"Did you find out? How did that damn phone number go viral?!"
In the room disguised as a hospital archives department, Ms. Q rarely got angry. It was the first time in her more than ten years that she had lost her composure like this.
Because this was the first time in her more than ten years of career that she had encountered such a ghost.
The ghosts we dealt with in the past years were either stupid and only killed people according to certain rules, or they had a clear purpose. Even if they were transformed into monsters, most of them had some simple and crude rules for coming.
But now this weird thing called "Libra" has evolved several times in just half a year!
Originally, they had a good summary of this weird rule, and they had planned to start with the best task entrustment. They artificially designed many unjust and wrong cases in an attempt to catch people, but who knew that this weird thing would actually evolve with the times. , "placed an order" directly over the phone!
It can be said that almost everything they have done in the past few weeks, from judicial procedures to script arrangement to venue decoration, has been in vain!
"Ms. Q, according to the investigation, the earliest source of the phone number is a post in the communication section of a forum." The agent of the intelligence team held a tablet and handed Ms. Q one screenshot after another.
The screenshot shows a very simple question——
“How to initiate a commission to Libra?”
Ms. Q frowned when she saw this topic. Questions like this have spread all over the world since the weird thing about Libra (trivia, there seems to be no such thing as ghost talk in Victorian language, only urban legends and ghost stories). The Internet is visited at least thousands of times every day. It is a type where the agents don't bother to care about it. At most, they just pay attention to whether the poster has really been unfairly treated, and then decide whether to send someone to stay.
After all, among the ten core covenants of this weird, there is the rule that "the executioner must accept the commission before he can kill", which means that Libra must have a commission channel.
Ms. Q scanned the screenshots one by one. The content was no different from ordinary forums, and her guesses were all cliche: "exclusive intelligence network", "through news newspapers", "through the Internet", "court audit", etc. But when her gaze continued to move downward, her pupils finally narrowed slightly.
She saw the culprit——
That was a very simple reply:
"As long as you dial ten 0s at midnight, you can contact the free executioner nearest you. I won't tell ordinary people!"
This reply has no characteristics at all, and is even the kind that needs the least attention. If before this rule comes true, Ms. Q will not have any idea of investigating even if she sees this reply.
After all, "if you dial a specific number at a specific time, you can call a certain mysterious area." This is an ancient legend that has existed since the popularity of dial-up phones. Some lead to heaven, and some lead to heaven. Hell or purgatory, and some leading to a mysterious organization. As an organization that faces weirdness, Ms. Q has seen many organizations in her career.
Even after computers became popular, this legend began to evolve into things like entering a specific URL.
However, looking at the bottom of this reply, I don’t know if the one that followed it really contacted Libra, or if it was just a daily bragging on the Internet. "[Victoria's foul language] actually got through! The revenge of many years has finally been avenged." !" message, Ms. Q closed her eyes helplessly.
Because based on her years of experience, even without scrolling down, she had already guessed that there must be a series of follow-up posts with the same format and content below.
Sure enough, a neat series of identical replies appeared in a long list. Looking at the screenshot, you can see that it must have stretched out to at least a dozen pages.
Pinching the bridge of her nose hard, Ms. Q suddenly felt very tired. Since the emergence of the communication mode of forums, their work difficulty has increased more than ten times!
If we consider social software such as msn, Ms. Q really has the urge to go back in time and kill everyone who tried to invent computers.
Although this kind of repetitive post will only become popular after a day or two and will disappear from everyone, but you can never imagine how boring humans are.
Even if everyone originally just copied it and sent it, it was inevitable that someone would have the idea that "this might be true."
Although so far, MI9, or the world's understanding of the way ghosts become weird, is still speculative, the only thing that can be determined is that this kind of behavior requires "fear" and "famousness."
The special mode of this forum means that on the section, other viewers can only see that this is a hot post, and the moment they click on it thinking it is an informative post, they are destined to be disappointed. This reply linking Libra to the phone adds a level of "popularity."
The agent looked at his boss carefully, and when he saw that she did not move her eyes for a long time, he continued:
"We have seen similar posts on several forums later, such as pressing 10 1's at 1 o'clock, 10 2's at 2 o'clock, etc. However, the most widespread one at present is the number with 10 0's. According to interviews , some say that when this legend first emerged, everyone could call this number at 0:00, and the voices that answered the phone were both male and female, and now only people who have suffered injustice and really want to contact the executioner can dial The circumstances of the phone calls vary, and it’s unclear whether someone is lying or if the weirdness has changed again.”
"Have the poster and replyer of this post investigated it?" Ms. Q took a deep breath. Although she felt that there would be no results, she still asked.
"We have found both the poster and the key replyer, and we have conducted preliminary monitoring and investigation. The poster is a college student from Xiaoqiu County. There is a lot of discussion about 'Libra' in his posting record, but compared to his peers, and social circle are still within the normal range.
"The IP address of the key replyer is located in Colombia. Our field staff have also found it. He is a Chinese international student living in Nureiberg's Chinatown (Tang refers to the dynasty). There is nothing special about his resume. However, we found that his online records , during the same time period when he posted this reply, there were traces of high-intensity Internet surfing, mostly related to Libra. However, according to follow-up investigations, he had a record of purchasing trauma drugs that day. He should have been attacked or abused, and used the Internet to vent his anger. The probability is not low.
"Is a contact interrogation required?"
"No need..." Ms. Q rubbed her temples vigorously, and finally shook her head, "The existence of the coin itself means that the other party can get help from ordinary people at will. Casual contact will only alert the snake, so just keep monitoring. By the way, I'm investigating their social circle. I suspect there may be executioners in their social circle..."
Although I don’t think it’s necessary to write at the same level as a fantasy introduction, after all, some readers don’t like to use their brains, so I’ll just mention it here:
Because nothing comes with the emergence of Infinite City, and its history is only more than thirty years. In addition, scientific research has always been done by each country, so there is no mutual exchange of what is needed. At most, some special professions can steal the achievements of other countries. , so countries have different naming and understanding of ghost stories.
In Victoria and Colombia, "nothing" is called "ghost", ghost stories are called "weirdness", and the process of turning "nothing" into "weird stories" is called "weirdization".
Dongguo and Yanguo are collectively referred to as weird stories, but there are certain levels of intensity.
In addition, there are phantom objects, which are classified differently in various countries. Victoria calls them [magical objects], which are divided into three levels: A, B, and C according to their abilities, danger levels, and side effects. They are numbered according to the order in which they are obtained.
In addition, some illusions can produce derivatives (which have original functions and are products of subsequent research). The derivatives will be added with a number according to the type. For example, the C-103-2 mentioned before is the second number of C-103. means a derivative.
Yanguo's names are collections, treasures, and secret treasures. They are usually called by numbers, but some commonly used ones have specific "nicknames."
If it is a mysterious friend, you can compare it to the sealed object system, with C-level and collections corresponding to level 3 sealed objects, B-level and treasures corresponding to level 2 sealed objects, and A-level and secret treasures corresponding to level 1 sealed objects.
As for the phantom objects corresponding to level 0 sealed objects, they are currently not in human hands. As for the others, I won’t spoil them for now.
(End of chapter)
