Chapter 3 Chapter 1 The Missing Father

The first few times Vest sent me some weird numbers, I ignored them.But one night I accepted his friend request anyway and started chatting with him. Here's our first chat: Vest 21:54:47 Hi. Xu Meili 21:55:28 Hi. Vest 21:55:36 Old snake? Xu Meili 21:55:42 yes! Vest 21:55:49 Oh, I thought I made a mistake, why did you name it a woman? Xu Meili 21:56:00 It was started by the daughter-in-law and not allowed to change. Vest 21:56:03 thank you for adding me. Xu Meili 21:56:06 fine. Vest 21:56:26 I read your post and I love it. Xu Meili 21:56:50 thanks. Vest 21:57:10 Can I ask you one thing?

Xu Meili 21:57:19 I don't know how to tell fortunes! Vest 21:57:28 I don't ask you for fortune-telling, but I want to ask you, is there any special way to find my father? Xu Meili 21:57:35 I'm sorry, I did not. Vest 21:57:44 Oh…… Xu Meili 21:57:45 Sorry! Vest 21:58:28 My dad walks in a weird way, really! Xu Meili 21:58:36 hehe…… Vest 21:58:42 He also came in a strange way. Xu Meili 21:58:49 What's the meaning? Vest 21:59:00 I was thirteen before my father came. Xu Meili 21:59:03 Hehe, is he a stepfather? Vest 21:59:06 Is my biological father. When I encountered vest again on QQ, I took the initiative to say hello to him.Because, when he first talked about his father, he had a question, I still remember.

He said that his father came when he was thirteen years old.This logical error makes me curious. Vest told me the identity of his father: "My father is a hero in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. He has made second-class meritorious service. The medal is still at home. I have the opportunity to show you. After he recovered from his injuries, he returned to his hometown and served all the middle schools in our county. The report was also warmly received by the leaders of the county government. Later he married my mother and gave birth to me. Since childhood, the teachers liked me very much, and the people around me were also very kind to me, because I am a descendant of a hero Hehe... My grandfather is also an old revolutionary. He was a battalion commander and participated in the Long March. Before I was born, my father left my mother because of work, and he didn't come back until I was thirteen. But at that time, I Mom has passed away..."

So I learned another piece of information about Vest. His mother also died, and she died when he was very young.He grew up alone, no wonder he was looking for his father. What kind of job did Vest's father do? It's been fourteen years since he left the house?During this period, the child was born, the wife died of illness, and they were unable to go home to visit their relatives, leaving the family behind for such a long time.What kind of unit is it that is so unreasonable? Thinking that I rarely go home all year round because of my work, I can't help but feel a little sympathetic with Vest.

Afterwards, I saw the vest followed my post with a long string of strange numbers in the message, and my curiosity became stronger.So the next day, I stayed in front of the computer early, waiting for the vest to go online. I wanted to hear more from him about his family. But it was not until very late that the vest was launched: Xu Meili 23:10:15 I'm very busy, so late on the line. Vest 23:10:25 Yes, Brother Snake, I forgot the time while reading some materials. Xu Meili 23:10:49 Is it still those numbers? Vest 23:10:55 Yes. Xu Meili 23:11:09 I read your message. Vest 23:10:15

hehe…… Vest 23:10:30 Brother Snake, let me ask you something. Xu Meili 23:10:41 Just ask! Vest 23:10:54 Do you really think there are some things in this world that we can't explain with science? Xu Meili 23:11:24 this…… Vest 23:11:33 ... Xu Meili 23:11:59 In fact, I am an atheist, and I think all authors who write supernatural stories are atheists.People who believe in ghosts and gods have a strong awe of these things, so they don't know how to write. Vest 23:12:16 So this is ah. Xu Meili 23:12:51 Are you disappointed? Vest 23:13:56 I'm looking for you, just want you to help me look at some numbers.

Xu Meili 23:14:07 Are those numbers you sent me? Vest 23:14:33 No, those numbers have nothing to do with my father. Xu Meili 23:14:42 When did your father disappear? Vest 23:15:28 June 17, 2005. Xu Meili 23:16:04 After your father retired, what unit did he go to work for, and why didn't he come back for more than ten years? Vest 23:16:22 He worked for a shipping company and went before I was born.He later said that because of his work, he never had the opportunity to leave his post, and it was only in 1997 that he had the opportunity to return home. Xu Meili 23:16:29 What kind of shipping company is this? How can they keep the crew for so long?

