Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

She hadn't spoken a word since she first met Fang Bailu. She just bowed when they met and then went to help carry the prosthesis.

"This kid... no, this Erni is still embarrassed about forcing me to give her a five-star review?"

But at this time there was no time to take care of her psychological trauma.

Fang Bailu took out his notebook and communicator: He needed the help of the Yixianqian blind date system.

After entering the 49-digit password and passing the voice verification, the annoying voice of the ancient AI "matchmaker" sounded:

"This is the matchmaker, at your service."

Fang Bailu pressed his vocal cords with his fingers and answered softly using the implanted Adam's apple vibration transmitter:

"I want the 'Magpie Bridge Meeting' service, and my target is the 'Outer Sect Taoist Priest' in my address book."

The Adam's apple vibration transmitter is also called a throat microphone. It can speak with only a slight vibration. Fang Bailu didn't want to cause trouble because of his extra secrets being heard by Erni.

"Legend has it that the Weaver Girl will marry the Cowherd tonight! I am contacting your Weaver Girl..."

"What a piece of crap, so much nonsense!"

Fang Bailu was so angry that he pressed his vocal cords hard and almost suffocated himself.

A small map was projected onto Fang Bailu's retina, and two cartoon-style Cowherd and Weaver Girl appeared at the two ends of the map.

"Meeting on the Magpie Bridge" is a service provided by Yixianqianli, which can provide real-time sharing of the locations of both parties and encrypted call functions.

It is said that in the past, this service benefited many men and women who eloped.

A melodious song "Butterfly Lovers" sounded: the encrypted call was connected.

"'Butterfly Lovers'? If they were really a couple, they would be so angry that they would die..."

"Who are you? Why are you forcing your way into my communications system?"

On the other end of the call, Anbenola's voice remained unchanged, but Fang Bailu could sense a hint of murderous intent coming from her words.

"An Ben? It's me!" Fang Bailu tried his best to suppress the vibration of his vocal cords so that Er Ni wouldn't hear him. "This is an encrypted communication."

"Fang Bailu...you can usually monitor my communicator? And what are these messed up maps and cartoon characters?"

The sound of the tablet could not completely cover up Anbennola's straightforward anger. Fang Bailu only felt a chill in his tailbone.

"No, I can only communicate with you in real time, I can't monitor you."

Fang Bailu made a brief defense and quickly got to the point:

"Why did you ask me to leave the store urgently? Did anyone from the Microcomputer Taoism Research Association come to my store?"

Anbenola's anger seemed to subside:

"Do you remember the ghost I traded with last night? I told you that it was a reserve member of the Yanshi Club."

The counter cut by the monomolecular thread, the face floating in the air, and the flesh crushed by Anbennola...

These scenes flashed through Fang Bailu's mind one by one.

Anbenola's mechanical, hoarse and flat voice continued:

"The Yanshi Club came to us."

Chapter 18 Theseus's White Deer (Part )

The Yanshi Club is a membership-based organization that operates in secrecy.

Unlike large and prestigious groups and companies such as the Microcomputer Taoism Research Society and the Induction Society, its existence is more like an urban legend.

But Fang Bailu knew that the Yanshi Club really existed. Not only that, it was also a giant in the underground network of Kuala Lumpur.

Many of the goods circulating in the underground market are circulated by members of the Yanshi Club.

Modified prosthetic parts, secondary optimized internal energy circulation algorithm, re-modulated implants...

The goods circulated by the Yanshi Club are all high-end products with extremely superior performance and fine processing.

At the same time, it also plays the role of an underground network intelligence broker. Fang Bailu once issued a reward through the Yanshi Club.

When Anbennola killed Yin Ling last night, he told Fang Bailu that Yin Ling was a member of the Yanshi Club.

So many things happened afterwards that Fang Bailu put the matter behind him.

But he didn't expect that pursuers would arrive in less than 24 hours.

Yanshi... Not many people in the New World understand the meaning of this word. But in Fang Bailu's memory, there is a little clue.

In his "previous life", Fang Bailu read a classic book, "Liezi·Tangwen", which recorded a story:

A craftsman named Yanshi approached King Mu of Zhou and presented him with a puppet he had made. The puppet could sing and dance, and its voice was like that of an oriole—better than a real person—and it could even flirt with King Mu’s concubines.

Later, some people regarded the puppet made by the craftsman "Yanshi" in this story as one of the earliest concepts of artificial intelligence.

According to Fang Bailu's guess, the Yanshi Club was named after the "Yanshi" in this story.

Therefore, there should be a lot of highly skilled blacksmiths and mechanics gathered there - just like the craftsman "Yanshi" recorded in "Liezi Tangwen".

"Now at least one person from the Yanshi Club is heading to Fang's Hardware Store. I'm following it."

Anbennola spoke very quickly, and Fang Bailu could vaguely sense her anxiety.

She paused and continued:

"It's a spirit."

"Goblins? I thought most of the goblins in Kuala Lumpur were killed by Turing detectives."

Spirits are wild AIs that roam in digital space, or they devour each other to a certain extent, or they merge with fragments of thought. Unlike ghosts, when they download themselves into the material world, they usually choose animals or inorganic objects as carriers.

Detective Turing is a hunter who specializes in tracking down wild AI, that is, unregistered artificial intelligence. He spends all day tracking traces of wild AI and monsters in the digital space.

However, considering the evil spirit that came before, it is understandable that it is a monster that came this time.

Fang Bailu held his forehead, feeling helpless:

"Didn't you kill that evil spirit? Why did you go to Fangfang's Hardware Store..."

