Chapter 912 Castle (Four K)

Being watched.

Li Ang was not too surprised. The other party had already mastered his initial Internet Protocol physical address, and it was only natural that he could follow the clues and lock him.

If the situation is really as serious as what the other party said,

It would be against the norm for the Social Security Administration not to conduct any monitoring.

Cricket, or the female investigator said, "I'm going to act with you."

Li Ang nodded, "Yes, but I can't let you into the stronghold of the Wizards of the Coast."

The cricket's tentacles trembled slightly, "Why?"

"You'll know where you are."

Li Ang didn't talk nonsense to the other party. He covered the cricket with his palm and put it into his pocket. After looking around, he rushed towards the giant hollow pipe at the end of the horizon.

Not long after, Li Ang arrived at the location of the pipeline.

He stretched his palm towards the surface of the pipe, his fingertips stretched and melted, and then his whole body was "dragged" into the interior of the pipe by an unknown force.

Consciousness shuttles rapidly through the fiber optic lines, and the perception of time seems to be slowed down.

Li Ang saw beings like himself appearing in the pipes from time to time who could maintain their form.

Humans, elves, demons, cars, containers, octopuses, ants, etc. - these are all wizards walking in the data world with their own purposes.

There are also official agents and cybersecurity technicians employed by private companies.

The world of data is like this. Under the weird skin, there are thousands of people with thousands of faces.

Li Ang doesn't have as many contacts with these wizards.

Like the extraordinary, the greatest threat to a wizard's life is always another wizard.

And in order to reduce the chance of being discovered, many wizards change their appearance every time they enter the data world, making it difficult for even acquaintances to recognize them unless they are close enough.

Li Ang kept switching routes, jumping from one node to another, passing through countless fortresses and cities, and finally arrived at the destination and jumped out of the optical network.

This is a desolate plain, no different from where you first logged in, but...

Li Ang patted the cricket in his pocket, which had become dizzy from traveling at high speed, to wake him up.

He took dozens of steps forward.

The scene ahead suddenly changed, with lush green grass and colorful flowers growing out of the dry and cracked ground.

Just a few more steps forward, and moss and lichens expand under your feet. Towering trees rise from the ground, and wisteria spreads and twines along the branches of the trees. It quickly transforms into a tropical rain forest.

The cricket poked its head out of the pocket? Looking around the surroundings curiously and greedily,

The intelligence agency hates the Wizards of the Coast so much that if this were the real world, they would immediately call in a formation of bombers and tanks to blow the entire stronghold into the sky? Then send special forces to rush into the ruins and pull out all the wizards hiding inside.

"Don't move."

Li Ang stretched out his fingers to hold the cricket's head and pushed the latter back into his pocket.

The latter instinctively wanted to resist, but in the next second, a capuchin bird swooped down, its sharp claws just missing its head.

"!!!"

Cricket retreated back into Li Ang's pocket in panic, and then felt a sense of fear.

"These are automated programs that can search for foreign data."

Li Ang walked around a tree and reached out to gently push aside the python-like vines hanging down from the tree crown.

The palm of his hand calmly took out a large colorful spider from his shoulder and gently placed it back on the tree trunk.

Jingping said: "Members of the Wizards of the Coast don't like harassment from outsiders, whether they are agents from intelligence agencies? Or young wizards trying to enter the top circles to prove themselves."

This area is automatically generated by a very advanced encryption algorithm, and every plant and plant in it is based on vague, weak signal hints to remind visitors what to do next.

Once you fail to notice these signals, or misread the signals?

Will the brain be disrupted?

Or completely lost? Walk out from the other side of the forest,

In severe cases, the automatic program will become hostile and launch an attack.

Even being thrown back to the real world.

After this attack, the cricket did not dare to act rashly and lay obediently in his pocket.

Li Ang walked around the tropical rain forest, carefully avoiding death traps.

Finally, the road ahead suddenly opened up, and a wide and deep rift valley emerged at the end of the rain forest.

