They’re all reborn, what’s wrong with being a little more almighty?

Chapter 252 I am actually a mathematician
Zhang Wei experienced a gunfight.

To be precise, Zhang Wei lay prone on the ground the entire time, hiding behind a suitcase, letting bullets fly around without even daring to raise his head while listening to a gunfight.

Because of the sudden gunfight, the surroundings became chaotic, with people fleeing, screaming, and wailing after being hit, all mixed together in an instant.

Germany, like the United States, is also a country where gun ownership is legal. Logically, Germans should be as worldly-wise as Americans, and gunfights are not a big deal.

But the fact is, after seeing the gunfight, the surrounding Germans panicked, like flies on their brows, totally unlike the Americans who calmly lay on the ground or hide in a corner.

Germany's gun control laws are much stricter than those in the United States. To legally own a gun in Germany, one must not only undergo a strict background check and safety training, but also comply with various regulations. Ordinary people cannot apply for a gun license, which legally filters out most people.

Another reason is that German guns and bullets are expensive.

Germany's per capita GDP is already one-third less than that of the United States. Coupled with Germany's high taxes, the actual salary received by Germans is probably only half of that of Americans.

But the price of guns and ammunition in Germany is more than twice that of the United States. The money you spend on a pistol bullet in Germany can buy a lottery ticket. If it were you, would you rather buy a bullet or take a chance on a five-million-dollar prize?

Therefore, guns in Germany are not as abundant as in the United States. When Germans encounter gunfights, they are not as calm as Americans.

Gunshots continued to ring out, and bullets hit the Mercedes-Benz SUV next to him, causing the sound of metal colliding. For the first time, Zhang Wei felt that time was so long and every second was torture.

Finally, sirens sounded from a distance, and the police patrolling nearby finally arrived. Then the gunshots gradually stopped, and only Agent Haman could be heard shouting in German, "Help!"

As the supporting police approached, Zhang Wei finally raised his head cautiously. He first looked at Lu Yunxiang next to him. This kid was braver than himself. He had already stood up from the ground and was looking around with curiosity.

"Xiao Lu, are you okay?" Zhang Wei asked quickly.

"No, brother, are you okay?" Lu Yunxiang asked.

"I'm fine." Zhang Wei took a deep breath: "As long as we are both fine!"

"No wonder there are so few foreigners here! This is a busy area, but there are still gunfights! I've learned a lot. I just secretly took a few peeks. It's really exciting, just like being in a movie!"

"You dare to peek? You're courting death!" Zhang Wei scolded.

At the same time, Zhang Wei looked around and saw a man lying on the ground with injuries, groaning. This man had a stocking on his head and was obviously one of the gangsters. The other gangsters should have run away.

One of the two CID agents was shot in the shoulder, with blood running down his arm. Agent Harman was fine, but he looked a little dusty.

Apart from that, it seemed that no civilians were hit, just a few unlucky people who fell or were tripped while fleeing.

There were several bullet holes on the surrounding cars and on the glass of shops. So many bullets had been fired that both sides spent most of the time demonstrating their body-outlining shooting skills.

While Zhang Wei was still in shock, Agent Harman walked over and handcuffed him.

"Why are you handcuffing me? I haven't broken any law!" Zhang Wei was a little confused.

"It's not illegal, so who are they?" Harman pointed at the gangster who was shot and fell to the ground.

"How would I know? I'm not German and I don't know him!" Zhang Wei shook his head.

"Don't know him? Then come back with me and reminisce him!" Harman said, waving to the policeman next to him and took Zhang Wei directly to the police car.

……

Zhang Wei was taken to the German Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau and put into an interrogation room.

A moment later, Harman pushed the door open and walked in, followed by a recorder.

"Agent Harman, there was a gunfight. As a witness, I should assist you in the investigation, but you handcuffed me. What does that mean?" Zhang Wei raised his hands and continued, "I am a victim, not a criminal."

"You are a victim?" Harman smiled coldly. "Don't pretend. I advise you to tell the truth. Maybe I can plead for you to the judge. What is your relationship with those armed gangsters?"

"I don't know them! I'm just a tourist and I've only been in Germany for 20 days. How could I possibly know the armed gangsters?" Zhang Wei replied.

"You don't know them, so why did they come to save you?" Haman asked.

"Save me?" Zhang Wei's eyes rolled and he understood instantly. It seemed that this Haman had misunderstood him.

So Zhang Wei smiled slightly, and then said: "Agent Harman, I think you misunderstood. Those armed gangsters have nothing to do with me. Maybe they are not coming for me."

