Chapter 3009: Mercury Record (VI)

"Are you alright? Professor?"

Edward was wearing a suit and a small bowler hat. Although he was still a bit thin, he looked exceptionally spirited.

After he walked in, there was another figure standing behind him. It was Cobblepot. Cobblepot handed the things in his hand to Wei En and then said, "Edward was discharged today. I helped him rent a house, but heard you were hospitalized, so he wanted to come see you first."

"Come in." Wei En took the things from Cobblepot's hand and said.

"How do you feel?" Wei En let Edward sit in the position opposite him and asked.

"Very good, Professor. Dr. Brand said I have completely recovered, but I still need to continue taking medication for a period of time to consolidate."

"That couldn't be better. Where is your new house?"

"On Edmar Street in the South District. When I officially move in, I will send invitations to everyone, inviting you to attend the housewarming party."

"Then I will wait for your invitation." Wei En smiled and said.

"Speaking of which, Professor, how are you? Why were you suddenly hospitalized?"

"Nothing much. This matter is a bit complicated to talk about, not entirely my personal reason."

"If there is anything we can help with, please be sure to contact us." Cobblepot spoke up.

"I know. How is your mother?"

"Her mental state has improved recently. I suspect the snowdrops played a role, but the real medicine is still being extracted. Now it's just maintaining the status quo."

"Then what about you? Do you still have phenomena of mental exhaustion recently?"

"No more. I suspect it might be because the weather was too hot a while ago, and I was always worried about my mother, so I was a bit mentally listless. Recently, my mother's situation has improved, and I can also have time to go to the company to handle work. It's already much better."

"I think you can rest assured and wait for the good news of the new medicine. From Pamela's state, she should be very confident this time, and she also needs this medicine to boost her reputation."

"That would be even better."

At this time, Edward was staring at the photos on the table. Wei En looked at him and said, "Any thoughts?"

Edward shook his head. Wei En continued, "I heard you have some attainments in riddles."

Edward showed a shy smile, looking exceptionally timid, then nodded and said, "I am indeed very interested in this aspect. I plan to go to college."

"Which college?"

"I don't really want to go out of town, so perhaps it will be Cat Getan University."

"What major do you want to study?"

"Literature, preferably classical literature."

"Then you are in the same department as Jason. I will write you a recommendation letter. You take it to find Professor Hans. He has quite good achievements in both classical literature and cryptography."

"Really?" When Edward got excited, he would still tremble slightly. He stared at Wei En with wide eyes.

Wei En nodded and said, "You are very smart and very focused. I think Professor Hans will definitely like you."

Edward performed very happily, even humming a little tune. Wei En continued, "It just so happens that my doctoral student encountered a password that is difficult to crack. Can you help him?"

Edward immediately walked towards Bruce. Bruce complained without raising his head, "Hey, Professor, this is also my specialty. I can do it myself."

"You've been cracking it for more than ten minutes. Do you plan to stay here until next year?"

"It's almost successful!" Bruce said.

But soon he was ruthlessly exposed by Killer Croc. Killer Croc said while eating snacks, "Forget it. From the very beginning when you opened a webpage full of numbers, you've been typing and chatting with your girlfriend. I'm almost disgusted to death by you."

Bruce pushed Killer Croc away.

Soon Edward sat in front of the table. After looking at that string of numbers, he said, "This is a Caesar cipher. It's just pushing all letters forward by 4 places, and then you can get another string of letters."

"Of course I know." Bruce was still nodding there continuously.

Edward soon wrote out the password after deduction, but the string of letters obtained also had no regularity. Edward looked at it carefully and then said, "This is a URL."

Bruce entered this string of numbers in the URL bar and pressed the Enter key. Sure enough, a webpage jumped out. He looked at it; it seemed to be the official webpage of a high school.

Bruce looked at it casually, then clicked on the list of graduates from previous years. A long list of names appeared. Bruce picked out all the letters according to the method of four horizontal and four vertical, and composed an unordered string of letters again.

But Bruce, who is proficient in programming, immediately saw that this was a program. He entered this code into Notepad and pressed Enter to run it. More code appeared.

At this step, everyone else stopped talking. Bruce hummed proudly and then said, "This program can generate four non-repeating random numbers, but once I run it, I fall into his trap, because there are no clues at all in the numbers."

Bruce made a modification to this program, letting the generated random numbers become random letters. He tapped the Enter key lightly, and four letters appeared on the screen, which were "A", "R", "E", "S".

These four letters constitute a name in English—Ares.

That's right, it's that famous God of War, Ares.

Bruce frowned. He thought of Wonder Woman. Could this murder case have something to do with that whole family on Olympus?

Bruce began to think deeply about the connection. Wei En was thoughtful when he heard these four letters, and after a long while, he shook his head and smiled.

Soon Edward and Cobblepot, who came to visit, left. Bruce did not sit in front of the computer again, but sat opposite Wei En again and said, "I heard from Gordon that as long as you take snowdrops, you can be unaffected by the curse, but you didn't do that, Professor."