Vest 23:16:50 Ocean. Vest 23:16:53 China Ocean Group. I became more curious and further communicated with the vest.Know more about his father. Ma Jia's surname is Wu, and his father's surname is also Wu, hehe, I'm talking nonsense. Ma Jia's grandfather participated in the Jute Uprising, and later fought guerrilla warfare in the Dabie Mountains for five or six years. He did not die, and then followed the Red Army to Yan'an on the Long March. He is an old revolutionary.The vest also hinted that his grandfather and a certain general who founded the Republic were cousins ​​who did not have five uniforms.

I believe that Hong'an is a famous general county in China, and there are many generals who can recruit and fight well. The Huanggang area is located in the Dabie Mountains.At the beginning of the jute uprising, many people participated in the whole family, young and old, and even women and children were not behind.It is no accident that a county can produce more than two hundred generals. It seems that this waistcoat is a descendant of revolutionary soldiers. As soon as the generals were successful, thousands of bones died, and behind the more than two hundred generals from Hong'an, there were countless people who fell.Of course, there are countless soldiers like Vest's grandfather. Although he saved his life in the war, he has no chance to become a general of the army.They are unknown and unknown to the public.

It's the first time I've dealt with a person with such roots.The people I used to come into contact with were very ordinary people—the descendants of workers and farmers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ma Jia's grandfather transferred to a government department in Wuhan as a leader.Died of illness in 1967.Ma Jia's father inherited his father's business and joined the army at the age of 18 under the care of Ma Jia's grandfather's comrades-in-arms. After the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, Majia's father joined a field unit that was the first to enter the battlefield to participate in the battle. In 1982, Ma Jia's father won the second-class meritorious service, and returned to the rear, and then met Ma Jia's mother.

Two months after the wedding, the state arranged for Vest's father to work in the Sino-Ocean Group, and then there was no news.But every month, Majia's mother would get a salary that was relatively expensive at the time from Changhang Wuhan Branch on time.Ma Jia's mother died of cancer in 1992.The Long Flight Bureau came forward to handle her funeral affairs, and sent a nanny to take care of the vest.Vest continued to take that lucrative salary, and his father finally came back in the second year of junior high school. When Majia wanted to be with his father and live a life with relatives to take care of him, his father returned to his hometown in Huanggang, lived in the old house, and lived alone in the mountains. This stay lasted for eight years.During the winter and summer vacations, the vest would go back to his hometown to reunite with his father. But Vest's father is very indifferent to Vest, as if treating him as an insignificant person, except for the care in life, there is no emotional communication.This continued until his father disappeared eight years later. Ma Jia said that after his father came back, he stayed alone in the old house, not going anywhere.But before he disappeared, his father went to the university to look for him, but he didn't say anything.The father and son had a meal in a restaurant outside the school. At that time, apart from being surprised by his father's sudden visit, Vest didn't feel anything else.Little did he know at the time that this would be the last time he and his father would see each other. "Can you recall, the last time you and your father met, was there any strange people around him?" I asked the vest. "No..." Vest typed after a while, "I just remembered that when he went out, there were two people walking with him." "What kind of person?" I typed. "Oddly dressed? I mean, well-dressed or extraordinary?" The screen was quiet for a long time, and the vest should be thinking carefully on the other side of the computer. "I remembered, there is a woman among the two, and that woman is very beautiful." Seeing this sentence, I couldn't help laughing, the vest is definitely a man.But then I stopped laughing. The vest typed another sentence: "That beautiful woman is in her thirties, a foreigner, Caucasian, and she has blond hair." "Could it be that your father met foreign friends when he was working in the Sino-Ocean Group and crossing the ocean?" "should be." "Is she your father's lover abroad? Your father and that woman have settled abroad?" "Absolutely not." "Why so sure?" "Because after my father left again, many things have changed." "tell me the story." "After my father left, a lot of inexplicable people came. They were secretly spying on me, but they never came to me directly or talked to me. In the next two months, I went to Changhang Wuhan Branch to collect my father's salary, but I was told that I was of age and no longer needed to be paid." "This reason is not valid." I typed: "This is your father's