The Lightless Sea 41

Given that many players know nothing about Depriver No. 233, they can only analyze it to this point.

In the first death notification, the players only knew that Depriver No. 233 had killed someone.

Who was the person killed by Depriver 233, in which city did he kill, why did he kill, what is his real identity… none of these very, very critical questions are known to the players.

It was only after the second death report that the players learned more about Depriver 233 from a series of events.

Who was the person killed by Depriver 233? Fang Zhi.

In which city did the murder occur? Tonglin City.

Why do you want to kill someone? For the task.

What is the real identity? He is from Jingchu area.

From knowing nothing to being able to carry out scope locking, there was only one notification and one mission in between.

464L: If Depriver 233 does not stop his actions, his tracks will become more and more difficult to hide until his identity is completely exposed. I want to know a very important question – how strong is Flayer 233? Can he be strong enough to compete with all players, and can he be strong enough to compete with powerful thermal weapons? If he is not so strong, as long as his brain is not broken, he will definitely hide in the future, and it will be difficult for us to find him again.

465L: I don’t think Depriver 233 will stop killing. He needs to be upgraded. Once again and again, there will be again and again.

As of 465L, the discussion about the depriver came to an abrupt end.

Because of the new notification on the forum, two death notifications were sent out, and the players were in an uproar.

The subsequent floors of this extremely popular post are not only discussing Depriver No. 233, but also the analysis content of Depriver No. 777.

Depriver No. 777… has a very regular number, and Kai Xin’s own number 233 is also regular. She can’t help but wonder if there is some kind of pattern hidden in all the depriver’s numbers. But now there are too few deprived people on the surface, not enough to support her guess.

As the second expropriator with a name on the forum after Kai Xin, the existence of No. 777 is of great significance.

His appearance shows that there are more deprived people hiding in the crowd.

“Three people, Agent 388 killed Agent 1339, and then Depriver 777 killed Agent 388. These three players must have overlapped in the real world.”

First floor: If there was a separate report that the depriver killed the agent, I am 99% sure that the purpose of the depriver is to seize the extraordinary ability, but these two reports show that things are unusual. According to the simplest logic, could the depriver No. 777 and the agent No. 1339 be friends, and 388 killed 1339, so the depriver killed 388 in order to avenge his friend? Or the three of them were all friends, and finally turned against each other because of certain things and started fighting and melee, the other two died, and Depriver 777 became the final winner?

8L: What the depriver No. 233 did next door made me think about a two-hour criminal action movie, and what the depriver No. 777 did made me think about an ethical love-hate movie. piece.

9L replied to 8L: Don’t make fun of other people’s suffering, it’s not funny at all. If you want to compare it to a movie, it is also a horror movie, a horror movie that takes place in the real world.

10L: Judging from the number of Chinese posts and foreign language posts in the forum, Huaguo players do not have a special advantage in terms of the number of players. The game “Crimson Earth” has no special preference for nationality. Depriver No. 777 is not necessarily a Chinese, but may be a foreigner. It’s not so unlucky, the two deprived people who killed people in a row belonged to us.

11L: I’m very confused. This is a modern society. Are you not afraid of being discovered if you kill someone?

12L: If they are afraid, they won’t kill them. Their confidence to kill people may come from their extraordinary ability.

13L: Don’t forget that some foreign countries do not ban guns. It is much easier to kill a person abroad than in China. Our country is relatively safe.

27L: Well now, not only the expropriators will kill the performers, but the performers will also kill the performers. The murder of the expropriators is motivated by profit, but what about the agent? Is there anyone in the world you can trust?

28L: I think that what is bad is never an identity or a group, it can only be a single person. The identity of the depriver and the drive of interests cannot be used as a reason to kill. A good person will not become bad just because he becomes a depriver. A bad person is an agent, but it does not mean that he can be considered a good citizen… Bad people are never It is the human heart, not a foreign object.

There are seven billion ordinary people in the world, and there are less than ten thousand surviving players.

There are very few players who meet in the real world. If they really meet, they can be said to be the chosen ones. So it is very difficult to find insiders in such a forum, unless a regional task is issued like that of Kaixin.

