Chapter 1 Should He Be Eliminated?

Li Ang looked at the bustling pedestrians outside the window, took a sip of his latte, and seriously pondered the question.

Was it necessary to eliminate Mule?

He and Mule had no personal relationship, only a cooperative relationship based on mutual benefit, at best they were acquaintances who weren't very familiar.

Considering the possibility of exposure,

The probability of Mule actively reporting him to the Special Affairs Bureau was quite low,

But it couldn't be ruled out that Mule might be captured by the Special Affairs Bureau one day and reveal the connection between Li Risheng and the Dusheng Village incident.

Considering the severity of the exposure,

The seriousness of the Dusheng Village incident was extremely high, and the Special Affairs Bureau would invest a lot of manpower and resources in pursuing the investigation.

If the identity of "Player Li Risheng" was identified as the leader of the Dusheng Village incident,

Then the good relationship Li Ang had maintained with the Special Affairs Bureau would be ruined.

Even treating Xing Hechou, Plague Doctor, Liu Wudai, and others, he could no longer give them a certain degree of trust.

At that time, Li Ang might not even be able to trust the teammates randomly matched in the script missions (the teammates might have a Special Affairs Bureau background),

If things went even worse, and the Special Affairs Bureau conducted a detailed investigation within Yin City at all costs,

Causing the identity of "Student Li Ang" to be exposed...

Then, Li Ang could only adopt the escape plan he had been preparing for several years,

Completely leave his hometown and go to another country.

After all, the cases that the identity of "Li Ang" carried were more than just the Dusheng Village incident...

Tap, tap, tap.

Li Ang's fingertips tapped the table back and forth. He liked the ordinary life of an ordinary high school student,

He liked Yin City and the people in it.

Unless things reached an irreparable point, Li Ang would not take the backup plan of fleeing.

Now there was only one last question.

The possibility of eliminating Mule.

Li Ang's computer skills, among all the life skills he had mastered, could only be considered average, still a considerable distance from the world's top.

Even for a wild genius like Li Ang, it would take some time to catch up with the world's leading computer technology.

And even if he leveled up his hacking skills to the max, he might not be able to lock down Mule's specific coordinates—information brokers were all extremely cunning.

What's more, as an extremely cautious information broker, Mule would definitely have multiple backup plans, preparing in advance the information of all the players he had communicated with, ready to spread it on the luntan at any time,

In order to prevent his identity from being exposed one day and being hunted down by players or organizations.

Eliminating Mule in reality could not completely eliminate the threat of identity exposure, and might even reveal more flaws.

Just as Li Ang was pondering silently, his friend list showed that he had received a new message.

Mule: Hello.

Li Ang narrowed his eyes and did not reply.

Mule: The Dusheng Village incident caused quite a stir, hahaha.

Li Ang still did not reply.

Mule: Don't worry, I haven't been caught by the Special Affairs Bureau. I was very cautious when I accepted Lu Maodian's commission and didn't leave any loose ends. Moreover, the friend who introduced Lu Maodian to me is actually one of my alts. This kind of "making friends out of thin air" operation is very common in our information broker circle.

Li Ang raised an eyebrow.

In fact, he already knew this information,

When he questioned Lu Maodian about the broker in Dusheng Village, he specifically inquired about information about the broker, but unfortunately only got some false clues that could not be investigated at all.

Mule: You don't have to worry that I will report your information to the Special Affairs Bureau. The secrets I carry on my back are no less than yours, and the clients I have contacted have a lot of unspeakable dark history. If I were so easily caught,

I would have died a thousand times over.

The information broker's words were both an explanation and a hint,

Hinting that Li Ang didn't need to investigate him, and that he wouldn't be able to find him.

Seeing that Li Ang hadn't replied for a long time, Mule sent another message: If you're still not at ease, you can sign this with me...

As soon as he finished speaking, a system prompt sounded, reminding Li Ang that he had a new unread email.

Opening the email, inside was an antique-looking parchment scroll.

Scroll Name: Secrets Beneath the Surface (Party B)

Attribute: Consumable (Recoverable)

Type: General

Level: Rare

Effect: Two players, under absolutely voluntary circumstances (without threats, extortion, coercion), actively sign an oath regarding the confidentiality of a specific information content. Both parties are notarized by the system, agreeing to jointly keep the information content secret. Any subjective or objective attempt to leak the secret will cause irreversible abnormalities in the player's advanced intelligent processing of learning memory and thinking judgment, resulting in severe cognitive impairment, unable to express the confidential content through narration, statement, elaboration, restatement, or any form of information interaction with the outside world.

Consumption: None

Cooldown: The Party B file disappears after signing, and the Party A original file recovers one copy every 24 hours. Only one unsigned oath can exist at the same time. A player can sign multiple oaths.

Usage Condition: Both players have the same level of intelligence at the species level

Note: When keeping secrets, secrets are loyal servants; when leaking secrets, secrets are the source of disaster

This scroll item that can be continuously recovered is one of the reasons why Mule can make a living as an information broker in the Killing Game.

Without this Secret Beneath the Surface, he would probably only be able to work for various forces like many old-era information brokers, doing the dirty work of double or even multiple spies.

Li Ang carefully read the oath content automatically coded by the system according to the situation of both parties, thought for a while, and sent a message to Mule: Okay.

Under the system's notarization, the two signed the contract at the same time, and the scroll in Li Ang's mailbox immediately turned into ashes and disappeared.

Mule: Okay, now we are grasshoppers on the same rope. By the way, business is business, this is 45 game coins, please check.

Looking at the final payment from the information broker, even the shameless Li Ang couldn't help but click his tongue: Lu Maodian is dead, but he can still pay the final payment?

Mule: Why not? No matter how you did it, you still completed Lu Maodian's "solve the supernatural event" commission. Besides, he had already sent all these funds to me before, and I have professional ethics.

Shouldn't the professional ethics of an information peddler be "eat the first party, then eat the second party"...

Li Ang clicked to accept the 45 game coins and asked Mule: Why?

This question was naturally about Mule not reporting his information to the Special Affairs Bureau in exchange for rewards.

The other side was silent for a while, and then sent a message after a long time: First, I have the professional ethics of an information merchant.

Second, I am also on the Special Affairs Bureau's investigation list.

Third, I don't want to, and I'm not willing to, let a player with a super high clearance rating launch a 24-hour hunt against me at all costs.

I cherish my life very much.

Players Are Ferocious