salary, not your child support." "I thought so too at the time, but the sum of my father's wages over the years is not small, and the money is deposited in the bank. Even if I graduate from college and don't work, I can still live well, so I didn't insist. " I hesitated in front of the computer for a long time, and finally typed: "Maybe I told you that you are unhappy. Your father may have a very special occupation..." The vest did not type. After a while, Vest replied: "Actually, I also thought so at the beginning." "It's possible that your father was a spy. And, quite possibly... treacherous." "No, my father will never defect, you don't know my father, you don't know my family." "You said it yourself that you didn't know your father." "My father is definitely not this kind of person. He was in Vietnam back then. He sneaked into the enemy's rear, quietly killed a communication team of the enemy by himself, and reported the location of the Vietnamese army command post with communication tools." "Like 'Black Panther', with the determination to die with the enemy, eh?" "Yes, that's what my father said when he gave the report. In my hometown, many people are still talking about my father's deeds." "You didn't hear your father say it yourself?" "yes." "Didn't he tell you about it for eight years after he came back?" "No, not once. He hasn't said anything about him." I also became silent, and after a while, I typed and replied: "Your father works in Sino-Ocean Group, how come Wuhan Long-distance Navigation Bureau pays his salary? As far as I know, although they are all water transport units, they do not belong to one system." "As I said, there are many things about my father that cannot be explained with common sense." "Then tell me." "I can't say that well." The vest typed over, "You will know when you have a chance to meet me." "I hope there is a chance." "You are here, I invite you to eat and have a good drink." "OK." After returning to China, I was arranged by the company to work in the rear, and I did not go to the construction site for the time being.I often look at the number issued by the vest, but I still can't see why. After chatting with Vest, it was all about worldview, and the discussions were all about religious and philosophical issues.If the company doesn't send me on a business trip, maybe he and I will chat online forever, and we will never have the chance to know those things about his father.But there are always coincidences in this world. I happened to need to go to Wuhan to buy something for the company, so before I left, I got in touch with Vest.He was very happy and made an appointment to meet me at the gate of Wuhan University. The place where I was going to do business happened to be on Zhongnan Road, not too far from Wuhan University.So I hurriedly finished my business and waited for him at the gate of Wuhan University. When the appointed time came, a middle-sized young man got out of a Buick and walked in front of me. "Old snake?" I nod. "Vest?" He drove me to his house in his Buick.His house is a single-family two-story building, and there are all such small buildings nearby, in a large yard.From the looks of it, this should be the family building of veteran cadres. "This house was left by my grandfather. After he was rehabilitated, the government redistributed the house to me." The vest opened the door with a key while talking.I followed him into the room.The room was clean and well furnished. The vest didn't make a fool of himself and took me to his study.Before going upstairs, he handed me a Coke from the refrigerator in the kitchen next to the stairs. I went into his study and there was a huge bookshelf full of books.There is a computer by the window.He invited me to sit on a chair next to the computer. At this time, I found that the computer desk was covered with A4 papers, and the papers were full of numbers. Seeing me paying attention to these notes, Vest smiled wryly on his face. "I see. Are these numbers some information your father left you?" The vest defaulted, this is normal, I guessed it a long time ago. "The numbers you sent me are part of the numbers left by your father?" "No." The vest denied, "I said so." "Let's not talk about this first." Said the waistcoat, "you first look at my father's photo." He took out a photo album from the bookshelf and showed it to me. The photos are probably taken in the early 1980s, and they are all black and white.In the photo was a sturdy young man in military uniform with a medal on his chest.In addition, there are photos of him sitting behind a podium in a large auditorium, giving a lecture.There is no doubt that this young soldier must be the father of the waistcoat.Flipping through the pages, I saw a photo of a woman in the photo album. The photo was taken in a simple photo studio with an oil painting landscape in the background. As I watched, Vest handed me his father's second-class merit medal.I looked carefully, and the shape of the medal was consistent with the photo. The vest said to me: "I'll show you this photo album again." I nodded and said, "Okay." Vest brought another photo album, which was much more beautiful than the previous one.I