"Maybe of course it is possible, but the question is, don't you think your brain is too big, boss?"
A minute ago, under the urging of his immediate superior, Comrade Dynasty rushed to the underground mall.
Probably too cool for Lin Chen or Xing Conglian, the underground market is really a rare and interesting place in this city for Comrade Wang Dynasty.
He threw down his schoolbag excitedly, talking about the pirate figure he just saw.
"Tell up the surveillance video first!" Xing Conglian copied the boy's scalp with his backhand.
Maybe it was because he was too excited to run all the way. The teenager didn't make any remarks about workplace violence. He quickly climbed onto the small bench of the jewelry store, looked at the camera model, and muttered: "It's still the diamond-encrusted Ace, boss! "
"Buy it for you." Xing Cong said casually without even thinking about it.
Lin Chen couldn't help but glance at him.
In the window of the jewelry store, there was a pirated Ace ornament studded with rhinestones hanging brightly. The female store owner's face turned blue when she heard their conversation.
"Boss, not all love in this world can be solved with money." Wang Chao jumped off the bench, ran back to the computer as if nothing had happened, tapped the keyboard a few times, and said, "It's not bad, this store's The monitoring can be kept for a week, and if you have money, give me a warm bath."
Probably because there was really no way to stay in the store any longer, the female store owner simply threw the key away, picked up her bag and left.
Comrade Wang Chao also found out that there was no one person in the store after he called up a series of videos.
"Hey, what about that sister just now, I would like to ask her what time does she open the door every day?"
"Twelve o'clock at noon on weekdays, ten o'clock in the morning on weekends." Xing Conglian replied.
Dynasty made an OK gesture, and then found the exact time.
"Shit!" the boy shouted, leaning closer to the screen and zooming in on the screenshot, "Boss, you said that the floor-to-ceiling mirror does seem to reflect in the corridor, but to have a specific angle, it has to be when someone pushes the door, and the clarity is too poor. Now, I can't guarantee that the image can be restored."
"Work more and talk less." Xing Conglian said as a matter of course, "As much as we have, this may be our only chance now."
Probably because Xing Conglian's tone also became serious, Wang Dynasty didn't dare to say more, and began to watch the video hummingly.
It's just that his enthusiasm for work has not lasted for two minutes, when the laptop he brought with him rang a fierce electronic alarm sound.
"By the way, there's finally a response!" The teenager turned to the laptop screen excitedly, "The red entry on the reward website has finally turned green, indicating that someone has finally answered the question they set earlier."
Then, Xing Conglian's phone rang.
Team leader Ren's voice was a bit sleepy and apologetic: "Sorry, Captain Xing, although the other party replied, but I don't understand it very well, I have to trouble you."
Since Ren Xian couldn't understand it, it meant that the reply was not a URL, but something like a conversation.
Dynasty proudly ticked his finger at his boss, and then continued to devote himself to the great cause of "look and see".
"What do you mean?" Lin Chen asked.
Xing Conglian looked closely at the complicated sentence, but couldn't answer Lin Chen's question for a while.
The simple reply, mixed with alphabetic characters and even emojis, seemed chaotic.
"I don't understand..." he answered honestly.
"Even groups on the Internet are xenophobic. This is likely to be a slang word among those who watch live video."
"So we now look to them like that kind of innocent and cute internet idiot?"
"It's more like an old grandfather trying to get in touch with young people's lives..." Having said this, Lin Chen's eyes still fell on the youngest person in the shop, "Do you understand?" He rubbed the dynasty's head. ,ask.
"It's not BT, it's not a magnet link, it looks more like garbled code. In short, I really don't understand what young people are playing now, but some people in the dark web are criminal geniuses and some people are pure idiots..." Only 18 years old The adult dynasty said with disdain while chewing gum.
"Yes, if the other party wants to make money from this, it is impossible to set up too obscure levels. After all, there are always more idiots than geniuses, and this is the end, don't they want every psychopath in the whole network to spend money Is it good to come and see?" Xing Conglian said.
Lin Chen nodded thoughtfully, and continued: "If it hopes to attract viewers from all over the world, then the so-called 'slang' must break through the limitations of language..."
However, the so-called cracking passwords is really not what he is good at, and looking at Xing Conglian and the dynasty, it seems that the theory is more than the practice, they can't understand what this sentence means.
"If you don't understand everything, can you just see what you understand?"
Suddenly, a soft voice came from the door, and the lights in the jewelry store were ambiguous. Lin Chen turned his head and saw Su Fengzi holding two cups of coffee in his hand, and Shi Shiran pushed the door in.
In short, Mr. Su has completely regarded the police case-handling scene as his own study. Lin Chen took the Americano coffee from K Kee handed over to him, frowning, wondering if he should accept the bribe.
