Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 422: They're All Cheating
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in a building.

Liszt walked into the office with a smile on his face, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a paper bag of a hamburger in the other.

A colleague saw this and immediately laughed, "You look so happy today, could it be that your ex-wife remarried?"

When Liszt heard this, he laughed and scolded, "It's a bit good, but not that good. You know my ex-wife is a bitch. How could she remarry? Now she wants to lie on me every day to suck my blood and be cool with her boyfriend!"

When Liszt thought of his ex-wife, he was filled with anger!
When they were young, the couple was fine, but when the seven-year itch came, she cheated on him many times. At first, Lister pretended not to see it many times in order to protect the family, but she became worse and worse and even fooled around with the gardener in her room.

It would have been fine if he had done it, but he didn't know how to avoid it... He happened to get home early from get off work that day, and then he saw the Mexican gardener moving on top of his ex-wife.

It would have been fine if they just moved, but that couple might have just happened to see him come back, and out of nervousness and excitement, they actually reached orgasm at the same time... Looking at the two people's complex expressions of fear and pleasure.

Even though Liszt pretended not to know several times, he couldn't stand it anymore... In the end, the two divorced, and the two daughters lived with him.

But divorce is not the end for him... because as a senior detective, Lister still has a good income, and his ex-wife is just a housewife and has no job!

Therefore, in order to protect his ex-wife's living standards after the divorce, not only did he let his ex-wife divide a large amount of property and take away the house for which he had worked hard for more than ten years to pay off the mortgage, the court also ordered him to pay a large sum of alimony every year.

The standard of alimony is not based on the local average income, but on Lister's income and his ex-wife's previous living standard.

Lister has a high income, and his previous living standard also laid the foundation for the living standards of a middle- to upper-income family...which means that the alimony is extremely high.

So Lister had to pay a large sum of alimony every year.

Extremely stressful!

Fortunately, as a senior agent of a secret agency, in addition to the regular legal income, he also has some shady gray income, so he is not unable to make ends meet.

If it were an ordinary working class person, he would be seriously damaged if he encountered such a thing. If he lost his job, he would become a homeless in minutes.

Liszt didn’t quite understand it before, but now he understands why young people nowadays are less and less willing to get married.

Things are different now. This is no longer the golden age of our parents’ generation 20 or 30 years ago. In the past, marriage was a symbol of a happy and fulfilling life.

But now... marriage is a knife hanging over the head of a typical middle-class person like Lister. As long as the low-income party doesn't like him and divorces him directly, his life will most likely be ruined - the kind that will lead to bankruptcy.

Therefore, Liszt does not have any big wishes now. His only wish is that his ex-wife will die soon, or that he will get remarried in a daze.

Either way, he won't have to pay his ex-wife's high alimony, so he can save money for his two children's college expenses.

Going to college in the United States can be summed up in one word: expensive!

Even if it is an ordinary university, it will cost nearly $200,000 for four years. If it is a prestigious university, it will easily cost $400,000 or $500,000. If you want to continue studying medicine or law, you will have to continue studying after graduating from college, which will cost hundreds of thousands more... It is very expensive.

Lister was a responsible father. While he had some spare money, he did not want his two children to be burdened with hundreds of thousands of dollars in college tuition loans, which would suffocate them for half their lives.

Just like myself in the past.

Liszt is now almost 40 years old, and he is still paying off his college tuition loan... Why does he have to pay it off for so long even though he has a good income?
Because American tuition loans are compounded...

What do you mean?
It means compound interest... In the past, when people talked about ancient usury that forced the poor to break up their families, they often used this word: compound interest!

The tuition loans created by the upper class in the United States are a harvesting system that was built after great thought and careful thinking by top financial elites.

It’s really amazing.

Lister has been trapped in this system for more than ten years and has not yet paid off his tuition loan... Of course, this is also related to the fact that some of his gray income cannot be made public.

Everyone else hasn’t paid off their tuition loans, but you have. You’re awesome... Tell me, where did the money come from?

