Mystery Hunter

"Don't move, there's something in this box." Jiang He said in a cold tone to Shui Xinlan who was still worried.

Jiang He's seriousness made Shui Xinlan's heart keep pounding. She squatted down slowly, and got out from under Jiang He's arm. Jiang He, on the other hand, moved the box slowly. Old Shao also saw the clue, he swept the debris on the table beside him on the ground, allowing Jiang He to lay the box flat on the table.

The "crackling" sound of debris falling to the ground caught the attention of the rest. They all looked this way, but saw Jiang He and Shao Lao carefully looking at a boxy box. The box is a very ordinary cardboard box, except that the opening and closing of the carton are sealed with tape, there are no other signs or decorations on the outside of the carton.

You can't see what's inside from the outside of the box.

"What's wrong?" Shui Xinlan asked nervously, standing aside.

"Listen to the sound," Jiang He said.

"Sound?" Shui Xinlan stared at the box.

All held their breaths, paying attention to what was in the box. Even Guan Deng, who was playing games on the side, and Xu Yiman, who was cooking in the kitchen, felt the sudden solidified atmosphere in the room, and could not help but approached, but the atmosphere didn't make a sound and listened quietly.

Like the deep night, the long night is extremely silent.

"Da, da, da." The voice was extremely low, but very rhythmic, like the sound of the hands of a clock ticking. But across the box, the sound is a little misty, sometimes it can be heard, and sometimes it is hidden in the box. But what is in this ordinary box?

Is it a clock? It feels weird to think about.

"Who sent the box?" Shao Lao looked at Shui Xinlan.

Shui Xinlan hurriedly said: "When I went to open the door just now, there was no one outside the door. I saw the back of a child descending the stairs and disappearing into the distance. It is estimated that the child placed it at the door. But I didn't see the kid's face, he was about 1.34 meters tall."

"Could it be a courier?" Yuan Jun scratched his head.

Jiang He shook his head, no nonsense: "Any courier will have the order number on the box, and even if it is torn off later, it will definitely leave a tear mark, but this box is obviously not. I have a percentage. Ninety percent of the confidence is that this box has not been couriered, and the person who delivered the box placed it directly with us."

"Maybe it's a prank." Xu Yiman was still wearing an apron and holding a spatula in his hand: "Isn't it sent by a child? Sometimes children are so naughty."

"Time bomb." Jiang He said, but it was somewhat surprising: "Bring the scissors."

"Bomb, bomb?" Shui Xinlan obviously didn't expect such an exciting thing to happen to her.

Jiang He nodded, sniffed the box again, and said, "There is a benzene smell on the box, and there is no way to determine what kind of benzene it is. And there are obvious rhythmic ticking sounds in the box, which may be Watches and the like. It’s hard to tell what’s in the box from just one point of analysis, but if you combine the two, I’m 70% sure that the box is a bomb, and it’s a time bomb ."

"Accurately, it should be yellow explosives, which is TNT, then the smell should be trinitrotoluene. And the ticking sound is the sound of the time repeater, that is, the bomb is time-controlled timing The bomb. But without seeing the inside of the box, there is no way to determine the specific condition of the bomb, so we have to be careful."

Jiang He turned his head and asked, "Where's the scissors?"

Yuan Jun said, "Call the bomb disposal experts."

Jiang He shook his head and said, "It will take at least an hour for the bomb disposal experts to come here. We don't yet know how long this time bomb will detonate, but it will probably only take about ten minutes. From the outside of the box, we can't tell that The amount of dynamite in the box, and with that much dynamite in the outer box, would be enough to blow up the building."

"Ordinary bombs are detonated by remote control, pressure, tilt, compound, etc." At this time, Jiang He had the scissors in his hand: "But this box was sent by a child, and the bomb inside must be After collision and friction, it has basically ruled out pressing, pulling, tilting, etc. The most likely detonation methods are remote control detonation and timing ignition."

At this time, Guan Deng took out his mobile phone, and saw on the screen: "I have blocked the nearby signal with a shielding device. If the remote control detonated, the other party's remote control has failed."

Jiang He nodded and used scissors to gently cut along the edge of the carton: "So this carton is not part of the detonation, don't worry."

As he said that, Jiang He carefully cut the box around, and suddenly, a rectangular box appeared in front of everyone.

This is a cuboid about twenty centimeters long and ten centimeters wide. The whole body of this cuboid is yellow, and there are four detonators tied together around it. It seems that this is the detonator used to detonate TNT. The part connecting the detonator and the explosive is a tangle of colorful wires.

Jiang He did a rough count and found that there were more than thirty wires connecting the four detonators, explosives, and time repeaters.

