The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

Walking down the spiral staircase, we came to the basement floor of the Apple store, where there were many square soft stools, on which sat some people with their heads down playing with their mobile phones, all of whom had made appointments with maintenance personnel.Sun Carbin took out his employee card and swiped it at the doorknob, leading us to the internal employee-only area I just glimpsed.I paid special attention to the nameplates on the doors in the corridor. I was still thinking about the encrypted email I found on the computer just now, and those strange warning messages that popped up suddenly. I gradually got a clue—the missing chips of the students. Factories, Apple stores and new mobile phones, Sun Carbin's theory of freedom and security - the core plot of this running group module seems to revolve around technological development and information security.

We came to Sun Carbin's manager's office, the layout inside is very simple, except for a desk and a few chairs, there is nothing else, just like an interrogation room.

With a "click", I heard Sun Carbin lock behind us, and I couldn't help being startled, and Jack turned his head to look at him instantly.Sun Carbin smiled: "Didn't you say you want a quiet place, I'm afraid that others will come in and disturb our discussion of philosophy."

Me: "...I should be under the car, not in the car."

Sun Carbin ignored me and sat down opposite Jack. Jack smiled and said, "I have other opinions on the last question you just mentioned, but before that, I want to ask your opinion, you What do you think is security? What is freedom?"

Sun Carbin replied: "I think freedom and security are relative. Freedom represents freedom of information, but also represents free will. Security may be personal safety, but it also represents information security. I just think that sometimes human beings The existence of "free choice" is exaggerated. I think that 'information' knows more about 'self' than 'free consciousness'."

Jack thought for a moment and asked, "Then do you think that some kind of more intelligent or advanced 'will', such as big data, is better at making correct judgments than us?"

Carbin: "I think it is. Data can make more accurate judgments, because consumers' opinions are sometimes contrary to their practices. A customer who claims that he doesn't like to apply for a card may have all kinds of membership cards in his wallet. It is the same as payment card, but the data is different. The data can reflect the most authentic consumption habits and usage behavior. You see, whether it is Apple or various search engines, their information statistics are just the beginning, and we seem to give up on the surface. Privacy, autonomy, and individuality are actually for the purpose of obtaining a technological life that better meets the needs of everyone. In the future, we only need to record our own experience unconsciously, and then connect to the entire big information flow, and then the algorithm will find Make sense of these experiences and tell us what we really like, and what we can do next."

His statement is almost saying that he should give up his personal thinking and even his personal preferences, and rely on algorithms to guide his life.After he said this, I finally understood why he said that human "free will" was exaggerated.

Jack asked again: "So, do you think we are safe now?"

Sun Carbin smiled again—this NPC actually looks good and has a good figure, but it always gives people a weird feeling, as if his humanity has also been replaced by data and algorithms. "I think we are safe now, and will become more and more safe. In the future, no one will escape the safety, health and convenience brought by monitoring, uploading, data integration and analysis."

"Don't you feel uncomfortable being monitored?" Jack asked.

"The Internet has been monitoring us all the time, our search content, our hidden interests and hobbies..." Sun Carbin said, "On the other hand, every move of criminals and terrorists is also being monitored. "

I interjected, "So what do you think we should do if someone breaks the rules and throws the existing order of information into chaos?"

Carbin showed a disgusted expression: "Yes, there are always such barbarians who try to violate the inherent laws of the world's development and want to return to the barbaric era." Soon, his expression relaxed again: "Fortunately Most of the people who come to our store are civilized people who believe in technology."

The conversation seems to be in a predicament here—I don’t know what else to talk to him about to get a new plot, at this moment Jack suddenly said: “Ah, I haven’t had a drink for so long, I’m so thirsty. "

As soon as I turned my head, he started to go crazy again - his Adam's apple rolled above his open neckline, and he was rubbing his white forehead provocatively, as if he was shooting some beach drink commercial.Sun Carbin stood up immediately: "Oh, I forgot, why didn't I pour water for you, I'll go right away."

I thought to myself - is this all right?

But Jack suddenly stopped him: "Wait!"

