Chapter: 5170

"However, if someone wants to search for information about a person who has passed through airport check-in, that's essentially impossible; even if you want to search for someone called Ye Chen within China, but all you know is his name, his information won't be displayed."

Lin Wan'er's two thin eyebrows were slightly raised in the middle, her expression serious and worried.

After hesitating for a moment, she asked the elder: "Regardless of whether the person I'm looking for is type one or type two, can you use your position and connections to search for these hidden pieces of information?"

The elder took a sip of his mouth, sighed, and said: "Miss, actually, there's a very complicated underlying logic behind this matter."

Lin Wan'er said: "You mean."

The elder continued: "Whether it's type one or type two, the number of people whose information is being hidden is actually not small. There are some special talents, military experts, intelligence personnel, and special task force members, all with encrypted identities, totaling tens of thousands nationwide."

As he spoke, the elder shifted his tone and said: "However, the trouble lies in this - both types of people who have had their information hidden may have a database, but most people who can access this database don't have the highest level of permission to do so."

"That is to say," he went on, "even if I used these two methods to hide the information of two people when I was younger, assuming I had the authority to access this database, I could only retrieve information about those two individuals. Information about others, I am not authorized to access; not only that, I wouldn't even know how many people there are."

"The reverse is true, even if you have related permissions for this database, you won't be able to find out about the people I've hidden here; we're mutually exclusive. And there are many branches in here, with different levels and permissions for each person, such as the intelligence department. The highest-ranking official has the authority to review all information stored by the intelligence department, but not that of other departments."

Lin Wan'er thought for a moment and asked, "Mustn't there be someone who has the permission to access the entire database?"

The elder chuckled awkwardly, "Miss, people with such permissions are extremely rare, one in a million. And these individuals will absolutely not leak information to anyone without the right to know, so this path is currently impossible for me."

"I understand," Lin Wan'er nodded, knowing that starting from the database access permission was already out of the question.

Then she thought deeply and suddenly remembered something, opening her mouth to ask, "Ah, if someone's identity information wasn't hidden from birth, can they still find out about their past before it was hidden?"

The elder replied, "If it's type one, where all information is completely hidden, making this person seem like they never existed in this world, then even their birth information will be erased. If it's type two, it depends on how the person hiding their information operates. Some people may erase everything, but others may only create a fake missing persons report or mark them as deceased, and these pieces of information won't be encrypted, not even for someone with the lowest level of permission. Any ordinary police officer can easily find out about this person's past information in the population system."

Lin Wan'er's eyes lit up, and she blurted out, "Do those pieces of information you gave me include those who are already missing or dead?"

The elder replied, "It includes those who are missing, but not those who have been confirmed dead."

Lin Wan'er suddenly thought to herself that she had indeed seen a lot of information about children recently.

However, when she saw pictures of these children, they were all directly skipped over without her taking the time to carefully look at their specific information.

But this would ignore one situation: if the picture of this child is not the current actual status of the child but rather a record from when the child was young and had gone missing, with his file information remaining unchanged since then. In this case, she would have ignored it just now.

Therefore, she quickly said to the elder, "Let me review the missing persons' information again first. If I still can't find what I'm looking for, you can help me retrieve relevant information about those who have been confirmed dead."

The elder nodded slightly: "No problem!"

He then looked at the computer and returned the information to the first person, before starting to carefully go through each one.

Very quickly, a black-and-white photo appeared in front of her, causing her pupils to contract sharply.

The boy on this black-and-white photo looked like he was around six or seven years old. The boy had a handsome appearance, with a youthful face and features that made Lin Wan'er feel vaguely familiar by about two-thirds.

Subsequently, she looked at the information of this boy, mumbling to herself, "Yè Chen, from Yanjing, son of Yè Chángzhēng and Ān Chéngqí..." JrNovels.com