Chapter 110: Chapter 107: Encounter
“You actually guessed right.”
CC, looking at the dozens of hafnium alloy safes pouring before her eyes, was very surprised.
She indeed had some doubts about Lin Xian’s judgment just now, but facts speak louder than words:
“How did you do that? I’ve researched… the places where these garbage trucks dump their trash are really calculated in real-time, and sometimes the same truck has to go to two different places to unload. How could you even predict that?”
“This matter is hard to explain, but it’s not important.”
Lin Xian glanced at the distant surveillance room, the new supervisor was still staring at the air, laughing stupidly with a grin; if they were careful, there should be no risk:
“Hurry, quickly find Lin Xian’s safe, we don’t have much time, only 14 minutes left.”
“Why? Why do we only have 14 minutes?”
CC was full of question marks.
“This is also hard to explain… just listen to me, will you.”
Lin Xian scurried away, crouching low.
Now time was money, where was the time to explain the world view to CC, and besides, explaining to her would be forgotten tomorrow, a waste of words.
“You search over there, I’ll search here. Be careful when searching, keep low, don’t get seen by that supervisor.”
After the display of skills just now, CC obviously trusted Lin Xian more, obediently scurried to the other side, and they started looking for the safes separately.
Among the messy hafnium alloy safes toppled and askew, Lin Xian saw two familiar names.
In the bank warehouse of The First Dreamland, all the safes were embedded into the walls, and these two people’s safes were right next to his own.
Especially Wei Shengjin’s safe, right beside his own to the right.
At that time, when CC was cutting the safes with the oxyacetylene torch, fearing to damage the contents inside… she started cutting from Wei Shengjin’s safe.
But contrary to her wish, in front of the powerful aerospace material, the new hafnium alloy, the 3000-degree hot torch was like scratching an itch, unable to affect Wei Shengjin’s safe at all.
Finding the safes turned out to be much easier than Lin Xian thought; after all, with the wrong name, a glance was enough to move on.
And, say it or not, luck was pretty good; surprisingly, there wasn’t a single safe flush with the ground and nameplate facing down, which made the searching operation for both much more convenient. The only two safes facing down were also propped on other safes, so with a stoop, one could see the name on the nameplate.
All sorts of names were checked.
But Lin Xian just couldn’t find his own safe.
He looked at CC, crouching and walking towards him:
“No, I’ve checked them all, Lin Xian’s safe isn’t here.”
Lin Xian glanced left and right at the number of these safes and then compared it with the memory of the bank’s warehouse:
“The numbers don’t add up; there shouldn’t be only this few. There should be at least over a hundred, maybe even two hundred.”
“That means, the rest of the safes haven’t been moved out yet.”
Unlike Lin Xian, CC’s tone was very calm as if such an outcome had been expected:
“The next batch of garbage trucks will arrive at 00:57, and they should carry the remaining safes. Lin Xian’s safe should be in one of those trucks.”
“No, how do you know so clearly again?”
Lin Xian was puzzled.
He already felt it odd, why would CC precisely know the hafnium alloy safes would be dumped here today?
But due to busyness in opening the safe, he hadn’t asked her about it.
But looking at it now…
CC must have her unique sources of information, possibly knowing a lot of information within New Donghai City!
Otherwise, she couldn’t possibly know so clearly what time the garbage trucks enter the Waste Treatment Plant.
“How did you get hold of this information?”
Lin Xian took off his Rhine Cat Mask and looked directly at CC:
“And why would you know in such detail? You even know what time the garbage trucks come by, that’s too exaggerated. Even the workers at the Waste Treatment Plant might not have such accurate news, right?”
“It’s because of this.”
CC took out a small object from her pocket and opened her palm to show Lin Xian.
It was something worn on the ear, like a Bluetooth headset.
It looked very familiar.
Lin Xian turned to look at the surveillance room in the middle of the Waste Treatment Plant, at the supervisor who was gazing ahead and laughing stupidly at the air.
He was also wearing this kind of thing on his ear.
“I don’t know what to call this thing either.” CC, holding that Bluetooth-like device, examined it:
“But it’s a device that every worker in the Waste Treatment Plant wears; worn on the ear, a screen like a television set can appear before your eyes, which you can operate with your gaze. It’s very advanced.”
It seemed that in his year, 2023, there was also a similar kind of thing.
Google Glass, VR goggles, holographic glasses… Anyway, there are various product names, but essentially they are all the same thing.
The lens of this kind of glasses is in fact a special display, capable of showing electronic information. Moreover, there are dedicated devices on the frame and the lenses that perceive gaze and pupil focus to determine the user’s operational intentions.
This kind of glasses was very advanced in 2023.
Lin Xian only knew about it simply, having seen the product’s PPT and the release conference. Whether the actual usage experience was as good as demonstrated in the PPT was unclear…
But it was actually rare to see anyone wearing such glasses in reality, almost none at all.
From this viewpoint, the technology must not have been very mature.