"Wait, if the Yin Ling sent its coordinates before its death, the Yanshi Club should have gone directly to Anbennola's alchemy room..."

Fang Bailu corrected his thinking and said:

"No, the spirit doesn't know about the ghost's situation. It is just tracking the ghost's movements yesterday."

Ambenola agreed with his assessment:

"That's my guess."

After a pause, Anbenola continued, "Can you remotely control the defense system in the hardware store? The monster is almost at Fang's Hardware Store. When I fight it, I need your support, just in case."

Fang Bailu was stunned: "Do it?"

"No! You can't do it in my shop." Fang Bailu said firmly. "Besides, the monster may not know that you killed the ghost. If you attack it, wouldn't you be confessing yourself?"

"Are you kidding me? To mess with the Yanshi Club in Fang's Hardware Store... The attention from the Microcomputer Taoism Research Society alone is enough to put me in trouble."

Although remotely controlling the store's defense system was not a problem for him at all.

"It must die, otherwise it will track all the way to my alchemy room. Then not only will I be in trouble, but you will be in trouble too."

Anbenola's tone was calm, and he seemed to have made up his mind.

Fang Bailu frowned hard and tried to cheer himself up:

"Okay, you're right... Then let me know when it enters Fang's Hardware Store. Don't do anything yet. I'll find a way to lure the monster to me."

We can't fight that monster in the store, otherwise this matter will never end.

Fang Bailu took out a small mobile tablet from his backpack and turned on the remote monitoring of the store.

Several images appeared on the display: These were real-time images captured by the store’s cameras.

There are a total of 12 cameras in the hardware store, four are placed at the four corners of the ceiling, and eight are placed in hidden corners.

Fang Bailu cut through the images from several cameras in succession: just like when Fang Bailu left the store, the empty store was filled with garbage and dust.

He let go of the microphone and said to Erni in the driver's seat:

“Er Ni, drive out of the city! The farther away from downtown Kuala Lumpur, the better. There should be a group of wanderers heading towards Penang. Go out of the city from the other side.”

Erni said nothing, but tightened the accelerator. The ATV drew arcs on the street and shuttled through the gaps in the traffic.

Fang Bailu leaned against the shelf at the back of the car, back to back with the prosthetic body.

Arrow Street is located in a remote area, and after a while, the ruins on the edge of the city can be seen.

"A spirit has entered the store."

Anbenola's faint voice came from the implanted phone.

Fang Bailu quickly picked up the mobile tablet, and a figure appeared in the surveillance range of the camera——

A big yellow dog pushed open the glass door of the shop and walked gently into the shop.

Its fur was dull in color, and its hair was curled up in a ball with gray-black stains. It was obvious that it had not taken a bath for a long time.

It looked like the local dog that Fang Bailu often saw in his previous life, the "Chinese Countryside Dog".

"I found it. Don't act rashly." Fang Bailu held the microphone tightly and said to Anbennola.

Fang Bailu switched several cameras in succession. No matter which angle you looked at it from, it was just an ordinary stray dog.

The big yellow dog stuck out its tongue and sniffed around, sniffing its nose. It raised its hind legs and scratched its face, just like a real big yellow dog.

But Fang Bailu knew in his heart that this was definitely not an ordinary dog:

On Arrow Street, except for humans, most animals have been turned into homemade nutrient solution by the illegal immigrants from North America.

Moreover, every location it sniffed was where its own hidden defense devices were located...

Ding! A warning sound came from the tablet: the defense devices were going offline and shutting down one by one.

"Not only can it detect the location of the firepower device, it can also bypass the store's firewall and directly shut down my defense device..."

The store is equipped with layer upon layer of anti-reconnaissance equipment.

Fang Bailu's heart became heavier and heavier: Anbennola is right, this monster is really hard to deal with.

Fang Bailu was busy on the tablet: he needed to attract the monster's attention and make him chase over to him.

The store's defense mechanisms are covered with special materials that can theoretically block out detection methods including infrared thermal imaging.

But the big yellow dog was still found one by one.

Fang Bailu had a guess...

He tapped the tablet screen to improve the clarity of the image.

The yellow dog's ears moved, and then it turned around to face the camera that Fang Bailu was monitoring.

"really!"

Looking at the big yellow dog's face facing the camera, Fang Bailu was secretly delighted:

Just as Fang Bailu thought, this big yellow dog should be able to find out the network usage in Fang’s Hardware Store and use it to find the location of the equipment in the store.

Wherever bandwidth usage is higher than elsewhere, that's where the device is hidden. After all, all devices need to be connected to the network to work.

Fang Bailu improved the clarity of the picture, which increased the bandwidth occupied by the camera, allowing the big yellow dog to discover that the camera was being monitored in real time.

The sound of "puff puff puff" was heard:

The fur on the big yellow dog's limbs was torn apart, and four metal prosthetic limbs emerged from them to support the ground, lifting its torso. The tails of the four prosthetic limbs were extremely sharp and deeply penetrated into the floor.

At this time, it looks like a huge spider with four legs.

Rub, rub, rub - the four prosthetic limbs moved alternately, making holes one after another in the floor and walls.

In the blink of an eye, it had crawled to the camera on the ceiling.

The big yellow dog's face occupied the entire surveillance screen, and it looked at Fang Bailu through the camera.

The lens of a dog's eye is very large, and each eye can only see 25 degrees, so it cannot see nearby objects clearly.

But when the pair of dog eyes stared at the camera, Fang Bailu felt that something indescribable was looking at him across the Internet.

"You found me..."