A young man stared into his phone with an intent of victory. The figures in his screen flew back and forth with miniaturized bullets zipping past the screen. The train-way zipped through the tracks to its several stops of the night.
This is what I get for catching the late-night showing. The young man tried to fight off sleep since he was inside a train car and he would miss his stop. To him, the night didn't feel any different other than looking at vagrants use the train-way as a hostel, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
He looked back on his phone and continued playing his action game where he escaped from the reality of the night. The game was interrupted by the next stop, which a couple of people squeezed their way out and only two people entered. They were dressed the same and seemed older than the young man. He profiled the two just like they were profiling him and the passengers.
Cops, He thought to himself, I wonder why they are taking the train-way.
He ignored them to continue his game since it was online, so therefore no pauses. The black-suited pair stayed standing among the homeless and the passengers. The female of the duo looked into her scanner, which had the map of their investigation and inched closer to the young man.
The young man looked up without a clue of what was happening to give them a smile. He tapped his phone, something inside his phone halted the train-way and he dashed off to the exit. He sealed the doors with his phone, allowing him an easy escape. He jumped to the neighboring rooftop where the detectives couldn't reach him.
"What the hell is their problem?" He said to himself. He didn't want to waste his escape standing on some building. He quickly searched for the fire escape and made his way down to streets below.
He's done some questionable things, but as of recently, he was clean. No DoS, logic bombs, not even cracking. Something didn't trigger right with him or his stomach. His phone chirped with a notification.
"Unknown?" He read the email address, but it was encrypted with a random combination numbers and letters.
It read:
Dear Devi-NT,
Enjoy the company.
The message included some attachments of some files. His curiosity piqued-the hacker now known as Devi-NT opened the folder to reveal the photos, to his disgust. They were different angles of the murder along with a video of it taking place. The final file labeled with "Humpty Dumpty" was a code that he couldn't make sense of in his current circumstance.
Devi-NT quickly made his way to a nearby coffee shop to get his thoughts together and figure out his next move. He ordered a mango tea and sat down nervously twitching his legs. If his goal was to look inconspicuous, then he failed. His only answer at the moment was to change his IP address to throw off the detectives, who were probably halfway across town by now.
He thought about the message and tried to break through the encryption to locate the source, but it led him to ten different IP addresses. His searched seemed fruitless, but he needed to move out of the area quick before the police bump into him again. He chugged down his mango tea and slipped away into the street.
The streets were filled with people making their way to the various establishments in the area. The young hacker used the crowds to hide while he tried to track down the messenger again. He was afraid of going home since the cops were able to track him, but he couldn't understand how if his previous IP address was encrypted with an advanced version of DarkSec, an open-source encryption lock he created for users which allowed them to surf the web without any worries of cookies or other nasty things. The code was open for people to study or build upon, but it seemed to have backfired on him.
There are about five hundred people who downloaded the code, Devi-NT thought to himself, But who would want to reverse engineer it?
His code was obviously going to be used for illegal things, but he never thought about someone using it for murder. His only solution was to investigate where the murder took place and the only clues he had was in the photos and videos he received earlier. He looped the videos and viewed the video repeatedly, with each time searching a new area of the file. Devi-NT wasn't exactly a professional at investigations, but he pieced together what he could find. The name tag of the victim grabbed his attention and zoomed in to reveal the name and location of the body.
His first place of interest was OniTech, but he doubted the body would still be there if the police already got there along with other pieces of evidence. Someone had something to do with it and he's aiming to put Devi-NT along with his DarkNet code into the crosshairs.
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