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Chapter 159 A Wild Hacker (Updated 3/3)

The so-called immortal succubus queen isn't that bullets can't kill her, but rather that there aren't enough bullets available.

Of the 1000 bullets that Xia Zuo bought on the black market, a full 600 of them hit Melissa.

Later, he emptied the fortress's armory and used all sorts of weapons to test the limits of the succubus's physical defense.

Melissa resisted, struggled, seduced, pleaded, screamed, and cursed, but ultimately died.

Xia Zuo licked his lips savoring the memory, then forgot all about the succubus.

There's no need to dwell on the dead succubi.

He drove absentmindedly, but in his mind he was reviewing the successful revenge operation.

Then, compare the previous failed actions with the successful experiences and lessons learned from the failures.

After careful consideration, Xia Zuo realized that while his own strength was a crucial factor in successfully dealing with Melissa, finding her location information through electromagnetic signals was an even more important prerequisite.

He chuckled to himself, "I really have to thank Hokage Natsume; his deduction of [Electronic Wave Perception] is incredibly useful."

"Without this ability, finding Melissa would be ten or a hundred times more difficult. I would have to trek back and forth in the rainforest, and I might even accidentally attract unnecessary trouble."

"United Fruit Company is no longer what it used to be, but S.H.I.E.L.D. and the CIA are in big trouble."

"If we were to encounter Hydra disguised as S.H.I.E.L.D., that would be even more troublesome."

"The unassuming anti-drug bureau can summon three fighter-bombers with just one phone call, delivering six heavy missiles and one thermobaric bomb."

"If it were another, more ruthless department, they might even be able to develop tactical nuclear weapons."

"The level of military power of modern technology is indeed very, very high, terrifyingly so."

"From now on, I can't leave the city at will, and I can't go to war zones without disguise. Even if I have to go, I have to get in and out as quickly as possible."

Xia Zuo quickly thought of a second point. Because he was bored and impatient while waiting, he bought a bunch of weapons and unintentionally created a disguise for firepower.

His precise and magical gunfighting technique not only terrified the gunmen, but also tricked Melissa, the succubus, into making a misjudgment, causing her to rush up with her weapon and fight him instead of immediately fleeing.

this point is very important.

Melissa truly lived up to her reputation as a succubus, employing a multitude of bizarre and unpredictable methods. After being captured, she attempted various escape and counterattack maneuvers, many of which were completely incomprehensible to Xia Zuo.

It's just a pity that she was too close to Xia Zuo.

Even the most amazing skills require energy to achieve.

Within close-quarters combat, Xia Zuo forcefully suppressed the energy fluctuations within the succubus's body with magnetic force, ignoring all techniques and not needing to worry about specific countermeasures, thus rendering the succubus helpless.

Looking back now, at least three of the techniques used by the succubus touched space, presumably in an attempt to open the gates of hell.

If Melissa successfully opens the gates of Hell, whether she intends to escape back to Hell, summon a massive number of cannon fodder, or seek help from the big shots in Hell, it will make the situation quite troublesome.

Xia Zuo smiled with a hint of relief: "Pretending to be a gunfighting expert seems quite interesting and useful."

"Hehe, when the enemy finally manages to knock the gun out of my hand, or waits until I run out of ammunition and rushes in front of me wanting revenge, then I'll show them what the real Master Xia Zuo is."

Thirdly, I can't think of anything right now.

Xia Zuo shook his head, changing his approach: "I need to practice [Electronic Wave Perception] more to increase my proficiency."

"First, let's try to locate and monitor Kingpin, so we can avoid the embarrassing situation of not being able to find him again next time we take action."

Shazor looked toward the prominent Wilson Building in Hell's Kitchen. Kingpin had returned and was living in that building.

Kingpin's sinister empire possessed too many dark interests, and he had too many enemies to count them all.

When Kingpin was forced to leave New York, his power there diminished, and enemies emerged like mushrooms after rain.

First, Daredevil and his friends are active everywhere, trying to take down Kingpin's business.

Next up is the Punisher, the nemesis of evil, who focuses on killing Kingpin's henchmen and robbing them of weapons and money.

Finally, there are the underworld gangs whose origins are unclear, who have become active in seizing and occupying the territory that Kingpin has taken over.

