Lulled by the silence of the night, the four women and their children were fast asleep. Xia Lei quietly moved his work station to the attached balcony. 

Today’s extensive usage of the laptop had depleted it of power. Right now, it had to be connected to a charger in order to keep on working. In the past hours, Xia Lei had been using an ID- Bad Boy- to comment on a terrorist group’s public social media account. He claimed that he wished to wire them some donations to upgrade their weapons and ammunition. To prove his sincerity, he had even deliberately donated a few million USD to charity organizations and sent the group his acknowledgements. 

The charity organizations had public accounts so it wasn’t difficult to track its transactions. To no one’s surprise, the terrorist group had sent someone to rectify this. One check alone was enough to show that ‘Bad Boy’ was not a flimsy scammer. Following that was a series of exchanges between their spokesperson, ‘Hangman’, and Xia Lei, ‘Bad Boy’. 

Hangman: Why do you support us? 

Bad Boy: Because we’re the same, we’re all victims of...