Chapter 651: The problem is this city (please vote for the big chapter)
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The closed door opened, and He Ao walked into the house holding his sleeping granddaughter.
The moment he entered the living room, a pop-up window popped up on He Ao's bracelet.
This bracelet is connected to the security system in the house.
Sito purchased the security system for the house when he was still the deputy director.
It has been nearly twenty years since this system was first installed.
Most of the structures of these systems were old and damaged, and Xito used parts bought in the second-hand market to repair and barely use them.
"Eve, take over the security system of this house."
He Ao raised the door with his feet and gently closed it.
"Okay, connecting," Eve's voice sounded in He Ao's headphones, "Connection successful."
Immediately afterwards, the creaking sound of the door being locked came from behind He Ao, "It has entered the alert mode, the doors and windows have been closed, all sensing equipment is working well, and no signs of damage or intrusion have been found."
Hearing Eve's words, He Ao slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He carefully dragged his granddaughter and walked deeper into the room.
The existence of Eve cannot improve the capabilities of the original old hardware of the security system, but she can greatly improve the overall sensing sensitivity and response capabilities of the entire system through more advanced intelligent algorithm operations.
Fortunately, Xito had previously purchased a security system from a small factory. Although the software of the entire system was not well optimized, it did not restrict users from accessing external masterminds.
If you purchase a security system from a large consortium such as Tellison Group, any access to non-Tellison Group hardware or software will cause the security system to self-lock.
This self-locking program is nominally to protect the safety of users, but as house owners, users cannot open their own doors after the security system self-locks.
Of course, the fundamental reason for the existence of this self-locking program, in addition to possible security factors, is to trap users into the consortium's own traffic pool, so that users can only continue to purchase the supporting equipment and services provided by the consortium.
Software service monthly package.
However, Sito didn't think so much at the time. He didn't even plan to buy a security system at that time. It was just that this small factory was about to close down and was doing a promotion at a very low price, so he bought this security system.
After buying it, he also found that the system of this company was actually very good, and it was worth buying it at the original price. Unfortunately, the small company eventually went bankrupt.
"Eve, help me find out all the information about the 'black market' where gangs can be hired to kill people."
He Ao hugged his granddaughter, walked to the innermost bedroom door, and asked in a low voice.
"Okay, we're searching for you."
With Eve's voice ringing in He Ao's ears, he then walked towards the innermost room.
"Based on your keywords, I retrieved 157,500 pieces of information. After screening this information, I screened out 1,732 pieces of valid information. A brief summary of this information is as follows
,"
After a short pause, Eve's voice sounded again,
"'Black Market' is the term for a private network of underground transactions. This network cannot be retrieved through search engines or retrieval methods on the surface network. It can only be accessed through an encrypted link through specific terminal software bound to a personal account.
"The main function of the black market is an online 'trading market'. The operators of the black market do not publish and execute tasks, but users publish and execute tasks themselves.
"Currently, there are a large number of private domain networks carrying out similar operations in the federal 'dark net', but the 'black market' is the largest one among them, and may also be the oldest one.
"According to some information, the black market can provide access services in all cities across the federation.
"However, there are less than fifty cities that can effectively publish or accept commissions in the 'black market', and there are less than thirty cities that have a large user group and can smoothly conduct 'transactions', and there are no
Including the top 30 largest cities in the federation."
While listening to Eve's story, He Ao carefully opened the bedroom door in front of him, carefully placed Jia Qian on the bed, took off her shoes, and covered her with a thin quilt.
After completing this, he had time to sort out the information Eve just said.
It seems that this 'black market' is actually a communication platform for the underground world.
What is being communicated is most likely prohibited by federal law.
In fact, most cities in the Federation have similar platforms, because the consortium or other employees and the underground world that does dirty work must have a communication channel to facilitate doing things that the sun does not shine.
In Chenxi City, the consortium and the big gangs communicate directly, and the big gangs control the entire underground world.
In Wetterland, indirect communication takes place through "middlemen" like Heich.
In small cities like Rock City and Rimen City, which were previously completely controlled by a single group, the underground world is often under the direct control of the consortium, and there is no distinction between light and darkness.
