179 The Battle of Interne (2/2)
”I'm just coding.” Bai Ling turned her head and smiled at Chu Yue.
”Coding?”
Pursing her lips, Chu Yue was not entirely convinced. She said, ”Alright. I will leave you to it. I'm going to continue cursing the pretentious d*ck.”
She picked up the doll in front of her again, stuck a piece of paper with Xiao Luo's name on the doll's chest, then began to mumble in indignation, ”Pretentious d*ck, I hope you can't find a girlfriend all your life. You will have a flat tire if you drive; your phone will ring loudly if you're in an important meeting; you will be stuck in a traffic jam if you're pressed for time. All the bad luck will keep pestering you...”
Bai Ling was at a loss whether to cry or to laugh at Chu Yue's curse. Ever since Xiao Luo left without saying goodbye, she found her best friend had been acting strangely. Besides shouting ”pretentious d*ck” in her dreams from time to time, she had given up on her penchant for sweet things and occasionally would use a ”voodoo” doll to put a jinx on Xiao Luo.
There was no way that she would believe Chu Yue did not like Xiao Luo!
But she couldn't be distracted now. The hostile forces were launching a massive cyberattack on Hua Nation, and the consequences would be dire if she didn't stay focused. ”Looks like these guys have been well prepared this time!”
Bai Ling's expression turned grave. The blush on her cheeks made her look like a delicate porcelain doll.
She had rerouted a large portion of the attack to secondary firewalls within the NSA architecture, but the intrusions were overwhelming. She now deployed a library of tools and protocols that she had developed for remotely setting up virtual firewalls. As she now battled the black hats, she kept setting up these new firewalls, one after the other. Yet time and again, she was overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the attacks. As fast as she could set up firewalls, the intruders would breach them. She was one girl against a well-organized, concerted effort manned by an army of top-notched hackers. The NSA did not stand a chance, and unbelievably left it to her to withstand the offensive alone.
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The headquarter of NSA.
The NSA experts were at their wits end. Their computers were compromised, and they were shut out of the battle. They could only monitor the situation helplessly.
These here were the elites in the field of information technology, yet they found no way to counter the massive cyberattacks. They were forced to depend on a mysterious master hacker, BaiLing, to defend Hua Nation's honor. It wasn't just embarrassing; it shameful!.
And yet, they were too busy to be ashamed of themselves. This virtual war was bearing upon the very foundation of the society and nation, and something had to be done. Under these grave circumstances, they did the only thing possible, they rooted for BaiLing in silence.
The situation, in reality, was turning a dark turn. The firewalls created by BaiLing were breached by wave after wave of relentless attacks across the entire network. The speed with which she could set up firewalls could not match their breaching speed of the intrusions. As this trend continued, it was only a matter of time before BaiLing would lose the rearguard action.
The nervous tension returned to the executives of the NSA. Even though BaiLing was not an employee of NSA, she was acknowledged as a computer genius. They couldn't think of anyone else capable of warding off this attack if BaiLing failed.
Was the eve of chaos upon them?
Many were now preparing for the worst. The very foundations of their society would be devastated. Life, as they knew, was soon cease to exist. Armageddon cometh!
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Xiao Luo put down his unfinished drink and muttered to himself, ”Let me help you guys!”
Before his voice even faded, his ten fingers were dancing on the keyboard as a pianist would, the piano. A string of codes was quickly sent into the dark virtual battlefield.