Chapter 222-225

On the first Friday night of school, Lin Rui arrived at the base of League of Defender after dark. He had previously agreed with Peter to meet here as it seemed that Peter had something to tell him.

Because Daredevil joined SHIELD, and Jack was the owner of the Frankenstein Family, and Deadpool was busy being famous for making big news every day, so there are usually no people in the base. However, if there is something that everyone needs to do together, then they will unite as soon as possible.

“Why hasn’t Peter come yet? Is something wrong?” Lin Rui played a game in the base for a while and watched that it had been more than an hour since his planned appointment with Peter. After whispering to himself, Lin Rui took out his cell phone as it was better to make a call and ask.

“Hey, Spiderman, didn’t you agree to meet me at the base? Why didn’t you come?” The phone was quickly answered and Lin Rui asked Peter from the other end.

“Huh? Ah! I forgot, now I’m at home!” Peter on the phone seemed a little surprised, then explained briefly. Listening to his tone, it really seems that he had simply forgotten it.

“Then you said you had something to tell me. What was it?” Lin Rui is relieved to know that Peter is all right.

“What? What? It’s Nothing!” In response to Lin Rui’s question, Peter says in an unexpected voice that he’s ok.

“Really? Is everything fine.” Although he was a little confused about Peter’s answer, Lin Rui didn’t think too much.

“Yes, I’m going to hang up now and I’ll meet you later.” Peter on the other side of the phone didn’t seem to want to say anything to Lin Rui and hung up after saying this.

Toot ~

Before Lin Rui can react, Peter hangs up, leaving Lin Rui stunned.

“Is there really something so urgent?” Putting down the phone with some confusion, Lin Rui mumbled. However, it was only a little confusing, and there was nothing unusual about Peter’s behavior.

“Forget it, let’s continue playing the game. I’ll go to Harry’s house tomorrow to see how he is doing, and then contact Fury again. I still need to cooperate with them on the follow-up to eliminate Hydra.” Shaking his head, Lin Rui put his attention to the game he was playing.

However, Lin Rui, who is absorbed in playing the game, fails to notice that an indicator light on the laptop on the desk in front of him is flashing rhythmically, but the computer is clearly turned off at this time.

…

The next day, Lin Rui, who had made an appointment with Peter, came to Harry’s house again. He doesn’t know what had happened to Peter these two days as he had disappeared from school after the class end. Lin Rui always thought that Dr. Connors needed Peter’s help in the follow-up experiment. However, he even blew up seeing Harry, which made Lin Rui a little bit upset.

Having greeted Harry in advance, Lin Rui walked directly into this luxury house that he had visited before. Two minutes later, Lin Rui finally met Harry, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

“Hey! Harry, I haven’t seen you in a long time!” Lin Rui smiles and gives Harry a big hug as he walks forward and see how much more mature he looks now.

Call!

“Jackson, thank you, I’m fine.” Also hugging Lin Rui with a strong hug, Harry replied with a smile.

“Where’s Peter? I thought you were coming here together?” After separating from Lin Rui, Harry looks over Lin Rui’s shoulder and asks questioningly as he doesn’t see Peter.

“Maybe something is wrong. I don’t know what this guy is doing these days.” Shaking his head, Lin Rui says he doesn’t know where Peter is.

“However, I heard that his research with Dr. Connors is finally successful. How about it, have you cured yourself?” Speaking of Peter, Lin Rui mentioned Harry’s genetic disease, which is also a point of concern for Lin Rui. Lin Rui and Harry have a good friendship between them, otherwise, he wouldn’t have asked it directly.

“You mean the Genetic Recovery Serum, yes, the experiment was successful and the effect has been confirmed. But I have not used it for the time being, and the serum will need some improvement in the future to suit my situation.” At Lin Rui’s words, Harry answers with a twinkle in his eye.

“Oh, so it works. I was worried about you when I heard that you have a family hereditary genetic disease. It would be great if you can get cured now! By the way, have you celebrated this news with Gwen?” Lin Rui was relieved to hear Harry’s words, and then asked some gossip.

