booktalesy Chapter 241 Their target is the "source code" in Lin Zhou's mind.
Chapter 241 Their target is the "source code" in Lin Zhou's mind.
The Gulfstream G650ER aircraft smoothly traversed the sea of dawn clouds at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
The cabin was extremely quiet.
Lin Zhou leaned back on the large leather sofa.
He turned his head slightly, looking out the window at the fiery red sun rising slowly.
In her deep, peach-blossom eyes, the ferocious killing intent that could tear everything apart was gradually subsiding.
Instead, there is an extreme calm that sends chills down your spine.
He picked up the ice water beside him and took a sip.
The cold liquid slid down his throat, completely calming his agitated nerves after the bloody massacre in a foreign land the previous night.
"The Black Bishop..."
Lin Zhou chewed on the code name in a low voice.
His slender fingers unconsciously caressed the black and gold dragon-patterned ring that symbolized the highest power in the Lin family.
Since this old fox is hiding in the upper echelons of the capital.
Even if he turned the entire city of Las Vegas upside down, it would be pointless.
For hunters, patience is the most important thing.
Lin Zhou reached his hand back into the inside pocket of his tactical jacket.
He took out the top-secret document that Anna had pressed firmly against the door before she left.
He pressed the encrypted communication button on his hand, connecting to the internal dedicated line of Xishan Fortress.
"Uncle Chen, how's the situation in the capital?"
The screen flickered.
Old Chen's slightly tired but still vigilant face immediately appeared in the center of the screen.
"Reporting to Young Master, Xishan Fortress is impregnable. The Young Madam and the Little Princess have just fallen asleep, and I have personally led men to guard the outer perimeter of the core area."
Upon hearing that his wife and daughter were safe and sound, Lin Zhou's cold and hard features finally softened a bit.
"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Chen. I'll probably land in about ten hours."
Lin Zhou laid the top-secret document in his hand flat on the mahogany table in front of him.
"The information Anna provided clearly states that the Black Bishop is hiding in the upper echelons of the capital."
"Immediately use the dark web resources to get me a list of all the top powerful figures and capital giants in Beijing who have been promoted or transferred over the past seven years."
"Even if I have to dig three feet into the ground, I will find out the tail of this old fox."
"This old servant understands!"
Old Chen immediately responded loudly, then frowned in confusion.
"However, young master, now that we have found out that the K organization went to such lengths to seize that top-secret rare earth mine, we must take action."
"Could we start with the overseas consortia that participated in the bidding back then? That would narrow down the scope considerably."
Lin Zhou's gaze then fell on the last page of the document.
That was what he originally thought too.
But during that moment of extreme calm, his brain, enhanced by the [Battlefield Crisis Intuition], keenly detected a very incongruous detail.
Something's not right.
Lin Zhou's slender fingers tapped lightly on a line of gibberish at the end of the document.
"Uncle Chen, think about it."
"If it were just about rare earth mines and chip technology, they could have simply used capital to strangle the Lin family in the market back then."
"Even if we were to use the K organization for physical elimination, assassinating my father alone would be enough."
"Why go to such lengths to orchestrate a series of car crashes? Why send a top-tier assassin like Poison Wolf, risking exposure to search the hidden compartment in the passenger seat?"
Old Chen was stunned on the other side of the screen.
A flicker of horror flashed in his cloudy old eyes.
"Does the young master mean... that the master possessed something even more feared than rare earth mines back then?"
Lin Zhou did not answer immediately.
He stared intently at the seemingly meaningless hexadecimal gibberish at the very bottom of the document.
Those were garbled remnants caused by the collapse of the underlying protocol when the hackers under Anna's father forcibly dragged and dropped data packets.
Others might not understand it and would treat it as gibberish.
But don't forget, Lin Zhou now possesses not only the original owner's extraordinary hacking talent, but also the super analytical abilities granted by the system.
This is not gibberish at all.
This is a double encryption lock hidden deep within!
"Uncle Chen, disconnect from the external network."
Lin Zhou's tone became more serious than ever before.
"Concentrate all the highest computing power of the cabin servers onto the terminal in front of me."
"yes!"
With Lao Chen's remote operation, the virtual keyboard in front of Lin Zhou lit up instantly.
Lin Zhou's fingers flew across the keyboard, leaving afterimages.
Lines of extremely complex decryption code scrolled wildly across the screen, cascading down like a waterfall.
The lights in the entire cabin even flickered slightly due to the servers being overloaded.
Three minutes later.
"bite--"
A very crisp notification sound rang out.
The jumbled hexadecimal characters miraculously rearranged and deciphered.
Ultimately, it was transformed into an encrypted appendix hidden deep within the decapitation order!
Lin Zhou opened the appendix.
After reading only the first line, his deep, almond-shaped eyes suddenly narrowed to the size of pinpoints.
