People are in Night City, start to add points

It's not so much a store, it's more like a hacker's studio, and there's no counter with merchandise in sight.

"what?"

The black girl with dirty braids sneered, as if she didn't believe that David could afford anything at all, but she didn't say much, and directly applied for a newsletter to David.

A row of puppets with prices and names written on them appeared in David's brain computer. At the same time, on the basis of this interface, system labels were gradually revealed, and the quality of these puppets was divided by different colors.

[Blocking movement (excellent): 1500 yuan]

[Restart the prosthetic eye (excellent): 1500 yuan]

[Electromagnetic short circuit (excellent): 400 yuan]

[Target positioning (excellent): 400 yuan]

……

Wow, so expensive!

The corners of David's mouth twitched slightly. The cheapest of these dolls cost four hundred, which he could afford, but there was nothing left after buying them.

And in terms of quality, these are the most rubbish dolls, the kind that you don't even look at in the game.

He couldn't help spending money, no, he didn't even dare to spend it, he didn't want to use all his savings to buy this kind of rubbish on the street.

"Uh, can it be cheaper..."

"Little devil, this is the price for a golem. If you are interested in hacking, you must at least know what is going on in this industry first."

The dirty braided girl fiddled with her hair impatiently, and took a deep drag on her cigarette.

"There are many people who want to be hackers as soon as their brains are hot. Most of them have their brains burned out, and only a few of them can survive."

"Ahem... I just asked a question."

David felt that the smoke she exhaled was all on his face, and the smoke was swirling in front of him, so he couldn't help coughing a few times.

"Target positioning, I want this."

When he said this, David felt blood dripping from his heart.

The original owner worked so hard to sell Heichaomeng for so long, and only left more than 400 deposits.

After buying this broken puppet, there is only a little change left!

But if you don’t buy it, you can’t. You can’t find relevant technical information elsewhere. Golems are not ordinary computer viruses. If you want to make them yourself, the difficulty is no different from developing this technology from scratch. With David’s current level of computer expertise It simply cannot be done.

"Really?"

The black girl with dirty braids immediately grinned, changing her appearance of being ready to kick someone out at any moment.

"You've come to the right place, kid, my puppet has never had any problems, it's absolutely safe and reliable."

Price is the biggest problem!

David muttered something in his heart, silently submitted a transaction application, and then watched the number of his deposit balance continue to decrease, and finally only 22 yuan remained.

He suddenly regretted it a little. If he had known that when he killed those Sixth Street Gang yesterday, he would have transferred the money in their card by the way.

If you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive firewood is...

[Acquired item: Target positioning (excellent)]

"Thank you for your patronage."

Dreadlocks didn't hide her smile, she winked at David, her gold nose ring dangling.

"Look at other things? I have a lot of good things."

"no need."

David resolutely refused. The little money he had left was not enough to buy an electric wire.In case the black girl really came up with some top-quality puppet or prosthetic body, and she wanted to buy it but couldn't afford it, it would be even more uncomfortable.

He glanced at the account balance in his brain computer, feeling pain again, and asked with a feeling of gnashing his teeth.

"Consuming with you, don't you even have any gifts?"

"This store has never had this activity."

"If the first transaction left a good impression, I will buy other puppets here."

"what……"

The black girl with dirty braids snuffed out the cigarette in her hand, raised her eyebrows and looked at David, as if she was estimating in her heart how much money he had left for her to earn.

"There are no gifts, but I can sell you something at a discount. Let's see, the original price is more than 100."

With the voice of Dirty Braided Girl, the rows of puppets disappeared from the brain computer and turned into an icon of a gift bag.

[Here is everything to enter the hacker world: 10 yuan]

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When David left the store, one idea was already firmly in his mind.

That is to step up the level of computer expertise and reach the level of being able to create your own golem as soon as possible.

This thing is too expensive!

Along the way, David wanted to try the puppet he bought with all his savings, but he held back and didn't use it on the pedestrians on the street until he returned to the apartment.

Those who live in this building have similar economic conditions, will not encounter any hidden bosses, and can test the golem safely.David waited at the door for a while, until a familiar neighbor walked out of the elevator, then quietly looked over and activated the target location.

In David's eyes, the neighbor's figure was immediately outlined by a ray of light. Even if he walked into the house and left David's sight, the ray of light still existed, showing the neighbor's location, and it didn't disappear until 20 seconds later. .

A puppet of excellent quality can only last so long, but it is enough for ordinary battles.

David nodded secretly. Although it was expensive, the things were still useful.

Opening the door of her own room, it was empty inside, and Gloria still did not come back.

After taking out the washed clothes to dry, David poured himself a glass of water, sat on the sofa, and began to look at the 'gift bag' he bought for ten yuan.

There's everything you need to get into the world of hacking, and it sounds pretty awesome.

David pursed his lips, was silent for two seconds, and opened the 'gift package'.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a string of URLs.

