Mingzhe didn’t know why Little Superman was so angry.
After the Internet fee was paid, he took Chu Shici home.
Grandma has already cooked the meal, two vegetarian and one meat dish, and the taste is average.
Mingzhe was thinner than his peers and she felt sorry for her grandson, so she served him two bowls of rice in succession.
She asked Mingzhe where he went to play during the day, Mingzhe’s face turned red at her question and said that he was going to make up classes.
Mingzhe doesn’t know how to lie so he just bowed his head after saying one sentence.
But grandma didn’t see any abnormality at all, just thought it was a child who was introverted and didn’t like to talk.
Chu Shici was lying on the dining table, taking in the entire scene sideways.
In this day and age, the older generation who came out of the countryside are not so protective.
They have been running around in the village since they were young, often playing for a whole day, and adults don’t care.
When it is their turn to take care of the children, they will not be as strict.
Chu Shici was thinking that if the girl was lured out, she would leave for a few hours during the day.
Is it true that as long as you go home that day and don’t reveal any obvious flaws, the family will not doubt it.
Chu Shici has been in a bad mood ever since he guessed that there might be a criminal syndicate that lures minors on the Internet.
It reminded him of his childhood.
He was exposed to yellow materials for the first time in the underground internet cafe. He played sports cars online, and several people openly watched the film and asked him if he wanted to watch it together.
At that time, he was young and cowardly, so he just slipped away in fright.
Now that he thinks about it, it’s a good thing he ran fast and didn’t rush over stupidly.
Mingzhe ate so much that his stomach bulged.
Grandma yelled, “My darling grandson will grow taller after eating”, while putting meat in his bowl.
Mingzhe grabbed Little Superman and fled back to his room.
He rubbed his stomach and walked around the room.
Little Superman lay listlessly on the desk, looking very sluggish.
Mingzhe poked him, “Gege?”
Chu Shici turned over, “It’s okay, I’m thinking about how to send those bastards into prison.”
The mobile phone that was placed beside rang, and it was a call from a child in the group.
Four people in the group were still thinking about committing suicide, and Mingzhe exchanged contact information with them in the afternoon.
If they encounter unhappy things, just tell him.
It is estimated that after they had suffered too much grievance, they finally found a channel to vent.
As soon as Mingzhe said “I’m here.”, the girl started crying.
She cried and talked, and talked for more than two hours before she calmed down.
After the call ended, Mingzhe held the phone in one hand while rubbing between his brows with the other.
Before he could recover, another call came in.
Mingzhe let out a breath and acted as another person’s confidant again.
When he answered the first phone call, Chu Shici played dumb in the ‘Princess’s Crystal Castle’.
With the most innocent tone, using all kinds of methods, to incite waves.
At ten o’clock in the evening, grandma knocked on the door to urge Mingzhe to sleep.
Chu Shici stretched his waist and exited the group chat.
Today’s bait has been set and used, and if he tries too hard, it is easy to be seen as abnormal, so he will continue tomorrow.
He called Mingzhe, but got no response.
Chu Shici looked suspiciously, and Mingzhe held the phone that had been hung up long ago, pursed his lower lip tightly and said nothing.
He flew over worriedly, “Xiao Zhe, are you uncomfortable?”
Mingzhe shook his head and nodded again, “I’m a little tired.”
Within a few hours, he was a confidant for four people in a row. Too much negative emotion came through the microphone, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Before he finished speaking, the phone screen lit up again, she was the first friend to call him.
It is estimated that at night, her mental state became unstable again.
Chu Shici signalled Mingzhe to go to bed first, and flew to the bathroom with the phone in his arms.
After the bedroom door closed again, Mingzhe lay on the bed, listening to the sound outside.
When not angry, Little Superman’s voice always contains a hint of a smile. Clean and clear, like a gentle and reliable brother next door.
He doesn’t know if it’s because the soundproofing of the room is good, or because Chu Shici’s voice is low, and Mingzhe can only faintly hear a few words.
He leaned against the wall, listening to the muffled voice, and slowly fell asleep.
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By the time the little girl on the opposite side was finally appeased, it was already half past eleven.
Chu Shici turned his phone to silent, yawned and flew back to the bedroom.
He was also afraid that if he heard too many complaints, he would feel depressed.
So just now while he was comforting her, he was also helping the system to process the halo.
