Zhou Lin - Chapter 189 Chapter of the Sacrifice (7)

I originally thought that more advanced science and technology and common sense of life, a model of global unification under federal rule, and a future modern history of more than two hundred years are what I need to master in this new universe. All new knowledge.

However, I was naive…

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When I first came here, I felt that the biggest difference between here and the place I came from was that at the end of the 20th century, for some reason, a technological explosion occurred, which gave birth to a technology that changed the global landscape and the future. A vast empire over the course of history.

A century later, this empire, like many prosperous dynasties in history, declined due to corruption and eventually fell apart. Then the earth entered the federal era, which lasted until the year I traveled here.

At that time, I did not consider whether there might be things that are unknown to the public and that go against common sense in this universe.

Because in my original universe, I was not the kind of person who cared about whether ghosts, alien and other things existed.

However, a year after arriving here, when I began to engage in some activities on the fringes of the law under the nickname Sacrifice, I gradually came into contact with some people… some people that I could not come into contact with as an ordinary person.

If I choose to live a good life here and be an ordinary civilian, maybe I will never know that there are so-called ability people in this world.

And there are really a lot of these strange people. Of course… what I say a lot refers to the total number. If you want to calculate it in proportion, even if you include those reformed people, in this tens of billions On a planet with a large population, the proportion of people with superpowers is not even one in one hundred thousand.

In short, knowing this has a great impact on my outlook on life.

Although I am a time traveler myself, I do not think that the voices I heard during the time of death or the unknown creatures I encountered will appear in the world in front of me.

In fact, according to the information I have received, the religious forces in this universe are almost like endangered species. The only remaining ones are mascot-like institutions that are linked to the tourism and cultural industries within the scope allowed by 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. There is no large-scale religion anywhere in the world.

But it is in such a universe that there are powers, supernatural things that most people can only see in science fiction movies.

This setting changes everything.

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

I completely understand why the authorities keep this secret from the public, because for ordinary people, this kind of thing would drive them crazy.

This is like telling people: There are two kinds of people in this world. One is you, who are born unarmed and will remain unarmed until death; and the other is called capable people. Due to innate or acquired factors, each of them has certain abilities. A deadly weapon you will never possess.

If the official makes this kind of thing public and becomes common knowledge, then the next development will basically be the story in X-Men.

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

Only a small number of people will pursue peaceful exchanges. The attitude of most people towards aliens must be control and annihilation – it cannot be completely controlled, it is best to completely eliminate. Because if you cannot control or eliminate the other party, you cannot guarantee 100% that the other party will not control and eliminate you.

From a human perspective, this is also very correct logic.

Maybe there will be other species in the universe that can find ways to coexist harmoniously with races that are more or equally advanced than themselves, but when it comes to the human race, at least at this stage, it’s still not feasible.

The trust relationship, social system, and moral order of the human world… in the final analysis, are all established on the basis of force guarantee. If you destroy the foundation, you can rebuild everything, so war is called the ultimate method.

Even I am not immune. I am also the kind of person who tends to I will feel safe only if there are no people with supernatural powers in the world.

But as time went by, when I accepted this setting and learned more and more about people with superpowers, I realized…my thoughts, or that most people have when they know about superpowers. This kind of idea that will come about after entering the world is actually very stupid.

Because after I know the number of superpowers and the abilities of certain individuals, I can conclude that if ordinary people on the earth now go to war with superpowers, no matter what the former does, they will be killed in less than 24 hours, or even In a shorter period of time, ordinary people will be defeated or even extinct.

One of the reasons why the world still operates like this is that ordinary people have never started a race war against people with special abilities, and 99% of people don’t know that people with special abilities exist.

I also have to admire this. In the past few hundred years, no matter whether it is the Empire or the Federation, no matter how corrupt and stupid the ruling class has become, there has never been a mistake in the general direction of this issue.

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The longer I stay in the underground world, the less I feel like a human being.

Of course, not a human being here is not derogatory. To give an example, it is the mentality of a gangster who strives to the extreme to become a gentleman.

In this circle, human life is a very cheap thing, and everyone here takes life and death very lightly; any battle between two ability users may result in the death of several, dozens or even hundreds of people.

Any failure in a mission, or your actions accidentally blocking the path of a strong person, could cost you your life.

