for Professor Zhang, all other insiders were silenced eighteen years ago. This is the case that Hongtao needs to investigate in this secret room - we can't even find the body of the deceased."
When investigating a case, if there is a body, we can at least deduce the cause and time of death. Only when we arrive at the crime scene can we find various evidence and clues left by the suspect...
But now, the nine dead people have been turned into nine urns and buried in the cemetery.
The crime scene was completely destroyed.
A serial murder case without a body was a case from 18 years ago?!
Lu Jiuchuan had a headache and held his forehead: "How to check this?"
Everyone's eyes turned to Yu Hanjiang. The old case from 18 years ago was much more difficult than sending everyone to the crime scene for an autopsy to find the murderer.
Yu Hanjiang thought about it carefully and said: "This case cannot use the previous thinking to investigate the social relationships, grievances and causes of death of the deceased - no matter how they died, in the final analysis, they must have been silenced. Therefore, we only need to start from the plan
Start by yourself and investigate those who are still alive, the secrets of the Noah's Ark plan and the forces behind it."
Ye Qi said: "Ms. Zhang Shaohua, Lin Yan's mother that Teacher Qu is checking, is the only one alive among the signatures. Will she know some clues?"
Yu Hanjiang shook his head: "Since everyone else has been silenced, it is impossible for them to leave only this hidden danger. I speculate that Ms. Zhang is most likely to be hypnotized and does not remember the past. The reason why the silencer let her go is because of her
She is General Lin’s wife, maybe General Lin is protecting her, or maybe His Majesty is giving General Lin a favor.”
His Majesty?
It is not unexpected for Yu Hanjiang to mention this person. Although His Majesty is not on the list, this plan will definitely be related to His Majesty. Otherwise, how can we explain the several prince clones in the palace?
Xiao Lou glanced at the star coins on the ground.
Similar in color to RMB, 100 pink banknotes were laid out on the ground in order.
Apart from the fact that the anti-counterfeiting mark is different from the current banknotes, confirming that this is the third edition of the star coins issued before 2975, are there any other clues on the banknotes?
He squatted down and carefully looked at the front and back of the banknote.
Suddenly, Xiao Lou said: "There is something wrong with the serial number of the banknotes."
Yu Hanjiang was startled, then walked over and squatted next to Xiao Lou: "Number?"
Xiao Loudao: "Bank automatic teller machines do not store so many banknotes, and large cash withdrawals require an appointment at the bank in advance. For example, when we get engaged in our hometown, we usually need new banknotes to withdraw the betrothal gift, and we must make an appointment in advance to withdraw it at the bank counter.
, the new banknotes taken out in this way have a pattern, that is - consecutive numbers."
Yu Hanjiang's eyes lit up and he looked carefully at the number area in the lower right corner of the back of the banknote.
The first g446805;
The second sabfd31;
The third one is g446806;
The fourth amcr333;
The fifth g446807;
The sixth picture aefpf13……
All odd-numbered notes on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th are consecutive numbers; all even-numbered notes on the 2nd, 4th, and 6th are not consecutively numbered.
Xiao Lou reclassified the banknotes spread on the ground and explained: "The banknotes with serial numbers, all starting with G, should be taken out from the bank by appointment; while the banknotes without serial numbers and with messy numbers should be Shao
The old gentleman specially found the clue banknotes and inserted them in the middle of this pile of banknotes."
After being classified by Xiao Lou, everyone looked at the banknotes on the ground - and sure enough, it was so.
There are a total of 100 banknotes in this stack. The odd-numbered banknotes are all serialized, and the even-numbered banknotes are all unserialized, appearing alternately. In the end, 50 serially numbered banknotes and 50 chaotically numbered banknotes with clues were screened out.
Eliminate the interference of serial-numbered banknotes and only look at the "clue banknotes" with messy numbers, and you can find a strange pattern.
Xiao Loudao: "The numbers in the clue banknotes are only 1 and 3."
