Once upon a time, the entire Tsukishima was still immersed in a peaceful and cheerful atmosphere, and although there were inevitably undercurrents, at least the general public was not aware of the hidden dangers around them.

In the closed bar one night, the power of the Quartet came into contact with it. The hermit and Haruki represent TAROT, the leech and Ye Gu represent the other blasphemer families, and the skeleton boy seems to be alone, but in fact represents an even more terrifying organization, Nightingale.

As the bar girl who spoke the least all night, she felt silent throughout the night, and she was only an organizer on the surface, but in fact she was more of a witness.

At that time, he was able to mediate for the tripartite blasphemer family and organized and witnessed the alliance of the three forces, and the strength of the Weta family can be imagined. Throughout, the Weta family has maintained an extremely low-key state. TAROT, Greenwood, Sagittarius and even Nightingale and many other blasphemer families are committed to retreating in the new Victorian era, only the Weta family has completely stayed, and it is not as tragic as the Comic Research Society, the whole family has not been affected in any way, the reason is that they have never appeared in the eyes of the world from beginning to end, and even many people like Hugo do not know that there is a Weta family in this world.

But Xia Ran knows, not only knows but also knows very well.

After Xia Ran sat down on the sofa, the former bar girl said to Xia Ran: "I didn't expect Mr. Xia Ran to come to me, it's really my honor." I've heard your name before. ”

Xia Ran smiled faintly and said: "I'm just a down-and-out hacker living in the street, I can't imagine that I can still get the favor of the girl, it's really my three lives lucky." ”

The girl in the bar clothes said, "You can add me Bailey." ”

Xia Ran said: "Miss Bailey, haha, it sounds like a soft and sweet name." ”

Baili also smiled faintly and said: "Mr. Xia Ran not only has both talents, but also is very good at coaxing girls, I think you also said a lot of sweet words to Xiaohua before." I can hear her brother call one stone at a time, very kindly. ”

Xia Ran shrugged his shoulders and said, "You really shouldn't tell her about me lying to him, she hated me just now." ”

Baili said: "Mr. Xia Ran is so good at coaxing girls, this problem must be a problem, and I don't think Mr. Xia Ran will take a bar girl in his eyes." ”

Xia Ran said: "I can't say that, I'm not a snob, I feel that Sister Xiaohua is very good." ”

Bai Li said: "If Mr. likes to give it to you, it is." ”

Xia Ran's original ridicule was choked back by Bailey's words, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Bai Li said: "In the entire thirteenth district, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are very few things I can do, but there are still some things that I can do. For example, if you invite your husband to a milkshake, you will be given a girl. ”

Xia Ran laughed, and then said, "I only hate that I didn't meet Miss Baili earlier, so my life wouldn't have been so boring in the past." ”

Bai Li said: "The most worthless thing in the world is to regret the past, and of course a wonderful life must start from the present." ”

Xia Ran shook his head and said, "I'm old, tired, tired, tired." ”

Bai Li said: "It seems that you have seen through life, sir, why do you want to come here in this case? I think you are not here tonight to drink, but to muddy the water." ”

Xia Ran said: "I can't talk about muddy waters, I just want to come here to check some information and find something." ”

The conversation between the two made Xiao Jie, who was hidden in the dark, hear it in a fog, although he could hear Xia Ran mediating and competing with the other party, but he didn't understand the meaning of the words of the two sides.

"We're just a small bar here, and the people who come here every day are regulars. It's been a bad situation lately, and as you can see, sheriffs are all around. I really can't help you in this situation. ”

Although Baili rejected Xia Ran, the words were full of politeness, and he didn't want to hurt him at all, which made Xia Ran's heart unconsciously raise some doubts. He had thought that Bailey would threaten and oppress him, but now it looked as if he was begging him.

Xia Ran didn't know why things had come to this point, but he knew that no matter what he said, he couldn't give in.

But Xia Ran did not rush into the palace to force Baili, and after flicking his fingers on the sofa a few times, he said to Baili: "I have a question, and I want to ask Miss Baili to answer my questions." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

Xia Ran raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you and I met before, why do you know so much about my identity." ”

Baili smiled lightly when he heard this, but he did not show a pretending to be profound, Baili said: "Mr. has always been cautious in walking the rivers and lakes, and I also know this. But it's also fate, there is an old friend of yours here, and when you came here, I was met by this old friend of yours, so I told me. ”

"Old friends?" Xia Ran frowned unconsciously when he heard this, he really couldn't figure out when he had a few more friends in the metropolitan area, even when he was on the street, there were few so-called friends, and they could be counted on one hand, and no one among these people would appear here, so who would it be?

Just when Xia Ran was puzzled, suddenly there was a noise on the wall behind Bailey, and then a secret door opened from the wall, which Xia Ran didn't notice before, and the sudden change surprised him.

He was even more surprised when the secret door opened, and out of it came a middle-aged man with a tray with two cups of banana milk on it.

When Xia Ran saw the middle-aged man's face, he unconsciously took a breath of cool air and blurted out: "It's you?"

The middle-aged man looked at Xia Ran and smiled and said, "Brother Xia Xian, long time no see." ”

This middle-aged man with a tray is no one else, it is the stowaway boat captain Lao Ou who helped Hugo and Akita enter Liujie and took the two and Natsuran away from Liujie!

Although Xia Ran has very little contact with the old gull, he also has a deep impression of the old gull. So when he saw the old gull appear, Xia Ran's heart suddenly realized, and he finally understood why his identity was exposed so early.

When he came here, he was discovered by the old gull, and the old gull sent this important information to Baili, so Xia Ran was paid a lot of attention, so he will sit here now, all of this depends on the blessing of the old gull.