Although Harry didn’t see much of him and Peter after Norman Osborn’s death but Gwen, as his girlfriend, should have met often. Now their relationship may have developed to a deep step.

“Gwen? I haven’t been able to tell her because I’ve had a lot going on at work lately.” At the sound of Gwen’s name, Harry’s pupils involuntarily constricted, then he calmly replied.

“Really, of course, the sooner you can tell her the better. Even if you are too busy, you can’t ignore your girlfriend, you know?” Lin Rui himself is not in love so he can only give him a brief reminder about the situation between Harry and Gwen.

“Well, since you’re so busy, should I be bothering you today?” Lin Rui, who had just sat down on the sofa, suddenly asked.

After not seeing Harry for so long, he didn’t know what to talk about. After all, part of Lin Rui’s life is completely off the record, and the events at school probably won’t interest Harry much anymore.

“It’s nothing. I’m tired from work, but I need a rest. We’re going to play a few games and then we’re going to have dinner together. I had a chef cook for us today.” Harry, sitting opposite Lin Rui, smiled and said, clearly aware of Lin Rui’s slight awkwardness.

Harry has become more and more like a mature president, but Lin Rui doesn’t like the way Harry looks in front of him. He always thinks that Harry’s changes seem a little big and he is not the Harry he knew before. Although Harry was more mature than his peers in the past, it was far from the aura that Lin Rui felt now. However, after the changes in the company and the death of his father, it was quite understandable that Harry had changed so much.

That’s it, after spending more than three hours in Harry’s apartment, Lin Rui finally came out with a filled belly. The chef Harry hired was really good. Lin Rui, whose family runs a restaurant, almost bit his tongue while eating the dishes.

“Is it my delusion? I was feeling that something is wrong with Harry today. Did the last thing sent to Norman affect Harry?”

“It’s not just Harry, Peter has been acting a little weird these days.” Wandering towards the subway exit, Lin Rui was thinking about somethings as he walked.

Although Peter had a loose mouth habit when he became Spiderman, he should be somewhat shy in normal times. But in the past two days at school, Peter seemed to be a little bit of a showoff, and he even took the initiative to ask a girl out. This personality change puzzled Lin Rui, but he couldn’t figure out why.

“Hopefully it’s just my delusion. Bad things shouldn’t always find my two friends.” Shaking his head, Lin Rui wanted to shake out the bad feelings in his heart. Then he stepped forward into the subway exit in front.

Two days later, Lin Rui and Jack were sitting on their respective sofas at the Guardian Base. Lin Rui was watching a video on the laptop in front of him, and the protagonist of the video was Spiderman Peter.

In the video, Peter easily defeated a gang involved in the drug trade, and it looked like it was a feat to protect peace in New York City. However, Lin Rui who is watching the video did not look very good and frowned slightly.

“Mirage Knight, forget it! Isn’t it just Spiderman acting alone, and nothing bad has happened, do you need to be so upset?” Just as Lin Rui stared at the video, Jack sitting on his side suddenly said.

Glancing up at Jack, Lin Rui says helplessly, “I wouldn’t worry too much if it were just like this, but don’t you think Spiderman has been acting up lately? This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. ”

Speaking of the drug-trafficking operation in the video, it was the information provided by Jack. It would be perfectly fine to deal with such gangsters regardless of who stopped them. But Lin Rui had fought against Francis and the forces behind him and also killed a Level four Mutant, so he was still a little worried that the forces behind them would hit them. So Lin Rui originally planned to go with Peter to carry out the operation together but he did not expect that Peter would go alone in advance and knock them all down before they even got to the trading part. Lin Rui did not understand this situation.

And it’s not the first time something like this has happened, only this time it makes Lin Rui feel even weirder. Since last week, some of Peter’s behaviors have been developing in a direction that Lin Rui cannot understand. Not only does Peter begin to show his differences in normal times, but he is also more active in fighting criminals when he turns into Spiderman. Besides, he is always photographed in the downtown area, which makes Lin Rui feel very strange.

Lin Rui has a bad feeling about this change in Peter. Even Wade, who is bent on making a splash recently, doesn’t have as much exposure as Peter.

