Poppy's attitude towards Yang Wenbin was very unkind, but this still did not affect Yang Wenbin's decision to cooperate with Poppy after weighing the pros and cons.

"I asked Poppy to meet at the café before." Yang Wenbin called Yan Junli, "I plan to hear what she has to say first." ”

Yan Junli said "um", "Okay, when?" Li Hong and I also went over. ”

Yang Wenbin was a little surprised, "That's it?" ”

"What's that?"

"Nothing, it's just...... I thought you'd object to it, or babble like you used to. ”

"I think. But as you said, only Poppy knows the inside story now, so you can only take the risk of asking her. Yan Junli shrugged his shoulders.

And just like that, the four of them finally got together in the café, each with a solemn expression on their faces, almost startling the waiter who came to deliver the menu.

"I'll keep my promise, I'll tell you where the Joker is." Poppy put the bag on the table and said dryly, "But Doctor Yang, you also have to promise me that you won't ask Sha Ying about it again." ”

Yang Wenbin nodded and said solemnly, "I promise." ”

- For now.

Poppy nodded, took a deep breath, took an iPad out of his bag, clicked it a few times, and a pitch-black, very weird web page appeared.

"Do you remember the Joker's dark web?"

"The dark web? You mean the one at Rose County Manor where you asked us to find the code? Yan Junli asked.

Poppy nodded, "By the time we found the code, the site was scrapped, remember?" The clown had thought of this a long time ago, so he had already withdrawn all his men in advance. But I didn't give up, I still took the code and the website, and went to our technicians. And guess what I found? ”

"What?" Yang Wenbin asked.

"We were tricked by the clown again. It took the technicians months to decipher the web page, and then found that the URL was not scrapped or crashed at all, but was just using a virus code as a cover to hide the web page under deeper water. That's it. ”

Poppy shoved the iPad in front of the two men. It was a very rudimentary web page, as if some amateur was playing with it. There are a lot of weird stick figures in the corners of the web page, drawing skulls and clowns. If you scroll down the page, you will see many forums-like sections, including announcements, water chat areas, mission reports, and meeting places......

"Uh...... This is really different from what I imagined. Li Hong said stupidly.

"What do you imagine? The clown recruits ordinary people, of course, in a mode that everyone can understand. Do you expect their website to look like the official website of the national military? Poppy scoffed as he stretched out his finger and slid across the screen, "But if you click in, you'll see what kind of website it is." ”

Poppy clicked into the water chat section, and soon Yang Wenbin's eyes were attracted by all kinds of bizarre post titles.

From top to bottom, the titles of the posts with the most clicks are like this: "**My mother-in-law, I used the method of the clown, and was not discovered" "Discuss: Which part of the human body is more delicious?" "Share My Collection: From Heart to Brain"

In these posts, there are all extremely bloody and curious pictures, and it can be seen that they are different from the so-called horror pictures synthesized by PS circulating on the ordinary Internet, these photos are obviously taken by the murderer or the perpetrator himself. There are thousands or even tens of thousands of terrifying replies below these posts, most of which are messages applauding or urging the landlord to update and hoping that the landlord will use more brutal methods. The words are full of vulgar words, and there is no trace of humanity in sight.

"Oh my mother......" Li Hong muttered.

"How could it be ......" Yang Wenbin was also frightened, "How can there be so many people on such a small hidden website?" ”

"Just because the clown's website is hidden from us doesn't mean it's hidden from ordinary people." "I've heard that clowns make a lot of business cards when they recruit people, and send a lot of people to those smoky alleys and nightclubs and bars with the address of the website and how to get in." Besides, the Joker's scope of activity has never been limited to City C, which is at most their home base. ”

With that, Poppy moved his finger again and clicked into another section, "Those posts are nothing at all." Check it out. ”

Yang Wenbin and Yan Junli watched the poppy click into a video, like a live broadcast station of Douyu and Kuaishou, and there were many comments flying by next to the video.

The picture shows a man wearing a mask and not being able to see his appearance, but holding a sharp dagger in his hand. There were also many knives and even fire axes on the table in front of him. A girl was tied to a stool behind him, struggling desperately, kicking her legs hard, but to no avail.

Many excited comments began to fly next to the video, most of them clamoring for the man to hurry up.

