115. Six on thirty one
A week later.
Finally, the V19 random number table has been solved!
Of the 413 random number pairs, 397 found their meaning with certainty, and the remaining 16 were used only 3 or 4 times, making it difficult to infer the exact meaning.
Except for the remaining 16 random number pairs, the decryption work of V19 is virtually finished.
At first I expected it to take about a month, but it was finished in just ten days.
I can’t let it go so quickly… .
what about this
That was then.
The phone rang, and when I pressed the call button, I heard Incheol’s voice.
-Jeongho, let’s have lunch a little earlier. I’m leaving home now, so come on time.
“OK! I’ll just leave now.”
after 15 minutes.
Pizza Hot in front of Namseo Middle School.
In-cheol, wearing a military uniform, took a slice of pizza and let out a long sigh.
“under—–! Bulgogi pizza doesn’t taste good… .”
Today is Incheol’s return from vacation.
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Now, after lunch, In-cheol has to go to Yangju, where there is a battalion, but the taste of pizza could not be felt properly.
“Eat hard though. Otherwise, you will come back later and regret it.”
At my words, Incheol sighed again and said.
“under—! would it be? I won’t be able to even look at pizza for the next few months, but I’ll try my best to eat as you say.”
In-cheol took a large bite of the pizza, and In-cheol, who was eating the pizza, said to me.
“Jeong-ho, I really envy you.”
I smiled without saying a word, and Incheol continued.
“I also want to try a one-month dispatch job commuting to and from home—–!”
“Man, it’s all over now.”
“Are you done? What are you talking about? It’s only been ten days.”
“I’ve deciphered all V19.”
“Wow! Really? Was it really possible to crack the code book password?”
“just… I’ve been lucky all this time.”
At my words, Incheol lowered his voice and said.
“hey! I’m just saying I haven’t solved it yet. It should be full for a month.”
“Well. It’s not that I didn’t think of it that way, but I don’t think it’s… .”
“no… ! why? Are you sorry for the company members?”
“There’s no reason for that, but it’s not necessarily like that.”
“Then what?”
“Because I just spend all day in an underground warehouse where there is no sunlight… I’m a little bit frustrated… .”
“You are very hungry. If someone you don’t know hears it, they’ll think that bright sunlight is coming into the interception room. yes?”
At Incheol’s words, I nodded and said.
“Hmm… ! I heard it and it is.”
For reference, our unit’s four interception rooms are all in the basement, and one of them was located on the second basement floor.
“Hey, it’s Jeongho. Say you need more time. That’s why I’m working over-the-counter for about a month or three! If you return to the unit after three months like that, you’re a corporal, corporal! It’s going to ruin your military life, isn’t it?”
“haha—! Are you really going to do that?”
“If I were you, I would have pulled it out for at least six months.”
After lunch at Pizza Hot, I saw In-cheol off to the bus stop.
While waiting for the bus at the bus stop, the shopping bag In-cheol was holding caught my eye, and I pointed to it and said.
“Five–! Are you a corporal now?”
There were 4 books in the shopping bag, and our unit can read books from Corporal to Corporal in the office, and Incheol will be promoted to Corporal next month.
“What… It’s not necessarily like that, but I think it will be necessary in the future.”
“It looks pretty thick, what kind of book is it?”
In-cheol took out a book from his shopping bag and showed it to me.
One was a book about sonar, and the other three were about submarines.
One of them was written in English, explaining in detail how to design and build a small submersible.
When I looked at him with a puzzled expression, Incheol said with a serious expression.
“Last week I checked it myself, and the water where the gold bars are is pretty deep. I think it will be 60-70 meters. So it seemed that scuba diving would not be too early.”
“So you’re going to use a submarine?”
In response to my question, Incheol nodded and said.
“There is a company in the Netherlands that makes small submersibles, and for 1.5 billion won, you can buy a submersible that goes down to a depth of 100 meters. And according to the rumors… .”
Incheol lowered his voice and continued.
“There is a story that a submersible for one person was built for 70 million won in Cheonggyecheon.”
At Incheol’s words, several calculations ran through his mind.
