SFS Chapter 281 Security Steward
Chapter 281 Security Steward
"Manager Qiao, where were we?"
Lin Xuan unplugged the connector and walked back to Qiao Yajie's side with a nonchalant air, as if nothing that had just happened had ever occurred.
"you……"
Qiao Yajie looked at Lin Xuan, wanting to say something, but the words got stuck in her throat.
He really wanted to ask Lin Xuan how she managed to instantly fill so much computing power into the general-purpose machine, but just like freedom of belief on Earth-3, everyone has their own secrets.
This might be the power of the deity they believe in.
Asking a question abruptly would be extremely rude, and in their etiquette, it would be a great offense to others.
Regardless of the methods used, as long as the problem can be solved, it's good.
"Ahem... How about I recommend you to the rapid reaction force? It's really a waste of your talents for you to stay here with us."
The Rapid Reaction Force is one of the most elite units in the Divine Realm, and due to its special role, it frequently appears in various scenarios.
Reconnaissance behind enemy lines, infiltration and decapitation, data cracking, anti-hacking...
Almost all of espionage and sabotage missions on MindEarth are carried out by the Rapid Reaction Force.
Due to their special nature, they also possess the highest authority among all departments of the divine realm.
Under normal circumstances, staff members of the Divine Realm only have access to their own department. Even if they have something urgent to do and want to go to other areas of the Divine Realm, they must report to their superiors.
However, due to their special nature, rapid reaction forces can directly disregard these rules, just like the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Even so, no one was willing to do it, for no other reason than that it was too dangerous and the salary was not high.
Despite their seemingly glamorous appearance, rapid reaction forces actually receive worse treatment than researchers working on core projects.
After all, there are too many people in the rapid reaction force, and it would be difficult for the higher-ups to spend such a large sum of money to support this group of spies.
Therefore, Qiao Yajie's words were actually more of a joke.
But these words made Lin Xuan's eyes light up!
"Is this true?"
He was worried about how to obtain permission to enter the work areas of other departments. If he could really be transferred from the research institute to the rapid reaction force, that would be great.
Qiao Yajie was taken aback, looking at Lin Xuan's serious expression.
"You...you don't actually want to join the rapid reaction force, do you?"
"You need to understand that rapid reaction forces can be deployed to the front lines at any time!"
Lin Xuan was initially only somewhat interested in the rapid reaction force, but upon hearing that she could go to the front lines, her eyes lit up even more!
"Is there such a good thing?"
Qiao Yajie was stunned!
The fighting on the front lines is intense, and going to the front lines carries the risk of death at any moment; tens of thousands of people die almost every day.
It's only thanks to the fact that this is space combat that the soldiers' bodies, even if they become space debris, won't cause a plague. Otherwise, just dealing with these soldiers' bodies would cost Mind Earth a huge amount of money.
Under such dire circumstances, everyone was scrambling to work in the rear. For research institutes like theirs in the divine realm, every person who got in was a top-tier expert.
Didn't you see that a Level 2 Researcher here can only be the head of a module?
If this were peacetime, a level-two researcher like Jia Mingbai would have been treated like royalty by the Divine Realm long ago. He would have been the director of a research institute, or at least a deputy director-level cadre.
How could things be like they are now, where their small research group alone has already produced two Level 2 Researchers?
When he saw that even a young Level 2 researcher like Bai Bing was working for him, he already knew how dire the war situation on the front lines was.
But Qiao Yajie never expected that, judging from Bai Bing's appearance, he didn't seem to be resistant to going to the front line, and even seemed to be looking forward to it.
Seemingly realizing that her reaction was somewhat irrational, Lin Xuan quickly tried to justify herself.
"To be honest, Supervisor Qiao, all these years of hard work to get myself into a Level 2 Researcher is because I want to contribute to my civilization, isn't it?"
"The battle on the front lines is intense right now, and it is precisely the time when civilization needs us researchers to sacrifice ourselves. No one wants to go to the front lines, but someone has to be there. So, I have decided to be the first one!"
Hearing Lin Xuan's impassioned words, Manager Qiao almost believed her.
"Alright, I was just joking. Do you really think the Divine Realm would send a researcher like you to the front lines to die? Even if you were willing, the higher-ups wouldn't approve it. Just do what you're supposed to do."
"alright."
Lin Xuan knew this matter wasn't so simple, so she had no choice but to continue lying low and waiting for the right opportunity.
But his appearance still brought something different to the battle.
Mechanical Earth: Office of the Network Intrusion Group.
"What's going on? Why did our hacking suddenly stop? Group C, what the hell are you guys doing?"
"Report...report, we don't know what happened either. The hacking program suddenly stopped, and even our server is now frozen."
"How could that be? It's just a matter of hacking into one of their central control satellites. Is it really that difficult?"
The head of the control center looked disdainful; Mechanical Earth's hacking skills were far superior to those of Mind Earth.
The difference in technological advancements means that the two sides are simply not on the same level in terms of network-level competition.
