Chapter 14 Looking at each other
What surprised Wang Ze was that He Qiu, a busy man, not only had a Liming Street account, but also had a high level.
When Wang Ze borrowed the police station's equipment to log in to Liming Street, built a basic character and appeared in the Novice Square, he saw the 'black-skinned ancient Greek male model' walking towards him, and almost laughed himself to the point of disconnecting.
"Tsk."
He Qiu curled up his lips with contempt on his face: "Rookie's rudimentary aesthetics."
Wang Ze lowered his head and glanced at his basic sportswear outfit, and casually pulled out the mall menu.
Half a minute later.
Accompanied by the rich golden light, Wang Ze put on a collector's edition suit, bowed slightly to the ancient Greek male model in front of him, and casually pulled out a deerstalker hat and put it on his head.
Immediately afterwards, light flashed in the palm of Wang Ze's right hand, and a dark walking stick covered with gold patterns quickly formed, and he was holding it by his hand.
"It's time to find the truth, Mr. Officer."
After getting over his addiction to the drama, Wang Ze strolled towards the street cafe, leaving only He Qiu staring at him and the continuous system broadcast about obtaining the 'golden quality props'.
He Qiu looked down at the thin sheets covering his body, his fingers trembling slightly.
Who will spend money directly on Liming Street?
Isn’t this just a forum?
Can we still communicate normally as ordinary people?
"Hurry up," Wang Ze greeted without looking back, "We are very passive now."
"Coming, coming!"
He Qiu complained a few words, changed himself into more serious clothes, and joined the lively crowd with Wang Ze.
Leaving the small square where newcomers log in for the first time, there is a lively main street in front of them.
At first glance, if you don’t take into account the strange-looking users walking on the road, there is not much difference between this place and the real street after virtual augmentation.
There are two rows of buildings of different styles on both sides of the main street, and the doors of each building are hung with swirls of various colors.
——This kind of whirlpool can be considered an old tradition of the ninth art.
Each building represents an independent [game world], and most of them are virtual game worlds with a complete world view and real body feeling.
Those figures who keep pushing the door in and out are naturally players of these games.
They will spend a certain amount of real currency to buy tickets for these games, enter them and enjoy the fun, or they can treat it 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, 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 of 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 use their own character appearance in the game world.
An outfit like Wang Ze's that looks low-key but is actually full of details also costs a lot of money.
Of course, Dawn Street's management system will adjust the appearance of these game characters, compress, enlarge, and create three-dimensional mosaics to make them strictly comply with the "Home Planet Virtual Community Civilization Treaty."
——Otherwise, a few Tyrannosaurus rex players will pop up from the "Jurassic" series of game worlds, and the entire branch 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 see, it has been a hot topic for so long, and the police did not stand up to refute the rumor."
"This 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 a small account to keep an eye on the posts, and deleted the ones we posted about Weixing Group, which made several buddies in the group almost explode with anger."
"In this case, Wei Xing has not issued an announcement yet."
"...I want to boycott Wei Xing, not for anything else but because of his arrogance in deleting posts and not being online for a week starting tomorrow."
"Are you stupid? What will be the loss to Weixing Group if you don't go online?
"Wei Xing Group makes money from game developers. When we log in to a game through Liming Street, they charge a certain commission from the game. The most profitable thing is the pits here. The fees for each pit are sky-high. They Wei Xing also Invested in a lot of games
"If you really want to boycott Wei Xing, just hang up your account on Liming Street, change clothes and walk around when you have nothing to do, cut off the line every five seconds, consume their server resources, and then log in to the game through other channels.
"But if you log in to the game through other channels, your previous game account will definitely be gone and you will have to start from scratch. Many games are still exclusive to Wei Xing."
"That's not a big loss."
"So Wei Xing is confident, they have a non-refundable treaty."
Wang Ze randomly collected several samples and found that the Liming Street user group was basically discussing the Liming Street murder case.
After all, public opinion has just been fully detonated, and panic has not spread. Most people find this matter novel and complain about the public relations actions of Weixing Group.
Even the number of active players in Liming Street at the same hour was forcibly increased by a small amount due to the sudden news.
……
Wang Ze stood in front of the cafe door, opened his personal panel that only he could see, and adjusted the lines with He Chou.
They tried several times, and each time they chose to teleport to the '6072' branch where the crime occurred, but after the special effects of the teleportation disappeared, the two of them randomly appeared in '6071' or '6073' 'Breaking line.
Moreover, the number of players in these two branches is very rare, and the current flow is restricted.
"The branch line at the time of the incident should have been locked by Wei Xing," He Qiuweng said, "Should I go find their technical representative?"
"No need for now," Wang Zedao, "so as not to interfere with their technical detection, let's just go in and have a look. It's actually more difficult to get clues here. We're just here to find ideas."
He Qiu responded and took the initiative to push the door forward.
Wang Ze closed his eyes and carefully recalled the activities of Wen Quan's virtual character.
He has watched the relevant video no less than twenty times.
Which hand Wen Quan opened the door with, how he chose the seat, what actions he did in the six minutes after sitting down, the direction his eyes were looking in... Wang Ze clearly wrote it down.
At this moment, Wang Ze imitated Wen Quan's movements, walked to the window and sat down, turning to look at the bustling street scene outside the window.
He Qiu sat where Lin Xiaoxia was at that time, clicked on the menu of the cafe, and bought two cups of coffee that Wen Quan wanted at that time.
I lowered my head and took a sip. The taste was quite rich.
"Old Wang," He Chou whispered, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. This matter is beyond our capabilities."
Wang Ze smiled and said: "How to say?"
