The Night of Buying the Dream of Assassination--Small Views of the Dark Market to 2023

The Night of Buying the Dream of Assassination--Small Views of the Dark Market to 2023

At the bottom of the deepest darkness lies an invisible marketplace. There, human life becomes a commodity, and anger and hatred are affixed with a price tag. Masked people order "death" through a screen. This is the "assassination market" that breathes deep within the dark web.

This vision was dreamed up by a thinker in the 1990s. Everyone would anonymously place a bounty on the death of a politician. In 2013, a man who calls himself "Sanjuro" opened an assassination marketplace, where the names of important people were lined up, and anonymous users piled up the bounties one after another.

But many of them were illusions. A scam site called "Quick Kill. A legendary hit man called "Cthulhu. On Silk Road, the operator himself requested a murder, but it was the police, and it was all a trap.

Prices ranged from $5,000 to $100,000. But even heavier than the price was the nihilism of wondering if death was really coming. Those who entrusted their anger to the board lost only the money and sank into darkness.

It is not human life that lines this market. It is the deep, deep loneliness of the human heart. The wishes of those who bought the dream of assassination are sucked into the depths of the night without any reward.