Chapter 124 Association

As for the second hot event, it is a post that is quite popular among the technical nerds.

The post was originally posted on the 4chan network forum by an anonymous netizen. The content of the post was only a picture with white text on a black background.

The text above the image reads

"We devised a puzzle and the original clue was in this image.

Fix it, find us.

Earn yourself a place to join us. We will give the qualification of becoming a player to the final winner.

good luck.

syndicate. "

This ordinary picture was initially considered a nonsense prank, but there are always a few idle netizens who dig into it.

After opening the picture with Notepad, there is a lot of garbled characters inside.

Netizens soon discovered that this pile of seemingly disorganized garbled codes was a multi-table cipher "Virginia cipher" extended on the basis of the Caesar cipher.

Netizens use "syndikos", the Greek etymology of "Syndicate", as the key to decrypt the garbled characters and obtain a URL.

After entering the website, a picture is displayed. Above the picture is a link to a section of the 4chan forum, and below the picture is a long string of numbers.

After clicking on the link, the revised version is all more than a hundred posts posted by an anonymous user. The names and contents of the posts are a bunch of irregular character strings.

After decoding the string with the numbers in the picture, you can get a bunch of Sumerian cuneiform characters,

Then compare the cuneiform characters with the digital ID of the poster, and get a new line of digital clues.

Then use the digital clue as a key, and use the RSA asymmetric encryption algorithm to decode the string to get a new line of text.

The text gives a book code of "Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose", and prompts to use digital clues again.

Fantastic netizens found the book,

And converted the digital clues into English, after arranging them vertically, they found a certain page in that book in alphabetical order.

There are quite a lot of English words on this page, compared with the initial string of numbers, screened out the letters, and finally got a sentence "9522, find the two prime numbers of the original picture"

The technical geeks quickly guessed that the two prime numbers in this sentence are the length and width of the original picture with white characters on a black background.

After multiplying the length by the width by 9522, the technical geeks get an 11-digit number, which is added after this number to form a new URL.

The technical geeks who thought they could finally find the answer after going through all kinds of hardships, after clicking on the website, were shocked to find that the webpage was still a password.

Moreover, the webpage is not static. New content will be refreshed every hour, repeated every six hours, and four sets of webpages will be changed every day.

These pages provide a variety of cryptographic content, involving elliptic curve encryption algorithm, ancient Greek prophecy, astrology, classical music, group theory, poultry farming care, etc...

Seven days later, the webpage was closed, and there were a total of 28 sets of passwords, which together lead to an anonymous website.

Through the site, you can contact the mysterious organization that the poster belongs to.

The global technology nerds who participated in the decryption game just thought that this was a small-scale organization formed by some high-end technology geeks, and at best it was a test used by intelligence agencies to select cryptography talents.

But the player community knows that what was said at the beginning of the post, "We will give the qualifications to become players to the final winner", may really refer to player qualifications.

This kind of puzzle game full of nerd atmosphere made Li Ang quickly think of the Whale Song organization to which the black Trojan horse belonged.

However, when he contacted the black Trojan horse, the latter said he didn't know anything about it.

"This decryption activity should be released by a brand-new organization called 'Syndicate', right? We, Whale Song, haven't done this kind of open recruitment yet."

The black Trojan horse said in the friend's call: "However, there are many people inside Whale Song who are trying to decrypt it. By the way, how far have you gone?"

Li Ang made a haha, saying that he was busy eating, sleeping, and playing Doudou recently, and he had already missed several sets of password deciphering, so he couldn't catch up with the progress of others.

In fact, Li Ang was not slow to decipher, but after getting the final answer, he did not try to contact the so-called "Syndicate".

What a joke, this kind of secretive organization that pretends to be a ghost is counted as one, and none of them are as reliable as the Special Affairs Bureau.

Regardless of whether there is a wild genius like Li Ang who has deciphered all the codes, contacted the syndicate and obtained the player qualification,

The whole thing had a considerable impact on the global player community.

Fighting alone, fighting alone, can't go far in modern human society, let alone they are in an extremely sinister, step-by-step killing game.

Perhaps, weak players can also, like Syndicate, through open recruitment,

Contact some like-minded players with the same ideals and ambitions, and form small-scale organizations and associations.

Anyway, buddy slots don’t cost money.

As a result, many small and messy secret societies have sprung up on the forum, springing up like mushrooms after rain.

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"Flying Pasta God Cult"

"Ubisoft is sometimes my big brother and sometimes my wife"

"The Fellowship of the Earls of Glamorgan"

"Steel Brothers ♂ Brothers ♂ Club"

"Phoenix Chaldea, Humanity Survival Guarantee Organization"

"Our comrades from all corners of the country have even penetrated into the enemy's interior"

"Summer of Far East Magic Siesta Association"

"amalgam"

"Rainbow Hermes"

"Today is another day of infiltration of the Black Organization"

Each of these names is longer than the other, a small secret association, and most of them are playful and spoof elements.

However, there are also some players who are really working hard, clumsily building a crude organizational structure, attracting other players, and even ordinary people with special talents to join.

This kind of small secret association that mixes players and ordinary people is of course far inferior to the Epiphyllum Organization, Whale Song, and official organizations formed by various state machines.

But in time, the killing game spreads out on a large scale, and this secret association of three or two big cats and kittens may also grow into a behemoth.

Li Ang didn't spend much time on Syndicate or other player organizations. He still dedicated himself to playing the role of an ordinary sophomore in high school and continued his studies.

The daily life of Yinshi Experimental Middle School is lackluster,

The culture class continues, and the physical education class, which is actually a military training, must also continue.

The homeroom teacher, Shi Qingsong, is slowly recovering from his injuries, and it is estimated that he will be able to return to school in a short time. Li Ang's acquaintance, the school doctor, Cang Xiu, asks for leave to travel abroad...

In the calm and calm, Li Ang, who was sitting on nearly 5,000 points of game currency, finally found what he wanted on the shelves of the mall.