Daniel has always believed that finding people is an art.
And he considered himself a master of this art.
With the exception of Merlin, Daniel had never failed. The only difference was time, the time it took to find his target.
Daniel has always regretted that he was not born in the eighteenth century. If that were the case, he would have had the opportunity to fight Jack the Ripper.
Instead of living in a modern era with advanced technology, any case will leave countless clues and there is no challenge at all.
This time was no exception in Daniel's opinion.
"Daniel, according to the information fed back by Vodafone, the other party's number briefly appeared in Brixton, Lambeth."
Daniel ran over Brixton's information in his mind, thinking something bad.
London is a very large area, with more than thirty administrative divisions.
Although most people only have East London and West London in their concept, this is because East London is an emerging area with abundant industries and new inflows of population.
West London is an old wealthy area in England. Places such as the Demon King's Palace, the Prime Minister's Official Residence and Parliament are all in West London.
At the same time, the famous Chelsea is located in West London.
In fact, London has North and South London. North London has Tottenham and Arsenal, and South London has Crystal Palace.
The true zoning of London is divided into thirty-two administrative areas.
Daniel quickly retrieved information about Brixton from his mind. This place was specifically located in the Lambeth district of South London.
South London has a large number of ordinary residents, and Brixton is the last stop on the Victory Line of the subway. It is very chaotic, surrounded by a large number of black people and mixed people.
Brixton is a recognized dangerous area in London, and most Chinese international students agree not to go to this area at night, or even not to go there at all.
At the same time, due to financial constraints, there are almost no cameras in this area.
"There is a high probability that the other party does not live in the Brixton area. We can now start to make some simple portraits of Mr. X." Daniel ordered.
Mr. X is the nickname they give the magician who appears on FB.
A colleague who lives in the Brixton area said: "Daniel, you are biased against Brixton.
It's a much safer place now than it used to be, and many of the emerging middle class are buying houses in Brixton.
There are areas over there that are even better than some areas at Chelsea. "
Chelsea is an old wealthy area.
But the rich and poor areas of London are not so absolute.
In other words, no administrative district is entirely rich or poor.
There will be obvious and strong differences within the same administrative area.
Daniel had indeed not been to Brixton for many years, and his reaction was based on his own limited memory.
But he is unlikely to admit to regional discrimination: “I don’t know Brixton well enough.
But judging from what we know about Mr. "
Colleagues asked: "Why not think the other way around? Let us think he is not in Brixton, but he is exactly in Brixton?"
Daniel realized that continuing the discussion like this would be an infinite spiral and would lead to no results. He changed the topic and said:
"It doesn't matter where he is now, it's even possible that the other person is no longer in London.
For example, I have already gone to Manchester or Nottingham.
But these are not important. This is just a reference. What is more important is to confirm his identity first. After the identity is confirmed, it will be much faster to find someone. "
After it was determined that the video on Facebook was unedited and had no props, England briefly blocked traffic from the outside world.
But this blockade is unsustainable and ineffective.
Because there are not that many manpower to seal the border. If you really want to leave, there is definitely a way to leave through Northern Ireland or Scotland.
So as time goes by, people are definitely getting harder and harder to find.
Based on Daniel's understanding of the English people, he didn't think anyone who had acquired such super powers as magic would be willing to cooperate with the government.
"The other party obviously realizes that we can determine its location through the signal interaction of text messages. In addition, the other party will use springboards and anonymous networks. This is definitely not a technology that ordinary people can master.
A certain background in information security knowledge is required. "
"The problem is there are so many people with similar backgrounds in London that there is no way to confirm his true identity.
What we need is to first target his personal information over the internet. "
London has rich educational resources and a large number of Internet companies.
Major companies such as FB, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter all have branches in London.
This does not include London’s small and medium-sized Internet companies.
One of the important reasons why Internet giants were not born in Europa is that the language was not unified.
Therefore, even if you have good ideas, they are easily limited to your own country and difficult to extend abroad.
Take a typical case as an example, that is Opera. Opera, which was born in Norway in 1995, is a very excellent browser product.
The technology is powerful and easy to use, but it has always been tepid.
Many Internet companies in the European continent have similar problems, focusing on technology and despising marketing.
Daniel said directly: "Can we get technical support from Facebook?
Is this mobile number registered with WhatsApp? "
"No, we asked before when we went to FB headquarters to retrieve the IP address and mobile phone number. The mobile phone has not been registered with WhatsApp."
Whatsapp is a software similar to WeChat, which is very common abroad and belongs to FB.
Daniel pondered for a moment and then said: "Can we get greater cooperation from FB?
Go find FB, we need to investigate the historical data in WhatsApp.
Through system filtering, chat records that frequently appear in terms of magic and Merlin in the past seven days are filtered out.
Especially there were magical chat records between 8pm and 12pm yesterday.
Because the other party's video was uploaded at eleven o'clock, it means that the other party probably had the ability to cast spells before then.
If the other party will discuss with friends, then magic-related chat records will appear frequently during this time period. "
They have internally analyzed the human hands in the video through the video. The skin of the hands shows that they are most likely between 25 and 35 years old.
People of this age, no matter how vigilant they are, can't stop showing off.
From the available information, Daniel judged that the other party had a certain amount of information security knowledge.
And after discovering that he might receive magic-related inheritance, he obviously consciously created an online identity that was different from his real identity.
It is very likely that conscious isolation has been carried out on the IMEI serial number of the mobile phone and the MAC address of the network card.
Even the phone card was not his own, but bought from someone else.
Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to Daniel to find someone through a mobile phone card.
But since the other party is a young man, under thirty-five is still considered young. It's hard to suppress the desire to show off.
The other party shoots and uploads videos for many purposes. It may be to show off, or it may be to find companions.
He may hope to find companions who also master magic through this method.
"Sorry, the customer's chat history is private and we at FB have no right to view it."
"We don't need to check, we just need to filter out the chat records where certain words appeared frequently from 8 to 12 o'clock last night."
"Then what?"
"Then we want to see those chats."
"Yes, isn't this still stealing user privacy? Sorry, this is not allowed."
In fact, Daniel had a hunch that FB was already doing this. FB even sent suspicious chat records back to Amerikan through submarine optical cables.
But he does not have the authority to disconnect the entire FB office building.
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It is a pity that there is no magician in London now. The magicians in England have either gone to Brussels or stayed in Cambridge.
If there was a mage in London at this time, he would definitely feel that his spell casting had become easier.
Yes, the existence of the magic network also has a certain beneficial effect on mages who gain spellcasting abilities through the magic brain.
The colleague who was sent to FB showed his ID and suppressed his anger: "This is an order!"
"Sir, even if you are the FBI, we still do not have the authority to show you the user's chat history.
This is not allowed. Even if Zuckerberg is standing in front of me now, he does not have this authority.
Even I don't have this authority. "The other party said firmly.
"Sorry, FB's attitude is very tough, and the other party said it cannot cooperate.
I found our boss's boss and called them, but the other party just took a step back.
He said that if we could name the specific account, he would be willing to retrieve the chat records of the past few days for us. "
Daniel thought to himself, it really won't be that easy.
Since this matter has been fermented on FB for a long time, although the video was deleted on FB, it has already been circulated all over the world.
Amerikan must have gotten the message and asked FB to not cooperate with their work for various reasons.
The other party's rejection was expected by Daniel.
"Okay, come back quickly. I have a new idea. I have a feeling that we will find new clues soon."
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One more chapter tomorrow morning