Different cities have different ecologies.
And this 'black market' platform has been able to exist for so many years, and it is very likely that it has become a communication channel between light and darkness in the city that it serves as its core service. It may even itself be established and controlled by certain consortiums.
He Ao stood up and looked at the decorations in the room.
This room is the room where my son lived when he was a child. There is a large ink screen monitor hanging on the wall next to the bed. This monitor is not very accurate and is designed for displaying posters or simply hanging paintings.
Users can switch the screen they want according to their own preferences.
What is displayed on this monitor at the moment is a cool mecha poster. This is not the one that Jia Qian put on, but the last poster that Sito's son Kawi put on before graduating from college.
Kawei has not been a particularly noisy child since he was a child. Although there were times when he was rebellious and quarreled with Sito during adolescence, most of the time, he was relatively quiet.
He Ao turned his head and looked at the wall opposite the bed.
There is a small desk and a small bookshelf there.
Kawei's hobby since childhood has been reading, but physical books are a very expensive 'luxury' in the Federation. Sito spent a long time collecting books for his son to collect such a small bookshelf.
Every time he has a lot of money, he will spend some time and buy a book for his son. He enjoys the excitement and joy on his son's face when he gets the book.
Of course, when his son quarreled with him, he would also swear to his wife that he would never buy books for this brat again.
He Ao walked to the desk and sat down on the desk chair against the wall. He glanced at the old metal toys on the desk, the upright bookends, and the yellowed books leaning on the bookends.
He took out a book standing in the corner, stroked the wrinkled hard cover with his wrinkled and decayed hands, and asked in a low voice,
“Is there any way to get permission to enter the ‘black market’?”
"Based on the information retrieved,"
Eve replied, "There are currently two ways to obtain a black market entry permit. One is to contact a person or group code-named 'Drawer' through the introduction of an old member's acquaintance, and purchase the black market terminal and registration number from him.
"The second is to buy their accounts from people who already have black market accounts. However, black market accounts are bound to devices, and trading accounts can only be done through trading devices. The black market does not restrict account transactions, but the same person cannot
Buy another account registration number from the drawer."
There are two methods, register a new account, or buy someone else's account.
After hearing Eve's words, He Ao thought for a moment and asked,
“Have you found anyone who may be selling black market accounts or someone who can ‘introduce’ new people?”
“We found five people who clearly stated on the Internet that they wanted to sell their accounts. Fifteen people in different cities also said they could introduce people to ‘Drawer’ for a fee,”
Eve replied, "But based on the associated accounts and past information of these twenty people, there is more than a 50% chance that they are scammers who defraud in the name of the black market."
It seems that there are not many black market members actually exposed on the surface Internet, so that scammers can pretend to be black market.
Most people in the underground world actually don't need to use the 'black market'. They only need to follow the orders of their boss or boss.
Those who really need the black market to receive or issue commissions are the leaders of gangs, lone travelers, or people or consortiums with certain financial resources.
In other words, although the black market has a large coverage area, the number of users should be small, and most of them are core users. These users basically have their own small social circles or their own channels, and they are not short of small money.
There is no need to make money by 'recruiting' or selling accounts on the surface Internet.
Therefore, real black market users do not expose themselves very much.
Perhaps in order to avoid attracting attention, black market operators are also consciously cleaning up black market information on the surface Internet.
It seems that if you want to get an 'account' on the black market, you still have to find a way to get it around St. John City.
After all, since Witte can be hired to kill people and has the habit of frequently using the black market, this proves that St. John City may be one of the thirty cities where the black market can smoothly 'trade'.
There should be a lot of black market users in this city itself.
However, He Ao did not give up looking for information on the Internet. He put the book in his hand on the table and said slowly,
"Further search for in-depth information about the black market, and then contact the twenty people as anonymous accounts to see if we can get any effective information. Even if you are a liar, you have to have something before you dare to commit fraud."
"OK."
Eve responded, and then her voice slowly fell silent.
He Ao focused his attention on the book in his hand.