If it weren’t for the fact that the regional tasks were not reported, Kai Xin’s identity could be hidden more tightly.

butIt was this exchange post that inspired Kai Xin. Depriver No. 777 is indeed not necessarily from Huaguo, and she should expand the scope of the post.

So far, Kai Xin has only studied English for exams. His oral level is not good, and he only recognizes words taught in books. It is really difficult to read English posts, let alone some posts in other languages.

As a forum with mixed players from multiple countries, the forum prompts, floor signs, webpage buttons, and official sticky posts are displayed in Chinese for Chinese people, and for foreigners, they are displayed in the language of their country and region. Some people have posted and discussed this point.

For some posts with a lot of discussion, players from different countries sometimes translate each other. Although sometimes the content is machine-translated, there are many mistakes and omissions, but this is more or less a channel for information exchange, and every bit of information is precious. . Only with enough information can one gain a foothold in the second world.

Kai Xin focused on looking for translation posts and foreign language keywords on the homepage. She was dazzled by all kinds of strange letters. After ten minutes or so, a big guy with good English finally posted a translation post.

“Translate the post next door with the nickname ‘Z·D’, search keywords gun, killer, police in English title, translate content summary: A shooting occurred in the city where the host next door is located an hour and a half ago, he suspects the shooting The killer is the depriver, asking if the time of the shooting coincided with the time of the death announcement on the forum.”

First Floor: Next is the translated content. The paragraphs correspond to the contents of the first floor, 3L, 8L, and 16L of the main building next door. The level of translation is average, everyone can make do with it.

1. Shootings happen almost every day in my city, but this time I swear it was really different because the cops pretty much brushed past the killer and let him go! The road section where the shooting occurred was well monitored, and the police arrived and sealed off the scene less than five minutes later. result! The masked murderer walked out of the apartment where the shooting took place covered in blood with a gun in his hand, and went straight across the blockade. The police continued to investigate the scene as if they hadn’t seen it, and ignored the murderer! I’ll post the link to the video later.

2. The police in my city are a bunch of idiots, but I don’t think they would be so stupid as to miss the murderer. Especially the murderer was covered in blood. He held a semi-automatic rifle in his hand, which was very conspicuous. There were so many police officers at the scene, none of them responded to the murderer, and none of them even raised their guns to defend. This is so unusual!

3. I think it may be the supernatural ability of mental hypnosis. I was shocked when the police announced the monitoring of wanted suspects. Apart from supernatural ability, what else can explain all this.

4. The time zone of the city where the shooting happened is West Sixth District (CST), and the time node of the case announced by the police is 00:51. Now we only need to determine whether the time of the shooting is consistent with the time of the death notification on the forum. We can pass the time To determine whether the murderer is Depriver No. 777.

1L: Extraordinary spiritual ability!

2L: Who is quick to convert the time zone! Our forum has a full range of players in all time zones. There are people on the forum 24 hours a day, and someone must have seen it.

3L: When the shooting happened, the time in our country was around 14:51. They were at night, but we were in the daytime. There must be a lot of people surfing the forums. Now we are waiting for insiders to confirm the notification time.

18L: Oh my god, I saw it, and I was very impressed, because I ordered takeaway, and I was browsing the forum while waiting for the takeaway to arrive, and the takeaway happened to be delivered around 2:50 in the afternoon! The takeaway package hadn’t been opened yet, but when I checked the forum and saw the death notice, I was so scared that I went into cardiac arrest! The time is right!

19L: The case has been solved! Whoever speaks English very quickly to the landlord next door, let him quickly change his life in the city!

20L: It’s too early to solve the case. It can only show that he may be the depriver, and he doesn’t even know his real identity. The landlord next door said that the murderer was masked, and he didn’t know if he could be caught.

22L: I find it hard to catch, but the other party has such superpowers that even the police ignore him!

23L: How were the on-site monitoring records released? I thought the police would not announce surveillance in such a wicked situation?

24L replies to 23L: Uh… Maybe it’s for the convenience of being wanted? After all, the arrest warrant must include the physical characteristics of the murderer.

