Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2135 Major Issue! The Bug in the Points Number Card!

At night, there are stars.

Niu Shoufu forced Xiong Er to lead the way with a gun pointed at him. With the gun at his fingertips, Xiong Er had no choice but to move forward.

He kept turning back to look at his older brother, Xiong Da.

Even Guo Peng could sense something was wrong at this moment. Looking at Xiong Da, who was covered in sweat, he couldn't help but feel suspicious.

It's the middle of the night, and the temperature isn't high, so it's not easy to sweat.

Moreover, apart from Xiong Da, the dozen or so men under him all looked very nervous.

He could see it, and the Imperial Concubine could see it even more clearly.

The imperial concubine waved to Xia Luo, and Xia Luo walked over.

The Imperial Concubine whispered in Xia Luo's ear:
"Take some men and search all the bushes where they were found. I suspect there's something wrong with their points number cards."

"Remember, the search scope can be broadened."

“Okay.” Charlotte nodded, then led dozens of people to search the bushes.

As Xiong Er walked towards the bushes, he didn't see his older brother respond to him.

But he also knew that if the transport team discovered that they possessed so many points cards, most of which belonged to other survivors, they would be doomed.

How to do?
Or should we just say we can't find it?
Pretend to look for it, then say you can't remember and can't find it.

As long as the transportation team doesn't discover this secret, they won't be considered to have violated the management regulations of the Big Camphor Tree. At most, they'll just get a scolding or have some points deducted.

With that in mind, Xiong Er made up his mind and walked towards the place diagonally opposite where the points number card was hidden.

After walking about a hundred meters to the right, he pretended to be looking for a package under a big tree.

"Huh? Where did it go?"

"It's right here, how can I not find it?"

"There are so many leaves here, it's hard to find anything, sigh."

Seeing that he was not behaving himself, Xiao Feng, who was behind him, stepped forward to help him search.

But the fallen leaves here were really thick, and all the big trees looked pretty much the same. They searched for several minutes but couldn't find anything.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Niu Shoufu asked impatiently.

Xiong Er said with a completely innocent look:
"It's right here."

Xiao Feng looked at him with a scrutinizing expression and asked:

"Why don't you carry such an important thing as your points card with you at all times?"

Xiong Er said awkwardly:
"Didn't you tell us to raise our hands and come out? How are we supposed to come out with our bags in our hands?"

"Damn it!" Niu Shoufu didn't have such a good temper and slapped him across the face. "Can't you behave yourself for once?!"

Xiong Er covered his swollen face, looking aggrieved, and said:

"But can't we really find it?"

Looking at the trees and fallen leaves covering the mountains and fields, Niu Shoufu was so angry that he wanted to just shoot the guy.

"What should we do? We can't just stay here and search the whole mountain, can we?"

Xiao Feng stared at Xiong Er, pondering a solution.

Just then, Niu Shoufu's walkie-talkie rang, and Guo Peng's voice came through:

"Old Niu, come back, we've found it."

"Found it?" Niu Shoufu's face lit up with surprise, but he glared at Xiong Er fiercely. "You're lying again, get the hell back here!"

Another slap.

Xiong Er, disregarding his grievances, covered his face and trembled all over.

He thought to himself: What? They actually found it?
How do you explain this?!
Depend on.

If I had known, I would have just taken them there, gotten the bag, and taken out their team's points number card!
The transport team might not even check their bag.

And perhaps on his way back, he could secretly throw away the other scavengers' points number cards in that bag!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.

I regret not doing it that way.

Pushed back to the transport convoy by Niu Shoufu, who was staggering along.

The atmosphere here was extremely heavy, and the expressions on the faces of the Imperial Concubine and Guo Peng were so gloomy that they could drip water.

The other combat personnel from the transport battalion stared at them menacingly.

In this situation, Xiong Er didn't dare to raise his head.

so horrible.

It's over, it's all over now.

Wow~
Guo Peng dumped the points number card from the package onto the ground, his eyes fixed on Xiong Da and the others with piercing gazes, and demanded:

"Tell me, there are only sixteen of you, so how come there are more than a hundred points number cards here?"

Xiong Da, stubborn as a mule, argued defiantly:
“Our team originally had more than a hundred people, but we lost a lot of them later.”

"Hehehe!" Guo Peng sneered a few times before cursing:

“I just checked. Your team only had 17 people before. There were only 17 people when you entered the Big Camphor Tree system. Now there is only one person missing!”

"You still refuse to tell the truth even now?"

He took out a gun and pointed it at Xiong Da's head.

Xiong Da closed his eyes, because he knew that speaking would mean certain death.

If we don't say anything, there might still be a glimmer of hope.

He was part of the Great Camphor Tree faction, after all; they couldn't have killed him for no reason!

When Guo Peng saw him like this, he was about to shoot him and kill him.