The rift valley stretches for several kilometers before and after, with a width of nearly two hundred meters. Purple smoke filled the valley bottom, and some huge monsters were floating in the rift valley. The spikes on their backs cut through the smoke like shark fins, making it difficult to see the whole thing clearly.

On the cliff at the end of the rift valley, stands a large-scale ancient castle.

The castle is made of gray boulders. The surface of the masonry near the ground is covered with moss and dry vines, and it looks like it has a long history.

"arrive."

Li Ang stopped and took the cricket out of his pocket.

The latter used his yellow-brown compound eyes to scan the entire canyon curiously and vigilantly, "What's wrong?"

"To get to the castle from here, you have to walk through an invisible step-by-step ladder. You can't fly or teleport. If you take a wrong step, you will be attacked by the monsters below the rift."

Li Ang stood at the edge of the rainforest and said calmly: "The hanging ladder will automatically detect the data passing on it.

All visitors with physical form must pass alone. Even if I swallow you,

The hanging ladder will also take you out and let you walk alone.

Unless you are confident that you can rely solely on your own brain to process hundreds of subconscious instructions per second, avoid traps, know the location of the next transparent hanging ladder, and complete the journey,

Otherwise, it would be better to stay here and wait for me to come out. "

Cricket didn't answer for the first time, as if he was frozen in place. He was probably communicating with his superiors.

After more than ten seconds, he nodded and jumped out of Li Ang's hand.

"ASAP."

There was a trace of imperceptible anxiety hidden in the cricket's voice. Li Ang nodded and told the other party not to move around to trigger the trap, and then stepped onto the transparent hanging ladder.

A few minutes later, Li Ang crossed the rift seemingly effortlessly, wiped the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead, and pushed open the heavy door of the castle.

The furnishings of the castle hall are low-key and luxurious.

Crystal chandeliers, solid wood floors, fireplaces burning fragrant wood, famous paintings hanging on the walls, sculptures and porcelain on the shelves,

It's not as old-fashioned as it appears from the outside at all - even though it's a world of data, wizards won't treat themselves badly.

There are already several members in the hall,

A stone elephant-shaped gargoyle sits cross-legged on a wool carpet, facing the fireplace, warming himself by the fire with his eyes closed;

Valkyrie, wearing armor and a feathered helmet, sits on a sofa and throws darts at a target hanging on the wall. Every shot is sure to hit;

Merlin, wearing a green robe and a pointed hat, was standing in the corner, talking quietly to a robot.

The robot's face is embedded with an electronic screen, and there is an 8-bit style animated face on the screen.

This is also a wizard named "Ohm".

There is a table behind the two of them, and an old black typewriter is placed on the table.

Mailman.

Li Ang's eyebrows hidden under the dragon's head mask raised slightly, and he passed by without stopping.

"Sammaster?"

Nicholas, the tax bureau's most wanted criminal dressed as Santa Claus, was standing behind a table. When he saw Leon walking in, he called out Brown Murphy's nickname in the data world, "Why did you change your look?"

"Change your look, change your mood."

Li Ang answered casually in the tone of Brown Murphy he remembered.

The castle base of the Wizards of the Coast can identify visitors and wear badges of different shapes on the chests of members. This is mainly to prevent unpleasant pranks, such as pretending to be other people's identities and embarrassing members. .

The kind-hearted Nicholas lingered on the dead fish eyes of the dragon head mask for a moment, and said somewhat against his will: "It's quite beautiful.

By the way, come and take a look at my Christmas plans. Do you have any comments? "

As a famous or notorious wanted criminal,

Nicholas still maintains the habit of robbing the rich and giving to the poor every Christmas. On the table in front of him are a moving hourglass and a three-dimensional map of a medieval fortress.

Between the towers of the fortress on the map, there are fine veins like blood vessels.

"Swiss bank?"

Li Ang recognized the location of the map. The blood vessels on the map should be the direction of the bank's cash.

"That's right."

Nicholas nodded and said in a flirtatious tone: "What do people outside call Swiss Bank?

The safe haven, the safest vault, the world's money bag?

hehe. "

Li Ang said in surprise: "Did you break through the Swiss Bank's defense?"

"a little bit."

