Chapter 142

The helicopter with the KC logo landed slowly on the helipad on the top floor of the foundation building like a huge black dragonfly, and the roar of the propellers gradually weakened.

You Xuan and Mokuba walked off the plane together, followed by a team of security guards in classic Kaiba Corporation sunglasses and suits, as well as a dueling safety consultant wearing a Duel Disk.

The so-called dueling safety consultant is specially hired by each company to handle various affairs that need to be resolved by playing cards.

It's just that the situation of Kaiba Corporation is a bit special, because the president likes to jump out and grab his cards to play when encountering slightly powerful opponents, so the card-playing consultants of Kaiba Corporation are actually mostly fishing and paddling.

The security supervisor leading the team is Uncle Isano, the sunglasses brother who has been loyal to President Kaiba since the DM original work.

Although this bodyguard brother doesn't have many lines, he left a deep impression on the fans of the original anime. One is because no matter where the president goes or what he does, he always brings him, even giving people the illusion that "the whole company only has this one bodyguard."

The second is because this person is always too calm, so calm that it even makes people feel abnormal.

In the Duel City tournament, the pressure of the Three Phantom Gods made everyone in the audience unable to breathe, only Isano, who was the referee, was calm and composed, and even reminded the players to play cards well and not to do tricks.

Mr. Marik started a Shadow Game and beat the opponent duelist until his body disappeared, playing cards until people disappeared, and Mr. Isano still stood by with a paralyzed face, full of "small scene, nothing worth making a fuss about."

There is always a sense of seeing through everything as a hidden BOSS.

At this time, Isano had already mixed into the position of security supervisor as Kaiba's most trusted and capable assistant, leading the team to walk at the forefront. Someone from the foundation had already greeted them here, saluted the crowd, and turned to lead them into the building.

The crowd passed through a spacious and bright corridor, with famous paintings hanging on the walls on both sides. A heavy wooden door slowly opened at the end of the corridor, revealing a corner of a luxurious and magnificent restaurant.

Soft lights spilled on the exquisite dining table, and the table was filled with various dishes, as exquisite as works of art, with overflowing fragrance.

Nightshroud stood up, walked straight over, and shook hands with Mokuba.

"Thank you for coming." He paused, "But it's a pity that President Kaiba couldn't join us in person."

"My brother is abroad, it's the same if you have anything to say to me." Mokuba said, "Alright, you said there is a misunderstanding. What is the specific situation?"

"I was just about to say it. But don't stand, let's eat something first."

Nightshroud clapped his hands, and servants immediately stepped forward to greet everyone to sit down. Everyone sat down in turn under the guidance of the servants.

You Xuan noticed that Nightshroud's Card Professors were standing behind him, among whom he saw Kark Dickson, whom he had seen online not long ago, at a glance.

You Xuan smiled and waved to the man in a friendly way to say hello. But when Kark saw it, his face turned black, and he turned his head away and didn't speak.

It seems the child has some psychological shadows.

In any case, You Xuan felt that it was not in vain to eat this meal. Anyway, he was mainly a melon-eating crowd on this trip, and he mainly focused on eating while watching from the front row.

"Industrial Illusions was invaded a week ago." Nightshroud said, "An unknown hacker broke through our firewall and stole a large number of cards and research and development data from our server."

Mokuba frowned: "Hacked? You?"

"Yes. There are not many people in the world today who have this level of technology."

Nightshroud picked up the wine glass filled with red wine and took a small sip.

"Especially when we analyzed the intrusion methods, we noticed some technical features that we are actually quite familiar with."

"Oh? Who is it?"

Nightshroud said word by word: "Kaiba Corporation."

"Impossible." Mokuba denied immediately, "We have never, and absolutely have no reason to invade Industrial Illusions' system."

But as soon as the words came out, he quickly thought that the motivation couldn't be said to be completely absent. They and Nightshroud had some grudges many years ago.

"I thought so too, so I just tried to confirm it just in case today. Now I also know it has nothing to do with Kaiba Corporation. If there is any offense during this period, the foundation is willing to compensate for the loss."

"So this is why you invaded the Link System, because the Link System is connected to our dueling host, you want to use this to obtain our data?"

Mokuba pondered.

"The loss is not worth mentioning... but do you think that hacker, at least, has something to do with us?"

"I know that Kaiba Corporation has also been troubled by hacker problems recently." Nightshroud didn't answer this question directly, "There are only a handful of people in this world who can break through our two hosts."