But she was stopped by the imperial concubine beside her.

“Old Guo, he is, after all, one of the people in our camphor tree faction. We can’t kill someone without evidence.”

Guo Peng pointed to the points number card on the ground and said:
"Isn't this obvious enough? These people must have stolen someone else's points card!"

"I know," the Imperial Concubine said, "but we also have to consider the impact."

"If this gets out, it will damage the reputation of our transportation brigade."

Guo Peng angrily said:

"Just kill them all, no one will know anyway."

The imperial concubine glanced at Xiong Da and saw that Xiong Da seemed to be in much better spirits.

She smiled and said:

"The interrogation team isn't just sitting idly by. Let's take them back to headquarters and have Chief Artillery interrogate them. Then the truth will come out, won't it?"

"In all these years, have you ever heard of anyone who could hold off Chief Cannon without confessing?"

Upon hearing this, Guo Peng couldn't help but recall the scene he had witnessed in the interrogation room.

I felt a sudden, sharp pain in my testicles.

That was several years ago. He happened to be in the interrogation room delivering a message to the commander-in-chief, and he also witnessed the interrogation methods of Chief Cannon.

He swallowed hard, and looking at the Imperial Concubine, he suddenly realized that she was much more ruthless than him.

The brutality of the interrogation methods used by this cannon chief is truly perverse.

This is well-known throughout all the bases of the Great Camphor Tree faction.

Xia Luo and the others beside her stared at the Imperial Concubine as if she were a ghost.

That woman is no good!
Upon hearing the words "interrogation room," Xiong Da and the others recalled some of the local rhymes from the oil city:

Never mess with the interrogation gun.

The feeling of being worse than dead is awful!
Don't cause trouble inside the base.
A moment of impulsiveness brings disaster
If caught red-handed,
You'll definitely be sent to a small, dark cell.
Group fights and one-on-one fights are both bad.
The rules will make you scream!

The first line of the rhyme is: Don't mess with Zhao Dapao in the interrogation room. It's said that falling into Zhao Dapao's hands is worse than death; once you're in there, you basically never get out.

Although Xiong Da had never seen Zhao Dapao, he knew the shadow of a person and the bark of a tree.

There's a reason why such a catchy rhyme could be passed down.

Xiong Da swallowed hard, his calm demeanor vanishing as he frantically racked his brains for a solution.

Meanwhile, Guo Peng knew that he had wasted a lot of time.

So he waved to Charlotte and Niu Shoufu:

"Tie them all up and take them back to headquarters!"

Niu Shoufu said with a smile:
"Hehe, they're in big trouble now. They've fallen into the hands of Chief Cannon, they're in for a rough time."

Soon, they put hoods on Xiong Da and the others, tied their hands and feet, and threw them all onto the electric truck.

A few hours earlier, they had unloaded the steel rails from the truck, and since there was an empty electric truck available, they got one and put them all inside.

Their mouths were sealed with tape, so they couldn't see, couldn't move, and even had difficulty wriggling.

Guo Peng and his team knew that these people definitely had another car nearby, but Guo Peng was too lazy to interrogate them.

The mission should be the priority. Once these people are transported to the headquarters, they can be handed over to Chief Artillery for processing.

Professional tasks should be left to professionals.

I won't worry about these people not being honest when the time comes.

They are just a transportation team; their only responsibility is transportation.

On the road.

Guo Peng used a radio to contact the oil city communications office.

They also informed the oil city of the serial numbers on these hundred-plus points cards so that they could check them.

The results were retrieved quickly.

The owners of these more than one hundred points number cards are not located in the oil city.

Some of the owners of the points number cards haven't even returned to the oil city for as long as four months.

Generally speaking, large camphor trees are not responsible for the safety of those who go out to scavenge!
However, if scavengers go out to collect recyclables, they can contact the various bases of the Great Camphor Tree faction, or contact the surrounding official teams, or other scavenging teams while collecting recyclables.

Both can send out a distress signal.

One reason is that there are many scavengers who travel all over the country, and the camphor tree authorities simply do not have enough power to ensure their safety.

Secondly, the relationship between the camphor tree and these scavengers at the bottom of society is essentially one of cooperation.

Most of the scavengers at the bottom five or six levels have only recently joined the camphor tree faction and have not made much contribution to it.

The fact that the big camphor tree can provide them with and build a platform where they can exchange various external resources for points, and then use those points to exchange for food and other supplies is already quite good.

In this apocalyptic world, which other force could possibly achieve this?

The fact that the big camphor tree could do this is already excellent.

Those who go out to scavenger are essentially just risking their lives to collect resources.

After Guo Peng contacted the oil city.

He took off his headset and said to the concubine opposite him:
"We've found out that, apart from the points number cards for Xiong Da's team, the owners of the other 104 points number cards are not in Oil City."

