I chose one of four options at the start, and I chose the number one clan in Lingnan.

Wang Kai switched twenty test nodes into the substitute sandbox, his right hand pressing on the edge of the control panel.

"Don't seal the entrance yet. Kuroshio has only touched the port and hasn't submitted any formal instructions."

Driving them away now will only allow them to find another entrance and start over, and it will also expose the Red Hackers' defensive range.

Lin Zheng retrieved the communication records of thirty-seven overseas addresses. Each address had only sent a handshake request once. Individually, they were of no value, but when combined, they covered all of Hongtu's remote maintenance ports.

The eighteen members of the Red Hackers Department were divided into three groups: the auditing group sealed the real-time logs, the defense group transferred the real nodes to local control, and the evidence collection group copied the certificate number used by Black Tide for each request.

Wang Kai pointed to the right side of the main screen.

"Open up five substitute ports and give them a complete production network. Use fake data for tool numbers, production schedules, and engineer accounts, and update the times in accordance with the Hongtu night shift schedule."

If the target is merely scanning, they will exit quickly. If they have a sabotage mission, the control program will reveal the target.

Lin Zheng did not relax his authority review.

"Your countermeasures only extend to the attack chain. You are not allowed to access third-party servers until the master controller is identified."

All tools are signed off by the audit team; any operation lacking documentation will be rejected by the system.

Wang Kai accepted the restrictions and entered the first batch of trapping rules.

At 12:03, Heichao submitted the remote operation and maintenance certificate.

The certificate issuer belongs to Kyushu Tiandun's overseas disaster recovery system, and the certificate number does not appear in the publicly available customer list.

After being questioned by regulators about the hidden module, Kyushu Tiandun claimed that all its overseas certificates had been revoked, but this certificate could still pass the basic verification.

Five stand-in locations were opened one after another.

Back in the North Cape Fund Technology Building in Singapore, Lucas, the leader of the Kuroshio team, saw the grand production network.

Nine members sat behind him, and the machine tool number, tool life, and night shift production schedule were already displayed on the control panel.

North Cape Fund paid them eight million dollars to create a production accident within forty-eight hours.

Kuroshio originally planned to spend two days searching for the entrance, but the certificate left by Kyushu Tiandun saved them most of the work.

Lucas sent the control status to Graham.

"The new Hongtu team has just been established, and the defense layer is not yet complete. The Jiuzhou Tiandun certificate can access remote maintenance privileges, and all twenty nodes are open. In one hour, Hongtu will lose the entire test line."

Graham responded with confirmation; he urgently needed to deliver results to Mitsui after the funds in North Cape were frozen.

If an accident occurs on Hongtu's unmanned production line, the backdoor investigation of Jiuzhou Tiandun can be pushed to another interpretation.

The Lin family lacked the ability to build their own network.

The Kuroshio invasion caused chaos in control.

This statement is sufficient to preserve the continued cooperation between Kita-saki and Mitsui.

At 12:11, the stand-in sand table received the first set of control commands.

The other party modified the spindle temperature compensation and changed the tool life of the three machine tools to a negative number.

If the command is sent to the actual equipment, the cutting tool will be damaged during high-speed machining, and the entire batch of aircraft blades will be scrapped.

Wei Jianguo called from the Hongtu duty room.

"The red-hacker's screen shows that twenty nodes have lost remote access, but the factory equipment is still under local control. I can turn off the main switch, but the test logs will be interrupted. How long will it take you?"

Wang Kai checked the feedback cycle of Kuroshio's instructions.

"Director Wei, maintain local control and do not allow the equipment to receive external tasks. Give me twelve minutes. The attackers are confirming the damage results; they haven't handed over the real master control address yet."

Wei Jianguo did not vie for command.

"Twelve minutes from now, regardless of whether you have the address or not, I will shut down the test line. Hongtu can afford a work stoppage, but not a loss of control of the equipment."

After the phone call ended, Kuroshio released the second batch of procedures.

The five proxy nodes on the main screen started reporting errors, and the temperature of the fake machine tool kept rising.

The sand table also automatically generated records of two on-duty engineers submitting emergency repair requests.

Lucas saw the expected result and instructed his team to invoke the cleanup procedure to prepare to delete the certificate and relay address.

When the cleanup process is started, a task number needs to be submitted to the Black Tide management platform.

The serial number was forwarded through 37 overseas addresses before finally returning to the 19th floor of the North Cape Fund's Singapore Technology Building.

Wang Kai pointed to the newly emerging corporate dedicated line.

"The mastermind has been found. The thirty-seven addresses are just rented transit nodes. All tasks require returning to the North Cape internal platform to obtain confirmation codes. Kuroshio is using the cleanup process as a fallback plan, and this fallback plan has shown us the way."

