novelraw Chapter 37: Authority Takeover
Chapter 37: Authority Takeover
After arranging matters for Qiao Mingyuan, Su Yuan redirected his attention to South Sea Island.
At this moment, dozens of Truth Society assassins were being forced into a certain grove of trees.
Outside were the powerful members of the Xia Country Defense Bureau.
The Defense Bureau was an organization similar to certain agencies.
However, its level was higher, specifically dealing with cultivators.
When this assassination squad had entered the station platform, they had already attracted the attention of Xia Country's official forces.
But at that time, the platform was crowded with people coming and going, and they were worried about triggering an excessive reaction from the targets.
That's why the defense personnel hadn't immediately moved to arrest them.
Instead, they maintained close surveillance.
Only after an hour had passed, when this assassination squad began to retreat and leave the densely populated station platform,did the Defense Bureau personnel quickly take action, forcing them into this grove.
Outside the grove, Defense Bureau Action Team Captain Chen Hai looked solemn as he stared at the nearby woods, speaking in a low voice, "Have we identified the origins of this group? What's their purpose in coming to South Sea Island?"
"Their origins are unclear." A capable middle-aged woman beside him looked at the laptop in front of her and shook her head, "But their purpose here should be to find someone, or rather, to hunt down a specific person."
This conclusion was drawn by reviewing station surveillance footage and combining it with the search behavior of these black-suited men with sunglasses.
The capable middle-aged woman was a member of the Defense Bureau's Electronic Information Security Department, specializing in network-related issues, essentially serving as the Defense Bureau's white hat hacker.
So-called white hat hackers were counterparts to black hat hackers, essentially the same type of people.
However, black hat hackers hid within the vast network, with nobody knowing their identities, while white hat hackers served the country, maintaining national information security.
"Looking for whom?"
Chen Hai asked.
"I don't know..." The capable middle-aged woman frowned, "That person doesn't appear on the surveillance footage."
She had already pulled up all the station's surveillance footage but hadn't found any clues.
"Captain, let me take some people in to capture them. We'll know everything after interrogation." A burly man grinned.
"Don't take them lightly." Chen Hai glanced at the burly man.
Although the strongest among these black-suited men only reached the Hidden Force level, they had rich combat experience. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to resist during their sudden assault and eventually hide in this grove.
"Wait until all reinforcement teams arrive before pushing in." Chen Hai chose the safest approach.
Their people had already surrounded this small grove. These black-suited assassins were like meat on a chopping block, ready to be dealt with at any time. There was no need to charge in now.
Just then.
The capable middle-aged woman who had been continuously typing on her laptop suddenly changed expression.
"What?"
The capable middle-aged woman stared intently at the laptop screen. At this moment, the laptop had broken free from her control, 'actively' opening a blank document, then words began being typed out one after another.
"Director Lu, what's wrong?" Chen Hai noticed the change in the capable middle-aged woman and looked toward her, his gaze falling on the laptop screen.
He saw words rapidly appearing in the blank document.
"They're about to charge out."
"What does this mean?" Chen Hai looked again at the capable middle-aged woman and noticed her hands were stiff, not typing on the keyboard at all.
"Captain Chen Hai, my computer has been hacked." The capable middle-aged woman suppressed her shock and immediately spoke up.
"Your computer was hacked?" Chen Hai found this equally unbelievable, "Didn't they say the bureau's firewall is world-class, and there are only a handful of hackers in the world capable of breaching it..."
"I don't know either." The capable middle-aged woman looked somewhat bewildered.
As a Defense Bureau white hat hacker, she often practiced hacking with colleagues. But even the most powerful intrusion required time, especially with the bureau's firewall in place. No one should be able to break through that firewall in such a short time.
Yet just now, her computer was instantly hacked and taken over. During this process, the firewall offered no resistance whatsoever. In a silent instant, her computer was compromised.
This sent chills down the capable middle-aged woman's spine.
The more proficient one was in information network technology, the more one understood how unrealistic this scenario was.
"Could it be that the bureau's firewall has a major vulnerability that none of us knew about?" The capable middle-aged woman found it hard to believe.
......
Magic City, Villa No. 66.
Su Yuan looked at the computer in front of him. On the screen was the display from the capable middle-aged woman's laptop far away at South Sea Island.
"The national-level firewall is indeed strong."
Su Yuan nodded slightly. Compared to firewalls like the Education Bureau's network, the Defense Bureau's firewall was directly connected to the national firewall.
Trying to hack it? Even the world's top hacker would most likely fail.
Su Yuan's hacking skills weren't currently the world's best, although the information network knowledge he had learned surpassed Blue Star's by who knew how many eras.
But his learning time was limited—he had only been studying for about ten days from start to finish.
Therefore, Su Yuan's method of controlling the capable middle-aged woman's laptop wasn't hacking.
It was authority takeover.
Simply put, Su Yuan directly logged into the highest authority account of South Sea Island's Defense Bureau information network and took over the capable middle-aged woman's computer with supreme privileges.
This was why it didn't trigger any firewall response.
After all, in the firewall's program recognition judgment, Su Yuan's current behavior constituted internal activity, not external intrusion.
As for how he knew the highest authority account for South Sea Island's Defense Bureau information network? The gray mirror naturally told him.
"Truth Society assassins..."
Su Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. Since the Truth Society dared to extend their hands into Xia Country, they should all stay behind.
This was also why Su Yuan took over the capable middle-aged woman's computer.
Although the Truth Society assassins were currently at an absolute disadvantage, if things continued to develop without Su Yuan's intervention, a few of these Truth Society assassins would still manage to escape.
......
South Sea Island, outside the grove.
Team Captain Chen Hai glanced at the laptop screen, at the line of text reading 'They're about to charge out.'
Then he looked at the nearby grove.
Only twenty seconds had passed since the capable middle-aged woman said her computer had been 'hacked.'
In that lightning-fast moment, Team Captain Chen Hai made his decision.
"Everyone, be on alert. The enemies are about to charge out."
Team Captain Chen Hai immediately notified everyone.
"Captain..." The capable middle-aged woman seemed hesitant to speak.
"Being alert isn't a bad thing." Team Captain Chen Hai explained in a low voice.
So far, they didn't know who had 'hacked' the computer, what their purpose was, or why they were warning them.
But Team Captain Chen Hai understood clearly that regardless of whether the enemy charging out was true or false, notifying everyone to be alert had no downsides.
If this statement was false and the enemies didn't charge out, they would suffer no losses—they would just have been alert for nothing.
But if this statement was true and the enemies indeed made a desperate charge, being prepared in advance would completely turn passive defense into active control.