Tiandi Baiju

"Honey, are you sure there's nothing wrong with your gun?" the mercenary captain said.

"Do you want to take a look?" Zhou Luoyang offered him the gun and said, "It's definitely a toy, I suspect it's a water gun."

"Don't give him the gun." Du Jing said.

Zhou Luoyang thought to himself that I was the king of stalking, but the mercenary captain said it was okay.

"Shoot," said the captain.

An unbearable expression appeared on the priest's face, Zhou Luoyang pulled the trigger, and at the same time, there was a loud "bang" in the secret room.

The priest and the botanist shouted suddenly, and the captain was also startled, gasping for breath.Zhou Luoyang himself was even more frightened, and said, "Do you need to play like this! Damn it!"

The gun really has an infrared remote control function, and the moment it is buckled, the sound cooperates, and there is a gunshot, and the surround sound is extremely realistic.Zhou Luoyang's heart almost jumped out.

The captain said: "Damn...fucking..."

The priest was almost frightened stupid. When the captain came down, the priest rushed forward to check.Several people were panting, only the professor and Du Jing didn't speak.

After a brief silence, the music boomed.

"The road to the future has been opened for you. The treasure has also been presented before your eyes, but the bloody killing is not over yet. The only person who gets the treasure will receive our unprecedented reward..."

"I'm already dead," said the captain, "there should be no souvenirs for me."

The priest smiled at the captain and said, "I will give you my share."

Zhou Luoyang put the gun on the altar and said, "Are you still playing?"

"There are still 2 minutes," said the professor. "The end of the game? Who's next?" He looked at Du Jing and said, "You're going to avenge your comrades."

Du Jing said: "You guys do it first, I'll be the last."

Everyone looked at each other, and the priest said: "Then there is no more, everyone can get out alive."

The botanist said, "Yes, I'm going to kill the professor. After I shoot him, the four of us can get out together alive."

The professor said: "No, according to the order of priority, it should be the bodyguard who kills the tourists to avenge his comrades in arms. I kill the bodyguard, and the botanist kills me again. In the end, it is your two brothers... two sisters, no matter who they are. go out."

Zhou Luoyang couldn't help laughing, thinking about it.

Du Jing said: "That's it, the time is up."

Zhou Luoyang stood up and joked, "Play, finish the story line."

"I won't point a gun at you." Du Jing said.

"Hey, brother," said the "dead man" a few minutes ago who was unhappy, "he just killed your comrade in arms, and I am your brother."

Zhou Luoyang felt that if Du Jing was not allowed to shoot, then the "Captain" would not be able to rest in peace, so he could only say to Du Jing, "This gun is not real."

"It doesn't work if it's fake," Du Jing said casually, "Never."

"Okay," the outside staff came to open the door and said, "It's over, thank you all guests."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It would be a lie for Zhou Luoyang to say that he wasn't moved when he heard this, but when Du Jing said this, it was as common as talking about trivial matters that couldn't be more trivial, causing everyone to hear it without being moved .Only the most innocent captain was too involved in the play, and felt somewhat unwilling after being "killed".

Of course, this reluctance quickly dissipated, and when he left the secret room, he returned to normal, chatting and laughing with the little priest.

The outside was full of players who came to play, and the final "treasure" was only five copies, one for each person. Everyone took the exchanged cards to the front desk, and each exchanged a prize with the treasure, but there was no "captain".Five people survived, and the prize given by the store was a voucher for a barbecue in the mall, [-] per person.

Four people are Khmer power bank souvenir rewards, three people are small laptop bags, and two people are couple meal coupons. If only one survives, they will eventually receive a "mysterious prize".

"What is the mysterious prize?" Zhou Luoyang was curious.

"When you come back to play next time, maybe you will know." The boss smiled from the side.

Well, Zhou Luoyang said to Du Jing, "It feels pretty good."

The boss said: "You can only fire the first shot, and you need to win over all the players in the process so that they don't kill you at the end. There are actually quite a few branches in the secret room. None of you triggered it this time. If you missed it, it's like a prison." There is an iron door that leads to two different rooms, a bronze statue of Shiva, and a stone pillar that can be turned, and there are organs inside."

"There are branch lines?" Zhou Luoyang said, "I didn't find it at all."

The professor said: "Does the road in the maze lead to different endings?"

"Yes." The boss nodded and said, "The priest didn't lead you on the wrong path. The priest is too kind."

The priest suddenly realized, and said, "That's right."

The boss said: "You shouldn't show the map for everyone to see. We said in the game needs to know that what you keep, you can't let other players know. If you only tell them that different people need to take different paths, You team up with any player in the branch road, even if you don't speak, it will affect the final outcome."

