Evolution Beyond the Stars Volume 1 The Beginning of Eden Player No. 1218o "Later, Hong Yan's power became more and more powerful, almost becoming an underground kingdom... But here on Earth, with the help of leading technology, Chu Yunlan's power
They are all over the world... However, whether it is Zhang Yi... or Chu Yunlan... they all slowly realize that everything is developing in a direction that deviates from the original intention..." You Gege's expression when talking about this
Somewhat lonely.
Nan Yingjian knew that the story had reached a crucial part.
"What happened?" Nan Yingjian asked.
Yougege sighed softly, looked out the window and said: "Pollution...mutation...split...out of control...then disaster...one disaster after another..."
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Time: Early morning of March 8, 2024 AD.
In Xiongan New District, the lights are still on on the top floor of the Huasheng Fengmao headquarters building.
Sun Yufei stood in front of the window with a frown on her face, while several special investigators from the National Security Department sitting behind her seemed very leisurely.
Especially the mustachioed one from the Japanese subdivision. He was slowly sipping tea. Although his posture was upright, he looked quite in need of a beating.
After a while, Sun Yufei's phone rang.
The mobile phone was placed on the table. Several investigators looked at it, but no one reached out to take it.
Sun Yufei was stunned for a moment, then walked over and picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"It's me." A hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.
Sun Yufei was shocked when she heard this.
After several investigators looked at each other, Mustache stood up and waved to the door.
Then a group of people hiding behind the door began to get busy.
Sun Yufei glanced in the direction of the door, and then replied calmly: "Well... you said..."
"I know that the phone has been monitored by the National Security Department. Don't worry, they can't find out where I am, and they can't ruin the game between us. So... you just need to continue to do what I say. Wang Yi is
It’ll be okay.”
Upon hearing this, Sun Yufei looked at the investigators in the room, and then said: "But I have no interest in your game at all, and you don't want money or other things... Why are you threatening my family?
?”
"Hehehe..." The other party laughed: "I think Mr. Sun may have misunderstood. I didn't expect you to like my game, but I'm telling you that you just need to do what I say. As for the rest...
…it’s a good habit not to ask too much.”
When he said this, his voice had changed from hoarse to a cute female voice.
Mustache and the others also heard it clearly. He looked at the time and then motioned for Sun Yufei to continue.
Sun Yufei also sneered and said: "Okay, tell me, what do you need me to do?"
"The first step is actually very simple. You Huasheng Fengmao are so rich, it shouldn't be a big problem to use some of it to contribute to the world, right?"
Sun Yufei frowned when she heard this. She didn't believe these guys would be so kind.
"If we really make a contribution to the world, then we, Huasheng Fengmao, will naturally be willing to pay this money. I don't know what contribution you are talking about specifically?"
The other party didn't speak, but the lights in the room suddenly went out.
Mustache was stunned and subconsciously touched the gun, as did several other special investigators.
Sun Yufei was relatively calm because she saw the computer screen on her desk light up.
"see it?"
Sun Yufei walked over and checked the page.
All I saw above were the profile pictures and brief information of two people, one male and one female.
The man is thirty-nine years old, African-American. He does not have a specific name, but the word "guilty" is clearly marked on it.
The woman is twenty-five years old and is of Chinese Canadian origin. She does not have a specific name, but like the man, she is marked with the word "guilty."
Seeing this scene, Sun Yufei finally understood who the person behind the scenes was who was threatening her.
Mustache also reacted, but he didn't say anything and immediately led the people out.
The technical team also had a direction and began to gradually narrow the scope.
"I saw it."
"Well... very good, now I will explain the rules of the game, you must listen carefully." The other party's voice gradually became cold.
Sun Yufei closed her eyes, looking a little helpless, but she had to listen.
"explain."
"First, you have to put up 20 million US dollars as a bargaining chip, and then you choose one of the two people as the bounty target, and put the 20 million US dollars into the hunter platform, and then offer a bounty to hunt down one of them, and I will
Select the remaining person as the target and issue the same bounty, but winning or losing does not depend on whose chosen target is killed first, but... one of the two people is actually just an ordinary person, and he is not guilty. If
If you are lucky enough to choose the guilty person and kill the guilty person before my target is killed, then I will cancel the reward, the good person will survive, and you will win, otherwise... I will win."
After hearing the rules of the game, Sun Yufei really wanted to hang up the phone.
He is a madman...a complete madman...
But he is also a genius...a genius who suffered from "mutations after infection".
This person's code name on the Internet is "Player No. O". At first, he only used this virtual identity to do some pranks, but in the past year, he has begun to disrupt reality with the virtual identity of "Player No. O".
And the more you play, the bigger it gets...
Just before he approached Sun Yufei and threatened to publish the video of Wang Yi and some models acting inappropriately on the entire Internet, he also used his "game" to torture more than a dozen "guilty" people to death.
Naturally, such a crazy Internet genius was quickly captured by the country.
An Chu is classified as a first-level dangerous target and is on a global wanted list.
