I became a heart-stealing thief in Azure Files

……

[I felt the unwavering determination emanating from Oto Aoi.]

【Coopation is lifted! 】

[Assistant: Oto Aoi / Fox Squad's 'Cunning Hunter']

[Arcana: Temperance (X. Temperance)]

[Assistance Rating: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆]

Seeing that her team members all had their own ideas, Nicole began to inquire about the details of the mission.

"We will trust Sensei without reservation... but what exactly do we need to do?"

"Once the incident officially begins, you will receive a mission from Huaye to hinder the Arius Squad and the Rabbit Squad."

Amamiya looked at Yukino and asked meaningfully, "Yukino, tell me, what should you do in this situation?"

Yukino pondered for a moment, then gradually frowned.

Based on his relationship with Sensei, his impressions of the younger generation...

Whether it's Rabbit's team or Sharai's Alios team, they can actually be considered to be on the same side as him.

Yukino always maintains a cold demeanor towards students on her side, but secretly she is always full of concern for them.

However, when it comes to such important matters, one cannot think about things solely from an emotional perspective.

“We should…follow Huaye’s orders and intercept Rabbit Squad and Arius Squad.”

"That's right... although it looks like an 'internal strife,' doesn't it?"

Amamiya said leisurely, "But don't forget... the Fox team is a well-established urban special operations expert. Compared to the Fox team... neither the Rabbit team nor the Arios team has enough experience in urban warfare."

"I hope... that when the time comes, the Fox team will take this opportunity to... not hold back, without affecting the main objective. Let them learn and gain experience."

【~???~】(Yukino)

Yukino's slightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed.

[I sensed hope from Yukino...]

[Coopation Improvement!]

【Seven Degrees Yukino (Faith) ★★★★★★★★☆☆☆】

[★7 Bond Skill "Silent Hunting Fox" is now unlocked!]

“…I understand, Sensei.”

"I will have the Fox team continue to 'lie low' and wait for the crucial opportunity to deliver a 'fatal blow' to Huaye."

The 'early warning' has been completed, and there's nothing else to say for now.

The little foxes in the car all turned to look at the live broadcast on the in-car screen.

At that very moment, the little rabbits on the screen had already begun taking further action.

Moe was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, barefoot, leaning back on the seat with her feet on the dashboard.

"Confirming the location of the server room..."

"Okay, location complete."

"Using the 'Twin Blade Cannon' virus package provided by Sensei, we successfully forged device certificates and security messages... Next, we should begin further special operations..."

"So this is what high-intensity infiltration operations are like..."

A brown-haired girl, munching on a lollipop and surrounded by clusters of eerie blue flames, was using the sugar in her mouth to push her abilities, which were gradually entering 'overclocking' mode. Lost in her own world, she even murmured and complained while multitasking.

"The internal network device with the highest privileges has been found?"

"You need a personal key with the corresponding permissions, right...?"

"let me see……"

"The only person in the Valkyrie Police Department with the authority to view all databases seems to be the police chief."

"Ye Zhu's personal key..."

"It seems it's time to unleash the hacker's initiative."

After putting down her personal equipment, Meng Hui stretched and pulled a handgun from the small storage compartment in the passenger seat.

After confirming the weapon's condition, Moe picked up the equipment bag containing another specially prepared hacking device that was lying at her feet, and at the same time took out a tarot card from her pocket and crushed it.

'The Grim Reaper (XI. Death)...The Pale Knight.'

Death arrives silently.

When He arrives, nothing can make a sound.

Quiet, silent, like a shadow, reaping life in the most inconspicuous way.

A pale, skeletal knight riding a white horse hovered around Moe, transforming into a white cloak with a stealth-like style, completely concealing any sound she made.

Moe is probably the least skilled at stealth among the Rabbits... but she doesn't need to be good at stealth.

Stealth is about achieving your goal while making as little noise as possible and not attracting attention, isn't it?

If that's the case, then why don't I just make sure neither side can hear the sound?

'The ultimate level of cyber hacking is physical intrusion… that leather-clad "private law enforcer" was absolutely right.'

Donning a white cloak, 'Death' began her infiltration.

Chapter Sixteen: The World is a Giant Search and Retreat

Where is Ye Zhu's personal key...?

Wearing a "Pale Knight" cloak and carrying her shoulder bag containing hacking equipment, Moe walked into the Valkyrie Public Security Bureau with a swagger.

Summoning Ariadne, she used the "Ariadne's Thread" to manifest a map of destiny. After pondering for a moment while looking at the three-dimensional map on the screen, Moe suddenly focused her attention and turned her gaze to the director's office, which was automatically highlighted.

With her view further refined, Meng Hui raised an eyebrow slightly, 'seeing' the interior of the director's office.

The bureau chief, who usually handles things flawlessly, seemed to have made a 'coincidental' oversight today.

Logically speaking, such a personal key with the highest level of access should be kept in a secret compartment that requires multiple layers of security or authentication, or is known only to the user, even if it is not carried with you at all times.

However, due to Ye Zhu's 'coincidental' mistake, the personal key symbolizing the authority of the police chief, along with a keychain that might be a dormitory key, was 'left behind' under an inconspicuous pile of documents on the desk.

The highlighted key was extremely eye-catching, and Meng Hui breathed a sigh of relief, her voice filled with barely concealed excitement.

"...in this place, the three-sided T-phosphorus 2k-was-84-mile."