"Yo." Zhou Luoyang only thought that this secret room looked quite simple, and there was actually a branch mechanism inside.

The boss said again: "Is the tourist's gun not in his hand? You can kill the player at any point, and the killed person can only follow the priest, because the priest has the function of guiding the soul, but the soul It can’t be used anymore, so I can only come up with ideas from the side.”

Zhou Luoyang glanced at Du Jing, thinking that you really ruined all the boss's arrangements, and you didn't take out the gun until the end.

The boss said again: "Do you want to watch the ending video? There are a total of twelve branches, and I can show you a few of them."

"I don't want to watch it." Du Jing rejected him bluntly, saying, "Come back next time and find out by yourself."

The boss nodded, looked at the professor, then at Du Jing, and finally at the mercenary captain, and said, "The barbecue upstairs is good."

The boss can also see that the six people have obviously fulfilled their original purpose from entering to exiting, although after the last shot, everyone has almost forgotten the original intention of participating in the event.

"Bye-Bye."

"bye--"

Everyone bid farewell to each other outside the store, Du Jingchao, the mercenary captain, said: "Add a WeChat account, and I will have dinner with you another day to apologize."

The captain smiled and said, "What crime do you pay for? Do you play? Let's play together when you are free."

Du Jing nodded, so several people added contact information to each other, still maintaining the grouping of two pairs in the secret room.The captain said to Zhou Luoyang, "What about you?"

Zhou Luoyang gestured politely to the captain for Du Jing, and said, "If you need anything, please contact him."

"That's fine, come out to play together next time." The captain made a gesture of aiming the gun, squinted one side of his eyes, and "shot" at Zhou Luoyang, saying, "You owe me once."

The little priest left with the mercenary captain. Zhou Luoyang saw the professor when he turned around.

"Let's have dinner together?" The professor came over alone, and Zhou Luoyang glanced behind him. The "professor" obviously didn't like the big boy he was teaming up with.

Zhou Luoyang looked at Du Jing, and Du Jing nodded.

In the private room of the Korean barbecue restaurant, the three of them sat down, and the proprietress came over and pulled down the smoking pipe, asking them to wait a while before going out to prepare the dishes.

"Professor" looked at the two of them, Du Jing hung up his coat, and then hung up Zhou Luoyang's.

"Are you together?" the professor asked.

Zhou Luoyang smiled and said, "What does 'together' mean 'together'?"

"Yes." Du Jing said without thinking.

"What's your occupation?" The professor asked Zhou Luoyang again.

Zhou Luoyang replied: "What do you do, you can't really be a professor, right?"

"He's a police officer," Du Jing hung up his clothes, came over, sat down, and said, "Interpol."

Zhou Luoyang: "!!!"

Recalling the "professor"'s reaction in the secret room, Zhou Luoyang immediately understood that this guy was a colleague!Or half a peer.

He was not at all surprised that Du Jing's identity was revealed. A private detective and a criminal policeman obviously had a tacit understanding as soon as they met. In other words, the third person... the "captain of mercenaries" is very likely It was the person they both wanted to check.

Du Jing sat down, not surprised at all, turned his phone, and returned to the message Zhuang Li sent in the afternoon.

"Let me introduce myself first," "Professor" stretched out his hand and said, "My name is Huang Ting, a clerk in the Interpol China Branch."

Zhou Luoyang shook hands with him, introduced himself, and then looked at Du Jing. He didn't know how many of their clues could be shared with Huang Ting.

Du Jing said: "I have seen your previous photos, you are not so thin."

"I got sick," Huang Ting said, "I'm in good health now. I know your former boss, Qin Guodong, President Qin."

Du Jing hummed and said, "What did the old man say?"

Huang Ting said: "I have a brother who used to work in Changyi, also surnamed Zhou."

"I know," Du Jing replied, "He resigned and went to Xiaosha."

Huang Ting looked at Du Jing and said, "You are Du Jing, and I have seen your photos."

"Yeah." Du Jing answered casually, finally looked up from the phone, frowned and said, "Why isn't the food here yet?" Then he asked Zhou Luoyang, "Are you hungry?"

Seeing that Du Jing looked normal, Zhou Luoyang said, "Do you want to give you a space to chat alone? I'll sit outside and eat."

"It doesn't matter." Huang Ting said, "I just don't think you are like a private detective."

"He's not." Du Jing replied, "But it really doesn't matter. What case are you investigating?"

Huang Ting asked, "What case are you investigating?"

Du Jing: "What case are you investigating?"

Huang Ting: "What case are you investigating?"

Zhou Luoyang: "Is loop fun?"

