Chapter 157 The Shadow War

Crackling!

The sound of keyboards echoed incessantly in the computer room of the villa.

Gao Fei, hunched over his computer, his fingers flying across the keys, continuously typed lines of programming code.

At this moment, with his entire being focused, the simulated experiences of a top-tier hacker profession were fully integrated and mastered.

He felt like a supercomputer currently in operation, requiring no thought for the correctness of any programming code; it was all second nature.

This was Wang He's villa. As a renowned young master from Longguo, he demanded uniqueness and perfection in everything.

For instance, the villa's network and servers were a dedicated line personally procured by Young Master Wang from a telecommunications company.

Not for any other reason but to ensure lag-free gameplay when he was out battling monsters in online games.

After all, Young Master Wang had gained fame online precisely for his wealth and capricious spending.

Inside the room, the sound of keyboard typing gradually diminished.

*Click.*

As the final keystroke fell, Gao Fei's grand plan of intrusion was finally complete.

The independent server within the computer room whirred to life at high speed.

He opened an entertainment news website on the public internet and navigated to the special section for the Jia University Film Festival.

He scrolled his mouse to the comment section of the feature, where netizens from various countries were still posting their thoughts.

The overseas students from Longguo were also fighting valiantly, with many engaging two, three, or even four foreign commenters at once.

"Xi Ba. Guo, Baga. Guo, you were all watching the live broadcast just now, right? Did you see our Longguo's movie trailer? Dare to spread rumors that our film is plagiarized? Based on the content of that trailer, compare it with all movies to see if there's any plagiarism."

"A bunch of foreign little. red. devils, spreading rumors that our movie is plagiarized. While you're at it, quickly pay attention to your own country's volcanoes, be careful they erupt and turn you into keyboard warriors. And that bunch of sissies from Xiao Bang Guo, plagiarizing our Longguo's history, and then daring to accuse us of plagiarizing movies. It's truly the dog wagging its tail in the master's presence."

"Dirty things from Bai Xiang Guo, don't just join the commotion, understand? Go clean up your country's rivers if you have time. The world's number one. diseased. river, and you still have the nerve to be shameless. Be careful I eat beef in front of you!"

The overseas students from Longguo were firing on all cylinders.

As everyone knows, Longguo has the largest number of overseas students in the world.

When netizens from Xiao Bang Guo and Sakura Guo made a comment against Longguo, they were immediately swarmed and attacked by three to four overseas students from Longguo.

The comment section was completely occupied by overseas students from Longguo, who continuously spammed it.

After reading the comments, Gao Fei did not immediately jump into the fray and join the Longguo overseas students in their tirade.

Instead, he clicked the refresh option and reloaded the movie festival's related section webpage.

Upon refreshing, the webpage underwent a transformation.

The original webpage displayed promotional sections for films from various countries curated by Jia University; there were none for Longguo.

Now, after Gao Fei's intrusion and modification, all the promotional sections featured three movies from Longguo.

At this moment, netizens from around the world also noticed the webpage changes after refreshing their comment sections.

Seeing each promotional column transformed into a Longguo film, foreign netizens were stunned, quickly realizing it was a hacker intrusion.

Just as they assumed it was a Longguo hacker retaliating for their country's films being targeted,

A declaration in four languages appeared at the top of the webpage.

"I am from Piaoliang Guo, I am angered by the targeting of Longguo's films and ashamed of Jia University Film Festival's actions."

"I am from Xiao Bang Guo, I am angered by the targeting of Longguo's films and ashamed of Jia University Film Festival's actions."

"I am from Sakura Guo, I am angered by the targeting of Longguo's films and ashamed of Jia University Film Festival's actions."

"I am from Bai Xiang Guo, I am angered by the targeting of Longguo's films and ashamed of Jia University Film Festival's actions."

Witnessing hackers from four countries uniting to hack the Jia University Film Festival webpage in protest of Longguo's films being targeted,

Netizens from countries worldwide were bewildered!

Netizens from Piaoliang Guo, Xiao Bang Guo, Sakura Guo, and Bai Xiang Guo directly cursed their respective country's hackers for being brain. damaged.

The hackers from Longguo hadn't even retaliated, yet hackers from their own countries had stepped forward first.

And they had explicitly declared their support for Longguo at the top of the webpage, weren't they deliberately provoking conflict?

Netizens from the four countries immediately left comments in the comment section.

Just as they finished composing their messages, stating that the hacker's actions were not related to them, and clicked publish, their comments were suddenly altered.

All published comments were changed to a single sentence.

"Jia University Guo, shameful, disgusting! This is the worst film festival ever!"

Instantly, the comment section was flooded and spammed with this message.

In just a minute, this comment appeared tens of thousands of times.

The overseas students from Longguo, upon seeing the comments, were ecstatic.

Even though their own comments were deleted and changed to this sentence, they felt no displeasure; instead, they were thoroughly pleased.

The hacking and alteration of the Jia University Film Festival webpage immediately attracted the attention of Jia University's National Security Bureau.

Combined with the incident of the control room computers being hacked during the film festival,

The Security Bureau concluded that it was the work of the same group of hackers.

That evening, the Jia University National Security Bureau headquarters immediately summoned top computer experts and hackers from within the country, ordering them to immediately modify the webpage and identify the perpetrators.

Upon receiving the order from the Security Bureau leadership, all of Jia University's computer personnel and hackers immediately commenced their operations.

