Chapter 347 - Offensive and Defensive Program (2/2)
Zhou Yuhang yelled, and the engineers looked elated as they scanned their screens to check on its outcome—in the virtual battlefield, the ground suddenly collapsed into a bottomless abyss, a gaping sinkhole engineered to swallow whole the onrus.h.i.+ng tiger.
The team leaders worked in tandem to preventing Xiao Luo’s program from launching subsequent commands while attempting to break into the program file. It was working—in the abyss, the team leaders were coding tons of rocks and piling debris into the trap to hold the ferocious tiger. In cybers.p.a.ce, they were like the G.o.ds, making their creations come to life at the touch of a key.
BOOM!
Finally, the intrusion was stopped, and everything came to a standstill. It was like a gigantic mountain had been formed using codes and dropped into the abyss, forever sealing the ferocious tiger in its prison. Zhou Yuhang shot up from his chair, yelled in exhilaration, and pointed at Xiao Luo as he roared, “He’s been defeated! He is not ‘Mie,’ he is not ‘Mie!'”
His joy was absolutely justified. He had proven his skills and had redeemed the pride of the IT department.
Gu Zhanguo, Dongfang Shouyu, and Ji Siying all looked at Xiao Luo, and a frown formed on their faces as they wondered if they got it wrong. Wasn’t Xiao Luo the real ‘Mie?’
However, at that moment, the other three group leaders gasped, their faces paled, and they looked horrified. They kept repeating the same words over and over again, “How could this be… how could this be?”
Zhou Yuhang noticed his colleagues’ distress and could tell something was amiss. As he looked at his own screen, his eyes opened wide, his lips couldn’t stop trembling, and he found himself in an extreme state of shock. Xiao Luo’s program had reactivated; it had broken free—the ferocious tiger was no more, but in its place was a humongous creature lifting the mountain and crawling out of the abyss.
“Now, the game is finally over!”
Xiao Luo laughed as he entered a series of code before hitting the Enter key.
It resembled a shockwave as the creature revealed its two ma.s.sive savage fangs and let out a long terrifying howl that shook heaven and earth…
Zhou Yuhang and his remaining forces in the virtual battlefield were wiped out in an instant. A piercing sound of beeps emanated from their computers, and on their screens, scrambled codes began to form the word “MIE.”
The entire hall fell into shocked silence.
The cybers.p.a.ce battle was over, leaving a field of hundreds lying in defeat.
Zhou Yuhang was stunned. He had his hands on his head and could only stare blankly at the word, “MIE,” emblazoned on his screen. He was defeated but gradually came to terms with the loss as he closed his eyes with grief and let out a long sigh. He then slumped back in his seat, totally spent.
Swallowing his pride, he walked up to the microphone on stage, and said: “Congratulations! Now, no one will question if you are ‘Mie’ anymore,” then turning to his colleagues, he said, “am I right?”
All the IT engineers nodded their heads, and not a hint of doubt showed in their eyes any longer, but instead, there was only wors.h.i.+p, respect, and admiration. And why not? A hundred a.s.sailants attacking in unison against a lone swordsman, and yet they were soundly beaten. How could they dare to not accept it?
“Teacher, please enlighten us. What program did you create? I’ve never seen a program this effective before!”
Zhou Yuhang had regained his soul again and was thirsty for knowledge of these abilities he had experienced first-hand. He would try to seek Xiao Luo’s advice, and already he had begun to address Xiao Luo as “teacher.”
“I name it the ‘sixty-four offensive and defensive program.’ It’s designed for ma.s.sive scale deployment and has a unique active defense capability. It dynamically alters the access key and masks the port address, essentially it pa.s.sively tracks the source of intrusions and diverts malware back to that source. It also has self-learning capabilities, plots virus patterns, and rewrites its codes before redirecting it to its source location. Therefore, it can handle ma.s.sive attacks, and unless you can disable the program quickly, it will continue to learn and counter any attempts with devastating results.”
Xiao Luo patiently explained the concept of his radical program to the IT engineers of the NSA. It wasn’t because Zhou Yuhang had addressed him as ‘teacher’ that he did it, instead, it was that this program was capable of strengthening the nation’s gateways and cyber networks. Xiao Luo was just glad that he could contribute to enhancing the defenses of his country in any way he could.
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