One brain and two tasks, incredibly efficient.
It not only provides a channel for the little girl to confide in, but also makes a small fortune for the system at the same time.
The system has just completed a batch of Christmas deer hats, and immediately received a batch of heartthrob halos, which is still an urgent order.
Every day in his dreams, the deer with a halo on his head circles in his mind.
Chu Shici broke off the halo, ‘Why are you in such a hurry to make money? ‘
The system squinted, [While you’re young, do more, save money to buy a few apartments, and become a charterer in the future.]
Chu Shici thought it made sense.
He was hesitating whether to open an account to save some money, when his notebook suddenly gave an alert.
[It’s Xiaohuahua ya, friend request pending.]
After the friend request was approved, a private message popped up.
It’s Xiaohuahua ya: [Hello.]
Superman Little Princess: [Hi Jiejie.]
The other side sent an emoji, and then fell silent.
While waiting for the news, Chu Shici went to browse the space of his new friend.
According to Xiao Huahua’s profile, she is a twelve-year-old girl.
Her space has a large number of visitors, and each post has a lot of likes and comments.
After reading roughly, Chu Shici rubbed his hands excitedly.
It is certain that Xiao Huahua is also an adult, and her character design is completely different from that of Happy Boy.
The family conditions are very poor, and her parents value sons over daughters, so they only love her younger brother and not her. She couldn’t eat well or dress well, and was laughed at at school and called her little dirt.
Life puts a lot of pressure on her, but she is positive, optimistic, strong and independent.
Finding a part-time job online and doing odd jobs, and relying on her own efforts to reap the first pot of gold in life. She bought the latest slider phone that can take pictures and even has a laptop.
Her parents, who had always been indifferent to her, praised her as a little genius. The classmates stopped laughing at her, and the school grass* who had been secretly in love with her confessed to her.
*(refresher: school grass is a handsome guy in school)
Relying on her part-time job, she gained family, friendship and love.
There are birthday photos she posted in her space. The family is gathered around the table, and there are three layers of birthday cakes in the middle, full of princess pink dreamy atmosphere.
There are also selfies of her, the girl is wearing a beautiful skirt, holding the most popular milk tea, smiling brightly.
Under each dynamic, there are dozens of comments.
[# Thank you for the part-time job introduced by Huahua-jie. It’s too hard not to be able to work part-time under the age of sixteen. Fortunately, with you, I also earned a mobile phone! #]
[# It turns out that money can really buy family affection. After I paid my salary, my parents became very fond of me. #]
[# Secretly brought the notebook into class, they all rushed to play. Hee hee, I won’t give it, who let them laugh at me before? #]
If we say that the character design of Happy Boy is like the male protagonist in a romance novel, perfect and excellent, the male god that girls have a crush on but dare not confess.
Then Xiao Huahua’s character design is that the ugly duckling turned into a white swan.
Now it’s the 2000s, when taking pictures with slider phones, laptops, and milk tea, these things are not seen in ordinary families.
In the eyes of children, it is a luxury to show off.
During his lifetime, Chu Shi resigned from society, always got into fights, and was a frequent visitor to the police station.
The scammers in the same cell often boasted how clever their deception was, and Chu Shici followed suit.
In this era, the Internet has not yet been popularised, and there are not so many fashionable fraud methods.
But Xiao Huahua’s space and her character design are very similar to the prototype of phishing.
There are a lot of talents in the prison. Chu Shici is a talented student who came out of prison. This is his professional field.
After watching Xiaohuahua’s space, the scattered clues in his mind instantly connected.
The system that was knitting the halo found its host laughing wildly.
It shrinks back, [Are you crazy? Stay away from me, don’t bite me.]
Chu Shici rubbed his hands together, ‘Tong-ge, I’ve realised it. Their deception is fairly novel, but I have the technology of the future, quick! praise me! ‘
[Fuck, be normal, I’m scared!]
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The routine used by this criminal group is more than enough to deceive adults, let alone children.
Chu Shici created a document on the computer, roughly writing down his conjecture.
Three years ago, post bars and chat software were just emerging, and the number of netizens was very limited. Due to time constraints, the only channel available for news is Tieba.
Lanlan established the group in May 2003, during which time there were basically no newcomers in the group. In September, when she went to Tieba to announce the group, there was an administrator No. 2 by her side, “I continue to be lonely”
For a child like Lanlan who leads a lonely life, she can only find companions online. If she wants to expand the group members, going to Tieba to announce the group is the only way.
