Underworld Player Chapter 18 - Kid Reaper

"Phew, what a long day... Now, what's this 'Player' thing?"

Back in his apartment just above the food stall lane, Bai Zhi wasted no time turning on his laptop and went online to find out what he could about Players.

Unfortunately, perhaps it was protected by official censorship, all the results he found led to some webnovel or other. He was unable to uncover a single lead to the information he really wanted to know—the authorities had scrubbed it all clean.

The internet could be organized into several layers. The "Surface Web" was the outermost later and could be readily explored by inputting accurate search terms into any search engine, while hidden below it was the "Deep Web", the contents of which could not normally be uncovered by search engines. Beyond that lay the Dark Web.

After a moment's thought, Bai Zhi sat up again. Clicking and typing away with practiced movements, he eventually made his way into the deepest corner of the internet—the Dark Web.

While commonly thought of as a sub-section of the Deep Web, the Dark Web was not easily accessed, as it was uniquely protected. Special techniques, such as secure data encryption, password-protected file transfer protocols, P2P networks, proxy servers and more, were all implemented so that its users were given an environment to trade information in perfect anonymity—the most characteristic feature of the Dark Web—so anyone hoping to gain access had to know how to navigate around those special features.

Most people were not familiar with the Dark Web, but Bai Zhi, who had been searching up information on the Dark Web since he was ten, knew it like the back of his hand.

There were subtle differences between this world and the world he came from, but it would seem that the internet worked in largely the same way.

Even on the Dark Web, information about Players was restricted, and only people who actually possessed the Player status were allowed access. After a lengthy, complicated process of cracking passwords and answering verification questions, Bai Zhi fi

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