The situation in the "Pictures" folder was similar. The last photo was a selfie that Gavin posted on his social media feed on March 10th. The IP address location shown in the photo indicated that he was at a hotel in Cloudridge at the time.
From March until now, for a full year, there has been no text or image information about Gavin searchable on the domestic internet.
The internet in the Northern Outlands also yielded no information about him.
This perfectly matched what Noah said about his brother being missing for a year.
What does it mean that a person has been missing for a year and hasn't left any trace on the internet?
There are several possibilities. One is that this person is an old-fashioned individual from the grandparent generation who doesn't go online at all.
Gavin is young, so it's impossible for him not to go online. Therefore, this possibility can be ruled out.
Another possibility is that he changed his name and identity, which is why his information cannot be found.
The last possibility is that the person is already dead.
Elliot estimated that the second possibility was the most likely.
If Gavin went to the Northern Outlands and was tricked into engaging in telecom fraud, he would definitely change his name and hide his identity.
But why couldn't even a single photo be found?
Could it be that he not only changed his name but also had plastic surgery?
If he really had plastic surgery, then there would truly be no way.
Elliot couldn't think of any good ideas for a while.
After all, he was a
"Let's see if Noah can provide more information after he comes online," Elliot thought, then got up to wash.
The crawler software continued to search for Gavin's information.
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In the morning, the sun was bright.
Elliot sat in front of his computer, studying and learning about the business of AstraLink Company.
The AstraLink Company Super Administrator account he exchanged could log into the AstraLink Database Center, accessing and controlling the company's more than 180 commercial satellites distributed in space, which covered countries all over the world.
Time passed by while studying, and in the blink of an eye, it was 12 o'clock noon. The crawler software still hadn't found any information about Gavin.
He could only wait to see if Noah could provide more information.
Elliot first went to eat lunch, then returned to his room to prepare for his broadcast.
When the clock pointed to 1 o'clock noon, he started the broadcast.
As soon as the broadcast started, 100,000 netizens flooded into the live stream room.
Is the popularity this high?
Elliot himself felt surprised; this "new track" of "Upholding Justice" was actually so popular.
"Ding!"
The first connection request popped up; it was the Director named Oliver from yesterday.
"Great God, hello, we connected yesterday. We want to invite you to participate in our program, and we sincerely invite you again," Director Oliver said straightforwardly.
"Sorry, I'm still considering," Elliot politely refused.
"Great God, this is my contact information. If you change your mind, you can contact me at any time. I will be waiting for your good news 24 hours a day," Director Oliver said, sending a phone number in the bullet comments.
"Okay, if I've thought it through, I'll contact you," Elliot said.
"Okay, I won't bother you anymore."
He went offline.
"Ding!"
At this moment, Noah's connection request popped up.
Elliot clicked "Accept."
"Hello, Streamer, hello everyone, netizens!" Noah's avatar appeared in the small window of the live stream room.
"Noah, I used crawler software to search for your brother's information. From last night until now, there have been no results. Everything found is information from before March last year," Elliot said. "Think carefully again, did your brother really not leave any information after March last year? Whether it's text, pictures, or videos, any information is fine."
"Let me think..." Noah lowered his head and pondered for a moment. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his eyes lit up. "I remember now, my brother sent a photo to my mom in April last year."
"Look for it."
"The photo is on my mom's phone. I'll go find it now," Noah said, then left the camera's view.
"Mom! Mom! The last time my brother contacted you last year, he sent you a photo, do you remember? Is the photo still there?"
"Photo? I don't know..." A woman's voice came from off-camera.
"Where's your phone? Let me see if the photo is on it."
A moment later, Noah returned to the camera, holding an old-fashioned bar phone in his hand, browsing the phone's photo album.
A minute later, Noah excitedly said, "Found it! Found it!"
He turned the phone screen towards the camera.
Elliot carefully observed the photo.
In the photo, Gavin was standing by a river, and in the distance on the opposite bank was a tall building.
Elliot carefully examined it, but the river in the photo was nothing special, and he couldn't tell what river it was.
The tall building was too far away to see clearly.
On the riverbank beach a few dozen meters away from Gavin, there were several people of various ethnicities.
"Didn't Gavin go to the Northern Outlands? Could it be that the Northern Outlands also has such a diverse international crowd?" Elliot wondered.
Looking closely, he still couldn't tell where Gavin was from this photo.
Just as he was about to screenshot the photo and input it into the crawler software, a bullet comment caught his attention: "This is Oasis Creek."
"'Time Never Fades', do you recognize the place in the photo?" Elliot quickly asked.
"I know, this is the Free City of Oasis," netizen "Time Never Fades" replied.
"The Free City of Oasis? But Noah said his brother went to the Northern Outlands?" Elliot became even more confused.
Noah also looked confused.
"'Time Never Fades', are you sure the place in the photo is Oasis?" Elliot asked.
"I'm sure! I'm in Oasis right now!" 'Time Never Fades' said with certainty. "The tall building in the photo is the Grand Mirage Hotel in Oasis. I go there often, so I'm very familiar with it. It's definitely not wrong."
Grand Mirage Hotel in Oasis... Elliot opened
Found it.
Compared it with the photo provided by Noah.
It really was exactly the same.
After all that effort, Gavin didn't go to the Northern Outlands at all, but went to the Free City of Oasis?
No wonder the crawler software couldn't find his information.
"Noah, the location in the photo has been confirmed. Your brother is in Oasis," Elliot said.
"How could it be Oasis? I always thought he was in the Northern Outlands..." Noah looked stunned.
"Your brother might not have told the truth," Elliot said, while changing the search area of the crawler software to "Oasis."
At this moment, Elliot noticed a netizen in the bullet comments saying that the Free City of Oasis has become a new global fraud center in recent years.
"Are there many fraud groups in Oasis?" Elliot asked.
He only knew that there were many fraud groups in the Northern Outlands and other regions, but he didn't know much about the situation in Oasis.
(End of this chapter)
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