Chapter 384
Chapter 384: Chapter 47 Calling for You at the Center of the World (Extra Chapter – Asking for Monthly Passes!)_3 Chapter 384: Chapter 47 Calling for You at the Center of the World (Extra Chapter – Asking for Monthly Passes!)_3 The eagerly expected good news, the message that they had successfully breached the Skynet System, did not come.
And the prodigious teenage hacker Kevin Walker, who had just been acting collected and poised, now started to furiously pound on the keyboard, clearly caught in a tough battle!
Over on the competition side.
Lin Xian pressed his Bluetooth earpiece:
“VV, how’s the situation?”
“99.56% of the attack commands are intercepted, but…
some slipped through.
Physical devices aren’t absolutely reliable, and sometimes the timing of power or network outages can be affected by various factors.
There was even a device that aged and crashed outright…
There’s nothing I can do but cut off all the power to that city.”
Through the Bluetooth earpiece, VV’s voice sounded effortless:
“If you let me intercept on site, I could definitely stop them 100%, but we’re not exposing ourselves for the sake of security, right?
Kevin Walker’s thinking is really impressive, I find myself increasingly realizing I’ve underestimated him…”
“Don’t worry, though, their security department can handle the leaked attack commands.
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The freestyle demonstration part of the hacker competition is time-limited, so Kevin Walker is out of options; it’s too late for him to come up with anything else.”
As VV said this, he laughed:
“Lin Xian, congratulations, you’re about to win the world hacker competition!
With this, he won’t score a single point, while you, having cracked a Tesla sedan, are set to earn 17 points, propelling Team China into the lead!”
Lin Xian chuckled lightly, just as he was about to say something—
At that moment!
Kevin Walker on the opposite stage pulled a USB drive out of his pocket!
He plugged it into the computer!
Lin Xian frowned.
What was he doing?
VV had secured Mi Country’s internet border, ensuring no information could escape, so what was Kevin Walker busy with?
Could there be another way to attack?
Suddenly…
Lin Xian recalled Kevin Walker’s entrance, raising his right index finger high in the air, pointing straight up like the pose of the Genius Club’s emblem!
“Heavens…
there’s also the heavens!”
He looked up into the sky!
But it was too late—
The announcement flashed across the big screens on both sides of the sports stadium—
[Big Dipper Satellite RD12-14-2658 compromised!]
Boom!!!!!!!!
An unprecedented roar of applause and cheers erupted from the 80,000 people in the New Jersey Sports Stadium!
Although Kevin Walker didn’t breach the Skynet System, which was a pity, he had succeeded in hacking a satellite from the adversary’s navigation system!
This too was unprecedented!
According to the rules of the hacker competition, hacking a national-level satellite earned 80 points!
That sealed his victory!
“Kevin!” “Kevin!” “Kevin!” “Kevin!” “Kevin!” “Kevin!”…
The open-air venue rang with the name of this genius hacker, celebrating his undoubted victory!
“Sorry, Lin Xian.”
In the Bluetooth earpiece, VV sounded somewhat downcast:
“I’ve always been afraid of exposing my existence and leaving traces, so I didn’t dare to get too close, nor did I dare to use too much computing power.
For my current state, surrounding the internet border of Mi Country is already the limit.
By the time I realized he would use the ‘Starlink Satellite’ to bypass the terrestrial network and hack the Big Dipper Satellite directly from space, it was too late.”
“Kevin Walker knows the vulnerabilities of SPACE-T Company’s Starlink System.
He hacked straight into the satellite network, and then via more than 20,000 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth, he quickly transferred signals through space, infiltrating one of the Big Dipper Navigation Satellites.”
“I am still too weak.
This is the first time…
I suddenly feel the urge to grow up quicker.”
“It’s alright, VV,” Lin Xian consoled:
“After all, we’re playing an away game, and to have accomplished this much without exposing ourselves is quite impressive.
As you said, in the hacker domain, attacking is much simpler than defending, and I too know that one cannot be on guard every single day.”
“Besides, successfully defending China’s internet Great Wall and securing the Skynet System, we have achieved our goal.
Even though it may sound like a moral victory…
in reality, we’ve won.”
At that moment.
The Team China coach and members beside him were happily slapping hands to celebrate.