During the time when the food was served, Zhou Luoyang started to grill the meat, while Du Jing just sat and waited for the food.Huang Ting said, "I feel like we are not investigating the same case... You don't want to do it? Just wait for him to serve?"

Du Jing: "I don't know how to do it, is there a problem?"

Zhou Luoyang said to Huang Ting, "He's always like this at home."

"Bake it well." Du Jing glanced at Zhou Luoyang's hand.

Huang Ting said: "Everyone has their own way of getting along. One of my brothers went out to eat, but his wife didn't touch the whole time, just sat and waited to eat..."

"You know he's attacking again?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Huang Ting said sincerely, "My fault, I was preconceived."

Du Jing: "..."

Huang Ting added: "But I take back my words now, I don't think you two are lovers."

The three of them were silent, only listening to the sizzling of the barbecue on the Internet. Zhou Luoyang was already very hungry, but he let Du Jing eat first after the roast was finished. Wrapped lettuce for him and put it on a plate. The boss was right, this barbecue is really delicious fragrant.

Du Jing was not in a hurry, and waited patiently for Huang Ting to speak first.Huang Ting was in a stalemate for a moment. After all, Du Jing was on the same level as him, and it was useless to engage in psychological warfare. In the end, he had to take the initiative and said, "I'm investigating a money laundering case."

"Money laundering case?" Zhou Luoyang asked curiously, "What is the relationship between money laundering case and escape room?"

After Huang Ting finished speaking, he stopped talking.Du Jing swallowed the meat, and said, "I'll check the transnational disappearance."

Huang Ting and Du Jing were relatively silent, Huang Ting almost immediately deduced the truth of the matter, and murmured: "This is interesting."

"Tell me," Du Jing said, "I won't take advantage of you, but you have to ask our boss about some things."

Huang Ting didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "You're flattering me too much. After you change the boss, you will be invulnerable to weapons and oil. What about Cambodia and Vietnam?"

Du Jing didn't answer, and said to Zhou Luoyang, "You eat by yourself."

Zhou Luoyang decided to serve him up first before eating by himself, and felt that he had an obligation to liven up the atmosphere.

"I really thought you were a scholar." Zhou Luoyang said, "I'm curious, have you joined their group?"

"Yeah." Huang Ting said, "I'm straight, or I think I'm straight now, so it's hard to say in the future."

Zhou Luoyang nodded and said, "Very honest." He didn't ask how Huang Ting and Du Jing found out that each other was traveling together, he could feel it just by looking at him.

But Huang Ting disguised himself very well in the secret room, and when he arrived at the barbecue restaurant, he showed sharp eyes like an eagle, while Du Jing's eyes were another kind of danger - just like a cheetah.

"There is a money laundering case," Huang Ting chose to tell them the truth, "It was initiated from within Vietnam, using bitcoins for transactions, and bought a lot of game equipment. The total price on the market is about 120 million US dollars." .”

"Can game equipment sell so much?" Zhou Luoyang was shocked.

Huang Ting replied: "The quantity is relatively large, about [-] pieces, with an average of [-] to [-] US dollars per piece. After buying it, sell it, exchange it into RMB, and exchange it out of the country from an underground bank. We suspect that this institution, There are two channels for money laundering, one is antiques; the other is game equipment.”

Du Jing hummed and said, "You have found the suspect."

"Yes." Huang Ting said, "The boss doesn't usually show up, but after playing the escape room, he will come out and explain to the players. Most of this game is designed by him, and he is very proud of his work."

Zhou Luoyang understood that Huang Ting joined the friend group and played the full set of escape rooms. The goal was to finally meet the boss who came out to explain to the players. He should have seen the photos of the suspects when he took over the case. This is right. up.

"You are the only one investigating this case?" Du Jing asked.

Huang Ting said: "The headquarters sent a post-military colleague from the United Nations peacekeeping force to assist me, but until now, we haven't connected, and that kid feels unreliable."

"Now, the only thing we can't be sure about is where the money came from and what kind of illegal activities it is. My colleagues suspect drug trafficking, but I don't think it looks like it from the source of the funds. Since it's human trafficking, it's probably clear .Let's go over the details."

Du Jing said: "I have a hunch that the motive of this organization's human trafficking is related to escape from the secret room."

Huang Ting thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "Indeed, it's impossible to earn so much from the human trade."

Zhou Luoyang: "????"

After that, Zhou Luoyang couldn't understand, and Huang Ting didn't explain to him.After a while, Zhuang Li came and said, "Brother Jing."

"Let's eat." Du Jing only said, glanced at Huang Ting, and said, "We are colleagues."

"Hi, sister-in-law." Zhuang Li said to Zhou Luoyang again.

