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"Is that Mr. Sha? Hello, I'm Huaxia's contact person..."

Hearing the familiar Huaxia face and the friendly Mandarin spoken by the other party, Sha Tang raised the corners of his lips slightly.

The speed was really as fast as he thought. Although it took a lot of time to fight each other, the police station of country M contacted him to go to the police station on the fourth day after he settled in the hotel.

"Hi, I'm Sha Tang." He reached out to shake hands with the Huaxia contact person.

Considering the M country police who were watching eagerly, the two began to communicate in English after a brief exchange of pleasantries.

The liaison person was obviously a good person, and he clicked on the video chat as soon as he sat down. Opposite the video was a meeting room, which was full of people, all of whom were wearing police uniforms.

The police in Country M were somewhat dissatisfied, which was not mentioned in their negotiations.

But it was blocked by the contact person with a light sentence----that's right, it was not mentioned in the negotiation!

Sha Tang felt like laughing. The person on the opposite side of the video did not speak, but just sat quietly. The contact person here first checked with him the content submitted in the email. The person began to bow his head and take notes.

Before going abroad, Sha Tang locked the mobile phone with the "Survivor" app in the storage box of a membership-only swimming pool. Because some members will keep their things in the locker for a long time, there is no requirement In case, the storage box there is not easy to clean.

This is also to avoid accidents with his mobile phone while he is abroad. He always prepares for the worst.

From the very beginning, he didn't intend to bring that mobile phone with him, because he didn't want to hand over such important evidence to country M. He is not a citizen of this country, and any rights and interests cannot be guaranteed.

"I mailed the key when I went out. If there is no accident, it should arrive at the post station near my house in two days. You can pick up the express according to my mobile phone number."

Hearing about this incident, the M country police officer in charge of supervision couldn't sit still again, and asked Sha Tang to hand over the mobile phone.

Sha Tang shrugged and smiled very calmly: "Isn't it fair to have a mobile phone on each side? Don't you also read the information on my mobile phone?"

After the first round of transcripts, Sha Tang's mobile phone was confiscated by the police, in the name of protecting his location.

Sha Tang believed that after the mobile phone left his field of vision, it must have been turned inside and out immediately. In order to let M country not feel too sorry, he passed on a lot of information and his own "survivor" analysis up.

"Is there any difference between the two mobile phones?" the police officer from Country M asked.

Sha Tang tilted his head and thought for a while, "Probably not, maybe the apps are different, that phone is my old phone, and there will be more apps."

As for country M, he did not disclose the matter of the mobile app. Too many people are involved in this matter. In the end, it will definitely develop into two countries, or even a combination of multiple countries. Information sharing is certain.

But the side with more information will definitely have the upper hand, because Gu Xi is in country M, and Huaxia is already at a disadvantage, so Sha Tang chooses to submit the most critical things to Huaxia.

Hearing Sha Tang's words, the contact person looked up at him, and Sha Tang smiled back, saying nothing.

The contact person's inquiry time is not long, adding up to two hours before and after.

After closing the notebook, the contact person stood up and shook hands with Sha Tang very gratefully: "Mr. Sha, don't worry too much, you will be able to return to your motherland soon, this is our promise to you."

Sha Tang responded gratefully, Li Gaide sat in the back and yawned boredly.

As for Li Gaide, Sha Tang completely removed him, and he was not mentioned in the testimony at all, only the email submitted to Huaxia mentioned Li Gaide.

So in the eyes of the police in country M, this is a soy sauce guy.

After observing for two days at the beginning, it turned out that this man was eating and sleeping with Sha Tang every day, playing games with the hotel computer, and he was not affected at all, and then the police completely lost interest in him.

The hotel is a local area network, and the network in this room is restricted. Except for some stand-alone games, nothing can be done, so the police station is also very relieved.

As everyone knows, this is too simple for Li Gaide. To others, he is playing a game, but he is actually writing a Trojan horse through the game keyboard.

Although the local area network is very convenient for hotels and enterprises, it also has great disadvantages. For example, if one computer is attacked, all computers in the local area network will suffer.