Carbin Sun looked back at him, and Jack quickly said, "I want a shot of soy milk latte without sugar and an extra shot of espresso." He turned around: "What do you want to drink?"

Me: "Uh--I drink normal..." Noticing Jack's eyes, I changed my words: "I drink emm...mango milkshake."

Sun Carbin's face was blank for a moment, and he was very at a loss as to where to buy a mango milkshake, but under the bonus of Jack's charm, he still obeyed our request and left the office.

"Huh——" I sighed and was about to speak, but Jack said first, "I'll do an investigation to see if there's anything noteworthy in this office."

I don't know what Jack observed, but he suddenly sat up straight, stood up and said loudly to me: "It's not good for us to sit here, let's go out and wait for him!"

I didn't know why, but I still stood up, and Jack suddenly squatted down in front of me, pretending to tie his shoelaces, and motioned me to look behind and up with his eyes from under his eyebrows.I glanced back wonderingly, only to see a red light flashing above my head - there was a surveillance camera in the corner, looking at us in the dark.

Goosebumps popped up my arms in an instant, and the office felt even more spooky. Jack suddenly said, "Well, you go out to the bathroom, and I'll wait for him here."

I understood right away—Jack wanted me to go to the assembly workshop to investigate by myself, and he stayed here to hold Sun Carbin in case Sun Carbin turned back suddenly.I said, "Okay, my stomach hurts from just now, so I'll go to the bathroom first."

After sneaking out of the office and back down the corridor, I made a beeline for the suspicious new-product assembly shop, reached out and pushed the doorknob—it was locked.

"KP, I have a lockpicking."

KP: "89/35, roll failed."

I thought about it for a while, and then observed the locked combination disk. I entered "0000" and clicked "OK", but the combination lock flashed red and gave an error sound.

KP: "Wrong password, there are two more chances, otherwise the alarm will be triggered."

I looked left and right—the corridor was empty, and I deliberately looked at every corner of the ceiling, but I didn't find any cameras. "KP, I did an electronics study on this electronic lock."

With the message of "test passed", the electronic lock in front of me flashed green light, and I pushed it, and the door opened.

"KP, sneak."

KP: "86/30, stealth failed, you opened the door and made a lot of noise."

I heard that my whole body froze, and three seconds later, I said lightly, "I, shall I do an investigation?"

KP: "38/55, you passed the detection check. You look around and find that this is a small workshop assembly line. It seems that there are no workers working here, just a fully automated product distribution line."

It sounded like I was finally relieved, and quickly entered the assembly workshop. As KP ​​said, there was only one assembly line working automatically, and I didn't see anyone else.At the starting point of the sub-assembly line, the manipulator quickly takes out chip-like parts one after another, and there are many brand-new iPhones and iPads piled up on the other side.I stepped forward, wanting to have a closer look at what was being packaged on the assembly line.

Then I saw it, and I could see it clearly—the white 'chips' on the production line were clearly slices of human brains!They are being incorporated into some new cell phones.

"It's over." An alarm sounded in my mind, and I took a step back subconsciously, but it was too late.

"San value appraisal, success minus 0, failure minus 1D3." KP's voice sounded—I don't know if it was an illusion, but I heard gloating pleasure in his flat tone.

I rubbed my hands together, let out another breath, and then pulled down the dice machine—I was not relieved until I saw that the rolled numbers added up to 47.

"The test is passed, and the san value remains unchanged." KP said.

I took out my mobile phone and took a picture of the workshop in front of me. When I was about to send it to all the team members, I suddenly thought—I don’t know if the person who received the photo would also need a sancheck.After thinking about it, I edited this discovery into a text message and sent it out.

"I'll do a good job and steal a brain chip."

"77/35, skill check failed," KP said, "you're lucky."

"16/70, the lucky check was successful. The moment your hand touched the chip, you were about to pick it up, but suddenly realized that it might trigger an alarm. So you gave up and failed to steal it."

"Hoo--okay, thank you KP." I withdrew my hand, but before the words of thanks landed, KP suddenly made another secret vote.I immediately held my breath and waited to see where the monster in the sewer would come out again - last time there was Xiao Hei present, one monster in each hand, I was so weak, and I didn't even have a self-defense weapon, so I was caught That's it.