"It seems you have clues?" Mokuba asked, "Do you have a suspect?"

"Calling it a suspect 'person' might not be accurate." Nightshroud said in a deep voice, "Whether it's a human or not is hard to say."

Mokuba was secretly surprised: "What do you mean?"

Nightshroud changed the subject: "Kaiba Corporation used to be world-leading in the field of artificial intelligence research, and your research team was once regarded as the closest in the world to creating digital life, right?"

"You mean... AI?"

Mokuba shook his head.

"Impossible, my brother and I ordered the suspension of all digital life intelligence research long ago. Since... after that incident, it was shut down..."

He paused.

"The only AI we are still developing now is dueling AI."

You Xuan could probably guess that "that incident" might be the event in the DM anime Noah arc.

Kaiba Corporation is not the closest to creating digital life, but has already succeeded long ago. But it was precisely after the crisis of AI runaway in the Noah arc, trying to take away their real flesh, that Kaiba Corporation ordered the prohibition of digital life development.

The AI they are still developing now, like the AI Kaiba You Xuan faced before, is just a simple dueling program. They will simulate the president's thinking, tactics, personality, and performance in specific duels, but in the end, it is just imitation, without their own thinking, without a soul.

And a truly autonomous AI should be like Noah, like a living person living in the digital world.

"The only digital life in the world is dead, dead many years ago." Mokuba said in a deep voice, "There is no such thing anymore."

"That's hard to say."

Nightshroud leaned back into his chair and folded his hands.

"I'm just providing a train of thought for investigation. As for whether to believe it or not, and how to investigate next, that's up to you."

Mokuba frowned, silent for a moment.

About a minute of silence. Everyone ate quietly, and Nightshroud took another sip of red wine.

Then he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief handed by a servant: "Once again, it's a pity that President Kaiba couldn't join us. Since that time, we haven't had a chance to meet again, and I've always wanted to apologize to him in person."

He paused and added: "Whether it's on behalf of Industrial Illusions, or as a duelist."

Mokuba didn't speak.

"In fact, I can roughly guess President Kaiba's thoughts." Nightshroud closed his eyes lightly and said, "He thinks that the one who defeated him back then was the Wicked God, not me, right?

Now that there is no Wicked God, I am not an opponent worthy of him, is that it?"

Mokuba smiled: "This is not what I said, you think so yourself."

But he didn't deny it.

Indeed, including Mokuba, he also thought so. Back then, Kaiba was defeated not by Nightshroud, but by the Three Wicked Gods.

The Wicked Gods, like the Phantom Gods, not only have powerful effects in duels, but also have a very strong fate power boost for the holder. Not to mention that Nightshroud's mind was affected at the time, and the whole person could almost be said to be under the control of the Wicked Gods.

After Nightshroud was defeated by Yugi, the Wicked God cards were also rumored to have been destroyed by Master Tianma. Then in Kaiba's eyes, the remaining Nightshroud is just a container for the Wicked Gods of the past, not a man who has defeated him, and even if he runs over to abuse him to vent his anger, it has no meaning.

"Indeed, it is natural for him to think so, and I have nothing to deny. It's just that as a duelist, there will still be some unwillingness, right?"

Nightshroud smiled, and then opened his eyes, his gaze had moved to You Xuan, who was concentrating on eating.

"You are... Fujiki You Xuan, a student of Duel Academy, right?"

You Xuan looked up.

How did it suddenly turn to himself...

"First of all, thank you for your guidance to my Card Professor today. I have told them long ago that there are people outside people and heavens outside heavens, but it seems that personal experience is more direct."

"No problem."

You Xuan waved his hand generously, thinking that if you are really grateful, it's easy to say, let me go to Master Tianma's warehouse for a turn...

"Dickson's evaluation of you is very special, so I learned about it, and then I learned that it was you who defeated the hijacked AI in Kaiba Land back then, no wonder President Kaiba would pay attention to you..."

You Xuan supported his chin.

He smelled the taste of cards.

"So, if possible, I have a presumptuous request..."

At this time, the servant behind had already handed the Duel Disk loaded with the deck to him at the right time.

"... Can you duel with me?"

This match is expected to be a bit long, it may take two days.

But if you add one or two more chapters, you can finish it like before, but even if you add more, you still can't finish it XD

Finish it tomorrow.