Li Gaide intercepted the network signal along the local area network, and used the USB drive as a ferry to send all their data up to now, including what they saw and heard in the studio, and the fragmentary information shared by country M back to China.

This is Sha Tang's preventive method to avoid problems with lawyers. He thinks that he doesn't have the financial resources to make lawyers wholeheartedly help him get things done.

At the same time, it can also help Huaxia obtain first-hand information. As for whether the information told by country M is true, he has no way of knowing, but Huaxia has its own judgment.

In the next week, the two sides reached an agreement, and the equal exchange of information was completed in just three days, and Sha Tang was also qualified to participate in the arrest operation.

This is Sha Tang's request, which was raised by both Country M and Huaxia. As a prerequisite for providing evidence, he must see Gu Xi and see the server being shut down with his own eyes.

With the cooperation of the authorities, the speed of the investigation increased sharply, and all the properties and residences under the names of Gu Xi and everyone in the team were called out.

Out of political considerations, Huaxia did not send anyone over, but applied for Interpol assistance.

After cooperating with many parties and discussing the arrest operation several times, Sha Tang finally waited for the arrest operation to be implemented. Although he was still calm on the surface at this time, Li Gaide, who lived with him in the luxurious suite, knew that , this person has long been unable to hold back.

He couldn't sleep all day long, wandered around the room in the middle of the night, and hesitated to speak every time he saw him.

Li Gaide knew that he wanted to hack the server, but according to the tracking that day, it was obvious that the other party had been on guard. Even if the server was hacked, it would be repaired and restarted.

And the most troublesome thing is to scare the snake away, maybe their long wait will all be in vain.

Every time Li Gaide thought that this person would not be able to hold back, but in the end he only took a few glances at him before returning to his room.

In fact, Li Gaide admires this person quite a bit. If it were him, and his lover was trapped in the game, he would definitely not be able to do it so steadily. He could give those guys who drink tea every day in the police station a big gift bag for each of them. .

On the day of the arrest, Sha Tang followed the police car in the middle to the destination, Gu Xi's second studio, which is also the residence of the game production team.

According to the investigation, after the suspension of the game's release, the game's R&D team did not disband, but stayed together. According to official analysis, they probably did not give up on the game and continued to test it.

For a group of R&D personnel who were helpless, they were stunned when they saw the police who broke into the door. As they thought, this studio has a large number of people.

When Sha Tang followed the police in, he saw a group of people being pointed at with guns by the police, squatting on the ground trembling with their heads in their hands, and some of them even shed tears.

At the discussion meeting of the capture operation, Sha Tang once proposed to shut down the server immediately, because the hunting time is coming, if it is not closed immediately, it will cause a lot of casualties.

At the same time, he asked him to enter the game before shutting down the server. Normally, the official would definitely not allow it, but Sha Tang claimed that there is a very important witness in the game. He has been in the game for decades and can provide a lot of information. evidence.

No one can guarantee that after closing the server, it will be good or bad for these players. Maybe it is possible that closing means eternal sleep.

But from the perspective of the overall situation, this server that is constantly absorbing new players must be shut down. Compared with the tens of thousands of players who have entered the game before, the billions of people outside the game are more important.

With the confession of many technicians, the newly elected person in charge of the production team after Guxi was pushed out.

The police had a conversation with the person in charge, and the person in charge was shocked when he heard that the game was capturing public beta players.

There was no problem with the game at the beginning, and the internal beta players would often log out of the game to discuss with them the bugs in the game, but from a certain day onwards, the internal beta players began to fail to log out of the game.

This phenomenon was first noticed by the logistics staff, because some internal beta players' nutrient solution was empty, and no one had logged out of the game, which was obviously abnormal.

The developer tried to notify the other party to log out as the game administrator, but failed. The small envelope never showed that it had been read, and the game lost contact with the outside world.

They immediately started researching the problem, and released three patches to solve the problem. The end result was that the internal testers fell into an eternal sleep, and no one logged out of the game.

All the team can do is to continuously replenish these people with nutrient solution to ensure that the lives of these internal testers will not be damaged due to external physical conditions.

