Chapter 17: Sand in the River of Time



Or to be more precise, it is a game account called "Mutants Online".

This account was logged into by the high school student who died suddenly in the last stage of his life. Because of the obsession of that high school student, this account was successfully distorted by reason and became an "alien".

Because the main body is a piece of network data, the "weaver" is very familiar with the network. In this case, it can almost swim in the ocean of the network like a fish.

At the same time, because it is a piece of information data, it is not limited to things like "five senses" and "thinking". It can be said that as long as it wants, it can appear in tens of thousands of network home machines in an instant and type different words.

This is why it will be so difficult to capture the "Web Weaver" in the future. For this guy, most of China's cameras and network terminals are being "watched" by him. Under such a difficult situation, any capture operation is almost impossible to succeed.

And even if they succeed, there is still a decoy left for the arresting personnel, that is, the Internet cafe consumers used by the "web weavers" as "straw men".

The purpose of the "Scarecrow" is to warn the flock of birds, while the "Web Weaver" uses the people staying in the Internet cafe to make them look like the "Web Weaver" himself, so as to disrupt the enemy's vision.

"But it's probably still very weak now, so it can only control the surrounding cameras," Bai Ling leaned back in the gaming chair. "But this is also good, at least it proves that it hasn't grown as strong as I thought it would."

Lin Ju understood what he said: "So this is why you asked me to come here in advance to check out the place and why I can't talk?"

Bai Ling smiled: "Let's just consider it as one of the reasons."

He gently clicked the mouse, controlling the character in the game, and said as he made it take drugs: "By the way, as another deception, the real body of the 'Web Weaver' is actually not the game character you see now."

Looking at the game character moving around freely under Bai Ling's mouse, Lin Ju's eyes flickered slightly: "Not a character? What is it?"

What is it? Bai Ling smiled and said, "It's an account number."

"It's not a high school student, nor is it a game character. It's just the 'account' itself," Bai Ling said, tapping the computer screen. "It's a code composed of letters and numbers, used as a credential to log into the game. This is the 'Weaver' itself."

The game characters and Internet cafe customers are all its disguises. From the very beginning, the existence of this alien is not a real entity.

Existing in the form of "concept", this is the real reason why the "Weaver" is hiding.

"This guy went to great lengths to hide this fact," Bailing said with a smile. "Let's not talk about setting up a 'scarecrow', just on the server alone, he specifically hid this account and faked that it had been deleted."

In order to avoid being discovered, the "Web Weaver" had already made preparations in advance. It had already erased its account records in this "Mutants Online" in advance, turning it into useless data like discarded garbage.

Hearing this, Lin Ju couldn't help but frown: "If that's the case, then why doesn't it just erase everything that exists?"

If the purpose was to avoid being noticed by others, then why didn't they just distort their own information from the beginning, but instead still use the account information of the high school student.

If someone really found out that the "Web Weaver" was related to that high school student, then even without using the Internet, it wouldn't be difficult to get the clue from some of his connections, right? Faced with this question, Bai Ling simply turned his attention back to the computer: "Because, this is its body."

"Just like you want to change your lower body into another person's legs. After the change, are you still you?" He typed on the keyboard, inputting characters word by word. "So it's probably like this. The 'Web Weaver' doesn't dare to gamble, and can't gamble. Therefore, all it can do is be alert, make all preparations in advance, and then live forever in the shadow of being exposed..."

After entering the characters, Bai Ling withdrew his hand with a smile: "Okay. Now, it should be able to communicate with us properly..."

As soon as the words fell, a voice suddenly came from the side of Bai Ling: "Who are you?"

Lin Ju and Bai Ling looked in the direction of the sound and saw at a glance who the sound came from.

That was... the middle-aged uncle who was talking to Bai Ling about "young people nowadays" before! Looking at this guy standing next to him with no expression on his face, Bai Ling leaned back on the e-sports again, folded his hands and rested his chin: "Interesting."

"Is this your derivative?" Bai Ling said, "Wow, it's really amazing. It's obviously a piece of computer data, but it can actually affect humans in reverse. It's interesting. How did you do it?"

The uncle... or the "Web Weaver" did not answer Bai Ling's words, but continued with a cold face: "Who are you? My information has been sealed on the Internet, and I have already placed spies around Xiao Hao's friends. I have never seen you before. How did you know?"

"Xiao Hao" is the male high school student who died suddenly, and is also the origin of the birth of "The Weaver".

Crossing his legs, Bai Ling smiled and said, "Indeed, if I follow the normal way of thinking, I may not be able to find your identity at all. But unfortunately, I did not use the conventional method to find you. On the contrary, you 'bumped' into me."

As he spoke, Bai Ling pointed to his eyes.

In the original future, the capture plan of the "Web Weaver" was also very bumpy. Because of the opponent's vigilance, when people began to discover this alien species, it had already grown to a very powerful level. At that time, the "Web Weaver" was like the emperor of the Internet, attacking and fighting in the era of mixed information.

However, this is for others.

Although it may sound funny to say this, my original self recorded all the news about the "Weaver" clearly in his diary.

When he predicted the future, he saw a newspaper. And the newspaper happened to publish news about the "Web Weaver"...

In other words, it was just a newspaper.

Perhaps because the "Web Weaver" was already dead, this news was published in the newspaper so openly.

"Destiny is very strange. Even the finest dust will always be discovered and peeked at over a long period of time," Bailing said. "And I just happened to reach out my hand, scoop up a pool of clear water from the long river, and found your trace."

"Let me formally introduce myself. You can call me 'the prophet', a person who travels back in time and sees through fate."

Bailing said slowly: "Perhaps you think you are hiding very well, but to me, it is just sand that I can touch with just my hand."

No matter how much sand is piled up, it cannot build a Tower of Babel that touches the sky.


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