Chapter 29: Only My Unique Method Chapter 29: Hurricane Three Hours

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The last three hours before sunset are the most spectacular three hours in the Northern Hemisphere.

At the start of this day, countless computer geniuses were still doing things that waste life: writing code, programming, hanging out on forums, pretending to be elites to meet fake beauties.

But when night fell or dawn arrived, a magnificent scroll slowly unfurled. It not only attracted those sharp-witted eccentric talents, but also let ordinary people experience the threat coming from the internet.

This is a hurricane, originating in Wisconsin, yet with absolutely no intention of stopping at the United States.

Chen Rongxi is a genius girl. She not only possesses proud talent, but also has a solid foundation — these have always been hidden beneath her age, her quirky cleverness, her family background. Only when Chen Yi, wielding twice her ability and three times her speed, battled inside Professor Hack's defense system did Chen Rongxi's talent bloom unrestrained in a way even she did not know.

Perhaps, under normal conditions, Chen Rongxi is merely a computer beauty who exceeds ordinary people. But when Chen Yi, via the scroll form, raised all her abilities by 60% across the board and added other attributes, that talent and foundation instantly swelled like rising dough, returning manifold rewards.

East Eight Zone 15:30, 1 hour 11 minutes after Chen Yi used the scroll, the hurricane began.

At this moment, under the influence of the copied skill, Chen Yi's entire spirit was concentrated on computer technology. He could not pay attention to or judge other problems, like a patient with restricted thinking. Or rather, while the scroll enhanced one aspect of his ability, it imprisoned his other abilities.

Including his macro judgment.

Chen Yi no longer considered what the target of using the scroll was, no longer considered the losses the other party would suffer, no longer considered the future aftermath — he did not need to consider anything, just continuously modify code, attack, and then…

He attacked the Wisconsin Research Center's super-supercomputer.

This act left Professor Hack both shocked and furious. In fact, it left the United States government both shocked and furious.

Because this super toy worth hundreds of millions of dollars did not belong to the University of Wisconsin; it belonged to the Wisconsin state government. Placing it at the Madison Campus was merely for convenience of use and maintenance. Besides them, hundreds of other institutions were queuing to use it.

Professor Hack was precisely using it to crack the lost zombie computer passwords.

He indeed succeeded a few times, but afterward, he drew Chen Yi's perfectly justified retaliation.

For any hacker, a supercomputer is a colossus. It has its own proprietary system, its own professional operators, a defense system completely tailored to itself…

East Eight Zone 15:40, Chen Yi, as if attacking a castle, began clearing the supercomputer's surroundings.

East Eight Zone 15:42, Chen Yi tore open the third Agility Scroll and second Intelligence Scroll, and downed 6 bottles of Energy Recovery Potion in one go.

His head was excitedly dizzy.

East Eight Zone 15:55, 6 servers changed their administrator passwords, 3 hosts added new "guests".

Right then, Chen Yi also discovered the method to invade the supercomputer — through the other hosts linked to it.

At this time, the harried Professor Hack, or other network administrators, simply had not realized danger was approaching. They treated the supercomputer attack incident very seriously, but absolutely not seriously enough.

East Eight Zone 15:58, two new access requests appeared in the supercomputer's massive data chain. No one thought to give them a glance.

Chen Yi's hands moved wildly. Not that his previous movements weren't wild enough, just that now the wildness was more thorough.

He invaded the supercomputer in the simplest, stupidest, yet most difficult-to-counter way — through 6, 8, even a dozen different hosts, participating in the attack in a completely manual manner.

This is equivalent to 10-plus individuals possessing 1.6 times Chen Rongxi's ability and 2.88 times her intelligence (Intelligence Scroll stacking doubling effect) launching an assault — currently equivalent to 10-plus world-top programming-type hacker experts.

Of course, the speed and energy Chen Yi must expend are also 10-plus times a normal person's. Right now he is entirely sustained by potions.

The effect is surprisingly good.