There will be no virus, right?

Out of caution, David first made a series of defensive measures in his brain, and only clicked on this string of URLs after confirming that there were no omissions.

A piece of code appears on the page. These codes seem to be constantly changing and in a state of flow. Whenever a new one appears, the previous one will disappear.

David frowned and stared at it for a while before he recognized that it seemed to be some kind of defensive measure.

What is this, a test?

As long as you solve this 'question', you can enter the real world of hackers?

David still has some confidence in such a simple network technology that does not involve golems.He concentrated and worked hard to find bugs, adding or removing some from the code now and then.

In this way, 10 minutes passed.

When David finished the last operation, the pieces of code on the page gradually faded and finally disappeared completely.

A dynamic address appeared in front of David.

Volume 18: Chapter 18 Chapter [-]: Armstrong

Relying on the existing network knowledge, David immediately judged that this is a dynamic address located on the dark web, which cannot be accessed by conventional means, and can effectively avoid the 'patrol' of the network monitor.

He checked his anti-intrusion settings again, and clicked to enter.

The screen in the brain instantly turned black, and then lines of text emerged.

"Help, has anyone contacted Arasaka's network department?"

"Share a little trick to write an intrusion program, a must-see for newbies"

"I'll be a dog if I take Heruta's job again!!"

……

This turned out to be a forum, a forum exclusively for hackers.

The corner of David's mouth twitched twice, always feeling like he was cheated.

Sell ​​yourself ten yuan for a forum URL?

However, this kind of deeply hidden website, if no one introduced it, it would be difficult for me to find it here.

He shook his head with a wry smile, and began to check the posts in the forum.

In fact, the description of "here is everything to enter the hacker world" is quite appropriate. There are various types of posts in the forum. If you are willing to spend time searching and researching one by one, novice hackers can learn a lot.

However, the level of the posters is also uneven, and many people's network skills are not as good as David's.

"Shocked, I found the treasure of Buttermos!"

Seeing the title, David raised his eyebrows and immediately clicked in.

"Everyone knows that Batemos was the greatest and most talented cyber hacker of his time, known as the god of the Internet."

"He was the chief architect of the old website, and in the end he destroyed his own work with his own hands."

"Some say he was killed early in the fourth corporate war, and others say he's lived in hiding until now. Of course, I'm not interested in that."

"What I want to say is that I found the treasure left by Batemos in Night City! It contains a lot of programming experience, secret information, and special puppets!"

"This kind of good thing is of course not free. I'll tell you the location of the treasure of Batmoss for only 699. Buy it quickly, or the treasure will be taken away by others!"

Uh, junior high school students won't be fooled by this kind of thing, right?

David was speechless for a while, and flipped through the messages, and sure enough, most of them were ridicules.

However, David really knew where the famous internet god who destroyed the old internet died.

In the eastern part of Night City, deep in the huge junkyard, there is a battered refrigerator containing the dead body of Batemos.

Of course, it was just a corpse. No one knew whether the legendary hacker uploaded his consciousness to the Internet and continued to live in another way.

There is also a piece of legendary quality equipment, 'Bate Moss' network access warehouse', but with my current level and attributes, I'm afraid I won't be able to use it if I get it.

While recalling the content of the 2077 game, David quit this post that seemed to be a fool, and continued to check.

Most of the posts are work information, various messages and transactions, and there are also some help posts and teaching posts, but the content is relatively basic.

David clicked on another puppet trading post, and after looking at it for a few times, his expression became a little stiff.

The price here is so cheap!

Like the 'Targeting' he just bought, it only sells for more than 200 on the forum, which is half the price of the hacker store!

Depend on!

The excitement brought about by experimenting with the new puppet suddenly disappeared, and David even had the urge to go back and return the product immediately.

He took a few deep breaths before he felt calmer.

It might be the black girl with dreadlocks who opened her mouth when she saw that she didn't understand the market, but the possibility of differences between the two puppets is not ruled out.

After thinking about it for a while, David registered an account with the nickname 'Go to the Moon', and then replied and asked under this puppet trading post.

"If you don't understand, just ask, why is the price so cheap? The one I bought is much more expensive than here."

After replying to the post, David cut it out again and continued to browse other content.

"Gossip, Arasaka is researching the technology of consciousness uploading"

"I don't know why the Internet supervisor is going crazy..."

Most of the network knowledge in the forum is already known by David. The improvement brought about by computer expertise Lv3 has made his level surpass that of many posters.

But as an out-and-out novice hacker, David still learned a lot of skills in the forum, and it cannot be said that he has gained nothing.

He looked around again, and there were already several replies under the reply just now.

"This thing is rubbish, of course it's cheap."

"Haha, another fool who wasted money."

"It's cheaper for me to sell, just click on my profile picture and stick it to the top of the post."

David glanced over, and then he saw a reply from a user named 'Armstrong'.