Alaska Gold Rush Diary

Chapter 152 The Terrifying Dark Web

Chapter 153 The Terrifying Dark Web

Amidst the eerie, ghastly green that filled the entire screen, windows scrolled incessantly.

Zhou Xin glanced at it briefly and found some relatively normal information, such as requests to buy or sell antiques, and job postings for bodyguards.

But some others, you can feel a chill just from their titles.

For example, a scrolling window reads: "Help (1 USD reward for a successful answer): How can I peel off a person's skin completely, especially the skin on their face?"

Another window displayed: "High-paying job: One surgeon to perform organ removal surgery, $8000 per week."

There were even windows that read: "$10 reward: Kill my boyfriend. If you can let me torture him to some extent before he dies, I will add another $10."

Such daunting information is numerous.

Zhou Xin felt a chill run down his spine as he watched, as if he had entered hell.

Here, the ugliness of human nature is laid bare. People no longer need to hide anything and can freely display the darkest side of their hearts.

Zhou Xin didn't want to look at these things anymore, so he clicked on the homepage in the upper right corner and entered the Bloodthirst Gang's section on the dark web.

It contained business consultations covering various aspects such as murder, illegal detention, robbery, and drug trafficking.

Under each business segment, there are many recommended salespersons. Of course, there is no contact information for the salespersons listed; instead, the listing only introduces what the salesperson is good at, as well as their relevant work experience and achievements.

To contact a salesperson, you need to go through a series of complicated procedures and transfer to more than a dozen overseas phone numbers.

If any part of the process goes wrong, the transaction will be terminated immediately.

This makes it impossible for customers to trace the salesperson's identity through the salesperson's contact information.

But Zhou Xin knew that those salesmen were all members of the Bloodthirsty Gang.

This is a sinister organization that specializes in criminal activities, and its system is very well-established.

To Zhou Xin's disappointment, he did not discover any more useful information from this.

If this is handed over to the CIA, even if the CIA can use it to set up bait to target one or two members, it will be difficult to capture them all.

With that in mind, he decided to wait and see.

He exited the Bloodthirst Gang's homepage and began browsing the chilling information on the dark web once more.

After browsing for a while, he was suddenly drawn to a piece of information.

The message was titled: "50 Bounty: Clues to the Island Where Pirate Quinn's Golden City Is Located."

Golden City?

Zhou Xin immediately thought of the content on the murals in the rainforest cave.

According to the murals, some strange people found large amounts of gold from various places and used that gold to build a city.

Could it be that the content depicted in the murals is indeed true, and the Golden City really exists?

Zhou Xin immediately became very interested and clicked on the message.

The message was simple: the bounty hunter was offering a $50 reward for information leading to the island where the pirate Quinn built his golden city, stating that if the information was reliable, he would pay $50.

To Zhou Xin's slight surprise, the final contact information in the reward notice was a WeChat account.

In the United States, very few people use WeChat, while the country with the most WeChat users is clearly China.

Could it be that the person offering the bounty is actually Chinese?

Zhou Xin thought about it, wrote down the WeChat ID, and planned to find an opportunity to investigate it.

After browsing for a while longer without finding any other useful information, he only felt more physically uncomfortable, so he turned off the dark web.

Instead of immediately shutting down the computer, he conducted a thorough investigation and confirmed that the computer had not been infected with any Trojans or tracking software.

After a night of tossing and turning, his brain was extremely agitated, and even after taking a shower, he still couldn't fall asleep.

He lay in bed and began searching for information about the pirate Quinn.

Information about this pirate online is very limited. After searching for a while, I only learned that he was a subordinate of the great pirate Fleury.

Quinn had always followed Fleury, but later, for some unknown reason, he defected from Fleury's pirate crew and started his own pirate group.

His death remains unknown; only rumors circulate that his pirate crew was wiped out by the East India Company and the government.

Could such a pirate, whose existence is rarely recorded in history, be the one who built the city of gold?

Zhou Xin was somewhat skeptical.

To build a city out of gold, even the smallest one, would require a massive amount of gold.

The person who possesses such a massive amount of gold could not possibly be an unknown individual.

In fact, even Fleury, who was far more powerful than him, did not possess such strength at the time.

Zhou Xin decided to change his way of thinking: perhaps the Golden City had always existed, and Quinn had simply discovered it?

That's possible.

Quinn discovered the City of Gold and moved it to the island where his lair was located.

Or perhaps Quinn discovered the golden city on that island and then established his pirate base there.

To find out more about this, you need to add the person who offered the bounty as a friend and learn more from them.

However, he didn't know the other person's identity, and he was unsure whether adding them as a friend so rashly would cause him trouble.

After all, someone who can access the dark web and thinks of posting bounty information there is definitely not an ordinary person.

Moreover, his bounty is as high as $50, which is no small sum.

All that money was for a clue that might not lead to the City of Gold.

Perhaps this person has been searching for the Golden City for many years, has issued many such bounty notices, and has obtained many truly useful clues that prove the Golden City does exist.

That's why he was willing to spend such a huge amount of money in the hope of getting more clues, piecing them together, and finally finding that golden city.

Obviously, if he does manage to find the City of Gold in the end, then it will be worth it no matter how much money is spent now.

Zhou Xin couldn't wait to add that person as a friend and ask him about the Golden City.

A city built of gold like this has a fatal attraction for anyone.

However, reason ultimately led him to abandon the idea.

I'm not ready to get involved in anything more right now.

However, he had already secretly decided that if he really found a clue to the Golden City, he would definitely try to find it.

He has a natural advantage in the search for the City of Gold: the "smell of gold."

What a rich atmosphere such a golden city must exude!

You could probably smell it from dozens of kilometers away.

As long as he gets a little closer and smells a faint scent, he can pinpoint its location.

Of course, this is just a legendary thing. Although I have seen relevant evidence, namely the murals in the rainforest caves, it may not be entirely true.

This can be considered a dream, but he won't waste his time on such a vague idea until he has concrete evidence.