Conference room on the top floor of the Alliance Deployment Building.
Nathan Carter sat at the end of the conference table and threw the file in his hand onto the table: "You can ask me to continue with project b40016102, but I want to restart the investigation results of Chu Shihan's assassination."
"I say... Mr. Fu." An old man on the opposite side spoke, "We also express our deep sympathy for the changes in your family, but first of all, the investigation results show that your father closed it himself. We have all confirmed that it was just a single robbery incident, and there was no one behind it. It was just simply... your brother came down from the dock with the information and encountered a robbery fight. Unfortunately, he was stabbed to death. The information has been recovered. This... is not worth investigating further. Even if you take a step back, your brother also sacrificed himself for the B4 plan. If this project is not launched, it will be unfair to the data that Shi Han tried his best to protect!"
"Since there is no value in investigating further, there is no harm in restarting the investigation, and I will bear the cost of the project alone." Nathan Carter said. "This is my only request. I want to restart the investigation project on Chu Shihan's assassination."
There was silence in the hall.
Project b40016102 is a biological transformation project of the Seventh Division of the Alliance, covering multiple fields such as mathematics, chemistry, biotechnology, simulation technology, genetic research, etc. It involves a large number of confidential information and the participants are mixed, but most of them are businessmen.
The Fu family has always been the leader of this project. As the second-generation executive president, Nathan Carter holds the key to this project - Fu's Technology.
This group is a family business. According to Fu Fukai's age, the group has not yet reached the stage where it must be controlled by Nathan Carter, who is just in his early 20s. Nathan Carter's current position is on par with many elderly people in their sixties and seventies, which is really enviable.
However, two years ago, Chu Shihan had an accident, and General Fu was deeply shocked. The middle-aged man who had fought for the alliance for most of his life collapsed all of a sudden; not to mention Chu Jingshu, who fell into depression since then and often stared at her son's photo and cried. Nathan Carter became the only candidate to take up the courage.
The word "accident" seems to have no weight, but it is the most helpless and irrefutable conclusion. Who can guarantee that they will not suffer from a terminal illness or encounter an indiscriminate killer?
Why did the accident happen to a young man who had just entered a new chapter in his life?
"Xiao Fu, you mean you don't agree with the investigation results at that time, is that right?" The person opposite frowned, "Do you think it was murder?"
"I can't give a conclusion. I'm just puzzled by my father's decision to temporarily terminate the investigation. Initiating an investigation does not conflict with my continuing research on b40016102 under the company's name. I also hope that everyone here will not let these two things become a contradiction." Nathan Carter said, "If there is nothing else, I will leave first. I have a meeting to attend in the seventh department this afternoon."
It has been raining frequently in the Alliance recently.
When Nathan Carter returned home, Chu Jingshu was standing by the flowerbed in a daze. This flowerbed used to be planted with white bells of the valley and tulips, but now no one takes care of it. In the bitter wind and rain, the weeds are crooked and messy, with occasional wild flowers that are so gray that you can't see the color clearly.
"Mom." Nathan Carter paused, took the umbrella from the driver, took off his coat, and put it on Chu Jingshu, "Mom, it's cold outside, let's go in."
Chu Jingshu stared at him blankly. His similar face suddenly made her excited: "Shihan! Shihan, you finally came back---"
"Mom, my brother is dead." Nathan Carter answered quietly. "Chu Shihan is dead."
His words came like a bolt from the blue, shocking Chu Jingshu and bringing her out of the trance of excessive sadness.
The no longer young but still beautiful woman lowered her head and covered her face, her voice trembling: "Yes, yes... your brother is dead, your brother is dead..."
"What are you doing outside every day? You don't even come back... Your father didn't allow us to continue the investigation, and you didn't help. Your brother must be alone in the underground, how cold it must be. Have you come back to see him, huh?" Chu Jingshu burst into tears. "All of you only care about work and the army. How could I... How could I marry into such a family and give birth to a son like you! Have you ever sent flowers to his grave? Ah? Shi Han likes lily of the valley the most..."
"Two years, Mom." Nathan Carter said, "Do you know what kind of flowers I like?"
The sound of the wind gradually died down, and the atmosphere fell into dead silence at that moment.
Chu Jingshu's eyes were filled with tears and she was stunned: "You like..."
The driver and the nanny on the side didn't dare to speak.
Nathan Carter suffers from severe pollen allergy and almost lost his life because of it when he was a child, but Chu Jingshu has actually forgotten about it.
"Help her back. Where's the housekeeper? Don't let my mother go out in this kind of weather in the future." Nathan Carter said, "Where is my father? I have something to ask him."
