When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

The streets of Nanping are long and wide, and the bright incandescent lamps seem to illuminate all the dense fog before dawn.Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De walked side by side. Most of the shops have turned off the lights, and only some suspicious small shops are still open. A girl in nylon material is standing under the street light, waving to Qiao De, her The silver earrings are very eye-catching.They went straight past her.

The long flowing strips of the God of Dunhuang in the game square in front of them fluttered above their heads.Zhang Luotuo walked to the left and turned into a deeper path, where it looked even darker, with dim fluorescent light coming from the small shop.Then they walked into an alley, where the stench of morphine and alcohol wafted.He blinked, a little sleepy.

"He lives near here." He turned his head and said to Joad, looking at Joad's face with some concern.After a while of cautious persuasion, Qiao De did not fully understand that Zhang Luotuo did not say that he knew a hacker. Obviously he felt that the extrajudicial place was not an excuse.In the end, Mao Mao eased Joad's mood. It was originally lying on Zhang Luotuo's shoulder, but when it found that Joad was in a bad mood, it climbed onto Joad's hand, and pointed its pink furry belly at Joad.

"He's just worried about your safety." Finally, when Zhang Luotuo was about to leave the house at two o'clock in the middle of the night, Qiao De followed behind him without saying a word, as if preparing to set off with him, Zheng Zheng pretended to hand Zhang the key to the spaceship Camel, whispered in his ear, smiled.

Zhang Luotuo glanced at Joad, and Joad also glanced at him.

Zhang Luotuo smiled tentatively at him, and Joad immediately turned around, as if he didn't see it, but slowed down his pace so that Zhang Luotuo could catch up with him.

At this moment, Qiao De nodded to Zhang Luotuo to show that he heard his words.Zhang Luotuo looked around cautiously, and walked into the depths of the alley with Qiao De.

It was 02:30 at night, a time of day when he wouldn't normally be out wandering, but he had to, or he wouldn't be able to find the hacker.

Zhang Luotuo walked into the depths of the alley, and finally he stopped in front of a door. There was no house number there, and the old door was tightly concealed.

"Here it is." He turned his head and whispered to Joad.Joad frowned, obviously making him very uncomfortable here.

Zhang Luotuo walked up to the gate and knocked on it.No one would normally answer the door at such a time, and even the most restless holograms would be dimmed at midnight as everyone fell asleep.But it's different here.Just as Zhang Luotuo knocked on the door, the door immediately made a sizzling sound.

Joad took a step forward, gently put his arms around Zhang Luotuo's shoulders, and made a defensive posture.

"It's okay." Zhang Luotuo raised his head, just in time to see Joad's gray eyes.

"Who?" The hissing sound stopped suddenly, and the door suddenly made an impatient mechanical sound.

"I'm looking for Asuka." Zhang Luotuo knocked on the door twice and said in a low voice.

"Wait a minute." The door said suspiciously. After a sound, a blue net spread out from its cat's eye. The net covered Zhang Luotuo's face, and Zhang Luotuo swayed from side to side.

Three seconds later, the blue net disappeared.

The door said again: "Do you have anyone else with you?"

"I brought a friend." Zhang Luotuo took a step back and gently led Joad to the door so that the door could notice him.The blue net immediately reappeared, covering Joad's face.This time the gap between the doors was longer.

"Zhang Luotuo, you actually brought the department head of the management department of Eleven Company. It seems that you are not afraid of my death." The voice suddenly changed from a machine to a real person. It sounded very teasing, but there was no trace of anger.

"You know him?" Zhang Luotuo said to the mechanical voice, but he wasn't too surprised.

"My database has him," the voice replied.Before they finished speaking, the door opened automatically in front of them.

As they walked through the door, the smell of expired food enveloped them.The room was pitch dark, making it impossible to see anything.Zhang Luotuo blinked, and then felt his hand being gently held by Qiao De to prevent him from falling.Zhang Luotuo said softly to him: "I'm fine." He supported the cold wooden table beside him.They got used to it for two or three seconds before the black gradually disappeared.

It was a large room, but empty, with no complicated furniture, just a bed, and a few other crude tables hidden in the darkness.

"Hello." A voice came from the corner of the room calmly, the voice was exactly the same as the voice that questioned Zhang Luotuo just now.Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De turned their heads.In the next second, a dim square of light lit up in the corner.A man appeared in front of them, the lit thing was his computer, and he was sitting on a chair.He wears a peaked cap, mask and sunglasses that hide his skin only a slit, making him appear invisible.

