Everyone stood up in surprise, "What's going on?"
Xiao Xun was planting 'mines' under the first firewall, trying to trace the opponent's whereabouts and figure out who this formidable entity was.
Upon hearing everyone's exclamations, he looked up and saw that everyone had risen to their feet.
He quickly asked, "What happened?"
Everyone responded almost in unison, "We don't know what happened, the computer just restarted."
Xiao Xun mused, "This person really thinks highly of me, launching such a massive attack and still wanting to implant a virus for double security."
After analyzing the opponent's intentions, he reassured everyone, "Don't panic. Reconstruct the three firewalls as quickly as possible following the previous steps. Partition and run the company's existing applications separately. Then, build a three-stage simulation system. We will definitely be attacked again soon. Let the simulation system bear the brunt of the first wave of attacks and release 'smoke bombs'."
Under Xiao Xun's command, everyone raced against time, typing code, fearful of logic errors or leaving loopholes. The first person was responsible for writing, and the second for verification.
Half an hour passed quickly. The network reconnected, and as Xiao Xun predicted, the opponent's new round of attacks began.
As lines of information flooded in, Xiao Xun thought, "They know more than I do. It seems there's an 'inside mole'!"
At this moment, several police officers in uniform entered, led by Secretary Fan. Each of them carried a thick black metal case.
"Xiao Xun!"
"Zhang Ming!"
One of the police officers was Xiao Xun's university classmate. They shook hands excitedly, "We heard you were experiencing a DoS attack, and our superiors ordered us to come and help."
Xiao Xun nodded, had a table brought over, and allowed them to connect to the company's internal network.
The police officers opened the thick black cases, revealing engineering computers that operated much faster than the commercial ones.
Zhang Ming typed on his keyboard, praising, "This is clearly your style, Xiao Xun. Playing with virtual systems like a 'moving fortress,' it's all feints and dodges, impossible to guard against. Most people don't play like this."
Xiao Xun stood behind Zhang Ming, "When did you become a cyber-police, kid?"
"Do I need an exam for my skills? I was specially recruited, a permanent position. Envious, huh!"
Xiao Xun chuckled, "Not envious, I'm the Director of the Technology Department now."
At this point, the lead officer said coldly, "Stop chatting and focus on the counterattack."
Zhang Ming nodded and began typing furiously.
The cyber-police directly called headquarters for support, creating a special channel for the network here and initiating a nationwide counter-reconnaissance.
Faced with the massive algorithms, the opponent took ten minutes to react to the cyber-police's intentions, but it was too late. The real address was marked and locked, and the police officers on-site had already begun the arrest operation. If nothing unexpected happened, this master would be apprehended.
Xiao Xun shook hands with the lead officer, "Thank you so much. Without your help, our servers probably wouldn't have withstood several rounds of attacks."
"It's nothing, it's our duty."
Xiao Xun enthusiastically said, "It's already lunchtime, you must not have eaten yet! Our cafeteria food is very good, stay and have a bite..."
Despite their repeated refusals, Xiao Xun insisted, "Zhang Ming and I were roommates in college and are good friends. You've also helped us so much. Where we eat is all the same, let's eat together!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Ming, feeling dragged along, walked over and patted Xiao Xun's shoulder, "We appreciate your kind offer, but we have regulations. It's really not convenient today. If you sincerely want to treat me to a meal, let's do it when I have some free time."
Xiao Xun had no choice but to see them off to the parking garage. As they got into the car, he said to Zhang Ming, "Keep in touch if anything comes up!"
Zhang Ming nodded, "I'll let you know when we catch the person."
Xiao Xun went to the second-floor cafeteria. Many temporary staff were using the company's microwave to heat up packed lunches brought from home at the cafeteria entrance.
Among them was Guan Jiawen. Xiao Xun walked over, "Why are you bringing your own food? Does the cafeteria not allow you to eat?"
Guan Jiawen smiled and opened her lunchbox, "My mom's cooking is delicious, and I love this."
Xiao Xun looked thoughtfully at her temporary worker's badge on her chest, then took off his own.
"You say it's so good, then I must try it. You go inside and eat first today!" Without waiting for Guan Jiawen's consent, he took the lunchbox from her hand and put it into the microwave.
He then turned and urged her, "Why are you looking at me! Go! Eat whatever you want."
"Ding~"
The microwave finished heating. Xiao Xun took out the lunchbox, opened it, and indeed, the aroma was tantalizing, the cooking no worse than the cafeteria's dishes.
Soon, the rice in the lunchbox was finished. As he went to wash the lunchbox,
A pair of fair hands snatched the lunchbox away. Guan Jiawen said with a blush, "I'll wash this."
Xiao Xun smiled and said nothing.
When he returned to his workstation, the red plastic bag was indeed gone. It seemed Guan Jiawen had taken it.
He checked the system; everything had returned to normal.
Xiao Xun rested his chin on his hand, staring blankly at the screen, "Who would risk so much to launch an attack?"
At that moment, Guan Jiawen walked over, holding Xiao Xun's work badge with both hands, and stood in front of him, "Director, your work badge."
Xiao Xun took it and put it around his neck, then handed the materials he had printed that morning to Guan Jiawen, "Take this to the General Manager for a signature. If the General Manager isn't in, give it to Secretary Fan."
Guan Jiawen nodded, picked up the materials, and turned to leave.
Xiao Xun yawned. He had been busy all morning and hadn't slept last night, so his eyelids were starting to droop.
Unable to resist any longer, he lay down on his desk and fell asleep.
When he woke up again, the sun had already set. To his left was a cup of cold black coffee, and to his right were thick files.
He took a sip of the extremely bitter coffee and spat it out, "What kind of awful coffee is this? It's too bitter!" Then he stretched and stood up, watching others busy typing.
He thought to himself, "Neither a secretary nor an assistant bothered to call me. What's the point of keeping them? I should just fire them all."
He sat down again, took a small screwdriver from his drawer, removed the solid-state drive from the new computer, and installed his own computer's hard drive. Upon booting up, he saw.
Indeed, the contents inside had definitely been tampered with. The magnificent content that occupied the entire drive had been completely deleted. The games were untouched, and everything else was still there.
"It must have been a female police officer. She doesn't understand men's pleasures at all."
After swapping the hard drives back, he casually put his own computer's hard drive into the drawer, thinking, "I'll buy another one after I get paid."
Just then, his phone beeped. It was a message from Mu Jiahe.
"Waiting for you in the parking garage."