25L: Assuming that Depriver No. 777’s extraordinary ability is mental deception, his mental deception is definitely not able to fool the surveillance, it can only fool human eyes, and his body was captured by the surveillance.

26L: Why do I feel that Depriver No. 777 is more arrogant than Depriver No. 233? Dare to appear directly under the surveillance.

28L: Maybe he didn’t notice the monitoring. Some monitoring is in the corner, and you can’t see it without looking up. Perhaps this Depriver No. 777 relaxed his vigilance when he thought that he could confuse other people’s eyes with his extraordinary ability, and ignored the surveillance.

29L replied to 28L: This guess is somewhat outrageous…

30L replied to 29L: Not outrageous, even more outrageous things have happened in reality. You think the depriver is too invincible. To put it bluntly, most people in the world are ordinary people. It is normal for ordinary people’s IQ and ordinary people’s disposition to be difficult to cover everything. But in the final analysis, 28L’s guess is just a guess. Except for Depriver No. 777 himself, no one knows what he thinks. He was easily exposed, giving me a feeling similar to that of Depriver 233-he has nothing to fear.

31L: Agreed. Depriver No. 777 is nothing to rely onFear, I just went to the next door and climbed over the wall to watch the video link sent by the host next door. Damn, this murderer is really calm, just like that, he walked past the police pile with his gun raised. Are all deprivers high-ranking players?

32L: I think you have overlooked one thing. Depriver No. 777 may also have more than two supernatural abilities… It is not only by killing players that supernatural abilities can be obtained, it is also possible to kill awakened people or aliens in the second world, The death of the player will be notified, and the death of the NPC will not be notified… No one knows what the player will experience in the second world. The second world is not peaceful, and there is still a small-scale anti-terrorist war. Pawns or fighters also have a chance.

33L replied to 32L: Hiss… horror.

Kai Xin rubbed his temples after reading the more valuable discussion posts on the forum.

When she refreshed the forum again, she found that there was a type of post occupying a high place on the forum—team post.

She clicked into a few team posts and looked at them casually, then stopped paying attention. Most of the team posts are asking about countries or regions and requesting private chats. Everyone deliberately hides their real information and does not reveal too much personal information in the posts.

In fact, it is an inevitable phenomenon for players to join forces.

Whether forming a team in the first world or forming a team in the second world can effectively improve the survival rate. For example, in the first world, if you encounter an attack from the depriver, you can respond to the joint anti-enemy news in time, and you can ask other players for help if you encounter some dangers in the second world.

It can be predicted that in the near future, the survival of the depriver will become more and more difficult. They cannot form a team with other players, and they will also face hostility and confrontation from the agent player group. Not impossible.

Kai Xin digested the information he got from the forum for a while.

The players’ knowledge of Depriver 233 is still superficial, and the guesses based on the existing information are not completely accurate, which is good.

And Depriver No. 777… From Kai Xin’s point of view, his appearance is a good thing for her. Kai Xin vaguely felt that Depriver No. 777’s acting style was more arrogant and unscrupulous. Standing in front of him was a good target, which could attract firepower very well.

It’s good news that Depriver No. 777 is not in Huaguo. Kai Xin doesn’t need to give him too much attention, as long as she focuses on her own affairs.

Kai Xin glanced at his watch, it was almost evening. She was so busy today that she didn’t even have a bite of food.

In the morning, she used her extraordinary ability for a long time to kill Fang Zhi. She was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back. She didn’t notice the hunger in her body when she was all focused on the forum. Her brain was overwhelmed, and she was even a little dizzy from hunger.

Kui Xin went to the kitchen to cook for himself and cooked a little more, and ate lunch and dinner together.



6:30 the next morning.

Kai Xin put on a raincoat and deliberately left from the back door of the unmonitored community, walking through the streets and alleys as little as possible to appear under the surveillance cameras.

Before she left, she saw the message from the hacker.

Hacker: “We arrived in your city last night and stayed in a hotel. Have you figured out where to meet?”

Kai Xin glanced at the message and did not reply, but turned off his phone to avoid leaking the location.