Once suspicion is aroused, it becomes difficult to explain such things.

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The ex-wife's death or her remarriage is what Liszt is most looking forward to now... Of course, this kind of thing is difficult and there is no point in expecting it.

On the contrary, it is more reliable to expect a promotion and a salary increase.

The cases he has been handling have been progressing very well recently, and his superiors are very satisfied, especially yesterday when a report came from the front line, mentioning that frontline personnel had infiltrated the secret base "Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute" in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park.

This is quite good progress!
You have to know that before this, their group and several other groups mobilized various channel resources and mobilized at least hundreds of potential front-line personnel but failed to achieve any actual breakthrough.

I just found out that there is a big problem with the 'Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute' in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park... Many clues point to this target.

The question is, what is the big secret inside?

However, the defense of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute is too tight. Many of their front-line personnel tried their best to infiltrate it, but failed to do so... The security measures of this place are comparable to those of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at Zhiyun headquarters.

It's a very tough nut to crack.

Not only did the many previous operations fail to obtain practical information, but they also resulted in the loss of many people... In total, more than fifty front-line personnel have lost contact.

There is no need to guess where these missing people are, they must have been caught.

Just when Lister and his group were at a loss, a team reported that one of their downline employees had actually come into contact with an internal staff member at the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Although no actual high-value intelligence has been sent back yet, this is still a huge progress!

When it comes to intelligence, you have to be patient. It doesn't matter if you don't have intelligence for a while. The key is to open up the channels... As long as the channels are opened, then things will be easy later.

There is still a long way to go, and we will always be able to get some good stuff.

And now, Lister saw the opportunity to open up this internal channel.

So Liszt was in a very good mood these two days!

After arriving at the office and doing some simple work to handle some daily affairs, he saw the report from the front line.

The content of the report is not bad. The front-line personnel have already had actual contact with the internal personnel of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute and have begun to pull people into the water. The other party has also accepted small favors from the front-line personnel and initially established communication.

Lister looked at the information carefully and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth... This is another very good progress.

After the initial communication, there is no need to worry that the insider will not take the initiative. The next step is to use money, women, or other means to bribe him. As long as the other party dares to accept the money for the first time... there are plenty of ways to threaten and induce him later.

Lister was in a good mood. Looking at the code name 'X45' of the frontline personnel in the intelligence, he thought about it and felt that it was necessary to increase the confidentiality level of X45.

This kind of important informant who is lurking inside the enemy and can infiltrate the enemy's core research and development institutions is extremely valuable and cannot be easily killed.

He soon brought the relevant suggestions to the top.

The higher-ups took this very seriously and not only approved to classify the detailed information of X45 as internal top secret, but also this level of confidentiality means that except for a senior executive in charge of the project and the specific personnel in charge of the project, no other personnel have the right to review the relevant information.

At the same time, a separate 'X45 Project Office' was set up. As the specific person in charge of the project, Lister finally received a promotion and a pay raise. He served as the team leader of the project and his salary increased significantly.

On his first day as the project leader, Lister approved a $5 million grant to the front line to provide funds for the activities of front-line personnel and to bribe internal personnel.

Of course, by the time the money reached the Guangcheng front, only two million dollars were left...

Where did the rest of the money go?

This was not all kept by Lister. In fact, he could only take a small part of it.

The bulk of the money is given directly to a few responsible officials above, and the responsible officials have to continue to pay money up there...there is another level after that.

It is not against the rules for Lister to pocket millions of dollars of funding alone.

As a secret agency, and one with huge funding and a secretive whereabouts of the funding, there are conventions on how to spend the funds, who can get involved, and how much they can get.

Liszt didn't have the courage to break the rules, nor did he have the ability to do so.

Lister from the X45 project office took a copy for himself, and then other people in the project office also had to share some of the profits, but the vast majority of it still had to be handed over.

After the money is handed over, the higher-ups can only take a portion of it, and the rest has to be handed over further...