"The longest the person hasn't returned to the oil city has been four and a half months."

"There must be something wrong here."

The Imperial Concubine nodded and said:
"If it's just that some people aren't in the oil city, it could be a coincidence. After all, scavenging outside can be dangerous and can easily lead to accidents."

But these past few months, the zombies have all gone to the ocean, so the mortality rate can't be that high.

If none of these 104 people are in the oil city, then it means that these 104 people…

"They all died at the hands of Xiong Da and his gang!"

Guo Peng took a deep breath and said:
"That's right. How could a typical scavenger team have a gun for every member? Even if they rent guns, there are limits. These guys must have stolen the guns from other scavenger teams!"

"Damn it, these bastards, instead of doing their scavenging work properly, they're stealing other people's points cards! Using them fraudulently!"

The Imperial Concubine's eyes were filled with seriousness as she squinted at Guo Peng and said:

"This matter has a huge impact. Xiong Da is just one of the groups of people we discovered doing this kind of thing. When we find a cockroach, it means there may be a group of cockroaches in the house."

Upon hearing this, Guo Peng sat up straight.

"You mean, there are other people doing this kind of thing?"

"Absolutely possible!"

The Imperial Concubine affirmed:
"Compared to painstakingly collecting resources to exchange for points, people like Xiong Da who cheat other scavengers can simply kill people outside and steal their points number cards."

When you bring the supplies back to the base, you can also buy them from private shops!

This is much easier than properly scavenging, which is time-consuming and laborious!

Guo Peng felt a chill run down his spine as he thought about it, realizing that what the imperial concubine said was entirely possible.

The Imperial Concubine continued:

"Moreover, this incident also exposed the vulnerabilities of the points number card system."

Unlike bank cards, points cards don't have PINs, so if someone finds one, they can just swipe it. This is a huge problem!

Although the scavengers could transfer their points from their reward cards to family members remaining at the base before leaving,
The problem is still very serious. Even within the base, if someone steals your points card, even if you freeze it immediately, there's still a possibility it could be used fraudulently before it's frozen.

Guo Peng frowned and said:
"Why not just make it like a bank card? That way, you can just enter the password directly. Even if someone steals or finds it, it's useless without the password!"

The Imperial Concubine, being a highly educated woman, knew a little about this, and she said with a wry smile:

"When the points-based number card system was launched, our Dazhangshu didn't have the conditions or technology. Do you think a bank card is simple?"

"A bank card integrates multiple technological achievements such as magnetic stripe technology, chip technology, anti-counterfeiting printing technology, and OCR recognition technology, thus ensuring both security and convenience."

"At that time, the camphor tree did not possess these technologies, and the magnetic strip's ability to store information was also extremely limited, so the technology at the time could not achieve the desired results."

Upon hearing this, Guo Peng sighed and asked:

"What should we do then?"

The imperial concubine stretched out her arms straight, then pressed them back and stretched:
"When we returned to the headquarters a while ago, I heard that the semiconductor industry in the headquarters base has developed quite rapidly in the past six months."

"I heard from He Bing that they've been working on upgrading some points number card recently, supposedly skipping the magnetic stripe card and going straight to the chip card mode."

After all, the chip industry is gradually developing at the headquarters base as well.

"Huh? What's the difference between a magnetic stripe card and a chip card?" Guo Peng genuinely didn't understand these things, so he asked.

The Imperial Concubine patiently explained:

The core differences between magnetic stripe cards and chip cards lie in security, durability, and functionality:
The chip card uses dynamic encryption technology, which makes it more secure, longer-lasting, and supports multiple functions such as contactless payment. It can still be used in temperatures as low as -85 degrees Celsius.

It had already become the global mainstream before the apocalypse;
Magnetic stripe cards are easier to copy, more easily damaged, and can be affected by magnetic fields, making them unreadable. The cards we use now are magnetic stripe cards.

However, the magnetic stripe cards we use are even worse than those from before the apocalypse; they don't even have a PIN!

Guo Peng only partially understood what he heard, but he grasped one thing:

That means the headquarters also knew about the loophole in the points number card.

Previously, the technical capabilities were insufficient, but now that the technical personnel and materials are available, the issue of the points number card is being improved.

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Now that this incident has occurred, the need to upgrade the points number card system has become even more urgent.

Moreover, a crackdown is likely to follow.

After all, the large-scale search operation is one of the core and major strategies of the Great Camphor Tree.

Those who rob or even kill other scavengers will inevitably severely impact the scavengers' enthusiasm for scavenging.

This is absolutely intolerable for the large camphor tree.

"Contact headquarters and report this matter first, then have the interrogation department prepare as well," the Consort said.

“Okay.” Guo Peng picked up the headset again and contacted the headquarters.

(End of this chapter)