When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 524 - : 395 Chapter: The Person Who Disappeared in the Video

Chapter 524: 395 Chapter: The Person Who Disappeared in the Video

Xiaohei quickly organized the data it recorded into the computer, moving the entire database of the gods over, except for those specially protected SSR and UR records. Essentially, one could find the information on anyone from Jiuzhou here.

[Xiang Tianxing: Born April 1, 2990, SR-level martial artist, cultivation at the God Refining stage, resident of Beilin Street in the Liangzhou West Administrative Region, graduate of Liangzhou University, Profession: Pioneering Tasker. Head of the Pioneering Department’s team in Tranquil Domain, went missing in the Northern District of the Essential Domain. Has undertaken tasks from level one to five, possessing extremely high pioneering literacy. Married, with a wife named Yu Tinglian, who disappeared with him, and a son named Xiang Beifei, a freshman at Liangzhou University.]

The danger levels of the Pioneering Department’s tasks are divided from one to five, with five being the highest; tasks from level three onwards are generally carried out in the Tranquil Domain. When Qin Hongyi’s information was checked initially, his highest task level was only three.

Xiang Tianxing was obviously an exceptional tasker; he carried out the Alliance’s pioneering tasks almost always smoothly, which is why Sun Heshun, the head of the Pioneering Department, had such high hopes for Xiang Tianxing.

Love me, love my dog; Sun Heshun now also highly praised Xiang Beifei, wanting to dig him out from Elder Luo’s side to become a pioneering tasker after learning about Xiang Beifei’s talent.

This information was probably updated last year, but the Alliance’s understanding of Xiang Tianxing was obviously insufficient, at least before Xiang Tianxing’s disappearance, the Alliance still believed he was just an SR-level God Refining martial artist.

Xiang Beifei called up the video information about Xiang Tianxing.

There were quite a few videos stored in the archives; he saw one about a beast tide that erupted seven years ago and clicked into it. The first thing he noticed was not comrade Xiang Tianxing, but Qin Hongyi!

Xiang Beifei quickly realized that Qin Hongyi was the deputy team leader of the thirteenth team of Pioneering Taskers in the Tranquil Domain, while Xiang Tianxing was the overall person in charge of the Tranquil Domain Taskers team, which meant that Qin Hongyi’s official rank was probably two levels lower.

The Tranquil Domain Taskers team, meaning the pioneering tasks they often carried out, were generally in the third danger zone, the Tranquil Domain. Without the corresponding ability, one would not be qualified to undertake tasks in the Tranquil Domain.

Qin Hongyi stood in the first row, along with twenty other people who were team leaders and deputy team leaders of various teams in the Tranquil Domain, seemingly listening to someone higher up giving a speech.

Xiang Beifei followed the gaze of Qin Hongyi and the others to the high platform in front—

It was completely empty.

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There was no sound on the high platform, no people, nothing at all.

Yet Qin Hongyi and the others listened very seriously, with solemn and reverent expressions, as if—they were listening to the air giving a speech?

He watched the half-hour-long tactical deployment video on fast forward and still did not see where Xiang Tianxing was.

It was a very eerie scene.

Xiang Beifei clicked through several more videos, and then he saw several familiar people: Xiao Sheng speaking to the air, Kong Daming speaking to the air, Xi Wenxuan speaking to the air…

Xiang Tianxing’s presence seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no image in the video!

“Did he erase all his own data?”

Up to this point, basically everyone has their own video data in the Jiuzhou archives. Although the AI “God” is often messed with by Xiaohei, it is more than enough to monitor the data of Jiuzhou’s population.

Essentially everyone is registered at birth, and “God” periodically stores recent videos of each person in their population profile.

However, the video image records left by his father are all blank!

There are no images of him in these videos!

Xiang Beifei immediately called his grandfather to inquire about any video recordings of his father.

“You mean your dad’s videos? Wait a moment! Let me see if there’s anything on my phone.”

Xiang Qingde fiddled with his old-fashioned phone, looked for a moment, then said, “Forgot it, a busy man like him, where would he make videos, I only have a few photos… oh yes, there’s one! Last time you had your birthday, he rarely came back, and I specifically took a video, let me find it.”

“Grandpa, send it to me.”

“Let me see! Send… oh, is the send button this stewpot icon?”

“Stewpot? Wait, wait, wait! No, that’s the trash can! It’ll delete the file, it’s not a stewpot!”

“Oh, that’s the trash can? I thought it looked so much like our family’s stewpot!”

Xiang Beifei hurriedly shouted, “Nevermind, don’t touch the phone anymore, Grandpa, you might delete it by mistake, I’ll be home right away! By the way, could you please check if my dad left anything else behind? Like old cameras and mobile phones.”

The old man didn’t know how to use a phone; he even mistook the trash can icon for a stewpot.

It’s hard to imagine that such a confused old man could smash Chou Hou, several hundred meters tall, to pieces with a single slap.

Xiang Beifei immediately packed up his computer, threw it into Xiaohei’s bubble, and then took a step forward, leaping into the space and disappearing.