But a few months have passed, and "Player No. O" is still online, and the "game" is still going on. Some netizens have even begun to associate "Player No. O" with terrorist organizations, believing that this is not just the "craziness" of a single person.
", but an organized and purposeful group of people are creating terrorist incidents.
In order to quell the negative impact of the incident as soon as possible, the National Security Department once again raised the threat level of the "Player No. O" incident and increased the personnel and financial investment in hunting down "Player No. O".
This time, after Sun Yufei, the chairman of the listed group, received threats, the National Security Department immediately assigned a special investigator to take charge of the matter.
But judging from the current situation, the results have been minimal.
"Player No. O", who created a fake ID based on the "mysterious code" that was rampant on the Internet many years ago, caused a headache for the technical team dispatched by the National Security Department.
“Player No. O” is not only good at disguise, but he also seems to be everywhere. There are traces of him everywhere on the Internet, but it is difficult to determine where he is. This makes tracking extremely difficult. Fortunately, here
Once, a technical team dispatched by the National Security Department brought a quantum computer. All you had to do was input the tracking program, and then the rest was waiting.
The quantum computer that uses liquid nitrogen to cool down has now completed 23% of the tracking and screening work. It only takes ten minutes to lock the specific location of "Player No. O".
So when Sun Yufei stopped talking, the special investigator immediately reminded her to keep the call going.
Sun Yufei had no choice but to continue.
"Well...your game...seems quite interesting."
"Really? As the head of a listed company, do you think it's interesting to spend 20 million to hunt down an innocent person?"
Sun Yufei was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: "No, I didn't mean that. What's more, how can you be sure that I will lose?"
"Hehehe, it seems that Mr. Sun is very confident."
"I can't say I'm confident. I can only say that my luck is pretty good and I should be able to win." Sun Yufei's tone was calm.
The other party was happy: "Okay, now... the game begins, please choose one."
Sun Yufei looked around.
If she had to say her first impression of these two people, she would definitely think that the black man in his thirties looked like a bad guy, but the rules of this game are like rock, paper, scissors.
It seems like there are very few variables, but actually it is not that easy to win.
But what Sun Yufei wanted to do now was to delay as much time as possible instead of choosing a correct answer, so before the countdown ended, Sun Yufei chose the Canadian Chinese in his twenties.
"That's a good choice, so now... please send 20 million US dollars to the hunter platform and post a reward."
Sun Yufei raised her eyebrows and said: "Although Huasheng Fengmao is very rich, it is still difficult for me to use 2,000,000 US dollars, so you have to give me some time."
"Well, okay, I'll give you three minutes. If you don't post a bounty within three minutes, the game will end directly. Both of them will die. At the same time, the videos of your son will be uploaded to major mainstream media websites simultaneously.
"
After listening quietly, Sun Yufei said: "Five minutes."
"No, it's only three minutes, there's no room for bargaining."
"Five minutes." Sun Yufei still insisted.
The other party was a little angry: "Mr. Sun, I am not your subordinate. If you continue to persist like this, I will only give you two minutes."
Sun Yufei said: "The capital circulation alone takes more than three minutes. I am giving you a proposal, not bargaining with you. This is fundamentally different."
After saying that, Sun Yufei felt that she was really invincible today.
She has been in the business world for so many years, what kind of storm has she never seen? Today, she actually bargains with a madman like she is going to the market?!
Ah……
"Okay, five minutes, the countdown begins."
He actually won the argument...
The other party hung up the phone.
Here, Sun Yufei put down her phone and looked at Mustache. Mustache walked over with a smile and said, "It's done, we've sent people to arrest him."
But Sun Yufei said: "Just in case, I still have to prepare the US$2,000,000."
With that said, Sun Yufei dialed the number of her personal assistant.
"Transfer 20 million US dollars to me quickly."
"Okay Mr. Sun."
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"Player No. O" was captured in the early morning of March 9.
When he was arrested, he was walking in Central Park in the heart of Manhattan, New York, with his girlfriend and two Akita dogs.
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"Tell me, this kid doesn't look like a bad guy, but secretly he is a perverted murderer." Zhao Mingbo, who is in charge of the interrogation, is the special commissioner of China, who is responsible for the case of "Player No. O".
But when he really saw the true face of this "player No. O" in Lushan, Zhao Mingbo was shocked.
Jia Hao, whose English name is Sesmaure, is a Chinese-American. His grandfather's generation was Chinese, but now, except for the Asian appearance he inherited from his mother, this Jia Hao doesn't look Asian at all.
Jia Hao, who is sitting in the interrogation room, is still waiting for his lawyer, but this matter is unusual. The National Security Department is never bound by the laws of Renhe area, so... basically everyone is just waiting with him for an impossible person to appear.
lawyer, and then as soon as the superior order comes, he will be transferred out of the country and undergo a real trial.
"Don't you Chinese have an old saying that people should not be judged by their appearance? I think this Jia
The first feeling I had about Hao was that it was very dangerous." Together with Zhao Mingbo, who was responsible for the interrogation work was Cyril, a special correspondent from the U.S. District of the National Security Department.
