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Chapter 9 On the Wings of the Scarlet Owl

Gu Tie locked the door and shook the sheets. The dust rose up and made him cough. There was no window in this small bedroom. There was nothing except a camp bed and a desk. There was a Polish Army recruitment poster on the white wall. , glittering dust danced under the red-hot filament of the incandescent lamp, and there was a faint smell of corruption in the air.

"I forgot to ask Ed where the owner of this room went. He couldn't have died here." He couldn't help but bend down and take a look under the bed. Two pairs of Army combat boots were placed in the corner, covered with dust. Half of the spider web was covered, but fortunately there were no corpses.

"Lao Ai, you have dinner first, and don't disturb me for now. I need some time," he shouted to the door, and the bearded man responded: "I understand, your food will be placed in the kitchen, I'm next door Rest,,,I found another can of canned beef, it’s only been expired for two days, it should be fine,”

Gu Tie curled his lips and checked the wounds on his body. In addition to the many scratches caused by jumping from the train, there was a dark bullet mark on his shoulder. There was no bleeding, so there was no need for treatment. He just lay there without any comfort. On Yan's camp bed, he picked up his mobile phone to connect to the network, then used the mobile phone's routing function to share the quantum network, and used the implanted chip in the medulla oblongata to log in to the client.

The blue "World" login interface appeared in the sea of ​​​​consciousness. Gu Tie discovered that there were many secrets buried in this game, waiting for him to find the truth. But now there were more important things to do. He resisted the impulse and called up The backdoor program logs into the "Genesis" network. The endless black land spreads in all directions, and rolling thunderclouds rise from the skyline. The person lying on the ground slowly opens his eyes and looks at the "pure land" he created. In the eternal world, Searching for strange things in the earth and sky, of course, there was no trace of the intruder. It had only been a few hours since he logged into the Internet at Bialystok Medical University to visit the Pure Land. Gu Tie smiled to himself, feeling sorry for himself. feel ashamed.

"The Crimson Owl Brotherhood," the name Ed relayed was in English (The Crimson Owl Fraternity). It was difficult for him to translate this string of words into international language with his English level close to 0. Fortunately, "Crimson" and "Brotherhood" were two The words English and Interlingua share the same root.

The owl is an owl, a nocturnal bird of prey that emits ominous sounds and brings mysterious curses. According to the Chinese, if an owl crows in front of a house, someone will die in that house.

Gu Tie opened the search engine while thinking about all the strange things that Xiao Liping had told him. Even though Lao Xiao was a sanctimonious materialist, he was filled with weird folklore and often used it to educate those who had lost their childhood. Chinese citizen Gu Tie.

Regarding owls, Minister Xiao once said that there is a saying in his hometown that if you hear an owl hooting at night, go to the water tank at home and put your ear to the water tank to listen. You may hear the owl calling someone. The name of the person, "Zhang San, the time has come, it's time to go..." That is to say, the owl is the messenger of the King of Hell, sent to inform the deceased of the time to go on the road, and as a reward, the owl can eat four taels of meat from the dead man's calf. .

"You can still be a party member if you are so superstitious, no matter what," Gu Tie said, waving his hand and spreading the search engine interface in the air. The search engine in the quantum computer era actually uses different algorithms to search for information deep underground in Salzburg, Austria. The storage array is traversed. The massive storage array manufactured using silicon carbide lattice defect technology contains more than 60% of the entire planet's digital information, with a total amount of approximately 3ZB (3*2 70 bytes). Gu Tie sometimes thinks that if the Day of Judgment comes in the way of aliens destroying the earth, then the invaders can easily take away the entire thousands of years of human civilization history, although that will definitely be a problem for them. Not worth the money.

After typing "Red Xiao Brotherhood" in the search interface, only a few results came back. Gu Tie frowned and dragged out a few relevant pages and put them next to him. He slowly thought about it. First of all, "Red Xiao Brotherhood" did not have any results. Valuable related results, there is only one complete mention of this term, which is a fantasy novel that won the second prize in an essay competition for middle school students in the small town of Banff, Alberta, Canada; secondly, the owl "Red Owl" It doesn't exist. It's a made-up word in English. Finally, in the vast list of results for the ancient term "brotherhood", Gu Tie changed several filtering methods and couldn't find any relevant information.

"Impossible," the owner of the Pure Land was a little confused. An organization that blatantly dispatched armed forces to carry out killings could not be so obscure that it was not included in the Quantum Network. Even the IPU radical organization "Shiva" who did a good job of keeping secrets ", you can also get about 100,000 search results. In this information society, no individual or organization can exist in isolation. The Genesis Network penetrates into all aspects of society like a spider web. Information security has become a joke among ordinary people, except Except for aliens like Gu Tie who have considerable power, no one can be completely invisible on the quantum network.

