47 [White]

The failure of the police to prevent the third murder was unknowingly spread to the public by an anonymous online post. The might and capable image of police took a hit after people started to voice their opinion. There were some who mocked the police for being incapable while there were also some who supported them, giving justifications behind police failure. On the internet, both side were fighting.

"Huh, as expected! The police is not capable as what they are portraying to the public."

"Catching a murderer is not as easy as picking a cabbage in the yard. I believe they also work hard to solve the case."

"There are already three victims. From the news i read, the three of them died in the same way. From the first case to the current, there were more than one month time to find the murderer. But, from what i see, the police is indeed too slow."

"Even if you have one years or more to find the clues, it will be useless once you cannot find any leading clues."

"To the people above me, i don't care about what do you want to say, but i do not trust police."

"Yes i don't trust police."

The negative comments from the netizen overwhelmed the positive one, making people who skimmed the comments subconsciously thought the police was indeed incapable as there were a mixture of both truth and false in some of the negative comments. Moreover, these seemingly serial murder case was under public scrutiny. The post would not affect the police by too much if this element was factored out. Yet, the popularity of the case amplified the negative comments from the netizen and made everything worse.

Captain Ling was sitting in the meeting room. Everyone from the crime unit were also seated by the long table. They seriously looked at the projector screen. The atmosphere were solemn. Captain Ling who had kept silent since the beginning of the meeting finally spoke, "Have you found the IP adress?" His gaze fell on a thin young man in the early twenty, wearing a black rimmed glasses. His look was pretty a nerd with his white shirt buttoned up till the neck as his black suspenders were on his shoulders.

He was one of the two crime unit's hacker. Upon his captain gaze fell on him, he stiffened as he answered, "Yes. It's coming from Imperial City. But, i'm unable to find the exact location of the one who posted the online posting as he suddenly disappeared the moment he realized that i tracked him."

"So, you can't find it Liang Yu?"

"Yes captain. It's very unfortunate." The hacker, Liang Yu replied dejectedly. He had a high confident with his hacking skill. He hacked many websites which had various difficult to infiltrate, starting from public online forum, website of various companies and IT companies. He even hacked Ministry of Defense website which was well known for being impenetrable by most hacker. He thought it would be as difficult as what others say, but once he hacked into it, he found it rather easy. People just tend to exaggerate things.

Liang Yu thought the online post that went viral on the weekend would be easily taken down by him. Yet, the moment he deleted it, another similiar post would reappear gain and again. He tried to hack the one behind that post but the battle was too intense that he got carried away and eventually lost. Even so, from the beginning, he tried to locate the position of his opponent. He exhausted himself and did everything he could do to find the opponent. When he was on the verge of breaking down, he could finally located the opponent by a chance. It was just the scope he got was too vast to his liking - The entire Imperial City. If his opponent went away few seconds later, he would probably find the exact location. "Should we find [White]?" Liang Yu proposed. As much as he didn't want to admit that he was not capable enough to find that user, he had to stepped back as the result of this investigation would affect the image of the police. The one he could think of at the moment was [White].

[White] was an infamous figure that was hailed by many hackers. It was said that multinational companies and government from countries around the world invited [White] to work for them and [White] rejected their offers. He always replied, I'm not interested."

[White] became a powerhouse figure in the hacking world seven years ago when he defeated the [Emperor_Monkey] in a god-like hacking battle. At that time, [Emperor_Monkey] was the top hacker that became a legend after reigning in the hacking world for over five years. So, when he was defeated by an unknown newbie from nowhere, it became an uproar and eventually made [White] famous overnight.

After that day, hackers would pay attention to [White]. After observing [White] for quiet a while, they unanimously agreed that [White] was indeed a king. He hacked some websites as well as the defense system of world organizations as if he was slicing a pie with his exquisite techniques and his godly skills. Many hackers were rendered speechless when they learned about this. The organizations that [White] hacked were the same organizations they wanted to hack but was unable to.

Ever since that day, their admiration grew and [White] seemed to become a God for them. Some of them tried to find him yet, every time they had just one step away from succeeding, they failed. It was as if [White] deliberately exposed himself and immediately erased his trace the moment they almost found him. One could say that he was playing a game of cat and mouse.

Now, there was even a cult dedicated for [White] founded by crazy fans of [White].

Captain Ling frowned the moment he heard [White]. He learned about the existence of [White] two years ago from his senior who had now become the chief of the police office. At that time, his senior asked the help of [White] to solve some cases. He would complained every time they asked [White] cooperation as the other party was too wild and unbridled. [White] was eccentric, he would do things in his way. That was what his senior told him.

Until now, Captain Ling had never requested for help from [White]. First, the other party was unpredictable according to what his superior said so it seemed that it would be hard to cooperate with him and second, the unpredictability of [White] made him unable to determine whether [White] would help them or not. Both points were crucial so he couldn't really decided on his own. It would be his very first time to ask [White] to help him so he thought it was better for him to contact his senior first. "I'll think about it."

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Elena was busy writing her report. Suddenly she sneezed. "Achu..." She hugged herself as she mumbled softly, "Who's talking about me?"