Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

Wu Zetian's fingertips rapidly traced the faint data streams on the holographic screen, like a top hunter following a trail of blood to find the lair of her prey.

The bright red error message was still flashing at a high frequency at the edge of the main control screen.

But on her stunningly beautiful and aloof face, the previous ruthless killing intent had transformed into an almost frozen, intense focus.

She leaned forward slightly.

The alloy buckles of the tight-fitting tactical light armor made a faint metallic clicking sound as the limb exerted force.

She couldn't bear to blink even for a fraction of a millisecond.

His deep eyes reflected the frantically refreshing, pale white code that seemed to be flowing like a waterfall.

The game of reverse tracking has, within this minute, turned into a technical melee without warhorses or gunpowder.

The mastermind hidden deep within the dark public network is clearly a top-tier traitorous hacker trained by the Tang Academy of Sciences.

They cunningly set up multiple layers of disguise and stepping stone nodes.

Between civilian relay stations in the Western Regions Province, Lingnan Road, and even the Silla Peninsula.

It frantically performs high-frequency data spoofing jumps.

Every microsecond, hundreds or thousands of fake red dots explode on the chart, attempting to completely buy time with this sea of ​​junk information.

"Sir, we can't catch them! They've used a multi-threaded gateway circuit breaker!"

The operator's forehead was covered in a fine layer of cold sweat, and his fingertips were almost leaving afterimages as he typed on the physical buttons of the offline console.

His chest heaved violently, and his voice cracked due to tension and congestion.

"As soon as our tracking code penetrated the base station on Lingnan Road, they immediately physically destroyed the storage element of that node!"

These lunatics have no regard for the survival of real-world industries; they're using half of the Tang Dynasty's communication network as a human shield!

"Use the central core of Tian Shu to crash into it! Connect me to the Hawaiian 13 special satellite network segment!"

Wu Meiniang did not back down at all; her clear and cold voice instantly drowned out the roar of the supercomputer in the computer room.

Her slender fingers pressed down hard on the virtual lever, mobilizing the computing power of Tian Shu to perform a brute-force attack.

This is a completely unreasonable and brute-force crushing of computing power.

It's like dropping a high-energy gravity bomb into a virtual digital network.

In an instant, those heavily disguised jump server nodes, along with the dark web protocol that the hackers were so proud of, were forcibly physically evaporated in one ten-thousandth of a millisecond.

Faced with absolute power disparity, the old-school aristocracy's shady defense codes are utterly ineffective.

It's just a castle built on a sand dune.

With just a gentle tap of the Creator's key.

It will instantly collapse into a pile of useless code scraps.

The process of locking onto the real coordinates is slowed down by the data waveform on the main control panel within that one second.

The red fog on the holographic map began to dissipate in large swaths.

The end of the data stream is peeled back layer by layer.

The dark purple ray, representing the evidence of the progenitor's sins, traversed countless viaducts and canal networks, finally locking onto a seemingly long-abandoned underground air-raid shelter in Gangnam Road.

In reality, that place is an abandoned, barren mountain overgrown with weeds, and in the geological registry, it has even been marked as a permanently closed physical subsidence area.

"Sir! The infrared scanner has penetrated the bottom layer! The energy reaction inside is surging wildly!"

The operator was so excited that he punched the motherboard guardrail, his face turning red from excessive excitement.

On the huge multi-dimensional holographic screen, accompanied by the cold, mechanical recognition prompts of the Tian Shu system.

Rows of top-secret files bearing the official seal of the Tang Dynasty's Class A legal entity.

It scattered forcefully above everyone's heads with a whooshing sound.

The shock of identity confirmation, within a microsecond, transformed into an invisible technological sledgehammer.

It utterly shattered the ancient rationality of all the founding ministers in the secret chamber, leaving not a single trace.

The information displayed on the big screen revealed the mastermind behind it all: the surviving family heads of Jiangnan Province whose core assets had been confiscated and whose short-selling attempts had failed.

A branch of the Wang family.

The exiled elders of the Lu family.

There were even a few long-established business tycoons who were purged on New Year's Eve and should have been waiting to die in the West Market jail.

These are ordinary nobles who have been utterly crushed by the heavy industrial war machine of the Eastern Palace in reality.

At this moment.

Their faces, withered and distorted by jealousy and madness, were marked with infrared features.

It is being nailed to the very center of the Pillar of Shame in the City That Never Sleeps by the Tian Shu System in the most absurd mosaic form.