She imagined several places to meet, one is a large shopping mall, the other is a park square near the government office, and the third is a restaurant with a private space but full monitoring of people coming and going.

But none of these locations could meet Kai Xin’s needs. She needs a place that is quiet, not easy to be eavesdropped on and peeped at, and at the same time not too remote for people to come and go.

The reason why she wanted to find such a place was not for herself, but to prevent the hackers from becoming suspicious.

Kui Xin had two plans – make a deal, or carry out the next hunt.

Which choice she makes depends on the attitude and strength of the hackers.

The hackers didn’t come here solely for the purpose of soliciting. They have some things that are inconvenient to say in text messages and need to have an interview with Kai Xin.

Today is still a cloudy day, and it is raining continuously.

When Kai Xin arrived at the mall, he looked up to observe the building.

Having lived in this city for so many years, she has long been accustomed to the existence of various buildings, but this is the first time she has observed the city’s buildings with a critical eye.

Surrounded by many high-rise buildings, this six-story shopping mall looks a bit small. The top floor of the shopping mall is a public badminton court. On rainy days, almost no one comes to play. Kai Xin chose the meeting place there.

Because the badminton court on the top floor is sparsely populated and spacious, it is not easy to be peeped and eavesdropped. Vehicles need to pass through several surveillance cameras to enter. Pedestrians can either take the elevator to go upstairs, or avoid the surveillance cameras and go up the fire exit on the side of the mall.

Kai Xin didn’t immediately go to the badminton court to wait for someone.

She turned around and left, taking a detour to a taller building not far from the shopping mall. This building is an activity center for the elderly. She turned left and right under the building to find the fire escape, and then walked up and climbed a dozen floors. Building, the roof of this building is usually open. A group of old men and women can drink tea, chat and play mahjong on the balcony. Of course, there is no one here on rainy days, so she can monopolize the roof.

Standing on the edge of the roof guardrail and looking down, you can just see the public badminton court on the top floor of the shopping mall. The view is clear and there are no obstructions. It is an excellent sniping point.

Kai Xin has an occupational disease, and always feels that there are heavy things in her hands… It would be great if she happened to be holding a K80 in her hand.After observing the field of vision, Kai Xin came down from the roof of the building, took a detour to a small square in the distance, and turned on his mobile phone to send a message to the hacker.

Kui Xin: “The badminton court on the top floor of Baihua Shopping Center, see you at nine o’clock.”

Hacker: “No problem.”

After posting the news, Kai Xin turned off his mobile phone again, took a detour back to the building where the elderly activity center was located, climbed more than a dozen floors and returned to the rooftop, glanced at the badminton court on the top floor of the mall and the streets outside the mall from time to time, and waited calmly.

The purpose of leaving the building and turning on the mobile phone to send messages is still to avoid leaking the location when the mobile phone is turned on and connected to the Internet.

Kui Xin didn’t take the subway on the way to the mall, and it took a lot of time. It’s past eight o’clock now.

She took out the elderly phone from another pocket, glanced at the time, and began to wait boredly.

Near nine o’clock, a dark gray car drove up on the avenue below the shopping mall. It was a low-key model, but Kai Xin recognized it as a luxury car with sharp eyes. Because when she was in the second year of high school, there was a male student in her class who liked to show off his wealth. His nanny would drive this car to pick him up from school every time. He once said lightly: “This car is not expensive, it is only a few million Well, it belongs to the most stylish and stable one among high-end cars.”

The car was a little far away, and Kai Xin couldn’t see the license plate number.

She silently watched the dark gray car try to park in the underground garage, but was stopped by the mall security. It rained heavily yesterday, and the underground garage was a little waterlogged. The dark gray car had no choice but to turn around and parked in the open parking lot outside the mall.

Two men and one woman got out of the car. The taller man was wearing a white shirt and slacks, the woman was wearing a light green dress, and the remaining one in a blue sweater seemed to be about the same age as Kai Xin, but a little shorter than the other two. There is a black frame on the face.

They walked into the mall through the main entrance and disappeared from Kai Xin’s sight.