Could it be that the "Red Owl Brotherhood" has some ulterior relationship with GTC?

Gu Tie changed several search engines, and even used his own deep-level spider crawling engine to traverse the underlying database of Genesis. Within the scope of his access, he still found nothing.

"What the hell," Gu Tie lay down on the ground in frustration, tearing apart all the windows in the air with his eyes. Suddenly he remembered that there were photos of the corpse's face and tattoos on his phone, and jumped up to find his mobile device. From the storage location, drag the photo over and zoom in again until the two photos almost fill the sky.

The empty eyes of the Japanese reappeared in front of him, and the shadow of the burning wooden house could be seen in the dull pupils. Gu Tie slapped his forehead, opened the search engine again, and put the term "Red Owl Brotherhood" into the search together with the two photos. box to perform a cross search of keywords and pictures.

"If it doesn't work this time, I have to ask the Wong Tai Sin in his hometown through Lao Xiao. I don't know if Chinese gods can find foreign fairies," he muttered and pressed the search button, lying down and waiting for the results to appear.

Page after page of result lists were returned. Gu Tie was attracted by a title in the middle of the first page. He couldn't help but move his lips and read: "In 2026... the... Red Owl Brotherhood was established... the Brotherhood logo was established according to... Purpose exist……"

He sat up suddenly and his eyes were fixed on the crimson two-headed bird pattern below the title. It was a two-dimensional picture with a very low resolution and a flying two-headed owl outlined with simple lines. It could be seen without the need for picture comparison software. , exactly the same as the tattoo on the abdomen of the corpse, "...that's it,"

At the same moment as the scream of surprise, many screens in the sky shattered like glass. The pure land suddenly became dark, the earth trembled uneasily, the rolling thunder clouds opened ferocious cracks, and thick mist gushes out from the cracks. The shadow of the black spear shuttled back and forth, and the whole world fell into chaos.

"coming,"

No matter who is aware of his prying, a powerful counterattack has come. Gu Tie's face showed panic and ecstasy at the same time. Endless waiting is the deepest terror. As long as it is an enemy that can face it directly, no matter how powerful it is, it can still fight. , he stood up and slowly raised his hands. The turbulence in the space intensified. 500ppm of computing power was mobilized and injected into the thunder clouds and black soil surrounding the pure land. At the outermost edge of this Hilbert space, the discrete quantum cloud was filled with The black spear driven by probability is appearing at every singular point in space at the same time, waiting for the moment of attack when the invader touches the core of the Pure Land.

He could feel that in the endless darkness outside the pure land, there was an astonishing data stream coming rapidly along the invisible lines of the quantum network. Gu Tie immediately called on the 100ppm ability and intercepted 300 puppet terminals and placed them where the other party might On the attack path, add 200 layers of shell to your pure land. These fragile disguises are all designed to create a fatal blow. When the opponent relaxes his vigilance due to weak resistance, the Black Spear will completely defeat him. , at the same time, he created a 500ppm multi-layer packed detection request and traced it back to the other party's origin along a reasonable and true logical line. The detection thread stretched out between the little fingers was like a slender thread in the torrent of data. It flows upstream like a thread, bypassing layers of puppet shells, constantly jumping between routes, and stabbing into the attacker's heart.

The attack and defense timing mobilized by Gu Tie at this time, plus the daily timing expenditure for maintaining the Pure Land space and information security procedures, has reached as high as 1232ppm. This is almost the limit of safe and stable operation. Any additional increase will threaten the data of the Pure Land. structure, geometrically increasing the risk of one's own exposure.

"Come on, come on..." Gu Tie's voice trembled with excitement. He stretched out his hands, and a tornado composed of infinite data rose around him. A faint light appeared in the distant sky. The owner of the Pure Land narrowed his eyes, "400 ...No, there is more...There is actually a timing of 478ppm..." A perfectly shaped transparent crystal ball condensed around him, and the information from the sky appeared in the crystal ball. While destroying the numerous shells, the enemy When his own strength is fully exposed and matched at 478ppm, this is a considerable level of power. It can only be in the hands of large consortiums or state machines,,, but it is not more powerful than the power possessed by Gu Tie.

"470, 454..." The numbers are constantly decreasing, and the puppet threads that appear on the possible paths will continue to be diverted in time. When the data flow touches the outer space of the Pure Land, the ppm data freezes at 431, and the detection reaches the end point. An unknown path A data link was successfully established from the area to a private house on the outskirts of Białystok, a small town in northeastern Poland. The time pointer of the Genesis computer underground in Salzburg, Germany jumped by one Planck time unit, and 10 to the power of minus 43 seconds passed. The intruder has officially entered the pure data space,


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