Since the end of the Dog Island incident, Lin Xiaohu has been trying to find information about Donald and the snake girl.

Their appearance, the clothes Donald was wearing, and the ship and helicopter were all clues to his search.

The more I tracked down, the more desperate I felt.

Donald, the snake woman is like two people who never existed, there is not a single word or photo recorded in the citizen database of various governments, the Internet, the dark web.

Such people have completely renounced worldly life, worldly fame, status, wealth, and of course, they cannot enjoy these because they do not have a legal worldly status.

They are like ghosts living in parallel worlds. A huge and invisible ghost, but it overwhelms people.

"Evil, it's really hard to get a hard stubble, these guys are darker than hackers."

Lin Xiaohu muttered, as a hacker, he knew that the more deeply hidden masters, the more powerful they were, the more they gave up, the fewer obstacles they had, and they were just living for a simple purpose.

For example, the most famous hacker in the online world, "Zero", is like this.

It doesn't matter if you are the Pentagon, or the Kremlin, or MI6, or a secret organization on the dark web, it is transparent in his eyes, and he follows his bedroom everywhere.

However, for more than 20 years, hackers, big and small, don't even know whether he is a man or a woman, only that he has a mantra "I like it." ”

Occasionally, he would hold an impromptu forum on the dark web to talk about the web and digital technology — and of course, there would be a lot of hurdles, and only those who would break through those hurdles would be qualified to talk to him.

He never resells information, he deciphers major conglomerates, tech unicorns, and government intelligence just for fun.

"Zero" comes to mind because of fear, a fear that comes from the depths of darkness.

Lin Xiaohu once had a conversation with Zero, and he felt the same as everyone - Zero, a very good person, kind and humorous.

But you can't offend him.

Someone tried to track down Zero's whereabouts, only to have their underwear stripped and all their personal information posted online, including their criminal records of hacking into various businesses and governments — a death sentence for a hacker.

They did die a terrible death. Hackers are not like neuroinfiltrators, everyone has at least some fighting ability, and many hackers are either skinny or fat with only a lump of fat left and have no ability to defend themselves.

Those big corporations and intelligence bureaus who want to kill them don't need to spend a lot of money, just spend a little money and buy a few market hooligans, and they can make their deaths ugly.

What's more, no government is really going to protect a hacker.

Zero, gradually, in the minds of hackers, has become an absolutely powerful existence, a terrifying existence.

People are afraid of him as if they were afraid of the infinite and mysterious universe.

And Donald and his gang are like this, hidden in the depths of darkness, like a huge cosmic black hole that could pass through at any time.

"If you can't find it, forget it, they'll show up anyway." Wei Qingyun patted Lin Xiaohu's shoulder.

"Hehe, no, no, that's not good," Lin Xiaohu's entire body trembled slightly when he spoke, and his voice conveyed obvious fear, "You can't just forget it, this will make people unable to sleep, the front bar is not good, just use stupid methods, this kind of enemy, you must get a little information before fighting them, otherwise you will die ugly." ”

"Thanks, brother."

"Get out, you're more polite."

couldn't directly find the information of the snake girl, Lin Xiaohu simply started with tattoo artists, plastic surgeons, and even surgeons.

A message commemorating the deceased gave him a revelation - an electronic nuclear singer named HJ posted a short blog on FB that his tattoo artist had been killed in a car accident.

Before, Lin Xiaohu has been entangled in the settlement method, even if he forges his identity and forges electronic bank cards, he will leave consumption records in major banks, and there will always be some clues.

It is also possible to use gold and silver, which on the surface do not leave a record of consumption - in fact, the gold and silver of the underground society still leave traces in the database system of the Xuanmen.

The attitude of Governments around the world towards organized crime is unanimous.

As gold has become the main settlement tool in the underground society, the circulation of gold is strictly restricted in all means of transportation that are subject to government management, such as airplanes, high-speed rail, trains, subways, buses, and even online car-hailing, as well as public places such as hotels and shopping malls.

Any individual carrying more than 20 grams of gold must file with the police, otherwise if they are caught, they will be sentenced to more than one year in prison for smuggling gold, and those who exceed 5 kilograms will be sentenced to death.

Xuanmen came into being. It is an underground bank that spans the globe and specializes in providing the underground society with the currencies that everyone recognizes - gold, silver, slots.

In Xuanmen, traces of the use and circulation of gold coins will also be left.

Lin Xiaohu spent three days screening two settlement methods, but found no suspicious clues.

There's no way to settle – unless the tattoo artist, the cosmetic surgeon, is dead. Because underground tattoo artists and plastic surgeons never pay on credit.

"Do you suspect that every time after a tattoo or plastic surgery, the snake girl kills the tattoo artist and plastic surgeon?"

"Well, it's very likely, a tattoo of her scale, especially this kind of alteration of body tissue, at least a kilogram of gold, the price of underground tattoo artists and plastic surgeons around the world is about the same, I searched for gold extraction in various places inside Xuanmen according to this gold standard, and in recent months, there is no qualification, and it is very likely that the tattoo artist will be killed, because many tattoo artists will post tattoo photos of customers in their own catalogs, even if the guests are not allowed to take pictures, he will also post the design draft."

“……”

Lin Xiaohu opened the photo of the snake girl on the computer, pointed to the tattoos on her body and chattered, several parts of which were framed by him with red lines.

"You look at these parts, although they are all lizard or snake themes, and they are all trying to get closer to the same style, but you can still see that the tattoo techniques are different, not the same tattoo artist, the average tattoo enthusiast likes to find the same tattoo artist."

"Why?"

"Get used to it, I don't have a tattoo, I don't know much about it, maybe it's out of privacy, to be honest, many people have very sensitive tattoos, find the same tattoo artist, it's a bit like monogamy."

While chatting, Lin Xiaohu opened a search engine and typed in three key words: tattoo, plastic surgery, and death in Chinese and English.

8965 pieces of related information, some with more bloody pictures.

Lin Xiaohu flashed down the search content and quickly closed the search engine.

It was a very special search interface, with only a long input box and a matte black UI style. It's different from any familiar search engine.

"What kind of search engine are you?"

Wei Qingyun found that every time Lin Xiaohu used this, he would turn it off in time, and this search engine could directly search the United Nations' global population database, and even the data information of MI6 and Wufang buildings.

"Zero search."

"What?"

"It's a super search engine, because it's shared with me, so I call it Zero Search."