Mysteries: The Paradox Path
Chapter 646

Ammon's Great Adventure (16)

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In an empty house, Ammon read a joke about a middle school student who had copied an ID number from a wanted poster to register under a real name, only to be surrounded by a group of police officers. He unconsciously wiped cold sweat from his brow.

In fact, when he had first learned that registering for Mobile Payment required an ID Card, he had nearly copied one off a utility pole by the roadside!

"That was close!"

Though it looked like nothing more than a joke, Ammon had keenly realized how dangerous this world's internet was. As for why he, who had come to look up information, had suddenly started reading jokes... it was because the things he searched for seemed too commonplace in this world, so he often got recommendations from comedy posters.

It was probably like looking up how humans ate online, only for Big Data to recommend funny videos of people eating noodles through their nostrils.

But this did not trouble Ammon much. In fact, he had instead come to understand plenty of this country's "common sense" through those jokes.

For example, he was now very glad that, when he had decided to use the internet to learn about this world, he had chosen to break into houses and borrow computers rather than go to an internet café—

Actually, he had initially used his ancient Old Smartphone, which he had no idea how many owners it had passed through, to look up information. But on the very first day, he discovered that if he kept gathering intelligence on his phone, its battery would last half a day at most, and he had nowhere to charge it.

In order to charge it, he had broken into an empty house. While charging it, he had discovered that the

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