LION simply said, "Is the championship so difficult? You defeated Xuancao, so whether considering the group draw or your overall strength, you're qualified to compete for the championship. So, go and win this match!"
Chapter 245: The Battle of Dual-Line Operations!
It must be said that LION's ability to become the leader of the Red Hacker Alliance is not only due to his technical skills, but also to his leadership abilities. Otherwise, the Red Hacker Alliance would not have attracted a large number of top Chinese amateur hackers under his influence, nor would it have put forward the slogan "Learn to be a good person before learning technology" at its inception.
Upon seeing LION's last sentence, the five beasts of the Black Sky Demon God seemed to have been injected with chicken blood and started roaring, immediately typing frantically in the server: Start now, start now.
Chen Xu chuckled and clicked OK.
Zhan Jing looked at him and finally couldn't help but say, "Is the strategy for this match the same as before?" What she meant was, I'll still put you on defense in this match, and if you can't win, then it's over.
Chen Xu turned his head, looked at the quiet girl, and smiled: "Well, actually I also really want your photo."
What does this sentence mean?
Does he mean he wants to win the championship?
Chen Xu smiled and said, "Everyone, get ready. Follow the original tactics." Then he opened several hacking and defense software programs.
Looking at Chen Xu's smile, Zhan Jing vaguely felt that Chen Xu gave her a slightly different feeling, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. The only vague feeling was that... he seemed much more confident.
What is the source of his confidence?
Zhan Jing's gaze involuntarily drifted to the software that Chen Xu had opened, but she was stunned after seeing the software interface clearly, because she had never seen these software programs before in her experience.
Could it be that last night Chen Xu sought help from SMMH, and that internet god gave him some hacking software?
Thinking of this, Zhan Jing's face showed some displeasure. While it's generally acknowledged that software alone cannot make one a top-tier hacker, the problem is that if this software truly was provided by that internet god, it might be far more powerful than currently used hacking software. If that were the case, Chen Xu's victory wouldn't be based on his own skill.
What she wanted was for Chen Xu to win through his own strength, not through such means!
Chen Xu saw Zhan Jing's expression, smiled slightly and said, "Today I'm going to attack in a different way. Heh, don't worry, these software programs are all written by myself. They are attack software based on the Chinese language."
"Chinese language?!"
Zhan Jing was stunned, but at that moment the referee had already started counting down 3, 2, 1. She had no choice but to concentrate on the computer, but she was filled with doubt. Chen Xu was actually going to use Chinese as the language for offense and defense?
It's important to understand that although Chen Xu had secretly received the SMMH's legacy and learned the Chinese language ahead of others, the problem was that he still used English spelling commands when conducting hacking attacks and defenses. In other words, the Chinese language was only an auxiliary tool for Chen Xu, because currently no system supports this Chinese computer language.
But now he's going to use Chinese as the sole language for output?
How is that possible?
But Chen Xu didn't explain further. Instead, he said, "It's starting, everyone get ready."
The method of this competition is the same as before: use a server as the battlefield and then drive the other side out of the server.
As soon as referee LION said "start," Chen Xu immediately rushed into the server. According to the original plan, he still wanted to occupy the server first.
However, just as Chen Xu deleted the password file using the usual method and was about to create an administrator account, a dialog box suddenly popped up: Please enter your password.
Chen Xu was taken aback. At that moment, Wu Yuan shouted, "They entered the server first!"
Sure enough, the system immediately displayed a notification:
A super administrator account named "Black Whirlwind" was added to the server.
The server has added a super administrator account.
The server added a super administrator account for a silver pig that wiggles its butt.
The server adds a super administrator account; a lewd husky.
The server has added a super administrator account, "Century End Great Dragon God".
The server deletes the GUEST account (guest account).
They actually logged into the system and created accounts first?! And they were so fast! No wonder they have the strength of a Heavenly Gang level expert!
Since they couldn't secure the server administrator account first, they adopted the second plan: abandon defense and begin the attack. Chen Xu didn't consider why the opponent was so aggressive, immediately seizing the server. Seizing the server was like capturing a city in ancient warfare—it would make defense much easier. Therefore, in hacker battles, those with superior skills or a high level of self-awareness generally wouldn't be the first to enter the server.