Instead, Xing Conglian seemed very calm. He picked out a cup of coffee and tore two packets of white sugar into it. Stirring with a wooden stick, he said, "Mr. Su seems to know a lot of the inside story of this case?"
"Police officer, you..." Su Fengzi said, leaning on Xing Cong's shoulders and approaching his auricle.
Lin Chen couldn't help but glared at him.
Su Fengzi didn't seem to notice, instead, he moved his head closer. His rosy lips opened and closed slightly, as if he had said something. In the end, he ended with a usual smile.
Lin Chen couldn't hear what he said at all, but he always felt that it must not be a good thing.
Xing Conglian was frankly excessive, neither humiliated or angry after being molested, nor had any surprised expression, but I don't know what Su Fengzi said, Xing Conglian actually let Su Fengzi go on the "insider" issue, and even helped him In order to pick up the previously staggered topic: "Mr. Su understand?"
Su Fengzi raised the coffee and did not answer the question.
He walked around Lin Chen and Xing Conglian, put down the coffee cup, put his hands in front of the cashier counter, didn't care about his posture, and surrounded the man sitting in front of the computer.
Comrade Dynasty Xiao opened his black and white almond eyes, trying to tighten his body like he saw a pervert.
Su Fengzi lowered her head, looked at the furry head in front of her, and said with a smile, "Very cute little boy, how old are you?"
Lin Chen and Xing Conglian were very tacit and unanimous, ignoring the boy's cry for help.
Su Fengzi finally moved, his slender and fair fingers swiped lightly across the screen of the notebook, and then said, "If you remove all symbols and expressions, there will be a thirty-four character string left..."
"Daily!" Hearing this, the dynasty finally moved. He didn't care about the person he was pressing, he suddenly sat up straight, and quickly finished processing the data: "Damn it, this is the bit address!" I copied the entire string of thirty or forty digits, and kept saying, "Why don't you just make a QR code, why is it so complicated, and I have to pay to get the address, right? Why don't you open Taobao? What about the store! Boss, what should I do, send money to this account, in case it is not the charging account of the live broadcast!"
"It's not the live streaming account, you wait for a reward and I'll pay the person who gave you this information." Xing Conglian said boldly, "The price will not be too high, considering the average price in the world, you can try 5 Bitcoin."
Dynasty whistled and quickly complied.
Just then, Xing Conglian's cell phone rang again.
Probably everything will have a focus point.
The caller was Jiang Chao.
On the phone, Vice Captain Jiang said in a very irritable tone: "The fingerprints on those small marbles you picked up from the stairs have come out. It can be determined that one of the fingerprints belongs to a junior boy in Yongchuan University. Do I want it? Go arrest people now, is the little bastard crazy!"
Xing Conglian's fingers lightly rubbed the phone, Lin Chen saw him glance at himself, and then answered decisively, "No need for now, wait a moment."
On the other end of the phone, Jiang Chao was obviously dissatisfied with the order. In fact, he didn't know when it started. The real commander had already changed from Jiang Chao to Xing Conglian.
Maybe there are people who naturally have the ability to make everyone trust and obey. Although Jiang Chao complained, he still answered "yes".
"Fingerprints?" Lin Chen was standing beside Xing Conglian just now, and naturally he heard Vice-Captain Jiang's irritable voice on the phone. He repeated it somewhat incredulously, and then looked at the opposite side so clean that there were no fingerprints. The coffee bar left behind, "When did they change sex?"
"How can you say it's a sex change..." Su Fengzi stood beside the dynasty and inserted a sentence with a smile.
"It may also be a mistake." Lin Chen bluntly looked away from the checkout counter, turned to Xing Conglian and said, "Actually, using the collective unconscious to control a group is itself a very dangerous thing."
"The suicide incident and the rainy night riot really don't seem to be planned by the same group of people. The latter has too many loopholes. Although it is dangerous, there are too many uncontrollable factors, and it also encounters heavy rain. If you want to kill people, you will not consider it. Is it the weather?"
After hearing his words, Lin Chen took a sip of coffee and fell into deep thought.
The so-called personality test itself is his temporary decision, so the time left for the behind-the-scenes reaction is actually very short, which means that even if they have time to plan and create a stampede on the stairs, it is too late to broadcast the incident live. Live broadcast means that it cannot be profitable, which is indeed not in line with the motives of the murderer behind the organization...
"Perhaps, in fact, the timed power-off device installed at the power distribution station is their only purpose. That is to say, they just want to prevent the personality test of unknown purpose, and have no intention of planning a riot..."
"That is to say, whether those nails, plastic beads, or even the roars in the classroom are not the original intention of the murderer behind the scenes, but the actions of some passionate members themselves?"
"I'm skeptical..."
"Listen to what you said, why don't I think this is bad news." Xing Cong drank the whole cup of coffee and said cheerfully, "Can you analyze the group completely for me, for example , what was it like in the beginning, and how did the whole organization evolve into what it is?"
