Cyber Heroes

"What is the most difficult hacker attack in the world to defend against? It is when you walk into the target's office, find a working terminal, find an excuse to trick its operator out, and then take out a USB flash drive and insert it into the computer , and then perform legal operations. Unless the other party is willing to reduce work efficiency, every step of the operation needs to verify the identity of the operator. Otherwise, no security system can resist such means."

"Other hacking methods are just substitutes for 'because we can't do such a direct operation for various reasons, so we need to find another way'."

This is what someone once said to Xiang Shan in the past.

In a sense, the bureaucracy’s hierarchical authorization work rules that have been criticized as “inefficient” are the bottom line of this set. Within the organization, any step of any operation requires special authorization and verification to ensure that there will be no behavioral deviations.

However, the result of this is that a lot of manpower and material resources are wasted on repeatedly verifying information again and again. Individual abilities have been compressed to the extreme. In many positions, there is no difference between geniuses and idiots.

And when this "inefficiency" and "incompetence at the collective level" spread to the level of "information input" and "execution", the bureaucracy will reach the end of its life - and then be replaced by a new bureaucracy.

As for a computer, if every step requires entering a password and a verification code - even if you just refresh a web page, then the user experience of the computer will drop directly to below freezing point.

After all, tools are meant to be used.

In order for people to use it, the tool must have a "window" that can be operated by people.

Security technology is nothing more than covering up this "window" layer by layer.

However, this "window" cannot be eliminated.

A remote attack is to make the system "think" the operator is sitting in front of the "window".

But as long as you "sit" opposite that "window" on the physical level, everything is completely different.

Even if you perform some "illegal operations" that are not allowed by the system, the "external" and "internal" experiences are completely different.

Xiangshan was standing "inside" at this time.

He got past the thicket of soldiers that prevented one from physically approaching the "window." He picked up the signal from inside the building.

This is the system used by the Research Knights to manage the building. The management of the Knights must hope that they can control the building's system with their thoughts anytime and anywhere - after all, everyone has network cards plugged into their heads, and there is no need to sit in front of the console.

Xiangshan was sitting directly in front of a running terminal.

In just one breath, his inner power entered the system through the service ports of knight apprentices and visitors, quickly elevating his authority.

"It's a little troublesome." Xiangshan thought: "Each block has an independent backup power supply. These backup power supplies are not controlled by the intelligent system at all and are purely mechanical structures. The voltage of a block suddenly disappears. It will automatically pop up to provide power..."

——In other words, there is no way to plunge this area into chaos by exploding the energy system...

Xiang Shan thought this way.

What can be done now is limited. The system of this Scientific Research Knights station is not as crude as those in Dazhai, and the security measures are still sufficient. Xiangshan is not sure whether the ancient viruses he remembers can still avoid the ever-changing virus library. Maybe he really knows that there are several ancient viruses that can be quickly killed without being killed by the security system, but he doesn't know which one they are.

And if he releases the poison rashly, if he is simply eliminated, it will only cause confusion.

Moreover, there may be some valuable information within this knight order, which cannot be destroyed simply with poison.

Xiangshan just followed the ancient backdoor buried by layers of later codes, constantly extracting permissions that did not belong to him.

——It’s not time to destroy it yet.

Xiang Shan warned himself this while humming a tuneless tune.

If Xiangshan can be allowed to stand in front of the main server of the Scientific Research Knights Building, then Xiangshan can do more operations.

But you don't need to think with a biological brain to know that that place has always been heavily guarded. The defense is the strongest in the entire building, and it is impossible to break in easily.

This is the cleaning room used by Deborah to clean the prosthetic body after she sneaked in. This small space is only about two meters high and covers an area of ​​just over one square meter. A large amount of cleaning agent will be sprayed out from its four walls to eliminate the odor in the sewer and at the same time ensure that potential microorganisms in the sewage will not pollute the environment of the Methodist building.

After all, Miss Deborah is still an apprentice, and occasionally has to undertake the sacred task of raising mice. If there is odor, germs or harmful substances on your body, you cannot work.

After walking out of the cleaning room, there is a corridor on the ground floor of the Methodist Building.

It's very quiet here, and almost no one comes back - except for Deborah who occasionally borrows this secret passage to go out.

Xiang Shan sighed suddenly.

A memory emerges unconsciously. That should come from Deborah and Carolina.

