Curing a Terminal Illness

After reaching Xuancheng, Bai Ge headed straight for the location of the red dot.

Soon, they arrived at an upscale villa district. After confirming that the red dot was inside, Bai Ge left the area first.

Directly infiltrating the place would have been unwise. After all, Bai Ge knew nothing about the containment object yet.

"Let's find somewhere to stay first."

The two of them rented a room, and Bai Ge immediately began looking up information on all the property owners in that villa district.

Shao Yuan watched from the side and said, "I don't seem to be much help, do I?"

Bai Ge smiled. "How about you handle the intrusion? All the hacking tools are ready anyway. I can use this chance to train you."

Shao Yuan stared blankly. "Train me?"

Bai Ge stood up and opened the bag he had brought.

Shao Yuan had always been curious about what was inside. He had guessed that it might contain firearms, or perhaps grappling hooks and the like.

But when Bai Ge unfastened the necklace and took out the contents, they turned out to be various pieces of fitness equipment—dumbbells, resistance bands, and even a large quantity of specially made sports drinks.

"Uh..." Shao Yuan was dumbfounded. Wasn't this supposed to be a tense and thrilling containment operation? Why was Bai Ge carrying fitness equipment with him?

Bai Ge smiled. "I do a lot of special training every day to improve all aspects of my physical fitness. I haven't finished today's training yet."

After that, Bai Ge trained while teaching Shao Yuan how to use various tools to infiltrate the property management company.

A property management company couldn't possibly have security strong enough to stop Bai Ge's intrusion.

Although Shao Yuan was the one doing the actual work, the world's top-tier intrusion tools alone were already more than enough.

Under Bai Ge's guidance, Shao Yuan gradually became proficient and found all the property owners' information, along with the villa district's layout plan.

By comparing the layout plan with the red dot on the detection phone, they could determine which villa it was.

Then they searched up the corresponding owner's information. It was all very simple.

"Found it! It's this person." Shao Yuan found the villa's owner.

"This person suddenly bought the villa three days ago. The property office has very little information on him. We only know that his name is Han Rui, and he's just twenty-five this year."

Bai Ge glanced at it and said, "Look up his detailed information in the public security identity system."

"Okay..." Shao Yuan spent another hour and obtained Han Rui's detailed information.

Han Rui had graduated from a technical secondary school. He hadn't held a stable job in the two years since graduating, and had worked as an Internet café manager, car washer, waiter, and in other occupations.

Shao Yuan discovered that he had a criminal record for theft. He had once been caught stealing money from the front desk of an Internet café.

"That's strange, Bai Ge. How did someone like this suddenly become rich? According to the property records, he paid 1.6 million to buy that villa outright."

After hearing this, Bai Ge recalled how he had also become rich overnight when he first developed his ability.

Under normal circumstances, there was no problem. But if someone actually investigated, the discrepancy would be extremely obvious.

Take Bai Ge's factory, for example. If someone investigated him, they would discover that his standard of living had previously been ordinary. How had he suddenly rented such a huge factory?

Fortunately, Bai Ge had already solved that problem. Ever since he had mastered extremely advanced computer technology, all traces had been erased, and he had even secretly altered the property records.

Clearly, Han Rui did not have that kind of ability.

"In modern society, as long as someone goes online, every move they make can be tracked... Shao Yuan, hack into his personal accounts. Forums, Weibo, various messaging tools, even game accounts... Check everything. See what he usually does and what he looks at online," Bai Ge said.

Shao Yuan nodded. "Got it... It's terrifying. People's online behavior can actually all be dug up... These tools of yours are incredibly convenient."

Bai Ge smiled. "They're even more convenient for the police. Many Internet companies hold vast amounts of user data, so naturally, hackers can take whatever they want. Things you do online may have been forgotten even by you, but the Internet records them faithfully..."

Shao Yuan said excitedly, "Exactly..."

He found it extremely thrilling. After all, he was secretly peeking into someone else's privacy. The feeling of another person being completely exposed before him was exquisite.

