Survivorship Bias

Chapter 142: Dive into the black market

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"***..." Noah sat on the cabinet with his legs dangling, "Is this a cult, or why would he burn himself to death in public?"

Indeed, An Wujiu thought, if such an accident happens suddenly, there is almost no other possibility.

But in just two days, elements such as cults and religions appeared too frequently.

Still in the real world.

"Did you find it?" Zhong Yirou frowned slightly and said, "It seems that more and more religious incidents are happening around us, not only in the game, but even in the real world."

Yang Erci seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and he was not too surprised to see such news.

"Judging from the name alone, the altar itself has a strong sense of religion."

Shen Ti sat on the carpet with his legs crossed, resting his cheek with one hand, while drawing something on the carpet with the other.

An Wujiu said: "I've always been curious, what is the government's attitude towards the altar? Now that so many people have died in the game, has the government not interfered until now?"

Yang Erci's face was solemn, "When I first entered the altar, no one thought that I would die. I'm afraid even the government thought it was just a simple virtual reality game. But later, when someone was eliminated for the first time, the player There was a widespread panic."

She's the one who lived through that mess.

"Everyone wants to escape, and they don't want to wait to die in the game. Although the current federal government doesn't have much real power and can't check and balance those multinational corporations, they still send troops to protect players who want to escape, and call for The other players left the game, promising to protect them."

An Wujiu had already predicted the result.

Shen Ti looked up at Yang Erci, her eyes dimmed.

"Because the production team of the altar is anonymous and not under the name of a big company, their mercenaries should and will not appear to harm the players, so the escaped players thought that with the protection of the army, they could successfully escape from the altar. Take control."

"But it's not like that." She looked up at An Wujiu who was standing upright, "The army just watched them die, everyone."

Noah did not experience that escape, she asked curiously, "How did you die?"

Yang Erci said it very simply, "After entering the altar, the game cabin automatically installs the altar brain computer for each of our players. In addition to the simple virtual reality experience and various somatosensory functions, there is also a self-destruct device."

Everyone understood in an instant.

Zhong Yirou felt uncomfortable all over. What she replaced was not the players present, but those army soldiers who thought they could save these people. They must have been very desperate at that time.

"So after that, the government doesn't dare to control it."

Yang Erci shook his head, "I heard from someone I know that the government is still investigating. They have set up a secret special team with several researchers responsible for finding the organization behind the altar, but whether this news is true or not, who are these researchers? , I don't know."

Although An Wujiu has long regarded Yang Erci as a teammate in his heart, he still feels that Yang Erci is hiding something.

It is very unreasonable for a person like her to abandon the research experts of the Chauvin Company and enter the altar to fight. First, she does not need to make money, and second, she does not belong to the social class. The two purposes of entering the altar do not meet.

Then there is only the third one. She wants to find something from the altar, maybe it's a person, maybe it's the truth.

Until just now, An Wujiu couldn't figure out her purpose, only knew that she had a lot of connections.

What Yang Erci described—the fact that the player fouled and tried to escape from the altar and was annihilated is impossible for a player to know, at least not to witness.

After all, the players who did not foul at that time must have already returned to the game cabin and entered the next round of the game.

So she could only have heard what the people present said. This was not a routine operation, and it was impossible for any passer-by to witness it. Therefore, the only ones who told her were the government forces, or even high-level government forces.

Yang Erci's identity is extraordinary, and An Wujiu also understands that she does not want to reveal this, after all, it is taboo to exchange shallow words in the altar.

But just now, when she mentioned the secret investigation organization, An Wujiu finally understood.

Yang Erci probably came to the altar because of this special team, or a member of this secret team, who made a special trip to find out the altar organization and deliberately went deep into the tiger's den, became a player, and sought the truth.

Or, she came here to find someone, the player in the special team.

An Wujiu's speculation was almost subconscious, so when he came to the conclusion, he felt a little chill in his heart, not for Yang Erci, but for himself.

He belatedly felt afraid of his deep thoughts.

It turned out that he was really about to merge.

After everyone learned that the altar was completely out of the control of the government, they couldn't help but feel a little sad. The only straw they could rely on seemed to be lost. After reading today's news, I'm afraid that the straw itself is in jeopardy.

Yang Erci didn't go deep into that topic, An Wujiu didn't intend to expose it, and didn't ask too much.

He knew that when Yang Erci truly trusted them, he would definitely speak up.

There was a knock on the door, Yang Erci checked the face through the electronic housekeeper, and said to everyone: "It's Wu You."

Noah seemed to like opening the door very much, and was the first to jump off the cabinet and ran to open the door for them.

Zhong Yirou still called her from behind, "You can let the butler system open the door."

"Yo." Shen Ti, who has not said a word, propped his hands behind his back, still sitting cross-legged on the ground, and said very awkwardly, "I even know the functions of the butler system at home."

Zhong Yirou almost couldn't help knocking him on the head directly, "Don't break your mouth here."