But after waiting for a long time and listening again, I didn't find anything unusual.

So I can only guess that KP failed the secret cast just now, so he continued to look around to see if there is anything else worth noting.After a scouting roll, I found a glowing instrument panel on the back of a huge shelf in the corner of the room—on closer inspection, it was another electronic lock with a card swiped.

"Can I pass electronics?" I asked.

KP said: "Yes, but for the difficult check, your current success rate is 65, and the success rate under the difficult check is 32. If you fail once, the alarm will be triggered."

I asked, "What about electrical maintenance?"

KP: "The same is a Hard roll."

When he said this, I didn't dare to move for a moment, and I could only look up and down at this hidden door-"raw material storage room", with such a nameplate on it.

After thinking for a while, I decided to go first, so I quietly exited the workshop and carefully closed the door.Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned around, I heard the sound of the door lock being snapped open—the shadow of Sun Carbin holding two glasses of drinks was projected on the clean ground, and he was about to turn in from the corner!

"Agile confrontation!" I said quickly as I walked.

"72/55, Zhang George failed the agility check." KP said, and when I was thinking "It's over", he said again: "94/65, Sun Carbin failed the agility check."

"Pfft—" I almost didn't spit out, "Why didn't he vote a 95 big failure."

KP: "Under this result, you met in the corridor."

My mind turned and I quickly turned to meet him, pretending that I had just walked out of the office instead of rushing back.I smiled and said to Sun Carbin: "You are back! You have been away for a long time, and I am still worried that our requirements for beverages are too strict, which makes it difficult for you to buy them. I want to chase you out and tell you that ordinary white water is also fine. .”

KP secret cast:? ? /? ?

I knew he was helping Carbin Sun to psychologically test me to see if I was lying, and I stared at him nervously—but Carbin Sun just shook his head and said, "It's okay, you guys are thirsty."

We walked back to the office, and Jack was quite surprised that we came back together, afraid that I would be caught, so I immediately said: "I just went out to pick him up and saw that he had already returned."

Jack understood instantly and nodded. I finally felt relieved and sat down in the chair without any effort.It's just that I don't have a chance to tell Jack about the combination lock now, and I'm thinking how I can get Sun Carbin away again.

Then I suddenly saw - on Sun Carbin's chest, which he couldn't bear to look straight at, was an employee card with his photo and name printed on it. I had seen this employee card just now.It's just that the employee card is turned over now, exposing the electronic chip inside the card. I immediately understood that the combination lock of the secret door inside the workshop requires Sun Carbin's employee card to open.

Sun Carbin stared at Jack. The two were forced to talk about information security again.At this distance, use "Skillful Hand" to steal his employee card. If you fail, you will definitely be found out-judging from this height and physique, Jack and I can't beat him together.

Time passed by like this, and after a familiar darkness, all of us were called back to the stone room where the game started.I looked at the other four players. They had already changed into clean clothes. I wondered if they had found any strong clues in the dormitory of Steve and those missing students.At this time, the man in the top hat said: "This is the end of the group opening time. Unfortunately, everyone failed to find the Chapter 2 treasure chest."

"So fast!?" Tie Zhu exclaimed.

"Half an hour after one or more players trigger the unlocking condition of the treasure chest in each chapter, the plot of this chapter will automatically end."

Tie Zhu said with a sad face: "When did it trigger? Then what should we do now."

Xiaohong asked: "The next time we enter the game, if we get the treasure chest of Chapter 2, can we still open the treasure chest of Chapter [-]?"

KP nodded: "Yes."

Xiaohong: "Okay." The others were also a little relieved - if the unlocking condition has been triggered, it means that the treasure box is not far away, but unfortunately most players don't know each other offline, so they can't exchange clues for further reasoning .

But this regiment is different. After all, there are four members of our team, and they have a huge advantage in integrating clues and information.What's more, I have already understood that the treasure chest of that chapter is most likely in the secret door raw material room that cannot be entered.