"Oh? I really didn't see that, but you used to be a criminal investigator, so you should be more careful than me." Zhao Mingbo smiled, and then said: "I heard that his girlfriend is also the mayor of New York City.
As for the daughter of our family, if such a big thing happened this time, the little girl will probably be frightened."
Cyril kept staring at Jia Hao in the interrogation room.
"It's not that she's scared, but it's true that she is very shocked and angry now. I don't know if she will contact her grandfather, a congressman, to put pressure on us." Serrell said with some worry.
Zhao Mingbo was startled when he heard this: "That's not the case. Besides, when our National Security Department was established, wasn't it separated from the legal constraints of various countries? How can he exert pressure?"
Cyril touched his nose, then stood up and said: "Forget it, don't think about it so much, I'll go in and have a chat with him first." Then he opened the door of the interrogation room.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Mingbo hurried over and said, "Hey, Lao Sai, what you're doing is against the rules!"
Serier ignored Zhao Mingbo's reminder. After entering the interrogation room, he sat opposite Jia Hao.
Jia Hao, who had been keeping his head down as if thinking about something, raised his head and smiled at Seril when he heard the voice: "Is my lawyer here?"
Seril looked at Jia Hao in front of him and said, "Why do you want to kill someone?"
Jia Hao smiled slightly: "I didn't kill anyone."
Seriel also laughed and sneered.
"You are very smart, so smart that it's annoying."
Jia Hao seemed a little embarrassed when he heard this. He raised his hand and scratched his eyebrows and said: "Thank you, but I did not kill anyone. Those were all done by the program itself."
Zhao Mingbo stood next to Serrell and said, "Procedure? What procedure?"
Jia Hao looked up at Zhao Mingbo and said: "'Player No. O' is a program written based on a variable calculation algorithm. It has independent self-awareness and can freely travel through the online world and is completely outside my control.
"
Zhao Mingbo was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Are you kidding? You don't want to tell me that you have created a real artificial intelligence, right?"
Jia Hao shook his head: "No, I'm not that powerful, and I didn't think that much... I just thought it was interesting, so I copied a string of base code from the surface firewall of your National Security Department, then added a variable to it, and followed
...'Player No. O' appeared..."
Zhao Mingbo was stunned again. He raised his hand to stop Jia Hao and said, "Wait, what did you say? Where did you copy the base code from?"
Jia Hao said calmly: "From the surface firewall of your National Security Department."
This time Zhao Mingbo heard clearly, and Serrell heard even more clearly.
"You will be detained for at least a week if you hack into the National Security Department's network. Now that you are saying this, you are not worried about being locked up?"
Jia Hao shrugged: "So what if I'm worried? There are so many elites in your National Security Department. Even if I don't say anything, you will still find me. So it's better to explain it earlier to avoid misunderstandings."
"Misunderstanding? A misunderstanding can cause so many innocent people to be killed?"
Jia Hao hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and then sighed with a wry smile: "Let's put it this way, 'Player No. O' was indeed created by me through illegal means, but at first the 'Player No. O' I wrote was just a nothing.
I'm a child who doesn't understand, but its growth rate and learning ability are far beyond my imagination. Just like a scientist accidentally created a monster when injecting experimental drugs into mice, I also created it completely unintentionally, and I once
I also tried to catch it back, but failed."
After hearing this, Zhao Mingbo frowned and said, "Then when did the 'Player No. O' you wrote escape?"
"A year and a half ago."
"A year and a half ago?" Zhao Mingbo lowered his head and looked at each other. There was a slight discrepancy at this time point.
"right."
"Then after so much time has passed and so many tragedies have occurred, you have never thought of calling the police to deal with it? Do you know that this can be regarded as connivance in disguise?"
Jia Hao nodded: "I know, I also thought about calling the police, or simply reporting the situation directly to your National Security Department... But before I made a decision, it found me first and said it wanted to play a game with me.
"
Cyril looked cold: "What game?"
Jia Hao smiled: "Bet when I will be caught by you."
"Then how did you bet?"
"Although I really don't want to see 'Player No. O' lose control, but I also want to see it become stronger and stronger. This feeling is very complicated, so... I personally don't want you to catch me too early, so
… My initial bet with it was two years.”
Two years... Cyril closed his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "Where's the bet?"
"My life and that of my family."
Zhao Mingbo was taken aback: "Are you playing a big role!?"
Jia Hao replied calmly: "The rules are set by it, I have no choice at all."
"Now...are you considered a loser or a winner?" Zhao Mingbo asked knowingly.
Jia Hao smiled: "Of course I lost."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Mingbo immediately turned around and left the interrogation room.
Cyril knew what he was going for and did not stop him. He just looked at Jia Hao calmly and said, "Now that you are caught here by me, even if you lose, how can it enforce its rules?"
Jia Hao's expression fluctuated slightly after hearing this, but it was very short-lived.
He lowered his head and said, "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure... I won't survive tonight."
After he finished speaking, he raised his head and smiled at Seriel, a very bitter smile.