Jia University's official computer personnel were tasked with rectifying the compromised webpage, while the hackers were responsible for tracing the intruders.

Soon, the official computer personnel located the areas where the webpage system had been tampered with.

They immediately began modifying and correcting the system's programming code.

Meanwhile, the hackers followed the trail of the intruders' system modifications.

Half an hour later, the official computer personnel reported that they could not immediately repair the tampered webpage code and would require three days.

Upon hearing the report, the leaders of the Security Bureau's expressions turned grim. They demanded that the film festival's webpage be repaired by the next morning, by any means necessary.

The official programmers of Jia University, upon receiving the directive, nearly wept on the spot.

As for Jia University's hackers, they quickly uploaded their tracing report to the Security Bureau.

After their persistent efforts in tracking, the IP addresses of the intruders who tampered with the film festival webpage were traced back to Piaoliang Guo, Xiao Bang Guo, Sakura Guo, and Bai Xiang Guo.

Longguo was not involved.

The leaders of the Security Bureau were both shocked and enraged upon learning this.

They had not anticipated that a minor targeting of a film festival would lead to a coordinated attack by hackers from four countries before even Longguo's hackers had made a move.

However, before the Security Bureau leaders could issue further orders, Jia University's hackers transmitted another report.

During their pursuit, their computers had been unintentionally compromised by the hackers from the four countries, causing all their computers to freeze and crash. They were now unable to continue the investigation.

As the hackers failed in their pursuit and were instead infected by viruses, the network in their region was also invaded by the same viruses, which were continuously spreading.

After hearing the reports, the Security Bureau leaders first furiously denounced the audacity of the four hackers.

Finally, they had no choice but to contact Piaoliang Guo, requesting their assistance.

The price, however, was a payment of tens of millions of funds.

Upon receiving the funds, Piaoliang Guo immediately dispatched its top talents to assist Jia University.

Nearly an hour later, the talents from Piaoliang Guo completed the development of software to resolve the network virus for Jia University.

When they began tracing the intruders based on the clues provided by Jia University's hackers, they discovered.

The intruder in Piaoliang Guo's territory had a virtual IP address.

Furthermore, the IP addresses of the intruders from Xiao Bang Guo, Sakura Guo, and Bai Xiang Guo were also virtual.

As the talents from Piaoliang Guo meticulously traced further, they found.

The intruder's ultimate IP address was located in Naye Guo, in the Northern Hemisphere of Blue Star.

The talents from Piaoliang Guo were very familiar with the world's top hackers.

Naye Guo was a small country, and it was highly unlikely to have such top-tier hackers.

But just as they were about to continue tracing, the talents' computers were suddenly invaded by viruses.

Moreover, the networks in various regions of Jia University, after being disinfected, were once again invaded by viruses.

This time, the viruses invading both countries were the same.

It was a white skull, accompanied by piercing screams.

Piaoliang Guo immediately activated its high-level network defenses to prevent the virus from infiltrating internally.

Concurrently, Piaoliang Guo informed Jia University that while they could not identify the intruder, it was highly likely related to Longguo.

Piaoliang Guo was now only able to protect itself and clear the virus, leaving Jia University to contact Longguo on its own.

...

Longguo, Kyoto, eight o'clock in the morning.

Zi Guang Fu Villa.

Just as Gao Fei was leaning back in his chair, eyes closed in light rest, his phone suddenly rang, startling him awake.

Looking at the caller ID on the screen, he cleared his throat and said, "Hello, Director Pan."

"Well done, Xiao Fei. You've caused quite a stir in Jia University, and now they've finally come to us."

Director Pan chuckled on the other end and continued, "Since your objective has been achieved, you should help them fix the webpage and clean up the viruses."

"I'll send you a piece of software. Tell the people at Jia University that after installing it, the software will run on its own and help them solve the problem."

"Aren't you afraid they'll use your software for deep analysis and research?"

"They don't have the capability!"

"Alright, send it over!"

Gao Fei hung up the phone and immediately sent the software.

Pan Hongsheng received the software but did not immediately send it to Jia University, instead playing with their anticipation.

It wasn't until Jia University contacted them with a small sum of money requesting assistance, and the leaders of the Security Bureau promised to cease targeting Longguo's films and to persuade higher authorities to make concessions in diplomacy,

That Director Pan, satisfied, transferred the software to them.

However, Pan Hongsheng knew that this covert conflict would undoubtedly attract the attention of many countries.

It was estimated that after today, many countries would strengthen their network defense systems.

In the future, attempting such subtle maneuvers might become exceedingly difficult.

But thinking of Gao Fei's nine-star, nearly ten-star hacker prowess, Director Pan regained his confidence.

If one wants to wage cyber warfare, comrade Xiao Gao will be the main force in the future.

...

Longguo, nine o'clock. Jia University, three o'clock in the morning.

When the Security Bureau personnel received the software and transmitted it to the network departments of various regional security bureaus for installation,

The tampered webpage was finally repaired.

The areas infected by viruses were also being rapidly cleaned.

Witnessing the powerful functionality of the software developed by Longguo,

The Jia University National Security Bureau felt a pang of sympathy and immediately instructed its top computer experts to conduct a deep analysis of the software.

(I feel like I've contracted something; I've been feeling quite unwell since today. I'll send out some small red envelopes in the group tomorrow evening, 534768387)