"Hello, Zhang Luotuo." He waved his hand and said, speaking very fast, his voice sounded very hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken all year round.

Zhang Luotuo walked over, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Good evening, Bird."

"Boyfriend?" Asuka turned his head unceremoniously, and looked at Joad behind him. Joad stood behind him, acting cold as usual, and nodded politely at Asuka, but thoughtful, and He looked at it a little hostilely.

Zhang Luotuo sighed in compromise, he couldn't hide anything in front of Asuka, and said helplessly, "Yes, he is my boyfriend, how did you guess it?"

Asuka turned his head away, and he focused on the square computer screen in front of him, with many numbers and letters flashing on it.He quickly typed a few times on the keyboard, and the screen flickered quickly: "Because I told you, if you want to bring someone to me, it must be someone close to you, or a big customer. As a result, you brought A number one dangerous person—the head of the management department of Eleven Company, I often sneak into their database to steal things, if it’s not my boyfriend, the only possibility is that you come and announce my arrest.” He spread his hands while talking, his body language was like his speaking speed Generally fast.

Zhang Luotuo turned his head, Joad's hand was in his pocket, he looked the same as usual, he didn't show any surprise, maybe because he had seen most things in the world, but he didn't take a step towards Asuka introduced himself.Zhang Luotuo looked at the two of them in embarrassment, thought for a while, and said to Qiao De: "This is a bird, a hacker."

Joad didn't speak, but pursed his lips tightly.Asuka obviously saw it, he raised his eyebrows, his eyes were hidden behind dark sunglasses and could not be seen.

"Don't look at me like that, buddy, I met him on the dark web. I helped him crack a toy technical thing. He was very grateful, and then became my loyal customer and gave me a lot of money. I'm grateful for that, but we don't have anything else to do other than we meet when he needs to solve a technical problem or I'm short on money, so you don't have to make a bad face." He snapped at Joad explained, without taking a breath.After he finished speaking, he pressed another key without hesitation.

clatter.The beating of keyboards echoed in the room.

Joad still maintained his true color, his complexion didn't change at all, but suddenly, Zhang Luotuo felt that inexplicable coldness disappeared at that moment.Then Joad nodded towards Asuka: "Jode." He said, briefly introducing himself.

"So your expression is like this, I misunderstood." Asuka nodded quickly and turned his head away again.He stared at the computer intently, fingers continued to jump on the keyboard, A, 1, C.The numbers obeyed his manipulation and jumped on the screen.After a while, he stopped, as if waiting for something to come, but the movement did not come as expected, his computer screen was as quiet as a graveyard, and his face was reflected on the LCD screen.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Luotuo asked curiously, and he lowered his head.He knows some computer programs, but they are too difficult for him to understand.

Asuka waited for a few more seconds.Finally, he gently withdrew his hands from the keyboard: "I created a virus and a firewall, and I wanted to play a game of attacking the shield with the spear of the other to see who is stronger." He said, "I released a virus just now to see if my firewall can stop it, and the firewall won." He stared at the computer intently, but he sounded relieved. The LCD screen was as usual, and the letters took care of themselves. beating.Zhang Luotuo turned his head and winked at Qiao De.

Virus expert, he was right.

They waited a while longer for Asuka to finish his game.In the end, the firewall defeated the virus and it didn't let it in.After seeing this result, Asuka breathed a sigh of relief, pushed away the computer, and unplugged a thin data cable that was plugged into his computer.

He turned around. "Okay, I'm free now," he said, holding his head up and focusing on their conversation.

"So, why are you here looking for me? Is it business?" He blinked, and Zhang Luotuo vaguely saw the pair of curious eyes under the brown sunglasses.

"We need a virus." Zhang Luotuo took a deep breath and explained.

Asuka let out an "oh", spread his hands, pointed to his computer, and said proudly, "Is this okay?" Zhang Luotuo moved his gaze to it, and Asuka pointed to the computer that was blocked by Asuka's firewall just now. Virus, it is now completely hidden in the computer.

"This is a fool-like virus I developed a few days ago. Although it is simple to operate, it is very useful. As long as I click to run it, this virus can at least kill professional-level computers, such as those in your department, but the price is a bit expensive. ’ He eagerly showed off the gray icon of the virus, an arrow that looked like it would cover everything.

