Chapter 842 Chapter 4: Missing

The next day, Xia Lingyue went to school to ask for leave for her brother, and then accompanied by Li Muhan, she went to apologize to the teacher.

Although the teacher didn't seem to know what was going on, since the parents were there, he didn't say anything.

Speaking of Xia Lingyue and Li Lingsheng, they were originally supposed to be assigned to the same class, but because of their incompatible personalities, Xia Lingyue often bullied her younger brother, so Li Muhan simply sent Xia Lingyue, who had better grades, to the top class.

Li Lingsheng, who has a gloomy personality, was assigned to Class 5.

well.

Li Muhan was also puzzled. How could such a good child become so gloomy in just over a year?

"Study hard and don't use your abilities in school anymore, or I won't give you any pocket money."

"I know, you're annoying as hell... Go away, the students are watching."

Xia Lingyue impatiently pushed her father out of the classroom, while the people in the classroom were also discussing.

Why is Xia Lingyue's father so young?

The head teacher of Class 1 is from the Special Management Bureau. He will naturally cover for Li Muhan and quickly ask the students to prepare for class.

After leaving school, Li Muhan received a call from Su Xue.

"Sister Xue? You haven't contacted me for so long. Are you going to have a party?" Li Muhan said with a smile, while waving to stop a taxi.

[Mu Han, have you seen brother Zi Yu today? ]

Su Xue on the phone seemed a little anxious.

"Zi Yu? I asked him to drive me to the newly opened pedestrian street yesterday, but I didn't see him today. What's wrong?"

[...Well, Mu Han, if you have time, come to Team 7's activity room today.]

"Okay, I just went to school and now I'm getting ready to go to work."

[School? Did something happen to Lingsheng and Lingyue?]

Speaking of these two children, Su Xue was also a little worried.

"It's nothing, Sister Xue, don't worry. I'll be at work soon. We'll talk when we get there."

After hanging up the phone, Li Muhan heard the taxi's in-car radio seemed to be broadcasting some news.

Recently, the holographic online game Chaos and Abyss, jointly launched by Su Group and Hami Network Technology Co., Ltd., has entered its testing phase. The game has been widely praised since its launch.

well.

Li Muhan sighed. Nowadays, people play holographic games. Are people like him who are still playing mobile games and PC games a little behind?

After arriving at the activity room of the seventh team, Li Muhan saw the execution team and Yin Qi checking the equipment that Lin Ziyu usually used.

He realized that something was wrong.

So he walked over and asked, "Sister Xue, what's going on?"

"Around 1 a.m. last night, the Special Management Bureau detected signs of a realm opening. This realm power has no records and is a force that has never been discovered before."

Su Xue's expression was somewhat serious. She turned to look at Li Muhan and said, "This boundary power comes from this activity room. When the execution team arrived, there was no one there, but the computer login ID showed Brother Ziyu."

"What about Ziyuren?"

Li Muhan asked.

"He's missing."

Yin Qi walked over and said, while throwing a VR helmet to Li Muhan.

"Missing?"

"Lin Ziyu disappeared just as we detected that boundary force. Internal surveillance didn't capture any signs of him disappearing, and we sent in members of the Special Management Bureau responsible for searching for auras to help investigate. Lin Ziyu's presence is no longer visible in any corner of Tianhai City."

"......" Li Muhan looked at the helmet in his hand and suddenly thought of something: "Yes, or... check his thing..."

He hesitated for a moment, but finally said, "Check to see if he went to northern Myanmar."

"Northern Myanmar?" Everyone else was stunned.

"What do you mean?" Yin Qi asked.

So Li Muhan somewhat embarrassedly told Lin Ziyu that he had an online romance with a girl named Xiaojuan, and that he suspected that Xiaojuan might be an online fraudster.

"...Brother Mu Han, Zi Yu may be a little funny at times, but he... he's not mentally retarded."

Su Xue said, covering her face.

"That's right, it seems I have some stereotypes."

At this moment, Yin Qi picked up the terminal and said.

"I've checked on Xiaojuan. Guess what her situation is now."

Several people shook their heads.

"That Xiaojuan has also disappeared, in the same way as Lin Ziyu, disappearing in front of her computer. Furthermore, between 12 PM and 1 AM last night, there were at least ten cases of missing persons across the country, almost all of whom were in front of their computers. And they were all playing the same game, Chaos and Abyss."

When he heard the name, Li Muhan suddenly remembered what he had just heard on the taxi radio.

So he quickly turned around and asked Su Xue: "Sister Xue, was this game developed by your family and Hami Company together?"

Su Xue shook her head: "The Su family is not involved in research and development, nor in operation and management. It's just an investment. The Su family is investing in many areas now. This investment is not handled by me."