At this time, Lin Rui was just feeling a bit strange about the current changes in Peter and he was not thinking of any special case like Venom infecting Peter. After all, in Lin Rui’s memory, In the Spiderman movie, Venom turned the spiderman suit into a striking black. And the Spiderman suit that Peter is wearing now was designed by Tony himself, and it doesn’t change much at all.

Moreover, Lin Rui’s original Spiderman series of movies have been shot in three different versions. Venom only appeared in one of them. How could he know which version of Marvel World those movies are in? Even if it was based on comics, Lin Rui had never seen the comics, and he would never know about Venom.

“That just goes to show that Spiderman wants to be famous. After all, Deadpool has been trying to get famous lately, so it’s normal for him to feel a bit of crisis as New York’s favorite Vigilante.” Jack doesn’t have a lot of contact with Spiderman at ordinary times. After hearing Lin Rui’s words, he replied without any care.

“Spiderman is not that kind of person, but, you know, he’s been acting like he’s trying to get people’s attention lately. Well, I’ll ask him again the next time I see him. I feel like I’ve missed something.” Peter is very happy to have his own fans, but he is not the kind of person who changes so much just for the sake of increasing his fans. Finally, Lin Rui can only think of the next time she sees Peter and asks him in person.

dī dīdrop ~

Just as Lin Rui was about to turn off the video of Spiderman on the Laptop, a window popped up on the screen, which was a simple dialogue window.

“Hmm? Who sent the message?” Seeing the dialogue window that pops up on the Laptop screen, Lin Rui thought with some doubts.

The Laptops placed in the Guardian Base are usually not taken out, and their Internet IP addresses are masked in a special way. Of course, Lin Rui didn’t know much about it. It was only done after he consulted with J.A.R.V.I.S. Therefore, no one other than the people in the League of Defender will send messages to this Laptop.

However, Lin Rui’s expression suddenly became serious when he saw the next word displayed in that conversation window. Then, Lin Rui didn’t even think about it as he reached out and pressed the Laptop’s shutdown button.

“Oh? What’s wrong? Even if you can’t get used to Spiderman being in limelight, you don’t have to do this.” Because Lin Rui’s shutdown action was a bit large, Jack sitting beside him only saw Lin Rui pressed the power button quickly, and thought he didn’t want to see Spiderman.

However, Lin Rui doesn’t answer Jack’s question. Instead, he looks even harder at the laptop screen. There, the laptop screen, which was supposed to be dark, was still on, and the dialog box was still in front of Lin Rui’s eyes.

“Hello, Mirage Knight or Spiderman, I’m Sky’s Eye, I’m very happy to talk to you.” These are the words that popped up in the dialog box, and it is this sentence that makes Lin Rui’s face change and he pressed the power off button.

Needless to say, the conversation on the Laptop was obviously from someone who had found their IP address and is tracking it. Lin Rui tried to turn off the Laptop but he couldn’t do it, it is likely that even the Laptop was controlled by the other party. To be on the safe side, Lin Rui planned to smash the Laptop directly. However, he knew that this was useless, and if the other party was able to do this, they would almost be sure of their position.

Huh ~

So, without answering Jack’s words, Lin Rui turned the Laptop towards him, so that he could see the sentence on the screen.

“Eh? Is it a virus?! Or was it hacked?” Jack asked without looking worried. In the League of Defender, Jack’s identity can probably be exposed without any fear.

“Of course it is hacking! Our location may have been exposed, do you know that this is very dangerous!” Lin Rui said helplessly when he saw that Jack didn’t care.

“Ah, don’t worry that much. I don’t think that this hacker means any harm, it’s more like a normal greeting.” Looking at the sentence on the Laptop, Jack patted Lin Rui’s shoulder and said.

Buzz ~

The moment Jack finished saying this, the dialog box on the Laptop screen suddenly shook. Then a row of big words popped up: Sky’s Eye requested a video call.

Seeing the trembling dialog box on the Laptop screen and the large line of characters, Lin Rui and Jack looked at each other. To Answer or not answer? However, according to the degree of control this person has on the laptop, even if they do not answer, they cannot prevent the person opposite to see the situation here. So, after a little thought, Lin Rui still clicked to connect.