Lin Zheng first checked the legal boundaries.

"The attack program is actively connecting to Lin's trapping node, and the feedback channel was established by the other party. The evidence collection team only takes over this channel and does not touch the fund trading system."

If the office server is located in the same region as the attack platform, first preserve the evidence, then sever Black Tide's access.

When Lin Ting entered the Red Hacker Department, the main control positioning had just been completed.

He reviewed Hongtu's local operation records and then flipped to the Kyushu Tiandun certificate number.

"Production line safety comes first. Whatever channel the other party uses to reach out, you should investigate and find out who the investor is."

The financial system and customer assets are kept separate, but all attack platform and task records are left behind.

Wang Kai manipulated the stand-in sand table, sending five fake nodes back to the Black Tide to report mission completion.

After receiving the report, the North Cape Technology Building automatically opened the settlement page on its internal platform.

The attack task, payment number, executor, and remote certificate are all placed in the same project directory.

The Red Hacker Department's evidence collection team copied the catalog and completed the timestamp and hash evidence storage.

When the Black Tide members were about to receive their final payment, the nine control screens exited the management interface.

The attack tools were locked in the quarantine zone, and the administrator account of the North Cape office network also lost its privileges.

Lucas changed three certificates in a row, and all of them ended up on Lin's trapping page.

The page only shows the Lin Clan Red Hackers' evidence collection number in the center, and the North Cape payment account and the Kuroshio mission number at the bottom.

He turned to the person in charge of the computer room.

"Sever the connection to the 19th layer of the external network and shut down the fund's official website. The Lin family has gained access to the management system, and they are now accessing the office servers."

The data center manager issued a command to disconnect the network, but the equipment did not execute it.

The North Cape office network adopts a unified management platform. In order to access more computing power, Kuroshio obtained the headquarters administrator privileges last night.

Now this set of permissions is locked by the Red Hacker Department, and even turning off the network card on the 19th floor requires going through the Lin's trapping node.

Five minutes later, the homepage of North Cape Fund's official website changed its content.

There were no confidential documents or client information on the page, only photos of the fund's executives at last year's yacht party.

Graham, dressed as a pirate, knelt on the banquet table, holding counterfeit banknotes in his arms.

The compliance officer slept next to the sink, with the words "Short the whole world" written on the back of his shirt.

Below the photo is the project number for the payment made by Kitamitsu to Kuroshio.

Website traffic surged, several financial media outlets saved the page, and North Cape clients began demanding explanations from the fund regarding the hacker payments and industrial sabotage mission.

When Graham stormed into the tech building, the entire floor's office network was frozen on Lin's evidence collection page.

He unplugged one server, but the backup server retained the same records.

"Who gave the Lin family such high authority? Black Tide went in with the Kyushu Heavenly Shield certificate, why couldn't he even protect his own backer?"

Lucas stared at the blocked attack platform, his palm resting on the table.

"The Lin family has been feeding us false data from the very beginning. The production nets we saw belonged to the trapping area, and the cleanup process exposed the North Cape line."

The Lin family didn't track the thirty-seven addresses; they were waiting for the mission confirmation code.

Graham could not accept this outcome. The eight million dollars had not brought about the shutdown of the Grand Project, but instead the North Cape internal network had become a showcase for the Red Hackers.

At 1:26 a.m., Lin Zheng ended his counterattack.

The North Cape trading system remains independent, and the office network and attack platform have been completely shut down.

The third-party industrial safety laboratory received a copy of the evidence, and the provincial regulatory department also obtained records that Kyushu Tiandun's overseas certificate was still in use.

When Wang Kai was about to shut down the forensic terminal, there was still an encrypted directory in the North Cape attack server that had not been archived.

The catalog is titled "Mitsui Heavy Industries Technology Collaboration Plan," and the document's timeframe extends from next year to the fifth year.

Wang Kai did not open it directly; he first handed the catalog number to Lin Zheng for review.

Lin Zheng checked the source of his inspection authority.

"The file is located on the Kuroshio mission server, and Kitamitsu actively added it to the project area. It can save a copy of the evidence, prohibits modification of the original file, and the decryption process is carried out on an isolated device."

Half an hour later, the file directory was expanded.

It doesn't contain complete manufacturing blueprints, but it does record Mitsui's heavy industry research and development direction for the next five years.

Bearings, port machinery, industrial control, and corrosion-resistant materials are all included in the annual investment plan, and each route also indicates the budget and expected patent window.

Wang Kai downloaded a copy, and the printer produced an 87-page document.

He put the materials into a file folder and walked up to Lin Ting.

"Grandpa, there's something hidden inside the Kuroshio server. It's Mitsui's technology roadmap for the next five years."