Chapter 141: Poem
Hacker skills can indeed be very convenient at times.
At 10:45 p.m., Orff scoured the web and finally discovered a “death video” for sale on a dark web site claiming to sell anything. Using the Bitcoin in Abel’s account, he purchased it.
To verify whether the video was real, Orff boldly clicked play when he received it. Luckily, Everly and Misha were beside him. Sensing danger, the two girls each slapped him—one on the left, one on the right—snapping him out of the trance before he became too absorbed.
“Th-that was close…”
Rubbing his stinging cheek, Orff closed the video. He then logged into the t*rture-streaming site, uploaded the video to the backend, and set it to loop from 00:00:01.
Click.
The moment the mouse clicked and the “Upload Successful” notification popped up, Orff caught a faint blue glow in the corner of his eye.
Following the light, he looked toward the forest and found that what should have been pitch-black was now filled with “people.”
They were ghostly, blurred figures of deep blue. Their faces shrouded in white mist, featureless, they stood silently in the dark, quiet woods, watching the three in the car without moving—like trees rooted in the forest.