Girls und War

"That's the area for exchanging search engines, that's the area for connecting search engines, that's the direct search, and this is the bridge-built search... Which search method do you usually use? I personally prefer the built search because it has strong scalability." Ink Dolphin spoke very clearly and seemed to be very knowledgeable about this aspect.

Xia Shu didn't understand this at all. He felt that what the ink dolphin said was like a heavenly book. He could only say, "Anyway, IE won't work."

Smiley Face did discuss a few words with her in a serious manner, but if she said more, she would reveal the fact that she was actually a half-jealous person.

I think among all the people Xia Shu knows, Ning, the squadron's cat owner, is the only one who can seriously discuss Internet issues with her.

After the four of them reached the depths of the search engine, Smiley Face found several search engine ads that matched the photos. Then, in a shadowy corner below the ads, he spotted a Wild Wolf customer service representative leaning against a wall.

Seeing the four people walking towards him, the wolf looked up at them lazily and said, "What are you doing?"

"My friend asked me to participate in the auction." Smiley Face said, and shared the letter of introduction with the wild wolf.

"Let me see." The wolf yawned and stuffed the letter into the mouth of a silly dog ​​next to him.

The silly dog ​​barked for a while, then vomited out a ball of waste paper.

"Uh...don't be so disgusting every time..." Ink Dolphin said with disgust.

The wild wolf and bird ignored her. They picked up the scrap of paper, unfolded it, looked at it, and said, "Yes, it's you."

Then he hooked his finger at Smiley Face and erased her letter records from the background.

In this way, no matter how hard the Internet police search, they will not be able to find any traces of browsing the website.

Wild Wolf pointed at the people next to her. Smiley Face remembered and quickly turned back to Chunxiang and Xia Shu and said, "By the way, you should turn off the safety protection."

Natsuki and Haruka hesitated for a moment, but still opened the console and turned off the safety protection.

At this time, they received a warning, "Invitation message from unknown network, do you want to open it?"

They both clicked to open it.

The wolf counted the number of people again, pointed at the ink dolphin, and said, "What's going on? There are only three people in your invitation letter."

"Oh, I'm a member." Ink Dolphin quickly connected his program to the silly dog ​​next to him.

The silly dog ​​barked twice and vomited a pink ball of paper twice.

This time, the wolf didn't even bother to look at it. Instead, he said impatiently, "Members should enter through the member entrance. What the hell is going on here with the visitor entrance? You're just looking for trouble..."

As he spoke, he opened a virtual link behind him and made way for the road behind him.

The four of them carefully walked past the wild wolf. Xia Shu whispered to the ink dolphin, "Why aren't the members treated kindly?"

"Oh, this website does not make a profit from membership fees, and members are just regular customers to them." Ink Dolphin explained quickly.

The wolf rolled his eyes at them and seemed to have little affection for his current job.

After the four virtual characters entered the link, he sat next to Silly Dog and continued to be on duty.

Everything around was normal, as if nothing had happened.

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Five more tomorrow, a good night's sleep today

576. Bob's Tavern

After entering the Rotten Apple website through the external link, what comes into everyone's eyes is a brand new world.

The network environment design here, or the holographic browsing interface, is full of bold postmodern style.

The connection design and layout between areas do not follow the browsing habits of personal web pages.

The sections of various styles are scattered all over the place, which is very unreasonable.

What catches your eye is a huge rally release template, on which you can see various rally solicitations.

Such as the exploration of ancient city ruins, illegal landing in Antarctica to collect snow, and the Moon Cake Investment Foundation.

But the most important and eye-catching thing is the auction that is about to begin.

Smiley Face did not go directly to the auction site, but went to find the friend who invited her first.

Not long after, the four of them arrived in front of a small shop selling gun parts, and Smiley sent a message to her friend.

Soon, a squirrel in a suit emerged from the pile of gun barrels.

"Hi, Smiley, you're finally here!" The squirrel's voice was very shrill, and it was unclear whether it was the other person's original voice or it had been processed.

This squirrel is only wearing the top half of a suit, no pants. However, since she has a small flower pinned to her chest, let's just assume she's a woman.

"Yeah, you said I could buy those things, so here I am." The bald man shrugged with a smile, but a girl's voice came out of his mouth, which made people feel awkward.

"Well, the auction hasn't started yet, so I'll take you and your friends to see the treasures first." The squirrel said, jumping into the street.

Smiley Face asked again, "Don't you need to watch the store anymore?"

"It's okay, it's okay. I can communicate remotely." Squirrel said, and a projection flew out of his body and jumped into the center of the store. He said to them, "You should be active soldiers too, right? If you need to modify your gun in the future, you can come to me."

As he spoke, he threw a business card over.

Natsuki thought of the illegally modified guns in Feng Kite's arsenal and quietly put the business card away.

Soon, the squirrel led them deep into the street, where Xia Shu saw many strange little shops.

There are things like life-size custom-made physical dolls (guaranteed to be exactly the same), on-site evidence collection and assistance detective agencies (specializing in illegal tracking), robot AI editing shops (highly intelligent anthropomorphic), and various retail stores opened by Squirrels that specialize in selling illegal parts.

In short, this is a complete underground black market, and things that cannot be bought on the market are sold here.

Maybe I'll even see slave traders selling little elf girl robots or something...

"Okay, here it is." Squirrel said, and with a smile on his face, he led the others into an old store with a very simple exterior design.

Xia Shu looked at the sign outside - "Selling various high-proof alcoholic beverages."

It seems that this is what Smiley wants to buy.

"Bob, there's a guest." The squirrel shouted inside.