“Could it be them? It seems to be… But they don’t even hide from the monitoring. Is it because they don’t have this awareness or hackers will delete the monitoring records?” Kai Xin guessed secretly.

Three minutes later, the trio who got out of the dark gray car came to the badminton court and looked around, as if they were looking for someone.

Kai Xin almost confirmed the identities of the three of them.

She still didn’t take any action, but stood calmly on the edge of the roof, watching them from the blind spot of the Kana trio for more than an hour.

During the period, the boy with glasses looked down at his phone and tapped the screen many times, as if he was sending a message. The lady in the light green dress was holding an umbrella, and the high-heeled shoes were hitting the ground, and the waiting became more and more impatient. The remaining tall man frowned and kept looking around.

Other than that, the three of them didn’t make any extra moves.

Kai Xin was relieved, and confirmed his speculation again – the hackers are all ordinary people, even though they may have extraordinary abilities, their thinking is still that of ordinary people.

She intentionally left a time gap to test whether they would do anything, but they didn’t, which shows that their purpose of coming to see her is quite pure.

Kai Xin turned and went downstairs.

Before going to the badminton court, she had to go downstairs to memorize the license plate number of the car driven by the hacker.



“Why isn’t this little girl here yet? Check to see if she has replied.” The woman said with a sigh.

The spectacled boy glanced down at the phone: “No…she won’t run away right? We know her home address, so she should think it’s useless to run away.”

The woman said: “So what if we know her home address? This little girl is so resistant. We came to find her, isn’t that trying to force her? It’s normal for her to be afraid, and it’s also normal for her to run away. We are strangers after all.” People, if she really doesn’t want to contact us, then let her live a peaceful life as if this didn’t happen.”

“Well, wait another ten minutes.” The man said, “Leave if you can’t wait.”

“Will she call the police…” The glasses boy asked worriedly, “She called the police last time.”

“She won’t call the police.”

“How are you sure?”

“A woman’s intuition.”

The boy with glasses: “…Uh, okay.”

“As long as I see her, I can know whether she is a trustworthy person.” The woman said, “I hope she can come, at least she can be sure that she is not Depriver No. 233, we can exclude a person, shrink Find range.”

Her supernatural ability is “Malicious Mark”, a supernatural ability that has no combat power but can help her see the essence of human character.

For a person with malicious intentions, she can see a black mark on the top of the other person’s head, and for a person with good intentions, the mark on the top of the head will tend to white. At the same time, the deeper the other party’s malice toward her, the darker the color of the malicious mark.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came from the aisle of the badminton court, and the girl in a raincoat came upstairs panting.

She stood at the passageway and didn’t move forward, and didn’t make a sound. She watched the three people on the badminton court vigilantly, as if she was ready to flee at any moment.



“Hello, are you Kai Xin?” the woman in the green dress said gently.

Kai Xin didn’t say hello, she looked at the three of them: “Who is Xie Ganqing?”

“It’s me.” The tall man stood up.

In fact, Kai Xin saw him at the first sight. He is very similar to the photo on the display page of the outstanding graduates of Capital University. It can be seen that they are the same person.

“You refused to tell me your identities during the chat, saying that you would wait until the official meeting. Now that we have met, you can introduce yourself.” Kui Xin cut to the chase.

“Yuan Lu, he lives in the provincial capital,” the woman said.

“Yu Qiwen,” glassesThe teenager said, “I was the hacker who first talked to you. I used a voice changer. I’m sorry I lied to you and made you go to the police station.”

This is what Yuan Lu taught him, to admit his mistakes before meeting, so as not to arouse Kai Xin’s resistance.

Yuan Lu felt relieved when he saw the malicious mark on Kai Xin’s head. It was not black but gray, which meant that she was neutral, neither benevolent nor malicious. Yuan Lu has never seen pure white or pure black. People’s attitudes are always complicated and changeable. The colors she sees are often white to gray or black to gray. All are “white”.

If it was Depriver No. 233, it would definitely not be neutral in the face of the three agents who came to the door. Black is normal. It is impossible for Kai Xin to have much kindness in the face of the three people who met her rashly. Her gray mark of malice made Yuan Lu feel very real.

