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Blazing Armour - Chapter 35

Published at 22nd of November 2022 08:00:10 AM


Chapter 35

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Gong Yingxian takes Ren Yu to another office area. This is a room with a very large span. A wall is paved with LED boards in front. Rows of desks are filled with computers and some equipment Ren Yu doesn't know. At this time, more than half of the people are working overtime.

Gong Yingxian went to a table in the corner and shouted to a thick figure, "Xiao tan."

The figure shook, a mouthful of coke sprayed out and spilled half of the keyboard. He hurriedly stood up and took out a paper towel to wipe it.

Gong Yingxian shook his head: "it's off work now. You don't have to hide if you want to eat."

The man turned around and said with a smile, "Dr. Gong, you scared me."

He looks in his early twenties. He looks white and fat. His eyes are big, round and clear. His skin is so tender that he seems to be able to pinch out water. He smiles gently and innocuously. If he loses weight, he must be a handsome man.

"This is Ren Yu, captain of Phoenix squadron. This is tan HaoChun, a colleague of our cyber crime department. He is a very powerful hacker."

"No, it's not very powerful." Tan HaoChun smiled awkwardly and stretched out his hand to Ren Yu, "Hello, Captain Ren."

"Hello."

Ren Yi just held out his hand. Tan HaoChun retracted his hand like an electric shock. "Sorry, my hands are dirty. I'll wash them first."

Gong Yingxian stretched out his long arm and blocked Tan HaoChun's face. He took out disinfectant from his pocket: "sit down and save some time."

Tan HaoChun sat down and held out his hand like a pupil waiting to be punished by the teacher.

Gong Yingxian sprayed disinfectant on his hands. He rubbed them, and then wiped them clean with a paper towel.

Ren Yu held back his smile and gave a light cough.

The two shook hands again. Tan HaoChun blinked and looked at Ren Yu: "I often heard female colleagues mention captain Ren recently. As expected, they are as tall and handsome as they said."

Ren Yu said with a smile, "really, I'm so popular in your branch. I'll ask about which pay is higher when I'm a police inspector or a firefighter another day. Maybe I'll change something."

Tan HaoChun laughed and said, "Captain Ren is so humorous."

Gong Yingxian looks down at the potato chips, beef jerky, melon seeds and coke stains on Tan HaoChun's table.

Tan HaoChun quickly cleaned up everything he could, wiped everything he could, and then nervously looked at Gong Yingxian.

Gong Yingxian pointed aside: "bring two chairs."

Both of them turned around to move chairs.

Gong Yingxian sat in his chair: "Xiao Tan, you just told me that there is progress. It happens that Zhou Chuan can be reviewed tomorrow. I need some useful information now."

"Yes." Tan HaoChun switched the screen, and a web page with crimson background and flame pattern appeared in front of them. The website is in pure English. The head is a human faced snake with six wings. The snake is wrapped around a sword with burning flames.

The lower line of small characters is -- seraph.

Different from Ren Yu's imagination, the home page of the dark web is very concise. He thinks that the dark web will be like those pop-up yellow websites. In a way of information explosion, he wants to put all the eye-catching things on one page, but the home page doesn't even have a picture, only the website logo, name and several classification boxes.

The "live" option comes first.

"This is the blazing angel." Just looking at this dark net, Ren Yu has felt a little depressed, "this website is specially built for arsonists?"

"Arsonism, to be exact." Tan HaoChun said, "not all arsonists have the courage to commit crimes. Everything on this website is related to fire. You can imagine what you can't imagine. There are live broadcasts of playing with fire and arson, photos and videos, tutorials on arson or making explosives, and communication forums. Almost everything about fire can be found here."

"Are there many people like Zhou Chuan?"

Tan HaoChun nodded: "people like Zhou Chuan are called bounty hunters on this website. They make money by satisfying arsonism. For example, at the scene after the fire like the fourth perspective, a set of photos and videos can sell at least 10 'quarks'."

"Quark?"

"Quark is a physical term, the smallest particle known at present." Gong Yingxian said.

Tan HaoChun nodded: "well, but the quark here is the name of a virtual currency. Like bitcoin and Ethereum, it is certainly not so valuable. A quark is about... About $20 to $25."

"So Zhou Chuan can earn one or two thousand yuan by taking that set of photos?" Ren Yu sneered, "he was detained for 48 hours. Is it cost-effective?"

"Yes, but live broadcasting is much more expensive." Tan HaoChun said, "for the live broadcast after the fire, the starting price for five minutes is more than $200. Of course, the money is usually raised by people participating in the live broadcast instead of one person. If you put forward special requirements, you have to pay more."

Gong Yingxian said in a deep voice, "the live broadcast of the ruins after the fire belongs to the lower level in the blazing angel."

"What about the high-level ones?" Ren Yi subconsciously clenched his fist, "is arson live?"

Tan HaoChun's face was a little ugly. "There are... All kinds of live broadcasts here, some... Some are really not capable of people."

Gong Yingxian said expressionless, "some people burn all kinds of objects live, and... Burn people."

Ren Yi took a breath and said in a trembling voice, "why does this website still exist?"

Tan HaoChun smiled bitterly: "Because it's too difficult to catch. Their servers are all over the world. To destroy such a dark network, police investigators from several countries need to cooperate in handling cases, which is almost impossible. Unless the technicians are caught, but the programmers of this website are too awesome, which is the level of the world's top hackers. I conquered it for three days before I found the loophole in the firewall. I was sent in three minutes Now. "

"Have you found anything useful?"