One of the elders came over, patted Lin Xian on the shoulder with a smile and said:
“RD prefixed Big Dipper Satellites are for civilian use, so don’t worry too much.
Although it’s unclear what happened, Kevin Walker must have resorted to his safety net at the last minute, having failed to breach China’s internet Great Wall.”
“Actually, he’s at a loss; according to the competition rules, he must publicly provide this Big Dipper Seven Stars security flaw to China, and there are still some communalities in the systems, civilian and military…
With this move, Kevin may have secured his win in the hacker competition but effectively handed us a significant security vulnerability for free!
That’s something to be happy about.”
The team leader beside him also laughed:
“Yes…
Although the Big Dipper Satellite he hacked is a civilian one, if he could compromise it so quickly, the vulnerability must be incredibly dangerous.
Getting him to hand over this flaw now is much better than waiting until a critical time when our Big Dipper Satellite System gets hacked, isn’t it?”
…
Lin Xian watched the joyous team members and felt relieved.
If these professional veterans thought there was no issue, then it certainly wasn’t anything to worry about.
The Mi Country people were cheering because they felt Kevin Walker had done an incredible job by hacking a Big Dipper Satellite from China and securing the hacker competition champion in advance.
They thought they had won!
On China’s side, they had defended the internet Great Wall, safeguarded the Skynet System, protected national and civilian security and privacy, and acquired a Big Dipper System vulnerability for free.
They also felt they had won!
This was probably…
A win-win situation.
If there was anyone who lost in this hacker competition, it was himself, who was about to enter the stage.
The satellite Kevin Walker compromised netted the Mi Country team 80 points.
He himself had only earned 17 points for hacking the Tesla sedan.
Defeat was certain.
But then again, so what if he lost?
The championship of a single hacker competition was not what they, whether the Chinese officials or Lin Xian himself, had come for.
Everyone thought he would lose.
He himself knew he was bound to lose.
No one had any expectations of him.
No one had any hopes for him.
Everyone considered him an underdog.
Losing a match, what of it?
Lin Xian couldn’t care less.
After all…
[In this world of billions, not a single person believed that they could win.]
…
The cheers that had lasted for ten minutes finally subsided.
It was then that the host stepped onto the stage and announced Lin Xian’s turn, entering Team China’s free performance segment.
At this moment.
The super venue filled with 80,000 people was terrifyingly quiet.
Not a sound was heard.
No applause,
No cheering,
No shouting,
No supportive chants.
Nothing at all.
Lin Xian stood up from the preparation seat and strode confidently towards the competition area.
Just at this moment…
Shush————
A hissing sound, full of disrespect, began to echo through the venue.
Shush————
Shush————
As if by agreement, the entire 80,000-strong venue, filled with Mi Country’s spectators, began to hiss at Lin Xian in the middle of the stage!
From every direction,
Front, back, left, right,
Above and below,
Nothing but hisses.
Lin Xian looked around.
In the midst of a sea of hisses, he looked around…
An 80,000-person venue, how vast and empty it seemed.
How quietly loud a hiss could be.
Shush————
Shush————
The uniform, endless stream of prolonged hisses.
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Like the crushing weight of seawater, drowning Lin Xian…
“Lin Xian————come on————”
Amidst the endless, deep hisses, a voice of encouragement suddenly shouted with all the might of one’s throat!
Clear.
Loud.
Deafening amidst the hissing of an 80,000-strong crowd!
In an instant,
The surrounding hisses in the stadium halted abruptly, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Everyone, whether standing up or turning their heads, looked around, searching for the source of that single, solitary cheer.
The 80,000-person venue was too large…
Large enough to drown everything.
Everyone looked around, but none could find the source of that shout.
Whooosh!
In the wind, the sound of fabric unfolding.
At the highest point of the New Jersey Sports Stadium in New York, a square of red fluttered in the wind!
It was China’s red flag!
A bright and flying red flag of China!
The gaze of 80,000 spectators, along with Lin Xian on stage, all shifted toward the direction of the red flag——
A petite yet proudly standing Chinese girl.
She held her hands high.
Above her head, the Chinese red flag billowed with the wind.
Her voluminous ponytail swayed in the wind, but her slender frame stood unwavering in the night breeze!
“Senior Lin Xian——————”
She screamed at the top of her lungs, using all the strength she had for the man in the center of the stage who was undoubtedly destined to lose:
“Come on!!!!”