49 Apocalypse Rules

Chapter 306: Chapter 285: Bait Plan and Profile Image

"Concentrated training area..."

Guan Tong looked at his phone. On it was a message from Xu Xiaotian.

He said he’d been busy as hell lately, delivering food and other daily necessities to the officially established concentrated training areas every day.

Guan Tong had seen the news about the establishment of these concentrated training areas online yesterday.

The official explanation was that they didn’t want these fanatical training groups to disturb others, so they had designated separate training zones for them.

But no matter how you looked at it, this approach didn’t seem likely to improve the situation.

Especially when these fanatics gathered together. Under this "resonance," wouldn’t they just become even more fervent?

Guan Tong didn’t try to guess the government’s motives. It had nothing to do with him anyway, and he had his own business to attend to.

"I’ve posted the commission," Shangyuan Zi’s voice came from the side.

She was holding her phone, which was open to the Ascender’s Home website.

"Just wait. We should get a result soon."

Guan Tong had previously said he would help Shangyuan Zi, and this was how: by having her post a commission on the forum.

The commission requested the database information for all official citizens of Sakura Prayer, with a reward of 100,000 Sublimation Coins.

The forum itself had plenty of top-tier hacker users. The most skilled among them could even hack into the Soloma Empire’s homeland security database, let alone breach Sakura Prayer’s official firewall and get the data.

The reason the commission didn’t ask to search for someone by the name "Shangyuan Zi" directly was to prevent the Sakura Prayer government from seeing it and taking obstructive actions like making emergency modifications or deletions.

Less than fifteen minutes after the commission was posted, someone replied accepting it.

Guan Tong glanced at the ID and saw it was actually an acquaintance: the hacker "Mask."

When he had first built this website, it was Mask who had optimized the interface for him. Although the guy’s real goal had been to plant a Trojan horse, he ended up doing all the grunt work for nothing when his plan failed.

Mask sent Shangyuan Zi a private message: "Infiltration plus data copy. 100,000 should be fine, right?"

Shangyuan Zi replied, "Okay."

Mask: "I’ll give you the data in an hour."

"Will we be able to find them this way?" Shangyuan Zi asked, uncertain.

Guan Tong said, "If there’s no information in the database, it’ll be very difficult. We might have to find an Ascender with person-finding abilities or items... but I don’t think the chances are good."

Modern nations are all very thorough with their electronic data collection. From the moment a person’s birth is registered, their information and that of their immediate family are linked together in the database.

If we can’t find anything in the database, it either means the name ’Shangyuan Zi’ itself is fake, or the data related to her has been specially processed."

Either way, it would make things very troublesome.

"Do you know where the Divine Son usually lives?"

While they waited, Guan Tong started asking about the Divine Son’s specific situation.

Shangyuan Zi shook her head. "I was placed under soft house arrest after moving to this land. I don’t know where he usually is."

"What’s his personality like?"

"His personality..."

Shangyuan Zi hadn’t expected Guan Tong to ask such a question. She pondered for a moment before answering.

"He’s very hypocritical," she said. "He actually has a terrible temper but likes to pretend he’s good-natured."

"...I think I get the picture."

He had to admit, Shangyuan Zi’s description was very fitting. The image of a sanctimonious, hypocritical superior immediately formed in Guan Tong’s mind.

"By the way, you mentioned before that besides you, the Chosen Team has two other members. What are they like?"

Shangyuan Zi shook her head. "I only know that they’re completely loyal to the Divine Son. They probably weren’t placed under house arrest."

"What’s your relationship with them like?"

"It was okay, I guess."

"Hmm... With you having disappeared, the Divine Son must be desperate to find you. He’ll most likely send your two teammates to join the search. We might be able to use that to lure the Divine Son out instead."

Shangyuan Zi looked at Guan Tong. His face was still concealed by Shadow, his true features hidden from her—an undeniable sign of his distrust.

Guan Tong had been upfront with her about this before.

He would keep his true face hidden until their cooperation was over. They would simply act according to their agreed-upon arrangement. There was no need to pretend they trusted each other when they were practically strangers.

An hour later, Mask sent several files to Shangyuan Zi, right on time.

Mask: "I got the databases from the census registration department and the public security bureau. Whoever you’re looking for, you should be able to find them. Pleasure doing business with you."

As soon as Shangyuan Zi received the data files, she immediately started searching on the computer Guan Tong had provided.

She searched for her own name, and dozens of results appeared, all for people with the same name.

After filtering the search with more detailed information like her place of origin and age, only one result remained.

When she opened it, she found that her data had stopped updating last May, and her list of relatives had been completely changed to "None."

"Looks like someone tampered with your data," Guan Tong commented from the side.

"...I joined the Chosen Team last May, which is also when my data stopped updating. It must have been the Divine Son’s order."

"Look up your two teammates."

Shangyuan Zi nodded, entered her two teammates’ names, and found that their situation was the same as hers: their data had stopped updating after they joined the team, and their relatives were also listed as "None."

"Everyone who joins the ’team’ has their relatives list wiped. Your Divine Son really is a control freak."

"...Can the deleted data be recovered?"

"It’s been too long; I’m not sure. You could ask Mask."

After Shangyuan Zi asked, Mask quickly replied that he couldn’t do it. However, he did tell her that this kind of deleted data is usually valuable, so it’s highly probable the relevant personnel would have saved a copy on a local machine.

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