Therefore, the hacking attacks by the mechanical civilization have always been remarkably effective against the other two Earth civilizations, and this time is no exception.
The intrusion went smoothly at first, but just now, the intrusion program suddenly stopped, and even more strangely, the server it was trying to connect to also got stuck.
"Is the data volume too large, and it can't be transmitted in a short time?"
An experienced cyber hacker, looking at the frozen server on the control panel, offered his guess.
But his words were quickly refuted by those around him.
"Subjectively speaking, it does seem similar, but objectively speaking, it's impossible. We attacked their central control satellite, not some confidential database. Even if we were counter-intruded, there wouldn't be much data flow."
Before he could finish speaking...
"Buzz!"
In an instant, all the devices in the network intrusion team went black and crashed. Some machines even started smoking because they couldn't withstand the sudden overload.
"Report! Our equipment has been subjected to a DDoS attack!"
"A massive amount of data is flooding into our servers, and the server storage is severely overloaded!"
"Quickly, disconnect all transmission lines immediately!"
The intrusion team was immediately thrown into a frenzy, but fortunately, just before the data overwhelmed their server equipment, they managed to cut off the transmission source and save the equipment.
"Holy crap, what the hell is this? How come so much data is suddenly flooding in?"
"Could it be that the other side temporarily boosted their computing power by using their rapid reaction force?"
"Nonsense, you saw that data stream just now. Even if he used the entire population of the Earth, let alone deployed rapid reaction forces, his data processing power shouldn't be that exaggerated!"
If Lin Xuan were here, she would definitely tell them that if you add up the computing power of all the people on Earth, it really is that exaggerated.
However, no one really cared about it. The intrusion team got back up and running and quickly restored the downed equipment.
As for those machines that burned out due to overheating, they had to be scrapped. These devices were all very valuable, and if the higher-ups found out that the intrusion team not only failed to complete the mission on time but also lost so much equipment, they probably wouldn't be able to keep their jobs today.
"Get out of the way, I'll deal with them myself!"
A childish female voice rang out, and everyone turned around to see a pretty face.
This woman looks to be only a teenager, and she's not very tall. If she wore pigtails, she would definitely look like a little girl.
But her body was covered with countless prosthetic circuits, so dense that just one glance at it would send chills down anyone's spine.
"Wei Ming!"
One of the four stars of the top hacker organization, Calamity, on Mechanical Earth.
Beixing Weiming!
She is the only woman among the four, and also the youngest member.
But this does not affect her strength and status in the hacker world at all.
After all, how many good people can enter the Disaster Star organization?
Two years ago, this woman single-handedly took control of the enemy's aircraft carrier in just three minutes during a war.
Then, it directly controlled the enemy fleet's aircraft carrier and crashed it head-on into the planet Holtfall at full speed, directly causing 30,000 deaths and indirectly killing 90,000 more. Countless out-of-control drones were turned into space debris in the universe.
This battle cemented Wei Mingbei's reputation as a top hacker and made her the third-ranked cyber hacker with bounties on her head by both major civilizations.
Cyber hackers of the caliber of the Disaster Organization generally do not participate in frontline warfare; they are only employed by large companies like Fire Spirit Technology.
But today was an exception. Wei Ming happened to be on the front line to deliver a previously unsettled mercenary task to Kurtberg. When he passed by the intrusion team's office, he happened to witness Lin Xuan using her powerful computing power to shut down the intrusion team's equipment.
Wei Ming immediately became interested in this matter.
Just as that person said, Wei Ming didn't believe at all that the data stream attack just now was a DDoS attack carried out by Mind Earth using computing power.
In her view, even if Mind Earth possesses such computing power, it should not be used solely to protect a single central control satellite.
This is more like a trap program, a pseudo-attack created by continuously copying and stacking data streams during transmission.
As long as one's own computing power is fast enough, the opponent will not be able to complete the self-copying of data during the transmission, modulation, and decoding process, and the attack will naturally be neutralized.
When the leader of the intrusion team saw that the visitor was Bei Xingweiming, he wisely stepped aside and moved aside from the main control panel.
He was furious after the other party destroyed several of his devices, and he expects his superiors to punish him severely this time.
But he didn't care; all he wanted now was for the person who had attacked him to pay the price!
"Please, Miss Wei Ming!"
The team leader handed the connector to Wei Ming, then stepped aside, quietly preparing to watch the show.
After making some simple adjustments to the equipment, Wei Ming began his first probing attack.
"Cracking in progress."
"Successfully cracked!"
The entire cracking process took less than a second, a speed that left the assembled hackers completely dumbfounded.
Although Mind Earth's cybersecurity level is much worse than Mechanical Earth's, it still took them almost seven or eight hours to hack into the other side's firewall.
As it turned out, Wei Ming's entire process, from entering the room to setting up the equipment and starting the intrusion, took less than seven seconds.
"This is insane! Is this the power of the 'Calamity Hacker'?"
"But thinking about it, it makes sense. This guy can even take back control of an aircraft carrier, so cracking one of their central control satellites doesn't seem like much of a problem."