In the end, it’s still too short a time. A few months can train soldiers, but not necessarily hackers.
Moreover, soldiers can be cannon fodder, but in the world of networks, trash hackers aren’t even qualified to be cannon fodder.
There’s a system firewall, so Lin Miao isn’t afraid of intrusion, but while the defense is strong, the offense is lacking. He can’t always wait for the enemy to walk right into his trap.
Standing by, but not every rabbit is stupid, sooner or later they’ll figure out the bottom line.
"Ultimately, it’s a lack of ability. Voodoo Gang... we temporarily can’t deal with them..."
Lin Miao really wants to cause trouble for the Voodoo Gang, but unless they crash into him like a pig into a tree, it’s not happening.
As if seeing through Lin Miao’s thoughts, Lucy hummed a cheerful tune, stood up from the balcony, and under Lin Miao’s gaze, powered her legs to leap several meters over, landing hard on Lin Miao’s waist.
The force pushed the wheeled chair backward.
Sitting on Lin Miao’s waist, Lucy flashed a mischievous grin. Facing Lin Miao’s pained expression, she leaned over, whispered softly in his ear,
"Don’t underestimate me, I’ve not been idle these days."
"Hmm?" Lin Miao was surprised, "What’s your plan?"
"I’m a hacker." Lucy glared with some dissatisfaction, "Do you think I’m just a pretty vase?"
Sometimes Lin Miao actually can forget Lucy’s a hacker.
Lucy pulled out the data cable from her nape, connected it to Lin Miao’s nape, and their linked pupils began to flash with black-red data streams, their minds entering another world.
All around were constantly changing red binary codes, just looking at it made one’s head spin.
The environment looked similar to the scene when players log in.
"The Voodoo Gang has their Sea God subnet, but correspondingly we also have our network, though until now I haven’t found its server IP and source code, but its existence is certain."
Lin Miao came to this cyberspace with Lucy’s help, he certainly wouldn’t manage on his own.
"This is... the system’s network?"
Lucy sighed, "I’ve never seen such a vast information data field, compared to it, Night City’s municipal network is like a puddle."
"You know? When I first entered, I even thought I had come to the Old Net."
Lin Miao was also curious, "Then what did you find inside?"
"Your bottles and jars."
With a wave of her hand, Lucy revealed a massive flow of data passing in front of them, manifesting as countless straight red threads, weaving together into a huge web.
Lucy pulled a thread and brought it before Lin Miao,
Lin Miao extended his finger onto it, the data flow passed through his finger, and he instantly perceived all the information within. Chapters first released on novel※fire.net
"This is... the No. 1 Recycling Separation Furnace?"
It seemed he could shut down this machine running on Stone Ridge Mountain anytime he wanted.
Not just this recycling furnace, as he traced the web upwards, Lin Miao sensed more devices, from a bulb in a bar, doors, to all intelligent devices on Stone Ridge Mountain, feeling as if the world were under his control.
No wonder hackers love the sensation of surfing through cyberspace.
Of course, this was because he had the highest authority; others would have to get past the firewall first.
"Mmph." Lucy made a cute nasal sound, "Ever since the incident with the Trauma Team ended, I discovered changes within the system, allowing access, but despite its vastness, the callable portion is less than one billionth."
"But how does this relate to the Voodoo Gang and network attacks?"
Lin Miao roughly understood what the compatibility meant.
"Remember the multiplayer online game ’Elf World’ Sega Dali launched I told you about?"
Lin Miao nodded, "Remember." He privately looked it up before but rated it poorly, with gameplay less appealing than the flawed version of DNF.
Lucy snapped her fingers, and a different information network appeared before Lin Miao, hundreds of light points floated, some dim, some bright, each halved.
"These androids, your compatriots, their minds... are exceptionally active, and they are themselves connected to this vast network, and your network system can even erase others’ software and rapidly rewrite a new system on the hardware base, such computing power is unheard of."
It’s not a matter of whether the brains are functioning normally; Lucy found these people’s brain data very peculiar, even a mercenary with no natural talent for network content could easily surpass a network hacker, accumulating data at an exaggerated speed, seemingly able to master anything quickly, but only within fixed fields.
Even if you called them AI, Lucy would believe it.
But this system... Lucy has seen rogue AIs, but those AIs could never accomplish these feats.
And even if they were truly AI, it doesn’t matter now. Let this group of AI with more humanity than humans give these companies a real lesson.
"What does this mean?"
What can a group of players with Intelligence 3 do online?
Lin Miao couldn’t imagine.
His current intelligence exceeded ⑨, comparable to Dai Fairy who couldn’t come in and still depended on Lucy.
"This means we can directly use our network itself to attack the opponent’s network and then annex it."