Although Carolina is a servant, she is the closest person to Deborah emotionally. No other blood relative is like this servant, who accompanies Deborah around the clock. Carolina is just a servant who does not understand the righteousness of the Scientific Research Knights, but she pays more attention to the rules and regulations of the Scientific Research Knights than Deborah herself.

Every time before going out, this servant would remind Deborah, "Miss, you should go to the deputy captain to find a good direction", "Miss, it's time to start a topic" and so on...

Xiang Shan suddenly pulled away from his memories and used his wisdom sword to cut away distracting thoughts.

"Side effects. I'm like this... no wonder Lu Lin is so crazy." Xiang Shan shook his head: "After all, this Miss Zhao can obviously be a good person, so why not be a human being."

He did not continue to struggle with this emotion, but continued to move forward, following the memories of Deborah and Carolina.

After walking up ten floors, a group of patrolling soldiers came towards me from the corridor. Xiang Shan leaned against the wall, avoiding the soldiers. The soldiers didn't seem to see him and just walked over.

These cyberguards turned off the vision skills of their own prosthetics before working, and were only connected to the building's surveillance cameras. Some basic internal energy meditation methods make their self-awareness weaker than that of ordinary warriors, and "self-awareness" even includes the "building" itself.

This makes them more active than ordinary warriors in "defending the building."

However, as long as the signal given by the camera is hijacked or the camera's surveillance is blinded, it will not be a problem to deceive these warriors.

Their own prosthetics basically have no independent vision.

Of course, not all the guards in this building are like this.

There are also ordinary soldiers with independent vision, or mercenary warriors who are not connected to the building at all and have strong individual combat capabilities. There are also AI weapons that only have the biological lobe plug-in installed.

The combination of multiple technical methods ensures that no one can capture the entire building with a single method.

Keep moving forward toward the mountain.

Then, he stopped in front of an elevator, but did not actively set the elevator to stop. Instead, he stood at the door and waited quietly.

A few minutes later, the elevator stopped at the floor where Xiang Shan was sitting.

The moment the elevator door just opened a gap, Xiang Shan raised two long maces and stabbed inside.

"Varied……"

The scientific research knight apprentice who had not yet reacted was instantly hit in the head. The strong shock destroyed the thinking in the creature's brain. The voltage that had been accumulated for a long time was instantly released, destroying the electronic equipment in his brain.

The two research knight apprentices didn't even know what was happening. From their perspective, as soon as the elevator door opened a crack, a black shadow came in.

On the surveillance screen, two scientific knight apprentices were chatting with each other and did not leave the elevator for a while.

Xiang Shan obtained the surveillance footage in the elevator, so he knew the positions of the two men and grasped the most suitable opportunity to attack.

The knight walked into the elevator and took advantage of the prosthetic system to quickly restart and the biological brain to be temporarily unable to keep up due to concussion. He quickly hacked into the two prosthetics, popped up the control system, and then quickly rewritten it.

He again took over the authority of the two apprentices. The elevator went up more than a hundred floors. The two scientific knight apprentices walked out like this.

Another scientific knight apprentice who was waiting for the elevator gave Xiang Shan a strange look. This kind of black robe commonly used by Jianghu people is occasionally used by scientific research knights, but that is mostly when field investigations are needed, like Dai Jiutai'a, the knight on the Yangtze River.

The new scientific research knight apprentice couldn't help but ask Xiang Shan: "Are you... sent out to collect biological samples?"

He never thought that an enemy could easily invade here without triggering the alarm. In addition, he didn't notice anything wrong with the two scientific knight apprentices who were chatting enthusiastically. He just thought that "since they didn't attack in such a closed environment, they shouldn't be enemies."

Xiang Shan nodded vaguely, looking like he didn't want to say more.

"That's right. In such a small and broken place, what biological samples can be found worth studying? A small amount of microorganisms, even if they mutate, may not be able to produce flowers."

"The genetic information of microorganisms can be transferred horizontally..." Xiang Shan replied casually.

"Haha." The apprentice said: "When you are looking for a knight mentor, you have to avoid Mr. Luo's 'minefield'... Ah! Don't spread these words everywhere!"

Xiang Shan nodded, and then searched the database for "Lord Luo" related information.

So, he had a rough identity.

As an antique who was "born in the old generation", Xiangshan still knows very well the topics that were of interest to scientific research dogs before the "reform".

As a result, "Lord Luo's apprentice" started a very speculative chat with this scientific research knight apprentice who met by chance.

Several more people got on the elevator.

But no one thought this man in black robe was very abrupt.