"You really..." Lin Chen was speechless for a moment.
"Captain Xing is really sharp." Su Fengzi greeted Xing Conglian with a cup of coffee as if holding a red wine glass, "It's amazing to ask him to use so few clues to describe the whole picture of a huge organization. Looking forward to it."
Su Fengzi probably has the ability to make everyone shut up obediently.
But at this point, no matter how difficult it is, a complete profile of that organization is a must.
"This involves the problem of group psychodynamics..." Lin Chen walked out the door as if being driven by a duck, took off the small blackboard at the door of the jewelry store and brought it into the store, then wiped off all the promotional information on it with his hands and painted Down a pyramid-shaped triangle.
"In the beginning, if I guessed correctly, the culprit just wanted to use some simple students for profit, and its organizational structure was more similar to a pyramid scheme, attracting students to join the organization through bait, promising them to change, money, and A better life." Lin Chen painted the bottom of the golden tower white, "There are skills in this. First of all, the people they choose are all individuals with low self-esteem and introvertedness. These individuals are often better than those with healthy personalities, so they yearn for others to build a better life. I have never been to the coffee bar opposite, but the owner of the jewelry store told me just now that most of the books in the coffee bar are life inspirational. In fact, those children were tempted to join the organization at first. Maybe they just want to change themselves, they want to be better, more beautiful and more lovable.”
Perhaps it was too quiet around him, and the surrounding shops gradually darkened, and Lin Chen's tone also softened unconsciously. In his mind, Xu Haozhen's earliest appearance appeared, and he introduced himself on the podium, his little junior sister is So shy and timid, that's Xu Haozhen, what kind of mood did he have when he walked into that coffee bar
Maybe the clerk delivered her some card, or someone in the store took the initiative to start talking to her.
She may have a deep sense of gratitude at a certain moment. It turns out that in this cold world, there are still people who are willing to pay attention to her so inconspicuous.
She followed her guide and walked into that warm big family.
"Once a victim joins, the behind-the-scenes mastermind has countless ways to convince simple people that they can only truly have a truly beautiful life in that organization, and the world beyond that is full of hypocrisy and darkness, with group psychology. The amazing thing about the collective unconscious is that everyone's intellect will be completely wiped out, and they will no longer be bound by morals and laws, and, unlike the illusory MLM organization, in that group, they can complete tasks by completing tasks. To earn money, to gain love and a sense of belonging, they did undergo a qualitative transformation, which made them believe in the power of the whole group more and gradually became inseparable."
Lin Chen drew a horizontal line in the middle of the pyramid, and then filled it with the second color.
"Once a crime occurs, the entire group has transformed from a simple social group to a criminal organization, but such a criminal organization is far more terrifying than the underworld that has been hacked, and it should be called a 'criminal group' more appropriately. "
A third color appeared on the pyramid, and Lin Chen continued: "Since it is a criminal group, it has its common characteristics. Generally speaking, criminal groups are easily encouraged and credulous in others. They tend to go to extremes and are accustomed to putting positive and negative aspects together. exaggerated feelings, they will show morality that is not usually there, just like all murderers, they are convinced that they have an important mission, and the killing is only to complete the mission, and these missions may be for the prosperity of his camp, It is also possible that for the future of all mankind, the group will never be dominated by individual self-interest, but by the spiritual beliefs shared by the group.”
"So, what kind of spiritual beliefs do those children hold, and they can even commit suicide because of that kind of spiritual belief?" Xing Conglian's tone was not moved.
"For the collective interests, for a better future... But they have no future." Lin Chen felt a little uncomfortable, and he almost began to regret the analysis, because no matter how he analyzed it, in the end, those who committed suicide and criminals, It's just a poor child who yearns for beauty and is fooled by false beauty, and maybe one day, when this case is opened, all the bystanders will say, look, those stupid children, how gullible they are, it's like mentally handicapped.
And by that time, he could not explain the so-called collective unconsciousness and the fragility of the human psyche to the disdainful.
Lin Chen took a deep breath and said, "In any case, no matter what they want to do next, they must be stopped. This entire group is constantly evolving, and it is very possible that even the mastermind behind the scenes cannot fully control it now. "
"But we still don't know what their next goal is and what they want to do..." Xing Conglian once again brought the problem to the most critical point.
"Actually, if it wasn't for that fingerprint, I probably couldn't imagine it..." Lin Chen stared at the last blank of the pyramid and said, "If I guessed correctly, the mastermind behind the scenes was originally to remove Cheng Weiwei, so I asked her and Wang Shishi to tell her. The three have instilled certain beliefs that make them believe that their deaths can benefit the entire group. In fact, when someone sacrifices their lives for the group, the entire group will sublimate to a more invincible stage, which is also the root of the murderer behind the scenes. the purpose."
