nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 109

Antero Mountain is divided into North Mountain and South Mountain in the American Geography. According to local gem hunters, North Mountain is their treasure-digging holy land, while South Mountain is known as the "Demon Cave" among gem hunters!
Because the altitude of Antero is as high as more than 4000 meters!
The north side of the mountain is shrouded in cloud all year round, and the foot of the mountain in the north is densely covered with swamps. If Tao Xi hadn’t spent a huge sum of $400 before going up the mountain, maybe he would have to waste a little effort to reach the top of the mountain.

And because Nanshan was exposed to the scorching sun all the year round, except for some dense thorns and withered trees, there was no animal to be seen in the vegetation of Nanshan, not even the turkey meat that Aksha was tired of eating recently.

A banyan tree about two adult men's arms had its heart hollowed out by some animal, and the unkempt Amar was nestled in it wearing a scratched camouflage uniform full of holes.

Domestic garbage is thrown everywhere near the tree hole. The endless sand and the mid-empty sun not far away make the place look extraordinarily bleak. Amar lowered his head and casually picked the only two pieces of bread and four bottles of mineral water left in his backpack. .

Amal didn't know what was stuffed under his dirty nails, but Amal didn't care at all and instead scratched his eczema-ridden neck.

"I might as well go to jail, at least I don't have to worry about dying in this wilderness every day in prison."

"But I really can't swallow this breath! If I really took the 3600 million gems, it's fine, the key is that I didn't take it!"

"My nephew's life is at stake!"

Amar squatted in the tree hole and babbled non-stop in front of the tree hole as if suffering from hysteria. Occasionally, one or two ants crawled on his body. Amar would catch the ants and put them in his palm to study for a long time.

"Bastian, you're not as interesting as an ant in the end, you know that?"

"Bastian Lang is such a beastly dog!"

"If I knew that your heart is so dirty, I should have sent you to the police station!"

When Amar said the name of Bastian, he crushed the ant in his hand to death. The ant in his hand was still unresolved. Amar stood up and pointed to the banyan tree He began to curse: "If I hadn't rescued you from the swamp on Mount Antero back then, how could you have achieved what you are today! If I hadn't lent you 10 gems, how could you be in Antero Mountain? Beishan contracted the largest aquamarine vein!"

Amar looked at the name [Bastian Lang] carved with a knife on the banyan tree and kicked several times angrily.

Amar patronized and vented his anger, but he didn't hear that there were a few cracks on the back of this withered banyan tree. As Amar's feet became stronger and stronger, the cracks on the back of this banyan tree became bigger and bigger!
"squeak"

"Click"

Amar didn't react in a hurry and was directly pressed to the ground by the dry banyan tree. It happened that his left foot just raised had an intimate contact with the banyan tree.

With his left foot slumped on the ground in a 180° twisted posture, Amar bit his arm tightly with his mouth and looked at the scorching sun not far away.

If someone was standing nearby, he could definitely hear Amal humming the name "Bastian Lang" as he howled.
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As a world-class university of science and engineering, the University of Colorado occupies nearly 270 acres of land in Denver County, and geological science, as the gold medal major of the University of Colorado, the School of Geological Sciences occupies nearly 40 acres of land.

As the place with the richest collection of geographical books, the library of the School of Geology allows everyone from the outside world to borrow books.

Leo Vanta stood at the entrance of the library of the School of Geology and looked curiously at the nearby laboratory called [Edmond Institute of Geology]. The first floor of the laboratory displayed various stone specimens, several Graduate students in white coats were bored chatting about various idle things in the laboratory.

The two security guards standing at the door looked at Leo Vanta with vigilance.

"Who are you! [Edmond Institute of Geology] has stopped welcoming visitors!"

A pair of gold-rimmed eyes and a hairstyle sprayed with jelly made Leo Vantaa look very dignified, and the two security guards were not good at attacking people directly, so Leo Vantaa calmly took out a After showing the library card, the two security guards relaxed.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just a visiting teacher at Caltech!"

"Not long ago, I happened to read the paper [Kerogen conversion in oil shale can be used to synthesize crude oil] published by Professor Edmund in June last year in the SCI journal, and I was very interested."

“And the southern Antero range in Colorado has 70% shale distribution, I just wanted to ask his opinion on whether there is oil in the Antero range.”

