"Hermit-sama, do you want something to drink?"

Bob, the black bartender, stood behind the bar, as usual, wiping his glasses.

"A glass of whiskey."

Char sat in the high chair with a smile on her face.

Every time she returns to The Wizard's Bar, Char feels at home

Compared with the cruel and cold reality, the online virtual space of the wizard bar made Char feel warmer than that.

"Do you have any news of the Hunter Sequence there?"

A glass of whiskey on the rocks was served, and Char took a sip and said in a low voice, "News about the Sequence 3 Ending Hunter." ”

Almost all evolutionary sequences are monopolized by big organizations and big conglomerates in the real world.

Ordinary people don't even know the name of the sequence, and certainly can't find the path to evolution.

Suzanne is the leader of the Silverwing Hunter Guild, and her power level is not low.

However, she still can't get the Hunter Sequence 3 to end the Hunter's evolutionary path.

In this day and age, money matters. But money is not everything.

Susanna's desire to progress from the normal channel to Sequence 3 is extremely unlikely.

The only option is for her to join an organization that has mastered the Terminator.

For example, the military-industrial complex Leviathan.

Like Dewey, it took ten or even twenty years to climb up.

If you're lucky, you may be able to enter the middle level of the company before the age of 40 and get the evolutionary path you want.

But Suzanne has a rebellious personality and is not social, and will definitely not obediently go to work in the company.

There are many people like her in this era.

If there is no special opportunity, Sequence 2 will be their limit.

No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't have evolved to a higher sequence.

Of course, compared to ordinary people, Suzanne is already considered lucky.

In this era, wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people.

Ninety-nine percent of the population is struggling with poverty, worrying about three meals a day and shelter.

At the very least, Suzanne has embarked on the path of evolution to become a being beyond humans.

"Absolutely."

Bob, the bartender, blinked with a mysterious expression, "Not long ago, a wizard brought me the news of the Terminator on consignment. Since the hermit wants it, I can give you a twenty-percent discount. ”

"How much is 20% off?" Char asked.

"The original price is one hundred Shadow Coins, and eighty percent off Shadow Coins." Bob, the bartender, said.

"Shhhh It's so expensive! ”

Char took a deep breath.

Shadow Coins and Federation Currencies are exchanged for 1 to 10,000.

Eighty Shadow Coins, equivalent to 800,000 Federation Currency.

Char only had 200 Shadow Coins in his account, and he had spent 10 Shadow Coins on the course.

Buying the news of the Terminator Hunter costs Char almost average assets.

Char originally thought it was too expensive, but suddenly thought that a bottle of red wine in Dewey's car would cost 200,000 federal dollars.

Dewey is only the middle level of the Oneiroi group, and he also climbed up from the bottom, and his food, clothing, housing and transportation are not luxurious.

If you talk about luxury, the table of banquets prepared by Furci during the day exceeded two million federal coins!

Thinking about it this way, 800,000 federal coins can buy the news of the end hunter, not only is it not expensive, but it is simply cheap.

"The news from Shadow Street is indeed not expensive. It's that I'm too poor. Char sighed, he had been working in the Oneiroi Mansion for a while, and although the Oneiroi Group had all the food, clothing, housing and transportation, he had not received a penny of wages so far.

"Bought it."

Char thought about it again and again, and finally gritted his teeth and paid 800,000 Shadow Coins to buy the news of the Ending Hunter.

Char soon receives an email from Bob, the bartender.

Inside the email was a document detailing the end of the Hunter.

Char was curious about the evolution route on the physical side, and immediately opened the file and browsed it.

"What are the three ways to evolve on the physical side? Genetic agents, prosthetic modifications, physical exercises? ”

"Genetic medicine is the riskiest method, and physical exercise is slow to take effect. Prosthetic modification is not risky and takes effect quickly, but it is expensive. ”

"The best way to improve the hunter sequence is to replace the prosthetic."

"Sequence 3 Termination Hunter, the corresponding prosthetic models are all military models, which are strictly controlled by the Federation, the military, and military industrial enterprises, and ordinary people have no permission to buy them."

"There are occasional prosthetics of the corresponding model flowing out of the black market, most of which are damaged products replaced by the battlefield, and after repair, they flow into the black market, the quality cannot be guaranteed, and the warranty cannot be enjoyed, and once it is damaged again, the repair cost will be astronomical."

"Here, I would like to introduce you to an arms dealer Wilson, who has been in business for many years, honest and trustworthy, and his contact information..."

Char realized it was an advertisement when he saw the arms dealer's contact information appear at the end of the document.

"Shadow Street can't escape the harassment of spam?"

Char's finger tapped on the table and said to Bob, "You just sold me an ad with useless spam in it, and I want a refund." ”

"Advertising?"

Bob looked a little flustered and explained, "But Lord Hermit, big data shows that this message has value and has the most likes, so I will push it to you." ”

"Big data... The number of likes..."

Char held his forehead with his right hand, feeling helpless.

Bob is an advanced artificial intelligence and looks no different from a real person, but he is an artificial intelligence after all.

Bob doesn't think for himself, and everything he does is based on big data analysis.

But big data analytics can be faked.

Shadow Street has been around for hundreds of years.

Over the years, wizards have died, and new wizards have passed the test and joined Shadow Street.

The gold content of wizard accounts is getting lower and lower.

Coupled with the existence of witch hunters, they hunt the true identity of wizards, obtain wizard accounts, and sell them to advertisers at a high price.

Advertisers take on the advertisement, use these shell wizard accounts, swipe up the number of likes, and trick Bob into thinking that it is valuable information to push to other wizards.

This gray industrial chain has always existed.

It's just that it has intensified in the past few years, and it has reached the verge of getting out of control.

Char opened a few more messages pushed by Bob, and sure enough, they were all advertisements, and there was very little valuable information.

Char finally understood why Scarlet Witch said that buying information from Bob was not a good choice.

Because Bob's big data algorithm is used by advertisers, all the information pushed is spam.

Char finally understood that even if he was a great witch hermit, after entering Shadow Street, except for the Red Witch and Merlin, he would take the initiative to greet him. The other wizards, though friendly in their eyes, never greeted themselves, only whispering to their companions at their own drinking tables.

Shadow Street was divided into small circles of wizards, building barriers to each other and no longer communicating.

The speed of information flow is getting slower and slower, and sooner or later, Shadow Street will lose its original meaning and fall apart.

This day is not far away.