"Ah...this game."

Chen Yiming, who had just joined the seventh team, suddenly pointed at the helmet and said.

"I, I'm playing too."

Li Muhan quickly walked to Chen Yiming and asked.

"Have you encountered anything strange in the game?"

Chen Yiming shook her head. "Well... although this game is called a holographic game, it's actually just a panoramic VR online game. There's nothing special about it. It's pretty much the same as a regular PC game, except that it's a bit more immersive."

As he spoke, Chen Yiming took the helmet and put it on his head.

"Well, let me take a look...Huh...?"

Suddenly, Chen Yiming seemed to realize something was wrong and she took off her helmet again.

"What's wrong?" Li Muhan asked anxiously.

"This..." Chen Yiming looked at the helmet a few more times in confusion, then returned it to Li Muhan and said, "...Senior Lin Ziyu, it seems that he is not playing Chaos and Abyss."

"What do you mean?" Li Muhan asked.

"It's just... Although the login interface of this game is the same as Chaos and Abyss, there are some details that are different."

After hearing this, Li Muhan also put on a helmet.

The login interface of Chaos and Abyss slowly appeared. It was indeed a very beautifully made game, and both the music and the graphics were very realistic.

But Li Muhan noticed something was wrong.

The title on the game login screen...

Chaos and abyss?

"Is this a fucking copycat game? Just like Steam and Steam Manager? Even Lin Ziyu downloaded it wrong?" Li Muhan asked after taking off his helmet.

Chen Yiming frowned, then walked to Lin Ziyu's computer and operated it for a while, and then the confusion on her face deepened.

"Something's wrong. Senior Lin's terminal shows that he did download the game from the official website. The installation logs are also correct, and even the login account backend logs are official."

The people from the execution team were planning to come over and take away the terminal and helmet as evidence for the investigation.

Li Muhan raised his hand to stop them.

"Let the Intelligence Department go first. I will investigate this matter myself."

Several members of the execution team were a little troubled, and then Li Muhan personally called Yan Yu, and the members of the execution team left empty-handed.

Then Li Muhan asked Chen Yiming to sit in front of the computer and asked her to carefully check Lin Ziyu's operation log last night to see if there were any abnormalities.

So Chen Yiming started to operate very skillfully.

"I didn't expect Yiming to be so good at this." Su Xue also sat down next to her and asked.

"Because, because..." Chen Yiming blushed. "Because, I'm sometimes curious about Senior Lin's work, so I asked him one time. He explained it to me very patiently, and that's how I became interested in network security and terminal operations."

"After that, Senior Lin often guided me in learning this knowledge..."

"Well, if you want to develop in this field in the future, I can recommend you to the Cybersecurity Department."

"No, that's not necessary." Chen Yiming rejected Li Muhan's proposal: "Teacher, I just want to stay in Team 7. Captain Su Xue, Senior Yin, and Lu Yunxue are all very kind to me..."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. How about it? Do you see anything?"

Chen Yiming began to operate seriously, and soon she felt something was wrong.

"From 11am to 12pm, Senior Lin's backend logs were normal. He was indeed chatting with people in the game, but the specific content of the chats needs to be checked by logging into the game or going to the game company's backend."

So Li Muhan made a phone call and asked Gao to take the license from the Internet Monitoring Bureau to Hami Network Company to retrieve the chat records of Lin Ziyu's account.

Chen Yiming continued, "But... after 1:00 AM, the entire game program—no, Senior Lin's network environment—changed. His IP was tampered with, his logs were overwritten, and the game program was destroyed. The entire game was replaced with another one."

"What else?" Li Muhan asked.

"Let me see. Senior Lin seems to have noticed something's wrong, too. He tried to fix it. True to his name, he seemed to have found the other party's original IP address, but... he was still a step too late. At 1:12, Senior Lin completely stopped. The last code he searched for was... Deepweb."

"What is that?" Li Muhan scratched his head.

"The deep web, also known as the dark web, is a place of lawlessness hidden beneath the shallow web."

Yin Qi said: "Human trafficking, weapons dealing, money laundering, no matter how evil the things are, they will become very common on the Deep Web."

"Even the Special Management Bureau can't fully explore the Deep Web right now. Just like humans have only explored 5% of the ocean, the Deep Web is like a vast black ocean, hiding countless unknown secrets. What I just described is only the surface of the Deep Web. There are even deeper, darker areas, which we generally call the Abyss. Most people can only use a computer to explore the Deep Web at best, but if you want to enter the Abyss, you need to prepare a lot."

Li Muhan frowned.

“Why did Ziyu search for the code of the deep web?”

"There is only one possibility." Chen Yiming said.

"The thing that attacked Senior Lin's terminal might have come from the deep web."