The Fallen Merman

"A little blood, how big. What's the shape?" Bai Chunian asked suddenly.

Rimbaud hesitated, then paused before answering: "One drop."

Bai Chunian said, "I know", but in fact, he was sure that it was not Rimbaud who was talking to him.

Rimbaud's observational power is obvious to all, comparable to that of moles. Of course, deep-sea fish have poor eyesight, which is understandable.

When Bai Chunian asked, "What's in the gym?", Lan Bo blurted out that there was blood on the ground. If it was a large area of ​​blood, of course it would be easily noticeable, but he said only "one drop".

This is not something Rimbaud can discover without being reminded.

In fact, long before Bai Chunian left the gym, he put two dumbbells behind the door that was the only way to enter the gym. The dumbbells were hexagonal and were not easy to roll on the ground, so he wanted to push them open for fitness. The door of the room needs a certain amount of strength, which means that it takes a little time to open the door.

But Rimbaud did not express that he was hindered in the slightest. Bai Chunian was sure that the fake Rimbaud who was talking to him was not on the same level as himself.

Bai Chunian guessed that the fake Rimbaud was nonsense.

Or, someone reminded him.

Because there was indeed a bloodstain on the floor of the gym that Bai Chunian passed by, and the bloodstain was rubbed off. He deliberately hid this information from Rimbaud to verify the location of Rimbaud who was talking to him.

As for the details of the bloodstain being wiped off, Bai Chunian suspected that it was fake and he told the fake Lanbo. As for how they contacted him, he still didn't know. It was possible that they also passed the camera, but it was not important. Bai Chunian thought that Zhenlan Po is likely to be on the same floor as himself, and in the room behind him.

Bai Chunian spent some time searching for the password of the dormitory, but he found a small purple flashlight, tried to check it in every corner of the room, and finally found the trace of pressing on the password device.

He pressed the numbers that were pressed in order, "14579", and the dormitory door was unlocked.

Bai Chunian gently pushed the door open to a gap and looked inside. He clenched the knife in his hand and put the short razor blade between his fingers, then quickly pushed the door open and glanced behind the door.

There was no one behind the door, Bai Chunian turned to observe the other corners of the room. After all, there is at least one image body that wants to kill him hidden in this house.

After Bai Chunian walked to the center, the door was closed when he came. He was used to this mechanism and calmly checked other details.

This is a dining bar.

Light yellow wallpaper, a range hood and an induction cooker are installed behind the clean bar, and there is a wine rack on the right.

There is a bottle of wine on the bar.

It looked the same as the restaurant that Rimbaud had originally described, the same room he saw in the surveillance footage.

Bai Chunian picked up the wine and looked at it. The wine bottle was a dark glass that was almost opaque. The mouth of the bottle was corked with a cork. The wine inside seemed to have not been drunk, but the cork seemed to be pulled out and then plugged back.

Because the factory that produces wine uses machine corks, it is easy to plug the cork into the mouth of the bottle, but the cork will expand after soaking in the wine, and the volume will become larger. .

Bai Chunian carefully looked at the label on the bottle, which seemed to be in Spanish. Due to the need to communicate with colleagues from other branches of the IOA, Bai Chunian had studied Spanish in a surprise attack for a while. There was no problem with daily communication, but it was a little difficult to read words and he was not very proficient.

He took a wine bottle and walked to the wine rack to look at it, a simple wooden wine rack, and the wooden boards were inserted obliquely to each other to form a square lattice.

Bai Chunian squatted down, observed each hole one by one, and carefully removed the wine rack, leaving a faint pink trace on the wallpaper.

"..." Bai Chunian raised the wine again and observed the wine in the bottle to the light.

It's a pity that he doesn't have any tools in his hand, and he can't open the cork with his hands or his mouth alone.

Forget it, let's find the door code first. Bai Chunian simply tore off the label on the wine and put it in his pocket.

At this time, Rimbaud in the communicator suddenly muttered, "Failure."

Bai Chunian quickly caught his anomaly and asked, "Did you see anything?"

Rimbaud had already entered the dormitory with bunk beds with iron railings from the gym.

He first ran to the cipher device, and there was indeed a note attached to the cipher device with a Band-Aid. Rimbaud didn't even think about it. He pulled the note off and hid it in his hand. .

After reading the note, Rimbaud folded the note, and put it together with the three notes from behind the mirror in the bathroom, on the calendar of the infirmary, and on the barbell, and stuffed the bandage on his body. here, pat.

Xiaobai hasn't written a love letter to him for a long time, and Rimbaud is far more interested in notes than in these broken rooms.

However, Xiaobai still had to listen. Rimbaud immediately searched for it, climbed up and down between several railing beds, and finally found a stack of A4 paper documents under a pillow on the upper bunk.

Rimbaud took off the carbon pen on it and threw it away. He browsed through the papers. The texts on the documents were all in English. Rimbaud was dizzy, so he crawled down the bed ladder with his mouth in his mouth.

A page of paper fell out of the document, floated twice, and just landed at the foot of the bed.

Rimbaud had no choice but to hold the document in his mouth, lying on the ground and reaching for it, grabbed a corner of the paper, and pulled it hard, with a click, the paper was torn off by him, and only half a page was left.

Rimbaud glanced at it. Fortunately, he still knew one of the words marked in red, which read "fail (fail)."

He murmured and read it out, and suddenly heard Bai Chunian ask him from the communicator, "Did you see what?", Lan Bo was startled, and crawled to the password lock with the rest of the information in his mouth. Enter the password on the note he left.

While waiting for the door to open, Rimbaud glanced around boredly and found that there were several bloodstains on the ground, all of which had been rubbed off.

