I've Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show-Chapter 102 - 99 The Case is Solved Zheng He has fallen
Chapter 102: Chapter 99: The Case is Solved! Zheng He has fallen for the honey trap this time!
Chapter 102 -99: The Case is Solved! Zheng He has fallen for the honey trap this time!
They had agreed to play the game together at ten in the morning, but ten o’clock came around, and the little girl avatar on his friends list still hadn’t gone online.
The competition is tomorrow, and Zheng He realized the chances of getting good equipment in such a short time are very slim.
He remembered that among the equipment he had given to the little girl, a few pieces were pretty decent. If he could somehow get them back, grind some more wild monsters today, level up, he might just be able to squeeze into the finals.
But the little girl’s avatar was still offline, which was unusual as she had never been late before.
Then he sent a private message to the little girl, and @mentioned her in the guild, but he didn’t get any response.
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So, he asked if anyone in the guild knew the little girl and had her contact information.
People in the guild responded one after another, “Nope, she hardly plays with us.”
“She always follows the big shots around, we little Kalami, she doesn’t even look our way!”
“What’s up? Have things progressed between you two?”
Unable to get any useful information, Zheng He’s brow furrowed, and he ignored the other players in the guild, turning back to his private messages, flooding the little girl with messages.
“The girl who always follows Zheng He around, why hasn’t she logged in today?”
“No idea, Zheng He is also looking for her.”
Just as Zheng He and the players were puzzled about where the little girl had gone and why she hadn’t logged in, he received a phone call.
A man’s serious and solemn voice came through the phone: “Is this Zheng He?”
The voice sounded oddly familiar to Zheng He, and for some reason, he felt a shiver in his heart and nodded, “Yes, that’s me.”
“I’m from the Jiang City Police Station, we just arrested a scammer, we need your assistance.”
Zheng He: “!!!”
No wonder it sounded familiar – it was an old acquaintance!
But what does a scammer have to do with him?
Why should he cooperate?
Through past experiences, fearing the police uncle might mistake him again for someone with the potential to go to jail, Zheng He quickly clarified: “I haven’t colluded with any scammers!”
“We don’t suspect collusion, but you might have been scammed.”
Zheng He was filled with question marks, when had he been scammed?
He hadn’t lost anything, had he?
Zheng He went to the police station with a puzzled heart.
At the station, the police looked at Zheng He, an old familiar face, with sympathy, “The little girl you play games with is actually a man who frequently scams for money and accounts in the game.”
Zheng He almost jumped out of his chair: “A man?!”
The police nodded, “Yes.”
Zheng He incredulously said, “Impossible! This can’t be! She was voice-chatting with me, clearly a girl’s voice!”
“It’s just that his voice is quite feminine, and he took advantage of that to scam male players into spending money and buying him equipment in the game.”
At this point, Zheng He, even if unwilling to believe, had to accept the truth – after all, the police uncle wouldn’t lie to him.
Worried that Zheng He wouldn’t be convinced without seeing the full picture, the police then took him to the adjoining interrogation room.
Inside the interrogation room sat a man about three hundred pounds, with a beard, wearing a black tank top, flowered shorts, and flip-flops – the epitome of a stereotypical unkempt guy. Yet, when questioned by the police, the man replied with an incredibly sweet voice… ugh! Knowing the harsh truth, Zheng He now only felt disgust!
The more he had been smitten in the beginning, the more disgusted he felt now!
Just the thought of him chatting from day to night with such a foot-scratching guy, being chased around and called brother – and that he even had heated chats with him, made his heart feel utterly dead!
Poor him, he even thought his love had arrived!
In fact, it was his doom that had come!
But he felt it was okay, because he wasn’t scammed.
Looking back, the scammer did seem to have some unreasonable behaviors, like often praising his equipment and repeatedly suggesting that he lend the equipment to him for a couple of days.
But Zheng He did not agree.
Because he was still on his guard.
Such expensive equipment, what if he lent it out and the other party didn’t return it?
Luckily, he was sharp enough not to be fooled at that time.
Feeling relieved, Zheng He turned to the police beside him and asked, “How did you guys find out?”
“We watch your live streams every day, because you encounter scammers more often than we imagined. Starting from your case, the efficiency of our investigation can be very high.”
“…” So, I’m now publicly used as bait, huh?
No, why do scammers always target me alone? Are they using me to boost their performance or what?
Do I look that easy to deceive?!
[Damn! The person chatting with Zheng He is indeed a dirty old man! Now Zheng He has lost his sweet love!]
[Not just love, but his equipment is gone too, left with nothing.]
[Zheng He is really too miserable, why do scammers only deceive him?]
[Prone-to-be-scammed physique, if not him then who? I feel it’s definitely because his gullibility was broadcasted through the live stream, so the scammers came to meet their KPIs!]
Zheng He still couldn’t accept the reality, although his finances weren’t injured, his spirit had suffered quite a blow.
He followed the police back to the office like a zombie, then slumped into a chair.
The police got down to business: “Now let’s verify the process by which you were scammed.”
Zheng He honestly confessed: “Besides deceiving me about gender, there was nothing else.”
“Are you sure?”
Zheng He was very sure at first, but being asked like this, he suddenly felt uncertain.
But after careful consideration, he really hadn’t suffered losses in any other aspect.
The money in his bank had already been swept away by the previous scammer.
The remaining more than thirty yuan was in cash, which the other party couldn’t take away.
In WeChat, there was the ten yuan that the police personally compensated him out of pity last time; he just checked and it was still there.
So, was he scammed?
Probably not.
Zheng He: “Probably… sure, I guess?”
“At 9:38 this morning, your game account was forcefully logged out for two minutes, a set of equipment was transferred to Wang Dahu’s account, and then this set of equipment was sold by Wang Dahu for One Hundred Thousand Yuan to another player in the game…”
Zheng He was shocked!
His game account wasn’t disconnected, it was hacked!
His equipment wasn’t destroyed by Chen Xixi and Jin Cheng taking advantage of his disconnection; it was sold off by that damn hacker!
[Holy! It turns out Zheng He’s game account was hacked! I wondered how his equipment just vanished into thin air!]
[How exactly was Zheng He’s account hacked? I’m so curious!]
Zheng He also didn’t know how exactly his account was hacked. Seeing Zheng He’s confused expression, the police directly told him the reason: “At 2:30 a.m. last night, you clicked on a link sent by Wang Dahu, which was actually malware.”
As soon as he mentioned the link, Zheng He’s face instantly flushed red, and he touched his burning earlobes, guiltily starting to speak: “…There was such an incident… he… he said he would send me some… his personal photoshoot, I just couldn’t help being curious and clicked to look…”
[Personal photoshoot? I don’t believe it’s that simple! I want to see the chat records!]
[Case closed! Zheng He fell for the beauty trap this time!]