Tan HaoChun scratched his hair: "I'll show you a video first. You should be prepared."

"... what?"

"This video is the top three hits of blazing Angel recently, and once ranked first." Tan HaoChun looked at them and hesitated.

Gong Yingxian said, "put it."

Tan HaoChun switched a web page. Looking at the freeze frame picture on the video, they felt familiar and had an ominous hunch in their hearts.

Press the play button, the dark background becomes clear from blur, and a yellow car appears in the picture, which is a car they will never forget!

After everything, Gong Yingxian and Ren Yu were very clear, because they were at the scene at that time. They were all cold and heard their voice enter the picture. Then the car was lit by the man in black. The fire rushed to Zhou Chuan. Zhou Chuan fell to the ground and the camera began to shake.

Ren Yu still remembers the notebook on the tripod with the camera facing the car. At that time, the tripod was burned and fell down for some time, that is... That is to say, before the tripod fell down, he and Gong Yingxian appeared in the picture!

At that time, they were anxious to save people, cats and fire. The scene was chaotic and completely ignored the camera, which had been silently shooting, recording and live broadcasting the burning car.

Their faces became more and more ugly. Although it was difficult to see their faces in the video, they clearly remembered that they had called each other's names.

Until Gong Yingxian dragged Ren Yu away from the front of the car, and the camera fell to the ground.

Ren Yu only felt his mouth dry and his tongue dry. He couldn't tell what he was feeling at this time. Gong Yingxian's eyes were gloomy and full of killing Qi.

Tan HaoChun secretly glanced at them: "I'll open the Barrage now, you want..."

Gong Yingxian said in a cold voice, "I don't need psychological preparation. Don't waste time."

Ren Yu whispered, "come on, Xiao Tan is helping us."

Tan HaoChun waved his hand: "it's all right." He opened the barrage.

For a moment, scrolling messages appeared on the video, mostly in English.

Ren Yu's English is not very good, but he has passed CET-4 for his credits. He saw some people say that this video is great. Some say that one is a police inspector and the other is a firefighter. Some say they want to hear their screams in the car. Some say that their handsome faces will be carbonized, which will be the most beautiful picture in the world.

Then, Ren Yu saw his name, age, telephone number, location, address, position and Firefighter number in Chinese and English, followed by Gong Yingxian.

His hair stood on end.

Gong Yingxian narrowed his eyes: "they can find so much from only one video?"

"This video has exposed a lot of things." Tan HaoChun said, "it's not difficult for hackers. But you don't have to worry too much. Even if you know it abroad, it's not easy to harass you. At home, more than half of them don't dare to expose themselves. Have you received harassing calls these days?"

"No." Gong Yingxian sneered, "I don't worry. Most arsonists are timid and weak. They are silent, shy and unsocial in society. They use fire to cover up and strengthen themselves. Subconsciously, they think that the bigger the fire is, the bigger they are. They have a typical coward mentality. They don't have the courage to contact police and firefighters."

"They have no courage, but most of the bounty hunters who make money by satisfying them are not arsonists. Among them, there are real vicious criminals. You should be careful." Tan HaoChun whispered, "now... Someone has offered a high price for something related to you."

Ren Xuan gnashed his teeth and said, "I'm worried that I can't catch these animals. If I have seed, I'll fucking come."

"Show me." Gong Yingxian said, "maybe you can use this to catch people."

"Yes, the man in black."

Tan HaoChun switched the web page again: "the reward is here. The first crowd raised nearly 40000 US dollars, as long as... Any one of you. But don't worry, no one dares to answer for several days."

Gong Yingxian looked at the reward list carefully and said, "that man in black is the first time. He shouldn't be with Zhou Chuan."

"How do you know?" Ren asked.

"I have repeatedly watched the video taken by our mobile phone. The man in black is clumsy, hesitant, nervous and afraid. From a lot of body language, he is reluctant and hopes to finish it quickly. Moreover, he has not seen the live broadcast from beginning to end. Obviously, he is not interested in reward and just blocks his face and characteristics. He doesn't seem to come for money, like he was coerced."

Ren recalled: "but he didn't hesitate when he burned the car."

"He burned the car to create chaos and ran away." Gong Yingxian said, "no one answered our reward task."

"Well, there are still relatively few Chinese people on this website, and the Apocalypse is so good that it is too risky to start with a public harmony staff, although $40000 is already a high reward." Tan HaoChun said, "in short, you'd better be careful, just in case."

Ren Yu asked, "what are the usual rewards at this level?"

"Burn the living, or burn large, important and well-known things. There are a lot of people. Even if the price of buildings is high, it is difficult to take over, especially in developed countries. The goal is too big and easy to be caught."

"What a bunch of perverts." Ren Yu scolded.

"What useful clues have you found?" Gong Yingxian said, "is it just our video?"

"No, there is information about the live broadcast and some things I dug up on this website." Tan HaoChun said, "there's one thing I care about. I found a post in their forum."

"What post?"

"Dr. Gong, do you remember the murder in the toilet of a famous fast food restaurant in Utah a few years ago?"

"Remember, two high school students exchanged murders." Gong Yingxian was surprised: "do you mean they invite and Exchange arson objects in the forum?!"




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