The gang warfare in New York quickly reached its climax.

As Kingpin's remaining forces dwindled, various underworld gangs seized large tracts of territory, initiating a new round of competition among them.

The vigilantes on the streets have once again set their sights on them, and the Punisher is happily killing gangsters and robbing them of their dirty money.

Violent clashes erupt every night in New York, with bombings, shootings, murders, arson, and other heinous crimes occurring frequently.

The NYPD was in a complete mess, which was one of the reasons why the deputy commissioner stepped in to pass the message to Xia Zuo.

After Officer Shazzo accepted Kingpin's apology, the mob boss returned to New York with his private army and moved back into Wilson Building.

Kingpin's strength should not be underestimated. He personally took action and on the very first day, he routed the vigilantes on the streets.

It is said that Daredevil was seriously injured that day, one of his friends was killed on the spot, and even Daredevil's girlfriend fell into Kingpin's hands.

Then there were those messy gangs, many of them but weak in strength, and some of them were entrenched in Kingpin's former territory.

These look like a bunch of weaklings who jumped onto the cutting board on their own, and they even thoughtfully struck a pose of lying down to get beaten up.

Kingpin unleashed his well-equipped private army, wiping out more than 30 gangs of all sizes overnight and reunifying the New York underworld under his control.

Starting Saturday, New York's nights returned to quiet.

That's the value of Kingpin.

Therefore, he was able to gain the tacit approval of the official forces and become the emperor of the underworld.

Because he was tacitly allowed to exist by official forces, Kim had to offer a large sum of cash as an apology after his failed assassination attempt on Officer Shaza.

So, this rule-abiding underworld emperor shouldn't be angry after being monitored by Xia Zuo a few times.

Xia Zuo laughed, nonchalantly devising a plan to monitor Kingpin, as if the fat man hadn't offered a $1000 million apology.

He was absolutely certain that Kingpin's law-abiding demeanor was all a facade, and that Kingpin was definitely plotting against him, searching everywhere for a skilled assassin to kill him.

He will seize any opportunity without hesitation.

It doesn't matter what price he has to pay afterward, or how he has to explain, apologize, or atone to the important people.

Kingpin's enemies are dead, but he is still alive—that is the greatest victory, a victory that allows him to intimidate all enemies in the underworld.

After that, Shazor began to openly monitor Kingpin. He would circle Wilson Building two, three, or even more times during each patrol to show his presence and warn Kingpin not to have any wicked thoughts.

In reality, Shazor intercepted the electromagnetic signals from the Wilson Building nearby, searching for Kingpin's secret communications within the radio waves and memorizing their electromagnetic characteristics.

This job is actually not difficult at all.

Because the ability to "perceive radio waves" is so overpowered, a communication channel that would take a professional hacker a long time to indirectly analyze, like a blind man groping in the dark, is something Xia Zuo can spot at a glance.

He quickly located Kingpin's communications channel and, following the trail, found his encrypted satellite and cable channels.

In particular, the newly laid encrypted cable channel actually went through a fiber optic channel before leaving Wilson Building, making it undetectable by Xia Zuo's [Radio Wave Perception].

It was by chance that Xia Zuo discovered that there was a radio cable with Kingpin's special communication characteristics, which only connected the two ends inside Wilson Building.

He couldn't understand why Kingpin would use an encrypted private line even though they were inside the same building.

So Xia Zuo reached out and hooked out the radio cable. After careful inspection, he discovered the encrypted fiber optic channel.

Fortunately, Xia Zuo's physics level was at the high school level, and he knew that light was also an electromagnetic wave.

After several days of research and adjustments, Xia Zuo included fiber optic communication in the scope of "electro-wave sensing," but it required them to be very close together.

At this point, Xia Zuo had all of Kingpin's communication methods under his control, and he no longer needed to make several trips every day.

However, the biggest problem also emerged: all of Kingpin's communications were encrypted, and when Shaza intercepted them, they could only appear as gibberish in his mind, and could not be converted into direct text, sound, and images.

It seems that Kim had suffered greatly in electronic intelligence, and therefore he had specially trained experts in electromagnetic counter-surveillance techniques to protect his communications.

