As for the second hot event, it is a post that is quite popular among the tech nerds.

The post was originally posted by an anonymous netizen on the 4chan web forum, and the content of the post was only a picture with white words on a black background.

The text above the picture is to the effect of:

"We designed a puzzle and the first clue was in this image.

Fix it, find us.

Earn yourself the right to join us. We will be awarded to the final winner as a player.

Good luck.

Syndicate. ”

This ordinary picture was initially considered a prank, but there are always a few idle netizens who delve into it.

After opening the picture with a notepad, there was a lot of gibberish inside.

Netizens soon discovered that this seemingly chaotic bunch of garbled characters was a multi-table cipher "Virginia Code" that was expanded on the basis of Caesar's cipher.

Netizens used the Greek etymology "syndikos" of "syndicate" as the key to decipher the garbled characters and obtain a web address.

After entering the URL, a picture is displayed, above the picture is a line leading to a section of the 4chan forum, and below the picture is a long list of numbers.

After clicking on the link, the revision was full of more than 100 posts made by an anonymous user, and the names and content of the posts were a bunch of strings with no pattern to speak of.

After decoding the string with the numbers in the picture, you can get a bunch of Sumerian cuneiform script.

The cuneiform script is then compared with the poster's numeric ID to produce a new line of numeric clues.

The digital clue is then used as a secret key, and the RSA asymmetric encryption algorithm is used to decode the string to obtain a new line of text.

The text gives a book code for a Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme and prompts to use the digital cues again.

The vast number of netizens found the book,

And the number clues were converted into English, and after arranging them vertically, they found a page in the book in alphabetical order.

There was quite a bit of English text on this page, and I compared it with the initial string of numbers, sifted through the letters, and finally got the sentence "9522, find the two prime numbers of the original picture"

Technophiles quickly guessed that the two prime numbers in this sentence were the length and width of the original picture with white on a black background.

After multiplying the length by the width by 9522, the technophils get an 11-digit number, and add .com to this number to form a new web address.

After a lot of hard work, I thought that I could finally find the answer, after clicking on the website, I was stunned to find that the webpage was still a password.

And the page is not static, with new content refreshed every hour, repeated every six hours, and four sets of pages changed every day.

These pages provide a wide variety of cipher content, including elliptic curve encryption algorithms, ancient Greek prophecy, astrology, classical music, group theory, poultry farming, and so on.

Seven days later, the page was closed, with a total of 28 sets of passwords, which together led to an anonymous website.

Through the website, you can contact the mysterious organization to which the poster belongs.

The global technads involved in the puzzle game just thought it was a small-scale organization of some high-end technoman, at best, a test used by intelligence services to select cryptographers.

But the player community knows that the phrase "we're going to be a player and give it to the winner" at the beginning of the post could really mean a player qualification.

This kind of nerd-like puzzle game made Leon quickly think of the whale song organization to which the black Trojan horse belongs.

However, when he contacted the black Trojan, the latter said that he didn't know anything.

"This decryption must have been released by a brand new organization called the 'Syndicate', right? We haven't had this kind of open recruitment yet. ”

The black Trojan said in a friend's call: "But inside the whale song, there are many people who are trying to decrypt it. By the way, where are you at this point? ”

Li Ang snorted, saying that he had been busy eating, sleeping, and playing Doudou recently, and had missed several sets of password decipherment, and couldn't catch up with the progress of others.

In fact, Leon was not slow to decipher, but after getting the final answer to the mystery, he did not try to contact the so-called "syndicate".

What are you kidding, this kind of secret organization that pretends to be a ghost is counted as one, and it is not reliable from the Special Affairs Bureau.

Regardless of whether or not a wild genius like Leon deciphered all the codes, contacted the syndicate and obtained the player's qualification,

The whole thing has had quite a shock to the global player base.

Single-handedly, fighting alone, in modern human society, they can't go far, let alone in an extremely sinister, step-by-step killing game.

Perhaps, players who are weak can also be like the Syndicate, through open recruitment,

Connect with some like-minded players with the same ideals and aspirations to form small-scale organizations and associations.

Anyway, the buddy slot doesn't cost anything.

As a result, a large number of small and chaotic secret societies have sprung up on the forum.

What "beating the shark center"

"Cult of Flying Pasta"

"Ubisoft Potato Plantation Park"

"Fraternal Fellowship of the Earls of Glamorgan"

"Brotherhood of Steel"

"Phoenix Chaldean, the Guarantee of the Survival of Human Relations"

"Our comrades have even penetrated into the enemy"

"The Summer of the Far East Magic Day and Sleep Association"

"Amalgam"

"Rainbow Hermes"

"Today is another day of infiltration of the Black Cloaks"

These names are smaller secret societies that are longer than one another, and there are mostly spoofs of memes.

However, there are also many players who are really operating with their hearts, clumsily building a rudimentary organizational structure to attract other players, even ordinary people with special talents.

This kind of small secret society, which mixes players and ordinary people, is certainly far inferior to the Epiphany Organization, the Whale Song, and the official institutions formed by various state apparatus.

But in time, the killing game will be spread out on a large scale, and this kind of secret society of big cats and small cats may be able to grow into behemoths.

Leon didn't bother with syndicates or other player organizations, and he continued his studies as an ordinary sophomore in high school.

The daily life of Yinshi Experimental Middle School is lackluster,

Cultural classes must continue, as well as physical education classes, which are actually militarized training.

The head teacher Shi Qingsong's injury is slowly recovering, and it is estimated that he will be able to return to campus in a short time.

In the midst of the calm, Li Ang, who was sitting on nearly 5,000 points of game currency, finally swiped what he wanted on the shelves of the mall.