Alien Paradise.

Chapter 119 The Tracker

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Chaoyang sat down in front of the computer with the hot instant noodles in his hand, staring at the screen while taking a sip of the noodles.

If you leave aside the identity of the creator of the paradise, his life at the moment is no different from that of ordinary people. In order to reduce the time to go out, all the food and drink are handed over to takeaway, and the entertainment is listening to music and visiting forums.And those games that he was passionate about before have become unattractive now-after all, his experience in another world is already exciting enough.

However, the proportion of entertainment time is a minority after all.

Even on Earth, he has many things to do, the most important of which is to regularly monitor the whereabouts of players and observe the effects of Paradise games on them.

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

Of course, he can also give up this kind of monitoring, or check the mailbox and phone records casually, but this is obviously ignoring his own safety.Especially in the case where the players in the park are either rich or expensive, their network of contacts can easily cause a storm. If some changes are ignored, it will be themselves who will be unlucky in the end.

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

If more than a dozen players participated in the Paradise game each time, he would not be able to find out the details of these people afterwards.

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

The surveillance screen showed that Joe James was gone.

Has extradition proceedings already started?
He quickly hacked into the prison's database and made a query under the name of Wayne Janst, and the result was far beyond his expectations.

This person has no information.

This is very strange.

No matter whether it is trial, transfer or extradition, this person's information will not disappear out of thin air, just like when a person is promoted from elementary school to junior high school, both schools will leave his information.Now even the information about Joe James' imprisonment has disappeared, which means that the prison never took in such a prisoner at all!
Chaoyang put down his chopsticks, and his expression became serious.

The first thing he searched was the surveillance records of the prison.But soon he discovered that the monitoring was only three days ago at the earliest.Then he found an email to upgrade the monitoring system in the prison warden's mailbox. It did mention replacing the cameras and storage devices of the entire prison, which could explain why the content of the network access was only three days ago.

But to say it was a coincidence would be too much of a coincidence.

Most importantly, where did Joe James go?

Chaoyang thought for a while, and decided to expand the scope of the search to the employees working in the prison—he collected all the text messages and email records of everyone, and then focused on the time between the third round and the fourth round of the game.The investigation lasted more than two hours, and a text message from a cleaning staff named Ankelei caught his attention.

"Mom, I'll be back later today. The laundry room suddenly had a power outage, but there was no prior notice. I still have two buckets of sheets and a bucket of prison uniforms unwashed. You and my sister don't have to wait for me to eat."

power failure?

Chaoyang subconsciously knocked on the table, why didn't the prison guards mention this?
This Linhai prison is equipped with electronically controlled prison doors. A power outage will cause all the prison doors to lose their power to open and close. Although there is a backup generator, if the prison door fails to close and is locked due to a power outage, the most nervous person must be the prison guards present.

But the strange thing is that none of the more than 100 guards complained about the power outage.

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

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

Now new problems have emerged.

If someone really erased the traces of Joe James without anyone noticing, who would this person be?

The first thing he suspected was Taylor.

This person is a friend of Joe James, and he was absent from the third round of the game. Counting the interval 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 was born in a wealthy family in L City. He has traces from elementary school to university graduation, and the pharmaceutical company he runs is quite normal, which can be regarded as a family business.Apart from being quite rich, he and Joe James could be regarded as two types of people.

Chaoyang was even able to find out Taylor's whereabouts during the absence period - he was going to Germany for a meeting at the time, and the cameras in the two places also captured pictures of him entering and leaving the airport.

If not Taylor, who would it be?
Anthony?He does see that the Americans are not going to deal with it, but his energy is not big enough to make trouble in the British Isle.

Naruko Asahara and Zhang Zhiyuan are even less likely.

Chaoyang rubbed his somewhat numb neck, leaned on the computer chair and let out a long breath.

Could it be that someone else is eyeing Joe James, and this matter has nothing to do with Paradise from the beginning?
After all, this person is a criminal wanted by many countries, and his business scope also includes prohibited psychotropic drugs. He will definitely create a large number of enemies, and it seems reasonable to be silenced under the pressure of interests.

Chaoyang's mind inadvertently flashed the cleaning staff's text message again.

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

"But without advance notice."

"Without notice."

He was suddenly startled!
What if the matter is going the other way?What if the disappearance of Joe James was not due to any grievances of interests, but a public action involving the entire prison?
Then the prison guards would naturally not discuss the power outage.

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

But Anchorage is different.

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

According to this assumption, didn't the planners predict that someone would continue to monitor Joe James' whereabouts, and through the prison's own monitoring system?
Chaoyang changed his mind and opened a few new network connections casually.

The destinations of these connections point to several virtual currency markets-he also transferred the ticket money of the paradise game to the domestic account in batches through the exchange of layers of this anonymous currency.

The result of the query surprised him!
These trading markets are all inaccessible!

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

(End of this chapter)