"The murderer's criminal method was achieved through high technology, modifying the monitored cloud records and local records, and it was able to do so without any flaws. Our technicians could not find any traces... This is a bit scary."
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He Qiu breathed a sigh of relief:
"Now I'm worried that the other party's technical capabilities are far superior to those of Weixing Group, which will cause the case to become deadlocked again.
"If it is an ordinary homicide case, our police can quickly solve the case with technical 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 careful reasoning and careful observation, you can quickly identify the murderer.
"But this time is obviously different...Old Wang, I kind of 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, smelled it, and put it aside.
Wang Ze said: "As long as the person using this technology is a human being, there will be loopholes left, and there must be a direction for detection.
"Technology has always been an extension of the human body. No matter how high the technology is, it can't cover up the crimes he committed. It's just that the methods become more secretive.
"What's more, when we feel that the case itself is difficult, the murderer has actually exposed a tail."
"How do you say it?" He Chou asked with interest.
Wang Zedao: "After sitting here, I realized that we have all ignored the most obvious piece of logic."
"Logic?"
"Is the murderer trying to kill people or making news?"
He Qiu leaned back, as if he understood, but only a little.
Wang Zedao:
"We compare this case to ordinary homicide cases.
"After an ordinary murder case occurs, in order to avoid legal punishment, the murderer will try his best to hide all clues and dispose of the body to cover up the facts of the crime.
"What about this case?
"The murderer committed the murder here in front of everyone. Through Wen Quan's death, he highlighted a bullet that 'penetrated virtuality and reality', and blatantly said that you were the first.
"His behavior was more like a show.
"If the murderer wanted to take revenge on Wen Quan and Wen Quan's other possible partners, shouldn't he kill Wen Quan secretly and then kill the remaining targets as quickly as possible while the other targets failed to respond?
"The murderer's motive was revenge killing? This makes no sense logically."
He Qiu said: "Maybe the murderer is extremely confident and deliberately provokes us who are handling 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:
"We can actually continue to wait. As long as the murderer acts again, the true 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 the home planet's virtual community coffee.
The feeling of liquid flowing across the tip of his tongue was so real, and the slightly dissolving bitterness made Wang Ze feel more awake.
"Is it possible," Wang Ze asked, "that Wen Quan's death time was actually slightly earlier, that the Liming Street account was stolen, and that the person who appeared here at 9:25 was not the real Wen Quan?"
He Qiu nodded slowly: "Your hypothesis is indeed reasonable. If you want to find relevant evidence, you must obtain Wei Xing's server data... So you always want them to hand over the data for a third party to authenticate?"
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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 dejectedly, "If a low-level incident like account theft really happens and is involved in a murder, Wei Xing's technical team can resign directly."
"How to say?"
"What is the era called now? The virtual era. The foundation of the virtual era is the absolute security of the network environment. Accounts are bound to personal brain waves and must pass biological eight-fold verification. If this can be stolen..."< br>
He Chou muttered: "I learned about this when I was in the anti-fraud department more than ten years ago. The possibility of having your account stolen is almost zero."
Wang Ze pondered for 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 cafe, but most of them have entered a 'dungeon'.
After a while, Wang Ze asked again: "Has the investigation of Wenrun Ruyu's online name been clear?"
"We found out before," He Qiu said, "It was a popular game more than 20 years ago, Creation Titan, Wen Ruyu was Wen Quan's game ID at the time."
"And?"
"There is no other useful information. We suspect that this may be a feud in the game world... although this thing 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 concentrated, sorting out the somewhat messy thoughts in his mind.
He has handled more complex cases.
But this time, the possibility of the murderer committing another crime and the murderer's extraordinary ability made Wang Ze feel a sense of difficulty for the first time in a long time.
Are there any other points where I can get clues?
The wife of the deceased, Lin Xiaoxia, only logged off more than ten minutes after the incident, and then quickly called the police. Even if we do not consider the possibility of 'forging a timeline', a certain amount of time was reserved for committing the crime from the time she logged off to the arrival of the police, so the suspicion was naturally the highest.
There are also abnormalities in the deceased’s wounds;
The missing murder weapon;
Lin Xiaoxia’s murder motive has not yet emerged;
"Old He, please give me a copy of the record of questioning the deceased's relatives, friends, and colleagues in the hunting group. I..."
Wang Ze opened his eyes as he spoke, but his voice suddenly stopped.
He Chou was a little confused and looked up at Wang Ze, only to see Wang Ze staring at the window, with a bit of shock on his face and a hint of excitement as he held his breath and tensed up his body.
What's outside the window?
He Qiu looked carefully and could only see all kinds of 'creatures' flowing continuously on the street.
But from Wang Ze's perspective.
The shadow stood there.
Wearing a black cloak, his face was obscured by black mist, and only his pair of dark green eyes could be seen, which seemed to be a bit sarcastic.
Those eyes were also looking at Wang Ze.
"Old Wang, what's wrong?"
The figure outside the window suddenly began to melt, dissipating in front of Wang Ze's eyes like ashes after a flame burned.
Wang Ze jumped up and rushed towards the store door like the wind.
"Old Wang!"
He Chou hurriedly followed Wang Ze and ran out of the cafe, only to see Wang Ze stop not far ahead, staring solemnly at the open space outside the window in front of him.
"Quick, contact the technical department!"
Wang Ze's voice was slightly trembling, and his eyes were extremely bright.
He Chou immediately went offline and called someone without hesitation.
At this moment, Wang Ze's pupils reflected his personal operating panel, and the sounds of 'tick-tock' and 'tick-tock' echoed in his ears.
In the center of his profile,
07:42:20
07:42:19
07:42:18
The dark red countdown is beating slowly. (End of chapter)