In the middle surrounded by lines, there is a small square circuit board, and next to the circuit board is a mechanical watch, which is walking forward every second at this moment. And that ticking sound came from this watch.

Shui Xinlan stood aside, watching this living bomb. She was scared, confused, excited at the moment, all the emotions were intertwined at this moment, making her breathless, cold sweat streaming down from her head: "Bomb, bomb should not have a red and blue line, and a countdown screen what..."

While observing the bomb, Jiang He said without looking back, "That's a plot that only exists in movies."

"Four detonators, each of which may be a detonator, or all four are detonators. The bomb does use a time repeater, but from this watch, we can't tell the exact time the killer set to explode. When is it. That is to say, this bomb may explode at any time, just in case, you all leave."

Jiang He gently fiddled with the wire with scissors, and said, "The TNT equivalent is not enough, and the explosion range is not wide. You guys are waiting downstairs. If it explodes, no one will be affected, but the person who defused the bomb will definitely die. "

"The murderer also set up a lot of pseudo-wires to interfere. Four detonators may be in a certain order. If the order of removing the detonators is incorrect, it may also cause an explosion."

Jiang He was talking, but he had already started to do it. He started to subtract those wires that would not affect the bomb. The murderer was obviously using the wires to interfere with the bomb disposal person's attention.

"What is this?" After cutting the interference wires and throwing them aside, Jiang He saw a USB flash drive fixed in a bomb.

"U disk?" Shao Lao looked at the black U disk and suddenly asked Guan Deng, "If this U disk is blown up by a bomb, is it possible to recover the data in it?"

Hearing this question, Guan Deng shook his head decisively, very resolute.

"The power of this bomb is just right. If it explodes unfortunately, it will only kill the person who defused the bomb. If everyone leaves and let the bomb explode, the USB flash drive that is fixed to the bomb will become fragments. , we'll never know what's in this USB stick."

Shao Lao said softly: "The maker of this bomb is here for us."

"And we don't know how long it will take for the bomb to explode, so the other party is playing games with us." Shao Lao added: "We don't have time to study slowly, we must make a choice in a short time."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what U-disk or not." Yuan Jun said: "Nothing matters, so just put the bomb here and blow it up."

"That's right." Xu Yiman said.

Shao Lao did not speak.

Jiang He shook his head and said, "I'm fifty percent sure that I can defuse this bomb. Come downstairs and wait for me. Wait for it to explode, or wait for me to take out the USB flash drive. I want to see, the USB flash drive. What's in there."

Xu Yiman threw his apron on the ground and said to Jiang He, "Jiang He, are you kidding our lives again?"

Jiang He shook his head: "It's not us, it's me, you all go downstairs."

Xu Yiman stood still and said to Jiang He, "Jiang He, why don't you understand that a person's life is not just about him alone. The moment you join the task force, your life is ours. Hooked up. If you die, we'll be sad, you understand?"

"Sad?" Jiang He's movements suddenly slowed down and he said, "Would you feel sad if I died?"

"Of course." Xu Yiman said: "It's not just me, Shao Lao will do it, Guan Deng can do it, Yuan Jun can do it, and Shui Xinlan can do it too. Never make fun of other people's lives, let alone your own. Life is a joke! No matter what's in the USB stick, it's not as important as the lives of a few of us."

"Yes, we belong to the same team. If we want to leave, we will leave, or we will stay." Yuan Jun said indifferently.

Guandon also nodded.

Shui Xinlan looked at everyone and was a little scared, but she also said, "I, I want to stay with you too."

"Are you sure?" Shao Lao said.

Jiang He was silent for a while, then said, "If it's me alone, I'm 50% sure. If we all stay, I'm 70% sure. I guess the murderer doesn't know that there are people in our house. How many people, but by coincidence, there are four detonators."

"Seventy percent?" Xu Yiman said, "Why didn't you say it before?"

"Because you said that even a small probability event could happen." Jiang He replied.

"So you chose one person to die?" Xu Yiman said: "If there is one more person, then I will stay."

Jiang He said without ink, "TNT is a very stable explosive, and it is difficult to explode even if it is hit or encounters an open flame, so a detonator must be used as a detonator. These four detonators are outside the explosive, so as long as the The detonator would be removed. But inside where the explosives can't see, I don't know if there's a detonator."

"If there is a detonator hidden under the detonator, then pulling out the detonator may actually detonate it directly." Jiang He said, "If not, the four of them will pull out the detonator at the same time, and cut all the wires in an instant, and the bomb will be detonated by us. Demolition. Five of us, just the right number."