After Lin Rui accepted the call, the dialog box on the screen turned into a common video call interface, and behind this window, the face of a young man appeared in front of Lin Rui and Jack.

“Hi! Hello, I’m Sky’s Eye!”

Lin Rui also thinks that things in the world are really wonderful. He only recently lamented that his team needs a good hacker. Today, his base is getting taken over by a hacker.

The network of the guardian base started out as Lin Rui’s own defense at first. Later, after forming an alliance with Tony, J.A.R.V.I.S helped raise the firewall. However, he did not expect that it would still get attacked by someone. It can only be said that there are still many smart people in this world.

“Mr. Sky’s Eye, that’s your nickname. What are you doing hacking into our network?” Lin Rui asks calmly, looking across the screen at the young man.

Fortunately, Lin Rui is accustomed to wearing a mask even in the Guardian Base. Otherwise, he may have been seen by the opposite guy. Lin Rui did not believe that this was the first time he had attacked their network. On the other side, Jack didn’t care much about his face being seen. His identity was made for him as a secret killer from an early age. He didn’t believe that a hacker would find him in reality after seeing his face. And, even if someone found Jack, there is nothing to worry about, after all, there is an entire Frankenstein Family between him and that person.

“Mirage Knight, my sincerest apologies for having attacked your network without your consent. However, this is the only way I could reach you.” Hearing Lin Rui’s words, the person at the other end of the screen first apologized, then went on to explain why he had hacked their network: he wanted to contact the League of Defender.

“Contact us? Do you need anything?” Lin Rui frowned when he heard Sky’s Eye’s apology, and then asked.

It seems that Jack may be right, this guy does not look malicious. If the guy calling himself Sky’s Eye is really dangerous to the League of Defender, Lin Rui would be forced to ask JARVIS to do something. Lin Rui is still confident in the Advanced intelligence of JARVIS and he knows that JARVIS would be able to take care of him.

“Well, in fact, I am one of the moderators of the League of Defender forum. I have always admired what you guys have done, and I just want to ask, can I join you? Don’t worry, I know that I won’t be able to fight but my hacking skills are pretty good!” Seeing Mirage Knight asking him, Sky’s Eye shouted his request somewhat shyly. In the end, it seemed that his qualifications were not enough in front of Mirage Knight, and he quickly added a sentence to show that he was not an ordinary person.

Hearing Sky’s Eye’s words, and then looking at his serious expression, Lin Rui and Jack beside him looked at each other tacitly.

“Is it really god’s will for you?” That’s what Jack means when he looks at Lin Rui. Lin Rui also told him a few days ago that their team lacks a good hacker and he asked Jack to pay attention to whether there is anyone trustworthy in the Frankenstein Family who can join them.

“Probably, this guy also seems to have a protagonist halo over him!” Lin Rui answers in his mind as he looked into Jack’s eyes, but it’s up to Jack to understand what he means.

“Well, are you our fan?” Lin Rui put away the surprise on his face and looked at Sky’s Eye and asked.

“Yes! Spiderman and Mirage Knight, I helped build and maintain your fan’s site later, and I spent a lot of time building the Guardian forum with a few other friends.” Sky’s Eye replied seriously as if he is trying to sell himself.

“Furthermore, I also know that you have secretly done a lot of things that are not available online. For example, you have fought against Wilson’s underworld empire and the Vampire race. These are things that are not available online and ordinary people would not know but I know them. You have been secretly protecting the safety of New York and the entire American people, which is why I worship you and want to join you.” After revealing his admiration for the League of Defender, Sky’s Eye said something that surprised Lin Rui and Jack again.

What Sky’s Eye said about Vampires and Wilson’s empire is not something that ordinary people can know at all. Apart from ordinary people, even people in some special departments can hardly access this information. And Mirage Knight, Spiderman’s fans website and the League of Defender forum have no information about this. Lin Rui doesn’t want to expose these too dark things to the public as he doesn’t know how Sky’s Eye was able to get this information.

“Ok, ok, I know what you’re doing. But it’s not that easy to join us.” Suppressing his surprise, Lin Rui looks at Sky’s Eye and speaks calmly.

