Chapter 287 - Chapter 287: Chapter 204: A Web Novel Writer Dares to Take on This Colossal Being?_2 (1/2)

Chapter 287: Chapter 204: A Web Novel Writer Dares to Take on This Colossal Being?_2

At present, the main clue he had gathered pointed towards “Myanmar area-Baisheng Group” “Morgan Group-Southeast Asia division”.

“Addictive drugs” as the world’s largest illegal trade.

Forces involved in the trafficking of “addictive drugs” often also managed the trade in “weapons and humans”, supported by formidable armed forces in the background.

Therefore, such criminal cases were complex and investigation work was difficult to carry out.

“Ah… no progress at all!”

Qin Yun leaned back in his chair, slumped into his seat, squinted his eyes, and then rubbed them with his hand to ease the fatigue.

After a while.

He grabbed the mouse again and opened a bookmarked webpage on his computer.

— “International Forum-Underworld”.

That’s right.

He had been monitoring this forum section for a long time, especially the “Black Ice” area which contained various posts about “addictive drugs”, providing him with some material for his case studies.

At the same time, a variety of users were active there.

He believed that the clue he was looking for might well appear there.

Hoping for a bit of luck, he logged into the “International Forum-Underworld” every now and then to have a look.

However, the website that evening surprised him.

“International Forum-Underworld” was shut down!

“What happened?” Qin Yun frowned slightly, the white light of the screen reflecting on his face, showing a look of surprise.

He had investigated “Hacker Kingdom” before and knew that the person behind this section was a master hacker.

Logically speaking.

The “Underworld” section should not shut down without any special circumstances.

“Go check ‘Dark Live’.”

Qin Yun muttered to himself.

‘Dark Live’ was a global large-scale hacker live streaming platform which often featured hosts explaining the technical applications within “Hacker Kingdom”, and one could easily find out why the “Underworld” section was shut down.

Qin Yun typed a series of web addresses into the search bar and quickly navigated to the ‘Dark Live’ streaming platform.

Before he could click into a followed stream, he saw several popular live rooms on the homepage of the live streaming platform.

They all had “Underworld” written on them.

[Live “Underworld” experiences web intrusion in full!]

[The “Underworld” is under attack by a major hacker organization!]

[Confirmed! “Underworld” has been subjected to large-scale intrusion by hackers from Southeast Asia, and the site is currently shut down!]

[…]

“Hacked?” Qin Yun’s eyebrows furrowed, and then he quickly entered one of the live streams.

The live broadcast showed a real-time three-dimensional map of a network attack.

Multiple light trails lit up on the map, moving across the sky like colorful shooting stars streaking through a pitch-black night.

In the bottom right corner of the live broadcast.

There stood a hacker host, named Tom, wearing a black mask covering his face entirely, not even the eyes showing, and he was explaining in English:

“About half an hour ago, ‘International Forum-Underworld’ was hit by a barrage of XSS attacks. We can currently confirm that the attackers launching the cyberattacks are located in the Southeast Asia region, we can see this light trail…”

The live room had a substantial number of online viewers and plenty of comments flying by.

[I’m a loyal fan of “Hacker Kingdom” and “Black Ice”, with no “Underworld”, I’m ‘homeless’ now!]

[Southeast Asia region? Who is attacking an ordinary forum section?]

[Is there an Influent Author in the live room who can help track who’s attacking “Underworld”?]

[I was still learning techniques until it suddenly closed!]

[I really want to know who’s behind this mischief!]

[Does anyone have information? Speak up!]

[…]

Qin Yun glanced at the comments.

He, too, was getting curious—who would attack a forum section for no reason?

At that moment, host Tom suddenly stopped, then left the camera view. After about five or six seconds, he reappeared.

“My friends, I have some rather unfortunate news to share!”

The hacker host Tom’s voice was processed, but it was still evident that his tone was somewhat grim.

[Is it that the “International Forum-Underworld” section has reopened?]

[Who is the instigator?]

[My friend, do you know who is causing trouble?]

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