Today's exam was held in a large room with many desks used in middle school.
When Xiao Ancheng and others entered, they saw a foreigner standing next to the blackboard in front of them.
He is not tall, with a thin face, a pointed and long nose, and a shaved chin. He is bald and shiny, and his messy hair is like a hat. It is circled around his head. He
The suit he was wearing was wrinkled and seemed to have never been ironed. His tie was loose and tilted to one side.
But his eyes were shining brightly and cunningly, and his expression was very majestic.
The officers stopped talking and each found a table to sit down, blinking and observing the foreigner.
Liu Li walked to the front and said, "Everyone, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Herbert, whom we invited from the United States. He is currently the most famous code-breaking master in the world. He once worked in the United States.
The Cryptozoology Association works and provides very professional advice for the US government and military in formulating codes. We are going to conduct an exam today, and those who pass the exam can study and decipher codes with Mr. Herbert."
Afterwards, she turned to Mr. Herbert and said in fluent English: "Sir, can you start now?"
Mr. Herbert walked to the blackboard and turned a piece of chalk in his hand. He spoke in English and asked Liu Li to translate for him.
"Everyone, I don't need to say more about the importance of passwords and the importance of deciphering them!"
"All methods of deciphering codes are obsolete from the day they are completed!"
"Code deciphering always starts in an unknown place! But finding that place is difficult!"
"Deciphering codes involves dealing with numbers, but successful deciphering methods have nothing to do with numbers!"
"More than fifty people came today. But I don't need so many people! I just want to study code deciphering with a dozen of the smartest gentlemen."
"So, I only ask one question today, and the time is one hour. Gentlemen who answered correctly, please enter through that door." He pointed to a small conference room next to him, "Those gentlemen who did not answer correctly, I will ask
Say goodbye to you. That’s it! Miss Liu, please give each of them a piece of paper."
Liu Li took a stack of eight-line letterheads and sent one to everyone.
At this time, Mr. Herbert glanced at everyone in the room again, and wrote a question on the blackboard with the chalk in his hand:
5-4-2-9-8-6-7-3-1
He smiled and said: "Please use the simplest language to explain the arrangement of this group of numbers. Just make it clear."
Everyone looked at this set of numbers in stunned silence. They are so simple, yet so unfathomable!
Someone raised his hand and asked, "Excuse me, sir, are those small horizontal bars minus signs?"
Herbert replied: "No. They are just there to separate the numbers."
After he finished speaking, he sat down on the chair and opened an English newspaper to read.
Xiao Ancheng also stared at this set of numbers with his mouth open, trying hard to guess their arrangement. Obviously, there is no calculation problem with this set of numbers. Secondly, they are from 1 to 9, but there is no zero. Thirdly, they are the most basic symbols of numbers.
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It took him ten full minutes to finally guess their arrangement!
He wrote the pattern out in one sentence. He stood up, walked to the front, handed the paper to Mr. Herbert, and looked at him nervously.
Mr. Herbert waved to Liu Li and asked her to read Xiao Ancheng's answer.
Liu Li looked at Xiao Ancheng's answer with some surprise, and then said something in his ear.
With a smile on his face, Herbert glanced at Xiao Ancheng deeply, then nodded and pointed to the small conference room next to him, gesturing for him to enter.
At this time, Xiao Ancheng breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that he was the first to pass the exam!
6-5
In the small conference room, there is a conference table made up of seven or eight desks, with some chairs around it.
When Xiao Ancheng sat down at the table, he was surprised that he felt very tired.
He thought for a while and then realized that deciphering the code was the task assigned to him by Long Ruihua, and it was destined to be a task that he would spend his whole life completing! This task had always been like a big mountain, weighing on his heart!
Perhaps, he will finally have such an opportunity in the future to engage in more in-depth work of code deciphering!
At this time, Liu Li came in from outside, looking at him so attentively with her big shining eyes,
She pointed to him with a smile and said, "Xiao Ancheng, congratulations, you are the first."
Xiao Ancheng looked at the paper clip she held in her arms and said with a smile, "Can I see which classmates I have?"
Liu Li handed him the paper clip and said with a smile: "They are all thinking hard. I don't know how many people can pass the test today."
Xiao Ancheng casually looked through the list in the paper clip. Soon, he found Feng Jicheng's name. He is the operator of the Information Room of the Investigation Department of Chongqing Garrison Headquarters! Oh my God! He is the operator of the Information Room of the Investigation Department of Chongqing Garrison Headquarters!
He suddenly became suspicious! The doubts in his mind were like a torrent rushing down, ups and downs, swirling and surging!