In fact, even without the black market account and deeper information, He Ao could infer some information from the attributes of the 'black market'.
The ‘clients’ who are active in the black market are nothing more than consortium organizations and some temporary clients who enter the black market through certain channels.
And the 'commissioner' in Werther's memory who 'commissioned' him to set the fire was an obvious regular customer, that is, someone who often sent out commissions.
Most normal ordinary people will not have so many enemies to kill. Only consortiums or related large organizations will have targets they constantly want to clean up, and will continue to issue tasks.
Only then will there be so much money to pay for the commission fees.
Moreover, this consortium or organization has relatively large interests in St. John City, so they have so many enemies in St. Jon City.
It is a pity that Werther's messy thoughts did not give more obvious and accurate information.
However, everything needs to be done by someone. Later, we will find some people from the Eagle Claw Gang and ask them for relevant information. Through the line of the Eagle Claw Gang, we may also be able to restore some of the 'commissions' that Werther once accepted, and then
Further narrowing down the scope of the identity of the 'client' standing behind Werther.
He Ao did not place all his hopes on the 'black market'.
Because judging from the information received from Witte, it seems that Witte is already very familiar with the 'client', so familiar that he doesn't look like an 'net friend' across the Internet.
Therefore, the ‘commission’ given to Witte by the client from the black market may not have actually gone through the black market.
After all, the platform also knows the information that passes through the black market platform.
In terms of confidentiality, no online platform is as reliable as offline communication.
The reason why Witte's first reaction was the black market was probably just because the client came from the 'black market'.
In fact, He Ao, who has always been influenced by Werther's thoughts, initially thought that the 'black market' was just an offline underground market.
Of course, all this information requires further investigation to uncover clues.
Even if the client communicates with Witte offline, the other party will not only look for Witte as the 'executor'.
The other party may still be active on the black market website.
He Ao collected his thoughts and focused on the book in his hand.
This book is not placed on the bookshelf, but on the bookend of the desk.
Kawei has a habit of placing unfinished books on his desk after reading them.
In Sito's memory, this book was not on the desk a few months ago.
When Jia Qian was fostered here for the first time, Kawei stayed here for a few days.
At that time, Sito made a small bed for Jia Qian, and Ka Wei slept in this childhood room.
He Ao opened the cover of the book.
This book is very old, and the pages are a little yellowed. It is a book containing ghost legends that Sito found for his son at a used book market.
It's probably been twenty or thirty years.
The main content of this book is about some urban legends or strange things in the wilderness.
There are many marks or notes made by Kawei in the book. He enjoys recording his thinking process in his own book.
Of course, most of the above thoughts are simple and superficial. In fact, most of the content of this book can only be regarded as a collection of fantasy stories.
According to He Ao, who has real wilderness survival experience, most of the content in this book is a person living in the city's "guessing" about the wilderness, and many of them are not consistent with reality.
But among the jumble of stories, there are also some weird ones that may actually come from the wilderness.
For example, the story that Ho Ao is reading right now.
This story tells about a deep valley in the wilderness. The valley is filled with lush forests and looks full of life. However, all animals that come close to the valley will mutate into crazy and twisted monsters.
In fact, this is the story of a contaminated area.
This kind of place filled with inexplicable pollution is actually very common in the wilderness.
The reason why He Ao paid attention to this story was because this page was folded by Kawei.
He Ao opened the folding page and saw rows of somewhat confusing writing under the folding page.
[Why do pollution monsters exist?]
[Why do they think these monsters exist for granted?]
[When I went to school in Chenxi City, I had never seen anything like this.]
[Or is there one in Chenxi City, but I haven’t discovered it yet?]
[According to information from the Pollution Cleanup Department, the northwest part of the city, where my father lives, is the area with the least pollution outbreaks. What is there?]
[Jia Qian should be safe staying with her father]
These writings stop abruptly here,
He Ao turned to the next page.
At the same crease position, there is a line of writing that is newer than the previous writing:
[We have to leave as soon as possible]
[The problem is this city]
More than a month ago, before Kawi disappeared, he came to visit Sito.
