Yu Guang

Chapter 14
What surprised Wang Ze was that He Chou, a busy man, not only had an account on Liming Street, but also had a high level.

When Wang Ze borrowed the equipment from the police station to log in to Liming Street, and when the basic characters appeared in Xinshou Square, he saw the 'black-skinned ancient Greek male model' walking towards him, and almost laughed himself out of the connection.

"Tsk."

The corner of He Qiu's mouth twitched, his face full of contempt: "The primary aesthetics of a rookie."

Wang Ze looked down at his basic sporty attire, and pulled out the mall menu.

After half a minute.

Accompanied by the rich golden light, Wang Ze, who put on a collection-style suit, bowed slightly to the ancient Greek male model in front of him, and pulled out a deerstalker cap and put it on his head.

Immediately afterwards, the palm of Wang Ze's right hand shone with light, and a pitch-black crutch covered with gold patterns quickly condensed, and he leaned on it by his hand.

"It's time to find out the truth, Mr. Inspector."

After getting addicted to the drama, Wang Ze walked towards the coffee shop on the street, leaving only He Chou staring there, and the continuous system broadcast about obtaining 'gold quality props'.

He Qiu looked down at the thin sheet covering his body, his fingers trembling slightly.

Who would consume directly on Liming Street?
Isn't this just a forum!

Can you still communicate normally as an ordinary person!

"Hurry up," Wang Ze greeted without turning his head, "We are very passive now."

"I'm coming!"

He Qiu complained a few words, changed himself into a more serious attire, and joined the lively crowd with Wang Ze.

Leaving the small square where newcomers log in for the first time, the bustling main street is ahead.

At a glance, if you don't consider the strange-shaped users walking on the road, there is not much difference between this place and the real street after virtual enhancement.

There are two rows of buildings with different styles on both sides of the main street, and swirls of various colors are hung on the gates of each building.

——This kind of vortex can also be regarded as an old tradition of the Ninth Art.

Each building represents an independent [game world], and most of them are virtual game worlds with perfect world view and real body feeling.

Those figures who keep pushing the door in and out are naturally the players of these games.

They will spend a certain amount of real currency to buy tickets for these games, enter and enjoy the fun, or take this as a job and work hard to earn game currency to exchange for real currency.

When they leave the game they have two options:

One, log out directly, leave the game with consciousness, return to the real physical world where your body is, and enjoy real life.

Second, choose to enter the 'virtual community' on the logout interface, and continue to enjoy the virtual social experience outside the game.

Liming Street is a virtual community with a forum nature.

Here, users only need to spend a certain amount of real currency to create an independent virtual appearance; they can also pay more coins to keep the appearance of their characters in the game world.

Clothes like Wang Ze's seemingly low-key but full of details at this time also cost a lot of money.

Of course, the management system of Liming Street will adjust the appearance of these game characters, compress, enlarge, and put them on a three-dimensional mosaic, so that they strictly abide by the "Mother Star Virtual Community Civilization Treaty".

——Otherwise, if a few Tyrannosaurus rex players pop out from the game world of the 'Jurassic' series, the entire branch line will be paralyzed.

Wang Ze fiddled with his personal page for a while, successfully turned on the ambient sound effects, and heard some noisy discussions around him.

"...The street murder case is definitely not a rumor. You can see that it has been on the hot search for so long, and the police have not stepped forward to refute the rumor."

"This matter has been going on for four or five days, and it has been publicized by Weixing Group."

"We also set up a group, and we used the trumpet to keep an eye on the posts, and delete every Weixing Group post, which made a few buddies in the group almost explode."

"In this case, Wei Xing hasn't issued an announcement yet."

"...I want to boycott Wei Xing, for nothing but his arrogance in deleting posts, and will not be online for a week starting tomorrow."

"Aren't you stupid, Weixing Group will lose nothing if you don't go online.

"The Weixing Group makes money from the game dealers. We log in to a game through Liming Street, and they charge a certain commission from the game. The most profitable thing is the slot here. The fee for a slot is sky-high. They Weixing also Invested in a lot of games.

"If you really want to boycott Wei Xing, you hang up your account on Liming Street, change your clothes, walk around, cut the sub-line every five seconds, consume their server resources, and then log in to the game through other channels.

"However, if you log in to the game through other channels, your previous game account will definitely be gone. You have to start from scratch. Many games are still exclusive to Wei Xing."