With so many people up and down, basically everyone will get some help from it... Otherwise, you can't really count on that little salary!
According to the old rules, profits are shared among six levels, and 40% is allocated to the front line. Once the funds from these four levels reach the front line, it is even more difficult to say how to spend the money.

The project team members lurking in the local area will not treat themselves badly. What they do is a business that can be shot to death. It is extremely risky to lurk in the local area. Who will work for you if you don’t pay enough? You can't really expect them to do such a thing with that little annual salary.

In fact, there is no way to treat them unfairly. After the money reaches the front line, the project team members will take it directly themselves. Can you really go to Guangcheng to check the accounts?

The $5 million budget was passed around, and everyone got a piece of it, and then there was about $1 million left to serve as activity funds.

Then, in order to stabilize Zhu Junneng, a very valuable insider, and to support Zhu Junneng's infiltration, he won over the internal personnel of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

The front-line project team directly provided Zhu Junneng with a full sum of 200,000 US dollars, and the payment was made in a secret way using digital currency to ensure security... It was not to ensure the safety of the informants, but mainly to protect their own safety. The use of digital currency can avoid tracking the flow of funds.

As for the informant himself who uses digital currency and then changes it into real currency and puts it into a bank account, the risk is relatively high. However, few people are stupid enough to put money directly into a bank account. Most people will still use various methods to launder it.

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Zhu Junneng looked at the extra digital currencies in the account of a foreign digital currency exchange!
This is digital currency worth $200,000, which is not a small amount!
These people are quite generous. We haven't provided any actual intelligence information yet, and the term "carbon nanotube" has not even been reported. We just said that we have contacted the internal personnel of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute and had preliminary contact, and they directly provided funding.

In that case, he won’t be polite!
Of course, this money cannot be transferred back directly, it has to be transferred a few more times!

Then some of it is disguised as digital currency obtained from mining in the early years, and some of it needs to get a few secret digital currency addresses, and then after private transactions, set up a small shop to launder the money.

He planned to spend more money to open a shop selling tea, tobacco and alcohol... It didn't matter whether it made money or not, as long as it had a good appearance, he could use it to launder money.

After receiving the US$200,000, Zhu Junneng began to think about how to make up a story... This matter must stand up to scrutiny and must have a very detailed process.

To this end, he has spent a lot of time in recent days reading various spy-themed novels, watching movies and TV dramas, and also learning about a large number of real spy cases that have been declassified.

Art, after all, comes from life... But he, Zhu Junneng, is just a half-baked commercial spy. He has never done these things before, and he has no plans to do them in the future.

I have no experience in this...so I can only look for inspiration from some real cases and works of art.

Zhu Junneng planned to lay the groundwork for infiltration and personnel contact for a month or two, and at the same time, he would sternly refuse to hand over the information and contact details of the informant inside the Materials Research Institute. Well, he would use the excuse of imitation to kill the donkey and protect himself.

Then, after a month or two, they would slowly reveal some seemingly irrelevant news to the other party, such as information on scientific research breakthroughs of some major materials.

As for the time when the term carbon nanotube material is actually revealed, Zhu Junneng thinks it will take at least half a year... There is no rush, it has to be done slowly.

Otherwise, if he talked about carbon nanotubes today, the other party would ask him to look up detailed information on carbon nanotube technology tomorrow... How would he fool them then?
At the same time, he also began to prepare for retreat and destroyed as many previous evidence as possible. In case this matter was leaked and the other party became angry and wanted to expose him, he was ready to run away.

If escaping fails, turning yourself in will work... at worst you'll end up in jail for a few years.

In short, Zhu Junneng’s mentality now is to delay as much as possible. If he really can’t delay, he will either run away or surrender!
There's no way. I was temporarily brain-burned before, and I was greedy for that little bit of money and got caught, and then I got deeper and deeper into trouble... Now it's too difficult to get out.

These days, we just have to live one day at a time.

Zhu Junneng made up stories to fool those foreigners, but he didn't know that the security department of Zhiyun Group had recently started to pay attention to him.