However, the Black Sky Demon God team clearly believes they are inferior to Chen Xu and his team, or rather, they believe they are inferior to Zhan Jing. Therefore, they adopted a low-key approach from the start to ensure their victory in this match.
"Oh dear. I thought these guys would be proud of themselves." Young and fat sighed, glancing at Zhan Jing, but found that Zhan Jing's gaze was not focused on the computer in front of her, but rather on Chen Xu from time to time.
"What a tragedy." Young and fat sighed inwardly, then fell silent and focused on dealing with the enemy.
Chen Xu and his team must have devised a plan to launch an offensive if they couldn't initially gain access to the server. The first step in this plan was to scan for the opponent's open ports.
However, after scanning the area, Yingnianzaofei discovered that the other party had incredibly quickly blocked almost all ports that could connect to the external network!
Yingnian Zaofei finally found a port number (5375) and was about to rush in when the other party closed the door halfway in, forcing him to quickly retreat and almost ending up in a situation where he was trapped and beaten.
"These guys are so unfair!" Young and fat snorted angrily, "They actually went to such lengths!"
The main reason was that the Black Sky Demon God's team feared Zhan Jing. Yingnian Zaofei knew this too. But Zhan Jing's gaze was fixed on Chen Xu's computer, so he couldn't say anything. He could only try his best.
Zhan Jing was keeping an eye on Chen Xu's movements.
Chen Xu first ran a software program. Although she hadn't seen the interface before, its function was obvious: scanning ports.
This is nothing serious. Zhan Jing then saw Chen Xu open the botnet control software. Hmm, all of this was the same as his previous attacks.
What other secret tricks does he have up his sleeve?
"We've detected that ports 4835 and 902 are open, and there's a significant amount of data input and output. These must be the ports they're using to access the server. Heh, they couldn't possibly close all the ports; that wouldn't make sense in computers. Wu Yuan, Zongzi, you two start harassing one port each, but be careful not to get wiped out."
Being able to quickly discover the other party's entry port is not a remarkable feat; it simply means that the scanning system is relatively advanced and able to capture the data stream. Zhan Jing continued to watch him, waiting to see what further actions he might take.
Chen Xu continued, "Feifei, you're in charge of continuing the guerrilla tactics. Zhan Jing, protect me. I'm about to launch an attack."
attack?
Chen Xu mobilized his botnets and began sending requests to the other party's server. Oh, this is the simplest form of DDoS flood attack.
Zhan Jing didn't understand Chen Xu's intention, because a flood attack wouldn't be a problem for any expert of the Red Hacker Alliance at the Earthly Fiend level or above. Moreover, there were two Heavenly Gang level experts present.
Therefore, these attacks were quickly blocked by the other party, leaving no trace.
But at this time, Chen Xu was infected with a virus.
This virus was not given to him by SMMH, because Zhan Jing saw that the virus was written by Chen Xu himself using the Chinese language.
This hastily written virus is somewhat targeted, but its power is certainly not as great as a malignant virus that spreads worldwide. Why would he release a virus at this time? Could he possibly deliver it into the enemy's defenses?
But soon, Zhan Jing's eyes widened!
Because Chen Xu's virus didn't work on the other party's server through any means, but was sent to his own botnet!
He actually wanted to infect all his broiler chickens?!
Chen Xu felt Zhan Jing's gaze, turned around and smiled, "Get ready to protect me, the attack has only just begun." Zhan Jing finally couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is that virus of yours for?"
"The effect is small. But when combined, the power is quite significant. You should know that this Linux system has a very obvious vulnerability: users can upload via FTP. This virus is frantically replicating and attacking the server. Moreover, the virus's signature is calculated based on a set of formulas, and the signature keeps changing. Unless the other party closes the FTP upload method, these viruses will frantically upload, thus consuming the other party's system resources. But if the other party closes FTP, then they're breaking the rules, haha. So now they can't avoid receiving the virus. This way, at least they can spare one person to defend against this virus. Haha, then we'll have five against four."
With her computer skills, Zhan Jing easily understood Chen Xu's meaning. She hadn't thought of it before because her attention was focused on Chen Xu, but now that Chen Xu said it, Zhan Jing immediately understood: "You mean, if the other party wants to get rid of this virus, then they have to get rid of you, otherwise the virus will keep uploading."