"Tell me, Cheng Weiwei and Wang Shishi's deaths were used as catalysts, but what are they going to catalyze?"
"Hate." Lin Chen put down the chalk and said lightly, "They hate them, so they want to kill them."
The riot in the rainy night, the small trap on the stairs, if that is not the intention of the murderer behind the scenes, it can only mean that this is the spontaneous action of the group members, and they really want to kill the classmates around them.
Lin Chen couldn't understand the source of this hatred. It was beyond logic and irrational, yet hated so genuinely.
Perhaps it was the contempt they had suffered, or the thought that had been instilled in them for a long time, making them believe that it was those seemingly good people who took their love, status, and money away from them, and they were in fact sanctimonious bastards. , they don't deserve those things, and one day, they'll get back everything they lost...
And Cheng Weiwei, Wang Shishi and their deaths were not just because the gangsters behind the scenes convinced the group members that it was the rumors that killed the members of their group. This world is ugly and evil. They must unite and fight against the ugly and evil people around them. people.
All of this, perhaps when Wang Shishi's mother saw her daughter's sex video, was a completely calculated process.
Some small gossip, girls who committed suicide, angry mothers, indifferent classmates...
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is the process of a black-hearted mother extracting the last trace of her daughter's value, but in the eyes of the members of that group, every word of Wang Shishi's mother is their voice, and the indifferent world once again showed them a mocking smile. …
In this case, a simple instigation and suggestion can make the whole group like a crashing sea, frantically slapping the rocks until they are smashed to pieces.
And Xu Haozhen's triple jump became a horn of charge, a cry of resistance to the whole world.
Then next, the real butcher's knife is about to be swung down.
Lin Chen held the coffee cup tremblingly, the liquid was cold and bitter.
In the small jewelry store, the rhinestones exuded a dark and bright light, no one spoke, not even the sound of breathing.
"Actually, their goals have long been exposed. They want to kill people, and they want to kill a lot of people, right?" Xing Conglian finally spoke, his voice unexpectedly calm.
It was not Lin Chen who answered his question, but the young comrade Wang Chao who had been hiding in the corner.
"Old... Boss... Ah... Ah Chen... Come and see... This..." The boy said, turning around the laptop screen in horror. In the middle of the screen, a bright red advertisement almost dyed people's pupils red.
The huge black × traverses the entire piece of bright red background, and the four areas separated by the lines are filled with various knives and tools. of blood and howls.
Under the advertisement, there is a very small URL and an accurate time point.
2016.4.14 18:00
Xing Conglian glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer and said, "There are less than 20 hours left. We need to determine the specific location."
"Is this what the other party just sent?" Lin Chen asked.
"Five bitcoins, I bought this for ten thousand yuan... I really don't want to spend money in this life." Chao said with great sadness.
"It doesn't indicate any location, only time, which means that they may attack anywhere in this university city." Lin Chen said.
Xing Conglian nodded, stared at the dynasty again, and asked, "Has the content on the blackboard been recovered?"
"I've only found it for two days, but boss, does it still make sense to recover that password now?" Wang Chao said, opening the picture, "I know you're looking for clues about where they're going in the end, but look , that store closed three days ago, which means the last information was updated three days ago, will there be the last location on it, and a small blackboard, can you issue an order to everyone in this university town, boss Do you have too many brains..."
When Xing Conglian was really serious, his words were extremely few, and he didn't even bother to answer the questions of the dynasty.
Two blurry pictures appeared on the screen.
Dynasty has used the best algorithm to process the two blackboard patterns after mirror reflection, and the chalk writing on them can be vaguely seen.
It is very strange that there is only one day apart, but one day's blackboard reads "Today's Special Offer" and another day, it is changed to "Specially Recommended", such a change seems really strange.
Xing Conglian looked at the two blackboards carefully, but apart from the menu, he couldn't see anything at all.
"The key problem is, Boss, even if it's a password, we can't crack it for a while... Our IQ can't even read a simple bit account..." Wang Chao lay in front of the computer and sighed, "Anyway, I think It's a headache to hit those numbers, really."
Xing Conglian was noncommittal about this. After a while, he straightened up and said to Wang Chao, "Send the picture to Jiang Chao. The book "Discrete Mathematics" is in the conference room, let him see if he can unravel it."
"Isn't it, I'm counting on Captain Jiang?" Chao suddenly remembered something, turned his head abruptly, and looked at the man who had been drinking coffee beside him.
Lin Chen also raised his eyes and looked at his old friend who he hadn't seen for a long time.
Xing Conglian raised his eyebrows.
All eyes converged.
"Of course I can't either." Su Fengzi raised her hands in surrender, "However, this is the area with the highest concentration of higher education institutions in the country. Is it difficult to find someone who can decrypt the code?" he said.