Zhang Luotuo shook his head and sighed: "This is not what I want."

He looked at Asuka's confused face, guessing that Asuka might not understand what he meant, thought for a while, and said hesitantly: "The virus I want is bigger and more powerful than this, and this is far from enough."

Asuka frowned, his original sales pitch was stuck in his throat, he pursed his lips, and asked hesitantly: "This is already very big... how big are you talking about?" He still pointed at the Zhang Luotuo spoke, but Zhang Luotuo felt that Asuka's eyes hidden under the sunglasses had shifted, and seemed to be drifting towards Qiao De.

Obviously, as a dark net hacker, Asuka sensed something.

"It's big enough to destroy a complete system." Joad had already sensed Asuka's gaze, and he didn't hesitate to tell the truth, and said simply.

Asuka was stunned, his originally active arm moved away from the keyboard lightly, and the gray arrow icon of the virus faded.His fast and dense words disappeared completely in this instant.Thinking overwhelmed him.

He didn't answer right away, but narrowed his eyes, keenly smelling the truth in the darkness.He glanced at Joad, then at Zhang Luotuo.Zhang Luotuo didn't move, he accepted Asuka's consideration and let Asuka's eyes sweep from top to bottom.

The reminder of the email message "beeped" in the room, it was like an off-key whistle song.

Asuka turned his head away, glanced at the information quickly, and then turned it off.Zhang Luotuo glanced at the information window unintentionally. "I got the important..." it said.

Asuka turned around again.Putting his feet on the floor, he pondered something, then he sighed, pushed the chair to turn slightly, and faced Joad and Zhang Luotuo in the dark.

"Are you serious?" he said, looking sharply across the dimly lit room.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned for a moment, he didn't know how to answer, and Qiao De seemed to feel that there was no need to answer.Finally, Zhang Luotuo nodded slightly.And Asuka's gaze was fixed among them, and he immediately understood the implication.

He also nodded thoughtfully, stretched out a thumb, and clasped it patiently with his hands: "Then—" He thought for a long time, using a speculative tone, "You are going to have such a big thumb?" What does the virus do—”

He thought for a while, lowered his voice, and said tentatively, "Is it related to this city?"

Zhang Luotuo opened his mouth and closed it tightly, it only took him a second, but Asuka had already figured it out, the night made his sharpness flow like an infinite megabyte network.

"Fuck, it's true." He shook his head angrily, "I shouldn't have known you back then, even though you brought me a lot of money."

Asuka paused for a moment and glanced at Joad again. Joad was still standing calmly on the right side. Then he lowered his head, as if he was digesting these words, and muttered in a soft voice: "People from the management department, the huge A virus that can destroy a complete system is basically someone who can guess what you want to do."

He sighed, grabbed a piece of candy on the computer table, gently lifted a corner of the mask, and popped it into his mouth.He chewed, and his teeth were immediately soured, and he groaned.

"So—why are you doing this?" he asked hurriedly, spitting out the candy.

Zhang Luotuo didn't know how to answer at all.Because we want to escape the city?We had to escape because we were counterfeit?Because if Joad doesn't leave here, he will be killed after the four-year period is reached?These all sound absurd and will be rejected in a second.In the end he found that the only vocabulary he could speak was a pitiful few words.

"Because..." he mused, "something is...very weird."

"So you came to me?" Asuka couldn't stand the candy anymore. He lifted his mask again and spit it out like the kid in the advertisement, his face flashed: "Because it's weird? Just want to solve this riddle? "

Zhang Luotuo nodded.

Asuka shook his head violently at him, as if taking some psychotropic drug: "Then you want to overthrow the whole city—or something related to the city?"

Zhang Luotuo looked at Qiao De uneasily, did he say it was a mess?Joad squeezed his hand gently, sending a signal of reassurance.

Asuka noticed their movements, sighed, and waved his hands in the air twice, then his voice continued to squeeze out from the mask, he looked at Zhang Luotuo, pointed to his cheek: "You know why I want to Do you wear these sunglasses and this mask?Even at night, just me facing the computer? "

Zhang Luotuo shook his head.Asuka looked at him, nodded, and smiled wryly: "Hackers are a dangerous job. We wander in cyberspace every day, and may be invaded or invaded by others. The Internet is our ally, but it is also our enemy. I Wearing sunglasses and a mask is to prevent the enemy from recognizing me. They may hack into my computer at any time and set up an ambush. I must be on guard at all times." He pointed to his throat, which looked very normal, and ordinary people No difference, "I even have a chip in my throat that helps me change my voice in case someone recognizes me by my voice."