It took him a little over twenty minutes to rush back home; he was slower than Elder Luo, who needed only ten minutes from the university to here.

“You’re back? That was quick?”

Xiang Qingde was quite leisurely nowadays, occasionally visiting Kong’s Mansion for a feast. As Xiang Beifei opened the door, he was rummaging through his son’s belongings in the bedroom.

“Young people run fast, Grandpa, let me see the phone,” Xiang Beifei said.

Xiang Qingde handed him the phone, then asked, “What’s up? Missing your dad?”

“I just want to understand more about him because many people in the university know him, and I found that I seem to know less about him than others do.”

Xiang Beifei flipped through his grandfather’s phone, quickly finding the video.

The video showed his thirteenth birthday, a bit shaky—Grandpa’s skills weren’t up to par. The frame was tilted, initially capturing only a half-body shot, but eventually, the screen straightened up, revealing the thirteen-year-old Xiang Beifei.

However, the thirteen-year-old Xiang Beifei in the video didn’t look very happy. He refused to wear a birthday hat and even had a bit of a hostile frown.

He glanced at the cake and then began to yell at the person next to him, “I said I wanted a twelve-inch pudding cake! Why did you give me a fourteen-inch fruit cake? When will you guys ever remember what I say?”

Xiang Beifei in the video shouted angrily, flipping over the intact, uncut cake onto the floor, scattering candle wax and cream everywhere. Then he stood up, kicked the cake tray away, and stormed back to his room.

“Wait, Xiaofei.”

Xiang Qingde, who was filming, quickly put the phone down. The frame started to shake a bit and then captured the floor, and all that was left in the video was the sound of Grandpa knocking on the bedroom door.

However, there was no response from Xiang Beifei inside the bedroom.

“This guy really deserves a smack!”

Xiang Beifei couldn’t help but want to slap the back of that guy’s head, with no respect for his elders at all.

“Ha ha, you realize now how much of a temper you had back then, right? You were still little, so stubborn! Thankfully, you’ve grown up quite a bit now and are more sensible than before,” Xiang Qingde said with a chuckle.

“Oh, right, I forgot.”

Xiang Beifei suddenly remembered that the thirteen-year-old in the video was himself.

“My parents aren’t in the video,” Xiang Beifei said.

“They are there, aren’t they the ones you were yelling at?” said Xiang Qingde.

“There’s no one in the video.”

Xiang Beifei handed the video to Xiang Qingde. Xiang Qingde leaned over to take a look and was quite surprised, “Huh? Did I not capture them? Impossible, I remember they were both standing right here. Your dad bought this cake, and when it was wrong, you got very upset. They were standing right here.”

Xiang Qingde pointed out the rough location in the frame to Xiang Beifei, but there was nothing in the video.

It was emptiness again!

How had the video suddenly gone missing?

Xiang Qingde handed an old digital camera to Xiang Beifei, saying, “See if it’s in here.”

Xiang Beifei checked again, and there were some videos from the wilderness outside Jiuzhou. They were of Kong Daming and others, apparently hunting a Landmine Tiger in the late stages of Meridian Opening. They intended to make it a training video for pioneers, but still, there was no sight of Xiang Tianxing.

“I need to ask Uncle Kong and Mr. Ye.”

Xiang Beifei immediately called everyone Xiang Tianxing knew, asking if they had any video material related to Xiang Tianxing. Everyone was quite willing to help, and he even approached his father’s boss, Sun Heshun.

Soon Sun Heshun, Ye Changfeng, Elder Luo, and Xi Wenxuan all sent quite a few videos to Xiang Beifei. Xiang Beifei checked all the videos one by one.

Still nothing!

“What’s going on here?”

The more Xiang Beifei thought about it, the more wrong it seemed.

“If there are no traces of system intervention, could there be evidence of software editing?” Xiang Beifei asked Xiaohei.

Ordinary videos just need an editing software to cut a person out of the video; that’s how movie post-production works with special effects. But as long as the video is analyzed closely, traces of editing can be detected.

Xiaohei carefully checked all the videos again and then shook its head.

Its detection was absolutely authoritative.

Meaning, these videos had no system traces, no software edits!

Xiang Tianxing seemed to be forcefully erased from Jiuzhou, with the exception of photographs. He had mysteriously vanished from all other videos!

“Does he really not want anyone to see what he’s up to? The question is, how did he do it?”

If it was about dealing with videos on other people, there might be a possibility, but some archives are recorded in God’s database. To cut those out under the nose of the God of Jiuzhou would be difficult!

Because some of the video material Xiang Beifei had was stolen from “God.”

Yet a high-level artificial intelligence like “God” wouldn’t allow anyone to modify files, with UR-level protection measures in place and the power of Heavenly Connection realm.

Unless it was someone like Xiaohei and Xiang Beifei who could ignore system level rules, pin “God” to the ground, and scrub themselves from the video. Other System Awakeners, even at the UR level, couldn’t possibly do it.

And Comrade Xiang Tianxing, he was only an SR!

Xiang Beifei suddenly furrowed his eyebrows.

Was he?