Chapter 279 Tips
Further away on the sea, there is a naval warship anchored. It does not blend into the scene, but looks quietly in the direction of the giant ship like a watcher.
"bell--"
The old roulette phone made a shrill sound.
Lu Ao raised his hand to pick up the microphone and greeted him coldly.
"Hello."
"Lu, you're so cold." The voice on the other end was quite cheerful, not at all displeased by his coldness.
"If you have to fart, do it now."
"I just want to ask you, are you excited to see your daughter?" He said it in a tone of someone who wanted to watch the fun.
Lu Ao glanced at the screen in front of him and saw that the surveillance footage in the auction hall had turned pitch black.
He raised his eyebrows coldly, and the scars on his face trembled. "What's so exciting?"
The person on the other end of the phone tutted twice: "Tut, tut, you're really heartless."
"But I never expected that just doing a genome test could yield such great results."
Lu Ao's tone suddenly became impatient: "Come back as soon as you're done, I'm in a hurry to leave."
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Go back and watch the joke. Rex arranged these rubbish, they are totally useless."
“Bang!”
Without waiting for the person on the other end to say another word, Lu Ao slammed the receiver hard on the phone stand.
His vulture-like gaze lingered on the screen for a moment, then he picked up the remote control and turned off the picture.
*
When the group left the giant ship and returned to the yacht, they all felt a sense of relief.
Lu Qian felt extremely tired. He curled up on the sofa and looked out through the cabin window. It was still dark and there was no sign of daybreak.
After all, the gold and diamond auction had to end early due to the coercion of this farce, and half of the items had not yet been auctioned. Otherwise, the auction would normally have continued until the early morning.
Lu Qian suddenly slapped his thigh, "Oh yeah, what about those research reports?"
I was so focused on fighting Vanessa that I completely forgot about this matter. Besides, they didn't take the cipher machine with them, so they came back empty-handed.
Cheng Yi took Lu Qian's shoulders and took off the hairpin on her head so that she could lean on him safely. "Don't worry, Dad will send someone to deliver it to me when the time comes."
It wasn't something important in the first place, so just give some gifts to make the old man happy and you'll have everything.
Qu Le leaned back on the sofa with his eyes half closed, looking not in a good mood.
"You guys have discussed this privately and are hiding it from me, right?"
No matter how slow she was, she should have realized that everything she had been seeing these days was a joke.
Besides, she is not stupid, she just can't compare to these cunning people.
Cheng Yi stroked Lu Qian's long hair. His hands were warm and gentle, and they made Lu Qian fall asleep.
She half-nosed her eyes and retorted, "Don't accuse me. We didn't discuss this with Bai Yao. He just guessed it himself."
Qu Le turned his face away and gave Bai Yao a resentful look.
Bai Yao raised his hand and put it around Qu Le's waist, gently hooked her chin, and gave her a gentle and bewitching smile, "I didn't tell you, blame me."
Qu Le didn't blame him too much at this time, but she just wondered why Bai Yao could guess so clearly, and why she didn't see it at all, was she really that stupid?
Bai Yao looked at Qu Le's dazed expression, and the smile in his eyes became even more pronounced. He hugged Qu Le's waist and rubbed her smooth neck tenderly.
"Silly little fox."
Qu Le was in no mood to flirt with him. Turning around, he asked, "So, was it you who orchestrated the bargaining at the auction just now?"
Bai Yao smiled and narrowed his eyes. "I just asked Dad to raise the auction threshold to three million, on the condition that this item be auctioned at a time I wanted to buy time for Chi Xiao. The rest is my performance."
“…” You’re really good at pretending.
"Okay, now that the spy has been completely caught, there's one last, very important thing to do."
Lu Qian fumbled to take out the brocade bag from Cheng Yi's pocket and placed it on the low coffee table in front of them.
She beckoned to Qu Le, "Take out yours too."
Qu Le took out a brocade bag from the lapel of his robe and handed it to Lu Qian.
The two brocade bags were placed together and were almost identical. The only difference was the patterns on them, one dragon and one phoenix.
This is a treasure bag that appeared in an auction in Asia, but it was not the finale. It was just treated as a very ordinary item among various items.
But Qu Le recognized the pattern on this thing.
Her first mission that year was to steal a pair of dragon and phoenix pendants from a private museum.
A pendant with double patterns of a dragon and a phoenix, dating from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
At that time, she sighed that they were worthy of being things left by her ancestors. Such a small pair was worth 120 million pounds.
Although this looked obviously like a replica, Qu Le could tell at a glance that these brocade bags must be a pair.
They came here to collect information, and they would not miss anything that might be useful.
And if it is something without a background, how could it be put on the Hermes Auction House?
But she didn't expect that they would accidentally get some real stuff.
Lu Qian opened the two brocade bags, each of which contained a thin piece of white silk cloth.
She carefully spread them out, and found that both pieces of white silk cloth were covered with a string of meaningless codes, and she could not make out any clues no matter how hard she looked.
Several people gathered around the two pieces of white silk, very puzzled.
Bai Yao frowned and asked, "What does this mean...?"
Lu Qian also looked at the others, "Does this code... have any meaning?"
Cheng Yi shook his head; he couldn't understand it either.
Qu Le stood up and tapped on the table with his fingers. "These two strings are compressed codes. If we decrypt them and put them together, they should be the message that Dad wants to convey to us."
With her years of experience in cracking confidential documents, she identified the two strings of code almost instantly.
Lu Qian tilted his head and asked with a puzzled look, "But there's no computer here right now, so there's no way to solve it, right?"
Qu Le narrowed his fox eyes, stretched out his fingers and waved them in front of the few people, with an expression that showed that everything was under control.
"Tsk tsk, saying a thief is helpless is really rude~"
She took out a small USB flash drive from her sleeve and beckoned to Bai Yao.
"Pocket screen."
Qu Le took the pocket screen and pulled out a cushion from the interlayer of the back cover. When it was spread out, it became a soft keyboard as big as a mobile phone.
The keyboard layout above is completely different from that of an ordinary keyboard. It was specially designed by Qu Le for carrying out missions. It is confidential enough and portable enough.
"Decoding will take about half an hour," Qu Le immediately entered the decryption state, staring at the screen seriously, "Xiao Qian, come over here and help me calculate."
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