He browsed through Han Rui's online activities and quickly discovered quite a few bizarre things.

"This guy's a keyboard warrior. He has more than a hundred identities online and is always arguing with people using 'personal experience.'"

"On Zhihu, he said he was a corporate executive, and also claimed to be an overseas student in Japan... Here, he changed identities again and said he was an assistant director on a film crew, exposing the industry's unspoken rules from personal experience."

"On forums, he's also claimed to be a Peking University graduate student, an army officer, the king of the suburbs, and an interior designer..."

Han Rui constantly changed identities online, spouting nonsense based on his so-called "personal experience" and "what he had seen with his own eyes."

The most outrageous claim was that he was an air force pilot who had once been trained as an astronaut and had almost gone into space.

Bai Ge laughed while training. "That doesn't count. Has he done anything truly strange?"

Shao Yuan nodded. "He has. Four days ago, he suddenly searched for a large amount of medical information. He focused on keywords like 'AIDS,' 'lymphocytes,' and 'immune system.' But he only browsed the pages and didn't download anything."

"What's unusual about that?" Bai Ge asked.

Shao Yuan said, "The very next day—in other words, three days ago."

"A sum of three million suddenly appeared in his bank account. I checked it. It was transferred to him by a small-business owner from Xuancheng named Hu Feng."

"Oh?" Bai Ge thought for a moment. "Look into this Hu Feng."

Shao Yuan said, "Hu Feng is worth more than ten million. He likes chasing women. Four years ago, he went to Thailand, and afterward contracted AIDS. He's been visiting doctors everywhere for treatment, but so far, there still isn't any particularly effective treatment for the disease."

Bai Ge stopped training and personally examined the results of Shao Yuan's investigation.

The situation was more or less as expected. The hospital had Hu Feng's medical records. The day before yesterday, he had gone to another city for a complete examination, and the results showed that he was perfectly healthy.

Because he had concealed his past medical history, ordinary people had no idea that he had AIDS.

Bai Ge deduced, "A containment object that can cure AIDS? We have too little information. It would be best if we could make him use it again!"

As long as Han Rui continued treating people, he would inevitably use the containment object. Unless the object had fused with him, they would be able to see what it was when the time came.

Shao Yuan asked in confusion, "Why don't we just sneak over and search his home?"

Bai Ge smiled. "We don't know what the containment object looks like, or what exactly it does. Going over recklessly would be nothing more than gambling. It's better to figure things out first."

Shao Yuan asked, "Then what should we do?"

Bai Ge walked away and continued training. As he did squats, he said, "We don't need to do anything. He'll make a move on his own."

"You have to understand, Han Rui was just an ordinary vagrant at first. There was no way for him to know that Hu Feng had AIDS. He had neither the authority to investigate medical records nor any other way to learn about Hu Feng's condition. So the containment object may have the ability to directly learn about other people's illnesses. After curing a terminal disease, he only received three million. He definitely won't be satisfied. I believe he'll make another move soon."

Shao Yuan said, "How about I get some blood from an AIDS patient and use it to lure him out?"

Bai Ge shook his head. "Don't. We don't know how this containment object treats diseases. What if, after he cured you, you inexplicably fell in love with him? Just kidding... In any case, it's best not to use yourself as a test subject."

"Tomorrow, go keep an eye on him first. After I finish training at the hotel, I'll come find you."

Bai Ge had a set amount of training to complete every day. Since he planned to meet Han Rui the next day, who knew what might happen afterward? Naturally, he had to finish his training first.

Now that he was no longer working alone and had Shao Yuan to help him, the two of them could split up the work and free up more time for intensified training.

Shao Yuan nodded. "I understand. By the way, is this kind of training really effective?"

"Of course it is," Bai Ge said. "It's just a shame this hotel doesn't have a swimming pool..."

"Looks like I'll have to replace today's swimming exercises with something else..."

"Hmm. Do ten thousand more punches and ten thousand more side kicks."