Chapter 142 The Taste of Cards
The helicopter with the KC logo printed on it slowly landed on the helipad on the top floor of the foundation building like a giant black dragonfly, and the roar of the propellers gradually weakened.

Yugen and Keipi walked off the plane together, accompanied by a team of security guards from Kaiba wearing classic sunglasses and suits, as well as a duel security consultant wearing a duel disk.

The so-called duel security consultants are people hired by companies to handle various matters that need to be resolved by playing cards.

However, the situation at Kaiba Corporation is rather special, because when encountering a slightly stronger opponent, the president likes to jump out personally to snatch his cards to play, so the card-playing consultants at Kaiba Corporation are actually slacking off most of the time.

The security chief leading the team is Uncle Jiye, the old man with sunglasses who is loyal to President Kaiba in the original DM story.

Although this bodyguard didn't have many lines, he left a deep impression on the fans of the first generation of animation. First, the president would always take him with him no matter where he went or what he did, and at one point he even gave people the illusion that "he was the only bodyguard in the entire company."

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

In the Duel City competition, the pressure from the three mythical gods made everyone in the venue breathless. Only Jiye, the referee, remained calm and even reminded the players to play well and not to play tricks.

Mr. Ma started a dark duel and beat the opponent's body until it disappeared. He also played cards until he was beaten to death. Mr. Jiye still stood by with a blank expression, as if his face said "It's just a small scene, nothing to be surprised about."

There is always a sense of déjà vu that Jiye is the hidden boss who sees through everything.

At this moment, Jiye had become the most trusted assistant of Kaiba and was promoted to the position of security director. He personally led the team and walked in front. Someone from the foundation had already been there to greet them. After saluting everyone, he turned around and led them into the building.

Everyone walked through a spacious and bright corridor, with valuable 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 restaurant.

The soft light shines on the exquisite dining table, which is filled with various dishes that are as exquisite as works of art and filled with fragrance.

Tenma Yexing stood up, walked straight over and shook hands with Keipi.

"Thank you for coming." He paused, "But I'm sorry that President Kaiba can't join us in person."

"My brother is abroad, so you can tell me anything you want to say." Keiping said, "Okay, you said there was a misunderstanding between us. What exactly is going on?"

"That's what I was going to say. But don't stand around, sit down and eat something first."

Ye Xing clapped his hands, and immediately a servant came forward and asked everyone to sit down. Everyone sat down in turn under the guidance of the servant.

You Xuan noticed that the night-walking card professors were standing behind him, and one of them immediately saw Kak Dixon, whom he had just met online not long ago.

You Xuan smiled and waved to the man in a friendly way. But when Kak saw this, his face darkened and he turned his head away without saying anything.

It seems that the child has some psychological trauma.

No matter what, You Xuan felt that it was worthwhile to have this meal. Anyway, he was mainly a spectator on this trip, and he mainly ate the meal besides watching from the front row.

"The International Illusion Society was hacked a week ago." Tianma Yexing said, "An unknown hacker broke through our firewall and stole a large amount of cards and scientific research and development data from our server."

Keiping frowned, "Hackers? You guys?"

"Yes. There aren't many people in the world today who have this level of skill."

Tianma Yexing picked up the goblet filled with red wine and took a sip.

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

"Oh? Who is it?"

Tianma Yexing said word by word: "Haima Group."

"Impossible." Keiping immediately denied, "We have never, and absolutely have no reason to hack into the International Illusion Society's system."

But as soon as he said this, he quickly thought about it again. He could not say that he had no motive at all. They had had a feud with Pegasus Night Walk many years ago.

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

"So that's why you hacked into the link system, because the link system is connected to our duel host, you want to use it to get our data?"

Guiping pondered.

"It's not a loss, but do you think that hacker is at least related to us?"

"I know that the Haiba Group has also been troubled by hacker problems recently." Tianma Yexing did not answer the question directly, "There are only a handful of people in this world who can break into our two mainframes."