"If it's not coming for you, then is it coming for me?" Harman asked back.

"That's possible! You're an agent of the German Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau. You must have offended many people. Is it possible that the criminals you caught before are seeking revenge against you?"

Harman was speechless. How could he not offend people in his line of work? It was reasonable for the criminals to retaliate against him.

However, Harman had already preconceived that Zhang Wei was a member of a criminal group. Even if what Zhang Wei said made sense, Harman felt that Zhang Wei was just quibbling.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. Although your accomplice was shot, he is not dead. My colleagues are already questioning him. By the time he opens his mouth, it will be too late for you to confess!"

As soon as Harman finished speaking, the door suddenly opened and a colleague walked in. He leaned close to Harman's ear and said, "The hospital called and the guy we arrested has confessed!"

"Great!" Harman smiled and said in an imposing manner, "You heard it all, right? You still have time to speak up now!"

Zhang Wei blinked in confusion: "I heard it, but I didn't understand it. He was speaking German, and I don't understand German."

Only then did Harman realize that his colleague was speaking German.

How embarrassing!

The original momentum weakened by three points in an instant.

Then Harman began to translate, "The hospital just called and all your accomplices have confessed!"

"Did the criminal admit that he came to seek revenge on you?" Zhang Wei asked immediately.

This one sentence instantly made Harman feel like he was hitting cotton with his fist.

The next second, Harman's face darkened, and he said, "I've already given you a chance. Since you refuse to confess, don't blame me."

After Harman finished speaking, he turned to look at the colleague who had just come in, then pointed at Zhang Wei and asked, "Does the gangster know him?"

The colleague nodded and said, "We showed the criminal his photo, and he did know this Chinese man."

Harman immediately showed a smug expression, and then asked: "Are the criminals coming for him?"

"According to the criminals' confession, they were indeed coming for this Chinese man!" The colleague nodded again.

"Haha, what else do you have to say!" Harman looked at Zhang Wei coldly, and then said: "I can give you another chance. If you explain the criminal facts of your group clearly, I can let you be a tainted witness."

"Our group? Criminal facts? What does this have to do with anything?" Zhang Wei complained in his mind, and then asked, "Why did that criminal come after me? Money?"

"This..." The colleague looked at Harman, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Go ahead!" Harman said confidently.

My colleague had no choice but to explain: "The criminals confessed that they saw in the newspaper that Mr. Zhang had won the 1040 million euro jackpot in the football lottery, so they planned to kidnap him and extort a ransom from him."

"What? Just kidnapping?" This time it was Harman's turn to be confused.

He always thought that there was a huge criminal group behind Zhang Wei, and those gangsters were Zhang Wei's accomplices. They came to rescue Zhang Wei when they saw Zhang Wei being arrested. However, he didn't expect that this was just an ordinary kidnapping case!

"So it was a kidnapping! It seems that the security situation in Germany is quite bad. Winning the lottery or appearing in the newspaper can put you at risk of being kidnapped!" Zhang Wei said sarcastically.

On the other side, Harman's face was livid. His misjudgment was embarrassing, and his investigation into the criminal group would also fail. How could he make progress?

"I understand, you have already coordinated your statements!" Harman showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

"Oh my god, with this IQ, how did he become a senior agent?" Zhang Wei couldn't help but complain.

……

In fact, encountering kidnappers was something Zhang Wei had not expected.

When Zhang Wei agreed to take photos for the gambling company for publicity, it was only a 65 yuan bonus. Zhang Wei thought about the income situation in Germany and thought that he would not kidnap someone for ransom for 65 yuan. If he had the ability to do so, he could steal a few luxury cars and sell them, wouldn't that be better than kidnapping someone?
Mercedes-Benz G-Class sells for 20 euros in Germany, BMW 7 Series sells for 13 euros, and second-hand cars are sold at half the price. If you steal seven or eight of them, you can make 65 euros. And the sentence for theft is definitely much lighter than kidnapping.

As a result, sixteen gaming companies united and began to publicize that Zhang Wei had won a prize of 1040 million. There is a huge difference between 65 and 1040 million, which attracted the kidnappers.

At this time, Zhang Wei was somewhat thankful that Harman came to arrest people. Otherwise, how could he deal with the kidnappers with biubiu with his bare hands? At that time, he would really have to exchange with the devil for ten minutes of ace special forces possession.

...Harman interrogated Lu Yunxiang again, but also got nothing.