First, it is highly probable that the statement that the submarine was built in Cheonggyecheon would be false.
Even if that were true, you wouldn’t risk going down to a depth of 70 meters in that sub.
If the Netherlands paid 1.5 billion dollars to build a submarine… From the cost of transporting a submarine across the Pacific Ocean, to the cost of registering it as a special vessel, to the cost of anchoring and managing it… An additional cost of approximately 500 million won will be required.
That means about 20 billion in total.
20 billion is a lot of money.
However, compared to 400 billion won, it is a sufficient amount of investment.
If there are really 39 tons of gold bars there.
Just then, the bus arrived, and Incheol got up, putting the book back into the shopping bag.
“I’m going. See you later in Yangju.”
I also got up from my seat, faced Incheol, and grabbed his shoulders with both hands and said.
“Private Choi In-cheol!”
“Why man!”
I said, following the tone of the company commander.
“Until I return to the unit, I ask you to play a leading role in our military’s intelligence war against North Korea.”
“under—! really… annoying! Get it off, man!”
When Incheol’s bus left the stop, I took out my phone.
– Yes, Mr. Jungho.
Maybe it was because his eyes were so intense when we first met, even his low voice felt cold.
“Hello, Assistant Manager Hee-Rak Lee.”
-hello. But what’s going on? Do you need any other materials?
“It is not. V19 decryption finished.”
His voice rose as if surprised.
– Me, really? They say V19 won’t be released that easily… .
“I guess I was lucky.”
After a moment’s silence, a low-pitched voice was heard again.
-I… Jung-ho, if V19 is reported to be decrypted now, the dispatch period will be shorter… Why don’t you just fill up the entire month and let us know?
What? what?
To be honest, I was worried for a while, but I made up my mind again and said.
“thank you. But as you can see if you decipher the full CW of the report, there are quite a few ciphertexts that the NIS should know right now.”
-haha—! okay. Then there’s nothing you can do about it.
no… Can’t help it? What does this mean?
Besides, Deputy Hee-Rak Lee’s voice over the phone is a little bit disappointing… Is it my mood?
Hmm… … . what?
no way… Did you expect me to fail to decrypt the V19?
Anyway, the conversation with Deputy Hee-Rak Lee went on a bit more, and the story ended with me returning to the unit the day after tomorrow.
really! I decided to use the 15-day reward leave later when I needed it.
It is planned to be used during the guerrilla period this summer.
next day.
The place I visited early in the morning was the Hankuk University Library.
I borrowed a student ID from Youngmi, found and borrowed a fluid mechanics book called ＜Turbulent flow>, and found a computer reading room and searched for theoretical physics-related papers there.
I downloaded all the papers dealing with string theory, especially the new M-theory, opened the files, scrolled down quickly, and started checking page by page.
“When you read a thesis, do you see it like a comic book?”
When I arrived, Youngmi was looking at me with a puzzled expression on the seat next to me.
“ah… ! this… that… right! I was just going through it one more time before printing it out.”
“okay?”
In fact, I was typing the thesis into my head as an image.
Although I have been studying steadily, theoretical physics papers are not easy to read.
Unlike math and thesis papers, there are many parts that require deep thought in the middle, so I input the thesis as a whole in my head like now, and take it out whenever I have free time to analyze and understand it clearly.
After going through the latest papers on string theory and M-theory, I got up and said:
“Young-mi, let’s go.”
“You just want to go? Are you going to print it out?”
I said with a smirk.
“It’s okay if you don’t print.”
Youngmi opened her eyes thinly and looked at me with a suspicious look and said.
“Hmm—! This is kind of weird… .”
“What is strange?”
“You may… Did you memorize all the contents while scrolling through the thesis a while ago?”
Whoops!
My surprised expression made Youngmi even more surprised.
“Oh! Really?”
Although Yeong-mi hasn’t expressed it in the meantime, I know that Young-mi is somewhat aware of my abilities.
I didn’t want to deceive Young-mi anymore.
I nodded my head silently, and Yeong-mi still looked at me in disbelief.
Yeongmi, who had been pensive for a while, nodded her head slowly and said.