Kai Xin pretended to be uneasily biting his lip, and refused to get closer to them.

“Do you still monitor my mobile phone?” She chose to ask this question first.

Yu Qiwen quickly clarified: “After communicating with you, I stopped monitoring, and I am not a voyeur. At that time, it was mainly to confirm that you were not that person, and to prevent information leakage. Now that the purpose has been achieved, I will not do it again. I did this, sorry!”

He said sorry again.

Kai Xin’s expression softened slightly. She carefully looked at Yu Qiwen’s demeanor and demeanor, and felt that there was a high probability that he was not lying.

Yuan Lu saw a small change in the malicious mark on Kai Xin’s head, and the gray color became lighter.

“We are here not only to meet you, but also to confirm a few things with you. I hope you can answer us.” Xie Ganqing said, “I can pay a reward of one million. If there is any additional useful information, an additional one million.”

Kai Xin hesitated: “So much money is not real at all…”

Xie Ganqing thought for a while: “Don’t worry, if the questions you answered are useful to us, I will pay you according to the truth. The money is worth a lot, and all of it belongs to you. If you are worried about a large sum of money in your account It will arouse the suspicion of others, I can help you open a private account in a foreign private bank.”

“…Have you ever posted a transaction post on the forum?” Kai Xin heard his tone very familiar.

“Well, I posted a post on alien biological information trading. It seems that you have seen that post.” Xie Ganqing said, “It’s a pity that the trade was not made in the end, and some kind-hearted players have carried out popular science.”

Kai Xin: “…”

Turning around, it turned out to be the same person. The dare-love players are a circle, and they will meet sooner or later. But this is unavoidable, the current player base is too small, there are only a few Huaguo players who post on the forum, and very few of the posts arouse heated discussions. After three days, Kai Xin has familiarized several nicknames .

“Ask, I may not answer.” Kai Xin said slowly.

“Where did you meet Fang Zhi?” Xie Ganqing said.

The reason for asking these questions face-to-face is to prevent the other party from lying, and the chances of the other party lying when talking face-to-face will be much smaller.

“I ran into him on the way back from my part-time job.” Kai Xin said.

“Can you be more specific?” Xie Ganqing asked.

To be more specific, it is the downstairs of Su Rong’s house. She will drag Su Rong into it.

“I met him near the residential area on Qionghua Avenue, and followed him all the way for a long time.” Kui Xin said.

Xie Ganqing asked carefully: “What was Fang Zhi’s state at the time? Did you panic, hide from someone, or look for someone?”

“I can’t tell if he’s panicked or not. His face is tightly covered.” Kai Xin pretended to be thinking about it seriously, “He walked so fast that I almost couldn’t catch up. Does this count as panic? ?”

Yu Qiwen and Yuan Lu exchanged glances.

Xie Ganqing paused, “When he found you following him, what did he say to you when he turned around?”

“He said what are you doing with me, so I said I’m sorry for admitting the wrong person. He said you must be mentally ill, you are with me, and I will beat you up again, and I said a few words of sorry.” Kui Xin whispered , “Then he left.”

“Which direction are you going?”

“I told Yu Qiwen the first time he called… Chaonan…”

“Sorry, I want to confirm again.”

Xie Ganqing said, “Where did you go after you separated from Fang Zhi?”

Kai Xin looked at him inexplicably: “Are you a policeman? Are you interrogating so carefully?”

“Sorry, but you don’t have to answer this one.” Xie Ganqing said.

Kai Xin rolled his eyes and said: “I went to the southwest and read a book in the Expo bookstore, but it rained after a while. I wanted to wait for the rain to stop and go home, but it kept raining, so I bought an umbrella. .”

Kai Xin has confirmed that the surveillance camera on the road in the southwest is broken. It is being repaired in the past two days. The Expo Bookstore is the first one at the intersection on the west side. There are no cameras in the store either.

Because she was the one who took a shortcut to chase Fang Zhi from this road, so she observed more carefully.

Even if they went to investigate, they couldn’t find any loopholes.



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