"Yes, I soaked it in water and drank it."

"Don't tell me it's because this thing is too hard to eat."

"Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be able to drink it even if I soaked it in water." Wei En said, "This curse makes me have a connection with Circe. To be precise, it is a connection with the Witch's Hour on her. I believe she can also feel this connection, so she will definitely come back to find me."

"You want to fish her out?"

"That's right. If she completely abandons everything in Cat Getan, it will be very difficult to catch her again. But if she doesn't want to, she needs an opportunity to return here, then she will definitely come to find me."

"Because she thinks she can control you by relying on the curse."

"Because she thinks I want to lift the curse. Any normal person would think so. Being turned into a snake is not a good experience, and it's not now either. She thinks I will be eager to lift the curse and cooperate with her."

"And then you want to pit her?"

"I need to figure out Hecate's state through her. I believe she has already partially recovered, but how long it takes for her to fully recover and what she wants to do next is very important."

"Are you sure Circe won't take action against you?" Bruce was slightly worried. He said, "I feel this woman's mental state is very unstable."

"When has your feeling ever been accurate." Wei En said mercilessly, "If she were really a lunatic, she wouldn't be able to escape from the Scarlet Witch. Whether it's being eager for quick success or hating men, it's highly likely that they are all her disguises, with the purpose of making people feel there is a better way to deal with her than finding snowdrops."

"Because the weakness of snowdrops is too fatal?"

"Not really. She is a witch after all, can fly and teleport, and can also manipulate people's hearts. Relying only on flowers to guard against her sneak attacks is probably very difficult."

"But planting more snowdrops is never wrong. I will let the mayor distribute seeds to the citizens, preferably making her move with difficulty." Bruce said, "Since she will definitely come, how about we set a trap for her?"

"She won't be fooled so easily." Wei En shook his head and said, "Once she finds that my location is not safe enough, she won't show up easily. Her current state is not good, and she is also worried about being killed in one blow."

Bruce thought for a while and then said, "How about we increase the chips and add Diana?"

"I met with Diana alone a few days ago. If she wanted to appear, she would have come then."

"But at that time you were drinking snowdrop tea, which was not a good time to take action." Bruce said, "To make her lower her guard, we must be as far away from snowdrops as possible."

"You mean..."

"How about Mercury?"

"You seem to have written the words 'this is a trap' on your face." Wei En obviously did not agree. He said, "Wonder Woman and I running so far away, everyone knows there is a problem."

"But she can only gamble, because if you stay in Cat Getan, there will be more and more snowdrops in Cat Getan, and she will never have a chance again. At least we have no way to let snowdrops spread on Mercury."

"You are betting that she doesn't know the situation of the Mercury base?"

"No one could have thought of it." Bruce shook his head and said, "Human technology has not developed to that extent at all. This whole set of Mercury base is a product beyond the era. Before seeing it with their own eyes, everyone would think it might be a crude creation like a Mars rover."

"You make her think this is the last chance and she has to take action." Wei En pondered and then said, "The possibility of her running away is too great."

"The last witch duel let her run away. I think it should be that the Scarlet Witch was inexperienced, but this time it won't happen. Don't forget where Mercury is closest to."

"You want to throw her into the sun?"

"This is the best way to destroy the body and erase the traces. Clark can directly take her and fly to the center of the sun, guaranteeing that her soul and body will be burned to nothing."

Now Wei En began to truly ponder the feasibility of this plan. Although there is still a gambling component, he knows that the sun has mysterious attributes in the magic world. It can not only burn the body but also burn the soul. To fundamentally eliminate this difficult witch, throwing her into the sun is indeed a good choice.

But if you take her from Earth and fly towards the sun, it's a bit too far. Even Superman cannot guarantee that he can control her throughout the journey. Once there is a mistake, she will run away again.

But it's different from Mercury. Mercury is really a bit too close to the sun. Just this distance, for Clark, is like walking from the bedroom to the bathroom. One step and he is there, so the possibility of success is much greater.

Taking a step back, if Circe doesn't come, they won't lose anything. Even if she chooses to use this time to awaken Hecate on Earth, the Justice League can also use this time to develop. A fully assembled Justice League will not lose to anyone in terms of development.

After pondering for a long while, Wei En nodded and said, "Alright, I can go to the Mercury base for a period of time, but the time I can move is limited."

"Don't worry. Oliver and you haven't seen each other for a long time. He has always wanted to find you to chat."

"By the way, I heard you are recruiting young students? Have you found the Wonder Twins? Jenna is a very smart girl."

"Hal sent us information on all the spaceships that have crashed on Earth in recent years. It should be found soon. You don't want her to study psychology again, do you?"

"She has talent." Wei En said, "I will teach her some practical skills as much as possible, so you don't want to call me every time you encounter something. I strictly follow the 40-hour work system. Outside of working hours, don't contact me even if the sky falls." ===== CHAPTER 3010 =====