Hong Kong Storm: The King of Jobs

Chapter 768, Section 358: The Early Hacker Wars

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"No need for too long, three to five days will be enough!"

Judging from the time, Ninth Sister's first batch of goods should have already been delivered to the Oak International Wharf. Chi Mengli didn't know how much was in this shipment, and Ninth Sister wouldn't say either.

The bald eagle is the leader; he's in charge of the cargo and will hide it without informing the eagle.

Now, the only thing I can control is time.

Three to five days!
That's no problem!

Silang Quzhen nodded and took out a black box from her all-purpose backpack. The black box was very small, only half a finger thick, and had a coaxial cable connected to the back.

"This is a wireless transmitter. It can receive signals as long as you are within one kilometer in a straight line!"

"Beyond this distance, the signal will not be received, and data cannot be received!"

Slang Quzhen explained, then bent down and found the interface that the IBM programmer had reserved in advance in the bundle of wires, connected the coaxial cable, and the indicator light lit up.

After the indicator light came on, she took out a signal receiver from her waist bag, connected it to the computer, and started debugging by launching the signal receiving software.

Chi Mengli watched Silang Quzhen's operation, and it was just like connecting to WiFi in her previous life. She suddenly felt very novel.

However, this signal transmitter has a much greater range than WiFi, so it must be some kind of radio wave.

"OK!"

Slang Quzhen pressed the Enter key, then locked the radio wave, wiped the signal transmitter clean, and hid it deep inside the cable.

"As long as we go back and get a signal vehicle and connect the signal receiver, we will be able to receive the data."

Upon hearing Silang Quzhen's words, Chi Mengli quickly gave a thumbs-up and praised her.

He is never stingy with praise that doesn't require money, but with incentives that do. He believes that money is just an external thing, something you can't take with you when you die, so there's no need to value it too much.

Silang Quzhen rolled her eyes and continued staring at the computer screen, but the ever-upturned corners of her mouth showed that she was still quite receptive to Chi Mengli's positive reinforcement method.

The data server contained hundreds of millions of records, which filled a brand-new Sony floppy disk in just half an hour.

Silang Quzhen quickly pressed Enter to pause the copying process and quickly replaced the floppy disk with a new one.

The new floppy disk didn't last long either; it was filled up within ten minutes.

At this moment, Silang Quzhen immediately realized that she had been tricked. She immediately paused the program and began to use the backdoor program to enter the server's background program.

Upon entering the backend program and seeing the backend code, she immediately said, "Boss, we've been discovered."

"There is another group of people who are stealing data from the server."

Chi Mengli was stunned for a moment, not expecting that someone would have the same idea as her, starting with the order book in the server.

"interesting!"

Do you know where he/she is?

Chi Mengli took the Double Happiness cigarette from under her nose and placed it on her ear.

"do not know!"

Silang Quzhen shook her head subconsciously, then suddenly realized something and continued, "I can't pinpoint the exact location, but I know these bastards are nearby."

"Boss, I've copied all the encrypted data and installed the signal transmitter. We can work on the rest of the data later."

"It's best to get out of here now. If those bastards on the other side are novices, they might trigger the firewall alarm, and then you won't be able to leave even if you want to!"

Now that the encryption file is done, there's no need to keep it. Chi Mengli put the Double Happiness earring in her mouth and glanced at the digital watch on her wrist.

3:15

It's almost time; it's time to make a move.

"Clean up your hands and feet, don't let anyone find out anything, and once you're done, we're out of here."

Chi Mengli nodded, letting Silang Quzhen handle the aftermath, and then they left together.

Upon hearing the order to retreat, Silang Quzhen nodded and immediately cleared her backend login history, deleting all link and copy records.

After finishing, she pulled out the floppy disk, put it in her waist bag, disconnected the coaxial cable, and shut down her custom-made computer.

After shutting down the computer, she promptly retracted the metal rod, closed the monitor, and shut off the suitcase zipper.

Chi Mengli took the suitcase and walked towards the main entrance. He placed his temporary ID card on the sensor area, and the tightly locked door immediately opened.

Mitia, who was smoking outside, saw the two bastards who had disturbed her sleep finally come out, and immediately stood up straight, complaining, "Three hours."

"It's been three hours! If you're going to do this, you should at least let me know so I could pull up a chair."

"Alright! You guys get out of here. I'm going back to the monitoring room to catch up on some sleep. It's almost dawn, and I need to stay up until nine o'clock in the morning."

"Please, have mercy on me and let me go!"

After listening to Mitia's complaints, Chi Mengli smiled and then reached into his pocket, pulling out a pack of Red Wan cigarettes that he had only smoked two of.

"Calm down. Getting angry can damage your liver, and it won't be worth it if you have to pay for herbal tea yourself later."

"Take it back, smoke it slowly, and when you're done, you can go back to sleep."

"By the way, I noticed the CCTV camera keeps moving around randomly. Is there someone else in the monitoring room?"

“It’s been three hours, and he still doesn’t know to get down and let you rest. He’s really disloyal.”

Chi Mengli comforted Mitia with a remark, then changed the subject to the surveillance camera.

"Damn! There are only two security guards at night. The deputy security supervisor is sleeping in his office and only comes downstairs to check at seven o'clock in the morning."

"That jerk never helps out, but he earns more overtime pay every day than we do in a month."

"Working for others is like being a sucker; there's no way out."