“That’s right,” Chen Xu wasn’t surprised that Zhan Jing had thought of this. He continued, “They’re hiding in their shells like turtles right now. Although there are many ways to solve this, I don’t want to waste time. This is the simplest and quickest way: force them to fight me!” Zhan Jing was silent for a moment before saying, “Then aren’t you afraid that this virus will spread?”
"Relax, it doesn't matter!" Chen Xu exclaimed. "This virus only has code similar to many other viruses, but it won't cause any harm to the system; it's a benign virus. At most, it'll just use up some bandwidth. Ouch, someone's attacking me! Haha, you little rascal. You finally showed yourself!"
Watching Chen Xu rapidly type on the keyboard, Zhan Jing exclaimed, "Here it comes!"
Because at this point, Chen Xu had already begun his battle with his opponent, and his input method was no longer the English commands she was familiar with, but Chinese!
Chinese language!
Zhan Jing didn't know much about the Chinese language because she hadn't had time to study it in depth, but watching Chen Xu rapidly type on the keyboard, constantly outputting commands such as: map disk CH, open port 3028, etc., she could understand the meaning of those commands!
Is it still possible to use this method to operate?!
However, Zhan Jing soon discovered that Chen Xu's commands were being output very quickly!
Generally speaking, typing a single Chinese character requires using several English keys. If using Pinyin, then character selection is also necessary. Therefore, once someone is proficient with the keyboard to a certain extent, their typing speed in English will definitely be faster than in Chinese.
But Chen Xu has now overturned that notion.
His command output speed was incredibly fast! It was almost at its limit. Moreover, Chen Xu almost never made a mistake when outputting commands, and most importantly... he no longer needed to bother pressing those special characters!
A Chinese hacker input method?!
With Zhan Jing's keen eye, she quickly understood the mystery behind it. No wonder Chen Xu was so confident; it turned out he was using a Chinese hacker input method that she had never seen before.
With a single command, Chen Xu only needs to input three keywords to automatically generate a complete instruction and convert it for output.
This speed is even faster than Chen Xu's previous speed!
Moreover, Zhan Jing noticed that Chen Xu's input method, that is, the way he typed on the keyboard, seemed suspicious.
That's right. This is the result of Chen Xu's hard work overnight... learning future Chinese language hacking input methods and techniques.
The way you type is very important, just like the current keyboard layout, which is the most scientific input method today... Actually, whether it's scientific or not doesn't matter. The most important thing is that everyone is used to the current keyboard layout.
In this keyboard layout, finger placement is predetermined; for example, pressing Q uses the left pinky, and G uses the left index finger, etc. However, this input method can be further improved.
This special technique allows hackers to be more careful when typing to avoid pressing the wrong buttons. Moreover, if a wrong command is pressed, the input method will not display the incorrect command but will automatically correct it.
But you have to understand how difficult it is to achieve this kind of automatic correction!
Automatic correction is present in many input methods nowadays, but those are ordinary input methods, such as Sogou, QQ, Google Pinyin, etc., which all have fuzzy sound settings. For example, if you accidentally press the wrong key when typing a phrase, it will automatically correct and output the correct phrase if it is a commonly used phrase.
But how many commands does a hacker execute?!
Moreover, hacker commands are constantly being researched and discovered. If a new command is not in the system dictionary, excessive correction will make the command unable to be output at all.
This is the biggest problem with hacked input methods right now!
Out of touch with the times!
But this problem was not a problem at all for Chen Xu.
Because he's using an input method from 2045, all the hacker commands for the next forty years have been recorded; there are only commands he doesn't know. There's no correct command he can't type!
Moreover, Chen Xu learned a truly absurd and laughable result from Xiao Min: the creator of this Chinese language hacking input method was none other than his future self!
Good heavens. How do you calculate this?!
Another thing that puzzled Zhan Jing was Chen Xu's typing speed.
Zhan Jing was certain that Chen Xu had not undergone any prior hand speed training, and even his understanding of hacker input methods was superficial!
How could he become so proficient in a completely new input method overnight?!
This problem cannot be explained by the word "genius".