"It's better to face it than to escape." Xiao Yuan wrote these words on the paper, and then thought deeply, because the stakes were so high, he had to be cautious.

"In my previous life, I embarked on the road of no return to hacking because of Chi Xiang's frame-up, starting from scratch, it took nearly ten years to step on the pinnacle of the hacker world, blackskull made me, but it also ruined me."

"In this life, my starting point is the end of my previous life, and if I am given another ten years, I will definitely go further."

"In my previous life, I was a lonely hacker, almost all of my energy was put into the virtual world of computers and the Internet, there are almost no interpersonal relationships in reality, no friends, even if I die, the people who are sad for me, except for my parents and relatives, I'm afraid there will be no one else, although I can call for wind and rain in the network, but in reality, I have no power to restrain the chicken, and a hooligan like Dai Lu Mao can cause me great trouble, not to mention a super force like blackskull that can cover the sky."

"In this life, I have relatives, friends, and lovers, I am no longer powerless, and more importantly, I have my own career, and I am no longer helpless.

“……”

For the first time, Xiao Yuan made a detailed comparison of himself before and after his rebirth, and suddenly found that although a year and a half had passed since ninety-eight years to the present, the situation was completely different, and these changes even shocked him.

"Even if the blackskull is monstrous, if you want to deal with me, it will definitely involve the interests of all aspects, in terms of social relations, I am the quasi-grandson-in-law of Xia Shan, the founding father of China, and have a good relationship with the Liang family and the Ouyang family of the Chamber of Commerce, there is Master Tong Banshan and the Huaxia Martial Arts Federation behind him, there is a mysterious alliance like Tang Sa, there are life and death brothers like Jiang Hua and the natural warrior tribe behind him - the Kara tribe, Under normal conditions, Old Man Sima will definitely not sit idly by when I am in a dangerous situation, and behind him there is a huge society that can rank among the top three in the world-Hongmen ......"

"At the economic level, I am one of the founders of Xuanne Technology, the most dynamic technology company in China, the largest shareholder, and the founder of the largest open source community in China......"

"In addition, my virtual identity - feonix is becoming the spiritual leader of Huaxia hackers, although on the surface I am a disciple of feonix, just the spokesperson of the title feonix, but I can make feonix reappear in the virtual world at any time, and I will respond to ......"

Thinking that all these changes were created by himself in just a year and a half after being reborn, an irrepressible sense of pride arose in Xiao Yuan's heart, and then he thought of the thing that Blackskull gave him an S.

Xiao Yuan knows about this rating, and naturally knows what this level means, and with the technical level he showed before, it is possible to be rated as A-grade, but the S-grade is a little reluctant, and now he is rated S-level, the only possible explanation is that Blackskull took many non-technical factors into account when rating him.

"In other words, if I promised Mark, joined Blackskull, and became an S-class core member of Blackskull, I would never become a purely technical core member like Mark, and I would not become a core hacker who was positioned as a pawn like in my previous life, most likely they would gradually brainwash me, and then arrange for me to do something extra-technical, such as ......"

As a hacker, he knew much more about that incident than the ordinary public, in fact, what the public saw was only the tip of the iceberg of the whole thing, and the X-mirror incident was just a state act of a country in the United States, but Blackskull was an organization that transcended the country, and they were doing the same thing, but they were more cautious and did not be exposed.

"So, how exactly do I deal with blackskull's wooing?"

Xiao Yuan's train of thought finally returned to this question.

"Refuse?"

"If you refuse, blackskull will not give up easily, if I am resolute, they find that it is not feasible to win over, I will inevitably be blacklisted by them, because of this, Xuan Nie will also become the object of their key suppression, the current development in China, the problem is not too big, although blackskull has also used some opportunities to make waves, trying to suppress the development of Xuan Nie, but those are just small fights, as an Internet company, Xuanni will inevitably go abroad, and at that time, Xuanni's development will be restricted everywhere, and the blow will come like a storm......"

"For me personally, because I didn't become a core member of blackskull, and my safety will involve all aspects of interests, they may not directly send killers to kill me like in my previous life, but they will inevitably suppress me in an all-round way, restricting my development, if there is a chance, if I fall into some kind of dangerous situation, it is entirely possible for them to do something that falls into the ground, and even I suspect, When one day they find out that my existence is causing damage to the balance they maintain, they can't blatantly harm me, but it is entirely possible to use all kinds of conspiracies to frame me......"

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan felt a headache again, the so-called open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to prevent, conspiracies and tricks are really annoying, every moment to guard against being caught by others, at any time to guard against being plotted, for a long time, it can completely drive people crazy, even if they are not crazy, people will become neurotic, all day long, the bow and snake shadow, the grass and trees are soldiers, this is not what Xiao Yuan wants to see.

"How to deal with this?"

Xiao Yuan rubbed his head and asked himself this question repeatedly, but in the end there was no conclusion, in the absence of a conclusion, he suddenly realized that his thinking had entered a dead end, and he could not move forward, so he decided to rewind his thoughts a little bit, and repeated the previous question: "How should I face the pull of blackskull?" ”

The actual answer to this question is actually a fork in the road, the left intersection is to refuse the invitation of blackskull, or to agree to the invitation of blackskull, but that is a dead end, and turning right at the intersection is to agree to blackskull's wooing.

"Can you agree, if you agree, wouldn't you have walked into the old path of your previous life again, what if blackskull asks me to do something that violates my principles, will I quit like in my previous life at that time, and meet the hunt of blackskull again?"

Xiao Yuan felt that his thinking seemed to be in a dilemma again, and this path didn't seem to work.

Shaking his swollen head, Xiao Yuan's eyes fell on the computer screen, and the message Jessica sent him was still there: "Instead of running away, it's better to face ...... bravely"

"Instead of running away, it's better to face it bravely!"

Xiao Yuan chewed on this sentence again, and suddenly found that no matter which choice he made, it was based on a premise: blackskull was extremely powerful and invincible, and his philosophy and blackskull were mutually repulsive, so that no matter how he chose, he would enter a dead end.

"Is blackskull really invincible?"

Xiao Yuan suddenly thought of this question, but the answer he got made him a little frustrated, at least judging from his current strength and the resources he had, it was indeed yes.

"Will I be able to grow enough to compete with Blackskull in the future?" Although Xiao Yuan was frustrated, his thoughts did not stagnate because of this, and he thought of this problem instead.

"What a height that is!"

Xiao Yuan involuntarily made a posture of looking up, and a trace of longing flashed in his heart, but immediately he calmed down, that goal was still too far away, and he needed to climb step by step with his feet on the ground.

"So what now?"

Xiao Yuan smiled bitterly, his thoughts turned around, and he returned to the mouth of the two-way alley.