opened it and saw that there was only one photo in it, a color photo, and it was a group photo of two young people. The photo should have been taken with a point-and-shoot camera in the late 1990s. The appearance of the two people is very similar, and their ages are not much different.I don't know which is the vest. I asked the vest: "Do you still have a younger brother? According to the time, you can't have a younger brother. Was your father born outside?" Majia replied: "I said that my father's things are weird, and this is just one of them." I didn't react for a moment. Vest points one finger on the boy's head in the photo, and points to his own cheek with the other. "Oh." I suddenly realized, "Before your father gave birth to a boy with your mother, he was your brother." After I finished saying this, I knew I was wrong again, because the vest was shaking his head slowly. "My father joined the army at the age of eighteen and has been in the army. Before he married my mother, he had no children." I was stunned.Vest didn't lie to me, his father was indeed a very weird person.I now understand that the two people in the photo, the younger one is the waistcoat himself, and the older one is his father! According to the information provided by Ma Jia in the previous chat with me, his father should have been born in 1959 and joined the army in 1977.Based on the time of the photo, his father was already in his early forties at this time, and his waistcoat was about seventeen. But the two father and son, who were twenty-three years apart in age, were only five years apart at most from the photos. My first thought was that the vest was playing tricks and teasing me.But looking at the serious expression on the vest's face, it didn't look like he was joking.I recalled the situation when I chatted with Vest on the Internet before. During the communication, I didn't think he was a funny person.I can't figure it out for now. "If you don't believe me, I can take you to my hometown tomorrow and find someone who met my father back then and ask if my father looked so young back then." No matter how confused I was when Vest said this, I believed it for the time being. Majia was going to invite me to dinner, but I declined because I had to return to the company that day.Today is Valentine's Day, I promised my wife that I must hurry back to Yichang. Seeing that I insisted on leaving, the vest didn't force me to stay anymore, so he sent me to the passenger terminal.I just bought a ticket for the 4:00 p.m. train. I was about to get in the car, and the vest said, "Brother Snake, come to Wuhan again if you have a chance, let's talk again." I said with shame: "I can't help you, I'm so sorry." "I believe you can definitely help me." Vest was very sure. Although I have heard many strange things, but this is the first time I have seen such a strange thing.The shock in my heart is beyond words. Sitting on the bus, looking at the farmland outside the window, I couldn't help laughing at myself, Old Xu, old Xu, you really answered an idiom - Ye Gong loves dragons. A seaman who has been working on seagoing ships for fourteen years, has experienced so many storms, and the life away from his family is extremely boring and boring. According to common sense, he should be much older than ordinary people, but the father of the vest, not only He is not older than others, on the contrary, he is dozens of years younger than his actual age. Even the most caring person can't stop time and keep a youthful appearance forever.There is nothing wrong with Vest’s insistence. Something beyond common sense happened to his father, not my simple guess—just a spy. I decided that if I had the opportunity to go to Wuhan again, I must discuss with Ma Jia why his father would not grow old. After returning to Yichang, I still chatted with Ma Jia online. I said to the vest: "The number you sent me is too esoteric, and I can't see any clues." Vest replied to me: "Then according to your thinking, what can you see?" "The numbers, it must be a piece of text, just encoded in numbers. Your father was a scout, and he must have been good at it. Have you ever tried Morse code? The one in Infernal Affairs, or It’s other decryption codes, TV series and movie "The Wind" all talk about this." Vest replied: "Your idea is right. The number I sent you is a piece of text." "Have you deciphered it?" Vest didn't answer me directly, but just sent a text: "It's so close to Old Snake, I must take a photo as a souvenir. By the way, I like to read your medium and long stories. Can you write more stories about Xu Gong and Wang Ba. I also know that writing this is very tiring...but please. Old snake." "What do you mean?" I was confused. Said the vest, "That's what those numbers I sent you mean." "You have already deciphered it, why do you still need my help?" "This is not a number left by my father. What I sent you is a code I made up myself." "It seems that you have studied it deeply, and you can do this step." "My major in college is computer, and I'm a programmer." I haven't responded yet. The vest continued: "But no matter what method I use, I can't see the meaning of the numbers left by my father." I