Your death will not be grand, nor will it be heavier than Mount Tai. If you have to describe it, it will be like a stone on the roadside. One day someone kicks you away for some reason, and you will die, and that kick The person who drives you may be like a pebble in the eyes of others…

Well…it’s not even a pebble, it’s more appropriate to say it’s dust. If the wind gets stronger, I’ll be blown away.

In the past few years, I have been doing the work of exposing those scum who have escaped legal sanctions. This is considered my ideal and professional field. I do this for free, and sometimes I have to pay a lot of costs.

The results of this work are quite gratifying, and I have indeed made many scumbags pay the price, but it is definitely not enough to just do this. I must have the support of other side businesses so that I can continue this kind of loss-making business.

Therefore, I will also take on some employment-based jobs, such as delivering information, acting as a middleman to connect people, tracking and filming, stealing business secrets, etc.

The jobs I take are basically ones with a relatively high safety factor. Even if you fail, you are unlikely to die, and at most you will go to jail, but that is only relatively speaking…

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

After hundreds of jobs, I will inevitably encounter a few hard ideas, but fortunately… the few times I was caught, I met only people of the same kind, and never met official capable people; because I My real job has given me a good reputation in the industry. In addition, I am more cautious in taking jobs and do not do anything harmful to the world. Therefore, as long as I am willing to give up the task, the person who caught me will also be willing to let me go.

After all, Green Forest Road is still a place that pays attention to face. Originally, everyone is their own master, takes money to do things, and there is no enmity or enmity between them. Who is willing to bear the responsibility of killing the scum of the sacrificer for a business? What about reputation.

After a period of time passed like this, my life pattern became stable – hiding in the city, doing a career I like, using side jobs to support my life and ideals, and the title of Sacrifice was also Unconsciously it became louder and louder.

As rumors spread, some people gradually began to regard me as a powerful person. Some people even made up my superpowers and boasted about them.

But in fact, six months after joining the industry, I determined that my only special ability was that I was almost immune to mental powers.

I heard the two unknown voices mention this when I was in the soul state, so soon after I learned that there were really superpowers in this world, I tried it out myself.

In other respects, I’m really nothing special. Although I have exercised to save my life, training to the limit is only physical strength equivalent to that of a paper-level ability user.

I don’t know why, but one day, I got a tip that someone from PUT-OID (Parallel_Universe_Traveler_Observation_and_Intervention_Department) was targeting me.

I have never told anyone that I am a time traveler, and I have never done anything that only a time traveler can do, right? How did they analyze it? Is there any specific instrument that can detect it? Or is there a specific person with special abilities who can discover this?

No matter what, it’s never a good thing to be stared at.

I have to be proactive, a valuable lesson I learned from my “last life” experience.

Therefore, I began to take risks and entered areas that I should not be involved in based on my abilities; and surprisingly… things progressed very smoothly, so smoothly that I even suspected that someone was secretly helping me.

After that dangerous but safe operation, I obtained detailed information about PUT-OID, including organizational structure, staffing, common surveillance techniques, etc., including the personal information of some agents. There is information.

Of course, I also thought, could I have fallen into a trap? Could it be that you got false information?

So I verified it through many ways, and guess what? This information is true.

It’s funny to say that the reason why I was targeted by PUT-OID was not because I did something “illegal”, but because I did something “law-abiding”.

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Through understanding the internal process of PUT-OID, I have mastered their methods of locking travelers. In fact, there are generally two types: one is lottery; the other is tax and social security payment status.

These two searches are carried out all year round, never interrupted, and do not require a lot of resources, because they can basically be completed 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 lottery with the highest winnings issued by the federal government, 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 drawing day of each round, after the purchase time expires and in the few hours before the drawing, the official will search for all the numbers that have been sold in this round. After the search is completed, a no one has purchased will be generated. number combination comes out, and then take a video of this number as the lottery result.

When the lottery comes, the officials will use editing to cut these pre-recorded images and the live broadcast in the studio together, switching back and forth, so that it looks like a live broadcast. As for the hosts and notaries at the scene, they were all acting, and no one dared not to act.

Well, after several or even more than a dozen rounds of this operation, when the prize pool becomes extremely large, and the public begins to think, Isn’t it a bit abnormal that no one has won the special prize for so long?… it’s time How to do it?

It’s very simple, just find someone of your own and wear sunglasses and a mask to claim the prize.

