If you become a monster, you will succeed

"Did you find out? How did that damn phone number spread?!"

In the room pretending to be the archives department of the hospital, Ms. Q rarely got angry. It was the first time she lost her composure since she joined the job more than ten years ago.

Because, in her more than ten years of professional career, it was the first time she encountered such a ghost.

The ghosts I dealt with in the past were either stupid and would only kill according to certain rules, or they had a clear purpose. Even if they were grotesque, most of them followed some simple and rude rules of advent.

But now this weird thing named "Libra" has evolved several times in just half a year!

Originally, they had already had a good summary of this weird rule, and they had already designed a task entrusted with the best starting point, artificially designed a lot of unjust and wrong cases, and tried to fish, but who knew, this weirdness would actually keep pace with the times. , "Place an order" directly by phone!

It can be said that almost all of them have been wasted in the past few weeks, from the judicial process to the script arrangement to the venue layout!

"Ms. Q, according to the investigation, the earliest source of the phone number is a post on the communication section of a certain forum." The intelligence team agent took a tablet computer and handed the screenshots to Ms. Q.

In the screenshot is a very simple question——

"How to initiate an entrustment to Libra?"

Seeing this topic, Ms. Q frowned. Questions like this, since the weirdness of Libra (cold knowledge, the Victorian language does not seem to have the name geek talk, only urban legends and ghost stories) have spread, and questions like this have all spread. At least a few thousand times a day, the Internet is posted at least thousands of times, which is the type where the detectives don’t bother to take care of it. At most, they just pay attention to whether the person who posted the post has really been unfairly treated, and then decide whether to send someone to stay there.

After all, among the ten covenants that are the core of this weirdness, there is the rule that "the executioner must accept the entrustment before he can kill", which means that Libra must have entrustment channels.

Ms. Q glanced at the screenshots one by one, and the content was no different from the usual forums, and her guesses were all clichés such as "exclusive intelligence network", "through newspapers", "through the Internet", "court hearing", etc. But when her gaze continued to move down, her pupils finally narrowed slightly.

She saw the culprit—

It was a very simple reply:

"As long as you dial ten zeros at 0:00 midnight, you can contact the executioner closest to you who is idle. I won't tell ordinary people!"

This reply has no characteristics at all, and even belongs to the kind that needs the least attention. If Ms. Q saw this reply before this rule came true, she would not have any idea of ​​investigation.

After all, "dial a specific number at a specific time, you can reach a certain mysterious area", this is an ancient legend that has existed since the popularization of dial-up telephones, some lead to heaven, some lead to There are hell or purgatory, and some lead to a mysterious organization. As an organization that faces weirdness, Ms. Q has seen many in her career.

Even after the popularity of computers, this legend began to evolve into things like entering specific URLs.

However, looking at the bottom of this reply, I don’t know if the next one is really contacting Libra, or it’s just a daily bragging on the Internet. !” After leaving a message, Ms. Q closed her eyes helplessly.

Because based on her years of experience, even if she didn't scroll down, she would have already guessed that the following must be a series of follow-up posts with the same format and content.

Sure enough, a neat series of identical replies pulled out a long list. Looking at the screenshots, you can tell that at least a dozen pages must have been pulled out.

Pinching the bridge of her nose hard, Ms. Q suddenly felt very tired. Since the emergence of the communication mode of forums, the difficulty of their work has increased by more than ten times!

If you consider social software such as msn, Ms. Q really has the urge to go back to the past and kill all those who tried to invent computers.

Although this kind of repetition-style building post will become popular in a day or two, but you can never imagine the degree of boredom of human beings.

Even if everyone just copied and sent it at will, it is inevitable that some people will have the idea that "this may be true".

Although so far, MI9, or the whole world's cognition of ghosts' weirdness methods is still speculation, the only thing that can be determined is that this kind of behavior requires "fear" and "famousness".

And the special mode of this kind of forum has led to other viewers on the board can only see that this is a hot post, and when they think it is a post with dry goods and click in, they are destined to be for the post. This reply linking Libra to the phone adds a "popularity".

The detective looked at his boss cautiously, seeing that she hadn't moved his eyes for a long time, he continued:

"Follow-up, we have seen similar posts on several forums, such as pressing 10 1s at 1 o'clock, 10 2s at 2 o'clock, etc. However, the number that spreads the most at present is the number with 10 0s. According to the search , there is a saying that when this legend was just emerging, everyone could get through this number at 0 o'clock, and there were men and women answering the phone, and now only people who 'encounter injustice and really want to contact the executioner' can dial The circumstances of the phone call were different, and it's unclear whether someone was lying or if the weirdness had changed again."

"Then did the poster and replyer of this post investigate?" Ms. Q took a deep breath and asked, although she felt that there might be no results.

"We have found both the poster and the key replies. We have conducted preliminary monitoring and investigation. The poster is a college student in Xiaoqiu County. There are a lot of discussions about 'Libra' in his posting records, but compared And the social circle, also belong to the normal range.

"The ip address of the key replyer is located in Colombia, and our field staff have also found it. He is a Chinese student living in Chinatown (Tang Dynasty) in Nureiberg. There is nothing special about his resume, but we found that in his Internet records , At the same time period when this reply was sent, there were traces of high-intensity surfing the Internet, most of which were related to Libra, but according to follow-up investigations, he had a record of buying trauma medicine that day, and it should be that he was attacked or abused, venting on the Internet The probability is not low.

"Is a contact interrogation required?"

"No need..." Ms. Q rubbed her temples vigorously, and finally shook her head, "The existence of coins itself means that the other party can get assistance from ordinary people at will, and random contact will only scare the snake, just keep monitoring. By the way, investigate their social circle, I suspect that there may be executioners in their social circle..."

Although I don't think it is necessary to write at the same level as the introduction of fantasy novels, after all, some readers don't like to use their brains, so let me just mention it here:

Because nothing appeared with Infinite City, and its history is only thirty years old. In addition, scientific research has always been done by each researcher, so there is no exchange of what is needed. At most, some special occupations are used to steal the achievements of other countries. , so countries have different names and cognition levels for ghost stories.

Victoria and Columbia refer to [nothing] as [ghost], strange stories as [weird], and the process of turning [nothing] into [weird] as [weirdization].

Dongguo and Yanguo are collectively referred to as ghost stories, but there is a certain level of intensity.

In addition, there are phantoms, which are also classified differently in different countries. Victoria calls them [magic items]. They are divided into three levels: A, B, and C according to their ability, degree of danger, and side effects, and they are numbered according to the order in which they are obtained.

In addition, some phantoms can produce derivatives (with original functions and products of follow-up research), and the derivatives will be added with a number according to the type, such as the C-103-2 mentioned before, which is the 2nd number of C-103. a derivative meaning.

The name of Yan Kingdom is Collection, Treasure, and Secret Treasure. They are generally called by serial number, but some commonly used ones will have specific "nicknames".

If you are a secret friend, you can benchmark it against the sealed item system, C-level and collections are compared to level-3 sealed items, B-level and treasures correspond to level-2 sealed items, and A-level and secret treasures correspond to level 1 sealed items.

As for the phantom corresponding to the 0-level sealed item, human beings do not currently have it. As for the others, we will not spoil them for the time being.