At the city hospital, in the Intensive Care Unit.
"He's currently resting in the observation room on the fifth floor."
Zero led Catherine up the stairs.
Seeing that Catherine was speechless, he continued, "In Ward 517. That's the intensive care unit. It was an accident, there were no members of the sect by his side at the time. Therefore, he was discovered by the police four hours after he lost contact with us."
"Fortunately, he is now out of danger. Unfortunately, he is no longer suitable to continue working."
After Zero brought Catherine to Ward 517, Catherine finally met the hacker who had been helping her behind the scenes for the first time.
However, he was currently receiving an IV drip, and his right thigh was also in a cast. He seemed to be seriously injured.
"You must be Godmother. I've heard a lot about you." It was a handsome young man. He propped himself up and greeted Catherine.
"Nice to finally meet you, Mr. Hacker."
"Haha, you're right. However, we haven't been in contact for more than ten hours, so please rest assured that I've already escaped from danger."
"What happened that day? Why did you suffer such serious injuries?"
"It was caused by a big explosion. This is what happens when you're unlucky. It's very easy to get caught up in these things. Speaking of which, it's actually not a particularly serious injury. At most, it's just a fracture. There's already a cast on it so it should be fine."
"An explosion?" Catherine was slightly surprised.
Until now, the hot topic was still the "Times Square incident" from yesterday. Moreover, if there was a large-scale explosion, why was it not mentioned in the news?
"Okay, Miss Catherine, don't worry about me anymore. Mr. Zero has already told me everything about the current situation in the organization. At least, it won't make me lose track of the current situation."
"Speaking of which," Catherine handed over the envelope in her hand. "Can you explain to me what this means? Is it a mime?"
"It's not." The man forced himself to sit up. Then, he took the envelope from Catherine's hand and took out the photos inside.
"I thought the situation was settled when I traced the IP address of the other party. I didn't expect that the other party would still have a trick up their sleeve. Do you remember the situation that I reported to you before? The locations of the four IP addresses I suspect to be holding fanatics."
"I still remember. You said that when you sent people to investigate, there were no traces of them."
"At that time, I thought that the other party had set up four decoy IP addresses in advance to mislead my investigation. Later, I reorganized the existing clues and marked the addresses that appeared in the IP addresses that our agents had searched before. In the end, I found that these four IP addresses were all registered under the names of different people."
"Are they the people in these photos?" Catherine asked.
"From the results of my investigation, yes. But..."
"I'm all ears," Catherine said. She hoped that she could get some useful information from him and get another lead in her investigation.
"Some of these four have been confirmed dead, some have been arrested, and some are even begging on the streets. They don't have the ability to apply to get an internet connection."
"You mean that the group of fanatics is using the identities of a group of dead people as a decoy?"
"Yes." The young man gave her a positive answer.
"Okay, I got it. I will get other agents to continue the investigation. Rest well."
"Speaking of which, Miss Catherine, Do you plan to give me paid leave, or...?"
"Keep joking around like that and I'm going to be very angry, you know." Catherine's originally serious face revealed a smile that had been hidden for a long time.
After coming out of the hospital, however, Catherine an overwhelming pressure on her again. She originally wanted to rely on the power of the information age to solve the mystery, but she would still have close to nothing.
"Godmother, do you need me to contact the sect?"
"Not for the time being. We don't have enough information yet. Get our people on the dark net and tell them to get someone to replace Mr. Hacker's work."
"Okay, I'll contact them right away. Oh, by the way, this Mr. Hacker has a code name, Link."
"Also, send someone to search for information from the street. I feel that he hasn't told me the whole truth."
"You mean..."
"He seems to be hiding some clues." Catherine's face darkened, as if she was recalling the conversation in the ward.