“I know! I know! There must be a test to join your team! But I believe I can gain your trust as a good teammate!” Sky’s Eye shouted with excitement after hearing Lin Rui’s words.

“Okay, I understand what you mean. So, let’s talk about this in person, do you know where our base is?” Waving to Sky’s Eye on the other side of the screen, Lin Rui asked.

In fact, after chatting with Sky’s Eye for a while, Lin Rui had almost accepted this powerful hacker in his heart. But he still needs to be tested carefully. Lin Rui won’t let an untrustworthy person join the team.

“Uh, do you have a base? I don’t know, although I tracked this IP, your network defense is also very strong, and I cannot locate an accurate address. Speaking of which, the defense of your network is similar to that of Stark Industries. It’s just a lot weaker compared to them.” Shaking his head, Sky’s Eye says he does not know Lin Rui’s location. And he can see that their cyber defense has something to do with the Stark corporation. It seems that Sky’s Eye must have been fighting against JARVIS, and he didn’t know how many times has he been secretly fighting JARVIS?

“Well, let’s do this. Two days later, you are …” Lin Rui was a little relieved to hear Sky’s Eye’s answer, or they might have to consider changing bases.

“Well! I’ll wait there early!”

Lin Rui then tells Sky’s Eye that they will bring him over and make him wait in one place. Hearing that he could finally see his hero with his own eyes, Sky’s Eye seemed very excited and said that he would certainly wait for him early.

After another brief conversation, Lin Rui hung up the video call. Before hanging up, Lin Rui asked Sky’s Eye not to control their network, so that Lin Rui and others could have some privacy in the base. Sky’s Eye agreed of course, and the laptop recovered quickly after the call was ended.

However, Lin Rui is not so trusting. After the call, he simply shuts down any network on the base, either wireless or wired, to ensure that no one can break in again. After doing all of this, Lin Rui solemnly sat down with Jack.

“What are you going to do about this? Just accept him?” Jack looked at Lin Rui and asked as he himself had no opinion anyway.

“Let’s take a look first and then we’ll talk about it. I can’t decide this thing alone, but everyone needs to look at it together.” Glancing at the laptop on the table that has been completely powered off and shut down, Lin Rui said seriously.

Sky’s Eye, formerly Jerry Dan Argent, was born in a small town in the southern United States. Since childhood, Jerry has been found to have a high degree of talent in computers by his parents. However, due to his family’s situation, Jerry did not receive systematic science education. He could only go to ordinary schools with his friends.

However, geniuses are not so simple that they will be buried so easily. At the age of thirteen, Jerry left home alone and began to wander around America. As a teenager, Jerry was young and full of energy. While doing various part-time jobs, he kept learning the Internet technology of the world. Although it was very hard at times, his interest in computers and Internet technology kept him going. Now, It has been more than a decade and Jerry’s computer network skills are already at the top of his game.

Jerry now also has a stable job on the Internet. Although he only helps to make some websites and do some daily maintenance, it’s good that it’s easy and doesn’t take up too much of Jerry’s normal time.

As a highly skilled hacker, Jerry learned many things through the Internet that the government or some organizations would not let the public know. For example, some secret government research, and a lot of shady deals. Of course, Jerry wouldn’t do anything even if he knew that information. Anyway, it had little to do with him and other ordinary people, so he doesn’t care much.

However, when Mirage Knight was born in New York, something he experienced caught Jerry’s attention. To these hidden Vigilantes, hackers like Jerry likes to find out their real identity. Although it will not be disclosed maliciously, it can also be regarded as a sense of self-fulfillment.

But Jerry ran into a wall when he looked for Mirage Knight’s identity, which made him even more interested. Jerry then discovered what Mirage Knight and Daredevil, and later Spiderman, did. The first time they attacked the underground underworld in New York, most involved with Wilson’s underworld empire.

But then Jerry discovers something he couldn’t believe because when he goes after the Mirage Knight group, he discovers the mysterious and dark Vampire race, which should only exist in novels and on television. At one point, Jerry was afraid to go out at night for fear he would be caught as a blood bag.