"Second Young Master, Mr. Fu went on a business trip to the Jiangnan branch this morning and didn't say when he would be back." The nanny was afraid that he would be angry, so she spoke cautiously.
"Call Ethan Brooks and I'll go over there when I can."
"Yes, sir."
Seeing Nathan Carter turning around to leave, the nanny asked, "Isn't the second young master home for dinner?"
"No."
Nathan Carter got into the car and rubbed his temples.
The driver waited for his instructions and asked him, "Master, are you going back to the seventh place? The people there contacted and said that the accommodation they arranged for you is ready. You can go and take a look."
"Not there, go..." Nathan Carter thought for a moment and said, "Adrian Lee's place."
It's almost afternoon and Adrian Lee hasn't started school yet, so he should be at home.
Nathan Carter had eaten all kinds of delicacies, and Adrian Lee's cooking was not particularly amazing. It was just ordinary home cooking. But he couldn't tell why, he liked the atmosphere when Adrian Lee cooked. The warm lights, the loving eyes, the aroma of the food, were all things he had never experienced in the past 25 years.
It’s not that no one has cooked for him. Some of the girls he had briefly come into contact with in the past were homely and were willing to bring lunch boxes to him every day to please him, but he didn’t pay much attention to them.
The only explanation is that Adrian Lee’s cooking is really better.
But when I got there, I found nothing.
Nathan Carter pushed the door open and saw the cow cat huddled in the corner with its fur standing on end at him. The room was dark, with no sign of Adrian Lee. The rain splashed on the French windows, making a series of noises.
He had no patience and called Adrian Lee directly, but the person who answered the phone was not Adrian Lee himself.
"Hello? Ah, you're looking for Junior Brother Lin? He's in the modeling lab, and the rule is that cell phones can't be brought in. Can I tell him?"
He recognized the voice as that of the senior sister who had received Adrian Lee yesterday.
Adrian Lee is really a good student and seems to love studying a little more than he expected.
He originally wanted to wait here for Adrian Lee to come back, but somehow changed his mind: "No, I'll come and pick him up. Thank you."
He remembered that Adrian Lee didn't seem to be able to drive, and he didn't have a car. There were thunder and lightning outside, and the rain showed no sign of stopping. In this weather, even if he waited for the bus to come back, he would be soaked.
In the past, he didn't mind fulfilling his boyfriend's duties, but if it were other people he had met, they would definitely ask him to pick them up at this time.
It was at this moment that he realized that Adrian Lee had never asked him for anything, which led to his weak presence here. In the two years at the Jiangnan branch, if it weren't for physical needs, he would have almost forgotten that he had a little lover here.
This person seemed to be easily satisfied. Nathan Carter had never seen him use that card to buy anything for himself. It seemed that as long as Adrian Lee was in front of him, he would feel happy.
"The rain is getting heavier. Children, hurry up and go home. In this weather, you should go home and have a hot pot."
In the data modeling laboratory, the huge mainframe was humming, and the gray-haired instructor Wang Pinyuan was happily rubbing his hands, urging the students to get off work, and he was obviously impatient. He had gray hair and looked like an old naughty boy, and he didn't put on airs in front of the students.
The second-year graduate students were well aware of his occasional tendency to slack off, and they all smiled and prepared to leave early.
As the number of people leaving the lab decreased, Wang Pinyuan knocked on the door of each lab one by one: "Everyone has left. The door is locked early today! It's like this every year. The first-year graduate students stay the latest, and when they reach the second-year graduate school, they leave faster than anyone else."
Adrian Lee sat at the table running data, as if he didn't hear anything. When the senior sister smiled and knocked on his table, he came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Teacher, senior sister, you guys go home first, I still have some data to run."
Wang Pinyuan walked behind him and looked at him with great interest: "Are you using the bfprt algorithm? Can this data be run?"
Adrian Lee smiled and said, "I hope it can work. I feel that it is correct to use this algorithm without using a big machine."
The big machine refers to the quantum computer in their core laboratory. It will not be activated until it becomes extremely complex.
Wang Pinyuan looked at him for a while - he was a new face and very handsome. It was hard to see how a boy like him would sit quietly in a laboratory. Perhaps he would be more suitable to be a star.
He remembered that this time a student was transferred from the Jiangnan branch to the main headquarters, and he used some military connections.
People with connections are everywhere, and no one can avoid dealing with them, but their personal abilities are often questionable.
"Your name is Adrian Lee?" he asked.
"Yes, teacher." Adrian Lee stopped what he was doing, stood up and looked at him.
Wang Pinyuan casually took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and wrote five lines of messy numbers on it: "Take a look. Let's play a very simple password game to see if our new guy has a connection with numbers."
