Chapter 934 Nightmare and More Corpses
“I agree with your judgment that this is not a password, but if these numbers represent fractions and want to express some probability, then the person who wrote these numbers People are a bit too careless.
Many of them are not divided, such as 9/12 and 12/15, so I judge that this is a set of statistics. The latter number includes the former, and the former represents a certain number. The number of times this situation occurred. "
Because Red was busy with the case, Jack first sent those strange numbers to Chris last night, and then he and Reacher chatted until late at night, and they just got up now. , I received a call from my accountant while I was still brushing my teeth.
"The problem is that we still don't know what kind of situation this refers to. We have found nothing except these two files. The USB drive has been tested and there is no sign of deleted files." Jack brushed his teeth. He answered vaguely.
Chris's tone of voice was basically calm when talking about business. "I don't like to make assumptions, but there is a discovery. The total number of number groups registered on each page of this document is only the fifth page, which is 27 groups, and the rest are 26 groups."
“What does this mean?” Jack rinsed his mouth, picked up the towel and started to wash his face.
“First of all, we can confirm that the data can be placed on one page, but it is divided into 7 pages. Since we know that the data on each page has its own specific meaning”
"Uh, Chris" Jack, who was confused, quickly interrupted Chris' explanation, "Just tell the conclusion."
"I think each page represents a month, this is a month. The data has been recorded for 7 months continuously. "Chris is very good at what he does.
Jack paused in twisting the towel, "But as far as I know, every year except February, uh, excluding leap years, there are at least 30 or 31 days in every month."
said At this point, he suddenly froze. As a civil servant, he suddenly realized what he had overlooked, "Remove the Sunday off?"
"Yes, that's right, if you work six days a week, then remove February, and you will work The number of days is either 26 or 27, except Unless it happens that the first of the month falls on a Sunday, and there are only 30 days in the month."
Chris seemed to be able to see what Jack was planning to do through the phone, "No need to look at the calendar. It should be the seven that just passed this year Month, April to October, excluding statutory holidays."
"This sounds a bit inhumane." Jack mumbled and hung up the towel, picked up the phone and returned to the living room to put the stack of A4s. He pretended to look in front of him.
"Any other findings?"
"There is another thing that is a little strange. According to monthly statistics, the performance of these data becomes worse in later months, especially in the last month, 10/15, 14/ 21, the difference between the numbers before and after is getting more and more terrible.
If it is some kind of experiment, this is very unusual, and it means that the experiment is failing. "
It can be heard that Chris is enjoying it. It is rare for this kind of pure data analysis work to say so much at once.
Jack sighed, "Then we'd better pray that this isn't some biochemical vaccine experiment. Originally, 9 out of 10 mice died, and 11 out of 12. Later, the results got better and better, 15. Only 10 died, 14 of the 21 died.”
Chris on the opposite side was silent for a while, and it took him a long time to say, "Shouldn't it be 1/10, 1/12, and then 10/15, 14/21?"
Jack laughed loudly. Laughed, "Just kidding."
However, his good mood did not last long, because just when he hung up the phone and prepared breakfast, Danny, who had a dark face, looked a little ugly as well. Stella came hand in hand.
After listening to the situation explained by the two men, Jack quickly went upstairs and was about to wake up Rachel, who was still sleeping. As soon as he reached the door, he heard a loud roar from inside, "No!"
Jack was startled, his shoulders sank slightly and he opened the door. As a result, he saw a sweaty Reacher sitting up from the bed, with a ferocious expression as if he had seen a ghost.
"Having a nightmare?" Jack felt relieved.
"I dreamed about Franz." Reacher didn't hide it and took a few deep breaths. "Come downstairs as soon as possible. I have bad news to inform you." Jack closed the door with a broken lock without saying anything more.
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“In the past few days, the CSI New York Laboratory and the local police department have been searching the Catskill Mountains where your friend’s body was found, trying to find new clues. However, due to lack of manpower, the progress has been slow. Very slow.
Yesterday evening we found two more corpses. Although the degree of decomposition was not serious due to the weather conditions, they could not be identified by their faces due to being eaten by animals. Until our forensic doctor found a suspicious trace on the back of one of the corpses. Service number tattoo. "
After speaking, Stella pushed the two documents on the table towards Reacher.
Reacher had already guessed something, took a deep breath, opened the file folder, and looked inside The photos of the corpses are fascinating.
There is not much information in the folder. The two corpses belong to Jose Sanchez and Manuel Orozco. A former member of the 110th Special Investigation Team
“When Orozco joined the Army, his sister was very worried that if he died in battle, he would be returned because the body was difficult to identify or the identification tag was lost. Enter the missing sequence.
So he got his name and service number tattooed on his back just to appease his dearest sister, which was kind of stupid, but Orozco didn't care. "
Rachel's expression was half-smiling, as if he was telling an interesting story.
When some people are extremely angry, you can't tell the slightest clue from their expressions. But they would be awakened by nightmares in their sleep. For example, the dead Pao Ze suddenly appeared in front of him bleeding from all his orifices and shouted for him to avenge himself.
Jack didn't know what Reacher dreamed about in his nightmares, but. He knew that the city of New York was in big trouble, and he was even secretly glad at this time
He did not notify the big guy through other channels while thinking about how to solve the case, but instead found him in person as soon as possible.
When he thought that he almost had to follow this big guy to collect the corpses, his head was a little big. New York was not a remote town in a rural state. Even Margrave's little trouble was the IRS's help. .
As one of the leaders of the wanted criminal team under the FBI's New York office, the last thing Jack wants to see is for his friend's photo to appear on the wanted list.
"I will personally inform Orozco's sister, who is his only relative, right Detective Regan? Can you help call Sanchez's mother." Reacher's tone was scary and calm. .
At this time, Jack was thinking about another problem.
"Do you have any way to contact other members of the 110 Special Investigation Team? From the report, the wounds on Sanchez and Orozco are very consistent with Franz's.
This means that they were also thrown out of the helicopter after being tortured, and died just a day or two after Franz. "
Danny was also a soldier and felt the same way about Reacher's experience. "Maybe you can make a list. The murderer may be someone who has a grudge against our group. "
"I will do the same, but before that, I have a question. "Reacher said and looked at Jack.
Jack sighed, "Weapons are enough, but you have to promise not to leave me alone, otherwise I will immediately notify Joey and drag him into this. Come on, you probably don’t want me to do this, right? ”
“You have my guarantee. "Rachel took the cell phone that Jack had given him before and strode upstairs without looking back.
Jack kept watching his back disappear, then turned to Stella and said, "I need help from the CSI laboratory."
After that, he wrote the address of Franz's office where he visited yesterday to She said, "I know that the NYPD evidence team has searched this office, and now I need the CSI lab to help find and fill the gaps.
The damage there is quite serious, don't waste time on trace evidence, I I need your help to look for clues from another angle.”
(End of this chapter)