Of course, Lao Ou didn't know Xia Ran's identity before this, compared to the fact that he must have investigated Xia Ran after seeing him that day, and under the hidden net without Xia Ran's personal check, it was only a matter of time before he could get his true identity information.

Xia Ran didn't expect his identity to be leaked in this way, as the so-called planning is in the sky, Xia Ran is helpless about this, it can be said that a high probability in this matter is due to chance, and the goddess of fate is not standing here at all.

Lao Ou put two cups of banana milk in front of Xia Ran and Bailey, and did not sit down but stood and said to Xia Ran: "Since the previous parting on the street, I have lost my enthusiasm for many things, and I think that I am not too young to be at a young age, and I can't wander in the dark for a lifetime. I have to say that this world is really small. ”

Xia Ran smiled bitterly: "It's really small. But I really didn't expect that the old sea wolf, who once dominated one side, would serve tea and water to others in this drunken environment. ”

"The world is changing, and so are people. ”

The old gull only said lightly, he had no intention of talking to Xia Ran Duoga, and after nodding to Bailey, he left again through the secret door on the wall.

When the secret door was completely closed: "Xia Ran reached out and picked up his own cup of banana milkshake, and there was still a faint residual warmth on the wall of the cup. ”

"Miss Bailey's surprise here is really not small, not only is there a lot of organs, but she can also call a heroic overlord around, which is really eye-opening. ”

Baili also picked up the cup in front of him and said: "Mr. is really polite, Lao Gull is what kind of overlord he is." ”

Bailey's tone was quite disdainful, and it could be seen that she didn't look at the old gull in her heart, although this attitude was arrogant, but on the other hand, it also showed the strength of the Weta family.

Finally got some confusion and Xia Ran finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter, but now these are not the issues he wants to care about, what he wants to care about is how to make his next plan.

For a moment, the two people in the room drank their own drinks and thought about their own thoughts, and the room fell into a terrible silence.

In the end, Xia Ran chose to be the first to speak, since he was completely exposed, it was better to simply have a direct showdown.

Xia Ran put down the cup in his hand and said to Baili: "Miss Baili, I actually came here today for only one purpose, and that is to need your network here." ”

Baili chuckled and waved his hand, "There is a network signal in the air in every Lili in the Moon Island, and you can even play online games in the underground waterways as long as you want, so why do you have to use me to get the Internet?"

Natsuran said, "I want to enter the 'Land of Freedom'. ”

The land of the free is the message that Tanaka left to him, and when Skynet was about to completely suppress the two, the two made an agreement to contact in the land of freedom.

Baili was not much surprised by Xia Ran's mention of the land of freedom, and even said that she had already seen through Xia Ran's sight of coming here, but she had been silently waiting for Xia Ran to be the first to exit.

The cup in Bailito's hand said to Xia Ran: "I understand what Mr. means, and I also hope to be able to help in this matter, but you also know that the current situation is too special, this wave has even made Skynet enter a state of full activation, in this case, no one dares to commit crimes against the wind, let's be honest, as early as four days ago, I sealed the port to the land of freedom here, and now this is completely an island." ”

During the holiday, there was silence again, and both Xia Ran and Baili seemed to stop breathing with the atmosphere at this moment, and only looked at each other in vain.

Xiaojie didn't understand what the two of them were talking about in the land of freedom, and he didn't understand the port that Bailey was talking about.

In fact, the Land of the Free is a synonym for a web gray area between Tsukishima and Stream Street.

Centuries ago, conflicts erupted in Tsukishima, and the rebels were exiled to the southern part of the 14th District, the western part of the 17th District, and the 27th District, and the three regions were divided into anarchic territories independent of Tsukishima, and eventually became the Flowing Street.

Tsukishima unilaterally cut off all ties with Liujie, and completely isolated the network of Liujie through the powerful Skynet system, so that even in the current incomparably advanced information and communication era, both sides have extremely limited understanding of each other, and to a large extent, the information is filtered by Skynet.

However, in practice, it is impossible for network information to be completely cut off, especially for some organizations that carry out black trading, and it is necessary to establish a network zone between the two for exchange and trading, and then some people secretly build a network platform and name it "free land".

"Free Land" does not just refer to a website, but a network cluster, but the servers of these network clusters are located in the stream street, in order to prevent Skynet from completely strangling it.

The establishment of the "Land of the Free" also brought together a large number of elites, many of whom were not from Tsukishima, but elite hackers from all over the world, who came to the aid of Tsukishima's unilateral cyber control.

But even the "Free Land", which gathers so many elites, cannot fully confront the Skynet system, such as the uncontrollable degree of metamorphosis evolution of Skynet, which no hacker or hacker group can face. Therefore, although the "land of the free" is strong, it still has to face various restrictions.

The elites who built the "Land of the Free" had no choice about this, and in the end they had only one choice, and that was to force a breakthrough in hardware.

After more than ten years of research and development, the "Land of the Free" has finally developed a set of network equipment that can break through the limitations of the Skynet, which is named the "Broken Net Sword", through which you can break through the Skynet restrictions of Tiyue Island and enter the "Land of Freedom", which is equivalent to building a network bridge between the Moon Island and the Liujie.

Of course, the Moon Island side is also aware of this, and Skynet is also strictly blocking this.

Correspondingly, the "Sword of Breaking the Net" also has its own set of independent secret key systems, which will evolve and reset itself every day to prevent Skynet from cracking and blocking it, which can be said to be the network attack and defense war that is staged every moment in Tsukishima. Not many people know about this, and because the manufacturing process of the "Sword of the Broken Net" is special and expensive, even the number of them in Tsukishima is extremely limited.

But what Xia Ran can be sure of is that Baili has one in his hand.