An unprecedented and extremely shocking experience.
Like a level twelve storm, it instantly swept through his mind!
"Young Master? What did you see?"
Old Chen's heart leaped into his throat as he watched Lin Zhou's face change drastically on the screen.
Lin Zhou remained silent.
His breathing became extremely heavy.
This is not a trade secret about rare earth veins at all!
This is a top-secret biotechnology plunder plan drafted by the K Organization's top scientific advisor!
"Uncle Chen..."
Lin Zhou's voice was extremely hoarse, carrying a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.
"We've all been fooled, everyone's been fooled."
"The rare earth mine was just a cover-up for them to stage that car accident back then."
"Their real target is a revolutionary project that my father secretly promoted back then."
"This project, within the K organization, has a top-secret codename:..."
Lin Zhou stared intently at the three scarlet, bold characters on the screen and read them out slowly and deliberately.
"Source code".
"Source code?"
Old Chen looked completely bewildered, his brows furrowed tightly.
"Although the patriarch invested widely back then, the Lin family's technology companies never got involved in any low-level software development! What kind of incredible project is this?"
Lin Zhou took a deep breath.
Forcibly suppressing the horror in his heart, he continued reading the encrypted appendix.
The more he looked, the paler his face became.
The more you look at him, the more tense his muscles become.
The descriptions in the appendix are extremely outrageous, even exceeding the scope of modern human technological understanding.
"This is not ordinary computer program code."
Lin Zhou's gaze was fixed intently on every line of text on the screen.
"K Organization's top-secret intelligence revealed that my father inadvertently mastered a bio-information technology that was ahead of its time."
"This technology can integrate an extremely large technology tree, top-notch cultural and entertainment works, and even future business concepts."
"It is compressed and stored directly in human neurons in the form of some kind of 'code'!"
"They call it a human-shaped walking miracle."
Old Chen gasped.
The purple clay teacup in his hand fell directly to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Storing data in a person's brain? This...this is impossible! This is a crazy experiment straight out of a science fiction movie!"
"Yeah, it does sound like a madman."
Lin Zhou gave a wry smile.
But his smile was even more unsightly than his tears.
Others find it absurd and unbelievable.
But he himself knew it better than anyone else!
His mind contained a system that was filled with the entire Earth's brilliant cultural and entertainment treasure trove and all sorts of incredible skills.
Isn't this the perfect embodiment of "source code"?!
Lin Zhou's fingers trembled slightly.
He swiped the screen and flipped to the last page of the appendix.
That page contained only an extremely blurry candid photo and a final instruction circled in red.
The photo shows a teenager with an extremely sunny smile.
That was Lin Zhou himself seven years ago!
And that ultimate command in red.
Like an extremely insidious death warrant, it starkly bears the inscription:
The core carrier of the "source code" has been confirmed.
[Target: Lin Zhou, the only son of the Lin family conglomerate.]
[Instructions: Capture the target alive at all costs. If faced with fierce resistance, limbs may be severed, but the brain must be brought back to headquarters intact.]
"boom!"
Lin Zhou felt as if a nuclear bomb had exploded in his brain.
In that instant, all the blood flowed backward, rushing straight to the top of the head!
Carrier!
He himself is the carrier of that so-called "source code"!
No wonder!
No wonder that in that horrific chain-reaction car accident, the wolf didn't directly detonate the vehicles.
Instead, he took an extremely risky step closer to the carriage to search for the hidden compartment in the passenger seat.
He wasn't looking for any ledgers at all; he wanted to confirm whether Lin Zhou, the core entity, was still alive!
No wonder the original owner's father was there a week before the accident.
They desperately spread the false news that Lin Zhou had become a vegetable.
He even went so far as to personally destroy all of the Lin family's publicly known businesses!
Because Lin's father knew better than anyone else.
Once the K organization finds out that Lin Zhou is still alive, what awaits his only son is a human dissection table where he will suffer a fate worse than death!
The air conditioning in the cabin was set to a very comfortable temperature.
But at this moment, Lin Zhou felt an extreme chill seeping from the depths of his bones.
Beads of cold sweat streamed down his forehead like a waterfall.
His fine white shirt was instantly soaked through.
Old Chen looked at Lin Zhou's unusually pale face on the screen and shouted anxiously.
"Young Master! Young Master, what's wrong? What exactly is written in the appendix?!"
Lin Zhou did not answer immediately.
He stared intently at the bloody description in the document: "The brain must be brought back to the headquarters laboratory intact."
His pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size.
He suddenly raised his head.
His handsome face appeared exceptionally pale and grotesque under the blue light of the screen.
Lin Zhou looked at the communication screen.
His voice was terribly hoarse, conveying an extreme sense of horror and lingering fear.
"Uncle Chen..."
"The source code is on me."
"Did they capture me alive back then so they could perform brain surgery on me?"