Chapter 097 Wanted Criminal Simulator
When Ji Xu returned to reality, he woke up and immediately grabbed his coat and prepared to go out - he was wearing ordinary long-sleeved shirt and long pants, and he had a good sleep in the simulator, so he was ready to go - the classmates in the next dormitory were shocked to see him in the corridor after pushing the door.
Ji Xu has been living like a vampire these past few months, staying at home and rarely going out unless necessary. Seeing him is as abnormal as seeing a stray cat in school refusing to accept relief food.
Unusually, Ji Xu hurriedly said goodbye and left with his computer. He planned to finish the PPT first. There were still eight days left before the stipulated time. If he finished it early, he could play another DLC.
This time he chose the wanted criminal simulator.
Very suitable for the current exciting pace of life.
Using magic to defeat magic, trying to find something more exciting to beat the current urgent pace of life. Ji Xu entered the game again after five days. In the darkness of the transmission process, he heard several low whispers, discussing the invitation to his defense meeting in three days.
However, after discovering that he had entered the game, everyone was briefly surprised and quickly got into the game, placing him in the selected simulator.
Ji Xu opened his eyes amidst the whispered blessings of "Best luck in three days".
The place he loaded into this time was very unusual. It was neither a boring rental dormitory nor a remote and narrow alley. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the train station was crowded with people. There were countless passengers carrying suitcases and rushing on the road while video chatting with their relatives. Ji Xu was wearing an outdoor sun hat and sunglasses on his head. Although he was standing there alone, his figure with a travel backpack on his back did not seem abrupt.
At least anyone who accidentally scanned the season sequence would think he was going hiking somewhere.
While pressing down the brim of his hat, Ji Xu estimated the size of his sunglasses and found that the two of them together could cover most of his face. At that moment, the name "Wanted Criminal Simulator" came to his mind and he immediately turned around and left.
Although his wanted photos may be flying all over the streets of this city, Ji Xu now has no clues about his identity. Compared with the enemy's encirclement, he distrusts the train even more. Once you get on it, it is difficult to get off and be slaughtered at will.
He was like the young people who go out without their ID cards every day. He went out through the one-way door while rummaging through his bag. When he stood on the street, he changed his appearance again, threw his backpack aside, hailed a taxi, picked up his phone, showed the unknown mountain he had just searched on the screen, and asked the driver:
“Is there anything fun on this mountain?”
The driver took a quick glance and tactfully warned him, "I've never heard of it. It's probably a mountain that only people who live nearby know about."
Ji Xu's tone was high-spirited. The tree hole, which was forced to stuff its backpack because there was no safe house, swore that it had never heard him speak so much like an ordinary young man. He laughed and said, "It's okay. I came here for hiking anyway. By the way, could you please stop at the convenience store? I just finished my water on the train."
The driver, who had no idea what he was witnessing, was cold and indifferent. He only cared about money and tried to make extra money whenever he could: "If you stop, it will be counted as two trips, and the starting fee will be recalculated."
Is it necessary to make it so realistic in every detail? Simulator.
Ji Xu: “…Okay.”
He also wore a sports watch on his right wrist to monitor his heart rate and blood pressure, and gloves to prevent scratches from tree branches. At first glance, his disguise was very formal and there was no possibility of exposing his identity. When he got out of the car carrying a high-energy protein bar and mineral water he had just bought from a convenience store, people living nearby just looked at him in confusion and tried to sell him motorcycle passenger services.
No one doubted that he was hiding so well because of his identity.
Ji Xu declined. He went to a car shop and bought a used car. He drove all the way to an empty stone slope. The car could not go any further. He threw away his hat and sunglasses, sorted out his full backpack, dived in, and disappeared completely.
…
"This is probably the route the suspect took before he disappeared."
There were several arrows drawn on the whiteboard with the indoor map and photos pinned on it. Two different colored yarns were wrapped around the nails, showing two different routes that Ji Xu took, from the safe house to the train station before he entered the simulator, and when he turned around and left and went into the hill.
Among a bunch of photos that only showed backs and a few pieces of clothes, one photo stood out: it was a frontal photo of Ji Xu.
It's not accurate to say that it's a frontal photo. It's just a frame of video captured from the in-car surveillance camera. From the top-down perspective, only the young man's hands pressing down on the brim of his hat and his mouth can be captured, but the person is upright. He has a faint smile on his face and his head slightly tilted towards the camera, as if he knew that someone would find this place.
But because Ji Xu was wearing gloves, they couldn't even collect his fingerprints.
I could only draw the general facial features based on the vague oral description.
The only driver who had direct contact with him: "I serve so many passengers a day, how could I possibly remember him, not to mention that he was wearing a pair of big sunglasses, which drew my attention to him. As for his appearance... I just remember that he was tall, a little thin, and spoke politely and courteously."
