Chapter 2406 - 2414: Dark Horse

Hearing Chen Dong’s words, lin couldn’t care less about Qin Yu and hurried back to his seat. Lin’s complexion turned extremely ugly. Damn it! Have South Korean hackers lost their minds? How many IPs are there?

"All units, pay attention! Protect the administrative privileges! Do not let the administrative privileges be taken away!"

As lin roared, he frantically pounded on his keyboard. Lines of source code appeared at lightning speed, kicking out three IPs in quick succession!

"Good!" lin sped up, and kicked out several more IPs!

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long. sugar quickly found lin and started playing hide and seek with him among the various vulnerabilities in the cyberspace!

lin was tied up, and the efficiency of the cyberspace command plummeted, losing two administrative privileges in the blink of an eye!

The ones who snatched the administrative privileges were jin and Clown Emperor. After securing the privileges, they started kicking out staff members from the cyberspace command.

The cyberspace command was filled with wails.

"Damn it, the administrative privileges have been taken! I have been kicked out!"

"What’s happening? Did all three major hackers from the other side mobilize? Call for backup from the Huaxia Hacker Alliance immediately!"

"Calling for backup is useless, the great god long_7 isn’t online. Our Huaxia has only long_7 among the top ten hackers in the world!"

Amid the chaos, lin shouted, "Don’t panic! I have super administrative privileges, I can take back the administrative privileges! Everyone, hold your positions!"

Unable to pursue sugar, lin promptly used his super VIP privileges to kick out jin and Clown Emperor and regained the administrative privileges!

Seeing this scene, LT issued an order, "Postpone the attack on other websites, concentrate our forces to help sugar take down the cyberspace command first!"

Following LT’s order, hackers who were attacking other websites and forums swarmed into cyberspace command! This greatly relieved the pressure on the trio, sugar!

Lin was thrown into a tough battle as a sudden surge of IPs significantly slowed down his efficiency. While he was dealing with jin and Clown Emperor, sugar came back and snatched another administrative privilege!

"Team leader lin, the administrative privilege has been taken again! I’ve been kicked out!"

Like this, lin became a firefighter once more. But fighting against three, and being dragged down by countless hackers, even holding super administrative privileges was of no use! The opposing hackers were simply unkickable!

Even the least skilled hackers participating in the attack had several thousand spoofed IPs. Block one, and in the blink of an eye, they switched to another!

And the spoofed IPs of sugar, jin, and Clown Emperor were in the tens of thousands. Even if lin were to exhaust himself, he couldn’t block them all!

Ten minutes later, all staff members of cyberspace command had been kicked out! Only lin was left, a lonely commander with nobody left to lead!

That’s not right, there was still one IP that hadn’t been kicked out, and that was Liu Yi. Liu Yi was huddled within a firewall, and the trio sugar couldn’t snatch Liu Yi’s administrative privileges.

lin slumped into his chair, finished. The cyberspace command was done for! He was done for!

He thought mastering 64-bit computing would make a splash, but instead, he met his doom before proving himself. Have the hackers on the other side gone mad?

On the official website of the World Hacker Alliance, hackers from country H cheered wildly.

"Hahaha! Your Huaxia hackers are too weak! Even your Huaxia cyberspace command has been breached!"

"From today on, the title of the number one hacker in the world will change hands! Bullshit great god long_7! Not even daring to show his face at a time like this!"

"Exactly, our great god LT hasn’t even made a move yet! You’re already down for the count! Hahaha!"

Huaxia hackers were unwilling to show weakness.

"Bullshit great god LT, the pathetic ransomware you created was resolved by our great god lin in just five minutes! I think it’s LT who’s afraid to show his face, right?"

"Maybe LT is diligently working on Ransomware Variant 3, who knows, maybe it’ll be finished in a week."

"A week, huh? Impressive! Our Lin over here could handle it in five minutes! LT, your mom is calling you home for dinner, stop messing around with those virus variants!"

...

Xin Shixun, who had been enjoying watching the battle, almost forgot about the ransomware and the Emperor Group incident, but a reminder from the Huaxia hackers smacked him on the forehead. Crap, he almost forgot the real business at hand.

Xin Shixun immediately made himself known on the World Hacker Alliance’s official website.

"Thanks for the reminder from my Huaxia hacker friends, I nearly let Emperor Group slip through the chaos unscathed! Lin is quite adept at making antidotes, right? Let’s start with releasing 6 variants for him to play with."

No sooner had his words finished than the antivirus software on all smartphones owned by Emperor Group malfunctioned again!

All the smartphones displayed ransomware variants! In an instant, every smartphone went into a state of paralysis!

Emperor Group’s smartphone users were utterly disappointed, and a deluge of calls for refunds came pouring in. Some even, not knowing any better, staged sit-ins in front of Emperor Group’s businesses, demanding an explanation from Emperor Group.

The Emperor Group’s headquarters line was nearly blown up with desperate calls for help.

Diana, completely at her wit’s end, could only report the situation to Mo Yuqi.

Mo Yuqi turned her head towards Qin Yu and saw his hands still flying over the keyboard. Deciding not to disturb him, she approached Lin instead.

"Lin, a new variant of the ransomware has emerged."

Hearing Mo Yuqi’s sweet voice, Lin perked up a bit and managed a weak smile; "Don’t worry Mr. Mo, just a minor variant, it’ll be easy to create an antidote."

With the experience of making antidotes 1 and 2, antidote 3 was ready even quicker, taking just four minutes to produce.

Whoosh! All smartphones under Emperor Group were unlocked!

Unfortunately, before Lin could take credit or Huaxia hackers could start mocking, variant 4 appeared! The phones that had just been unlocked were simultaneously locked again!

Lin was flabbergasted, but he wasn’t too anxious; how troublesome could such variants be even if there were many of them? Lin began to write the program once more.

However, this time Lin’s face took on an ugly expression. The computations for variants 1, 2, and 3 all used a base-32 system, but variant 4... had shifted to a base-64 system!

It was fortunate that Lin had just grasped the base-64 system; otherwise, he would be at a complete loss.

Even so, it took Lin over an hour to produce antidote 4. After completing antidote 4, Lin’s fingers were trembling slightly. While his hand speed was fast, the prolonged period of high-speed typing had put a great strain on his fingers!

The World Hacker Alliance was in an uproar! Two dark horses had emerged today! One was Lin, and the other was LT!

Lin was able to create antidotes 1, 2, and 3 within five minutes and antidote 4 within an hour.

As for antidote 4, the world’s fifth-ranked cat was also trying, but after an hour, he had only completed 60% of antidote 4.

Seeing that Lin had completed antidote 4, Cat smiled wryly: "Lin has surpassed me. He should at least enter the top five of the world hacker rankings! No wait, considering his showdown with Sugar, I think he’s at least fourth!"

The world’s sixth-ranked Mali stepped forward: "LT is also very strong! To be able to release 4 variants! I wonder if there’s a fifth variant?"

...

Lin had no time to feel proud and collapsed into his chair, weakly saying to Mo Yuqi, "Mr. Mo... antidote 4 is ready, you don’t have to worry."

Mo Yuqi showed a grateful expression, "Lin, you’ve worked hard. I’ll definitely give you a big red envelope."

"That’s what I should do. If Mr. Mo would be so kind as to treat me to a meal..."

Before he could finish, Lin’s expression froze! He discovered that a variant 5 of the ransomware had appeared!

Creating an antidote for just variant 4 had taken an hour; variant 5 would certainly take even more time. Lin glanced at his trembling hands and managed a bitter smile, hoping there wouldn’t be a variant 6! Otherwise, it might really be the death of him!