Li Ang roughly explained the background of the matter to Tang Rannuo, and then refreshed the Anti-996 License project page on the tablet back and forth, but there was no trace of garbled characters.

"Hmm.... There are three possibilities. ”

Leon said seriously: "One, the page has been reset, and the cognitive bias curse has been removed.

Second, the previous curse was specifically aimed at Xia Junqiang, and after it took effect, the caster immediately canceled it.

Three, we didn't meet the conditions to trigger the curse. ”

Tang Rannuo frowned and thought about it, and quickly reacted.

The first possibility is unlikely, because the Anti-996 license page has a lot of visits, and if they all curse visitors with cognitive biases, I am afraid that a series of deaths would have been exposed long ago.

The second possibility is currently untestable, and it is impossible for the two players to enter Xia Junqiang's room right now and search on his computer.

Even if they now find an intelligence dealer and buy a set of hacking software from him, it is unrealistic to try to hack into Xia Junqiang's personal computer - there is too little time left, and it is a matter of two things whether the computer is scrapped or not.

The third possibility, on the contrary, is the most probable,

If the unknown caster has placed the Cognitive Biases curse widely on a web page and set certain triggers (e.g., the curse will only take effect if the viewer has red hair),

Then it is indeed possible to shrink the scope of the impact and accurately curse certain groups.

But the problem is, God knows what characteristics of Xia Junqiang meet the trigger conditions of the curse,

Li Ang and Tang Rannuo are not occult experts, and they don't have time to verify Xia Junqiang's curse triggering process one by one.

The goal of the first phase of the mission is to find out the cause of Xia Junqiang's death.

The two guessed that he died of the curse, but they still hadn't figured out the specific process by which the curse was triggered, and they didn't meet the requirements for completing the first stage of the mission.

As the mission deadline approaches, the atmosphere between the two players becomes increasingly weird.

Cooperative missions in the regular world are the best to complete, and there is not much loss if they can't.

And once the time limit is over, after the friendly damage between the two is blocked, the first thing is probably to beware of attacks from the other side.

There is no trust between players, and the strong can take the weak at will, using the true identity and life safety of the weak as a bargaining chip, threatening the other party to hand over all the equipment and props on their bodies, and then package and sell the weak.

This kind of thing is quite common overseas, and some players with bad temperaments even form hunting brigades to actively seek out otherworldly events and hunt down other players who are unfortunate enough to come into their sights.

Lone wolf players and major official organizations hate hunting brigades, but as long as there are interests, there will be strife and killing.

"If you can't think of a way, you'll have to fight him hard..."

Tang Rannuo's expression on his face was still cold, but his brain was running rapidly, and he said silently in his heart, "If you really want to fight, I'm afraid I'm not his opponent yet."

This guy's basic stats are extremely high, and it doesn't look like the physique of an ordinary player of my level at all. ’

It is true that Tang Rannuo is a player above level 10, but she is not a complete combat specialist player, nor has she joined any organization, and she only maintains a "knowing but not familiar" relationship with the members of the Special Affairs Bureau.

When it came to fighting Leon, Tang Rannuo felt that he was not in an advantageous position - even if she was followed by a big golden retriever dog with extraordinary abilities.

It's hard....

Tang Rannuo let out a long sigh in his heart, but the expression on his face remained unchanged at all - any subtle expression would make the other party suspicious, and then amplify the killing intent towards her.

"I have a way to verify the third possibility." "But I have to send a message to my friend. ”

"Oh?"

Li Angyi raised his eyebrows, "The friend you said is a occultist?" ”

"Almost, she has some research on occult rituals."

Tang Rannuo replied vaguely, looking at Li Ang with straight eyes, waiting for the other party to agree.

From the very beginning of the mission, the two players are inseparable like conjoined babies, mainly to prevent the other from notifying the official organization and betraying the other.

Unsoliciting contact with a third person is likely to be considered a provocation, and there is also a threat of an intelligence leak.

"Hmm...."

Li Ang frowned and thought for a while, nodded, and let go of the tablet that originally belonged to Tang Rannuo.

The latter took the tablet, put it on the coffee table, and after sliding a few times, found a QQ friend with the remark "White Bear" (the avatar is a polar bear), sent him a photo of Xia Junqiang's screen, and sent a message.

"Hello, this picture is a transcendent event I just encountered, I guess it's a cognitive bias curse in the occult, can you figure out its triggers, forms of action, and the target of the curse?"

After sending the message, Tang Rannuo and Li Ang waited quietly for several minutes, staring at the flat screen silently.

This white bear's QQ friend is actually a best friend who lives with Tang Rannuo, and she is also a model, a young hairy girl from Russia.

A few months ago, the two were randomly selected by the system to be players at almost the same time.

For so long, Tang Rannuo and Mao Mei have been supporting each other, encouraging each other, struggling to survive in the terrifying and desperate mission, and the innocent feelings between each other have also heated up sharply.

Now the QQ number she uses and the QQ number of the white bear are all registered before, and there is no content in them.

The two of them agreed that in the event of any emergency (such as being kidnapped, coerced, kidnapped, or forced into a regular mission),

Use these two QQs to contact, and when you contact, you can also further express your current situation according to the tone, words, and punctuation, as well as the hidden requirements to the other party.

(Let's say, for example, having the word hello at the beginning proves that you're in a regular quest and you're with another player you don't know.) There is no punctuation at the end, proving that I am still safe... ）

Tang Rannuo sent a request to his best friend who was proficient in the occult, and the code that was sandwiched in the request,

And the girlfriend also reacted quickly, and while preparing to support Tang Rannuo, she typed and sent a message.

"These gibberish characters on the screen are indeed a curse of cognitive bias.

The source of the curse and the caster are unknown.

The trigger for the curse is that the concept of profit is biased towards the broad masses of working people, with strong and simple values, and a hateful attitude towards the business owners who exploit the surplus wealth created by the workers.

The ultimate goal of the curse is to further solidify the recipient's outlook on life, worldview, and values, making them tough, tenacious, and not easily yielding. ”

As the girlfriend answered, Li Ang and Tang Rannuo also sounded in their ears, reminding them that the goal of the first stage of the mission had been completed and they had entered the second stage.