I thought that "more advanced science and technology and common sense of life", "the model of global unification under the federal rule", and a "more than two hundred years of future modern history" were all the new knowledge I needed to master in this new universe.

However, I was naive...

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The year I first came, I felt that the biggest difference between this place and the place I came was that at the end of the 20th century, for some reason, a "technology explosion" occurred, which gave birth to a huge empire that changed the global pattern and subsequent historical process.

A century later, this empire, like many prosperous dynasties in history, declined and eventually fell apart in corruption. Then the earth entered the federal era, which lasted until the year when I traveled here.

At that time, I didn't consider whether there would be "things that the people do not know and contrary to common sense" in this universe.

Because in my original universe, I am not the kind of person who cares about whether "ghosts" and "alien" exist.

However, a year after I came here, when I started to engage in activities that wandered on the edge of the law under the nickname "Sacrifice", I gradually came into contact with some people... some people who were not accessible to ordinary people.

If I chose to live here and be an ordinary civilian, maybe I would never know that there is a so-called "capable person" in this world.

And there are quite a lot of these strange people, of course... I mean the total number. If you count them in proportion, even if you count those "transformed people", on this planet with a population of 100 million, the proportion of psychics is not even one hundred thousand.

In short, knowing these will have a great impact on my three views.

Although I am a time traveler myself, I don’t think the sounds I heard during the "dead time" or the unknown creatures I encountered will appear in the world in front of me.

In fact, according to the information I have obtained, the religious forces in this universe are almost the same as endangered species. The only remaining ones are linked to tourism and cultural industries within the scope permitted by the federal government, and are similar to mascots. In other words, this place is basically a "materialist earth", and it is the kind that has been officially promoted for many years, and no large-scale religion can be found around the world.

But it is in such a universe that there are "powers" such supernatural things that most people can only see in science fiction movies.

This setting changes everything.

It completely lost my sense of security as a human being.

I fully understand why the official always keeps secrets to the people, because for ordinary people, this kind of thing will drive them crazy.

This is like telling people: "There are two kinds of people in this world. One is you, born unarmed and unarmed until death; the other is called abilities. Because of innate or acquired factors, each of them carries a deadly weapon that you will never possess."

If the official really makes this kind of thing public and common sense, then the next development will basically be the story in "X-Men".

The human race cannot tolerate coexisting with a race that is stronger than them, or even just similar to them.

Only a small number of people who will pursue peaceful communication may be a small number of people. Most people's attitude towards aliens must be "control" and "elimination" that cannot be "completely controlled". It is best to "completely eliminate". Because if you cannot control or destroy the other party, you will not be able to guarantee 100% that the other party will not control and destroy you.

From a human point of view, this is also a very correct logic.

Perhaps other species in the universe can find ways to coexist harmoniously with races that are more advanced or just as advanced than themselves, but it will not work at the human race at least at this stage.

The trust relationship, social system, and moral order of the human world... are ultimately established on the foundation of "army guarantee". If you destroy the foundation, you can rebuild everything, so "war" is called the ultimate means.

Even I am not immune to the world. I am also the kind of person who tends to "I will feel safe if there are no psychics in the world."

But as time went by, when I accepted this setting and learned about more and more abilities, I realized... my thoughts, or the thoughts that most people will have after they know the world of abilities, are actually very stupid.

Because when I know the number of psychics and the abilities of some individuals, I can conclude that if ordinary people on earth now go to war with psychics, no matter how the former is done, in less than 24 hours or even shorter time, ordinary people will be defeated and even become extinct.

One of the main reasons why this world can still operate like this is that ordinary people have never started a war against the superpowers from the standpoint of racial war, and 99% of people do not know that there are superpowers.

I have to admire this. In the past few hundred years, no matter how corrupt and stupid the ruling class has become, there has never been any mistake in the general direction of this problem.

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The longer you are in the "Underground World" activity, the more you feel that your mentality is not like a person.

Of course, the "not human" here is not a derogatory meaning. If you want to give an example, it is the mentality of a hooligan who becomes a gentleman when he reaches the extreme.

In this circle, human life is a very cheap thing, and everyone here takes life and death lightly; the battle between any two abilities may lead to several people, dozens or even hundreds of people being affected and killed by fish in the pond.

Any failure of a mission, or your actions accidentally block the way of a strong man, may kill you.