The South Asians in Hong Kong are now in their third generation. Aside from their skin color, their habits and language have become localized. Mitya's Cantonese is even more fluent than Chi Meng-li's.

After figuring out the situation in the monitoring room, Chi Mengli and Mitia cursed the capitalists together, then pulled their suitcases out of the office building at Oak International Wharf.

After loading the boxes into the van, Chi Mengli plopped down in the driver's seat, started the van, and drove away from the office building area once Silang Quzhen was settled.

But instead of returning to Yau Ma Tei, he drove out the gate and began circling the Okko International Marina area.

They wanted to find that group of hackers who were on the same wavelength and to find out where they came from.

A container truck is parked in a parking space on the outer wall of the west gate of Oak International Terminal.

The container was brightly lit, and five or six men were working inside.

Steve, sitting near the container door, was staring at the progress bar on the screen.

He suddenly slammed his hand on the keyboard, sending a keycap flying: "Damn it! Why is the progress stuck at 78%? It's rewinding!"

Sitting next to him, Ah Jie's fingers flew across the keyboard, sweat dripping down his face, and his voice trembled as he said, "Boss! It's not that I'm slow!"

"Some bastard is competing with us for data access! Their data scraping speed is 30% faster than ours!"

"Boss, it seems we've been discovered! Are we in trouble?"

"Damn it! Who's so bold? Don't they know we're the ones who first got our hands on this data?"

Steve ripped off the headphones hanging around his neck and tossed them into the toolbox next to him, his eyes fixed on the constantly flashing red warning box on the screen.

His expression was slightly pained, and he muttered to himself, "I made a hole in the firewall of this database the day before yesterday, why is someone following me here today?"

Awen, who was in charge of monitoring the data dissemination, suddenly screamed, almost dropping the mouse from her hand: "Boss, something terrible has happened! Stop the channel grabbing immediately!"

“Someone noticed us and sent us a batch of viruses disguised as data packets.”

"Our backup server has been compromised, and we can't even view the logs now!"

"What the hell! Did these bastards come prepared?"

Steve reached for the ice-cold Coca-Cola next to him, took a big gulp, then squeezed the can out of shape, his face contorted in a grimace.

"Ah Jie! Switch to the second encryption protocol immediately! Use the node redirection I taught you last time, use decoys, and don't let them track our radio wave location!"

Ah Jie frantically pressed shortcut keys on the keyboard, and lines of code scrolled across the screen, but a blue error window popped up after only a few seconds.

Seeing the blue error window, he cried out in despair, "It's not working, boss!"

"The opponents are top-tier experts. These lunatics actually cracked our disguised nodes and even locked our radio frequency!"

"I can't even press the pause button for data now! Should we disconnect the connection?"

“If we interrupt it now, we will lose a signal transmitter, since the encrypted file has already been secured.”

"Boss, you make a decision."

"Damn it! What kind of technique do they use? How can their skills be so amazing?"

Steve leaned closer to the screen, pointing at the code with his finger, his voice urgent and angry: "Look at this! They're using the Wabbit virus!"

"We've only studied this for half the time, and the other side has already used it in actual combat?"

"Didn't they say Hong Kong didn't have the original script for the Webbit virus? Where did they get it from?"

The Wabbit virus, also known as the Rabbit Virus.

This was an early virus from the computer age, a prototype of the "fork bomb," which exhausted system resources through infinite self-replication, causing the computer to crash.

This virus primarily targets IBM System/360 mainframes, achieving self-replication by creating numerous copies of processes within a single system.

Unlike modern viruses, Wabbit does not spread through networks or storage media, but relies on users to actively execute malicious code.

Its core logic is an infinite loop of process creation, which eventually leads to the exhaustion of system resources (such as CPU time and memory), causing a system crash.

This is a virus developed by European and American hackers targeting the local area networks of large enterprises; it is highly targeted.

Suddenly, Awen pointed at her monitoring screen, her voice trembling: "Boss! Something terrible has happened! They've started attacking our virtual server's memory!"

"The data fragments we downloaded are now being remotely deleted by them! 12% has already been deleted!"

"Which star are you picking! You dare to steal my food on my turf and then delete my data?"

Upon hearing his subordinate's report, Steve was so angry that he almost stood up, causing his chair to slide back half a meter.

"Ah Jie! Start the firewall program immediately! Disconnect the signal receiver."

Ah Jie's fingers were shaking so badly that he finally found the firewall's startup folder, but when he clicked on it, he found that the icon had turned gray.

Seeing this, he said with a mournful face, "Boss, it's too late, the firewall can't be started now."

"Damn it! Are you stupid? You can't even start the firewall system?"

Steve shoved Ajay aside, sat down at the keyboard, and his fingers flew across the keyboard, instantly turning the code on the screen into a green data stream.

"Watch closely! If we can't cut them off physically, then we'll guide them to the virtual receiver. That should do the trick! Let them wander around a little longer!"

Before Steve could finish his operation, the screen suddenly flickered and then went completely black.

【Your system has been controlled】

Upon seeing the English text on the monitor screen, Steve paused for two seconds, then slammed his fist into the computer case, which made a loud "bang".

"Damn it! How dare they remotely control our mainframes?"

Steve's voice was practically a shout, "Wen! Unplug the signal receiver right now! Don't let them connect to our other equipment via radio waves!"

Awen immediately realized what was happening and reached out to unplug the signal receiver from the table.

(End of this chapter)