War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 483 The Tricked USB Drive

At the same time that Wei Ran and Edward reached a deal, Charlotte suddenly asked in English, "Edward, are you not going to tell this young man what you are really looking for?"

Hearing this, Edward let go of Wei Ran's hand, and replied with a smile, "I can pay him 50 euros for the investigation, but I don't want to give him too much trust."

"He's a trustworthy young man, but take it as you please."

Charlotte responded indifferently, and then switched to Italian and said to Wei Ran, "Victor, I discussed with Edward just now, since your deal has been established, we are going to go for a walk outside by the lake , the scenery here is beautiful, very different from the UK, especially without the damn rain.”

"Do you need me to accompany you?" Wei Ran stood up and asked with a smile as if he really couldn't understand English, "The security here is not very good after the sun goes down."

"It's okay." Charlotte glanced at the dial of the watch, "Ms. Anna will be here soon, and Matt will follow us."

"You can call me if you are in trouble." Wei Ran said with a normal expression.

"Of course, as long as your phone can get through." Charlotte teased Wei Ran jokingly, greeted Edward and Matt and went 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, you can wait for the investigation results to come out before paying according to Mr. Edward's satisfaction. I believe you will be able to do it fairly and justly." .”

Speaking of this, Wei Ran looked at Edward again, and said in German, "Mr. Edward, if it is convenient, can you leave all the clues and information including the telescope, those may play an important role."

"Of course." Edward pointed to the briefcase on the table, "It's all in there."

"That's why I like doing business with Chinese people"

Charlotte smiled and said, "Doing business with Huaxia people is like meeting new friends, and you can always get respect from new friends."

"Mr. Charlotte, I have always regarded you as a friend." Wei Ran continued to compliment the other party. Anyway, this kind of words don't cost money, and there may be unexpected gains if you say a few more words.

"Don't worry, young man, I also regard you as a trustworthy friend, so even if Edward decides to renege on the debt in the end, I will help him pay the agreed investigation fee."

"I've never worried about this matter." Wei Ran waved goodbye to the three old men who came together.

"Which fool is saying that Europeans don't care about face and favor?"

Wei Ran muttered something to himself, and waited until the three old fellows 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 refilled a cup of coffee on his own, and began to think about what Charlotte said in English just now.

He didn't know whether Charlotte was really sure that he didn't know English, or was trying to remind himself, but at least from Edward's response at the time, he could be sure that he was looking for more than just the dead colleagues that his grandfather failed to find.

That being the case, what exactly was he looking for?

Wei Ran pondered secretly, obviously, no matter what thoughts Charlotte said in English at the time, he could not ask the other party, and even if he asked Charlotte like an idiot, there is a high probability You will not get any valuable answers, but it will only embarrass both parties.

Now let's see if we can find any clues from the known clues
Wei Ran muttered to himself and opened the briefcase that Edward left behind, and took out the telescope and the map that the other party 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. notebook.

But what he didn't expect was that almost the moment he plugged in the flash drive, a bright red alert window popped up in the lower right corner!
Frowning, Wei Ran decisively pulled out the USB flash drive, took out the authenticator from the food box and connected it to the notebook.

After some authentication, a document for communication on the desktop opened, and a line of German appeared on it, "Your computer was attacked by a virus just now?"

"That's why I came to you. Just now I plugged in a USB flash drive and received a prompt." Wei Ran said, "Can you hear me?"

"I can hear" Kajianka typed a string of text again, "insert the USB drive you mentioned."

Seeing this, Wei Ran picked up the USB drive on the desktop and inserted it into the notebook again. This time, there was no pop-up window in the lower right corner.

Moments later, Katenka wrote on the document, "It is a virus program for monitoring."

"Monitor my computer?" Wei Ran asked, sipping his coffee.

"Including browsing history and file reading, writing and transferring records of this computer"

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 Yes. Also, do you need me to trace the source to see who is monitoring you?"

"Check it out if you can," Wei Ran replied indifferently.

A moment later, Katenka wrote again, "The monitoring data flowed to a small-scale financial company in the Isle of Man, UK, but if it failed to break through for a short time, it would be detected even if it did."

"Finance Company?"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Kajianka manipulated the computer to open the webpage of a financial company, then opened the second webpage, found a photo from it, and then called 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 is basically sure that Edward, who has already left, is probably worried that he will find out the things he deliberately concealed during the investigation, so he left such a USB flash drive with private goods for myself.

"Let that program monitor some content that people in the Yin Kingdom like to watch, can it be done?" Wei Ran asked, holding back his anger, "Of course, I am a historian, so it is best to find some quality content.

"How about the royal family 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, "Also, 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 great interest.

"As always," Katenka responded curtly.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped chatting, first unplugged the USB flash drive, and then unplugged the authenticator.

He got up and went to a place where the computer camera couldn't see it, put away the food box, Wei Ran sat down again, and carefully read the content 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, Wei Ran can also see that a few pages seem to be missing from these scanned documents.In addition, the only reward that can be considered valuable is a group photo.

In this black-and-white group photo, the background is the endless desert, and the focus of the lens is 12 muscular muscular men wearing shorts and holding large wrenches or shovels.

But this photo seems to have been burned, so that the upper right corner is missing a large piece of the boss, and even with it, several men can only see the body 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 North African desert on September 1941, 9.

At the same time, the fighting on the North African battlefield has entered the third phase. The Germans and their lovely spaghetti-minded allies are trying to push the battlefield to the border between Libya and Egypt, and then occupy the vital Salum.Less than two months after Claus was captured, the British army launched the Crusade.

It can be said that the time when Klaus was captured happened to be a relatively good node for the German-Italian coalition forces to mix in the North African desert.That being 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 to bring this time if he returned to the battlefield with the help of a metal book.

Obviously, just like last time, fresh water is undoubtedly the most precious and most vital.But whether he will be restricted by the metal book this time like last time, he has no confidence at all.

"Regardless of whether it 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, and large bottles of Pyrenees beer and mineral water are placed on the shelves in a circle.Of course, there are also chocolates and various Chinese seasonings stuffed into a refrigerator, as well as tea, coffee and other things that can be put into the food box.

First stuff the food box with chocolates, and throw in an extra packet of seasoning and a small packet of jasmine tea brought from China but rarely drunk.Then he filled the two oil drums with beer and mineral water respectively.Finally, he ran out to the garage with the last titanium alloy bucket specially used for fuel, and filled it with gasoline.

However, just when he was fully prepared and was about to enter the room to summon the metal book, the mobile phone in his pocket rang without warning.He took out his phone and glanced at the screen, and it turned out to be Professor Alexey who called.

　Thanks to the Atlantic Shark boss for rewarding 200000 points, and try to add one more later to express my feelings for the time being.Return the rest slowly
　　
　
(End of this chapter)