I thought that "more advanced science and technology and common sense of life", "the model of global unity under federal rule", and "more than 200 years of modern history of the future" were all the new knowledge I needed to master in this new universe.

However, I was naïve......

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When I first arrived, I felt that the biggest difference between this place and where I came was that at the end of the twentieth century, for some reason, there was a "tech explosion" that gave birth to a vast empire that changed the global landscape and the course of history that followed.

A century later, the empire, like many of history's great dynasties, declined and eventually fell apart through corruption, and then Earth entered the Federal Age, which lasted until the year I traveled here.

At that time, I didn't think about whether there would be "things in this universe that people don't know about and that go against common sense."

Because in my original universe, I wasn't the kind of person who would care about the existence of "ghosts", "aliens", etc.

However, a year after I came here, I gradually came into contact with some people when I started to engage in some activities that were on the fringes of the law under the nickname "Priests...... Some people who are not accessible as ordinary people.

If I had chosen to live a good life here and be an ordinary civilian, perhaps I would never have known that there were so-called "capable people" in this world.

And there are a lot of these strange people, of course...... When I say "a lot", I mean the total number, and if you want to calculate it proportionally, even if you include those "modified people", on this planet with a population of 10 billion, the proportion of supernatural people is not even 1/100,000.

In short, knowing these has a great impact on my three views.

Although I am a time-traveler myself, I don't think that the voices I heard during the "time of death" or the unidentified creatures I encountered would appear in the world before me.

In fact, according to the information I have received, the religious forces of this universe are almost as endangered species, and the few that remain are mascot-like institutions linked to tourism and cultural industries within the limits of the federal government. In other words, this is basically a "materialist earth", and it is the kind that has been officially promoted for many years, and there is no large-scale religion in the world.

But it is precisely in such a universe that there are supernatural things such as "supernatural abilities", which most people can only see in science fiction movies.

This setting changes everything.

It made me completely lose my sense of security as a human being.

I fully understand why the authorities keep it a secret from the public, because for ordinary people, this kind of thing will drive them crazy.

It's like telling people, "There are two kinds of people in this world: one is you, who are unarmed by birth and defenseless until you die; There is also the type of ability, each of whom has some kind of deadly weapon that you will never be able to possess due to congenital or acquired factors. ”

If the official really makes this kind of thing public and becomes common sense, then the next development is basically the story in "X-Men".

The human race cannot tolerate coexistence with a race that is stronger than them, or even just similar to them, and has differences.

Only a small number of people will pursue peaceful exchanges, and the attitude of the majority towards alien people must be "control" and "elimination" – not "complete control", preferably "complete elimination". Because if you can't control or destroy the other person, you can't guarantee 100% that the other person won't control and destroy you.

From a human point of view, this is also very correct logic.

Perhaps there will be other species in the universe that can find a way to live in harmony with races that are more advanced or just as advanced than themselves, but when it comes to the human race, at least for now, it will not work.

The human world's trusting relationships, social systems, and moral order...... In the final analysis, it is all built on the foundation of "military support", and if you destroy the foundation, you can rebuild everything, so "war" is called the ultimate means.

Even I'm not exempt from vulgarity, I'm the kind of person who tends to "I don't feel safe until there are no supernatural beings in the world."

But as time went on, as I accepted the premise and learned more and more about the Adepts, I realized...... This idea of mine, or the idea that most people come up with knowing about the world of supernatural abilities, is actually very stupid.

Because when I know the number of paranormal people and the abilities of some individuals, I can conclude that if ordinary people on Earth now go to war with the superpowers, then no matter what the former does, in less than 24 hours, or even less, ordinary people will be defeated or even extinct.

One of the reasons the world still works the way it does is that ordinary people have never fought against the Aliens from the side of a race war, and 99% of the population is unaware of the existence of the Aliens.

I also have to admire this. Over the past few hundred years, neither the Empire nor the Commonwealth, no matter how corrupt and stupid the ruling class has become, has never gone wrong in the general direction of the issue.

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The longer I spent in the Underworld, the less I felt like I was a person.

Of course, "not a person" here is not a derogatory meaning, if you want to give an example, it is the mentality of a hooligan who does the best to become a gentleman.

In this circle, human life is a very cheap thing, and everyone here takes life and death very lightly; A battle between any two capable people can lead to several, dozens, or even hundreds of people being killed by the pond fish.

The failure of any mission, or the fact that your actions unexpectedly get in the way of a strong man, can kill you.