I didn't notice him at first. After all, although Zhu Junneng also worked in the Science and Technology Park, he had no direct connection with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials. He had never been to the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Materials, let alone got close to it.

There are tens of thousands of employees in Guangcheng Zhiyun Technology Park, and it is impossible for the security department to conduct comprehensive monitoring of tens of thousands of people. It is too difficult.

However, in recent times, foreigners have frequently spied on the information of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, which has made the security department of Zhiyun Group more vigilant. They have used big data means based on the group's internal artificial intelligence technology to conduct an information screening of a large number of ordinary people in Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park.

In this comprehensive information screening, Zhu Junneng's name, like many other suspicious targets, was marked in red by the system.

Thanks to the big data analysis system, it was detected that his daily consumption levels in the company's restaurants and convenience stores exceeded the average.

The system then began to dig deeper and discovered that he had bought a house worth three million last year, and had also just bought a Hailan MEV worth more than three hundred thousand.

However, according to the background check before joining the company, Zhu Junneng provided family information that showed his parents ran a small business, and his family background was not enough to provide him with such a large amount of financial support.

Although Zhu Junneng's income is considered good, it is impossible for him to save so much money in less than two years after joining the company.

So, where did the money come from became a question.

Even if no obvious evidence is found, the mere fact that there is a problem with the source of funds is enough to attract the attention of the security department.

Especially at such a sensitive moment!
When the investigation department of the security department began to intervene manually and conducted in-depth investigation and analysis, they quickly caught Zhu Junneng's flaws.

A half-baked insider spy who was corrupted by money, once his true colors were exposed, he naturally could not hide from the investigation of those professionals in the security department.

So, while Zhu Junneng was still making up the spy story about carbon nanotubes, his detailed information had already been reported to a section chief in the security department of Zhiyun Group.

Then when the section chief saw the information, he thought it was just so-so at first… He had seen many people like this who were dragged into the water by netizens in the name of curiosity, sharing, etc., and then corrupted with money, and finally leaked confidential information step by step through threats and inducements.

Among all the commercial spies that have been caught, nine out of ten are this kind of fools... The number of real spies sent from outside and with official positions is actually very small, and each of them is lurking very deeply, so it is actually quite difficult to catch them.

The section chief thought Zhu Junneng was just an ordinary informant, what a fool!

But when he saw Zhu Junneng's recent search information and secret surveillance information, he found that this person was different from the ordinary stupid insider.

Then he took the report to find a deputy minister of the security department, who was also the person in charge of the security work of the MMK34 project.

The deputy director of the security department took a look at the report and was puzzled: "He secretly met with someone from the Materials Research Institute? How did he get in touch with them? We have been monitoring his whereabouts 24 hours a day for the past two days. How did he meet with them?"

The section chief said, "His report says it was last night, but I can say with certainty that he stayed at home after get off work last night!"

"Look, the surveillance videos are all here!"

The deputy minister was puzzled. “And look at what the information he collected and sorted out in his documents is. Carbon nanotubes and space elevators.”

"We do have a carbon nanotube project, but it's at our headquarters, and it's not a highly confidential project. Last year, we and our partner organizations publicly announced the progress of our carbon nanotube research and development!"

"Space elevator, this is ridiculous, our company doesn't have such a project, at least not as far as I know!"

Then the deputy minister said, "Whatever this kid is doing, it doesn't look right!"

The section chief was also quite speechless and said: "To be honest, we didn't figure out what he wanted to do. In our surveillance, he clearly didn't contact anyone from the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute. He didn't even go to the door last night, but he reported to the other side that he had a meeting."

"As for the information he collected and sorted out about space elevators and carbon nanotubes, and look at this manuscript in his computer... Look, this is a report on the discovery of important secret carbon nanotubes!"

"No matter how I look at it, I feel like this guy is trying to trick the other party... Look, he actually succeeded in tricking them and got $200,000 in funding."

After reading the detailed reports, the deputy minister was silent for a long time and suddenly said, "He is such a talented person!"