No wonder it was so difficult to track this guy last time.

It's worth noting that even though Shazor managed to get help from the NYPD's technical department through his connections, he still lost the cyberwar and was never able to locate Kingpin.

So this is Kingpin's confidence. As long as he can avoid being found by Shazor in the first place, he can live long enough to have someone speak for him.

Xia Zuo understood the cause of the matter, but felt even more annoyed.

As we all know, garbled text is a particularly annoying thing, especially when you painstakingly download a huge file, only to find gibberish instead of a video when you open it.

That feeling of going crazy, those who know, know.

Without decoding, we won't know what Kingpin did or where he'll go next, so how can we track him down?

Xia Zuo began to consider how to decode the information. Only by acquiring more intelligence could he pinpoint Kingpin's whereabouts and lay the groundwork for a heart-to-heart talk with him a few months later.

However, Xia Zuo didn't want to learn decoding on his own because he knew he couldn't.

It's not a matter of lacking talent, it's purely a matter of incompatibility. Just seeing it gives me a headache and makes me want to sleep.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xia Zuo decided to find someone.

In this increasingly prosperous technological world, simply relying on one's own special abilities to gather intelligence is indeed somewhat lacking.

Previously, Xia Zuo's strength was not very strong, so he was not particularly conspicuous and did not need to form his own organization. He could live well by relying on the local power of the New York Police Department.

But now his strength seems, probably, perhaps is far too great, so great that even the New York Police Department can no longer cover him or hide him.

Moreover, with 2008 approaching, the number of future supervillains will explode, and they are likely to form groups to clash with him, making it somewhat difficult for him to continue fighting alone.

It's not that Xia Zuo thinks he can't beat them, but if he's completely clueless, he'll be at a disadvantage and suffer unnecessary losses.

See, he lost face in front of Kingpin.

We still need to strengthen intelligence work and enhance intelligence gathering capabilities. The best way is to recruit a trustworthy hacker to work with Xia Zuo's [Electronic Wave Perception] to achieve godlike status on the Internet.

As one of New York City's star police officers, Shaza has a wide network of contacts. He knows many hackers affiliated with the police department, as well as many hackers who have committed crimes and whose names have been attached to the police force.

But those guys had quite a temper; they all looked down on everyone.

The Kingpin escape incident proved that these guys' technical skills were mediocre and their abilities were not trustworthy.

The real genius hackers are all recruited by departments with higher authority; the New York Police Department has no chance.

This is not surprising; the NYPD is merely a local force, lacking the prestige to attract truly powerful hackers.

Xia Zuo not only disliked these hackers for their poor skills, but he also disliked their character, as they were all on the police's radar for committing cybercrimes.

If someone's character isn't trustworthy, Xia Zuo wouldn't dare confide in them.

Fortunately, within just a few days, Xia Zuo discovered a wild hacker using his [Electronic Wave Perception].

He didn't know the hacker's name, nor had he ever seen his face, but he had "seen" the electromagnetic signals the guy generated when transmitting data.

Those enormous signal bars represented an incredibly large amount of data, undoubtedly saturating the bandwidth in an era with less than 10 megabits per second.

This is certainly not something that ordinary network users can do. Even the most efficient P2P transmission will leave enough redundancy to combat noise and abnormal operations.

Only computer experts could manually modify the settings to utilize the bandwidth to such an extreme degree.

Therefore, the source of the electromagnetic signal must be a network expert.

Shortly after the patrol began, Xia Zuo spotted the distinctive giant signal pillar again and quickly located the source of the signal.

It was a dilapidated bread truck parked on the side of the road.

He parked the police car behind the van, got out, slowly walked over, and knocked on the back door of the van.

Soon, a girl carrying a laptop opened the car door. She looked at Xia Zuo with doe-like eyes and asked with a puzzled expression, "Officer, is there a problem?"

Xia Zuo looked at the disheveled, half-Chinese, half-Western girl and said with a smile, "Miss, you can't park here for long. If you don't leave immediately, I will give you a ticket."

"Okay, officer, I'll be leaving now."

The girl hurriedly returned to the driver's seat, tossed the computer to the passenger seat, and then quickly started the car, driving away down the street in a cloud of black smoke.

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