"Friend, what I want is information, not riddles." Ling Chong glanced at the street friend, took out another banknote and put it down.

"Friend, what I said is what I saw." The street friend shook his head and pushed the banknote back, "You look like a well-informed person. You have met a real person. One second ago

Are you still concerned about the fact that you were less than ten meters away and disappeared from the world in the next second? "

"...Is your brain electronic?" The two of them were stunned for a few seconds before Aaron reacted first.

"Of course, I used to do business. How can I do business without the Internet?" The street friend nodded.

"Did you suddenly lose your vision and hearing at that time, or did you feel that the girl was erased from your eyes when all your perceptions were normal?" Aaron asked.

"It's more similar to the latter."

"What was the level of your firewall at that time?"

"It was the best on the market when I bought it, but it has expired and has not been updated for two years."

"A top hacker may be stronger than her, that's what Lan Tian said." Before Aaron could ask, Ling Chong sent him a message.

"Tell us in detail what happened at that time, and try not to leave out any details." Aaron put back the banknotes that were pushed back, and sat down next to Ling Chong.

"Even if I ask you to elaborate, I don't know what to say. That day was no different from any other day. Jeanne came home from get off work at the Opera House. At that time, I was lounging in the tent. I wanted to say hello to her, but Suddenly she disappeared in front of my eyes, just in the blink of an eye." The street friend's voice was full of distress and confusion.

"Then you went out to check?" Aaron asked.

"Yes, I thought it was strange and went out to check, but there was nothing left where she disappeared. She just... evaporated? At that time, I wanted to find someone to confirm whether I had eaten something wrong and had hallucinations, but

I don’t know why, but I was the only one on the street at that time.

, everything near and far was quiet, even the crows on the trees stopped crowing! Frankly speaking, I was extremely scared at that time. I didn’t know whether it was Jeanne or myself who disappeared from the world!” The street friend’s voice became more and more panicked.

, this incident seemed to be a lingering shadow buried in his heart.

"..." Aaron and Ling Chong were both silent. The street friend's statement was more like a ghost story than a personal experience report. However, this "ghost story" is not completely nonsense. If the corresponding means are available, it can indeed be temporarily

Take over the senses of a human whose brain has been electronicized, and temporarily create a virtual environment that is as realistic as reality.

"Then, when did you return to normal?" After nearly two minutes of silence, Ling Chong asked.

"Maybe ten minutes?" The street friend's voice was uncertain, "Maybe it was longer or shorter, but at that time I was so scared that I had no concept of time. When I regained consciousness, I found that I was still sitting on my

In the tent, I still can’t figure out whether it was reality or a dream. But one thing I

It is certain that Jeanne disappeared that day, because later the opera house where she worked sent people to come to our place to inquire, saying that she had been absent from work for a week without reason since that day, and later the police came.

After searching her room, I heard that the police declared her missing."

"Have you told the police about this?" Aaron asked.

"Haha, no one took the initiative to ask me, why bother talking so much?" The street friend shook his head.

"So the police ignored Jeanne's disappearance." Aaron's voice was a little angry.

"Young man, this is Paris." The street friend said with a bitter smile, "Hundreds of people die on the streets here every day. Do you think the police will do anything for a civilian girl who didn't even see the body?"

Aaron said nothing, he didn't know what to say.

"Keep it, thank you for telling us this." Ling Chong nodded and stood up, "We almost know everything we should know."

"If the girl is still alive, I hope you can rescue her." The street friend carefully put away the two bills, "But I'm afraid she won't even have her ashes. I hope you two can avenge her."

"I'll lend you some good words." Ling Chong nodded, reached out and patted Aaron, who was still in a daze, and took him away from here.

"Uncle Ling, you've seen it a long time ago." Aaron said suddenly as he followed Ling Chong away a few dozen meters out of his mind.

"Well, if you are concerned, you will be confused. When you see the building collapse, you will panic first." Ling Chong nodded.

"Thank you, Uncle Ling, for following me." Aaron smiled bitterly, "Our perverted client borrowed this street friend's eyes to spy on him. In fact, I should have thought of it earlier."

"But the record does not match the street friend's own description. The sight line in the record is very stable, indicating that his body was sitting on the ground and did not move. However, he himself said that he chased him out to check and fell into a strange situation.

, I guess his five senses had already been taken over by someone when he had the idea of ​​going out to check. The quiet and deserted street after that was just an illusion created by the person who invaded his brain, and he didn't move from beginning to end." Ling Chong.

Analyze.

"Do you think Miss Jeanne had the same experience at that time?" Aaron's expression suddenly became very complicated.

"If it were true, it would be terrible. Standing alone on a street with no sound, but in reality, your body is being robbed like luggage." Ling Chong knew what Aaron wanted to say, and just imagined that

This scene made Ling Chong shudder.

"What I want to know most now is what kind of incident this girl was involved in, which warranted the mastermind behind the scenes to use such covert means to kill her." Aaron pondered for a moment and then said.

Ling Chong's heart moved, but he didn't say anything.

As the street friend just said, this is a city where hundreds of people die on the streets every day. It doesn't take much to deal with it properly by just shutting up. As long as you can afford it and are willing to take on the purchase,

The "temporary workers" who murder people can line up from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille. Even if

Even if you don’t want to pay, there are so many ways for someone to “accidentally get involved” in a gang fight and die inexplicably, so why go to such great lengths to use hacking methods to kidnap someone at your doorstep?

How about selling canned brains on a dark web platform that makes shady money by selling other people’s dreams?

There are too many bizarre parts in the whole thing, making it difficult to sort out a rough cause and effect using simple logic.

"I'm back." Just as the two were hesitating whether to go to the next location to investigate, Lan Tian's voice came from the channel.

"That's pretty fast." Aaron calculated that it had been less than two hours since the girl disappeared. "Did you find any clues on that platform?"

"No, I tried to invade but was kicked out." Lan Tian's voice was slightly frustrated, and she did not hide the fact that she was deflated.

"Aren't you known as the world's top hacker, that's all?" Of course, Aaron would not give up teasing her just because she was honest.

"I said I was the best in the world, but I never said I was the best in the world. Can't the best fail?" Lan Tiantian defended himself without saying anything.

"So, there is a guy who is more top-notch than you behind the platform that caught you and kicked you out?" Aaron continued to be weird.

"They may not be stronger than me. They have an advantage if they play at home." Mentioning the professional blue sky showed a rigorous attitude as a professional, "I also underestimated the enemy when I started just now. The firewall design of that platform is external."

It's tight inside, and at first glance it doesn't seem like a big deal, but it's only when you sink in that you realize how powerful it is. If it hadn't been for the experience of suffering losses before, I almost wouldn't have escaped this time."

"No matter how thrilling you say it, you haven't gotten any decent information anyway." Aaron concluded for Lan Tian with disappointment.

"It's not that there was no gain at all. I found an interesting clue." Lan Tian suddenly smiled proudly, and it could be heard that this was a sincere laugh.

"Oh? Tell me what clues there are." Aaron perked up when he heard there were clues.

"When I hacked in, I discovered that the brains that sell dreams are not all brains in a vat. Many brains are still connected to the body. They should have taken some kind of drug to keep the body in mandatory rapid eye movement sleep.

At the same time, open the network interface to open your brain to the platform." Lan Tian did not sell out to Aaron.

"In other words, either someone was captured and turned into a dream machine..."

"Either there are people who are making profits on that platform by selling their dreams." Ling Chong took over what Aaron had not finished speaking.

"No matter which one it is, it is impossible to have no clues in reality." Lan Tian's words could not conceal her pride.
Chapter completed!