“I think I know now.”
“What?”
“Just everything. Things that I used to think were strange are now being explained.”
Yeong-mi continued to speak while still keeping her gaze fixed on me.
“You saw the theoretical physics paper earlier. Does that have anything to do with proving the Riemann hypothesis?”
I nodded my head at Youngmi’s question.
By the way… Did I ever tell Youngmi that I was studying the Riemann hypothesis?
“Proving the Riemann hypothesis… Can you tell me something too?”
“ah… ! Is that so?”
Youngmi’s expression brightened at my answer, and at the same time, both eyes turned bright.
It was the characteristic eyes that Yeongmi showed when she was concentrating.
I started explaining.
Finding the non-specified zero value of the real part of the Riemann zeta function with the CJH algorithm and numerical analysis method, statistical analysis of tens of millions of zero values found in that way using the transformation function, and positioning the zero values in the 10-dimensional coordinate system through statistical analysis The work of confirming the possibility of doing this, accepting the continuum hypothesis, the most famous mathematical problem of the 20th century, as a new axiom of set theory, and bringing the Riemann hypothesis, a problem of number theory and complex analysis, into the realm of topology based on this Until… .
After my long explanation, Yeong-mi opened her mouth with still twinkling eyes.
“Jungho, you… Um—- you’re doing something fun.”
I said with a smirk.
“Do you really think it’s fun?”
Youngmi smiled softly and nodded her head, but judging by Youngmi’s expression, this is 100% sincere.
After thinking for a while, I opened my mouth.
“Young-miya, how about analysis and differential equation classes?”
For your reference, Heseokhak 1 is a required major in mathematics and Differential Equation 1 is an optional course, but English and American were taking both courses this semester.
“Fun. I’m still in my sophomore year, so I may change my mind in the future, but analysis is the most fun right now.”
“Then to prove the Riemann hypothesis… Would you like to play with me?”
Youngmi said with a surprised expression at my question.
“really? Is that something I can do with you?”
The next step in proving the Riemann hypothesis that I am planning is… It is to bring this problem from topological mathematics back to the realm of hermeneutics.
I’ve been thinking and thinking about it for the past three years, but again, I think this is the best way to go.
And string theory is needed to bring the Riemann hypothesis problem back from topological mathematics to analysis.
There are two superstring theory papers that I scanned with my eyes a while ago.
I have to check these two papers meticulously again, but if the conclusions of these papers are correct, now I need to prepare for the next step in the proof of the Riemann hypothesis.
And the next step in the proof will be the battle in analytics, more specifically in the realm of differential equations.
If there is a strong support group called Youngmi, it will be of immense strength to me.
For reference, Youngmi’s talent for mathematics is overflowing.
And I don’t know about Youngmi, but for the past 6 years of middle and high school, I really did my best to teach Youngmi math.
When asked whether we could prove the Riemann hypothesis together, I said:
“Of course!”
A bright smile spread across Youngmi’s face and half-moon eyes.
* * *
That evening.
Section 5 of the Anti-aircraft Investigation Bureau of the National Intelligence Service in Naegok-dong.
Manager Kim Jeong-soo stood up from his seat and said.
“now! Now, let’s finish up in moderation and go have dinner! And today’s dinner party, everyone knows that this deputy is shooting, right?”
Manager Kim continued speaking with a grin at Deputy Hee-Rak Lee in the seat next to him.
“Hee-rak, can I eat expensive food today?”
At his words, the deputy clenched his taste buds and said.
“Do it. Losers are silent.”
Opposite the office, clerk Cho asked clerk Lim in the seat next to him.
“What is going on today? Why is this manager paying for the dinner party?”
“I made a bet with Manager Kim, but Deputy Manager Lee lost.”
“A bet?”
“Yes, you know customer number 17?”
“yes.”
“Representative Lee was betting that customer number 17 could not decrypt V19 within a month, but he said that he finished decrypting it in just ten days.”
“Oh my! Is that true? I heard that the US also gave up on the V19… .”
Jo Seo Gibo nodded and continued.
“The customer number is 17 for a reason.”