Everyone took a closer look and found that there were no other numbers from 0 to 9 in the 50 clue notes. They were all 1 and 3. The second one was 31, the fourth one was 333, the sixth one was 13, and the eighth one was 1111...
Ye Qi looked confused: "What do 1 and 3 represent?"
Xiao Lou is very good at mathematics, but he has only heard that the conversion between decimal and binary is 1 and 0, but he has never heard about what 1 and 3 represent.
The room suddenly became quiet, and everyone was obviously thinking.
Just when everyone was frowning and thinking, Shao Qingge suddenly took a step forward and said softly: "This is Morse code."
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[Chapter 420, The Secret of Noah’s Ark]
Morse code?
Xiao Lou didn't expect this at first, but when Shao Qingge reminded him, he quickly reacted: "Morse code is an international code that has been circulated for many years. The short dot signal [·] reads [Di], keep
A long signal [-] of a certain time is pronounced [dah], a short signal lasts for 1 second, and a long signal lasts for 3 seconds - exactly 1 and 3."
Ye Qi was stunned: "You still use Morse code? It's like playing a spy game!"
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and touched his nose: "So, this box of banknotes left by Mr. Shao is really Morse code? Mr. Shao, do you know how to decipher it?"
Shao Qingge thought about it carefully and said with a headache: "My father taught me when I was a child, saying that this is a code passed down from a very ancient era. What he taught me is the same as what Professor Xiao said, short sounds and long sounds, different
The combination can be deciphered into different numbers and letters. On coins, 1 represents a short sound and 3 represents a long sound, which really makes sense."
Ye Qi joked: "You actually know Morse code? Our Mr. Shao is finally no longer a scumbag."
Shao Qingge couldn't laugh or cry: "I just remembered the memory that the gatekeeper instilled in me."
He leaned over and picked up the banknotes with clues on the ground, and said: "This one, the clue number is 31, deciphered according to the long and short sounds of Morse code, representing the letter n; this one, 333, long long, representing the letter
The Morse code that Shao Qingge had learned in his childhood quickly emerged in his memory. He quickly deciphered the Morse code on the banknotes. Xiao Lou took a blank piece of paper and recorded it according to Shao Qingge's rhythm.
After remembering this, Xiao Lou suddenly said: "Wait a moment."
Shao Qingge looked back at him. Xiao Lou turned over the paper with the letters on it and showed it to everyone.
noahsark.
Tang Ci was the first to react: "noah'sark, Noah's Ark?"
Xiao Lou nodded seriously: "Yes, the Morse code that Mr. Shao just deciphered, when combined, is Noah's Ark."
Everyone: “…………”
It can only be said that Shao Qingge's father's method of leaving passwords was so awesome. It was more complicated than any other diamond mechanism passwords he had encountered before. In the end, it actually matched the Morse code.
Coins, numbers, Morse code, English letters - Noah's Ark.
Even if someone is interested in finding the safe he left behind, they will not understand the mystery. Most people will only subconsciously think that he left a box of money for his son when they see a box of banknotes...
Shao Qingge felt complicated: "Continue to decipher?"
Xiao Lou said: "Go ahead, take out all the banknotes in the entire box, and let everyone help organize them, remove the interference items with consecutive numbers, and sort out the chaotically numbered banknotes with numbers 1 and 3 in order."
Except for Shao Qingge and Xiao Lou, everyone else started to take action.
There are 8 rows of banknotes in the big box. Each row has 9 stacks. Each stack contains 100 banknotes. There are 7200 banknotes in total. Among them, 3600 consecutively numbered banknotes are distractions and have no meaning. There are 3600 clue banknotes with numbers 1 and 3.
…
Ye Qi had never seen so many banknotes before, and his hands cramped when counting the money.
Yu Hanjiang, Tang Ci and Lu Jiuchuan were also sorting the coins quickly, and then placed them in stacks in order in front of Shao Qingge.
Shao Qingge deciphered the codes one by one in order, while Xiao Lou recorded them on the blank paper.
The room was extremely quiet, except for Shao Qingge's deep voice and Xiao Lou's writing voice.