However, after “seeing” Mirage Knight and the team of Vampire hunters completely destroy the Vampires from this world, Jerry began to worship these “unknown” Vigilante for the first time in his life. That’s why he put in the effort to set up the League of Defender forum and helped the Vigilantes to promote it. Of course, Jerry will not release those things that should not be made public. Maybe he can slowly let the public know, but it is still too early.

In this way, a top hacker such as Jerry has been silently following the Mirage Knights online, “watching” their struggle with the evil forces on all sides. Finally, after seeing so many underground dark forces, Jerry felt that he should also contribute. That’s why he started trying to find their tracks with Mirage Knight, hoping to reach them.

But if Jerry could find Lin Rui than it would be Lin Rui’s fault. But sometimes, Peter will log in to his fan’s website in the League of Defender base to upload some photos that he took on purpose. Jerry found them based on these photos that ordinary people can’t take. It is also a loophole caused by Peter’s current behavior.

So after contacting Mirage Knight and talking with him, Jerry was very excited. He spent two days of waiting time thinking about the gifts he should bring, but to those Vigilante, who guards New York and did a lot more great things, Jerry didn’t know if he would be seen as an out of control fan.

At last, Jerry thought of a present, something that had taken him a long time to finish and which he was sure Mirage Knight and his friends would love.

Two nights later, an excited Jerry was holding a beautifully wrapped box outside a convenience store on a street corner in New York, where Lin Rui had arranged for him to wait. Standing on the corner, Jerry could not help glancing around, trying to see them when Mirage Knight or some Vigilante appeared.

Just as Jerry stared nervously around him, a nondescript taxi slowly stopped in front of him. Card ~ The door opened and a person walked out. Jerry had only glanced and ignored it, after all, Vigilante wouldn’t pick him up in a low transport like a taxi, and he preferred that Spiderman fly over from the sky and take him away.

However, Jerry was clearly wrong this time. The man who came down from the taxi was wearing a  full-body crimson tight leather suit with two long blades in his back and two guns around his waist. It was during this time that he thought about the famous Deadpool.

“You are …!” Seeing the man who got off the taxi, Jerry shouted excitedly, apparently, he recognized Deadpool.

However, Jerry’s words were interrupted before he finished speaking, because Wade who came to Jerry didn’t say anything, and used the big black bag in his hand to put in the unresponsive Jerry. Then Wade rudely shoved Jerry into the taxi, and he got into it again. The whole process didn’t even take five seconds.

Shout!!

“Woohoo! Get it, buddy, let’s go.” After getting into the taxi, Wade patted the bag placed on the back seat and said to the driver beside him.

“Okay, Mr. Deadpool.” The driver apparently wasn’t surprised by Wade’s extraordinary and strange actions and set off with his foot on the accelerator.

As for Jerry who was put in the bag by Wade, although he didn’t expect such a treatment, he didn’t panic, because he recognized Deadpool, and he knew that this Vigilante was also a member of the Mirage Knight group, so his safety was no problem. So, Jerry didn’t yell and struggle after being put in the bag, which saved him from getting knocked out by Wade.

As the cab left the corner, Daredevil emerged from the shadows behind the convenience store. Lin Rui doesn’t have much trust in Sky’s Eye, so he had already asked Daredevil to come here to observe whether there is an ambush while sending the Deadpool to fetch him.

In addition to Daredevil’s advance observation, Jack also arranged a lot of people to carefully look if Wade’s taxi was being followed or not. This is the first time that they were found and they had to be careful. Fortunately, neither Daredevil nor Jack found any ambush or unexpected people. Therefore, Sky’s Eye is credible for the time being.

Almost an hour later, Wade is carrying Jerry to the guardian base. Daredevil, Jack, and Mirage Knight are waiting for them here. As for Spiderman, Lin Rui is also upset that he broke his appointment again.

Call!

Putting Jerry’s bag on the open space, Wade then poured him out of the bag. Jerry, who bumped all the way here, got used to the faint light outside and then looked around seriously. When he saw the four Vigilantes around him, Jerry’s eyes lit up.

“Is this my enlistment ceremony?!”