"Using the bureau chief's access key, and the bureau chief's device and permissions, establish remote access and file 'administrator privileges' on your own device, and then..."

Following the clues of fate, Meng Hui pondered all the way and finally found her way to the director's office.

Putting down her handbag for the moment, and imagining herself looking handsome, Meng Hui took a deep breath and stretched out one hand to the side.

'call……'

A tiny flickering sound of flames appeared, and Moe's white cloak suddenly transformed into a wisp of fire, which gathered in her hand and became a needle specifically designed to destroy the 'immune system'.

Death always arrives silently.

His ability to dismantle defense systems is often swift and devastating, occurring when no one is paying attention.

With a needle thrust into the keyhole, Menghui pressed the syringe like giving a shot, and the door lock system instantly corroded and became extremely fragile.

Then she gently tugged, and the seemingly sturdy door to the director's office opened with a click.

Unlike that infamous vigilante, Moe doesn't have superb physical skills, nor does she have any stealth-specific skills like 'lock picking'.

But with the blessing of "mysticism", infiltrating without leaving a trace in the "true sense" is also a piece of cake for Moe.

The 'White Death' doesn't need to touch the ground.

Without even opening a door, it can transform into a cloud of disease and slip through keyholes and other gaps connecting the inside to the outside, achieving the literal meaning of 'everywhere'.

The world cannot build a completely flawless defense, so nothing can withstand the silent invasion of the "Pale Knight".

But Moe opened the door anyway... mainly because it would make the chief realize that they had been here.

After opening the door, Meng Hui floated directly into the director's office, went to the pile of documents, and took out the key and the secret key together.

"Next up is the bureau chief's personal device terminal..."

"Grant device administrator privileges and allow wireless takeover..."

After opening the director's personal computer, Meng Hui chuckled and connected the access key, beginning a series of 'little actions'.

"The corresponding server room equipment permissions have been granted. The next step is to proceed with further operations in the server room, such as downloading data..."

Because there were still traces that needed to be erased by herself, Meng Hui did not shut down the director's computer immediately, but instead took the key and returned to the server room.

Using the same method, the "Pale Knight" silently dissolved the room door lock in a physical sense, making it look old, decayed, and unbearable. Moe connected the device she brought and quickly operated the device in her hand to extract data. At the same time, she relied on the high-speed computing power provided by the Persona to help accelerate the data download.

As the screen lit up, a massive amount of data was projected onto the girl's thick, round-framed glasses.

"Although I already have a lot of that mature 'hacker' feel to me, I still feel like something's missing..."

"For example, a 'major power outage'?"

The process of downloading data is relatively tedious and boring.

While keeping an eye on the equipment, Meng Hua had the leisure and energy to even ponder the difference between herself and a true hacker who could "kill anyone she saw".

"Even over a thousand years, the reliance on network equipment won't be that high, so the kind of 'cyber hacker' who can kill anyone they want still can't do whatever they want..."

"So, to put it another way, what about 'private law enforcers' who can shut down a major power outage with a wave of their hand?"

"With my current capabilities, can I hack into the equipment to overload the electrical appliances and thus cause a major power outage?"

After thinking about it, Meng Hui felt... that was still a bit unrealistic.

Currently, Kiwatos's power system is not strongly correlated with the network system.

Even if a hacker has extraordinary skills, they cannot remotely control a circuit breaker to trip due to overload.

Even if one were to actually launch an overload injection attack on the server, causing it to overload, it would only trigger the server's self-protection mechanism.

Even if the server's main power supply is burned out along with the network cable, the server's UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system will still ensure the server's normal operation.

"Sigh...we're still a long way from that level..."

After sighing while chewing on her lollipop, Meng Hui realized that she wasn't that far from those 'hackers'.

"Speaking of which... Sensei's 'Temporary Persona' is really useful."

"Even non-tech-oriented Personas have such a significant boost to 'computing power'."

Are there any "personas" specializing in this area? And how exaggerated would the increase in computing power from such a persona be?

……

Amamiya, who was listening to Moe's rambling in the Fox team's car, praised Moe's 'imagination'.

Under the curious gazes of the Fox team members, Amamiya casually explained, "The 'persona' that Moe envisioned does indeed exist."

……

It is even the persona of 'Navi', a member of the Phantom Thieves, and Futaba Sakura.

'Al-Ajif', Futaba's final awakened Persona.

Its exterior is a triangular sci-fi spaceship covered with various computer symbols, designed to house people.

Possessing "unfathomable computing power," they can easily "unlock the entire map" and decipher the "technology" of various otherworldly palaces when active in otherworldly activities.

Besides cracking devices, the mobilized computing power can also provide tangible benefits to the Phantom Thieves members, enabling them to deflect and defend against attacks at crucial moments...

It can even generate all sorts of strange weapons, similar to floating cannons or bombs, for self-defense.

There is another Persona – 'ENIAC', the world's first electronic computer.

While the technology side should theoretically have more powerful equipment in newer eras... I'm on the mystical side, I don't care about this or that, I just think if it works, it works, and that's what "mysticism" tells me.

This 'world's first electronic computer' was originally very bulky and could be easily destroyed by any device with integrated computing capabilities in modern technology.

From a technological standpoint, ENIAC's computing power, at most, is only about 5,000 FLOPS.

A typical personal mobile phone, computer, or other device with integrated computing power can achieve a computing power of over 100 TFLOPS.