Wes sat in a chair and stared at the messages on the forum. Nadella stood behind him, still looking calm and composed.
It was already the appointed time. When the message appeared, Weiss straightened up and quickly clicked on the message.
"Make a deal," Nadella said.
Weiss didn't dare to neglect, and immediately responded to the clown according to Nadella's words.
"What deal?"
"If you post a sentence on Twitter, do what I want, and I will give you a million dollars." Nadella stared at the computer screen, his voice calm.
"What words?"
"Thank you Army Ant Company for your support."
As soon as he said this, Weiss, who was sitting on the chair, trembled with his fingers. The boss wants to tie the clown organization and the army ant company together and establish the connection between the army ant company and the clown organization.
But thinking about it, Weiss was not slow and sent it to the clown according to Nadella's words.
After this message was sent, the atmosphere was quiet, and both of them were waiting for the clown's reply. Two minutes passed without any movement.
Weiss couldn't help but glance at Nadella. Seeing that Nadella didn't move, he didn't say anything and waited quietly.
Three minutes later, the message came again.
"Ten million."
Seeing this news, Weiss couldn't help but take a breath. Is this clown obsessed with money? To put it simply, how dare you say such a price.
"At most three million, otherwise the transaction will be cancelled."
When Weiss said this, the screen went silent again. Two minutes later, the message came again: "Deal."
"How do I confirm your identity is true?" Nadella said.
"Two minutes later, the next target: Tokyo. Have your Bitcoins ready, give the money first, and send it later."
After the clown finished speaking, the computer screen went silent again, but this time, the protagonist would not appear again.
Nadella walked back to the couch and pondered.
After a while, Nadella turned on his phone and saw the clown posting a new Twitter message.
"London and New York, within two days, if the ransom is not paid, I will launch an indiscriminate attack on the two countries. Next stop: Tokyo, please prepare the ransom, 200 million US dollars."
Nadella put down his phone and was sure that the other party was the clown. There was no problem with the transaction now.
"Now go buy Bitcoin and contact him to trade." Nadella looked at Weiss and said.
"Okay." Weiss nodded immediately.
The news about the clown once again stirred up waves.
As soon as the news came out, Tokyo's government agencies and the Tokyo stock market were immediately attacked by the clown virus. Before the clown virus spread, personnel from major institutions immediately disconnected network cables to minimize losses.
I can't access the Internet, but my computer is free of viruses and files are not lost, so I can still work normally.
Not five minutes after the news of the virus came out, various news reports spread on the Internet, and many people were still attacking the Marching Ant Company.
They are the most suspicious. The Chinese character programming language was created by the Army Ant Company. In addition, the previous virus program fell into the hands of the Army Ant Company. China has not been attacked. Everyone has reason to believe that this was done by the Army Ant Company. .
It's just that the Army Ant Company has made no other moves except a painless official response.
Those who want to attack the Army Ant Company cannot grasp the fulcrum.
Army Ant Company is not a listed company, so it is impossible to make a fuss about its stock price. Moreover, the Army Ant Company is within China, and foreign capital is helpless. No company in China is willing to take the initiative to provoke this powerful army ant.
The criticism was loud, but the Army Ant Company suffered little loss. The virus attacks Tokyo, and the termite system, which is said to be resistant to the clown virus, becomes popular again.
CIA, Office of Science and Technology.
This is one of the four major departments of the CIA. Each technical staff is an expert or senior staff in a certain technical field.
Morrison is a computer master who was recruited here to collect intelligence for the CIA. After the clown virus broke out, his mission was to find the clown organization.
At this time, Morrison looked solemn and tapped his fingers on the keyboard. Beside him, there were many other technicians who were also nervously tracking the clown's address.
The Joker organization tweets, which is the only target they can track down.
After a while, Morrison stopped and looked at the map that popped up on the computer, his face darkening. There are more than a hundred addresses distributed in every corner of the world. Among these addresses, only one address is correct.
One by one, they confirmed that they did not have that kind of personnel at all.
"How is it?" asked a strong and dignified middle-aged man behind him. He is Pompeo, the director of the CIA.
"Only one of these addresses is correct," Morrison said. "They need to be eliminated one by one."
"Notify the operations office and ask them to go to these places and confirm the address information." Pompeo's face was a little gloomy. The addresses are distributed in every corner of the world. It is very difficult, but they must be confirmed one by one, even if the agents are exposed. Do.
If they don't catch the people in the Joker Organization, their losses will only be greater.
In a villa in Seattle.
Seeing that the Bitcoin transaction was successful, Weiss stopped and looked at Nadella. This is the largest Bitcoin purchase he has ever made.
This cryptocurrency is theoretically worthless and is essentially a bunch of data. But a large identification group makes it valuable, just like diamond jewelry consumption, which is essentially a stone, but a large identification group makes jewelry valuable.
All kinds of hype, coupled with more and more people entering Bitcoin transactions, have caused the price of Bitcoin to rise steadily, reaching the current level of nearly 20,000 US dollars per coin.
Weiss is a master in the Internet industry. He knows that Bitcoin is often used among hackers or in some underground transactions. Unless there are special needs, otherwise he will not buy Bitcoin.
"Contact him," Nadella said.
Weiss nodded and immediately sent a message to the other party. Not long after, the clown sent an account.
"Send it to him."
To ordinary people, three million dollars is a lot, but to them, this little money is nothing.
If the Army Ant Company continues to use the clown virus to promote termite systems and enter the corporate office field, their losses will be hundreds of times greater than this amount of money.
As for the Joker's regret, he had thought about it. He could only bet that the clown would carry out the agreement. Now that the clown virus is raging, the Army Ant Company is in trouble. We can buy them as much time as possible.
“A pleasure to work with.”
"Ask him if he can sell us virus programs and anti-virus software for 20 million US dollars." Nadella said hurriedly after seeing the message replied by the clown.
"Not interested in."
After three simple words, no matter how many messages Wes sent, there was still no reply. Nadella grimaced, took out his phone, and followed the clown's Twitter.
Minutes passed, and as time passed, Nadella's calm expression changed slightly. The clown hasn’t tweeted yet, so I’m afraid the three million dollars have been lost.
Just when he was disappointed and about to put away his phone and leave the villa, a push message shocked him.
There will be an update around 1:30.
(End of chapter)