Then, the man in the video began to speak, and his voice was also specially processed, "One hundred yuan, move." ”

Then there began to be tips in the comments, and a total of five or six people gave the man a hundred yuan. The man then nodded at the camera, picked up the dagger, and walked towards the girl.

Soon, with the girl's screams and whimpering, the man cut five pieces of flesh alive from the girl's body with a dagger, and in an instant the blood flowed profusely. The girl writhed in pain and screamed, but she couldn't make a sound because of the tape on her mouth.

Someone soon in the comments called for the man to tear the tape off the girl's mouth and listen to her.

The man did so, ripping the tape off the girl's mouth, and the girl screamed and begged for mercy loudly, her voice muffled and trembling with severe pain.

After a while, someone in the comments gave the man a thousand yuan and said: One arm!

The man checked the amount, nodded, put down the dagger in his hand and replaced it with a saw on the table, and walked over to the girl.

With a "snap", Yang Wenbin exited the video page, his fingers still trembling, and he didn't realize how hard he had just knocked on the screen.

For a moment, there was silence all around, and no one spoke for a while.

"Can't we find a way to save that girl?" Yang Wenbin's voice trembled and said, "Check the IP, find a way to locate it, or...... Or, whatever. Yan Junli, can't you find a way to track it down? ”

Yan Junli stood up from his chair with a "Teng" sound, "I don't know, maybe I can try-"

Poppy poured a basin of cold water on the two of them indifferently at this time, "Don't bother, it's impossible." The IP secrecy of this website is so good that it would take weeks for even a professional hacker to decipher it. Not to mention that as soon as the IP of these people is found out, the website will have an internal alarm and directly block all the information on the website, even if you can catch that one abuser, the remaining 9,999 criminals will slip away. ”

"But—" Yang Wenbin was about to defend something more, but Poppy interrupted him again.

"Besides, the one you just watched was a video from last week, and by now I guess this girl has no bones left. This kind of massacre is not broadcast every day, and once it takes, the viewers on the site get as excited as if they had eaten dynamite. ”

"How can there be such a thing...... Li Hong muttered, "It's like hell." ”

Poppy smiled, "What do you think the dark web is?" Not to mention that this is the dark web of the most terrifying terrorist organization in City C, it is a miniature hell. ”

"I can't spare him." Yang Wenbin frowned, gritted his teeth, and quietly clenched his fist on the side of his body, "I will definitely not spare Xia Baiyan!" This brute! ”

"And speaking of Xia Baiyan, let's get to the point." Poppy seemed completely unmoved, his fingers continuing to slide across the iPad, "Do you see this section?" ”

"Which one?"

"This. Here's their announcement board with all sorts of announcements. I flipped through all the announcements and found that all major crimes involving clowns would be notified in advance on this announcement. Well, look at this. Poppy quickly flipped through his iPad and slid to the historical announcement, "The Tower of Babel rally, January 18 of this year. On February 10 of this year, a meeting was held in Hebron. On February 26, the Jerusalem rally ......"

"Wait, what's the name?" Li Hong asked, "There is no such place in City C." ”

"It's clear that these are pseudonyms, synonymous with the places where they are in the assembly." Poppy explained, "I guess it's to prevent the outside members who don't know the inside from getting in." ”

"But how do they position the periphery and the inside?" Yan Junli asked.

Poppy shrugged, "This...... Membership required. ”

Yan Junli was a little confused, "You can enter if you pay the money, but you can't enter if you don't pay the money?" ”

"Quite possibly." Poppy spread his hands, "Don't think of them as noble, for criminals, it's normal to use money to solve what can be solved with money." ”

"But we're not members, so we don't know what these names represent." Li Hong asked.

"We don't know, but we can reason. You look at these times. Poppy pointed and said, "January 18, February 10, February 26...... Doctor Yang, you can't be unimpressed. ”

Yang Wenbin was stunned for a moment, and then understood what the poppy meant, "Yes, of course I remember...... January 18th was a few days after I returned from the Rose County Manor, when Yan Junli found the body of the 'suicide' physics teacher Liang Pengcheng, February 10 was the day Chinese New Year's Eve, the day the clown's face appeared on the TV screens of the city's homes, and February 26, I will not forget this day...... This was the day of Zhu Bo's death, the day I found Zhu Bo's body. ”