The purpose of her group is to find people like her. When announcing the group, some basic rules will be set.
Like age restrictions, gender restrictions, what needs to be experienced before you can enter the group chat.
While screening group members, it also exposed their basic information.
Criminal syndicates don’t need to look for a needle in a haystack at all, they just need to find the group where all the target person gathers in the sea called the internet.
They just need to squat in Tieba, and when they see this kind of group publicised, they will pretend and join in.
A period after they join, after they confirm that the group is made up of majority real children, they will inject other people in their group into the group.
They are grown-ups, and their mobile phones are always connected to the Internet. Can hang in the group 24 hours, destined to be the most active person in the group.
Three or four people entered a small group at the same time and began to set up their own personalities.
Generally, it is a male god big brother, a sympathetic big sister, or other identities that can be trusted and loved by children.
Cooperate with each other, coax the existing members of the group, and go outside to pull in prey that has not entered the group.
Sneak into the group for a period of time to screen out suitable targets. Screen out those who are too mature to start with.
People like Mingzhe.
His position in the group has always been awkward, which has something to do with his infrequent online presence.
But the main reason was that the resident members: Happy Boy and the rabbit who mixed in, pushed him to the opposite side.
Most of these vigilant children will be pushed out to withdraw from the group automatically.
Someone like Mingzhe who is stubborn and not easy to cheat may be kicked out of the group chat.
According to Mingzhe, he was almost removed. It was the Lanlan, the group leader who thought he was smart and capable, so she kept him.
When there are only innocent and silly children left in the group, the poor big sister contacts the chosen target, and the male god brother pulls them into another group.
At this time, they start raising pigs.
Let these children who are originally very resistant to sexual harassment be subtly influenced by the atmosphere in the group.
They were coaxed into publicly describing the harassment process in detail many times, distorting their thinking a little bit, and then selecting people who were easy to prey on.
Pick the right prey and start killing the pigs.
Hunters like Xiao Huahua who lurk in the group will add the target as friends first.
Their targets are people who lack family affection, have low material standards, encounter bullying at school, and have lost hopes in life.
Every update in Xiaohuahua’s space is a fatal temptation for this kind of child.
As long as you earn money by doing part-time jobs, you can gain the love of your parents, get rid of bullying, and live a good life.
According to Chu Shici’s hypothesis, Xiao Huahua will not contact her prey at the beginning.
She will give a week or half a month of thinking time, and when the children finish shopping in the space, they will be brainwashed by the beautiful life she has shown.
The courageous ones will take the initiative to contact her for a part-time job. As for the shy ones, she will definitely be hooked after being contacted by her a few times.
Part-time jobs are not too difficult at first. Typing or posting pictures are jobs that children can do in their spare time. The money given will not be much, three yuan and five yuan are only to fool around.
After that, it gradually strays.
For example, in a group full of men, openly talking about their tragic experiences; exposing their home addresses and private information; children with better conditions and mobile phones that can take pictures, they will be coerced to take half-length photos without clothes.
The child has no source of income and desperately wants to change the status quo.
Forty or fifty is a sky-high price for them. It was originally a prey that had been selected carefully, and would not resist the temptation.
After they have worked part-time for a period of time and they have completed the procedures, their brains are mostly washed, they can start reeling them in.
Since there are no online money transactions, and the chat software does not have the function of sending red envelopes at all. Xiao Huahua only needs to draw a big round biscuit* for the children online, and write a number on it every day, saying how much money they have earned in total.
*(I think this is like a drawing of a coin, idk)
When the withdrawal amount is reached, the offline withdrawal is postponed under the pretext that the money cannot be transferred over the network.
At this time, the identity and background of the child, the working hours of the parents, and the home address of the school have been thoroughly figured out.
In order to get the hard-earned money, they will follow Xiaohuahua’s request, make excuses to go out at the appointed time, and meet alone with the person who ‘gives the money’.
Even if they are smart enough to realise that something is wrong, they can’t run even if they want to, their mouths are covered and they will be taken directly.
Afterall, they are still very young, and their family didn’t care about them at all. They didn’t even have a backer, they’ll become honest after being threatened for a while.
Children who are slow, probably don’t understand what’s going on at all, so they can do whatever they want.