"That's not a big loss."

"So Wei Xing has nothing to fear, they still have a non-refundable overlord agreement."

Wang Ze randomly collected several samples and found that the Liming Street user group was basically discussing the Liming Street murder case.

After all, the public opinion has just been completely detonated, and the panic has not yet spread. Most people feel that this is a novelty and complain about Weixing Group's public relations actions.

Even the number of active players on Liming Street in the same hour was forcibly increased by one quarter due to the sudden news.

……

Standing in front of the cafe, Wang Ze opened the personal panel that only he could see, and adjusted the branch line with He Qiu.

They tried a few times, and each time they chose to teleport to the '[-]' sub-line at the time of the crime, but after the special effects of the teleportation disappeared, both of them randomly appeared in '[-]' or '[-]' 'Sub-line.

Moreover, the number of players in these two sub-lines is very rare, and they are in a state of being restricted.

"The branch line at the time of the incident should have been locked by Wei Xing," He Qiuwen said, "Should I go to their technical representative?"

"No need for now," Wang Ze said, "In order not to interfere with their technical detection, let's just go in and have a look. It's actually quite difficult to get clues here, just come here to find ideas."

He Qiu responded and pushed the door forward.

But Wang Ze closed his eyes, carefully recalling the trajectory of Wen Quan's avatar.

He has watched the related video no less than twenty times.

Which hand Wen Quan pushed to open the door, how he chose the seat, what actions he made in the 6 minutes after taking the seat, and the direction his eyes looked...Wang Ze wrote it down clearly.

At this moment, Wang Ze imitated Wen Quan's actions, walked to the seat by the window and sat down, turning his head to look at the bustling street scene outside the window.

He Qiu sat where Lin Xiaoxia was at that time, clicked on the menu in the coffee shop, and bought two cups of coffee that Wen Quan wanted at that time.

Bow your head and take a sip, the taste is quite strong.

"Old Wang," He Qiu whispered, "Don't put too much pressure on me, this matter is beyond our capabilities."

Wang Ze smiled and said, "How do you say?"

"The murderer's criminal method is achieved through high-tech capabilities, modifying the monitored cloud records and local records, and can do so without any flaws. Our technicians can't find any traces... This is a bit scary."

He Qiu breathed a sigh of relief:

"Now I'm worried that the other party's technical strength is far superior to that of Weixing Group, which will cause the case to come to a dead end again.

"If it is an ordinary homicide, our police can quickly solve the case with technological advantages.

"If it is a case carefully laid out by an ordinary murderer, you will have a lot of room to play. You are good at handling this kind of case. In a small area, through meticulous reasoning and careful observation, you can quickly locate the murderer.

"But it's obviously different this time...Old Wang, I regret dragging you into this muddy water."

Wang Ze stirred his coffee: "I don't think so."

He picked up the cup, brought it to his mouth and smelled it, then put it aside again.

Wang Ze said: "As long as people use this technology, it will leave flaws, and there must be a direction for detection.

"Technology has always been an extension of the human body, no matter how advanced the technology is, it can't cover up the crimes he committed, it's just that the methods have become more secretive.

"What's more, when we feel difficult about the case itself, the murderer has actually exposed a tail."

"How to say?" He Qiu asked with great interest.

Wang Zedao: "After sitting here, I realized that we all ignored the most obvious piece of logic."

"logic?"

"Is the murderer trying to kill people, or is he trying to make news?"

He Qiu leaned back, as if he understood, but only a little bit.

Wang Ze said:
"We compare this case to an ordinary homicide.

"After an ordinary homicide, in order to evade legal sanctions, the murderer will try his best to hide all clues, and there are not a few people who dispose of the corpse to cover up the crime.

"What about this case?

"The murderer committed the crime here in front of everyone, through Wen Quan's death, to highlight a bullet that 'penetrates virtuality and reality', and blatantly said that you are the first.

"His behavior was more of a show.

"If the murderer wants to take revenge on Wen Quan and Wen Quan's other partners that may exist, shouldn't he kill Wen Quan secretly, and then take advantage of the other targets' failure to respond, and get rid of the remaining targets as quickly as possible?

"The murderer's motive is revenge killing? It doesn't make sense logically."

He Qiu said: "Maybe the murderer is extremely confident and deliberately provoke us who handle the case?"

Wang Ze picked up the coffee again, lowered his head and blew away the latte art on the surface of the coffee.