Shen Ti rushed towards An Wujiu who was standing on the right back and hugged his leg, "Wujiu, she bullied me."

An Wujiu pretended to be unmoved, "You bully me back."

Shen Ti sighed, "My wife doesn't even help me, alas, it's so hard."

An Wujiu backed away as if he had been stabbed by something, "What nonsense are you talking about, don't bark."

As soon as Wu You stepped into the door with one foot, she heard Shen Ti's words, and now she just wants to take her foot back.

What kind of evil fate could make him be hurt by Shen Ti all the time.

Yang Erci got up from the sofa and greeted Wu You. Knowing that he was going to the black market, Yang Erci directly called him who was relatively familiar with the black market.

An Wujiu remembered about Gabriel, so she greeted Zhong Yirou and gave her Gabriel's contact information.

Zhong Yirou is a straightforward person. When he heard that the other party was a rich upstart, he immediately nodded like a garlic, and took the contact information.

"But there is one thing to be careful about." An Wujiu remembered, and added, "He is very lecherous."

Yang Erci, who had been talking to Wu You, looked up at them, but Zhong Yirou didn't notice it at all, and instead asked An Wujiu, "Did he hook you up?"

"No." An Wujiu felt helpless because of her brain circuit, "He is a straight man."

Zhong Yirou immediately let out a long "Oh", "No wonder Shen Ti didn't care, and let you go so many times."

Shen Ti who was sitting on the ground politely responded to her: "I don't care, some people care, be careful, Rourou."

Zhong Yirou almost vomited for him.

Only then did An Wujiu realize that she, who always pretended to be coquettish, is actually very insensitive to emotional matters, even dull.

It's really a huge contrast.

Wu You came to An Wujiu, "Let's log in first, and see if there is anything you want on the black market network."

An Wujiu agreed.

Wu You used his own host to log in to a virtual IP, entered the account password, and entered a layer-by-layer encrypted network, which is what he called the "black market".

But after opening the website, An Wujiu discovered that this was not like an ordinary shopping or second-hand trading website, they didn't list the products, but more like a social network, a community.

Wu You clicked on the people he had followed, and read his latest post.

Yang Erci noticed that the person just posted a picture of a bag of potato chips, without even a single text.

But when Wu You clicked in, he found that it had been set so that he could not leave a message.

"No." Wu You looked at An Wujiu, "It's already sold."

"Is this the citizen chip?" Yang Erci asked.

"Well." Wu You explained to her, "Potato chips are chips in English, which is the same as chips, so many sellers take this as a slang term."

In addition to citizen chips, organs, prosthetic bodies, untested illegal genetic drugs and illegal weapons, including human living bodies, can all be traded here. Obviously, all sales on this website are illegal and violate the rights and interests of those big companies. So all sellers here are extremely careful.

The website does not provide a way to privately chat with sellers to avoid being tracked by the government, so only sellers can post, and buyers leave a message to give their contact information. The message here can only be seen by the person who posted it, and then the seller will mail it or hand it in.

"Is it difficult to buy chips?" An Wujiu asked.

"Yes, the control is getting stricter now."

Wu You was a little disappointed when the only source of transactions he found was cut off. He had also traded with this seller before, but because he was about to enter the altar at that time, the transaction failed, and he did not have the seller's contact information.

"Generally, this kind of seller will not only have one in his hand, but we may not be able to contact him." Wu You said.

"Why?" Shen Ti stood up and stretched, "Since he has a record of posting, shouldn't he be able to trace his IP?"

"Everyone here uses virtual IPs," Wu You pouted, "No one would be so stupid as to use their own real IPs, not to mention that the website has multiple protection mechanisms, even virtual IPs are fake. Most people are It is impossible to find out, unless it is a very powerful hacker."

Shen Ti cleared his throat, "To tell you the truth, I do have a little bit of hacking skills."

Wu You looked like a ghost who believed in you, "What are you farting about?"

An Wujiu almost laughed, he turned to look at Shen Ti, "Really?"

Shen Ti shrugged, "I'll try."

After speaking, he borrowed Yang Erci's studio and Wu You's host computer, and started writing code.

Wu You originally thought he was bragging and just wanted to see his jokes, but she didn't expect that Shen Ti really didn't lie this time.

It didn't take too long, Wu You's host started to screen all possible virtual IPs, and automatically screened them.

"No, how could you do this?" Wu You's face was wrinkled.

"I learned it." Shen Ti snapped his fingers, "Up and down, there is a player who is a hacker."

Yang Erci asked, "Teammates?"

Shen Ti shook his head, "Opponent."

Wu You didn't believe it: "You lied!"

"Believe it or not is up to you."

Shen Ti's look of embarrassment made Wu You even more angry.

In about two or three minutes, the program written by Shen Ti found two possible IPs, and the addresses located by these two IPs were not far apart, and they were both in the same city.

After success, Shen Ti looked at the time, then took An Wujiu's hand, held it and shook it twice.

"Do you want to look for it?"

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