Criminal Psychology

Chapter 268 Bidding

On the paper was the string of passwords that Lin Chen copied down, and the oil stains of the ballpoint pen were bluish, as if they were about to shine in the sun.

Dynasty shivered, he took a deep breath, clicked on the simple pop-up window again, and entered the characters one by one at a slow speed.

At the end, the young man's rare face was solemn, he moved the mouse to the position of the confirmation button, and reconfirmed to them: "Then I confirmed it?"

The sun is rising outside the window, and everything is too peaceful.

Xing Conglian glanced at the countdown, and there were 6 minutes left.

He nodded and set a countdown on his watch.

There was a sudden click of the mouse.

Dynasty turned the screen around and wanted them to watch it together. At this moment, the refresh progress bar rushed to the bottom in an instant, and the page rushed out like a waterfall.Wang Chao couldn't care about them anymore, he quickly turned back to the screen, his expression suddenly frightened, and he quickly tapped on the keyboard with both hands to process the data.

Thinking of the scene that he had glimpsed just now, Xing Cong and Lin Chen looked at each other, and got up at the same time.They walked around the long table from both sides and walked behind the dynasty.

Over the top of the young man's hair, they finally realized why when they saw the webpage just now, they had the illusion of seeing a scourge.

There were countless gold coins pouring down, like waves and waves, surging, descending from the sky with an incomparably evil and crazy aura, continuously accumulating to the bottom of the screen.

The sound effect of gold coins falling from the sky loops through the periodical reading room, making it creepy.

But to be precise, it is a data stream imitated in the shape of a gold coin, like the picture quality of Tetris that is usually produced on the oldest game consoles, and each pixel is so big that it instantly brings people back to the 90s.Not only that, but the gold coin waterfall is also made into a three-dimensional appearance, undulating in the picture in the form of a Mobius ring or some strange dichotomous graphics, making the solid screen seem to twist in space.

Xing Conglian finally understands what is old school and special taste.

Chao Chao suddenly leaned back in his chair and stopped all work. He patted the desktop angrily with both hands, turned off the computer volume abruptly, and shook his head at them: "I can't track it."

5 minutes 20 seconds.

At this moment, Lin Chen suddenly leaned over, tapped his finger on the bottom of the screen, and asked, "What is this?"

Xing Conglian narrowed his eyes, and saw that all the gold coins falling from the sky did not fall into the abyss completely, but changed into another form, like rainwater falling into the black ocean on a stormy night, sinking and floating at the bottom of the screen.

Wang Chao followed Lin Chen's instructions and moved the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen.

The moment the white arrow touched the edge of the ocean, the "ocean" poured back in an instant, sweeping away the gold coins from bottom to top, and spreading them horizontally on the screen like a scroll.

The technical level of this website is obviously not as bad as the pixel grains make it out to be.

It was a map, the topographic map of the three provinces around Hongjing City that they were familiar with.

"What the hell!"

Chao Chao was about to stick his face to the screen. He didn't even dare to touch the screen with the mouse anymore, but just swipe across the waves on the map, "What is this, a map of gold coins?"

Xing Conglian didn't speak, but took out his mobile phone, called up the [-]D topographic map, and put it on the side of the laptop screen for comparison.

Raised mountains, sinking rivers, cities reclaimed by industrial modernization...

The topographic map of the three provinces on the topographic map of the mobile phone is not consistent with the undulating waves on the computer screen, and even shows a completely opposite trend.

"What the hell are you doing?" Wang Chao muttered, "Are you playing special effects?"

Lin Chen looked solemn, pointed to several peaks in the waves, and said, "Is this a city?"

Xing Conglian zoomed out and zoomed out the satellite image on the phone, compared it back and forth, and said, "Yes, Yongchuan, Hongjing, Fengchun, Meicun, Shifang..."

Every time he announced the name of a city, he tapped his finger on the screen for confirmation, and his tone became more condensed.

All cities do not represent geographically icy terrain, but represent the real people who live in that city.

Wang Chao took a breath and couldn't help but said, "Damn, are they all large and medium-sized cities around us? What do you mean?"

"I'm afraid they are putting a price on us," Lin Chen said.

They were referring to lunatics on the dark web, and we were of course referring to ordinary people in real life. Xing Conglian was shocked, and his first reaction was to look at the countdown on his watch.

4 minute and 40 seconds left.

"Price? I don't understand." Chao Chao took advantage of the situation and moved the mouse pointer to a certain peak position of "Gold Coin Wave", and clicked lightly. Sure enough, a small window popped up, but there was no prompt, "Do I want to enter the amount here?" ?"he asks.

Xing Conglian leaned down and faced the sea of ​​gold coins constantly surging on the computer. He didn't have time to explain the doubts of the dynasty, but asked, "Can you determine where the highest point is?"

Dynasty was full of doubts, but he copied the scroll on the screen without hesitation and fitted it to a geographic satellite map.

The two pictures on the screen are gradually overlapping, and all the peaks of the waves are completely matched with the center of each city, and the highest peak undoubtedly appears in the international metropolis - Yongchuan.