As long as the threats and lures are in place, no obvious scars are left on the body, and the child is returned, no one will find anything abnormal.
Adults only think that the child went to the bookstore to read books for a few hours, or went to play with their friends for a while.
Frustrated in real life, they subconsciously return to the safe haven on the internet.
Then being comforted by private chats and various persuasions from the people lurking in the group, they completely cut off their thoughts of mentioning this matter to adults.
With such a great effort, they will not simply give up the prey they have obtained.
It may be that the whole process was recorded, or it may be that the safety of their parents is threatened, they will not inform their family members.
In this way, the birds that have entered the net can also be used repeatedly, bringing them long-term profits.
They have several groups, and there are people from all over the country in the group. There is no need to work hard to do things in a faraway place. Among so many prey, most of them can pull out a victim from the same city.
At this point, Chu Shici suddenly remembered something.
Mingzhe once received harassing text messages, and the other party claimed to have a photo of him without clothes.
Chu Shici was wondering if that message might not be a mass harassing text message.
There was too many prey, and the person who sent the text message accidentally sent it by mistake.
He originally planned to send it to a certain girl, and wanted to use this to threaten her to come out.
But Mingzhe mistakenly thought it was mass spam text messages, and the reply was also very rude. The other side realised that it was the wrong number, and immediately went silent.
Chu Shici’s fingers paused.
He discovered one thing.
This criminal syndicate is very clever. No matter whether his guess is correct or not, he can’t grasp the evidence without evidence.
Switching back and forth between multiple groups, hundreds of people work together to complete the work. There are always those who hide in the dark, silently gaining trust and have not been exposed yet.
Whenever any child wants to ask his closest online friend for help, they might once again fall into the trap that has been prepared.
The target age was set very conservatively, with the maximum being no more than fourteen years old, and then the most innocent and easy-to-deceive group were screened out layer by layer.
Even if this group of people thought of calling the police, they probably wouldn’t even be able to speak clearly in front of the police.
It’s okay even if the police become suspicious, as long as they don’t realise the seriousness of the matter, they won’t spend too much police force digging deeper.
Without cooperation with the Internet police and cross-provincial investigations, the criminal syndicate hidden below will not be truly dug out.
At most, they catch some miscellaneous fish who committed crimes on the surface, and when the limelight passes, they can and will continue to commit crimes.
In this era, the Internet has just emerged, and supervision is not yet strict.
Adults get up early and work late to support their families, and their educational level is generally low. They don’t even know what is children’s mental health and what is sex education.
Criminals discovered this fertile land when ordinary people were still playing games online.
They dig their roots in it and expand their network rapidly, exploring step by step, and finally targeting the unprotected cubs.
Chu Shici’s heart was completely cold.
Using this method which can even deal with adults to deal with a group of children.
The criminals in this world are more inhumane than those he encountered in his lifetime.
Chu Shici searched the official government website for a while, processed the documents, and sent them to the mailbox of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
He is currently in the review period, has not yet started part-time work, and can’t produce any evidence.
The reason why he can roughly deduce the deception procedure of the criminal group through the existing sporadic clues is because he comes from a world with advanced network information filled with various deceptions.
He also studied hard in prison* and mastered theoretical knowledge across the ages. It is true that he understands criminal psychology.
*(studied how other criminals think)
He intends to continue to play the role of a silly child and strive to become a ‘prey’ as soon as possible, but it will take time.
He hopes the police in this Small World will take this matter seriously after seeing the email.
The email is not anonymous, and the other party can reply.
The computer is made of plasticine, and the internet is made by the system. People here can’t find out his location.
In fact, Chu Shici hadn’t figured it out.
Why did Happy Boy encourage the members of the group to commit suicide? Was it because they wanted to use Lanlan’s death to force Mingzhe to death?
Or pretend to coax suicide, and secretly carry out other plans?
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Early the next morning, Mingzhe got up on time.
On the desk, he found the Little Superman who was on the computer all night and was exhausted into a puddle of ooze.
Mingzhe glanced at the plasticine computer, “Ge, what were you up to last night?”
Chu Shici softened his body and waved his hands listlessly, “Wandering around in the group.”
Mingzhe pursed his lips, and frowned delicately, “You have something to hide from me, when I talked to them yesterday, something was wrong with you.”
He shook his wrist, and the plasticine figure relaxed his head and played dead.
