was watched.

Li Ang didn't have much surprise, the other party had already mastered his initial Internet Protocol physical address, and it was a matter of course for him to be able to lock him down.

If the situation is really as dire as the other side says,

It is against the norm for the Social Security Administration not to conduct any surveillance.

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

Leon nodded, "Yes, but I can't get you into the Coastal Wizards' Guild's stronghold. ”

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

"You'll know where you go."

Leon didn't talk nonsense to the other party, wrapped his palm around the cricket, put it in his pocket, looked left and right, and rushed towards the giant hollow pipe at the end of the horizon.

In a short time, Leon arrived at the location of the pipeline.

He stretched his palm to the surface of the pipe, his fingertips stretched and melted, and then the whole person was "dragged" into the pipe by the unknown force.

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

Leon saw that from time to time there appeared in the pipes the same as his own, which could maintain the body.

Humans, elves, demons, cars, containers, octopuses, ants, etc. - these are all wizards who walk in the world of data with their own goals.

Of course, there are also official agents and cybersecurity technicians employed by private companies.

This is the case in the world of data, where there are thousands of people and faces under the weird skin.

Leon didn't have much contact with these wizards,

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

And in order to reduce the chance of being discovered, many wizards will change their appearance every time they enter the data world, and even acquaintances will not be easy to recognize, unless they are close enough.

Leon kept changing routes, jumping from node to node, passing through countless fortresses and cities, and finally arrived at the destination, jumping out of the light network.

It's a barren plain, just like the first login location, but...

Leon patted the cricket in his pocket that had become dizzy from high-speed travel, and made the latter sober up,

He took dozens of steps forward.

The scene ahead changed suddenly, and the dry and cracked ground grew lush grass and colorful flowers.

A few more steps? And there is moss and lichen expanding under your feet? Towering trees rise from the ground, and vines spread and entangle along the branches of trees? Quickly manifests into a tropical rainforest.

Crickets poking their heads out of their pockets? Curious and greedy looking around the surroundings,

The intelligence agencies hate the Wizards of the Coast Association? If this were the real world, would they want to immediately bring in a formation of bombers and tanks? Blowing up the entire stronghold into the sky? Then send special forces to storm the ruins and find out all the wizards hiding inside.

"Don't move."

Leon stretched out his fingers and pressed the cricket's head and pressed the latter back into his pocket.

The latter instinctively wants to rebel? But the next second? A bird of the Capuchin family swooped down, its claws barely scratching its head.

“！！！”

The cricket retracted into Leon's pocket in a panic, and then he felt a little afraid.

"It's all bots that can search for foreign data."

Leon walked around a tree, reached out and gently brushed away the python-like vines that fell from the canopy.

Calmly taking a large colorful spider from your shoulder? Gently place it back on the trunk

"The members of the Wizards of the Coast Guild don't like to be harassed by outsiders, whether it's agents of intelligence agencies? Or a young wizard trying to prove himself in the top circles. ”

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

Once you don't notice these signals, or misread them?

Will the brain be disordered?

Completely lost? Walking out of the other side of the forest,

In the worst case, it will cause hostility from bots and launch attacks.

and even being thrown back into the real world.

After this attack, the crickets did not dare to act rashly, and obediently lay in their pockets.

Leon walked around the rainforest, carefully avoiding death traps one by one.

Eventually, the road ahead opened up, and a wide, deep rift valley emerged at the end of the rainforest.

The rift valley stretches for several kilometers and is nearly 200 meters wide. Purple smoke filled the valley floor, and some huge monsters swam and floated in the rift, the spikes on their backs piercing the smoke like shark fins, making it difficult to see the whole picture.

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

The castle is made of grey boulders, and the masonry near the ground is covered with moss and dry vines, making it look historic.

"Here we are."

Leon stopped and pulled the cricket out of his pocket,

The latter, with his yellow-brown compound eyes, scanned the entire canyon curiously and vigilantly, "What's wrong?" ”

"From here to the castle, you have to walk through an invisible segmented ladder, you can't fly, you can't teleport, and if you take a wrong step, it will cause the monsters below the rift to attack."

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

All physical visitors must pass alone, even if I swallow you in my stomach,

The ladder will also pull you out and leave you to walk alone.

Unless you are sure to rely on your own brain, process hundreds of subconscious instructions every second, avoid traps, know the location of the next transparent hanging ladder, and walk the whole way,

Otherwise, it's better to stay here and wait for me to come out. ”

The cricket didn't answer for the first time, as if he was stunned in place, probably communicating with his superiors.

After more than ten seconds, he nodded and jumped off Li Ang's palm.

"As soon as possible."

The cricket's voice hid a hint of imperceptible anxiety, and Leon nodded, telling the other party not to move around to trigger the trap, and then stepped onto the transparent hanging ladder.

A few minutes later, Leon walked through the rift with seemingly ease, wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and pushed open the thick door of the castle.

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

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

It's not at all as old as it appears out there - even though it's a data world, wizards don't treat themselves badly.

