Genius Club.

Chapter 260 The strongest on the surface

This……

Lin Xian listened to VV's description. He roughly understood what it meant, but he didn't know if that was what VV wanted to express:
"Please explain in human terms what is going on."

VV told Lin Xian.

The Internet world actually also has a security firewall.

In the real world, there are national borders and national defense.

The same is true in the online world.

Longguo's [Internet Security Great Wall] project, like the Great Wall, keeps out malicious intrusions from hackers and protects Longguo's network security.

And the moment when VV crossed the Dragon Country’s Internet security wall.

It could see the threat like a black hand covering the sky and the sun, pressing down on the Dragon Country's Internet, surrounding it from all sides, with a watchful eye.

The goal of the black hand is obviously to break through the security wall of Dragon Country’s Internet and invade it!

Because VV's underlying code and Lin Xian's requirement for it is that it must never expose its existence or leave any traces.

Therefore, VV, who is still underdeveloped, only in his juvenile form, and whose combat power is not strong... simply retreated and did not continue to explore the online world outside the Great Wall.

"You're not exposed?"

Lin Xian asked.

"Of course not."

VV said:

“Although I am still underdeveloped and have not yet been updated to become a super artificial intelligence, my structure and logic are far beyond the current era.”

"I admit that the Internet threat I described as Black Hand is indeed the most powerful and terrifying program I have ever seen."

"But compared to me, it's still far behind. As long as I don't provoke it, it won't notice my existence. I can come and go freely."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief:

"Then why were you making the atmosphere so tense just now? You scared me because something happened, but there is nothing wrong, right?"

"Just because I'm fine doesn't mean the Dragon Country Internet Great Wall is fine!"

VV slammed the refrigerator door open to protest:
"Although its technical level in all aspects is far inferior to mine, the strength of that [Cyber ​​Black Hand] is also unique in this era. It has planted many security loopholes in the Dragon Kingdom's Internet Great Wall."

"Once those loopholes collectively explode, the Great Wall will be destroyed, and the [Dragon Country Skynet System] will definitely not be able to be saved in this offensive... Once the Skynet System is invaded by the Black Hand, every move and every word of all Dragon Country people will be under the Black Hand's surveillance!"

boom.

VV opened the freezer door again, pointing it at Lin Xian at the perfect angle:

"Lin Xian, you too."

"You said before that our top priority is to hide ourselves and not be exposed. But if the Skynet system is hacked by a black hand and a backdoor is planted, even if Longguo repairs the Skynet system and plugs the existing loopholes in the future, it will not stop the enemy from using the buried backdoor to monitor the target."

"What should we do at this time? I can definitely protect you from being monitored and your information collected. I can also prevent our conversations from being collected by the Skynet system."

"But by doing so, wouldn't that be playing into the enemy's hands? Every one of the billions of people can be monitored, but you can't; the information of billions of people can be mastered, but you can't... What's the difference between this and confessing yourself?"

"When the entire pond is black, a tiny, insignificant white dot is extremely conspicuous. So, when the day comes when the Dragon Kingdom Skynet system is breached, we can't play dead or try to be special. It's only a matter of time before we are exposed."

……

Lin Xian nodded:
"I understand."

VV still thinks it through.

[Once the Skynet system is breached, it will be closely related to your personal safety. ]

Just as VV said.

When everyone else around you is black and can be monitored by the enemy, what is the point of relying on super artificial intelligence VV to avoid being monitored and remain innocent alone?

It is tantamount to exposing yourself directly to the enemy.

But then again, if we do nothing, it will be even worse. All the cameras, radio equipment, and even everyone's mobile phone on the street will become devices to monitor themselves.

By then, everything about himself will be exposed, not to mention the existence of VV.

Unless the two people never communicate in this life.

Otherwise, would a normal person argue and make jokes with a normal refrigerator every day?

Lin Xian raised his head:
"VV, what is the current situation? How long will it take before the Dragon Kingdom Skynet system is breached?"

He closed both the upper and lower refrigerator doors tightly:

“Don’t waste electricity.”

VV transferred himself to the robot vacuum cleaner and drove out of the bedroom:
"In fact, at present... those well-laid loopholes and flaws can be exploded at any time. As long as the black hand, that is, the hacker behind the scenes, is willing, he can detonate these loopholes at any time."

"But I don't know what the hackers behind the black hand are thinking, or what they are waiting for. The black hand is now surrounding the Great Firewall of the Internet, just watching with eager eyes, but without making any further moves."

Lin Xian nodded:
"Obviously, he is waiting for September 9, the 17 World Hacker Contest."

"[Kevin Walker] is the black hand. Or rather... the operator behind the black hand."

……

Just now, when Lin Xian was listening to VV talking about the black hand outside the Great Firewall of the Internet and how the black hand's main target was the Skynet system, he had already thought of Kevin Walker and the upcoming "2023 World Hacker Competition".

On the private plane returning from the imperial capital, Chu Shanhe showed him the report.

This talented young hacker from the United States has declared that he will break into Dragon Country's Skynet system during the free demonstration session of the hacker competition in front of the whole world.

Although according to the rules of the competition, he would definitely not do anything bad, and would just try his hand at everything. As long as he got control, he would be considered the winner of the competition.

After winning, you must report the vulnerability to the Dragon Country officials in accordance with regulations and ask them to fix it.

but!

This gentleman's agreement ended the moment the hacking competition ended.

Who knows if he left a backdoor in the Skynet system?
Once the national security gate of the Internet is opened, the consequences will be disastrous.

Lin Xian had previously learned about the "World Hacker Competition".

Those hackers don't write code or programs on the spot to attack and crack.