said, "Compared to you, my knowledge in this area is zero, and I don't think I can help you." Vest replied: "No matter what, we are all friends now. When I come to Wuhan again, I must buy you a drink." A month later, I will go on a business trip to Wuhan again, and this time I will stay in Wuhan for two days.So I contacted Majia online and made an appointment for us to have a drink together. I finished my official business early, and then the vest drove me back to his hometown—a mountainous county in Huanggang area. I was pressed for time, and the vest drove the car really fast.The car turned from a cement road onto a broken gravel road.The Wu family's old house is in a very remote mountain depression.The car couldn't drive to the front of the old house, so we got out of the car and walked for more than ten minutes, around a hillside, before arriving at the old house of Wu's family. There is no one around this house, the old house of the Wu family is still an old rammed earth wall.The home occupies a large lot.However, it can be seen from the broken doors and windows that this place has been unoccupied for a long time. Vest's father lived here alone all those years ago.What happened to him, or what kind of pressure in his heart, made him stay away from the busy city and stay here silently? The vest took out the key, opened the door, and we walked into the main room.The furnishings inside the house are all common furniture in rural areas in the 1980s and 1990s. There is a portrait of Chairman Mao on the front wall. On the walls on both sides, there are portraits of the ten marshals on horseback on one side, and a portrait of Lenin on the other. The furniture in the house was covered with thick dust, and the surface of the portrait was already black and yellow because of the rain leaking from the roof.I took a quick look, and followed the vest to the wing at the left rear of the main room. The vest took out the key again and opened the door.This should be his father's bedroom back then. The door opened, and the room was very dark. The vest pulled the rope by the door, and I heard the "click" of the switch, but the light didn't turn on. The vest muttered something, he walked into the house, pushed open the wooden window, and the room was brightened. I saw what the room looked like, and immediately understood why the vest was desperately studying those numbers.On all the walls, on the entire floor, on all the furniture, even the bed boards...all are numbers. The numbers on the computer desk at Vest Wuhan’s home come from here. "Your father must have used a special paint," I said. "That's for sure." The vest replied, "Last year, I felt that some blurred writing began to appear on the walls of this house. I thought it was the traces of rainwater seepage. Fortunately, no one came to scrape the limestone." Waist and I stood in his father's bedroom for a long time.I didn't move anything, because I didn't think it was necessary, the vest must have checked every corner of the room, I don't need to do anything more. "Let's go." Said the vest. "I'm sorry." I apologized a little, "I'm just a post writer. Apart from fantasizing, I don't do such substantive things." The vest didn't speak, we walked out and drove back to Wuhan. A week later, about Vest's father, a strange idea suddenly popped into my head, and I quickly left a message for Vest on the Internet. The vest is on the line.I couldn't wait to say to him: "The numbers left by your father may not be worth studying at all." "why?" "Let's bring it in and think about it." "you say." "Your father was a scout, that's for sure." "yes." "And he is a scout who has made great achievements." "certainly." "A person like your father must have a strong psychological quality. Your family's political background is impeccable." "What exactly are you going to say?" Vest was a little anxious. "Your father may not have retired. He may have been a soldier even now." "But back then, he obviously retired and joined Sino-Ocean Group." "Employees of Sino-Ocean Group, why is the Wuhan branch of Changhang Airlines paying their salaries?" "This, I haven't thought about it, never thought about it." "Now you can go to Changhang Airlines Wuhan Branch and ask about your father's whereabouts. They will definitely tell you that they should just pay your father's salary." I continued typing, "Did you go to Yuanyang and ask about your father's establishment?" ?” Majia replied: "In 2005, after my father disappeared, I received a letter from Beijing, which stated that my father had been away from work for a long time and could not occupy the establishment, so he was fired. The payment was made by Sino-Ocean Group." "The headquarters of Sino-Ocean Group is in Tianjin." I replied. "Have you checked it online?" "No, I was in Tianjin in 2009. Coincidentally, when I was visiting Tianjin, I passed by the headquarters building of Sino-Ocean Group." Vest replied: "I'm going out now, let's talk next time." "Okay, tell me what you asked tomorrow." I spent the next day online waiting for the vest to go live.I'm getting more and more curious about his father now. However, he did not log in to QQ that day. Not on the