By the time the University of Wisconsin administrators discovered those two access requests were unfriendly, besides severing the supercomputer's physical links and refusing all access links, they had no other recourse.

The problem is, a supercomputer linked to hundreds of institutions across North America cannot be so easily disconnected physically.

East Eight Zone 16:21. The supercomputer from Jiangning began, via jump hosts, attacking the University of Wisconsin's supercomputer "Siren".

Although its password claimed brute-force cracking would take ten thousand years and still not succeed, out of safety considerations, at East Eight Zone 16:25, "Siren" finally announced the severance of all physical connections.

At this point, Professor Hack lost his biggest arm, and simultaneously lost the only chip to reclaim the college servers' passwords.

The University of Wisconsin began slowly, hesitantly, and reluctantly severing the physical connections of each departmental server.

Next, continuing to suffer frenzied attacks were some servers connected to it; some of them lost control rights, others were suspected of intrusion, and one after another announced disconnection.

In reality, as time passed, Americans had reason to believe they were suffering an organized large-scale hacker attack; more and more servers, out of panic, announced disconnection.

East Eight Zone 16:30, 2 hours 11 minutes after using the scroll, Chen Yi had already completed the expected goal, and attracted the gaze of the whole world.

Those hundreds of servers represented millions of network services. When they suspended service, not only did governments and corporate institutions suffer losses, ordinary people's network applications were also affected.

Whether forum heat or Google keywords, a significant surge appeared instantly. The US government, like a hornet's nest just woken up, rushed in chaotically from various departments.

East Eight Zone 16:40. Hackers drawn by the news hung a Jesus statue on the White House external website. The poor White House net, like cooked Tang Monk meat, seemed ready to be feasted upon at any moment.

A low exclamation rose from the villa's backyard.

"This host is really troublesome." Xiao Yu spoke first. They did not yet know that the host Chen Yi had just gained administrator privileges on was a world-class supercomputer. Not only was it stronger than the supercomputer their terminals were on, it also possessed full privileges.

Chen Rongxi watched eagerly from there, her mind a paste, unable to understand why Second Brother, who usually only liked playing games, was so fierce in a hacker battle.

When did he learn programming? Chen Rongxi simply could not figure it out no matter how hard she tried.

If she knew that the Chen Yi now rampaging worldwide was precisely the result of amplification based on herself, Chen Rongxi would probably have jumped up in excitement long ago.

The so-called genius girl is precisely a girl lacking experience and accumulation. The Skill Copy Scroll, while copying her abilities, also made up for a portion of those shortcomings.

As for Chen Yi, he thought of nothing, his mind full of aggressive hacker thinking, everything prioritizing victory; the pleasure of writing code, for him at this moment, far surpassed the pain of violent keystrokes.

He was like a crazed pianist, single-mindedly thinking only how to play faster; the numbers and letters mysterious and boundless in others' eyes could not reduce his speed by a single bit.

In the backyard, besides the crackling of keyboard sounds, there was only the crackling of barbecue sounds.

East Eight Zone 16:55, the 100th server was invaded.

This was a beautiful moment.

The North American network world, as if paused.

The domino effect played out to the maximum.

This glory lasted a full 3 minutes before the awakened Americans, by various means, reclaimed three servers. But the impact caused could never be reversed.

The morning Wisconsin sunlight was exceptionally dazzling. The defense systems originally modified during the early hours announced total collapse; even the Principal Mister who did not understand computers had urgently returned to his office, announcing all colleges would continue using the original software systems.

Professor Hack had long been sitting on the chair with two eyes dull. Muttering to himself: Absolutely impossible to make an adjustment so quickly, who can, within two minutes, according to the Defense System, adjust the attack, impossible...

He was completely defeated by speed.

Perhaps precisely because he researched too much, it made him overly believe in general data, yet failed to consider extraordinary problems.

Chen Yi continued to write programs with his head down, like a stupid bookworm. Only when using the scroll and drinking water did he show a bit of spirit.

He had to complete the production of a new software within the remaining time.