My friend is a very talented IT guy. In fact, he is also an experienced hacker, breaking into random accounts of people on social networks, he has also messed up some servers that lack in security.

One day he told me that he was surfing on the dark side of cyberspace, his called it, if I’m not mistaken, is “the deep web”, which is a collection of sites that can’t be tracked by any search engine including Google. So a lot of free content is scattered on the site, ranging from murder services, pornographic and disturbing images, leaks of unreleased films or albums, to strange and horrific facts that have never been heard of.

On the site there is a list of admins who manage it, the account names are weird like black_mutant_cat, l0v3sH1t, and 8 others. He screenshoted the admin list and of course I feel weird with that username. My friend has an account name that is quite strange called lieloolil77, you know, his name is Kholil, it’s a bit ridiculous that the username. I teased him by suggesting that he should become the admin, and he replied, “Geez, God forbid!”

He also told me that, from the first moment he opened the content there, he felt like someone was watching him. But he was alone at his workspace. Especially when he entered the section on psychopaths, the atmosphere around him made him feel very uncomfortable, even though he was known to be brave. Finally he immediately turned off his laptop and went to his home.

The next day, my friend admitted that he often felt followed and watched by someone since he accessed the deep web. However, he only thought positively that it was just his feeling. But then he started telling me more and more that he was always being watched by someone. I can’t believe it, maybe because of the deep web effect, he has turned into a coward like that. Maybe he reads too many ghost stories or murders there so the reason is always, always, and always feels watched by someone.

Until finally one day, no longer heard the slightest news from him. He mysteriously disappeared. I’m surprised. His parents and his whole family have contacted the police and are looking for him everywhere. His mother could only cry and his father could only be silent because the search yielded no results for days, weeks, even months.

I was shocked by this sudden incident. My best friend suddenly disappeared. I guess a lot of strange events since he surfed the dark web. I am being curious. My friend once explained in detail how to access it. I, although a little clueless, but because my friend has a talent at explaining something, I can slowly follow the steps.

Until finally, I managed to open the dark web.

It’s true I found extreme content that I’ve never seen in the real world. All content seemed to appear and spread without censorship, even some of them are very disturbing. It’s very free here, even narcotics. I also saw a list of admins on the left side of the front page of the web. It’s just as weird as Kholil showed me before.

But I felt there is something odd with the list. After I realized it, I screamed backwards and immediately closed the browser so I turned off my laptop very quickly at that time.

The number of admins has become 9, meaning that it has increased by one. And in the last, it’s my friend’s account, lieloolil77.

From then on I always felt like someone was watching me.