"1311, letter l... 3313, letter q... 3113, letter x..."
Ye Qi sat next to him, not daring to express his anger.
Listening to Shao Qingge's continuous counting and deciphering of codes, he even felt as nervous as when watching a spy war drama when the underground party intercepted the "didi-dah-dah" telegram and deciphered it into Chinese.
3600 passwords, a huge workload.
Shao Qingge wanted to ensure that the deciphering would not go wrong. The memory of learning Morse code in his childhood became clearer and clearer in his mind. He converted 1 and 3 into short and long sounds, and the speed of deciphering became faster and faster.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Lou's paper was filled with deciphered letters.
Until all 3,600 banknotes have been deciphered.
Xiao Lou started to translate from the beginning——
"The Noah's Ark Project was officially launched on July 15, 2975. Scientists have overcome the problem of cell replication. The cell culture medium they produced is theoretically enough to grow a cell into an adult."
"The experiment must be kept confidential. It is best for human cells to be provided by a few of our insiders. So, like them, I took my son Shao Qingge's cells to join the experimental group..."
After Xiao Lou read this, he couldn't help but look up at Shao Qingge.
Shao Qingge helplessly raised his forehead: "Go on, even if I am a clone, I can accept it."
Xiao Lou then translated: "Professor Zhang used cells from her daughter Lin Yan; the cells provided by Your Majesty came from the newborn little prince Xiao Lou."
After reading his name, Xiao Lou still looked calm. He paused and continued: "A week later, the Academy of Sciences launched a secret experiment. I was very uneasy. Once I went to the laboratory and found that they actually put my son's
A dozen copies of the cell clones were made and placed in a culture dish. I asked them, didn't they agree to only make one copy as the child's future organ donor? They explained that there is a risk of failure in cell cloning, and they need to make more to ensure that
Success rate.”
"This approach makes me even more scared - what if all those people succeed? How will I face five, six, or even a dozen identical Shao Qingges in the future?"
"Qingge is the crystallization of the love between my wife and I. How can I explain to my son that he has so many identical 'brothers' if he copies them at will? I originally agreed to this plan to make a replica to serve as my son's therapist in case of emergency."
Suitable for emergencies. According to scientists, human aging is due to the aging of organs. If you raise a young
The clones serve as donors. When they grow old in the future, they can take organs from the clones at any time to extend their lifespan. If they get sick, they can transplant healthy organs to the original body at any time without worrying about rejection. The clones,
It's like the life insurance that humans buy for themselves, giving them an extra life. I'm too stupid to believe them!"
"Now, the research of this group of lunatics has deviated from the original intention, and I must stop this."
"I secretly went to the laboratory and destroyed Qingge's specimens. I felt like I was killing someone. Those cells were about to grow into the shape of a baby... I saw countless babies in the laboratory, my God!
"
"Due to scientists' mistakes, although the cells grew into babies, the babies raised in in vitro culture fluid had too many physical defects and all died before they were six months old. The Noah's Ark project had to be terminated!"
The deciphered information stops here.
This is only a record of the first plan, and there is no record of the restart of the Noah's Ark plan. Obviously, the safe was prepared by Shao Qingge's father after the end of the first plan, and the fact that the banknotes were taken from 2975 also proves this. Chapter 1
When the second plan was launched, perhaps he was already under surveillance, or perhaps he was silenced so quickly that he had no time to leave any more clues.
The teammates looked at each other.
Directly taking children's cells and replicating countless identical babies, the image makes people goosebumps just thinking about it. Xiao Lou took a deep breath: "In the first plan, all the clones died? So, five years later,
, plan to restart, they should have more advanced technology?"
For example, destroying a seedling accelerates cell replication and the process of baby growth. Let a baby grow up to five years old in just one year? Otherwise, how can we explain that the second batch of clones in the palace are all the same age as Xiao Lou?
Crazy scientists seem to have overlooked that once human reproduction methods, growth rates, and even genetic inheritance can be completely controlled by humans themselves, scientists can modify human characteristics at will, just like modifying a machine... cultivated like that.