This is a game that data people often play. For people who have been dealing with data analysis for a long time, the most important thing is often not computing ability and professional knowledge, but a keen eye for numbers and an intuition for analytical methods.
Several students who had not left also gathered around, each calculating in their minds.
Adrian Lee took a look and said, "Two fences, the password sample is the first line of data that ran out of my computer. But I can't decipher the information inside."
"So fast." A student nearby whispered, somewhat surprised, "Did he really get in through a different major?"
Wang Pinyuan smiled and said, "That's right. Because what I gave you is a string of garbled characters. The answer is garbled characters. How do you want to solve it?"
Adrian Lee was silent for a while.
Senior sister interrupted and laughed, "Junior brother, don't pay attention to him. He always does this to intimidate newcomers. You know, we often encounter this kind of situation in our industry. The data is found to be meaningless in the end. He is always afraid that we will fall into a dead end. He also wants you to learn to abandon the garbled data and adjust the direction in time. Most of the time in our industry, we are just blindly trying to catch dead mice, from small things like password deciphering to large things like exponential-level abnormal data investigation. We have to learn how to select."
"But even if it is garbled, it will have its meaning." Adrian Lee said, "Statisticians investigate the frequency of people typing each letter on the keyboard, and data analysts in World War II used it to fight the code war. Some people prefer 7 and think that 7 is their lucky number, which will be revealed in their data; some programmers have special programming habits... When a person dies, the data related to him will fluctuate, because the part of the data about him in this world disappears. The communication band that he used to call his lover that day is missing from the vast amount of data, and the code related to the confirmation of receipt that he should have made on that day is missing. What information did he see that led him to make this decision? Now is the information age, and everyone can be directly decomposed into data. If it is an accident, a butterfly accidentally flaps its wings and causes a huge storm, then the frequency of the butterfly's wings will remain, and we can find the butterfly."
"He is so good at talking..." The senior sister and several other classmates were stunned.
Adrian Lee came to the lab early this morning and barely spoke a word, except for simple daily communication. This beautiful new data scientist was taciturn and cold, as if she didn't care about anything.
Wang Pinyuan glanced at him and said, "You make sense. This is our job. We find patterns in chaos and dig out wounds under erased traces... Many people who make false accounts will hate us. So how do you think we can explain the string of garbled characters I chose?"
Adrian Lee said: "You selected the field in the middle and upper part of my screen horizontally. The sight distance and the height of the table and chair can reveal your height. This is a physical analysis. Your reading order is from left to right, and the instant reading range is within 24 characters. You prefer angular numbers such as 7 and 4. You can be profiled from the perspective of digital psychology. You are..."
Wang Pinyuan interrupted him with a smile: "That's it. If you continue to analyze like this, you will even know what dish I want to eat tonight. You are very perceptive, Adrian Lee. There are indeed no accidents in this world. There are always signs when disasters come. Helping everyone eliminate disasters is also part of our job."
Adrian Lee whispered: "Yes, teacher."
"Let me see your project at the Jiangnan branch. If you are willing, you can join the second-year graduate project team with your senior sister after the course is over." Wang Pinyuan said. "Get off work early. Your boyfriend is waiting for you outside."
The senior sister was secretly shocked in the background - right after entering the school, she was directly assigned to the second-year graduate project team, led by Wang Pinyuan himself. That was an opportunity to directly contact the alliance military!
If he could be noticed by military-industrial groups such as Xiao and Fu, he might not have to worry about his life anymore. This shows how much Wang Pinyuan values this student.
"Boy friend?"
Adrian Lee was stunned for a moment.
He turned and looked outside.
Nathan Carter, dressed in a casual uniform, stood quietly outside the laboratory with his arms folded, through the transparent glass. His heroic spirit revealed the neatness of a soldier. People walking around looked at him sideways.
"Little butterflies and little flowers come to play happily. One blooms in the spring breeze, and the other flies in the sunshine. Two friends together, and the two names are inseparable... Does it sound good? This is the song I sing to my daughter every day, Xiaolin. But more often, a butterfly is just a butterfly, the kind that can fly. Not every butterfly can cause a storm." The old professor's voice gradually faded away in the wind.
Adrian Lee went out and turned off the lights. The laboratory suddenly fell into darkness.
He raised his eyes and looked at Nathan Carter.
The moment their eyes met, he was in a trance for a moment.
However, he soon abandoned this feeling - his steps became faster and faster, until he ran towards him and threw himself into his arms. His voice was not so clear in the pouring rain, his warm breath sprayed on Nathan Carter's ears, and when he raised his face, his eyes were as bright as stars.
Nathan Carter reached out and rubbed his head.
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