——Speaking of which, I seem to have forgotten to tell Hoshino about inviting her and her sister to a meal at the Ryotei.
Yuan Ye was walking on the street and suddenly thought of this.
——However, reservations for such high-end restaurants are scheduled for two or three months, so it doesn’t matter if we wait a little longer.
Yuanye thought for a while and decided to put this matter behind him for the time being. In his opinion, the current focus was obviously to deal with the thorny problems at hand first.
After swiping the card and boarding the tram, Yuanye found a secluded compartment and communicated with the drone through typing.
"Has the goods I ordered arrived?" Yuanye asked by typing.
This method of communication was something she told Genya when she was chatting with Hoshino Shiori recently. As an otaku who often hangs out on the dark web in the underground world, she is quite familiar with these. Genya’s behavior at the beginning was purely new. Sensible, Hoshino Shiori thought that Yuanye was not a newbie and had his own motives for calling, so he did not remind him.
It wasn't until Yuan Ye contacted the middlemen in the underground world more often that they discovered the misunderstanding.
If Genya hadn't been more cautious and asked Hoshino Shiori to help him counter-track, he would have been identified for the first time when he approached a middleman. From then on, he would be surfing the Internet under his real name in the underground world, which is equivalent to being in a world where everyone wears big cotton-padded jackets. In winter, just like running naked outside alone, even if you get ahead in the future, it will be regarded as a black history for the rest of your life.
Because this special communication software does not belong to anyone, but is maintained by a group of autonomous AI, typing is a safer communication method.
The amount of data in voice communication or video is relatively large, and the contact methods that can only use fixed channels are likely to be tracked. Text chats can be hidden in the garbage data stream, and are only a few dozen bytes of trace information. , even if you only use the basic encryption algorithm once, there is basically no possibility of deciphering it.
Of course, for giant companies with monopoly positions, unless they buy communication satellites from commercial aerospace companies and launch the Tianla network themselves, all the information circulating through the Internet can be found if they want to check it.
Most people who hang out in the underground world don't have that much energy, so they can only try to hide their intentions so that giant companies don't notice them, and increase the cost of time it takes for giant companies to find them, so as to give themselves a way out. Or it’s just time to change identities.
After all, the Internet in 2077 was completely different from the Internet before Yuan Ye traveled through it. In other words, the Internet World Wide Web in Yuan Ye's memory had long since died in this era.
For countries in 2077, network sovereignty and network borders are more important than physical national borders. The foundation of the previous World Wide Web, that is, the root server that existed in the Eastern Pacific Federation, was not the same during the corporate war. Being physically destroyed means being contaminated by modulated AI, and can only be forced to be sealed. This has basically declared the destruction of the World Wide Web in the old era.
The new Internet newly established after the corporate war is interconnected on the surface, but in essence it is based on base station groups and space-based communication satellite groups that are completely different models and basically incompatible, and are established by each country. Local area networks, connected together through communication ports, are just like physical national borders.
In this era, the direct colonial system of the period when the sun never sets has been completely eliminated, and the industrial standard colonization, national defense standard colonization and economic colonization are somewhat unplayable - or in other words, they have been overtaken by the colonial system with higher exploitation efficiency. Instead, that is the network colonization based on the same model of base stations and communication satellites being adopted by the colonizing countries.
This thing is even more important than the national border. The Rakshasa Kingdom in this world has carried out a whole round of strategic contraction after the death of the strong man from the sky whose name Yuanye knew before crossing over. Even the chassis of the Far East plundered by the ancestors have It was returned to the Western Pacific Republic, but after the network sovereignty was officially established, it held on to this piece tightly and did not dare to let go.
Of course, with the exception of a few limited countries, these network sovereignty are only nominally owned by the state. In fact, they are privately owned by the giant companies that build them, including the companies that build national local area networks, military-industrial complexes, and high-precision industries. Groups and aerospace groups, these giant enterprises are the types of enterprises that control the destiny of the vast majority of people in this era.
But Yingzhou is different. As a place between two poles in the corporate war, Yingzhou has a very unique network ecology. The base station models of the Eastern Pacific Federal State and the Western Pacific Republic each account for half of the country's power grid here. The system is just as weird.
Moreover, due to complex historical reasons, these base stations have also undergone mutual compatibility modifications, which directly caused the control of Yingzhou's giant enterprises to plummet - because unless they join forces, they cannot check each other's network information. But the information can go to the other party's network.
Various reasons have created a rich and colorful underground world in Yingzhou. The communication software in Yuan Ye’s hands is just a microcosm. Everything can be sold and bought here. It is the largest region on earth that maintains general social stability. The underground world material distribution center.
"It's already here and can be delivered at any time." The drone waited for a while before replying to Yuan Ye.
Yuan Ye typed: "I want this item now, but I won't pay the balance now."
"Are you kidding me? Are you planning to play tricks on me?" Drone's words became more intense. "If you are not prepared to pay the balance, the deposit will not be refunded and I will also cut off all contact with you. Please You should find another way."
"That's not what I meant." Yuan Ye smiled and tapped the virtual keyboard on the air with his fingers, "Let's make a deal."
"Deal? What deal?" the drone asked.
"Next, I need to order ten standard units of spiritual jade, which is worth 100 million yen. I will give you a deposit first, and I will give you the balance of the two transactions when the second batch of spiritual jade is delivered." Yuan Ye said seductively, "But there is a premise. I have to get the first batch of spiritual jade first."
The money Yuanye had on hand was not enough to pay the final payment for this batch of spiritual jade, but it was enough to pay the last deposit for the spiritual jade he needed to cross the carbon-based limit. He first got the first batch of spiritual jade and put his own His physical fitness increased to 19, and next week he reached the time agreed upon with Ito Taketa, so he could get another standard unit of spiritual jade, which is five thousand psychic powers.
In this way, Yuan Ye has a trump card that can instantly increase his physical fitness to 20 and cross the carbon-based limit to become a transcendent after consuming his current lifespan. This will be of great benefit to his next actions. It is said that he has the capital to save his life.
But this is just a bet, a bet that the drone will be moved by the 100 million yen order and agree to the deal.
But Yuan Ye was very confident about this. He sent out a new message and waited for the drone's answer with a smile.
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