It doesn't seem particularly surprising that Chief Gong's investigation office has a data room. What is surprising is that there is a radio operator in this data room, and he has the rank of captain!
He understood that if this data room was just a data room, that would be a strange thing!
He, Chen Zifeng, and Qiao Yanfang have been guessing that Chief Gong may have another group of people! Maybe it is this data room! But why is this! He can't figure it out!
Xiao Ancheng suddenly saw Liu Li taking away the paper clip and going out again, probably to invigilate the exam.
I don’t know how long it took, but people came in one after another and sat down at the table.
Forty minutes later, eighteen people were seated at the table.
Xiao Ancheng noticed that Feng Jicheng was also sitting among them! And he smiled at him!
6-6
Mr. Herbert and Liu Li finally entered the small conference room and entered the same door. This means that everyone else has been eliminated!
Mr. Herbert looked at the people at the table with a smile. His eyes finally fell on Xiao Ancheng's face.
"Sir, your surname is Xiao, right?" he asked with a smile.
Although Xiao Ancheng could understand a little of what he said, Liu Li still translated for them.
"Yes, sir." Xiao Ancheng stood up quickly and said respectfully.
"Please sit down. I'm just asking, how did you come up with this answer?" Mr. Herbert stared at him motionless, as if staring into his heart.
Xiao Ancheng looked at him, smiled a little sheepishly, and then said softly: "Sir, when you assigned the exam questions, you actually gave me two hints to help me find the answers."
"What hint?"
"You said that deciphering codes means dealing with numbers, but the successful method of deciphering has nothing to do with numbers."
"Ah, this is it, I remember it. What is the other one?"
"In addition, after you sat down, you picked up an English newspaper and read it. I noticed that the newspaper was from a few days ago. You must have read that newspaper. So, I believe that this newspaper was given to us by you.
prompt. So, my answer is that the group of numbers is arranged in the order of the English initials."
Mr. Herbert turned to the others, "Is that how you arrived at your answer?"
Some had no expression on their faces, while others had wry smiles on their faces.
Only Feng Jicheng stood up and said: "Sir, we guessed all the ways before we found this answer! Xiao Ancheng is a cunning guy, he is opportunistic! He actually found your tip! Sir, you must be careful about him in the future!"
Everyone around the table burst out laughing and echoed: "That's right, that's right!"
Xiao Ancheng pointed at Feng Jicheng and said, "Asshole! I'll settle the score with you when I get out!"
Mr. Herbert said happily: "The important thing is that it is not Mr. Xiao who noticed the hint I gave! The important thing is that he noticed what I said! Deciphering the code requires dealing with numbers, but the method of deciphering the code has nothing to do with it.
Numbers have nothing to do with it! Gentlemen, this point is crucial!”
He continued: "From tomorrow on, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at two o'clock in the afternoon, you will come here and we will study the work of deciphering the code together. At other times, you have to complete your homework! This is more important.
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At this time, Liu Li opened a large cloth bag, took out a dozen large thick paper bags, and distributed them to everyone.
Mr. Herbert said: "These are the Japanese military telegram manuscripts that have been copied by the Telecommunications Section recently. You must study them carefully! Next time in class, I want to hear your research results! I hope you will give me a surprise! Mr. Xiao, first of all
you!"
The exam of the code-breaking training class ended like this, but it brought huge psychological pressure to Xiao Ancheng!
6-7
After leaving the Juntong Headquarters and passing through Zhongshan 4th Road, there is an antique teahouse called "Wangjiang Tower".
Sitting in the tea room upstairs, through the window, you can see the Jialing River in the distance. The water on the river is misty, and the shadows of sails passing by can be vaguely seen. The nearby roofs are lined up in rows and submerged in the thick green trees.
At this time, Xiao Ancheng, Feng Jicheng, two classmates from the Hangzhou Police Academy, and Liu Li were sitting in the tea room drinking tea and chatting casually.
Liu Li was specially invited by Xiao Ancheng to have tea with her. The way he looks now, he seems to be attracted to Liu Li. He is always talking to her about this and that, with a nice smile on his face.
Liu Li's big eyes were shining, her face was red, her laughter was loud, and she was so happy.
But Xiao Ancheng felt that Feng Jicheng was always watching him, as if he was observing him. He thought to himself, this is right! Feng Jicheng's work must be related to their current surveillance work!
Feng Jicheng suddenly asked: "Ancheng, are you busy now?"
Xiao Ancheng said lightly: "There is nothing to be busy with. We are paying attention to a few people, but I feel that it is not interesting."?