Your death will not be vigorous and will not be more important than Mount Tai. If you have to describe it, it is like a stone on the side of the road. One day someone kicks you away for some reason, and you will die. The person who kicks you away may also be like a stone in the eyes of others...

As for me... I don't even count the stones. It's better to say that dust is more suitable. If the wind is a little stronger, I will be blown away.

In the past few years, I have been working on "exposing those scumbags who have escaped legal sanctions", which is my ideal and professional field; I do this for free, and sometimes I have to pay a lot of money.

The results of this work are quite gratifying, and I have indeed made many scumbags pay the price, but it is definitely not enough to do this alone. I must have the support of other side jobs before I can continue this loss-making business.

So I will also take on some employment-oriented jobs, such as passing information, being an intermediary to match people, tracking and taking photos, stealing commercial secrets, etc.

The jobs I take are basically safe, and even if I fail, I won’t die. At most, the ones I go to jail, but that’s only relative...

As the saying goes, if you walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?

After hundreds of jobs, I will inevitably encounter a few hard points. Fortunately... the few times I was caught, I met fellow people and never met official abilities. Because of my "right career", I have a good reputation in the industry. In addition, I am more cautious in taking jobs and don't do anything that is harmful to the world, so as long as I am willing to give up the task, the person who catches me is willing to let me go.

After all, Green Forest Road is a place where face is paid attention to. It was originally for their own masters, and they used money to do things, and had no grudges between each other. Who would be willing to take the reputation of "the scum who killed the sacrificer" for a business?

After a while, my lifestyle has stabilized and hidden in the city. I am doing my favorite career and using side jobs to support my life and ideals. The name of "Sacrifice" has become more and more loud without realizing it.

As the rumors spread, some people gradually began to regard me as a powerful person, and some people even made up my "powers" and even blew them to the point of being magical.

But in fact, after half a year of entering the industry, I confirmed that my only "special ability" is: I am almost immune to mental abilities.

I heard the two unknown voices mention this when I was in the "soul state", so I tried it out myself shortly after I learned that there are really psychics in this world.

In other aspects, I really have nothing special. Although I have exercised my body to save my life, the limit of my practice is only "the physical strength comparable to that of those with paper-level abilities."

I don't know why, one day, I got a rumor that said "put-oid(parallel_univee_traveler_observation_and_intervention_department, that is, the parallel universe traveler observation and intervention bureau)" targeted me.

I have never told anyone that I am a time traveler, nor have I done anything that only time travelers can do, right? How did they analyze it? Is there a specific instrument that can detect it? Or can a specific supernatural person discover this?

In any case, being targeted is not a good thing.

I have to take the initiative, which is a valuable lesson I learned from my "last life" experience.

Therefore, I began to take risks and entered areas that I should not have covered with my ability; and what was surprising was... things were going very smoothly, so smooth that I was a little suspicious that someone was secretly helping me.

After that action that was in danger but without any danger, I got a detailed information about put-oid, including organizational structure, personnel configuration, common surveillance techniques, etc., even the personal information of some agents.

Of course, I have also thought about whether I was trapped? Could I get fake information?

So I used many channels to verify it. Guess what? This information is true.

It's ridiculous to say that the reason I was targeted by put-oid is not because I did something "illegal", but because I did something "law-abiding".

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Through understanding the internal processes of put-oid, I have mastered their methods of locking in "time travelers". In fact, there are generally two types: one is lottery; the other is tax and social security payment.

These two searches are conducted year-round, never interrupted, and do not require a lot of resources, because they can be completed by computer analysis and data collected.

Let’s talk about the “lottery” first. First, I have to explain what federal lottery is like…

The "Federal Charity Lottery" issued by the federal government, with the highest winning amount, is actually an official money laundering business; the special prize of this kind of lottery is impossible for anyone to win because the results of the lottery are all controlled.

On the day of each round of lottery, after the purchase time is over, in the few hours before the lottery draw, the official will search all the sold numbers in this round. After the search is completed, a "unpublished number combination" will be generated, and then a video with this number as the lottery result will be shot.

When it comes to the lottery draw, the official will edit the pre-recorded videos and the live broadcast images in the studio and switch back and forth, which looks like a live broadcast. As for the hosts and notary staff on the scene, they are naturally acting, and no one dares not to act.

So, after operating this for several or even more than ten rounds in a row, when the prize pool became particularly large and the people began to feel that "Isn't it a bit abnormal for no one to win the special prize for so long?"... what should I do?

It’s very simple. Just find someone who is “myself” and wear sunglasses and masks to get the prize.

