Chapter 289 Dead End

Louis looked at Lu Qian who was apologizing seriously in front of him, and he felt a little amused.

He took Lu Qian's elbow, helped her up, and asked frivolously, "I'm not angry at all, so why should I apologize?"

Lu Qian raised his head, looked at Louis with a bright smile on his face, and blinked twice in a trance.

"But……"

Last time, Cheng Yi was really rude, and she had to say that she was also a little rude. She even didn’t confiscate the gift that Louis had carefully prepared, and drove him away.

“Miss Lu, don’t take it to heart,” Louis smiled calmly, “I’m not that stingy person, and he didn’t cause me any harm.”

After Louis finished speaking, he took out a brocade bag from his pocket, opened the bag, poured out the black cross necklace, and handed it to Lu Qian again.

"And compared to him, I care more about whether you are willing to accept my gift."

Lu Qian was stunned for a moment, glancing between the necklace and Louis.

"You... always carry it with you?"

Lewis admitted it generously: “Of course, after all, I don’t know when I can see Miss Lu, so I have to carry it with me all the time.”

Lu Qian smiled stiffly and took the cross from his hand.

"Thank you...but I already have a necklace around my neck, so I probably can't wear it."

Louis glanced at the small pendant on Lu Qian's collarbone, and a look of loneliness flashed in his eyes, but he immediately retracted it.

He murmured softly, "So I'm still a step late?"

"Um?"

Lu Qian didn't quite understand what Louis said. What do you mean by being a step late?

"Nothing," Louis smiled and shook his head, "Can I call you Lu Qian from now on? Or something else? I always feel that calling you Miss Lu is too unfamiliar."

Lu Qian put the cross in his pocket and replied casually, "Of course, we are friends after all."

Louis narrowed his eyes with a smile, his gaze fixed on Lu Qian, and he sighed gently: "Yes... friends."

The apology was made and the gift was given, and Lu Qian felt relieved.

Although her first encounter with Louis was not pleasant, after getting to know him, she really admired this knowledgeable doctor.

Lu Qian really admired the fact that he could have such profound insights into literature and art at such a young age.

We drove all the way back to Tavia, and the sunset had not yet set over the mountain.

Lu Qian got out of the car and was dazzled by the oncoming sunset.

She raised her hand, blocking half of the sunlight. Strands of light shone through her fingers and hit her face densely, like an ambiguous kiss.

The temperature was just right and the sunshine was just right.

Lu Qian let out a long sigh, closed his eyes, and enjoyed the sunset.

I always feel that today's sunshine is particularly comfortable.

Before reaching the main gate of the mansion, Lu Qian saw Qu Le pacing back and forth there with an anxious look on his face.

Lu Qian walked up and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

Qu Le was startled by Lu Qian's sudden question, and quickly turned his head like a thief and looked inside the door.

Seeing that no one came out, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Qu Le quickly ran to Lu Qian and grabbed her sleeve. "Come on, come on. I've been waiting for you."

Lu Qian was even more confused. Wait for her?

Qu Le dragged her a long way, across the entire garden, and nestled in a small corner.

Lu Qian was pushed onto a stone bench by Qu Le and asked in confusion, "Why are you being so mysterious?"

Qu Le frowned, folded his hands across his chest and sighed, without leaving any further suspense, and went straight to the point.

"I have to go find Luochuan and come back."

“???”

Lu Qian's head was instantly filled with question marks, but the next second, she figured out some things.

"Is the code so difficult to decipher?"

Since obtaining the code book, Qu Le's decoding mission has made no progress at all. Even after photographing the old cipher machine from Hermes, Qu Le has never said any new information about decoding.

And looking at Qu Le's serious expression, it's not like he's here to chat with Luo Chuan.

Qu Le pursed his lips and nodded reluctantly, "Even if I get the cipher machine, I can't crack my father's code.

I dismantled the cipher machine and made a code collection, but when I used this code collection to crack my father's code, I still got a set of garbled codes, and it was an infinitely iterated set of garbled codes.

This cipher machine is of the first generation, but the code of this secret letter was written many years later. So many years have passed since the first generation, and its code has been updated to an unknown level.

But I know this direction is correct, it just requires more computing power."

However, the amount of calculation that Qu Le mentioned is enormous. There are tens of trillions of encryption methods for just one letter. If the decoding program is not optimized, it will take another 100,000 years to calculate it.

Her level was not as high as Luochuan's to begin with, and her decryption code was previously optimized by Luochuan.

Moreover, this set of codes was of a higher precision than she had expected. If she tried to decipher it with her level of skill, it would probably take two years to see any results.

But opportunities wait for no one, and there is no time for her to slowly hone her skills.

Qu Le paused slightly, frowning even more tightly. "Also, decoding will take a long time, about a month."

When Lu Qian heard this, his heart sank.

"That means, even if Luo Chuan can come back and help you figure out the encoding, it will still take at least a month to find out what your father wrote in the letter?"

"Hmm..." Qu Le didn't want to admit it, but it was indeed the fact.

"But no matter what, Luo Chuan must come back. He's the only one familiar with my encoding method. If he doesn't come back to help me, decoding will be a distant dream."

Qu Le couldn't determine whether the things Qu Hao left her were useful to the battle situation. Even if they were not, they could probably reveal the truth of the incident that year, so she had to decode it as soon as possible.

Qu Le grabbed Lu Qian's shoulders, his eyes determined, "You have to help me find a solution for this."

After hearing this, Lu Qian basically understood what Qu Le meant.

"So you're afraid Bai Yao won't agree?"

Qu Le sighed deeply, raised his hand and scratched the back of his head a few times, with a helpless look on his face, "Isn't it true? The things Luo Chuan left behind can make him so angry. If he meets Luo Chuan in person, I'm afraid Bai Yao will kill him directly. Even if he can restrain himself from killing Luo Chuan, I'm afraid he will interfere with me and Luo Chuan's decoding."

“…”

Lu Qian was just about to say that Bai Yao shouldn't be such a person who doesn't care about the overall situation, but after hearing what Qu Le said...

Considering the overall situation is considering the overall situation, and going crazy is going crazy. After all, after Luo Chuan comes back, he has to stay in the laboratory with Qu Le every day. How can Bai Yao tolerate it?

The atmosphere between the two people fell into an eerie silence.

This matter... is a dead end.