After the game screen ended, I immediately told Brother Yue and Zhai Qi about my findings. Brother Yue said: "We went back to school, but we didn't find much in those students' dormitories, so we visited all over the school again. Suddenly, it was not just the students who were missing, but a physics teacher was also missing."

Me: "Huh? Teacher?"

Zhai Qi nodded: "I found a missing person notice on the street, the teacher - Tie Zhu, after a moment of inspiration, I realized that this is the physics teacher of our school, I heard that he is still a phd, I don't know why he came to teach in the middle school. "

Brother Yue added: "Then I remembered...uh, it wasn't me, it was the librarian Xiaohong who remembered that this teacher often came to the library to borrow books, and even borrowed a very rare book from the library before he disappeared. The library collection, including the original Latin and English copies. It stands to reason that if this book can be found, Xiaohong's foreign language skills are so high, she should be able to read it."

"After reading it, keep San," I said, "What's the name of that book?"

"What's it called... "Necronomicon" or something, it's a mysterious name anyway, and I don't know why a good middle school library has such a collection of books. We are going to the library to find out, the game It's over." Zhai Qi shrugged.

"Okay, anyway, after the next group tour, Bian Yao and I will open the darkroom, you explore the library, and then we'll see you back at school." I said.

Everyone nodded and agreed to the plan.

"To be honest, this game is really fun. The sense of reality and tension are well designed, if it doesn't kill people." Zhai Qi stood up and stretched his arms. More bonuses, the sense of accomplishment after deciphering a clue, plus the real rewards represented by chapter treasure chests... If I were a middle school student, I might also be addicted."

"That's not it." As I spoke, I stood up and was about to consciously go to Bian Yao's house to sleep, but Zhai Qi suddenly said: "Eh? I don't need it today, I packed a guest room in advance today, so I won't occupy your bed gone."

I stood there awkwardly for a moment.

Zhai Qi: "Really?"

Brother Yue looked at him, and was suspiciously silent for a moment before saying, "Yes."

Zhai Qi winked at me, patted his pants and left. After I said goodnight to Brother Yue, I could only stroll back to my room in a boring way, and lay myself on the bed.

Brother must have done it on purpose.I thought to myself, there is no excuse for me to sleep with the snake in my arms.

The curtains were not drawn, and I didn't have the energy to get up to close them—the moon was glowing red for some reason, perhaps from the pollution of the city lights, behind thin clouds.

The little snake stayed so close, there were only two doors between us - my heart was itching.

It doesn't matter if you don't have an excuse, I thought again, if there is no difficulty, you have to create difficulties.

Thinking of this, I got up from the bed and walked out quickly with bare feet, but just as I touched the doorknob, the door was already opened by a force.

I looked at Bian Yao who was standing at the door in surprise, the surprise on his face didn't fade away before he pulled him into his arms and kissed him fiercely.My brain was overloaded and shut down in an instant. I didn't understand what happened, I just grabbed his arm tightly.

He was too imposing and kept pushing me forward. We fought with our knees and staggered back into the house.Bian Yao threw me against the wall, and rolled me up again—but this sudden madness didn't surprise me at all, it just made me feel excited.I put my arms around his neck, Bian Yao's short cut hair grew longer, and the touch of my palm was very comfortable.

Under the blood moon, we kissed wildly.

After a while, Bian Yao backed away a little, the corners of our mouths and noses were warm and moist, Bian Yao's originally cool lips were plump and glistening now.I smiled nervously, and Bian Yao put his hands on the wall, trapping me in the shadow of the moonlight.

I stretched out my hand to grab the hem of his T-shirt, Bian Yao was very cooperative in raising his arm, but I just hung the hem of his shirt around his neck - the strong chest muscles were squeezed together erotically, making the waist more visible The indentation of the line is delicious.Suddenly I said, "Have you heard of that? Why do snakes fall in love with others."

"Why?" Bian Yao asked.

"Because you just hang around me." After I finished speaking, I burst out laughing.

Bian Yao said angrily: "Stop making such cold jokes at such a time!" while throwing me on the bed.

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The scale of the new station can only go up to this point, see you on Weibo in the next chapter