Chapter 463 - Teacher of Crime (2/2)

“That’s impossible! These robbers are just chess pieces. There must be an incredibly diabolical chess player behind them!” Meng Chao blurted out.

“There’s a chess player, alright, but there’s no horizontal connection between the chess pieces,” Shen Yupeng said. “In truth, based on Ning Lang’s confession, he’s controlled remotely by this ‘chess player’ online.”

“Online?” Meng Chao’s mind raced. “How was he remotely controlled? The Deification Capsule, the weapons, the meticulous surveillance on the targets, and the bizarre criminal plan all came from the internet?”

“That’s right. It all came from the internet. More accurately, it all came from the deep web.” Shen Yupeng finished the high-calorie nutritional fluid in one go, and his complexion looked a little better. “You know that the materials in the Other World are incredibly unstable. Our computers and internet systems are different from those on Earth.

“We added a lot of monster brain cells and biochemical plug-ins that are imitations of neurons. You can say that they’re the amalgamations of computers and living brains, that’s why we call them superbrains.

“This sort of new data terminal and internet system ensures large scale, real-time information transfer in the Other World, even though it’s filled with spirit energy and materials that are really unstable, but it also provides brand new challenges toward retaining and investigating information, locating the coordinates of terminals, and other things.

“In the deep web, there are one hundred ways for you to perfectly hide your identity and address, then send emails anonymously to have others commit all sorts of dangerous and evil crimes.”

Meng Chao knew this very clearly.

In truth, he had been active on the deep web as the Old Fire Relayer, and even till now, no one managed to see through his disguise.

But… Meng Chao still found it unbelievable.

“The person used an anonymous email to tempt Ning Lang to steal from Superstar’s warehouse?

“That’s not quite possible, right? Based on what I know, Ning Lang is just a hooligan. He wanders about the gray area, and people like him know the boundaries of law the best. Would he risk everything because of one anonymous email and do something so dangerous?”

“He might not have, originally. But when he threw in all his money and even got himself high-interest loans from underground finance companies, then lost everything in the wild and came back with nothing… You can’t really say what he would do after that,” Shen Yupeng said.

“Ning Lang said that he failed his business. After he returned to Dragon City, he was chased by the underground finance companies, and he also had to be accountable to the families of his dead friends. Gradually, he lost himself in the abyss of despair. At that time, if there appeared a burning log that could save his life, he would hold it without a care.

“Coincidentally, at that time, someone sent him an invitation through an anonymous email system in the deep web and asked him whether he was interested in taking part in a huge business.

“Naturally, Ning Lang did not believe it in the beginning.

“Even if he believed it, it would be useless. Because when it came to the big businesses in Dragon City, the legal ones and illegal ones all required you to have awakened to supernatural powers to join.

“In the end, the other party said nothing and just gave him an address. That person did not give any explanation about what it was.

“Ning Lang was conflicted for three days. Once he heard that the debt collectors sent people to his apartment to force him to pay his debts again, he made his decision and went to check out the address mentioned in the email.

“He found that the address brought him to an abandoned factory that was about to be demolished. It was located in the suburbs.

“Then, he received a series of directions in the factory. In the end, he found a Deification Capsule in an abandoned grinder.

“[Eat it.] These words were written on a note stuck to the Deification Capsule.

“There was a bone-chilling air in the entire affair. But Ning Lang had no other choice. He had run into insect hordes in the wild and watched his childhood friends be reduced to skeletons by insects.

“Since then, his mental strength index had not been very stable. His understanding toward life and death became skewed. Not only was he not scared of death, he even had the desire to jump straight into flames like a moth.

“He swallowed the Deification Capsule without hesitation, and for the first time in his life, he experienced what it meant to have supernatural powers.

“Meng Chao, we’re both in Heaven Realm, so we’re already used to one-star superhuman strength. But I think that even if we manage to reach Deity Realm one day, we would never forget how it felt to first awaken to supernatural powers and use them. That peerless excitement and pleasure cannot be described with words.

“Ning Lang got completely addicted to this pleasure. He said that he destroyed the entire grinder until it was just scrap metal, and he felt like he was a God who could do everything.

“Unfortunately, the Deification Capsule the other party gave him was not strong enough. It was probably a test version with really low density.

“Soon, when the effects ran out, he became normal again, and since he was exhausted, he became even weaker than before.

“Ning Lang said that at that moment, he was drenched in sweat and lay on the ground while panting. He could not even lift a finger. The pleasure he had from possessing great strength was completely overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness.

“There’s a saying, isn’t it? ‘If I had never seen light, I could endure darkness forever.’”

“In Ning Lang’s case, it was if he had never tasted supernatural strength, perhaps he could forever endure a life of normalcy and mediocrity.

“But now, as if he was possessed by madness, he longed to become stronger. He wanted to eat more Deification Capsules and possess peerless power once more. Even if he had to trample on all laws and morals, he wouldn’t care!”