Chapter 68: Hacker War

For this intercollegiate exchange and study, the main focus was on Chen Jing and a portion of the elite students she brought; there wasn't much for Lingyun to do. In fact, that was the case; Lingyun and a portion of the others were all here to learn, and their main task was to learn from the strengths of others.

Lingyun stayed in his own dormitory. The dormitories arranged for them by Modu University were all graduate student dorms, with one person per room. Because there was nothing to do, Lingyun directly opened his computer and started surfing the internet.

After a short while, Lingyun frowned. The webpage he was browsing suddenly turned pitch black, and then a mess of garbled code popped up.

"Did I get a virus? Or did the website crash? Or is the signal bad?" Lingyun wondered aloud, while simultaneously exiting the browser, preparing to open it again.

However, an icon on his computer suddenly lit up, and a red light was flashing incessantly.

"Is this... a computer virus?" Lingyun's brow furrowed immediately. This computer of his had been modified by him; under normal circumstances, its defensive strength exceeded that of an average person's personal computer. Under these conditions, his computer had actually been invaded by a virus.

"Could it be that someone is targeting me? It couldn't be that guy Zhao Gang, could it?" Lingyun muttered to himself, while quickly launching a piece of software on his desktop. Through some previous exchanges, he already knew that Zhao Gang's attainments in the field of computer science were indeed quite high; if it were him invading his computer, it was entirely possible. After typing a string of username and password into the pop-up interface, the computer desktop flickered and changed into a different appearance.

Lingyun skillfully opened a piece of software and typed code into it. Lingyun's speed at typing code was extremely fast; in just a few minutes, a compact program was compiled. Lingyun opened this program, and the program immediately began to automatically scan for viruses on this computer. When Lingyun was traveling through the endless dimensions, he had once arrived at quite a few unusual modern and high-tech planes; in these planes, he had practiced a set of superb hacker skills.

After a short while, the virus in Lingyun's computer was completely purged. At the same time, information regarding this virus was displayed on the screen. Looking at the displayed content, Lingyun's brow furrowed immediately. This virus was something Lingyun had contracted just now while browsing the webpage; when that pile of garbled code appeared on the webpage, it was his computer passively downloading the virus. This already ruled out the possibility of Zhao Gang attacking him; after all, Zhao Gang did not have the ability to predict that Lingyun would visit this website and simultaneously hang his own virus on it. Moreover, what Lingyun was browsing just now was the website of a large company, which had professional personnel maintaining it; generally speaking, it was impossible for problems to occur.

"Could it be that something happened to this company?" Lingyun muttered, but this kind of thing had nothing to do with him, and he couldn't be bothered to care; anyway, someone would always solve it.

After clearing the virus from his computer, Lingyun incidentally added it to his own virus database, so that if he encountered this kind of virus in the future, he could easily clear it.

Afterward, Lingyun opened another website, intending to browse recent events. However, when he opened the webpage, his brow immediately knitted together. It was originally a website reporting current events, but now the page displayed a huge map, covering the entire page. What was infuriating was that the map of Huaxia on this map was missing many pieces; Xin Province, Zang Province, Taiwan, and many other places were not the same color as Huaxia, looking extremely bizarre.

Looking at this map, Lingyun's face turned gloomy instantly. Without a word, he closed this website, and then Lingyun successively opened other websites, only to find that most of the websites had various problems. Some webpages even caused the small red light on his desktop to start flashing as soon as they were opened, indicating a virus intrusion. One or two might be a coincidence, but with so many appearing in a row, it could only be said that someone had done it deliberately.

After pondering for a while, Lingyun entered a URL on the webpage, entered a seemingly very ordinary webpage, input his account and password, and after clicking login, the webpage jumped to a forum.

……

Youlong is an elite cyber force established by the Huaxia government departments, affiliated with the National Security Bureau. The purpose of this team's establishment is to maintain Huaxia's cyber security, while also bearing the heavy responsibility of countering information intrusion and cyber attacks from overseas reactionary forces. In peacetime, they also concurrently serve the task of combating cybercrime. The two characters "Youlong" symbolize that they are like divine dragons in the ocean of the internet, invincible and unstoppable.

In the Youlong Base, everyone was busy. Most of them were famous hackers in Huaxia who, relying on their patriotic hearts, joined Youlong and had been defending the security of Huaxia's cyber world.

"Damn, Boss, are those little bastards overseas crazy, or is something wrong with their brains? Why did they agree to launch crazy attacks on our country's websites, and like mad dogs, biting everyone they see?" A fat man wearing thick glasses asked a man beside him quite depressedly.

In front of the fat man with glasses was a computer that looked unremarkable, with strings of data streams constantly flowing on it. Although he was talking to someone, his hands were dancing on the keyboard, leaving behind afterimages. Commands were issued from his computer one after another, constantly cracking the attacks on the network while patching vulnerabilities in the network.

"God knows if their brains are broken. When things are abnormal, there must be demons. The team leader has already sent people to investigate. Now our task is to drive these guys all out and give them a fierce counterattack at the same time." The tall and thin man called "Boss" by the fat man replied without raising his head.

"Don't worry, my big blade is already thirsty and impatient. Once we defend against their attack, if I don't make them cry for their fathers and mothers, I won't be surnamed Li!" The fat man was full of confidence.

"This overseas cyber attack is suspicious. We must not take it lightly, and don't capsize in the gutter!" The thin man warned.

"Yes, Boss!"

……

National Security Bureau, conference room.

"Number Three, how is the situation on your side? Have you figured out why the overseas hackers have suddenly united to attack our country's network this time?" One of the middle-aged men asked.

The person called Number Three was a middle-aged woman around forty years old, whose duty in the National Security Bureau was to manage intelligence from various places. She said in a deep voice: "The other side kept the confidentiality of this attack very well. We sacrificed one comrade. The last piece of information that comrade sent out before sacrificing was that this cyber attack was to provide cover for a certain secret operation and divert our attention. But that comrade only found out that this secret operation would be carried out in Modu before being discovered and sacrificed."

"This matter deserves our high attention. Let the people of the Dragon Group closely monitor the abnormal events in Modu, and at the same time notify the nearby Dragon Group members to go and support." The middle-aged man ordered.

"Yes." A guard responded and left the room.

"Number Two, how is the situation with Youlong?" The middle-aged man turned to another person; this person was the team leader of Youlong.

"The battle is deadlocked. The other side's attack seems to have no purpose; it really seems to be providing cover for some operation. Our team members are trying their best to deal with them." Number Two replied.

"Do not be careless. The other side's behavior this time is so strange; caution is the priority! If necessary, you can ask them for support. Hmm, with the personalities of those people, they might have already joined the battlefield."

"Understood!"