There are already a few members in the hall,

The stone elephant-shaped god sits cross-legged on a woollen carpet facing the fireplace, closing his eyes and contemplating the fire;

Wearing armor and a feathered helmet, Valkyrie sat on the couch and threw darts at the target hanging on the wall, and every shot was a sure hit;

Merlin, dressed in a green robe and wearing a pointed hat, is standing in a corner, whispering to a robot.

The robot's face is embedded with an electronic screen with an 8-bit animated human face.

This is also a wizard named "Ohm".

Behind them was a table with an old black typewriter.

Mail person.

Leon's eyebrows, hidden under the dragon's head mask, were slightly raised, and he passed straight past without lingering.

"Samast?"

Nicholas, the most wanted man in the tax bureau dressed as Santa Claus, was standing behind a desk when he saw Leon walk in and called out Brown Murphy's nickname in the data world, "Why did you change your look?" ”

"Change the look, change the mood."

Leon replied casually in the tone of Brown Murphy in his memory.

The Wizards of the Coast's castle base identifies visitors and wears badges of varying shapes on their chests - mainly to prevent unpleasant pranks, such as disguised identities and embarrassment.

Nicholas, who was kind-eyed, lingered for a moment on the godless dead fish eyes of the dragon's head mask, and said a little against his will: "It's pretty good."

By the way, come and see my Christmas plans, do you have any comments? ”

As a famous, or notorious, wanted criminal,

Nicholas still has the habit of robbing the rich and giving to the poor every Christmas, and on the table in front of him is a moving hourglass and a three-dimensional map of the medieval fortress.

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

"Swiss banks?"

Leon recognized the location of the map, the blood vessels in the map, which should be the cash flow of the bank.

"That's right."

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

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

Hehe. ”

Leon was surprised: "You broke through the defenses of the Swiss bank? ”

"A little."

A sly smile appeared on Nicholas's face, "They reconstructed the entire fortress last year, the means of defense are good, and there are highly vigilant automated programs everywhere,

There are bank-trained wizards on the periphery (whose real names are already in the hands of the bank and work in fixed locations) to patrol the periphery, and there are also a large number of secret sentinels on the inside.

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

He stretched out his hand and flicked it on the three-dimensional map of the fortress, and hundreds of new blood vessels immediately extended into the vascular system, which symbolized cash flow,

Dig into the ground, and don't know where it leads.

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

All the shady money in the world is in it. ”

One wizard exclaimed, "You're going to 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: "Those hounds recruited by official training in the regions (a scorn for wizards who submit to the authorities),

All grew up in greenhouses,

I haven't experienced the time when one wrong step in the wilderness era was shattered.

More than ability, not enough experience.

I'm still a long way from finding me.

Besides, even you can't find my real name. ”

Truth be told, the Wizards of the Coast Society, which gathers the top data plane walkers, is not comparable to those small circles of amateurs.

Each member of it, even under the lightest legal sentence, is enough to stay in prison for a lifetime or two.

In order to obtain benefits,

Also in order to preemptively and protect themselves,

Every member of the Wizards of the Coast Guild has investigated the identities of others, both openly and secretly, and every seemingly casual conversation may be a data attack by thousands of people, and the guns and arrows have never stopped.

Nicholas flicked the moving hourglass with his fingernail, the hourglass shook and rotated 180 degrees, and the fine sand brush flowed, "From now on, every minute that passes, there will be a million and two hundred thousand dollars,

Flows from Swiss banks to hundreds of banks around the world, randomly distributed to household accounts with annual incomes below the local average.

Until Christmas three days later. ”

Merlin came over at some point, groaned, and said, "Twenty thousand in one second, three days later." A total of 5,184 million dollars? ”

"There are a lot of totals, but they all come from dead accounts that haven't moved for a long time, and each account only takes a part."

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

And this part of the money, which may be astronomical for the average family, is not worth the battle for forming alliances and searching the world to find the thief. ”

"Nice Christmas present."

Leon nodded and applauded, as did the other wizards around the table.

A subtle smile appeared under Nicholas's beard, calmly enjoying the appreciation of wizards of the same level, and under the glittering eyes, he was probably thinking about the new event next Christmas.

"It's really amazing."

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

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

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

Poor families don't live happily ever after because of these few hundred dollars.

The powerful with fat brains will not go bankrupt and perish because they lose a small half of their wealth - on the contrary, your robbery of the rich and giving to the poor will make them more eager to find ways to make money, and in the end it will hurt the people.

If you want to do something bigger,

I mean, if you rob the rich and give to the poor for a sense of justice and not for pompous self-satisfaction,

Maybe you can work with us..."

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

Li Ang's eyes froze,

After the "miracle", the mailman continued to recruit troops, and it seems that Merlin and Ohm have been enveloped.

If the investigators of the Social Security Administration are right,

The e-mail man has really taken control of the logic module of the decision-making department, subtly adjusted the direction of the world for four years, and recently began to try to control the military system.

So what will be the purpose of his recruitment of the Great Witch?

World domination?

Let the Great Witch be his right and left hand? Or do you gather talent around yourself to prevent these data walkers from interfering with his plans?