Alien paradise

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Chaoyang sat down in front of the computer with hot instant noodles and took a sip of noodles while staring at the screen.

If you put aside his identity as the founder of the park, his life at the moment is no different from that of ordinary people. In order to reduce the time he spends going out, he eats and drinks by taking out takeaways, and his entertainment consists of listening to music and visiting forums. The games he was passionate about before have now become unattractive - after all, his experience in another world is exciting enough.

However, the proportion of entertainment time is still a minority.

Even in the earth world, he has many things to do, the most important of which is to regularly monitor the whereabouts of players and observe the impact of the park games on them.

Although his Cyber ​​Eye ability can penetrate all defense lines on the Internet, it also means that he has to rely on his own eyes and brain to filter massive amounts of intelligence, which is quite tiring to some extent.

Of course, he could also give up this kind of surveillance, or just check his mailbox and phone records to get rid of the problem, but this is obviously a neglect of his own safety. Especially when the park players are either rich or noble, their social circles can easily cause a storm. If certain changes are ignored, they will be the unlucky ones in the end.

This is one of the reasons why Chaoyang has been cautiously expanding the number of players.

If there are more than a dozen players participating in the park game every time, he will not be able to find out the details of these people afterwards.

When Chaoyang took the last bite of noodles and connected his consciousness to the island prison network where Joe James was imprisoned, he couldn't help but let out a "huh" sound.

The surveillance screen showed that Joe James was no longer there.

Have extradition proceedings already started?

He quickly hacked into the prison's database and conducted a search using Wayne James' name. The result was far beyond his expectation.

There is actually no information about this person.

This is very strange.

Regardless of being tried, transferred to prison, or extradited, the person's information will not disappear out of thin air. Just like when a person is promoted from elementary school to junior high school, his information will be retained in both schools. Now even the prison information of Joe James has disappeared, which means that the prison has never held such a prisoner at all!

Chaoyang put down his chopsticks and his expression became serious.

The first thing he searched was the prison's surveillance records. But he soon discovered that the surveillance only contained content from three days ago. Then he found an email in the warden's mailbox to upgrade the surveillance system. It did mention replacing the cameras and storage devices in the entire prison. This could explain why the content accessed on the network was only three days old.

But to say this is a coincidence would be too much.

Most importantly, where is Joe James?

Chaoyang thought for a while and decided to expand the search scope to employees working in the prison - he grouped everyone's text messages and email records together, and then focused on the period between the third round of the game and the fourth round. This investigation lasted more than two hours, and one of the text messages from a cleaning staff named Ankere caught his attention.

"Mom, I will be back later today. There was a sudden power outage in the laundry room without prior notice. I still have two large buckets of sheets and a bucket of prison uniforms that have not been washed. You and your sister don't have to wait for me to eat."

power failure?

Chaoyang knocked on the table subconsciously. Why didn't the prison guards mention this?

This Linhai prison is equipped with electronically controlled cell doors. A power outage will cause all cell doors to lose power to open and close. Although there is a backup generator, if the cell doors fail to close and are locked due to a power outage, the most nervous thing is It must have been a prison guard present.

But the strange thing is that not one of the more than 100 guards complained about the power outage.

He checked the local power supply bureau's briefing and found that there was no power outage plan that day. There were three fault repair records, but they all occurred in the old neighborhood of L City, and none of them were related to the prison.

Chaoyang rubbed his eyes, and he suddenly had a premonition that Qiao James would never appear in people's eyes again in this life.

Now new problems have emerged.

If someone really wiped out the traces of Joe James without knowing it, who would it be?

His first suspicion was of course Taylor.

This person was a friend of Joe James, and he was absent from the third round of the game. Counting the gaps between the third and fourth rounds of the game, he did have time to commit crimes.

However, Chaoyang checked Taylor's identity several times and found no obvious problems. He comes from a wealthy family in L City. He has a track record from elementary school to college graduation. The pharmaceutical company he runs is quite normal and can be regarded as a family business. In addition to being quite rich, he and Joe James can be regarded as two different types of people.

Chaoyang was even able to find out Taylor's whereabouts during his absence - he was traveling to Germany for a meeting, and cameras in both places captured footage of him entering and exiting the airport.

If not Taylor, who would it be?

Anthony? He did think that the Americans would not be able to deal with them, but his energy was not big enough to cause trouble in the British Isles.

Naruko Asahara and Zhang Zhiyuan are even less likely.

Chaoyang rubbed his sore neck, leaned on the computer chair and took a long breath.

Could it be that someone else is eyeing Joe James, and the matter has nothing to do with the park from the beginning?

After all, this person is a wanted criminal in many countries. His business scope also includes prohibited psychotropic drugs. He will definitely make a lot of enemies. It seems reasonable that he would be silenced due to competing interests.

The message from the cleaning staff flashed through Chaoyang's mind inadvertently.

"There was a sudden power outage in the laundry room without prior notice..."

"But there was no advance notice."

"Without notice."

He was suddenly shocked!

What if this matter goes the other way? What if Joe James's disappearance was not due to profit or grudges, but an open action in which the entire prison was involved?

Then the prison guards will naturally not discuss the blackout.

Because they all know that this power outage will definitely happen, and they need to abide by their duties and keep this incident confidential.

But Ankere is different.

He is just an insignificant low-level worker. Such positions are in flux at any time, and no one will include them in the plan.

Based on this assumption, didn't the planner predict that someone would continue to monitor Joe James' whereabouts, and through the prison's own monitoring system?

Chaoyang had a sudden thought and opened several new network connections.

The destinations of these connections pointed to several virtual currency markets - it was through this layer-by-layer exchange of bearer currencies that he transferred the ticket money for the park games to domestic accounts in batches.

The query results surprised him!

All these trading markets are no longer accessible!

Chaoyang found the actual address of the market based on the link, an offshore company established in Bulgaria. Through a camera hacked into the intersection, he saw a house that had been burned to rubble.