Your death will not be vigorous, nor will it be heavier than Mount Tai, if you have to describe it, it is like a stone on the side of the road, one day someone kicks you away for some reason, and you will die, and the person who kicked you away may also be a stone-like existence in the eyes of others......

Me...... Not even a stone, it's better to say it's dust, and I'll be blown away when the wind is stronger.

In the past few years, I have been doing the work of "exposing the scum who have escaped the law", which can be regarded as my ideal and professional field; I do this for free, and sometimes I have to put a lot of costs into it.

The results of this work are quite gratifying, and I did make a lot of scumbags pay the price, but it is definitely not enough to do this, and I must have the support of other side hustles before I can continue this loss-making business.

That's why I also take on some employment jobs, such as delivering information, acting as a middleman to match people, stalking and secretly taking pictures, stealing trade secrets, and so on.

The jobs I took were basically the ones with a relatively high safety factor, even if they failed, they were not very likely to die, and at most they would go to prison, but that was only relatively ......

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?

After hundreds of jobs, it is inevitable that you will encounter a few hard ideas, but it's okay...... The few times I was caught, I met people in the same way, and I never met anyone with official ability; Because of my "positive career", I have a good reputation in the industry, and I am more cautious in taking on the job and don't do anything hurtful, so as long as I am willing to give up the task, the person who caught me is also willing to let me go.

In the final analysis, Green Forest Road is still a place that pays attention to face, and it is originally the one who is his own master, takes money to do things, and has no grievances with each other, who wants to bear the reputation of "scum who kills the sacrificer" for a deal.

After a while, my life pattern has stabilized - hiding in the city, doing what I like, using a side hustle to support my life and ideals, and the name of "sacrificer" has become more and more famous unconsciously.

In the midst of false rumors, some people slowly began to regard me as a powerful person, and some people even made up my "special abilities" and boasted about them.

But in fact, half a year after entering the industry, I determined that my only "special ability" was that I was almost immune to psychic abilities.

I had heard the two unknown voices talk about it when I was in the "soul state", so I tried it out myself shortly after learning that there were really strangers in this world.

Otherwise, I'm really nothing special, although I've worked out to save my life, but to the limit, it's just "the same physical strength as a paper-level ability".

I don't know why, but one day, I got a rumor that someone who said "PUT-OID" Parallel_Universe_Traveler_Observation_and_Intervention_Department was targeting me.

I've never told anyone I'm a time-traveler, and I've never done anything that only a time-traveler can do, have I? How did they analyze it? Is there a specific instrument that can detect it? Or is there a specific ability that can spot this?

In any case, it's never a good thing to be targeted.

I had to strike first, and that was a valuable lesson I learned from my "last life" experience.

So I took the plunge and went into areas that I shouldn't have been able to do; And surprisingly...... Things went so smoothly that I was a little suspicious that someone was secretly helping me.

After that risky, but non-dangerous operation, I was given a detailed information about the PUT-OID, including the organizational structure, staffing, common surveillance methods, etc., and even the personal information of some of the agents.

Of course, I also wondered, will I be the winner? Could it be that you got fake information?

So I went through a lot of ways to verify it, and guess what? This information is true.

It's ridiculous to say that the reason I'm being targeted by PUT-OID is not because I did something "illegal", but because I did something "law-abiding".

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Through my understanding of the internal process of PUT-OID, I have mastered their methods of locking the "traverser", in fact, there are generally two types: first, the lottery; Second, tax and social security payments.

Both searches are carried out year-round, never interrupted, and do not require a lot of resources, as they are largely done by computer analysis of the collected data.

Let's talk about the "lottery" first, first I have to explain what the federal lottery is......

The federal charity lottery, the highest winning lottery, is actually an official money laundering business; It is impossible for anyone to win the grand prize of this lottery, because the results of the lottery are all controlled.

On the day of each round of the lottery, after the deadline for purchase, to the hours before the lottery, the official will retrieve all the numbers sold in this round, and after the retrieval is completed, a "combination of numbers that no one has purchased" will be generated, and then a video will be taken with this number as the lottery result.

When it's time for the lottery, the official will cut these pre-recorded images and the live broadcast in the studio together through editing, and switch back and forth, so that it looks like a live broadcast. As for the host and notary public at the scene, they were naturally acting, and no one dared not act.

Then, after several rounds or even a dozen rounds of continuous operation, when the prize pool has become particularly large, the masses also begin to think "Isn't it a bit abnormal that no one has won the grand prize for so long...... What to do?