The two men were innocent to begin with, and there was no criminal group behind them, so naturally nothing could be done about them.

And other colleagues brought Harman another bad news.

"Boss, we went to the immigration department and asked them. These two Chinese entered the country through legal channels. Their visas are genuine, and the people on the visas are actually them. In other words, there is no problem with their identities."

The reason Harman arrested Zhang Wei in the first place was because he suspected that his identity was problematic. Now that his identity has been proven to be correct, there is no reason to continue detaining him.

Thinking about releasing the kidnapper, Harman was depressed. It was like he had spent a lot of time and effort, and was almost shot, but in the end he got nothing but a kidnapper.

This is the Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau. They have gone to the streets for a gunfight and made such a big fuss, but they only caught a kidnapper. They will most likely become the laughing stock of their peers.

"Boss, should we release them?" the subordinate next to him asked softly.

Harman looked at his watch. "According to regulations, we can detain him for another ten hours."

"But their identities have been verified. We have no reason to detain them. It might cause trouble for us. After all, they are foreign tourists. If time passes, the embassy will get involved," the subordinate reminded.

"Weren't they at the scene of the gunfight? Use this as an excuse to detain him for a while." Harman took a deep breath and continued, "I'll go and interrogate Zhang Wei again. Maybe he'll reveal his flaws."

……

Harman came to the interrogation room again and sat in front of Zhang Wei.

"Mr. Zhang, according to the evidence we have, there is a huge criminal group behind you. This criminal group is hiding in Italy and should be related to the Italian Mafia. You have made huge profits by manipulating European football matches.

We have reason to suspect that you are the main planner of this criminal group, so we will hand you over to the judicial authorities for prosecution. With the amount of money we know about the crime, you will probably face a sentence of more than 30 years in prison."

Harman decided to bluff Zhang Wei. While speaking, he secretly observed the changes in Zhang Wei's expression, but found that there was no change on Zhang Wei's face.

"He has a good mental quality! He didn't even change his expression when he heard the thirty-year sentence. He must be an important figure in the criminal group!"

Harman didn't know that Zhang Wei hadn't done anything wrong, so he naturally had no guilt. He continued as he imagined it himself:
"If you take on such a serious crime by yourself, your youth will be wasted in prison. You are still young and have a lot of good time ahead of you. Why would you give up thirty years of freedom? So I suggest that you just be our tainted witness and point out the person behind you."

"You are trying to bluff me!" Zhang Wei had seen through Harman. He smiled and said, "Since you already have evidence, what evidence do you have?"

"You'll see when it goes to court."

"So there is no evidence?" Zhang Wei pouted and asked, "According to German law, how many hours can you detain me? In Germany, don't you need to give an explanation for detaining a foreign citizen without reason?"

Zhang Wei's two sentences hit Harman's point. Time and evidence were exactly what Harman lacked.

Although Harman's IQ is not very high, he has rich experience in interrogation. Even when he is hit in the vitals, he remains calm and composed.

"Mr. Zhang, please explain to me why you spent 80 euros betting on Italy winning the championship when the odds were the best," Hamann asked.

"Is it illegal for foreigners to buy football lottery tickets in Germany?" Zhang Wei blinked and continued, "When I placed the bet, I asked the betting station and they said foreigners can place bets and there is no upper limit on the amount they can place. If this is illegal, then the betting station deceived me and you should arrest them."

"Then why did you divide 800,000 euros into 16 bets and place them at different bookmakers?"

"I'm afraid that the amount I bet on one bookmaker is too large. What if the bookmaker goes bankrupt, then I won't get any prize money. So placing bets separately is also a way to share the risk." Zhang Wei said innocently.

"Haha, this is 800,000 euros! Not 80 euros! All bets on Italy to win the championship? Do you think this is reasonable? Who would do this? You must have got the inside information a long time ago!"

Hamann mentioned Italy repeatedly, which suddenly reminded Zhang Wei of one thing, that is, the Calciopoli scandal in Serie A.

The Serie A Calciopoli scandal was an incident in which several Serie A clubs engaged in match-fixing. It was called "Calciopoli" because the team's phone recordings were exposed.

The Serie A, which was known as the "Little World Cup" at the time, came to an end because of this incident. From then on, Serie A could not be said to have been unable to recover, but it was also seriously damaged. It can be said that this was the beginning of the decline of Italian football.

