Chapter 1 The First Day
The first day passed just like that, and on the morning of the second day, Wen Wen received two more cases.
One was a junior high school student who was beaten to death with a fist in an internet cafe booth, and the other was a lone woman who was nailed to the wall with a long spear at home while surfing the internet.
"Contact… there must be a connection."
Wen Wen went to Ding Mingguang and retrieved all the online activity traces of the previous five victims before their deaths.
As long as Ding Mingguang wanted to, there were no secrets on the internet that could escape him.
However, to Wen Wen's surprise, he discovered several adult websites he didn't know about among the online traces of these individuals.
After all, he was investigating a case, so Wen Wen didn't go too far. He just bookmarked all these websites to study them later.
Speaking of which, there were several websites Wen Wen didn't know among just these few people. How many things would Ding Mingguang have?
No wonder he was bald at such a young age.
There was always a reason for every effect. Wen Wen had never stopped guessing about the mystery of Ding Mingguang's baldness.
Next, Wen Wen kept analyzing the commonalities in these cases.
In fact, the Hunter Association was also doing this work, and their scope of investigation was much larger than Wen Wen's. However, Wen Wen still believed he could find something different.
He put on his warehouse administrator badge and looked through all the materials repeatedly. Ordinary people would get dizzy after reading them once, but Wen Wen read them three times.
"There are no commonalities. These people have no intersection on the internet. Even the netizens they interacted with during this period do not overlap. In real life, they are also strangers to each other…"
"Could it be indiscriminate killing? If Yan Biqing is regarded as a monster, this is not impossible…"
Wen Wen lay sprawled on his desk, with dark circles under his eyes, slightly agitated.
He grabbed the stack of documents and threw them into the air, letting them drift down.
After all, cleaning staff came to clean the office every day.
"After this incident, I must catch a monster with a good brain to help me analyze information. I'm just too tired. As for the other idiots, letting them look at the data will only do more harm than good."
After thinking for a while, Wen Wen felt a little sleepy. He had been thinking intensely. Even with a vampire's strong physique, it was inevitable to feel tired.
After a short nap of a few minutes, Wen Wen felt refreshed again. He removed a piece of paper covering his face and prepared to continue the investigation.
Suddenly, Wen Wen's gaze froze, staring intently at the paper in his hand.
He had read this paper three times and knew all its contents by heart. It contained Lu Jiang's argument with someone under a piece of news.
Seeing this paper again caught Wen Wen's attention.
It was just a quarrel, with no value at all. But the news mentioned on this paper, Wen Wen had seen it on Lu Jiang's computer. It was the last piece of news he browsed.
Moreover, one sentence made Wen Wen very concerned.
"I'll kill you through the internet cable?"
"This phrase is quite common online, but it seems a bit off in this case."
After looking closely, Wen Wen gained new insight. Lu Jiang's last action on this webpage was to close it.
But when Wen Wen was at the scene, he just opened the computer and saw this news!
So, the webpage was not closed!
Others might have overlooked this directly, but Wen Wen wouldn't.
He re-examined the online interactions of the other victims before their deaths and found that all five victims had been arguing with people online within an hour of their deaths.
The targets of their arguments were not the same IDs, and they seemed to have no connection. Perhaps this was why the Hunter Association had not noticed.
But all five people had said something about "doing something through the internet cable," which might be a connection.
What made Wen Wen even more certain that there was a problem was that the communication style of these five people was slightly similar!
So the breakthrough must be here.
Wen Wen immediately sent the information of these five IDs to Ding Mingguang, and Ding Mingguang did not disappoint Wen Wen. It took him less than a minute to find the internal connection between these five people.
Although they were not the same ID, and even their IP addresses were not in the same location, all the online activities of these five accounts were carried out on the same device.
Therefore, it was highly likely that these five trolls were all the same person!
If it weren't for Ding Mingguang, even if Wen Wen knew there was a problem, he wouldn't have been able to find this person with the technology he had.
"Hey, why are you asking me to find this person? Did you find any clues?" Ding Mingguang asked curiously after telling Wen Wen the result.
"We'll talk about it next time we meet."
Wen Wen said briefly and jumped out of the window, leaving Ding Mingguang a little stunned.
Ding Mingguang scratched his head, thinking that this matter should be told to Lin Zheyuan, and then with a flick of his finger, the mysterious codes and data streams on the displays of all electrical appliances in the room disappeared.
There was one thing Ding Mingguang had never told anyone.
That was, the impressive codes and data streams on his monitor were actually useless except for showing off.
Even a computer novice could achieve such an effect with a small program.
Ding Mingguang had always played like this just because it made him look like a big shot.
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Song Lianqing leaned comfortably on his gaming chair, stuffing food into his mouth with one hand and typing rapidly on the keyboard with the other.
Years of experience in online arguments enabled him to type with one hand and overwhelm the typing speed of ordinary people.
If there was a ranking of keyboard masters, even if he couldn't reach the top, he would at least be on the list.
He controlled more than twenty different accounts, active on various online platforms, and his main job was to find some sensitive news to argue about or to spread false information.
Each comment earned him fifty cents, and comments that caused a huge reaction would be rewarded.
His work had no specific requirements; it was all up to his own discretion.
The general idea was to smear the good, whitewash the bad, lead the trend, start arguments, and incite conflict, basically doing whatever was most disgusting to people.
He was not worried about being punished for this, because as long as he instigated a little, many people would jump out to help him without him having to do anything.
Even the police could not pick out someone with ulterior motives like him from hundreds or thousands of negative comments.
If he was targeted by cyber police, he would immediately abandon the account. After all, with his skills, those people could not locate his position or identity at all, and he was confident about this.
Song Lianqing was actually from the Huafu District and was a high-end talent in computer science. In his opinion, his online arguments were just a part-time job.
He wasn't the only one who got paid to argue online. His presence or absence wouldn't make much difference, so it was better to earn some extra money for himself.