Another convenience store clerk who had side contact said: "I didn't even look up. He took the things, I scanned them, and then paid and left. If you hadn't shown me the surveillance, I wouldn't even remember there was such a person."
The pursuit of the wanted criminal’s portrait has come to an end.
They found out Ji Xu's whereabouts too late, as four days had passed since he left the train station. When they reviewed the incident afterwards, they found that many clues were lost and they could only barely piece together the person's approximate itinerary.
Half an hour after the search of the mountain, cordons and vehicles surrounded all the exits from the mountain. However, until now, two days have passed since the mountain search, and there has been no movement.
Both the people who went to investigate and the thermal infrared sensors found nothing after entering.
"He probably ran away a long time ago," the man said, holding his breath in his heart, and his tone was very impolite. The name card hanging on his chest had the words "He Xia" written on it, but his expression was not as sunny as his name. "Not only was he fooled around, but he was also a waste, and now he thinks of rushing to us to make up for his losses."
"Calm down, calm down." The man with the name 'Yu Ke' on his business card next to him soothed skillfully.
She turned around and asked the person who came to deliver the information: "Give us all the information about him. I remember his name was... Ji Xu, right? What on earth did he do wrong?"
What a coincidence, Ji Xu has also been investigating what he has done wrong these days.
Logically speaking, he was playing a wanted criminal simulator, and being wanted was a foregone conclusion, so it made no sense to investigate or not.
The premise is that his mission is not to cancel the wanted warrant.
There is a cactus icon on the sports watch - they seem to assume that he prefers cacti. In fact, Ji Xu just thought that they were easy to grow and he was not in the real world, so it would be okay not to water them for ten days or half a month when he was busy with tasks.
Opening the software is your own task. The words used in the narration are as passionate as ever. I guess by the time Ji Xu graduates, it will not be able to graduate from its second year of school.
"As the only designated player in the simulator."
Why are there so many pronouns in this introduction? Was it like this before?
"How can you bear the identity of a wanted criminal?"
...In fact, considering all the things he did in the past, the word "high-risk" should be added before the wanted criminal's list.
"It's time to let everyone know that you are just an ordinary player!"
Ji Xu pondered over this sentence for a long time before translating what it meant.
Change your identity from a wanted criminal to an ordinary person.
Great, now it is clear what to do. Ji Xu prepared himself mentally for the possibility that things would get bad and he would have to forge a clean new identity. At the same time, he hiked out of the mountains and began to investigate what he had done in the background.
——Oh, this is an extremely vicious assassination.
Ji Xu, who had done this so many times that he was almost used to it, didn't think it was bad for a moment. After he realized what was going on, his mindset changed. He was silent for a few seconds, left the black Internet cafe, sat on a park bench and sighed sadly.
The dog walking nearby wanted to walk around him as far as possible.
The dog owner naturally didn't realize that there was an outlaw resting here. He mistakenly thought that his dog was interested in the pool nearby, so he happily took the dog away, leaving Ji Xu the only one left in this already remote area.
It was not until the night deepened and the street lights came on automatically that Ji Xu got up and checked into a single room with his stolen Lucky ID card. But why would anyone bring their ID card when walking their dog? With this doubt in mind, he fell asleep on time.
In the following days, Ji Xu spent some time to find a safe house for himself and finally had time to pay attention to the news.
The hill where he had left clues has been placed under control. It is said that there are wild tigers there, which have eaten people before. This time the hill is surrounded in order to shoot it. The news anchor doesn't seem to know much about the situation. In the end, he advises nearby residents not to get close to the hillside. If they find traces of living people at the edge of the forest, they may be poachers who came after hearing the news, so remember to call the reporting hotline.
Ji Xu looked at the date and found that he had been in the simulator for six days, and the progress bar was stuck at zero. However, after a few days, when other people realized that he had not left, things would definitely not be so easy.
So who did he assassinate? Why? Did he succeed?
These are all unknown puzzles that Ji Xu has not found out. It is definitely not possible to forge an identity and escape without solving them. Otherwise, he doesn't know what to do if he is exposed in the future - although Ji Xu will not do such a stupid thing, the mission requires that there must not be any possibility at all.
He had to find a way to get the hunters to give up hunting.
Ji Xu considered leaving some clues before going out tomorrow, and taking the initiative to attack after the hunters catch up. However, due to his personality, he couldn't do anything like releasing a few more man-eating tigers to disrupt the view and take the opportunity to hide himself. The worst that could happen was that he could not reach some unavoidable cooperation with the other party. The background of the game has always been generated according to the player's personality, and the details of his assassination have been concealed, so there must be another hidden story.
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