"You look like you have a clue?" Keipi asked, "Do you have a suspect?"

"It may not be accurate to call him a suspect." Ye Xing said solemnly, "It's hard to say whether he is a human being."

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

Ye Xing changed the subject: "The Haima Group was once the world leader in the field of artificial intelligence research and development. Your research team was once regarded as the people closest to creating digital life in the world, right?" "You mean .AI?"

Keiping shook his head.

"That's impossible. My brother and I have long ago ordered a halt to all research on digital life intelligence. It has been shut down since that incident."

He paused.

"The only thing we are developing right now is the duel AI."

You Xuan could probably guess that "that thing" might be the event in the Noa chapter in the DM animation.

Kaiba Group is not close to creating digital life, but has already succeeded. However, after the crisis in the Noa Arc when the AI ​​went berserk and tried to take away their real bodies, Kaiba Group banned the development of digital life.

The AI ​​they are developing now, like the AI ​​Kaiba that You Xuan faced before, is just a simple duel program. They will simulate the original's thinking, tactics, personality and performance in a specific game, but in the end they are just imitations, without their own thinking and soul.

An AI that truly has autonomous thinking should be like Noa, a living person living in the digital world.

"The only digital life in the world is dead, many years ago." Keiping said solemnly, "There is no such thing anymore."

"That's hard to say."

Ye Xing leaned back in his chair and clasped his hands together.

"I am just providing a clue for investigation. As for whether you believe it or not, and how to investigate it next, that is up to you."

Guiping frowned and remained silent for a while.

There was silence for about a minute. Everyone ate quietly, and Ye Xing took another sip of red wine.

He then wiped his mouth with a handkerchief handed to him by a servant, "Once again, I'm sorry that President Kaiba couldn't join us. We never had the chance to meet again after that incident, and I've always wanted to apologize to him in person."

He paused and added: "Whether it's representing the Illusion Society or as a duelist."

Guiping said nothing.

"In fact, I can roughly guess what President Kaiba is thinking." Ye Xing gently closed his eyes and said, "He thinks that it was the evil god who defeated him, not me, right?
Now that the evil god is gone, I am not a worthy opponent of him, right?"

Keiping smiled: "That's not what I said, it's what you think."

But he didn't deny it either.

Indeed, even Keipi thought so. Kaiba was defeated not by Pegasus Night Walker but by the three evil gods.

The evil god, like the phantom god, not only has a powerful effect in duels, but also has a very strong amplification of the fate of the holder. Not to mention that Ye Xing's mind was affected at the time, and the whole person could almost be said to be under the control of the evil god.

After Night Walker was defeated by Yugi, the Evil God Card was also said to have been destroyed by Pegasus. So in Kaiba's eyes, the remaining Pegasus Night Walker is just a vessel of the former Evil God, not the man who defeated him, so it is meaningless for Kaiba to come and abuse him again.

"Indeed, it is natural for him to think so, and I can't deny anything. But as a duelist, I am still somewhat unwilling to accept it."

Tianma Yexing smiled, then opened his eyes, and his gaze shifted to You Xuan, who was concentrating on eating the whole time.

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

You Xuan looked up.

Why did it suddenly turn to me?
"First of all, thank you for your guidance to my card professor today. I have already told them that there are always people who are better than you, but it seems that it is more direct for them to experience it in person."

"fine."

You Xuan waved his hand generously, thinking that if you really want to thank me, then it's easy to say, just let me go around the warehouse of the Becas family.
"Dixon's evaluation of you is very special, so I learned a little bit about it, and then I found out that it was you who defeated the hijacked AI in Kaiba Paradise. No wonder President Kaiba paid attention to you."

You Xuan held his chin.

He smelled the cards.

"So, if I may, I have a humble request."

At this time, the servant behind him had handed him the duel disk with the deck loaded on it.

".Can you duel with me?"

　This is expected to be a bit long, maybe it will take two days

　　
　
(End of this chapter)