Far away in the Sea Lion Group Building in the Shenzhen Bay Area, in an office with many computers, a fat man wearing a plaid shirt was staring at the screen, his fingers tapping quickly without leaving the keyboard.
Not far behind him, Huang Chao, with his arms folded in front of his chest, was pacing back and forth in the office with a gloomy expression, as if waiting for something.
This state lasted for half an hour.
Suddenly, the man's hands stopped typing on the keyboard, an expression of disbelief was written on his face, and he murmured quietly to himself.
"How can it be… "
Huang Chao, who didn't hear clearly what he was saying and thought he had succeeded, felt happy and quickly walked forward and grabbed the man's shoulder with his right hand.
"How is the situation? Is there any progress?"
“…”
The man was silent for a long time, then suddenly leaned on the chair with a dejected look on his face and shook his head gently.
"I tried my best… "
Huang Chao was stunned when he heard this, with an expression of disbelief written on his face.
The man sitting in front of him is named Sun Yuxuan. He can be regarded as a boss-level person in the technical department of Sea Lion Group, and his expertise is in the field of network security.
It can be said that the Hiace Group has suffered countless cyber attacks over the years, but no one has succeeded. Part of this is due to him.
Although intrusion is not his specialty, after working as a network security engineer for so many years, the number of hackers he has dealt with often reaches three digits, so he can master some things after seeing too much.
To be honest, he felt a little bullied by invading a small business that had only been established for a year.
However…
The most unlikely thing happened just like that.
When he tried to disguise his source address as a non-existent private address and initiated a connection request to the TCP service of the local system, he realized in an instant that he might have hit a brick wall.
The SYN-ACK response that was supposed to be sent to the private address was directly fed back to his source address, which almost scared him to death. He quickly showed his true skills. Not only did he change his attack method, but he also put on multiple layers of vests as a cover. .
However, even if he tried his best, it was still to no avail.
Whenever he exploited a system vulnerability to launch an attack and tried to paralyze the other party's server, the other party responded in almost less than a second and fixed the bug at an incredible speed.
This speed is absolutely impossible for humans to achieve.
Unless the other party predicts his operation.
However, if this is the case, then the opponent's strength is too terrifying.
Especially after going back and forth like this, Sun Yuxuan felt that he was no longer invading, but had completely become the opponent's sparring partner, just helping others find loopholes.
So far, the players in the server have not felt that the delay is a few pings higher, but he is already at the end of his rope.
"Not even you..."
Huang Chao squeezed these words out of his mouth with difficulty.
Sun Yuxuan, who was sitting in front of the computer, shook his head.
"I've tried every possible method, but it doesn't work at all... I don't know how to describe the feeling. It's like the other person is staring at my operation. I even have a feeling."
At this point, he stopped talking and a trace of fear appeared on his face.
Catching the change in expression on his face, Huang Chao swallowed and asked in a trembling voice.
"What does it feel like?"
Sun Yuxuan was silent for a while, raised his head and looked at Mr. Huang, and said with a strange expression.
"Is the person I'm fighting... really a human being?"
Upon hearing this, Huang Chao was stunned, and then said with a smile.
"What you're saying is, can you be a ghost if you're not a human?"
However, he smiled and the smile froze on his face.
In this situation, nothing could make him laugh out loud.
Just half an hour ago, the number of people online in World of Warcraft had exceeded 10 million, and this was the data collected by a third party. The actual number of people online could only be higher than this number.
In less than an hour after it went online, more than 10 million players poured in, which has set a record in the history of Xia Kingdom games.
With such horrific daily activity data, not to mention their copycat "Endless Epic", even "Oracle" five years ago would have been trampled into the ground...
"Fortunately, the other party doesn't seem to have discovered our real IP, otherwise we wouldn't have been just defensive until now." Sun Yuxuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with lingering fear, "If they find the source of the attack... I would I hope the other party can choose to take legal action."
After all, if you go through illegal means...
He really didn't have the confidence to find evidence that the other party would attack him. Unless the other party talks about it in a high-profile manner, but obviously this is impossible.
After all, they are dealing with a company, not a hacker who is dominated by emotion or human nature.
Huang Chao fell into silence.
A thought that made him shudder suddenly came into his mind.
if…
If the other party takes a vengeful act of revenge against the Sea Lion Group because of this attack. In the end, the board of directors discovered that all this happened because they made the other party angry by taking action first...
Huang Chao couldn't help but shiver.
Speaking of which, this matter was entirely his own idea from beginning to end. Apart from Zhao Qiguang, only Sun Yuxuan, who was responsible for the invasion, knew about it.
At this moment, the office door suddenly opened, startling him who was thinking about something.
Looking at Sun Yuxuan walking in, he was about to ask angrily why he didn't knock on the door, but the latter spoke first with a serious look on his face.
"Fifteen million...this is the final figure."
The expression on Huang Chao's face froze.
Silence lasted in the office for a while.
Huang Chao suddenly took a deep breath and asked in a trembling voice.
"Where we are..."
Zhao Qiguang said with a bitter smile.
"You mean endless epic?"
Huang Chao nodded and waited for his answer.
Zhao Qiguang was silent for a while, as if he didn't want to face this matter, but finally spoke.
"The data so far... is probably only a quarter of what it was yesterday."
In fact, ten minutes ago, this number would have looked slightly better. However, as time goes by, more and more players are attracted to World of Warcraft, so much so that even though it should be peak time, there are no people on the server.
Huang Chao felt his heart stopped for a few seconds and said in a difficult tone.
"A quarter...are you sure? Our activities..."
"The event has started... but something went wrong," Zhao Qiguang took a deep breath and said, "Colleagues from the operations department discovered that there are many newly registered players participating in the event through scripts, and these players... are most likely... Studio trumpet.”
Upon hearing these words, Huang Chao felt his eyes darken, staggered back two steps, and sat down on the sofa in the office.
Zhao Qiguang quickly stepped forward to help him, but was pushed away by the latter.
"Don't touch me! Get out! Get out of here! I'll be alone..."
Zhao Qiguang exchanged glances with Sun Yuxuan, who was sitting in front of the computer. The latter stood up silently and followed the former out of the office.
Huang Chao was the only one left in the huge room.
Looking at the empty office, he took a deep breath and slumped on the sofa as if all his strength had been taken away.
Looking at the ceiling, a hint of fatigue appeared on his tense face.
"...I lost."
No matter how reluctant he was to admit it, the cruel reality was mercilessly placed in front of him.
Now he has no trump card left...