"You try to throw 1 bitcoin into the pop-up window."

After Xing Conglian finished speaking, Lin Chen suddenly held him down.He quickly read the meaning from Lin Chen's gaze, which meant not to be impulsive.

He said: "I just want to confirm your speculation, and I'm not stupid enough to make a lot of money behind the scenes."

Lin Chen simply let go, and then he patted Wang Chao on the shoulder, letting Wang Chao begin.

Dynasty had never done this kind of thing before, he entered the payment very nervously, like an old lady using electronic payment for the first time.

With 4 minutes left in the countdown, a tiny gold coin fell from the sky, like an inconspicuous drop of water, and fell into the "peak" he clicked earlier, because this point was too small to stir up ripples on the gold coin.But this does prove that the entire sea of ​​gold coins is clearly a huge roulette wheel, and on the dark web, countless people are using money to bet on their "favorite" cities.

When Xing Cong thought of this, he saw that the peak of the wave representing the betting amount surged in Meicun City in an instant. I don't know which crazy player is spending a lot of money in Meicun City next to Yongchuan.

In a short period of time, the wave was like a steeply rising mountain, and the "sea level" of the surrounding villages and towns centered on Meicun rose rapidly, and surpassed Yongchuan in a few seconds.

Lin Chen's guess was really accurate, but Xing Cong couldn't even be happy about it.

But what they see is just a completely virtual betting image.In fact, this means that there are hundreds of millions of real funds invested in this crazy auction, ready to use money to bloodbath or something.

Chao Chao gnawed his thumb joint in a rare way: "Damn, I really succeeded?? They actually used the city as an auction item, so fucking crazy?" Wang Chao began to mutter nervously, "Now the price of Plum Village is the highest, and the price of Plum Village City will be higher. what happened?"

"They don't regard the city as an auction item, but the human life in the city as an auction item." Lin Chen said, "The one with the highest price wins, and they will harvest whichever city has the most expensive human life."

"Harvest, what do you use to harvest?" Dynasty stared at them with wide eyes, and then realized that he had asked an extremely stupid question.

Crazy, money, the dark web, and that psycho drug, there's no worse combination in the world.

Xing Conglian quickly dialed the phone number of the detention center: "Strictly monitor Shen Lian, and prohibit any visits, including police officers at all levels!"

After hanging up the phone, he immediately dialed the number of Meicun City Bureau without stopping.And asked Dynasty to package and send a series of things such as dark web addresses, Internet tools, passwords, etc. to the past.

When all this is done, time just runs out.

At the moment of returning to zero, it seems that someone has applied a freezing effect to the wave of gold coins. The surging waves freeze from one corner to the other, and then cover them in black, bringing deathly silence.

Of course, except for the highest wave symbolizing Plum Village.

The entire city of Meicun, including the surrounding townships, was marked red. Xing Conglian roughly estimated that it was about a full 4126 square kilometers of land.

No taunt or incitement icon appeared, the sound effect stopped, and only a white slogan was slanted from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the screen: TOBE CONTINUED...

The last point of the ellipsis slowly emerged, and the picture came to an abrupt end.

For a long time after that, Dynasty didn't even dare to touch the keyboard with his hands.

It wasn't until Lin Chen started to move that the boy picked up the breath he had forgotten. On the one hand, he felt that the sudden auction ahead was too exciting, and on the other hand, he expressed strong dissatisfaction with the final scene of saying "no, it's gone." This... this is the end ?”

Lin Chen walked back to his seat and sat under the sun, but Xing Conglian knew that the sun could not warm him up at all.

"No." Lin Chen only uttered a short syllable.

They all knew that this couldn't be the end, this wasn't even the beginning.

A long time ago, whether it was a game, a moral test, or even a doomsday carnival for sociopaths, it had already begun.

What Lin Chen has experienced, they will also experience together.

The periodical reading room fell silent again.

Xing Conglian threw the phone on the table. After he finished the call, the screen hadn't turned on again.Plum Village obviously needs a long time to verify, notify, and arrange. No one knows what is waiting for that city.

"Then what should we do now?" Wang Chao shook his legs, "Waiting for something big to happen in Plum Village?"

"If I want to implement any large-scale plan, there must be a period of time to read the article after the betting is over, it may be 10 minutes, or it may be [-] hours, because I see the police in the city who are in panic all day long but are powerless. , very interesting." Lin Chen said.

"Me! Come on!"

When Wang Chao finished speaking, his cell phone rang crazily. He answered the phone, and there was a Plum Village network technician on the other end.

The cynical expression on the teenager's face disappeared instantly, and he clamped the phone between his cheeks and shoulders, and started working and answering.

The sound of clacking keyboards and terms that Xing Conglian could not understand continued to sound, bringing many fragmented memories of crazy retrospect. Every fragment of the story seemed to be falling apart, but it seemed that something could stick everything together.

He only asked Lin Chen one question: "What does he want?"