The two security guards were dumbfounded by what they said, how could they understand this, and Leo Vanta didn't have a trace of nostalgia after saying this, and walked into the geographic library with the library card in his hand!

It's just that Rio Vantaa didn't enter the library when he entered the library. Instead, he glanced at the [Escape Diagram] at the door of the library and walked along the fire escape to the staff lounge of the Geographical Library.

Leo Vanta, who was standing at the door of the staff lounge, did not go in. Instead, he turned his head and glanced at a few work clothes hanging on the clothesline at the entrance of the staff lounge, and then he started to take off his clothes.

Leo Vanta rubbed the stripped clothes casually and threw them in the trash can at the door.

Leo, who deliberately messed up his hairstyle, looked very ordinary, as if the old pedantic man just now didn't exist at all. Leo picked up some damp overalls and put them on neatly.

Mask + broom + overalls, Leo once again completed the transformation.

It's just that Leo still didn't enter the library, but walked to the computer room of the library. The library of the University of Colorado is the first in the world to use computer technology to check and collect books, as long as you use the borrowing card in your hand With a swipe of the screen, you can find where the book you want to see is placed on the directory.

Everyone has one week of free reading time. If the borrowing time is exceeded, the electric card will automatically deduct the fee from your card.

The University of Colorado has earned billions in patent service fees in the next 20 years by relying on this technology!

The University of Colorado successfully incubated one scientific research patent after another with this sum of money. In 2014, the Apple mobile phone alone paid the University of Colorado nearly 4 million US dollars in copyright patents.

The first purpose of Leo sneaking into the University of Colorado this time was to get all the borrowing data about Edmond Rapp on the server in the computer room.

Rio Vantaa investigated the relationship between [South Platte Mining Company] and [Edmond Institute of Geology] in just three days. If a mining company has some kind of scientific research relationship with the Institute of Geology Not a big deal.

But if [Edmond Institute of Geology] accepted the private sponsorship of [South Platte Mining Company], then this is a big problem. In American academia, after a professor accepted private sponsorship, what he researched The results can be used by sponsors for commercial purposes, but if they are privately sponsored, they can only be licensed to private individuals for free.

You must know that these are two concepts, and after Leo's investigation, [South Platte Mining Company] has encountered a big problem recently!
Aquamarine worth 3600 million US dollars was robbed, and his Russian boss, Bastian Lang, just pretended to urge the police to investigate every day. At night, Bastian completely changed his appearance.

There are wild models, clubs, red wine, everything, and occasionally some fancy things.

There is no appearance that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. The aquamarine worth 3600 million is the result of nearly 7 months of mining by [South Platte Mining Company].

This shows that there is a problem with Bastian Lang's personal source of funds, which is just checked with Cuban oil smuggling, and Bastian Lang loves cash consumption and never uses checks.

What Leo suspected the most was that [Edmond Institute of Geology] was a geological prospecting institute, and its actual manager, Edmond Rapp, taught geology at school!
But Edmond Rapp is an out-and-out expert in oil refining technology and shale oil exploration. Edmond Rapp discovered a reserve of nearly 27 million in Texas when he was 3 years old. Barrel's Oil Well!
Linking all these together, Leo couldn't doubt it.

Leo took the hard drive in his hand and skillfully connected it to the main computer to copy the data. When he saw the large monitoring screen in the computer room, Leo also began to delete his entrance portrait.

As for why there is no one in the computer room, it is because this is the United States in the 80s. The biggest application scenario for surveillance cameras at this moment is banks, and what is there to monitor in a library in a university?

It's nothing more than a Colorado congressman who secretly promised these useless things to be installed here for the sponsors behind him.

When the copying progress reached 100%, Leo did not leave but found a place to hide in the vent of the computer room at random. He had to wait until late at night when no one was around and walked into 【Edmond Institute of Geology】 Find out what the latest research topic of the missing professor is!
Only when he gets the real evidence, can he persuade those damn capitalists to pay for the information in his hands and provide him with some political support he wants!
Invisibly, all the people in Denver County were slowly getting involved in this vortex. Tausi's old acquaintance Adams also checked into the Hilton Hotel next to the airport that night with an envelope in his hand.

(End of this chapter)