"Brother Wang...you guessed right, it really is these old bones."

Changsun Wuji, who had received the data simultaneously inside the Taiji Hall, leaned weakly against the chair, his withered lips moved slightly, and his face was ashen with fear.

"They are the real culprits behind providing illegal deep-sea diving equipment."

"They used the empty shell of the workshop as a cover to forge the anti-counterfeiting codes of 300,000 virtual helmets in reality."

Wu Zetian drew the miniature electronic particle shimmering short blade bearing the royal gold seal from her waist with a backhand motion.

The cold glint in her phoenix eyes was a hundred times colder than the deepest glacier in the Pacific Ocean for that one minute.

"These rats from the gutter."

They knew that their physical businesses had already been killed by His Highness's schemes.

They planned to use the brains of the lowest-class refugees as fuel to forcibly smash the ancestral base of the Tian Shu system, so that the entire Tang Dynasty would perish with them!

This is the kind of shameless, capitalist tactic of flipping the table if you can't handle the game.

In that instant.

It was completely exposed to the light of day by advanced algorithms.

They cannot tolerate peasants achieving upward social mobility through a piece of code, nor can they accept their privileges becoming a laughing stock in the new era.

So they preferred to push open the technological gates of hell completely.

In the real world, they will also have one last, bloodiest, and most vicious class clash with the iron torrent of the Eastern Palace.

"Issue my supreme legal disciplinary order! Order the three mixed mecha companies of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry in Jiangnan Province to deploy immediately!"

Wu Meiniang's cold voice was exceptionally clear in the sweltering control cabin, devoid of any human warmth.

"There is no need to read out the new laws of the Tang Dynasty, nor is there any need for any form of logical persuasion to surrender."

After reaching the actual coordinates.

Directly initiate microparticle forced formatting!

"Physically level that air-raid shelter, along with all the filthy code inside, and reduce it to a complete wasteland!"

"Yes! The Great Snow Dragon Riders have entered the highest level of the annihilation grid!"

The operator pressed the Enter key on the main control panel to execute the final command. Within a microsecond, the three snow dragon rider mech icons flashing with azure light on the screen formed a battle formation and rushed madly toward Jiangnan Road.

In that one minute, the entire empire's state machinery of violence was finally ignited by these few exposed data streams.

The powerful families thought they could become gods by hiding in dark air-raid shelters.

They had no idea that, in the face of those high-orbit satellites in space that were always ready to correct their infrared vision, their noble lineage was nothing more than a pile of system junk that could be cleaned up at any time.

On the beach, Li Chengqian pushed his sunglasses back up onto his nose again.

He listened to the mechanical sound of the large-scale liquidation in his ear, lazily smacked his lips, and casually reached into the ice bucket to pull out the last can of Coke for the night.

"The old man's multi-million dollar beach fund can finally be put to use this time."

Meiniang, after you close the net, remember to have the workshop bring over a few more of the latest superconducting copper wires for me.

The Hawaiian nights are beautiful, but without Tian Shu's advanced holographic surfing module, life is still pretty boring.

"Your Highness, please rest assured and enjoy your vacation. The situation in Chang'an... is beyond repair."

Wu Meiniang chuckled softly, just about to switch the main control panel into automatic hosting mode.

However, just one second before the golden system hammer was about to fall on the big screen, signifying the completion of the mission,...

Inside the deathly silent, temperature-controlled core control room of the Cyberspace Administration of China.

"Boom—!"

A muffled, physical explosion, like the simultaneous impact of a million heavy-duty hovering shuttles crashing against the outer wall of the Daming Palace in reality, suddenly and without warning rang out from the physical outer wall wave shield at the bottom of the building.

That force was terrifying.

The shock caused the originally smooth, mirror-like blue holographic screen to ripple with countless chaotic waves, resembling startled scales, within a microsecond.

Nanoparticles from the server room ceiling rained down on the cold quantum server racks.

"Warning! The physical defense barrier of the core building's exterior is under overload impact!"

"Warning! An unregistered, high-energy computing burst has breached the first gate gateway!"

The blinding, crimson light, representing a deadly impending doom, forcefully dyed the sealed chamber a glaring blood red within a fraction of a millisecond.

Within that millisecond, all the miniature transformers emitted a painful, high-frequency, dry whistling sound.

Just as Wu Zetian ordered the Snow Dragon Cavalry to make the arrest, a deafening commotion and crashing sounds suddenly erupted outside the Cyberspace Administration's gate.