He paused blankly, as if thinking about what he was going to say next, but he didn't pause long enough, and soon he remembered: "That is to say, apart from cyberspace, I have a normal mask , normal life, my normal life has nothing to do with the internet and I don’t want to be affected by it.”

He finished the long list in one breath without even taking a break, and his words became more and more urgent as he got to the end. Finally, he spread his hands and made a summary: "If it was in the daytime, I would even tell you directly, sorry, I think 'you The weird' has nothing to do with me." He finally stopped, spread his hands, moved his fingers, and looked directly at Joad and Zhang Luotuo through the eyes behind the brown sunglasses.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned for a while, and then he understood what Asuka meant.His words form a pattern.Everything is very clear now.Asuka didn't want to do this for them.But it's normal, very normal, and nothing to blame.He pursed his lips and suppressed his sigh. It seemed that he and Joad had to leave here and continue to think of other ways.But they have to say thank you to Asuka.

"Thank you anyway—" he said with some difficulty.

"Wait, wait." Asuka noticed Zhang Luotuo's expression, that expression of feeling sorry and wanting to leave.He raised his voice and tapped the keyboard a few times uneasily, interrupting Zhang Luotuo.

Boom.Boom.Boom.Zhang Luotuo heard the voice rushing through impatiently.

"What?" Zhang Luotuo said a little confused. This was all the communication between him and Asuka, to see if a job could be done, and if it couldn't be done, Zhang Luotuo would leave.

"I haven't finished my sentence yet." Asuka said anxiously, he sighed, as if accusing Zhang Luotuo of being impatient, and stopped Zhang Luotuo's words from coming out of his throat.

He lowered his head under the gazes of Qiao De and Zhang Luotuo, as if he was not used to being visited by humans in the real world.

He cleared his throat and said in a dramatic tone, "It's weird." He slowly picked up the candy he had just spit out, which was wrapped in white paper and looked alone.

"What's so strange?" Zhang Luotuo didn't understand what Asuka said, and he vaguely felt that Asuka's words had other meanings, because of the way he said, Asuka seldom spoke in this tone—or it was his illusion, after all He didn't see Asuka too much, and he wondered if Asuka would be dissatisfied because of his interruption.

But Asuka didn't seem to mind too much. After hearing Zhang Luotuo's question, he raised his head cautiously but hesitantly: "I remembered when you guys just mentioned weirdness——strangeness, or that weird feeling. .”

Asuka noticed their exchanged glances, turned the rotatable chair to form a small arc, and took a deep breath: "I mean... I feel strange because I feel the same as you."

Zhang Luotuo was stunned, for a moment he didn't understand what Asuka meant.

"You mean?" Joad spoke, a little uncertain.

Asuka shrugged at him and explained: "I also felt weird a long time ago. Something, to be precise, is this city—Chongqing."

He speaks very slowly, like thoughts swarming out of his brain, and the result is blocked in his lips, and he can only let them be dredged out bit by bit: "That weird feeling, wet touch, makes one's hair stand on end , I always feel that this city is not formed naturally, but that there is a big machine running behind it."

He described it exaggeratedly and wrinkled his nose childishly.He paused to let himself breathe, then continued slowly: "You know, I'm a hacker, I surf the Internet or get knocked over by the waves. When I wander at the end of the network, shuttling into the firewalls of those dark nets, when I dive too deep, I will find that something is wrong with this city. From the foundation of the network and the structure of those networks, I can clearly see that this The city is full of contradictions, like a hanging garden, its fragility and contradictions are very deep. I can't tell what it is, but I can smell it..."

Zhang Luotuo couldn't help staring at Asuka - Asuka.But Asuka didn't notice his gaze. While speaking, he gradually fell into his own thinking: "...It has a man-made and cold taste, and every place is full of unsolved and contradictions. Those contradictions are not geographical. It's about the structure and thinking—you understand? I feel something is wrong, but I can't say it, and when you say it, I understand what you mean, because I feel it too—”

Zhang Luotuo looked at Asuka's sunglasses, from which he could only see himself, his iris, his nose, and Qiao De behind him, he didn't know what Asuka's words meant.