In the end, Gu Xi made a suggestion to repair from the inside, that is, write a repair program in the game after entering the game.

This idea is very bold, although everyone marveled at the novelty of his thinking angle, and even subconsciously felt that it was indeed feasible.

But no one dared to respond. Under such circumstances, whoever dared to enter the game rashly would be like those internal testers who would never be able to get out.

Gu Xi ignored everyone's opposition and dissuasion, and entered the game.

It was good at the beginning. Through the background data, everyone could see that the other party was really repairing it, but the good times didn't last long. Half a month later, Gu Xi's nutrition cabin suddenly issued an alarm.

This kind of alarm will only be sounded if the player's life is in danger, and they will send the person to the hospital overnight.

After emergency treatment, the result given by the hospital was a large area of ​​cerebral infarction in the cerebral hemisphere. After a year of treatment, he had no choice but to declare that he had become a permanent vegetative state.

According to the person in charge, after the accident of the original person in charge, Gu Xi, they tried to shut down the server, but found it was useless. The game seemed to be artificially installed on other servers, and their server became the other party’s alternative. .

In other words, it is difficult to completely shut down the game without catching the person who operates the game.

This conclusion made everyone present frown, and things became more and more complicated.

At this moment, Sha Tang suddenly asked: "The person who is manipulating the game should be Gu Xi. The holographic online game operates and commands based on brain waves. Can I understand that as long as Gu Xi's brain dies, this game will be destroyed?" will stop?"

This question was too straightforward, and instantly suppressed all the voices present, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

"I have studied the laws of your country. According to the facts of the crime, he can be sentenced to death, isn't it?"

As soon as this sentence came out, there was an uproar in the audience. The death penalty is a very serious punishment in any country, and few people will make a judgment lightly.

After several days of observation, and the data fed back by Li Gaide, the closed beta players are basically not in danger of life, because the production team is ensuring the supply of nutrient solution.

What about beta players?

In the game, he relies on supplies from the hospital. If he is recuperating at home, who will supply them?

Not to mention the death in the game, whether the player will actually die, just talk about the survival of reality, there must be people who die.

In this case, besides the death penalty, Sha Tang couldn't think of what kind of punishment this person could be sentenced to.

After getting the conclusion of the research and development personnel, Sha Tang became more determined in his mind that such a heinous lunatic must be sentenced to death.

But he also knew that criminals with serious physical and mental problems would be given special preferential treatment in the punishment. In a situation like Gu Xi's, it is also very likely that there will be a judgment that he will be held accountable after he regains consciousness.

And when he mentioned the death penalty, the look on the face of the leading police officer didn't seem to agree, it could even be said to be contradictory.

Compared with Sha Tang's conjecture, it is because of Gu Xi's identity. Gu Xi is not only the person in charge of a game production team, but also the son of the current helm of a consortium in country M. Gu Xi's identity is rarely known because of his obsession with research. Sha Tang was able to know because of the fragmented information that Chen He saw in Gu Xi's diary.

Under Li Gaide's deep digging, Gu Xi's figure can be intercepted on the videos of various high-level receptions and auctions in country M, and this guess has basically been confirmed.

In this capitalist country, it is not an easy task to execute this person.

That night, Y Station, the largest foreign social platform, had the most active users, and a blockbuster news appeared on the homepage——"A real holographic online game is launched!"

The content is that a player who calls himself Mr. A gave a very detailed explanation and analysis of a holographic online game formerly known as "Hope" and now renamed "Survivor", as well as the process of being invited to enter the game.

"Hope" is a game that has attracted a lot of attention. The commentary for the first time, coupled with Mr. A's description of the current situation of the closed beta players-"falling into a coma and relying on nutrient solution to survive", immediately caused an uproar.

In just two hours, more than 3000 million people participated in the discussion, and 8000 million retweets, and it became a hot search term on major websites.

When the M country officials found out, they immediately contacted the person in charge of Station Y and asked to delete the relevant posts, but the reply was that they could not be deleted.