"Since he wants to fool us, then we should just cooperate with him and use the name of carbon nanotubes to cover up our MMK34 project!"

As the deputy director of the security department and a senior security manager specifically responsible for the security of the MMK34 project, this deputy director is one of the only two people in the security department who knows some basic information about the MMK34 project.

The MMK34 project is a superconducting material project. Of course, he knows nothing about what kind of superconducting material it is or what its performance is.

He only knew about the MMK34 project, which was a superconducting material project...

Now, he can use the carbon nanotube material invented by Zhu Junneng to deceive the other party and delay the disclosure of the superconducting material as much as possible.

In this situation, he quickly made a detailed plan and prepared to make a big move.

In order to make his acting more realistic, he even found Yu Taihe, the director of the research institute, and asked him to set up a carbon nanotube project team... They didn't really develop carbon nanotubes, but just set up a project team in name, and provided him with some vague information and the like.

Yu Taihe readily agreed to the security department's request... He didn't know much about carbon nanotube materials, but that didn't matter. The deputy minister on the other side had clearly stated that this was just a trick to fool people.

As a result, a carbon nanotube project team was actually set up in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute...but the so-called researchers in it were all part-time people from the security department.

Various technical information and other materials are provided by the research institute.

Yu Taihe had nothing else to do, so he took the lead and took several research institutes to sort out the information. He proposed several major directions and then let the scientific research auxiliary artificial intelligence system run. He then integrated them, getting a little information here and a little data there, and finally combined them to produce a new type of carbon nanotube material that looks quite decent... It is a carbon nanotube material that exists in theory and has good performance, but cannot be made in practice.

At first glance, it is very intimidating... Even if the carbon nanotube material experts on the other side came to take a look, they would not dare to say that they are 100% sure that the material is fake.

As for their inability to copy this material... nonsense, how can materials be so easy to copy? Let alone cutting-edge technology materials such as carbon nanotubes, even ordinary alloy steel cannot be copied just because you want to!
However, Yu Taihe had no control over when the carbon nanotube material would be delivered to the people across the Pacific Ocean. The matter had nothing to do with him anymore, so the security department would naturally be responsible for it.

Originally, the people in the security department had already prepared the information, and even the "insiders" of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute were also ready. They would go back and contact Zhu Junneng to reveal some information about carbon nanotubes to him.

However, Zhu Jun was more deceptive and patient than they had imagined... Several days had passed, and they were still at the contact stage, as if the carbon nanotubes did not exist.

Zhu Jun was patient, and the other side seemed to be fooled. Zhiyun Security was not in a hurry... Just take it slow and play along with the other side. It would be fine as long as they could divert their attention.

This will save them from being persistent and trying to infiltrate everywhere all day long.

Just when the security department is carrying out security work on various MMK34 materials.

In fact, Yu Taihe has already led the R&D personnel of the MMK34 project team to complete basic testing work on the MMK34 material.

At the same time, after a large number of experts moved in, they also began to explore various other research and development projects of MMK34 materials.

There are two core projects. One is the follow-up research and development of MMK34 materials to develop superconducting materials with higher performance at room temperature and pressure. The successful research and development of MMK34 materials means that the current technical route is correct. If we continue to dig deeper along this technical route, we may be able to develop superconducting materials with better performance, such as superconducting materials that can superconduct at temperatures above zero and at room pressure.

Under the same normal pressure, there is a huge difference in the ease of application between superconducting materials at minus twenty degrees Celsius and superconducting materials at above zero temperature.

Therefore, Xu Shenxue, Yu Taihe and other experts now hope to continue research and development along this technical route and then develop better superconducting materials at room temperature and pressure.

Another R&D task is to carry out large-scale industrial mass production of MMK34 materials... This is also a very difficult R&D task.

The entire Guangcheng Zhiyun Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute is busy around the MMK34 material!

We look forward to achieving technological breakthroughs as soon as possible, realizing industrial mass production and large-scale applications!
(End of this chapter)