Nicholas had a sly smile on his face, "They restructured the entire fortress last year. The defense methods are very good, and there are highly vigilant automated programs everywhere.

There are bank-trained wizards (whose real names have been obtained by the bank and work in fixed locations) patrolling the outside, and there are a large number of secret sentries on the inside.

It took me a lot of effort to find a way..."

He reached out and flicked on the three-dimensional map of the fortress. Hundreds of new blood vessels immediately extended out of the blood vessel system symbolizing cash flow.

Drilling into the ground, not knowing where it leads.

"Italian and South American gangs, local warlords, the FBI, CIA, America's revolving door of executive lobbyists, transnational crime syndicates...

All the dirty money in the world is stored here. "

A wizard exclaimed, "You will offend many, many people, Nicholas.

I can't imagine what they would do to receive you if they found out your real name. "

"A lot of people have said the same thing to me, but I'm still alive and well."

Nicholas smiled and said: "Those hounds trained and recruited by official officials in various regions (a derogatory name for wizards who surrendered to the official),

All grew up in a greenhouse,

I have never experienced the time in the barbaric era when one wrong step would result in being shattered to pieces.

More than enough ability, not enough experience.

There is still a long way to go to find me.

What's more, even you can't find my real name. "

This is true. The Wizards of the Coast Association, which gathers the top data plane walkers, is not comparable to those small circles composed of amateurs.

Every member inside, even if they are sentenced according to the lightest law, is enough to stay in prison for a lifetime or two.

In order to obtain benefits,

In order to pre-emptively and protect ourselves,

Every member of the Wizards of the Coast has investigated the identity of others overtly and covertly. Every seemingly casual conversation may be thousands of data attacks, and the attacks have never stopped.

Nicholas flicked the movable hourglass with his fingernail. The hourglass shook and rotated 180 degrees, and fine sand flowed. "From now on, every minute, there will be 1.2 million US dollars in funds.

It flows from Swiss banks to hundreds of banks around the world and is randomly distributed to the accounts of households with annual incomes below the local average.

Until Christmas, three days later. "

Merlin came over at some point, groaned, and said, "Twenty thousand dollars a second, three days later. A total of 5.184 billion U.S. dollars?"

"The total number is large, but it all comes from dead accounts that have not been moved for a long time. Each account only draws a part."

Nicholas laughed: "Those noble people who put their shady money in bank accounts may not realize that they have been stolen until months or even years later.

And this amount of money may be an astronomical figure for ordinary families, but it is not worth it for them to go to war, form alliances, dig deep and search all over the world to find the thief. "

“Nice Christmas gift.”

Li Ang nodded and applauded, and the other wizards around the table also applauded.

Nicholas showed a subtle smile under his big beard, calmly enjoying the admiration of wizards of the same level, and beneath his shining eyes, he was probably planning new activities for next Christmas.

"It's really great."

Merlin stopped clapping, shook his head and said, "But Nicholas, don't you think this is still too slow?

Look at the world outside. The gap between rich and poor is getting wider and wider.

A hundred meters away from the high-rise buildings are rows of slums.

A poor family will not live a happy year just because of a few hundred dollars.

The rich and powerful will not go bankrupt and perish just because they have lost a small part of their property - on the contrary, your robbing the rich and giving to the poor will make them more eager to find ways to make money, and in the end it will be the people who are harmed.

If you want to do something bigger,

I mean, if you rob the rich and give to the poor out of a sense of justice rather than for grandiose self-gratification,

Maybe you can cooperate with us..."

Merlin gestured, pointing between himself, the robot Ohm beside him, and the typewriter behind him.

Li Ang's eyes narrowed,

After the Mailman showed his "miracle", he continued to recruit troops and seemed to have won over Merlin and Ohm.

If what the Social Security Administration investigators say is true,

The Mailman has really taken control of the logic module of the decision-making department, subtly adjusting the direction of the world for four years, and recently began to try to control the military system,

So what would be his purpose in recruiting the great witch?

Rule the world?

Let the great witch serve as his right-hand man? Or should he gather talents around him to prevent these data walkers from interfering with his plans?

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