"What the hell is that?" Asuka murmured, "I've been thinking about it, but I've been afraid to touch it. Because I can feel it—my hacker intuition guarantees that whatever it is, it's definitely dangerous."

Asuka wrinkled his nose again and looked at Zhang Luotuo, Zhang Luotuo blinked under his gaze: "...and I can guard against ordinary networks, let alone 'weird'. Even after I feel it, I I don't bother to pursue it, because I feel that there are some traps hidden under all the weirdness, whether it is on the Internet or in life, there may be something hidden in it, and once I step in, I will be caught dangerously. So I believe in a sentence In other words, if you think less, you can live longer. Except for myself, the rest of this city has nothing to do with me."

Zhang Luotuo didn't understand what he was trying to say - but maybe soon.Asuka cleared his throat, sighed, and his tone became firm: "But just because I don't have courage, doesn't mean I don't want others to have no courage. Hackers need danger, and at the same time, they need to give a little help to those who are in danger, because we Always an ally."

"I can help you create program viruses." He stretched out his head and said seriously.

Zhang Luotuo raised his head, he couldn't believe his ears.He tried to speak, but finally found himself stuck: "Thank—" he said, feeling a little surprised, and trembling.

But Asuka didn't wait for him to finish, shook his head cunningly, stopped his words, and emphasized: "I haven't finished speaking yet, don't thank me, my help is conditional."

Zhang Luotuo's heart sank immediately, but he immediately let it float again: "What conditions?"

"How much are you going to give?" Asuka coughed and asked anxiously.

"As long as you want, I can give it. Money is definitely not a problem." Joad interjected calmly. He had listened to their conversation for a long time, and he flipped his hands and talked to Asuka.

"Is the head of the management department rich and powerful?" Asuka glanced at him teasingly, and piled his hands into a tower shape, as if following his thoughts with his fingers, "But I still have a few conditions to explain, you see Can you accept it?"

He glanced at Zhang Luotuo again: "Is that all right?"

Zhang Luotuo nodded, and said hesitantly, "Tell me about it."

Asuka got his permission, turned his head happily, and faced them: "Then listen to my conditions. First, I will help you, but you must not say my name under any circumstances. Can you? "

Zhang Luotuo nodded. This is the same as their previous rules. Asuka helped him, but he must never mention Asuka's name to anyone, unless he brought someone here directly, because Asuka did things outside the law. .

Asuka nodded in satisfaction, and turned his head again. This time he stared at Qiao De: "Second, you want to give me a lot of money, a lot of money, and you have to give me as much as I want."

He stretched out a finger and said word by word: "Part of me is to create program viruses. It takes me a lot of effort to do this, especially for large-scale viruses. It will take me at least half a month. Part of it is my remuneration. "

Joad nodded without any hesitation. He never regarded money as the same thing. Before, he didn’t even regard Jiulongpo and Shapingba as the same thing. He treated the rich and poor areas equally, and never felt What's special about them, money is just data to him, data created by Mars, kept by the management department, they own money, like a god, and gods are detached, the sound of a coin and the harsh sound of glass breaking The sound is about the same to them all because they don't care.

Asuka whistled because of Qiao De's affirmation: "As expected of the management department, as rich as the legend."

Then he paused, as if wanting to return to where he was, and stretched out his third finger very solemnly.The fluorescent lights of the computer flickered on his fingers: "Third, if I feel anything wrong while doing something, I will quit and not return the money you paid. And after the thing is done, you can't come to me again, I'll move out of here and never see you again. Is that okay?"

Zhang Luotuo turned his head and looked at Qiao De.

We have no choice.he thinks.He saw it in Joad's eyes too.He turned his head again, facing Asuka.

"It's all right, deal." He said firmly, holding out three fingers.

Asuka clicked her tongue happily, and sighed: "It's really generous, I agreed to all three."

Then, he seemed to have the consciousness of being a seller immediately, let the chair fly around, turned back to the original position, and faced the computer.He opened a certain folder on the computer and started typing on it, and the various windows on the LCD screen jumped quickly: "In that case, then I will start preparing tonight, see you here at the same time tomorrow night, We’ll discuss specific things when the time comes.”

He did as he said, and opened a file, and various virus files were displayed on it. They more or less shake a certain space that once annihilated the Internet, but now it is like a battle fortress.

Zhang Luotuo looked in and saw an endless flood of Internet.