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

Zhuang Li started to barbecue by himself, sat next to Huang Ting, looked at him, Huang Ting and Du Jing didn't speak, the atmosphere was very dignified.

"You suspect it has something to do with the dark web?" Huang Ting said.

Du Jingyan said concisely: "Yes."

Zhou Luoyang said: "Why did it get to the dark web?"

Huang Ting said to Zhou Luoyang, "Have you noticed? When we went in to play in the afternoon, there were staff watching the surveillance the whole time. The music playing and the operation of the elevator were all interfered by human beings."

"Ah, yes." Zhou Luoyang thought for a while, but there will be monitoring in this kind of game project, first to prevent players from violently cracking; second, to provide assistance at any time, so as to avoid claustrophobia, fear of the dark, or heart conditions, emotional instability Situation happens.

Then, Zhou Luoyang suddenly got a clue and said, "Do you suspect that the missing persons who are taken to Southeast Asia will be... pulled to play this kind of real-life killing chamber, and then... live broadcast for people's entertainment?"

Zhuang Li trembled and said, "Really?! Brother Jing, is it so serious?"

Huang Ting stroked his hair, thought for a while, and said, "The most important thing now is to get the URL of the live broadcast room."

Du Jing said: "If you can't get it, don't worry about it. You all know how difficult it is."

Huang Ting nodded, and said to Zhou Luoyang: "We have indeed been exposed to quite large-scale sexual perversion and massacres, which are relatively common on the dark web. As for a live-action game of this scale... it is the first time. Guess. Why do you speculate in this regard?"

Neither Zhuang Li nor Zhou Luoyang said a word. Du Jing was silent for a moment, and then said: "We can make a comprehensive guess based on the victim's education, IQ and other levels. Most of the previous missing persons were undergraduates, almost college students. In layman's terms, they can be regarded as Be a little smart. If you just want to satisfy the desire of sexual perversion, and call and kill them through webcast, there is no need to find such a target. As long as the height, figure, appearance and age meet the requirements, it will be fine."

Huang Ting nodded and said, "It's a reasonable guess."

Du Jing said: "I've always wondered, what is the purpose of abducting young and middle-aged educated men? In Yunnan or even Burma, people come faster and don't cause trouble. Now that I think about it, the only reason is that there are Some requirements, only this kind of people can meet."

Zhou Luoyang shuddered suddenly. From the words of Du Jing and Huang Ting, he spelled out a general idea of ​​the situation.

An organization in Southeast Asia issued an event invitation on the dark web, searched for suitable candidates from various countries and regions, forcibly kidnapped them to the country where the organization is located, and designed an extremely complicated escape room or other modes of battle royale activities for them .

This event is aimed at certain groups of people with special hobbies, live broadcasts are held from time to time, and admission is paid, allowing people to watch it like an arena, the real killing between people and the last resort for escape.

But it cannot have a winner, because no matter how many people survive, they will eventually be wiped out.Therefore, survival in the secret room became the first step of screening. After selecting the right person, the victim was taken out of the country in the name of tourism through emotional temptation.

Du Jing said: "The dark web is like the sea, and the websites are like countless small islands. There is no compass, no nautical chart, no coordinates, and no one can find them."

Huang Ting hummed, and said, "Guide is needed, usually a string of keys, or a USB flash drive, or even modify the login computer, or mail the phone directly to the customer."

Du Jing's words were naturally explained to Zhou Luoyang and Zhuang Li. In fact, even Huang Ting's words were addressed to them. After all, it was impossible for Du Jing not to know about these things.

Zhuang Li said, "Hiding the address? I've heard of it too."

Du Jing added: "It's not that simple. When I was working in Washington, I saw a few URLs, but they were all garbled characters. Even if there is a URL, you can't log in."

Huang Ting and Du Jing fell into deep thought again, and Huang Ting finally said: "It can only be traced by practical means, which is difficult."

After all, it's all their speculation. In fact, they don't know where the people have gone, nor where the money laundering funds come from.

The only clue he has is the money laundering case of the escape room boss. There is no solid evidence yet, let alone alert the suspect in advance, otherwise the missing victims will never be found again.

"I'll go to Ho Chi Minh City in a while," Du Jing said, "If you have something for me before the first Thursday after the National Day holiday, please sort out the information."

Huang Ting said: "How do you get there? Without the assistance of the organization, you can't move a single step in Vietnam and Cambodia."

"Sotheby's," Du Jing said, "I have an invitation letter."

Huang Ting immediately said, "Take me one."

"Find out your own way," Du Jing said, "I haven't eaten meat for several days."

Huang Ting: "..."

Zhou Luoyang supported his forehead.