"Boss, something happened!"
In the early morning, Xia Xu, who had held a celebration party with Zhang San and others after the lawsuit, was awakened by repeated phone calls while still hungover.
While groping in the Mimi Lake, Xia Xu answered the phone. Meng Bochao's stern voice startled Xia Xu, and he instantly became more clear-headed: "What's going on? What happened?"
"Griffin Jones must be desperate. He placed an assassination mission against you, the boss, on the Deep Web, and it was accepted immediately."
Meng Bochao's nervous voice came.
Computer "technology" is actually accumulated over time to a large extent. Even the best hackers will not write code on the spot, but use software they have written themselves or published by their peers.
Meng Bochao is already a top hacker with four-star talent. If he adds a series of top auxiliary tools that he compiled and collected after his learning a while ago, he should be considered a pseudo five-star level at this moment. The only thing he lacks compared to a real five-star hacker is a little flexibility.
There is no doubt that his current ability in network attack and defense is absolutely unmatched.
Griffin Jones had already been under constant surveillance by him, and now no trace of his online behavior could be hidden from him.
“Is there any way to undo it?”
Upon hearing this, Xia Xu struggled to sit up from the bed, supporting himself with his elbows and rubbing his brows.
The so-called deep web is actually what people often call the dark web.
There is a slight difference in concept, the former is a bit more macro, but in the popular sense it is actually similar, referring to those hidden network content that cannot be publicly accessed by search engines or the like.
This is a dark side of the Internet that does exist and is basically impossible to eliminate, because in theory, if you create a personal website without promoting the URL, it can barely be considered part of the 'dark web'.
Well, some small websites that are treasured by some people can also be counted.
Of course, this is just a description. The real dark web content is usually more tightly concealed. Because of this concealment, a lot of content often involves illegal aspects.
The killer-for-hire business, which sounds very far away from ordinary people, is obviously one of them.
"This type of deep web is more troublesome, and I have never come across it before. It takes some time to get into it. Besides, I am not sure whether it is useful to cancel it now."
Meng Bochao's response was obviously not very good.
This is normal. If he could cancel it easily, he wouldn't have called Xia Xu in the middle of the night.
As mentioned before, the essence of network intrusion is to find and exploit loopholes in the opponent's system. Even the top hackers need a long time of preparation and testing when facing unfamiliar targets.
Although Xiao Baihua easily hacked into the GPS satellite last time, it was because he happened to have obtained the satellite system's vulnerability data from an illegal organization and had also made a series of preparations in advance.
"Then you should check the other party's organizational structure. Is it a professional assassin organization or just a platform for hiring business? Is there any extraordinary factor involved? Of course, it would be best if you can find out the assassin's information."
Although Xia Xu felt a little stern at the moment, he was not too panicked.
The so-called killers are basically just ordinary people with stronger fighting abilities.
After the completion of the super brain controlled-release tablet, he was in a state of slight brain overclocking most of the time. As long as they were not special beings like beastmen or those using sniper rifles to carry out beyond visual range sneak attacks, ordinary people could not pose any threat to him now. If Atuo was included, eighty or one of them would be nothing but food for the dead.
The sniper rifle is a problem. This kind of supersonic attack beyond visual range cannot be avoided in advance by relying on senses. One can only rely on intuition, which is not very reliable. Besides, he doesn't seem to have this thing.
But this is Xia Country after all. Ordinary pistols can be manufactured in small workshops, but high-precision sniper rifles are not so easy to make. It is even more difficult to bring them across borders. The ones carried on Duan Zhiyi's drone last time were actually just mockups.
In reality, there are not as many sharpshooters as in the movies. The hit rate of firearms in actual combat is actually relatively low. Only talented players like Grant can hit the target with every shot from hundreds of meters away. As long as you are not shot in the head, you can rely on bulletproof vests to save your life.
"But it's still dangerous. Unless one day you become invulnerable to weapons, you could be killed by a small bullet at any time..."
While thinking, although he was not afraid, there was still a hint of gloom in Xia Xu's eyes.
The threat of guns was like a thorn in his throat.
When he was an ordinary person, he felt far away from these things and didn't care about them, but now he frequently participates in the plot, and with Andra, a time bomb that may explode at any time, it can be said that he may be shot at any time.
Especially after personally experiencing Duan Zhiyi's serial shootings, he now has no sense of security at all.
Although bulletproof vests can effectively block the power of bullets, they are still too bulky. It is fine to wear them before a war, but you can't wear them all the time in your daily life.
"Boss, I've learned that the website where Griffin Jones posts assassination missions is not an independent assassin organization. It's just a loose mission platform. However, it is very well-known. Many well-known lone assassins and mercenaries in the world will accept missions on it."
Meng Bochao must have done some work in advance and responded as soon as Xia Xu finished speaking.
"Okay, you guys just be careful these days, I'll take care of the killer myself."
Xia Xu nodded, hung up Meng Bochao's phone, and made two more calls in succession.
One call was to Pan Long, asking him to protect everyone at Jiuyang Consulting during this period of time.
Of course, the most important thing is to protect Little White Flower. Compared to himself, this girl is now his biggest weakness.
However, with Pan Long's identity as the protagonist of a superhero movie and his level 2 strength, he is more than capable of dealing with not only killers but even those extraordinary creatures.
As for the other one, he didn't call Chen Leyao to help deal with the killer.
"Boss, don't you know that women who don't go to bed before midnight will easily get dark circles under their eyes?"
The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. Chen Leyao's charming and resentful yawn made people shiver: "Besides, calling me so late, aren't you afraid that your girlfriend will misunderstand you?"
"Uh, sorry, I was thinking about something and forgot the time."
Xia Xu was also a little embarrassed.
He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he called Chen Leyao directly, forgetting that she was not a night owl like Pan Long and Meng Bochao.
The super brain potion only enhances the 'performance' of the brain and cannot change the thinking logic. Therefore, it is obvious that it has no effect on the details that are more like emotional intelligence, not to mention that the effect of the drug has already worn off.