But what we report in the news is definitely just the surface content, there must be a lot more water in it!
Italy is the stronghold of the Mafia. How could it be that only the team participated in such an incident? How could it be that only a few team managers were causing trouble? It is impossible to say that there is no bigger BOSS behind it.

To extend this further, Serie A was the world's top league at the time. If this situation existed in Serie A, did it also exist in other leagues?
Football betting is a multi-billion dollar industry in Europe. With such huge profits at stake, do you believe that other leagues are clean?
Europe has no shortage of football leagues with centuries-old histories, and the history of football gambling in Europe is as long as that of the European football leagues. How many conflicts of interest will be precipitated after a century of accumulation?
Apart from anything else, there is no shortage of scandals related to gambling in the history of European football.

Illegal betting on English Premier League football has spread all over the world since the British colonized the world. Even in a bar in Lan Kwai Fong, you can place illegal bets halfway around the world. How can someone not have someone to back them up?

At this moment, Zhang Wei instantly linked his own investigation to the Serie A phone scandal.

"Could it be that there is something wrong with the German football league, and that the German Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau has already found some clues? I was implicated because I bet on Italy to win the championship and won a huge bonus!"

Thinking of this possibility, Zhang Wei immediately made a decision that he must not get involved with Italy's phone-gate scandal.

After all, this matter is too complicated! It is not something that a little Karami like me can mess with. If I were to get involved, I might even die without a burial place.

It is possible that there really is a huge criminal group that controls the entire European football scene behind the scenes and uses the football leagues of various countries to make huge profits.

This kind of thing, even if you are not involved in it, it will be troublesome if you are slightly involved in it.

It's better for a little Karami like me to distance myself from him as much as possible.

Zhang Wei immediately thought of a reason. He took a deep breath and said, "The reason why I bet on Italy to win the championship is the result of mathematical calculations."

"Mathematical calculations? Haha..." Harman showed an expression that said "go ahead and make it up."

Zhang Wei continued: "Actually, I am a mathematician!"

"Haha!" Harman said with contempt.

"What? Agent Harman? You don't believe it?" Zhang Wei said calmly, "If you don't believe it, you can look at my laptop. On the desktop, there is a file with a formula for calculating which team will win the championship. It is my latest research result!"

Harman still looked unconvinced, but he still asked someone to bring Zhang Wei's laptop.

On the desktop of the laptop, there happened to be an attachment to the email that Zhuge Xuegeng had sent to Zhang Wei, which contained the calculation formula that Zhuge Xuegeng had made.

Harman opened the file and saw that it was indeed a long string of mathematical formulas, which he could not understand at all.

"Can the World Cup championship really be calculated?" Harman didn't believe it at first, but after looking at these professional formulas, he fell into self-doubt.

Zhang Wei then continued: “Do you know the Kelly formula? The Kelly formula is a formula proposed by physicist John Larry Kelly. This formula is an investment strategy that maximizes the long-term growth of the principal in independent repeated gambling games with positive expected net returns.

I know you don't understand, so I will explain it to you in plain language. This formula can help gamblers win money. For example, many gamblers who bet on horses and blackjack in casinos have studied this formula.

I then conducted a more in-depth study based on this formula, and then conducted a series of precise calculations based on the odds offered by the bookmakers, and finally concluded that the Italian team would win! ”

Zhang Wei kept repeating what Zhuge Xuegeng said that day, which frightened Harman.

"Boss, this Chinese guy seems to be a real mathematician. I think what he said makes a lot of sense!" whispered the subordinate next to him.

"Do you understand what he said?" Harman asked.

"I didn't understand it at all, but it's because I didn't understand it that I thought he was a mathematician. If even I could understand it, then what kind of mathematician would he be!" said the subordinate.

"It seems to make sense." Harman thought to himself.

At this moment, the door of the interrogation room opened and another person walked in with an envelope in his hand.

"Boss, when we were looking for Zhang Wei's laptop, we also found this in his luggage."

"What's this?" Harman took the envelope.

"It's an invitation."

"An invitation to what? A wedding? A funeral?"

"You should open it and see for yourself!"

Harman opened the invitation letter and saw at the beginning that it was from the World Mathematical Union.

Looking at the content again, it was an invitation for Zhang Wei to attend the World Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid!
"I remember he bought a ticket to Madrid. Was he going to attend this mathematics conference? Is he really a mathematician?"

Looking at the next paragraph of the invitation, Harman was immediately shocked.

"Accepting this year's Fields Medal? Is the Fields Medal the Nobel Prize in mathematics? This Zhang Wei won the Fields Medal!"

(End of this chapter)