second day, not on the third day... After a week, I finally got him. I couldn't wait to ask him: "What's the matter, did you go to Changhang to ask?" Vest replied: "I asked." "Did I guess right?" The vest said: "It's more extreme than you guessed!" "what's the situation?" "The cashier and accountant who sent me the money back then have all changed, and now the finances don't know about my father at all." "Have you contacted their leaders?" "I looked for it. They are also the leaders after the change of term. They don't know anything about this matter. After hearing what I said, they were also very curious, and specially arranged for the accountant to check the previous salary records..." "It didn't find out, did it?" "yes." "So you went to Tianjin?" "right." "You shouldn't be able to find anything in Tianjin!" "Yes, four words: no such person!" "Then where have you been these few days?" The vest said, "You should be able to guess." "I think you should have gone to Beijing, it's very close anyway." Ma Jia said, "I went to the address where I sent the letter back then, and that address was the Central Military Commission." "Then you won't be able to get in." "So, I went to the army company where my father was, but fortunately, the number of the army where my father was in is still there." "What did you find out?" I asked hastily. The vest said, "You won't believe me if I tell you." "What else is there about your father that is even more unbelievable? Could it be that your father's army couldn't find his information?" Ma Jia said: "My father's name is Wu XX. I asked his name in his army, and I got it. They confirmed my father's identity and entertained me warmly. They knew very well about my father's military exploits. .” "that's great." "not good." "What happened?" "My father never came back." "What do you mean?" The more I listened, the more surprised I became. Ma Jia said: "They said that my father was indeed honored with second-class meritorious service, but my father did not live to receive this honor. His second-class meritorious service and his status as a martyr were ratified posthumously." "what?" "My father died on the battlefield!" Something must have gone wrong.This time I was also dizzy, so I sent a long series of shocked expressions in the past. After a while, I saw that the vest did not reply, so I asked him again: "Then how do you explain what happened after your father came back? Your father gave a report in your hometown, and you, how can a dead person come back to marry and have children?" The vest said, "Can you analyze it for me, I'm in a mess right now." I sorted out my thoughts, and then said: "Let me help you analyze three possibilities. One, your father really died on the battlefield, and it was another person who returned to his hometown. He pretended to be your father and lived a heroic life. But this person married your mother, gave birth to you. From the perspective of blood, this substitute is still your father." "Second, your father didn't die. He returned home as a battle hero, but for some unknown reason, his identity was erased." "Three, your father is dead, and it's your father's ghost that came back. Hehe, I'm joking. Do you think it's possible that after the battle, your father was seriously injured and couldn't reveal his identity. He was sent to the rear hospital. Your father's comrades in arms could not find his body, or mistook other corpses for your father." Majia said: "I saw photos of my father in the army, including his military officer certificate, photos of his oath ceremony for joining the party, and photos of the military camp taken by reporters accompanying the army... But the people in the photos are not my father." "You mean, the father in the photo is another person. The father you mentioned is actually dead. Your real father is an imposter?" "This is too unacceptable!" The vest looked a little excited. I had no choice but to comfort him: "If you think about it, anything can happen on the battlefield. Maybe your biological father is very familiar with XX Wu. XX Wu has no relatives, so your biological father used the information gap between the army and the local area. , After returning, he switched identities with XX Wu. Later, because of conscience, your biological father found that he could not face the people around him, so he traveled across the ocean and had no courage to go home for 14 years. After returning, he again for the same reason , chose to live alone. A few years later, he really couldn't bear the pressure in his heart and quietly disappeared." Vest said: "That's all I can think of." Ma Jia and I stopped chatting, and the QQ chat window was quiet for a long time. After a while, I took the initiative to type again: "You have something to hide from me." Vest asked me: "Why do you say that?" I said: "There are so many clues, it's impossible for you not to have noticed in the past five years. Why didn't you go to long voyages and oceans before, and your father's troops to understand the situation?" "Brother Snake... I only saw the number my father left me in the old house last year. Before that, I didn't think my father's disappearance would be such a strange