episode_0510
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“Let’s see… ‘The conversation between the terrorists secretly filmed by freelance journalist Tiffany Mabel contained a number of important pieces of information. One of them was the name of their organization, Cyphers. As their name suggests, they are believed to be carrying out secret criminal activities. This incident made their existence known to the world.’ ”
“The name is a bit disappointing… ”
“It’s a scarecrow organization anyway, so there’s no need to come up with a cool name. And among the candidates, this was the best name.”
For reference, other candidates include Kryptoid, a compound word of Cryptic and Android, and Mechanica, a compound word of Mechanic and Arcana… And there were names like Silent Sigma and Neo Sector.
The name of an organization must reveal its concept and identity to some extent.
Since the fake organization we were going to create was a secret society mainly made up of androids, names like that were on the list.
At least I decided on Cyphers because it was a short and catchy name, and it wasn’t a name I chose out of any particular attachment.
I continued reading the article while stroking Maria’s whining head.
The article included part of the video that Tiffany had filmed.
‘It seems that the US government has blocked the posting of all videos.’
“’… … In addition, although it was revealed belatedly, NextGen Financial was a securities company whose main business was money laundering in the behind-the-scenes world. Considering the facts above, this incident is presumed to have occurred due to a dispute over interests between two criminal organizations, and the deceased NextGen Financial employees will not be exempt from the investigation… ‘The information we leaked was received well.”
“From the government’s point of view, it has no choice but to do so even if it does not like it. The police did nothing in this case.”
It was just as Maria said.
An unidentified terrorist organization went on a rampage in the middle of New York, achieved its goal, and disappeared, but the police special forces arrived only after the incident was over.
Since some of the hostages were released voluntarily, we must have achieved something to show the public.
Did he not like the fact that criminals succeeded in carrying out a terrorist attack and got away with ease?
The article also included that some of the black-footed men who died in the lobby were members of Cyphers.
It felt like they decided to use it to calm public opinion since it turned out that the deaths that occurred anyway were just criminals.
To those of us who knew the situation, it seemed like a mental victory, but it was probably necessary from the government’s point of view.
‘Because that’s not what’s important to us.’
Although the government made an announcement in a blindfolded manner, it did not particularly attract my attention. After all, it was an organization created as bait, and none of our real members were dead.
For no reason do I say ‘Isn’t it? Are we all fine? Refuting ‘your government is lying’ is an act of attracting more aggro than necessary. Everyone knows this anyway, and it doesn’t look very good.
Now that the most important goal, spreading the name of Cyphers, was successful, it was time to be quiet.
And I was able to find the information about Enigma Chat that I was looking for.
“’It was revealed that they gave instructions using a messenger service called Enigma Chat. According to them, EnigmaChat is a messenger that uses an untraceable encrypted network… … .’ Okay. The advertisement went in correctly. I feel like I need to take care of something at this level.”
“Sure. I guess that woman named Tiffany was impressed by what the owner said.”
It contained quite a few conversations I had with my subordinates about Enigma Chat.
It was a conversation that included quite sensitive information, such as deciding to contact Enigma Chat after escaping… It seemed like this part was released in a cool way, perhaps because of viewership ratings.
Thanks to this, it was expected that the promotional effect would be significant.
“It would be good if the results come out quickly. It will take some time for the rumor to spread, right?”
But Maria gave an unexpected answer.
“There is a person of interest who has already downloaded it. The name… Lucas Martinez? He looks like the leader of a South American drug cartel.”
“Do you belong to a secret society?”
“To be honest, the distinction between the two is blurry here. The cartel has almost swallowed up the government… In most cases, it doesn’t make much difference if you don’t form a secret society. Still, I’ll look into it.”
“Please let me know when information comes in. I’ve heard that the level of armament of South American cartels is comparable to that of the military, so I’ll go and check if it’s true when I’m bored.”
The fate of Lucas Martinez, the king of darkness in South America, was decided.
***
For a while, the world was abuzz with the name of Cyphers.
It felt like it became a hot topic because it happened in New York, the United States, a country particularly sensitive to terrorism. Accordingly, the name of the fake organization we created, Cyphers, was naturally on people’s lips.
“Cyphers… ? It’s a criminal organization with a strange name.”
“They looked like crazy people when they exploded a bomb in a New York building.”
“Is it religious terrorism?”
“No, that’s not it. They said it just happened because of money.”
Although the securities company building did not collapse as the Cyphers had said, the police ultimately failed to prevent the bomb from exploding.
Even though NextGen Financial’s employees were criminals, the U.S. government faced great public criticism for failing to prevent that many people from committing suicide.
Some harsh media even raised the theory of incompetence, saying that criminal organizations were allowed to wage war among themselves in the United States.
Perhaps the fortunate thing for politicians was that the language we used was English with a fluent American accent.
If the bomb had been used while using another language, such as Arabic, the situation would have been much bigger.
This would not be a case of a criminal organization within the country, but would have expanded into a much more serious problem of the country being invaded.
If that were the case, it wouldn’t be surprising if the situation around the world literally changed.
And the fact that we were using seemingly good quality equipment seemed to have alerted the U.S. government, and for a while, the U.S. actively cracked down on arms trafficking.
“The Cyphers were wearing unusual combat uniforms!”
“Get rid of all the companies that custom-make combat uniforms!”
“All those who traffic weapons are potential terrorists!”
In the process, Maria had a small hand in the police investigation tracking Cyphers. Thanks to this, the police, who had been chasing us with non-existent clues, were able to catch another criminal organization instead of Cyphers.
It was a service to reduce some of the waste of police power caused by our actions.
From what I heard, it seemed like an organization in South America suffered quite a lot of damage from this incident, but since it was none of my business, I quickly erased it from my mind.
Enigma Chat saw a surge in the number of users after the news broke.
In fact, the business card of being a messenger service used by a criminal organization that exploded a bomb in New York but was not caught seemed to have given people great confidence. Since there are people who commit such acts and have not yet been caught, there is a perception that security can be trusted.
Thanks to this, the number of users has increased more rapidly than expected, even though it is operated as a paid service to filter out the nonsense.
There were cases where people who were already sensitive to censorship and surveillance of messenger services ended up using Enigma Chat despite the cost.
In the process, there was political pressure to take EnigmaChat off the market, but Maria handled that issue well. There is no need to worry that our service will be blocked even if we leave it alone, but I felt bad so I took action.
I heard that they used personal information to negotiate, just like they did before with those suspected of being part of a secret society… I don’t know who he was, but it seems that the private life of the politician who put pressure on him was not that clean.
As the number of users increased, people believed to be part of a secret society also joined in.
Perhaps they could not trust the story that Enigma Chat’s security was thorough based on news alone, and even attempted to hack into the encrypted network themselves.
However, the security designed by Maria herself could not be breached, and the attack resulted in the equipment being physically damaged. In the process, some secret societies carelessly used equipment containing their information, and I briefly took the key with me wherever I went.
In addition, there were cases of secret summons, drug dealing, human trafficking, etc., but most of these conversations were traps to check whether the operator was spying on the conversation.
As long as she knew the place and time, Maria could confirm the authenticity of the information in an instant, so she did not respond to such an obvious bait.
Just as we had intended, the monsters hiding in the darkness were slowly gathering around Enigma Chat.
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