Bai Chunian is still asking: "Have you seen anything, is there anything in the room?"

Rimbaud said impatiently, "There are a few **** footprints."

"Footprints? In what direction."

Rimbaud stared at the ground for a long time: "From me, to another door."

"Where are you?"

"Next to the combination lock."

"Oh... have you found the code?"

"Um."

Bai Chunian laughed: "I also have a very interesting thing here. I am in the restaurant where the wine is served. The password here is 89456, which is the same as the one you told me to press at first."

Rimbaud frowned: "I didn't lie to you. Although you are not a novice, you are a cat, and I will not lie to you."

...It seems that the fake Rimbaud is just as cute, after all, the main body is cute.

"We can discuss it. After I find my wife, I will take him home, and then you will go back to the Caribbean Sea to replace the Siren, how about it."

"Sirens can't take the shift. They have to lead the migration of their people, clean up the garbage and leaked oil in the sea, and nuclear weapons. Siren's work is very important, and it is different from your civil servants." Rimbaud argued with him seriously.

"Okay, I won't argue with you. What's the password for your dormitory."

Rimbaud took out the note that Xiaobai left him and glanced at it again, and said truthfully: "36597."

"Okay, let's go."

When Bai Chunian pushed the door and entered the next room, Lan Bo heard his "Huh" sound, and the door in front of him also opened.

Rimbaud pushed open the door. The first thing he wanted to do was to go to the lock to see if there was any note left by Xiaobai, but the situation in the room could not be ignored by him.

There was an unpleasant smell in the room. It was a restaurant, but it wasn't sure if it was the one he passed by first. The wallpaper is a warm pink, except that the bar counter and range hood are still in place, and the PVC board countertop of the bar counter has been knocked out.

The wine rack was completely overturned and cracked, there was a broken wine bottle on the ground, and black glass exploded everywhere.

There was a note attached to the cipher as usual, Rimbaud took it off, glanced at it, and was stunned.

Lan Bo described what he saw, and Bai Chunian kept in touch with him.

"What kind of smell is it?" Bai Chunian asked.

"Probably, nutty, bitter."

Bai Chunian fell silent, as if he was thinking. After a long while, he said slowly, "I see. This time it was the Institute's actions. They didn't kill us, they wanted us to wipe their butts."

"What's the meaning?"

"I'll talk to you in detail later, and you'll do as I say."

After Bai Chunian pushed the door out of the restaurant, he returned to the bathroom where he was originally. The toilet is installed with a toilet, and one side of the bathroom is a red tile wall. Similarly, the red laser in the corner of the ceiling is still on.

He also expected that the mirror could be turned into a surveillance image so that he could choose another person to call, but this time the mirror did not respond.

Bai Chunian took a round mirror to reflect the laser code, and suddenly remembered something.

The first time he deliberately asked Rimbaud to test the password, he asked Rimbaud to enter the password 74692 he saw when he passed the bathroom, but Rimbaud said "wrong" and argued with him that the password was clearly 96472.

Bai Chunian thought for a while, and tried to enter "96472" from the cipher device.

With a ding dong, the green light turns on, which is actually correct.

Bai Chunian didn't have time to think about it, when he suddenly noticed something strange. He got close to the keyboard of the cipher device. There was a groove above the button to prevent peeping when entering the password. Bai Chunian put his face under the groove. , reach out and dig in.

At the top corner of the button, Bai Chunian pulled a sticker.

He continued to dig for a while, picked up a corner of the sticker, and after being able to hold it with two fingers, he tore it down with a bit of skill. Slowly, it really made him tear off a layer.

This layer torn off is just an ordinary key number sticker, just like a keyboard cover, it is used for dust prevention, and it can be peeled off and re-applied when it is old and dirty. The drawer of the company's logistics department with a cipher device is often used. Have a stack ready.

But Bai Chunian glanced at the cipher device inadvertently, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The keys of the cipher device with the key sticker removed are very strange. The characters are reversed from left to right. The three characters in the first line are reversed 3, 2, and 1, and the second line is reversed 6, 5, and 4. The third row is 9, 8, 7 in reverse.

Bai Chunian compares the position on the sticker. If he presses in the normal order on the sticker, if he presses "96472", he actually presses the corresponding "74692" on the cipher.

Bai Chunian immediately understood the mystery. He put the sticker back as it was, and felt it from his pocket. He took out half of the A4 paper he had picked up in the dormitory before, tore a small strip from it, and used a carbon pen on it. Write: "Password: 96472."

Worried that Rimbaud couldn't understand it, he thought about it, wrote a line of pinyin at the bottom in mermaid language, and also drew a sketch of a cat's paw. After writing, he found the Band-Aid he took in the infirmary from his pocket, cut a piece with a razor blade, and stuck the note on the telescopic mirror. As long as the real Rimbaud passed through this room, he should be able to find himself. reminder.

Biting his pen cap, he calculated the passwords for the last two rooms, and wrote them down on a note. If he passed the test, he would leave the note to Rimbaud.

After writing the two notes, Bai Chunian added another sentence on it: "Ranbo, I already fully understand what's going on, and now I need to verify my conjecture. Lanbo, be careful. Pro-Bo. "

"By the way, when you get to the gym, tell the guy who contacted you that you saw a little bit of blood on the ground."

In this way, he can make fake himself think that the real Ranbo is behind him. If he wants to kill Ranbo, one may kill the fake Ranbo, and the other may be to run into the deity of Bai Chunian. Anyway, he will not let Zhenlan. Wave is injured.

I changed two password bugs, and after checking it a hundred times, I found that I was stupid and wrong again. I was so angry that I ate three pancakes.