By the way, publish some news in the newspaper and fabricate a little information about the winner, so that those fools who are addicted to lottery can continue to have illusions, and this business can continue.

And where did the money that was taken away go? In addition to the taxes that should be paid, the rest can naturally go wherever you want to go…

So why is this business said to be money laundering? It is also easy to understand. For example, a federal official received a sum of stolen money, but it was difficult to spend it directly because the source was unknown (the spend here refers to the fact that he cannot invest or buy a house or a car, etc. It doesn’t matter if he spends it in a place like a strip club that doesn’t issue invoices). At this time, he can go to the officials of the federal lottery center to discuss a share ratio, and then use all the stolen money to buy lottery tickets.

Assume that this person wants to launder 10 million, and the money laundering share ratio is half and half, then he buys two numbers, one is a number that will not win, and one is a winning number: the number that will win, with one bet If you can win one million, for example, just buy six bets. Twelve yuan is enough. The remaining 9,999,988 yuan will be used to buy the number that will not win.

After the lottery draw, he won six bets of one million, with a total bonus of 6 million. After paying taxes, he had almost 4.8 million in his pocket. This 4.8 million is clean money; as for the rest, he will pay I gave it to the lottery center to take care of it, and it has nothing to do with him anymore.

It’s a bit of a tangent, but let’s get back to the point…

To sum up, the federal lottery is, to put it bluntly, an IQ tax; like other federal businesses in the name of charity, the comings and goings of funds, work details, etc. are all not open and transparent; all lottery results are also They are all controllable and easy to control.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to win the special prize. Even time travelers or people with supernatural powers who have the ability to predict the future cannot win, because the lottery results are based on data after the purchase deadline.

But what about other awards? For example, what about first prize and second prize?

Suppose you are a time traveler, a relatively intelligent one, and you feel that winning the special prize is too conspicuous, or you already understand what the so-called reward rate is, or you have purchased the special prize several times. After you picked up the winning numbers, you found that the winning numbers were different from what you remembered, and then you figured out the reason…

No matter what it is, you will probably think of the strategy of deliberately choosing one or two wrong numbers, giving up the grand prize, and winning the first or second prize; unlike the grand prize, other prizes The amount is fixed, and there is no upper limit for betting. The most important thing is…it will not cause the future lottery results to change just because you bought this number.

Therefore, whenever someone wins dozens or even hundreds of non-special prize lottery tickets, PUT-OID will immediately start investigating this person. There is a 99.99% chance that this person is a time traveler or an ability user.

There is less than 0.01% probability that this person is really lucky and made the right move… because that is consistent with probability theory.

Of course, I am not that kind of time traveler, I am a parallel universe traveler. I don’t know the winning numbers of the lottery, so this plan cannot lock me.

What made PUT-OID target me was their second search mechanism – tax and social security payment status.

You may not believe it, but among the hundreds of payment items of the federal tax and social security bureau, a full 27 items are specifically set up to test time travellers.

The names of these payments are specific tax names from other universes that PUT-OID asked from some parallel universe travelers they have captured; that is to say, in the universe where the travelers are located, this is common sense Taxes, but here… no one actually knows what this is.

The general unit finance department will not fill in these when paying taxes and purchasing insurance to employees, and individual tax payers will not inquire about the purpose of these non-mandatory payments.

But the time traveler… will be fooled.

I was fooled.

In order to keep a low profile and pretend to be a law-abiding citizen, after I acquired a certain amount of property, I specially registered a shell company myself. I was responsible for accounting for my gray income and paid taxes and insurance 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 filled out the registration form, I saw the familiar words pension insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance, and housing provident fund, and they were all framed under the same category, so I selected them.

Who would have thought that this was actually a bait!

In this universe, the most common payments made by citizens do not include these items.

Moreover, the matter of paying taxes and paying money is different from buying lottery tickets. It cannot be explained by being stupid or luck. It is basically something that travelers have a guilty conscience.

PUT-OID uses this cognitive difference at the common sense level and relies on big data provided by relevant departments to identify the time travelers one by one from the crowd on a silent battlefield.

I don’t know when they will come to arrest me, but I can’t take any chances. It’s impossible to expect them to just ignore me, because if I were one of theirs, I would never put someone away without complete confirmation. Remove those already on the suspect list.

The question now is… how prepared should I be to deal with them.