As early as after discovering this post, Y Station officials tried to delete it. As a traffic-heavy site, it knows what topics can be discussed and what can't. Topics like this that involve the lives of tens of thousands of people can easily cause political sensitivity. Even international|international|disputes.

However, no matter what they did, they couldn't complete the deletion. The security department struggled with this post for three hours before finally deleting the post. However, in these three hours, the number of participants in the topic discussion has soared to 15 billion.

This is just Y station, other large and small websites also have this data. After the post was deleted, thousands of petition posts sprung up on all major websites, and Y war was the hardest hit area.

Someone posted a post claiming that his family members were also invited to participate in a mysterious game, and had lost contact for many years. At the same time, a large number of users began to appear, saying that their family and friends who liked games had the same phenomenon, suddenly fainted and lost consciousness, and even sudden death.

All kinds of hospital notices have been issued, whether they are fish in troubled waters or real cases, in short, all major platforms around the world are noisy, and messy language appears one after another on the platforms.

Many fans who follow the game also said that some of the big V accounts they followed stopped updating the platform one after another two or three years ago, and suspected that the disappearance of bloggers was related to the game.

It only took one night for this incident to erupt completely. On the second day, platform users formed a group mainly composed of victims of beta players, and jointly voiced their voices on the platform to demand that country M arrest the game producer, and also issued an announcement to the victims and their families.

Country M, which was forced to become the focus of the world, was devastated by this. The police station interviewed Sha Tang many times, wanting to know if the news spread from him. After all these years, he was the only witness who knew so many details.

Sha Tang expressed that he had no knowledge of this. After all, his mobile phone was still in the police station of country M. He was completely out of touch with the outside world, so how could he transmit information.

Country M is speechless and helpless, so it can only seek solutions from other angles.

On the second day after the incident, Country M issued a statement that the game producer Gu Xi had been arrested, and said that after the collection of evidence was completed, the entire trial process of the case would be made public.

Just when everyone thought that the heat of this matter would gradually subside, Mr. A, who gave the game commentary at that time, appeared again, still at station Y, and this time he threw a bigger bomb----

["Survivors" forcefully introduce players! ]

This time, Mr. A is no longer a text picture, but a detailed explanation in the form of a recording. After receiving a system invitation from the player, he is forced to enter the game and cannot log out. The current situation of Guxi Studio.

A large number of players are trapped in the game and cannot leave. The "hunting time" in the game and the bloody inside story that forces players to kill each other are one after another.

The sound was obviously processed. Professionals tried to restore it and finally failed, and the IP location also came to nothing.

After the first post, Station Y has already banned Mr. A's account, but this time, Mr. A published it through someone else's account, and left obvious traces of a Trojan horse, as if telling everyone, I'm just using it as an excuse not to implicate the innocent.

Now even if it's nothing to do with him, the passers-by who are hanging high can't sit still. This feeling of not knowing when bad luck will befall him is extremely bad. No one wants to be a guinea pig.

Sha Tang is behind the scenes, looking at the overall situation, although he has never done public relations, but he knows that in marketing methods, there are layers of advancement, twists and turns, and the truth and reversal can completely catch the audience's attention.

Throwing everything out at once will easily make the spectators lose their patience. In this era of fast information, they will be buried soon.

The incident became more and more troublesome, and there were even demonstrations. Gradually, in order to appease the panic of the people, the upper echelons of various countries also called the country M to request the truth be disclosed.

That afternoon, when Sha Tang was interviewed for the fifth time and was drinking coffee at the police station, Mr. A published a new article on Station Y -- "About Gu Xi's identity!"

Immediately afterwards, Gu Xi appeared in formal attire at various receptions, and bluntly said that country M would use vegetative state as an excuse for probation to help Gu Xi evade legal sanctions.

Finally, Mr. A threw out a recording, which was a conversation between Sha Tang, the police officer and the new person in charge, about the inability to shut down the server.

Originally, the best effect was after a few days of deliberation, and the audience's emotions reached the most saturated state before throwing it out, but Sha Tang didn't want to wait any longer. Thinking of Chen He being invaded and controlled by Gu Xi, Sha Tang knew that Chen He What kind of danger is facing.

He can't waste a moment!