Then a bartender with a bald head and a big beard immediately appeared in front of them.

"Huh? We have guests?" Bob laughed happily. "What would you like to drink? I have some delicious funnel cakes!"

"Any new stuff?" Smiley Face immediately stepped forward. "Something exciting."

"Come over here!" Bob immediately called her over, pointing to a row of brand new wine cabinets and saying, "The strongest liquors, whiskey, vodka, Erguotou, all over 70%."

He didn't ask Smiley Face whether he was an adult, because most of the people who came here to buy alcohol were those who couldn't buy alcohol through normal channels.

Or those old alcoholics who want a specialty drink.

While Smiley was carefully selecting wine, the others were casually browsing around.

Xia Shu saw some unpackaged bottles of wine in a very old cabinet nearby, so he picked them up, looked at them, and then opened the bottle and smelled them.

Anyway, the exhibits here are not real, so you can try them out. If you want to buy something, just talk to the owner.

After the bottle was opened, a strong aged aroma came to the face. Xia Shu didn't know much about wine, but he knew that this smell was the taste of years of aging.

"This shipwreck wine is over a thousand years old. It's said that it was accidentally sunk to the bottom of the sea by the Baihua Group's freight company while smuggling alcohol across borders." Bob suddenly appeared behind Xia Shu and explained to her, "There are probably over 1,300 bottles of it in existence now, and I still have six. If you want it, I'll sell it to you at a discount."

The big white cat turned its head and asked, "How much?"

"One hundred twenty thousand."

"..."

Xia Shu silently put the bottle back into the wine cabinet.

This kind of good wine should be left to alcohol lovers, and she won’t take it away from others.

At this time, Chunxiang came over with a white porcelain bottle and asked the owner Bob, "Why is this wine unlabeled? What kind of wine is it?"

"Oh, it's Kuchikan sake." Bob replied immediately.

"What is chewed wine?" Chunxiang was a little confused.

"It's about letting girls chew rice into pieces with their mouths, and then sealing it in a jar to ferment it to form wine." Ink Dolphin explained on the side.

Chunxiang shuddered and put the bottle back without saying a word.

The dolphin swung its tail again and continued, "The one next to you is dung wine, and the one below is foot-stomping wine. They are both ancient 'special wines' that are not available on the market."

Haruka and Natsuki's expressions were a little ugly at this time, but since they were behind the virtual models, no one else could see their expressions.

"Little girl, you know a lot. Do you want to buy some to drink? I'll sell it to you at a low price." Bob said to the Dolphin again.

"No, I'll just buy some beer. We just ran out of beer at home." Shui Mo Haitun said, then looked at Xia Shu and the others and asked, "Don't you want to buy some?"

"No, I don't drink." Xia Shu replied.

"If you don't drink, I have drinks here for non-drinkers." Bob picked up a white can and said, "This is handmade coconut wine. It doesn't taste like alcohol, but it has a strong milky aroma. It's delicious."

"Hmm...how much?" Xia Shu was a little tempted.

"Three hundred dollars a dozen."

"Then I'll take a dozen."

"Wow! You've taken another giant step forward! I'm so proud of you!"

Before long, several girls chose some wine they liked and bought it.

Seeing that Xiao Lian bought several bottles of very strong liquor, I don’t know how much she can drink.

After Xia Shu filled in the delivery address on the delivery note, he bought an unpriced funnel cake at the boss's suggestion.

This is to prevent real-name currency from flowing into unknown destinations and being defined as illegal transactions.

For small, gray businesses like this, the police will turn a blind eye if they exploit loopholes.

Unless it's a large illegal transaction, who's going to take care of minors buying alcohol?

Are kids in their thirties not allowed to drink alcohol?

577. How can it be sold at such a high price!?

After the girls bought the wine, Bob promised them that it would be delivered within a day.

Then they left the wine shop with the farewell words "Welcome back next time! I will always wait for you here!"

After that, they wandered the streets for a while and saw many amazing things. Unfortunately, the elf loli and slave trader that Xia Shu had been thinking about never showed up.

When the auction was about to begin, Squirrel took them into the venue and sat down in a vacant area.

Anyway, they can see the items in the venue through the holographic display, so it doesn't make any difference whether they sit close or far away.

Not long after, a red-crowned crane wearing a tie flew onto the front auction platform and gave a long opening speech.

Xia Shu didn't listen to the nonsense about co-construction, win-win and co-creation. She was more interested in the various strange virtual images sitting in the venue.

So she had no idea what the red-crowned crane said.

When the auction began, the first piece of collection appeared on the auction table.

It was a set of collectible physical cards from some unknown game, and they looked quite old.

The host introduced the origin of the collection and the collection of the cards. After the people below confirmed the authenticity of the origin of the cards, they gave a starting price and the increment.

Xia Shu looked at the holographic model in front of him. There were hundreds of cards in it, all sealed with hard plastic film and preserved intact.

Judging by the wear and tear on the covers, the owner must have played with them frequently. However, these covers are replaceable, and the actual cards inside are probably more valuable.

This set of cards contains dozens of special cards with colorful edges, which are obviously of great value.

Although Xia Shu doesn't play this kind of game, he knows that in the eyes of card lovers, the value of some cards is almost the same as that of a car or a house.

In the end, this set of cards was sold at a high price of 570,000.

From this perspective, the shipwreck wines in Bob's Hotel were not too expensive.

Coincidentally, the next item in the collection was a bottle of shipwreck wine.

After the host's introduction, it seemed that the value of this bottle of wine was not much different from those in Bob's store.

The final auction price of this bottle of wine reached 150,000.