Gamers Are Fierce Chapter 124: Association

As for the second hot event, it is a very popular post among the tech nerds.

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

The text above the picture to the effect of

"We designed a puzzle, and the original clue is in this picture.

Fix it, find us.

Earn yourself a place with us. We will give the qualification to become a player to the final winner.

Good luck.

Syndicate. "

This ordinary picture was initially considered a nonsense prank, but there were always a few idle netizens who took a deep dive into it.

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

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

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

After entering the URL, a picture is displayed. Above the picture is a line of links to a section of the 4chan forum, and below the picture is a long series of numbers.

After clicking on the link, the revision is all about more than 100 posts published by an anonymous user. The name and content of the posts are a bunch of random strings.

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

Then compare the cuneiform text with the digital ID of the poster, and come up with a new line of digital clues.

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

This text gives the book code for a "Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme" and prompts the use of numerical clues again.

The netizens with great powers found the book,

After converting the digital clues into English, after arranging them vertically, in alphabetical order, I found a certain page in that book.

There are quite a lot of English words on this page, compare the original string of numbers, filter out the letters, and finally get a sentence "9522, find the two prime numbers of the original picture"

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

After multiplying the length by the width and multiplying by 9522, the techies get an 11-digit number and add it to the end to form a new URL.

After going through untold hardships and thinking that they could finally find the answer, after clicking on the website, they were surprised to find that the webpage is still a password.

And the page is not static, it refreshes with new content every hour, repeats every six hours, and changes four sets of pages every day.

These pages provide a variety of cryptographic content, involving elliptic curve encryption algorithms, ancient Greek prophecies, astrology, classical music, group theory, poultry breeding care, and more...

Seven days later, the web page was closed, a total of 28 sets of passwords were added to point to an anonymous website,

Through this website, you can contact the mysterious organization to which the poster belongs.

The global tech nerds who participated in the decryption game just thought that this was a small-scale organization composed of a high-end tech nerd, and at best it was a test used by the intelligence department to select cryptographic talents.

But the player community knows that the "we will be the player's qualification and give it to the final winner" said at the beginning of the post may really refer to the player's qualification.

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

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

"This decryption activity should be released by a brand new organization called 'Syndicate'? We Whale Song have not done this kind of open recruitment."

The black Trojan said in the friend's call: "But inside the whale song, there are many people trying to decrypt it. By the way, what step have you reached?"

Li Ang said with a haha, saying that he was busy eating, sleeping and playing Doudou recently. He had missed several sets of code-breaking and couldn't catch up with other people's progress.

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

Are you kidding me? There is one secret organization that pretends to be a ghost, and none of them are reliable from the Special Affairs Bureau.

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 has had a considerable impact on the global player base.

Single-handedly, single-handedly, they can't go very far in modern human society, not to mention they are in an extremely sinister, step-by-step killing game.

Perhaps, players with weak power can also be like syndicates, through open recruitment,

Contact some like-minded players who have the same ideals and aspirations to form small-scale organizations and associations.

Anyway, friend bits don't cost anything.

As a result, many messy small secret associations have sprung up on the forum~IndoMTL.com~What is the "Shark Beating Center"

"Flying Spaghetti Sect"

"Ubisoft is sometimes my brother and sometimes my wife"

"Glamorgan Fellowship"

"The Brotherhood of Steel"

"Phoenix Chaldea, the Humanitarian Sustainability Guarantee Agency"

"Our comrades have even penetrated into the enemy's interior"

"Summer of the Far Eastern Magic Day-Sleeping Association"

"Amalgam"

"Rainbow Hermes"

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

These are small secret associations with longer names, and most of them are spoofs.

However, there are many players who are really working hard, clumsily setting up a rudimentary organizational structure, attracting other players, and even ordinary people with special talents to join.

This kind of small secret association mixed with players and ordinary people, in the eyes of the present, is of course far inferior to the Epiphany Organization, Whale Song, and official institutions formed by various state machines.

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

Li Ang didn't put much effort into syndicates or other player organizations. He still played the role of an ordinary second-year high school student with all his heart and continued his studies.

The daily life of Yinshi Experimental Middle School is lackluster,

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

The head teacher Shi Qingsong's injury is slowly recovering, and it is estimated that he will be able to return to campus soon. Li Ang's acquaintance, Cang Xiu, the school doctor, asked for leave to travel abroad...

In the calm, Li Ang, who was sitting on nearly 5,000 game currency points, finally found what he wanted on the store shelf.