“What clues did you find, why can’t you tell me?”
The Little Superman who always answered questions in the past casually laughed and tried to make him forget with cuteness.
Mingzhe snorted coldly, and put the little plasticine figurine into his school uniform pocket.
The child was still young, and Chu Shici didn’t know how to tell him about it.
Tell him about the online scams to lure children?
Or tell him that there are hundreds of criminals who form a group to attack minors?
After getting along for so long, Chu Shici also noticed it.
Mingzhe and Su Zheyan were carved out of the same mould, with many similar ideas and stubborn tempers.
His Yan-ge was repeatedly trampled on by the empire, but he still loved the empire deeply.
Xiao Mingzhe was scolded every day, but he still gritted his teeth and refused to let go. It was because he smelled danger and wanted to protect his little group by himself.
If he knows the truth of the matter, he will clamour to use his body as bait and jump into the trap on his own initiative.
At that time, if something goes wrong, Mingzhe will be finished.
When it really comes to the point where he has to go fishing alone, Chu Shici will mould a large humanoid figure and ask the system to transfer him into the figure.
He has followed the system for 40 years and has been handcrafting, and the figurines are very life-like.
Just don’t look too closely, otherwise it’s a supernatural event.
All day today, Mingzhe couldn’t listen to the lecture.
Little Superman caught up on his sleep for a while on the way here, however as soon as he was placed in the desk, he started typing on the computer.
Without a magnifying glass, Mingzhe can’t see the fine print on the computer.
Mingzhe’s vitality value fluctuated up and down, and Chu Shici was terrified when he saw it.
During recess, Mingzhe looked around, leaned over and whispered, “You know the truth.”
Chu Shici was taken aback, “You’re talking nonsense.”
Mingzhe narrowed his eyes, “You must know, and the matter is serious. Before yesterday, you never used the computer all night.”
“I found a game, so I was pla…”
“Lies.”
“Little Superman also needs to have entertainment time, this is my little privacy.”
Mingzhe’s eyes fell on the plasticine computer, “There are more than three people.”
Chu Shici subconsciously covered the screen, “What did you say?”
Mingzhe’s voice was colder than usual, “Since you entered that big group, you have been hiding things from me. There are still bad people in that group, and the number is beyond your imagination. When you didn’t join the big group, you told me that there were only three adults in the group and we analysed it together. After joining the group, you find that the situation is out of control, and don’t tell me anything.”
“You want to protect me, afraid that if I know, I will make irrational decisions. I am 12 years old, and there are limited things I can do. I can’t do anything more than calling the police or jumping into the other party’s trap. There’s nothing wrong with me calling the police, then there is only one option left. I have no money, and I will not be cheated out of money. And no one will make the extra trip to come personally to kill me. Excluding property and my life, there is only one option left that can make you so nervous.”
Mingzhe patted Chu Shici’s head, “There are paedophiles in that crowd, you are afraid that I will take the initiative to contact the paedophiles.”
Chu Shici: …
He hid the notebook behind his back, ‘Tong-ge, he has a plug-in too. ‘
The system puts down the aura, [What’s your rank in school?]
‘Last. ‘
[He ranks first in provincial competitions every year, so take a break, you.]
Mingzhe was watching Little Superman’s expression when a fat hand suddenly reached out and grabbed Chu Shici.
The boy who had fought with Mingzhe before held up Chu Shici and yelled loudly: “Mingzhe is out of his mind! He talks to plasticine, he is crazy! Teacher, he is crazy!”
Mingzhe was taken aback, stood up abruptly and punched him in the face.
He grabbed Chu Shici, grabbed the boy by the collar, and threatened coldly in a childish voice: “Don’t touch my things with your dirty hands.”
The teacher came quickly and separated the two.
When Mingzhe was being scolded together with the boy on the podium, Chu Shici huddled on the desk, chatting wildly with the crowd.
He chatted with them vigorously, and there was an extra email in his mailbox, which was a reply from the Municipal Public Security Bureau.
[Who are you and what is your identity? Where did the content of the document come from? Is it a fabrication or a fact? Since there are no victims who came forward, relevant evidence needs to be provided. We solemnly warn you that if there is any fraud, it will disturb the work of the public security bureau and should be dealt with according to the law.]
Chu Shici’s eyes lit up.
It’s here, they’re here, he brought soldiers from the bureau!
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