thing. After all, there are people in this world every day Missing, if you have been to the missing persons investigation section of the Public Security Bureau, you will know that in our country, missing persons is indeed not an accidental incident." "Then how do you explain your father's age and appearance?" "Physiologically special, relatively speaking, it is not worth mentioning. There are many things in this world that rejuvenate one's youth." "When you find the numbers left by your father in the old house, you know it's not as simple as you think." "Yeah, look, from what we've analyzed now, it's doubtful whether my father is XX Wu." "No. It's still not right." I shook my head, "Your father gave a report in his hometown after he retired, and he is a well-known figure in his hometown. This is an indelible fact." "Could it be that father's army deliberately tampered with his identity?" "In this case, it is much more reasonable. Your father must have a very important mission, and it is very secretive, so secret that the country wants to erase his identity." "Then why did he leave the numbers in the old house?" the vest asked again. "I think he wants you to know his experience. But he couldn't tell you back then, he must have been monitored, so he used his way to leave clues and tell you his past. The pressure he endured must be Very big, he must have experienced things that ordinary people absolutely cannot accept, which made him choose to stay alone in the mountains." Vest said: "Yes, this inference can explain why he suddenly disappeared again." "Haha, it seems that you are looking for me in the right way. I am really good at fantasizing. Now let's solve the clue problem your father gave you." The vest said, "Are you sure?" "I don't have one, but I can try this idea. I still use the way of thinking." I thought for a while and then said, "Your father is a scout, he can sneak behind the enemy's rear, and he can use the army's communication equipment, that is, he has the qualities of an intelligence officer." "You mean, after he came back from the battlefield, he was accepted by a certain security department of the country and became an intelligence officer, engaged in very secret work?" "Exactly." "Because of work, he couldn't tell me what he did in those ten years. But before he went out again in 2005, he wanted to tell me these things again, so he used a very special way?" "right." "But I have never been able to decipher the numbers my father left behind. He never gave me a hint." "Do you know what intelligence officers, or those who are engaged in deciphering codes, are best at?" "What is it?" "It's just playing tricks." "Your father must be a master at guessing other people's psychology. Maybe the speculation we are making now is in his expectation... We are very close to the truth." "I don't understand what you mean, I don't understand those numbers." "Don't think about those numbers anymore. It's your father who fooled the people who watched secretly." "You mean, if my father has something to leave me, it can't be done numerically?" "Yes, this not only hides from the person watching you, but also protects you, and allows you to get the information he left behind." "What should I do?" "What I'm telling is actually a story of intrigue. No matter what strategy or strategy, in fact, it is a process of figuring out the enemy's mind. For example, Zhuge Liang has figured out Sima Yi's mind when he saw the empty city. Thinking that it was Zhuge Liang’s deliberate illusion, Zhuge Liang was sure that Sima Yi would think so, why, because Zhuge Liang knew that in Sima Yi’s heart, he was a person who dared not take risks. To put it bluntly, the strategy is a gamble of one positive and one negative, guessing the size .” "Can it be understood that no matter how complicated things are, the ultimate basis is the duality of opposites? Just like a computer, no matter how complicated the calculations and operations are, what the core processor faces is 0 and 1." Said the vest. "It can be understood in this way. The clues your father left for you must be very easy to find. The reason is that the numbers he left behind seem reasonable but cannot be deciphered. They are actually just a cover-up." "I understand. I can go to the person my father met when he gave the report. It is the easiest way for him to give these things to someone who can trust." "That should be it." "Then I'm going to look for that person very secretly." “不用了，你的父亲已经帮你把这个问题解决了。那些用特殊颜料写在墙壁上的莫名其妙的数字，也许在他失踪后不久，就被监视他的人发现。时间过了这么久，那些部门的人员可能已经被这些数字折磨得没了耐心。再严密的监视，也会松懈。我想监视你们的人，现在已经撤走了。” “谢谢你，谢谢你！”马甲听了我的分析，又连连感谢。 “别谢我，以上我所说的，都只是大胆的推测，仅仅是推测……” 这次聊天之后，我又有很长一段时间没有在网上遇到马甲。我一直在想，马甲究竟找到他父亲留给他的信息没有，我的大胆猜测，是否正确。 终于，在四月中旬，我在QQ上看到了马甲的留言：“蛇哥，你是对的。” 他发这个消息是前一天的深夜，现在他不在网上。 隔了几天，马甲又在网上给我留言：“蛇哥，你猜，我父亲把留给我的日记本，给了谁？” 留言仍旧是深夜发的，我看到信息的时候，他还是不在网上。 我回复：“别跟我绕弯子了。” 第二天，我就得到消息。 马甲留言说：“哈哈，真的跟你说的一样，我就找了两个人就找到了。我找的第一个是当年他作报告所在学校的校长，我没有得到答案，然后我又找了另外一个人，他是我们当地一个姓吴的人，是一个修族谱的。我当时想，他那时候要修族谱，肯定会找我父亲，我父亲是名人嘛。他告诉我，我父亲答应把自己列入族谱的条件就是，他绝对不能看这个日记本，再就是当我找到他的时候，就无条件把日记本交给我。” 我留言：“为什么不要他主动给你。” 我正要把这条留言发上去，想了一下，马上就取消了。我怎么都笨了，如果修族谱的主动去找马甲，岂不是会引人注意？当马甲能慢慢找到这条线索的时候，已经是在一个相对安全的环境了。 马甲的父亲，绝对不是个平凡的人物，他实在是太聪明了，真是步步为营。