He continued:

"In fact, we can continue to wait, as long as the murderer acts again, the real motive will naturally surface.

"But we can't do nothing, we must do everything possible to prevent the murderer from committing another crime.

"That's why I feel passive."

He Qiu looked at the coffee cup in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Wang Ze frowned, and finally convinced himself to try the taste of coffee in the mother planet's virtual community.

The feeling of the liquid passing over the tip of the tongue is so real, and the slightly dissolving bitterness makes Wang Ze feel more awake.

"Is it possible," Wang Ze asked, "Wen Quan's death time was actually a little earlier, Liming Street account was stolen, and the person who appeared here at 25:[-] was not the real Wen Quan?"

He Qiu nodded slowly: "Your assumption is indeed reasonable. If you want to find relevant evidence, you must get Weixing's server data... So you always want them to hand over the data for third-party identification?"

Wang Ze smiled and said, "Can't you force Wei Xing to hand over the data?"

"There is someone above them," He Qiu shook his head depressingly, "If such low-level incidents as account theft really happened, and were involved in the murder case, Weixing's technical team can resign directly."

"How to say?"

"What era is it called now? The virtual era. The foundation of the virtual era is the absolute security of the network environment. The account is bound to the individual's brainwaves, and it must pass the eight-fold biological verification. If this can be stolen..."

He Chou muttered: "I learned about this when I was in the anti-fraud department more than ten years ago. The possibility of being hacked is almost zero."

Wang Ze pondered a few times and fell into silence.

The scenery outside the window is still the same, and there are many users walking around in the coffee shop, but most of them have entered 'instances' one by one.

After a while, Wang Ze asked again: "Have you investigated Wen Runruyu's online name?"

"I found out before," He Qiu said, "it was a popular game more than 20 years ago, Genesis Titan, Wen Run Ru Yu was Wen Quan's game ID at that time."

"Then?"

"There is no other useful information. We suspect that this may be an enemy in the game world... Although this matter sounds a bit outrageous."

"It's really outrageous."

Wang Ze let out a breath, leaned on the sofa, looked at the bustling street scene outside the window, closed his eyes and focused, sorting out some messy thoughts in his mind.

He has handled more complex cases.

But this time, the possibility of the murderer committing crimes again, as well as the murderer's extraordinary ability, made Wang Ze feel a little bit of difficulty for a long time.

What are the other points to get clues?
The deceased's wife, Lin Xiaoxia, did not go offline more than ten minutes after the incident, and then quickly called the police. Even if the possibility of "fake timeline" was not considered, there was a certain amount of time from when she went offline to the arrival of the police, so the suspicion was naturally the greatest.

And the abnormality of the wounds of the dead;

missing murder weapon
Lin Xiaoxia's murder motive that has not yet surfaced;
"Old He, please also give me a copy of the record of asking the relatives and friends of the deceased, as well as the colleagues of the hunting group, I..."

Wang Ze opened his eyes while speaking, but his voice suddenly stopped.

He Chou was a little confused, so he raised his head to look at Wang Ze, but saw Wang Ze staring at the window, with a bit of shock on his face, and faint excitement, he held his breath, and tensed his body.

What's outside the window?
He Qiu looked carefully, and could only see all kinds of 'creatures' flowing on the street.

But from Wang Ze's perspective.

The shadow stood there.

Wearing a black cloak, his face was covered by black mist, and he could only see the pair of dark green eyes, which seemed to have a bit of sneer.

Those eyes were also fixed on Wang Ze.

"Pharaoh, what's wrong?"

The figure outside the window suddenly began to melt, and quickly dissipated before Wang Ze's eyes like ashes after a flame had burned.

Wang Ze jumped up and rushed towards the store door like the wind.

"Pharaoh!"

He Qiu hurriedly followed, and ran out of the coffee shop after Wang Ze, but saw Wang Ze stopped not far in front, staring solemnly at the open space outside the window in front of him.

"Quickly, contact the technical department!"

Wang Ze's voice trembled slightly, and his eyes were extremely bright.

Without hesitation, He Qiu immediately went offline and called for help.

At this moment, Wang Ze's pupils reflected his personal operation panel, and the sound of 'tick' and 'tick' echoed in his ears.

In the center of his personal panel,
07:42:20
07:42:19
07:42:18
The dark red countdown is beating slowly.

(End of this chapter)