By the way, publish some news in the newspaper and fabricate some information about the winner, so that those fools who are addicted to lottery will continue to have fantasies, and the business can continue to be carried out.

And where did the money taken go? In addition to the taxes that should be paid, the rest of the parts naturally go wherever they want to go...

Then why is this business a business that can be laundered? It is easy to understand. For example, a federal official received a stolen money, but because of his unknown origin, it is difficult to take it out and spend it directly (the "flower" here means that you cannot invest or buy a house or a car, and it doesn't matter if you spend it in a strip club where you don't issue invoices). At this time, he can go and talk to the officials of the Federal Lottery Center, discuss a share ratio, and then use all the stolen money to buy lottery tickets.

Suppose this person has 10 million to wash, and the share ratio of money laundering is half-open, then he will buy two numbers, one is the number that will not be won, and the other is the number that will be won: the number that will be won by one bet, take one million as an example, and buy six bets, and twelve yuan is enough. The remaining 9999988 yuan will all buy the number that will not be won.

After finishing the prize, he won six bets of one million, with a total of six million yuan. After paying the tax, he would get a pocket of about 4.8 million yuan. The 4.8 million yuan is clean money; the others were handed over to the lottery center to manage, and it had nothing to do with him.

It's a bit far-reaching, but it's better to get back to the topic...

To sum up, federal lottery is to put it bluntly IQ tax; like other federal businesses in the name of charity, the coming and going of funds, the details of work, etc. are all undisclosed and opaque; all lottery results are also possible and can be easily controlled.

Therefore, ordinary people are absolutely impossible to win the first prize. Even time travelers or psychics with the ability to "predict the future" cannot win, because the lottery results are generated based on the "data after purchase deadline".

But what about other awards? For example, first prize and second prize?

Suppose you are a time traveler, more intelligent, you think winning the special prize is too conspicuous, or you already understand what the so-called "reward rate" is, or you have bought the special prize number a few times and found that the number at the time of the lottery was different from what you remember, and then you figured out the trick...

No matter which one, you will probably think of the strategy of "deliberately choosing one or two numbers wrong, giving up the special prize, and winning the first or second prize"; unlike the special prize, the amount of other prizes is fixed, and there is no upper limit on the betting. The most important thing is... you will not cause future lottery results to change just because you bought this number.

Therefore, whenever someone wins dozens or even hundreds of non-special prize lottery tickets, put-oid will immediately start investigating this person, with more than 99.99% chance that this guy is a time traveler or capable person.

There is only a probability of less than 0.01%. This person is really lucky and has fought right... because that is in line with the probabilities.

Of course, I am not the kind of "time traveler", I am the "parallel universe traveler", and I don't know the lottery number, so using this solution will not lock me up.

What made put-oid target me was their second search mechanism for tax and social security payment.

You may not believe that in the hundreds of payment items of the Federal Taxation and Social Security Bureau, there are 27 of them that are specially set up to "test time travelers".

The names of these payments were asked by put-oid from some parallel universe travelers they had captured, and specific tax names from other universes; that is, in the universe where the travelers are located, this is common sense tax, but here... no one actually knows what this is.

Generally, the financial department of an organization will not fill in these when paying taxes to employees and purchasing insurance, and individual taxpayers will not ask what these non-compulsory payments are for.

But the time traveler... will be fooled.

I was fooled.

In order to pretend to be a law-abiding citizen in a low-key manner, after obtaining certain property, I specially registered a shell company myself, worked as a finance department to make accounts for my gray income, and paid taxes and funds to myself to buy insurance through the company.

I really don’t know that in this universe, the concept of “five insurances and one fund” does not exist at all.

When I went to fill out the registration form, I saw familiar words such as "pension insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance, housing provident fund", and they were all framed under the same major category, so I chose it.

Who would have thought this was actually a bait!

In this universe, these entries are not included in the most common payments made by citizens.

Moreover, the interchange of taxes and funds is different from buying lottery tickets. It is not explained by "silly" or "luck" and is basically something that "time travelers are guilty of being thieves".

put-oid is to use this "cognitive difference at the common sense level" and rely on the big data provided by relevant departments to find time travelers one by one from the crowd on a silent battlefield.

I don't know when they will come to catch me, but I am reluctant to be lucky. It is impossible to expect them to ignore me, because if I were theirs, I would never be able to remove a person who was on the list of suspects without complete confirmation.
Chapter completed!