It's very simple, find your own person, wear sunglasses and a mask to receive the award.

By the way, put some news in the newspapers, fabricate a little information about this winner, and let the fools who are addicted to the lottery continue to have illusions, and the business can go on.

And where did the money that was taken go? In addition to the tax payable, the rest of the money is naturally to go wherever you want......

So why is it said that this business can be laundered? It's also easy to understand, for example, a federal official gets a sum of stolen money, but because the source is unknown, it is difficult to spend it directly (the "flower" here refers to the inability to invest or buy a house or a car, and it doesn't matter if it is spent in a strip club that does not issue invoices), at this time, he can go to the federal lottery center officials, negotiate a share, and then use all the stolen money to buy lottery tickets.

Suppose this person has 10 million to wash, and the proportion of money laundering is split in half, then he will buy two numbers, one is the number that will not be hit, and the other will be in the number: the number in the meeting, taking a note to win one million as an example, buy six notes, twelve yuan is enough, and the remaining 9,999,988 yuan, all to buy the number that will not be won't.

After the lottery was finished, he won six bets of one million, with a total prize of six million, and almost 4.8 million yuan went into his pocket after paying taxes, which is 4.8 million yuan, which is clean money; The rest,I'll leave it to the lottery center to take care of.,It's nothing to do with him.。

It's a bit of a stretch, but let's get down to business......

To sum up, the federal lottery is, to put it bluntly, an IQ tax; As with other federal businesses in the name of charity, the coming and going of funds and the details of work are all non-public and opaque; All lottery results can be manipulated and easily controlled.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to win the grand prize, even if they are traversers, or those who have the ability to "predict the future", they will not be able to win, because the lottery results are generated based on the "data after the purchase deadline".

But what about the other awards? What about the first and second prizes?

Suppose you are a time-traveler, the more intelligent kind, you think that the grand prize is too conspicuous, or you already understand what the so-called "return rate" is, or you buy the grand prize numbers a few times and find that the numbers at the time of the lottery are different from what you remember, and then you figure out the doorway......

Whatever it is, you're probably going to think of the strategy of "deliberately picking the wrong number or two, giving up the grand prize, and winning the first or second prize". Unlike the Grand Prize, the other prizes are fixed and have no stake cap, and the most important thing is ...... It will not cause a change in the results of the lottery in the future just because you bought this number.

Therefore, whenever someone wins dozens or even hundreds of non-grand prize tickets, PUT-OID will immediately start investigating this person, and there is a 99.99% probability that this product is a traverser or ability.

There is less than a 0.01% probability that this person is really lucky and right...... Because that's in line with probability.

Of course, I'm not the kind of "time traveler", I'm a "parallel universe traveler", and I don't know the lottery numbers, so I can't lock me with this scheme.

What keeps the PUT-OID on me is their second search mechanism – tax and social security contributions.

In case you may not believe it, 27 of the 100 contributions of the Federal Tax and Social Security Administration are specifically designed to "tempt the timers."

The names of these payments are specific tax titles from other universes that the PUT-OID asked from some of the alternate universe travelers they had captured; That is, in the universe where the traverser is located, this is a common-sense tax, but here it ...... No one actually knows what this thing is.

The general financial department of the unit will not fill in these things when paying taxes and buying insurance for employees, and the individual tax payer will not ask what these non-mandatory contributions are.

But the traverser ...... will be fooled.

I was fooled.

In order to disguise myself as a law-abiding citizen in a low-key manner, after obtaining a certain amount of property, I specially went to register a shell company by myself, acted as the treasurer to account for my gray income, and paid taxes and insurance for myself through the company.

I really don't know that in this universe, the concept of "five insurances and one housing fund" does not exist at all.

When I went to fill out the registration form, I saw the familiar words "endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance, and housing provident fund", and they were all framed under the same big category, so I chose them.

Who would have thought this would be bait!

These entries are not included in the most common contributions made by citizens in this universe.

And the staggered tax and staggered money is not the same as buying a lottery ticket.,It's not "stupid" or "luck" can be explained.,It's basically a thing that "the traverser does a thief with a weak heart".

PUT-OID is to take advantage of this "cognitive difference at the level of common sense", relying on the big data provided by relevant departments, in a silent battlefield, to find the traversers from the crowd one by one.

I don't know when they're going to arrest me, but it's impossible to expect them to ignore me, because if I were one of theirs, I would never have gotten rid of someone who was already on the suspect list without full confirmation.

Now the question is...... How prepared should I be to deal with them?