Chapter 931 Password and Responsibility
Danny saw off Uncle Ed, who was a postal policeman, and followed Jack into the back seat of the Hellcat, and then curiously wanted to poke his cheek with his finger.
"How did you do that?"
"It's just some simple disguise skills." Jack turned away and bared his teeth at him, revealing the prosthesis hidden under his cheek.
He only slightly changed his facial features and put on a fake beard. He was able to fool ordinary facial recognition software, but his ability to deceive the human eye was average, especially when the other person was an acquaintance of his.
Danny wasn't stupid either. Although he recognized Jack with square cheeks and a fake beard at a glance, he didn't point it out. Instead, he spent a lot of money and used his father's collection to trick the person he was calling away as quickly as possible. Uncle Ed comes to help.
He knew very well that the case that would allow Jack to disguise himself and hide his identity in New York was definitely not a small case. You should know that in the case that bombed Central Park last time, this guy just deliberately avoided the media.
Jack introduced the two of them to each other while driving. Danny's eyes became bright when he heard that it was a murder case involving members of the Army Special Investigation Team.
Not to mention the subtle mentality of Ma Runneng, a retired fourth-class man, when he participated in a murder case related to the Army Military Police. After hearing that it was torture to extract confessions and the body was dumped by helicopter, as an NYPD detective, The professional sense immediately excited him.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Rachel kept silent and lowered his head to rummage through the large pile of letters he had just taken out of the mailbox. Finally, he found a USB flash drive in an envelope and finally looked at Jack with a smile on his face.
"Did I ever tell you you were smart?"
"Everyone knows some things without saying it." Jack took the USB flash drive and looked at it, his expression immediately became solemn.
"There's something wrong with this USB flash drive. It's been tampered with."
"What do you mean?" Reacher took back the USB flash drive, turned on the small light above the passenger's head and looked carefully. Sure enough, he found traces of being re-glued on the USB flash drive casing.
"Let's talk about it when we get back. We have experts who can handle this." Jack turned the steering wheel and drove onto the highway heading towards Long Island.
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"You are right in your guess. The USB flash drive has indeed been tampered with, and the circuit board has been modified. The purpose is probably to burn the memory chip when necessary."
Alice studied the disassembled USB flash drive under a desktop magnifying glass for a long time before speaking.
"Does it mean you entered the wrong password when necessary?" Jack had already taken off his disguise and asked leaning against the door.
At this time, beef dumplings were being cooked on the gas stove in the kitchen. In addition to Rachel and Danny, who had followed him in the car, everyone from the wanted criminal team was also in the restaurant.
"It seems yes. I can remove the memory chip and replace it with a new USB flash drive to prevent the chip from being burned. But if I want to read the information inside, it is best to be able to figure out the password. Forcibly cracking it may require the use of the bureau's supercomputer resources. ”
Alice stretched out her hand, and Aubrey, who was watching the fun next to her, quickly handed over the plugged-in soldering iron, looking extremely dishonest.
"Damn, I hate guessing passwords." Reacher muttered dissatisfiedly while sitting on the sofa.
"You've already said this, but the person here who knows Franz best is you. You can try to analyze him now like a criminal."
After speaking, Jack walked back to the kitchen and turned down the heat, lifted the lid of the pot and added some cold water to it, then put the lid back on the pot.
Not long after, when Jiejie and Hannah brought two large plates of dumplings to the table, everyone swarmed over and started to scoop into their own bowls. Jack left a large bowl for Rachel alone, which was enough for four or five people. .
Aubrey looked at Reacher who was devouring the food with some surprise. He couldn't believe that someone could eat better than him.
"I think you might need this." While everyone was eating, Jack cooked another pot, then went upstairs to get an empty photo frame and handed it to Rachel.
They were not empty-handed when they left Franz's office. Reacher took the smashed picture frame away.
"Thank you." Although Lei Che didn't show his emotions easily, he was not pretentious either. He put down the half-eaten dumplings and went to wash his hands before carefully dismantling the damaged photo frame and reinstalling the photos.
"It's done." On the other hand, Alice had already inserted the USB flash drive with the replaced chip into her laptop, and a password input box popped up on the screen.
Everyone sat around Alice with dumplings in hand, and then all looked at Rachel.
"Are you sure you can try unlimited passwords?" Jack served himself a plate of dumplings, and poured the rest into Reacher's big basin while everyone looked at him in surprise.
Alice looked at the seven or eight large dumplings that were still steaming in the bowl left alone for her. She couldn't help but secretly gasped, and she calmed down before answering.
"No problem. The original setting is that you can enter three times within 2 minutes. If you enter incorrectly or the time expires, the memory chip will be completely burned. Now I have bypassed this restriction."
Jack made a gesture of invitation to Rachel, who suddenly showed a bitter face. He felt that the beef dumplings in his hands were no longer fragrant. It took him a long time to hold back the words, "Pittsburgh, the hometown of Franz." "
wrong password.
"Buccaneers? Steelers?"
The former is a famous Major League Baseball team in Pittsburgh, and the latter is a football team, but unfortunately both are wrong.
"Brother Primanti? Uh, Primanti." Reacher continued to guess.
"What is that?" Danny asked curiously.
Before Reacher could say anything, Aubrey responded directly, "A famous fast food restaurant in Pittsburgh. They put French fries on top of their sandwiches. It's quite unique."
Unfortunately, it was still wrong, and Reacher pulled his hair in pain.
"What kind of person is this Franz? What is his greatest characteristic?" Jubal also became interested.
"Smart and cautious?" Jiejie feels that people who can hide such deep secrets have these two qualities.
"The 110 Special Investigation Team are all smart and very cautious." Reacher sounded quite proud.
"It's loyalty." Jack suddenly said from the side. "He is extremely loyal because of his love and admiration. He even taught your group's slogan to his children, so it should be specific to a certain person."
Reacher's eyes lit up, "You're right, Roberto Clemente, try both the first and last names."
Roberto Clemente, the most famous "hit king" of the Pittsburgh Pirates, died in a plane crash while traveling to Nicaragua for disaster relief activities in 1972.
Unfortunately, the password is still wrong.
"Willis Tugger?" Jubal said of another famous Buccaneers star.
Alice was about to type in, but was stopped by Jack, "What I want to say is Jack Reacher, try both first and last name."
"That's impossible." Rachel shook his head repeatedly, "Don't be kidding."
"I'm not kidding." Jack picked up the photo he had just put aside and pointed out Franz on it to everyone.
"Look at this young man, who do you think of? He has the same hairstyle, the same unkempt beard, and although he is wearing military uniforms, look at the way he rolls up his trouser legs. Who do you think this young man is imitating?"
"." What else did Reacher want to say, but Alice was already typing on the keyboard quickly. The name was wrong, but after typing the word "Reacher", the folder was opened.
Everyone was silent for a while, and Jack patted Rachel on the shoulder. There were some things that didn't need to be said clearly. The heavy responsibility contained in them was self-evident.