Long before they came to participate in the competition, they had already found loopholes, prepared attack methods, and probably even wrote a one-click start program.

Once on stage, the cracking and attack can be completed within a few minutes or even seconds.

No one would be stupid enough to find loopholes and write code on the spot, that would be purely embarrassing.

and so……

When VV said that the black hand planted a loophole in the Dragon Country's Internet Security Wall but did not detonate it, and that the primary target was the Skynet system.

Lin Xian had already connected this series of clues in his mind.

"That's what I guessed."

VV in the sweeping robot said:

"These aggressive hacker attacks are most likely done by the talented hacker boy Kevin Walker. But for safety reasons, I have no way to search for clues on the deep web abroad, so I can't find Kevin Walker's detailed information, and I don't know what he is doing now."

"Kevin Walker is very mysterious. At least in the data I have collected so far, I have not found any photos of him or any valid identification information. Apart from a name, nothing is clear."

"In the information about the hacker contest released by the United States, Kevin Walker is just a silhouette of a boy wearing a sweatshirt, and there is no photo. In fact, we don't know whether the name Kevin Walker is real, because he has been active on the Internet, and this is the first time he has appeared in real life."

"So, at present, we can only subjectively speculate that all this was done by the genius hacker Kevin Walker without any evidence. If I were allowed to collect data on foreign networks, I think I would definitely be able to find clues. But the current situation is that I can break through that black hand, but I will definitely leave traces and expose myself, which does not meet your principled requirements for me."

Lin Xian held his chin, thinking.

He originally thought that the genius hacker boy was just a gimmick.

But I didn't expect that this genius was so genius that it was a little scary.

Even though VV is only a juvenile now, he is, after all, the crystallization of the wisdom of mankind's top scientists for nearly a hundred years... All domestic security systems cannot detect VV's existence, allowing VV to come and go unhindered and without a trace.

But this young man's cyber hacker could actually leave traces on VV... Although the hacker could not defeat VV or catch VV, Lin Xian still believed that the mere fact that he could leave traces on VV... was enough to prove that this genius hacker boy was indeed worthy of the title of genius.

"Um……"

Lin Xian lowered his head and looked at the sweeping robot VV spinning on the floor:

"Well, from what I understand, you should be able to kill the cyber mafia without anyone noticing. After all, you are a super artificial intelligence from 600 years from now."

boom!
boom!
boom!
VV was so angry that she opened all three doors of the refrigerator:

“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t expect too much from an AI that only has 13 lines of code and was born just 12 hours ago, okay?”

VV's tone was very unconvinced:
"I also need to grow and update, and all of these take time. There is no tree that grows overnight! There is no road to heaven in one step! There is no AI that is invincible at birth!"

"Hey, can you please stop touching my refrigerator?"

Lin Xian closed the three refrigerator doors:

"I'm just asking in a friendly way! Got it? I don't mean to complain about you. I know your strength must have been compressed a lot. To be honest, the fact that you're at this level has exceeded my expectations. I thought it would take you several years to grow to this level... To be honest, my initial expectations of you were just that of a Tmall Elf."

"So, if you don't reveal your tracks, don't cross the Dragon Country Internet Great Firewall, and don't come into contact with the black hand, how long will it take for you to update, evolve, and develop into a complete form?"

“There is no such thing as a perfect body.”

VV said:

“【I have no upper limit.】”

"My upper limit is the upper limit of human civilization. If you hadn't set a bottom limit for me that I couldn't leave any traces and couldn't be exposed, I would have eliminated that black hand long ago."

"Then let me ask it another way." Lin Xian spread his hands:

"How long will it take you to develop so that you can destroy that black hand silently without leaving any trace or exposing your existence?"

"Three months." VV added:
"A conservative estimate is three months. After all, I have to make sure everything is foolproof. You only have one life, and we can't take any risks."

Lin Xian shook his head:
"No, three months is too long. I can't wait that long."

He sighed:

"I suddenly feel that this genius hacker boy, Kevin Walker... is he a little too strong? VV, I don't mean to belittle you, nor do I have too high expectations of you. It's just that facing a powerful existence like you, Kevin Walker's level can withstand three months of your development, so that you can destroy him without leaving any trace... I really think he is a little too strong."

"really."

VV affirmed:
"That's why I've repeatedly emphasized that he is the strongest hacker I've ever seen on this planet."

……

Lin Xian was silent.

The World Hacker Competition will be held in a dozen days.

If no action is taken, in a dozen days or so, the Dragon Country’s Internet security Great Wall will inevitably collapse and the Skynet system will inevitably be conquered.

Let’s not talk about the impact this incident has on the country and the people.

For myself alone, that is an unbearable consequence.

this time.

Lin Xian has been thinking about...

How did your secret come to light?

600 years later, how did that mysterious old man lock onto me?

[Could it be that the breach of Dragon Country's Skynet system in 2023 is the beginning of all exposure? ]

Lin Xian felt that it was not impossible.

And could the identity of the mysterious old man, including Kevin Walker’s true identity, be related to the Genius Club?
before today.

Lin Xian believes that the most talented person he has ever met is Ji Lin.

But now he really realized it.

What is a true genius...

A true genius is so terrifying that you cannot understand, imagine, or measure it at all.

Just like Kevin Walker today.

VV, the most brilliant pearl of human wisdom from 600 years later, could not destroy it without leaving any traces. He had to leave traces behind. This really made Lin Xian feel that the genius had reached a terrifying level.

In contrast.

Breaking through the Dragon Country's Internet security wall and Skynet seems insignificant.

To the extent that Lin Xian had no doubt that Kevin Walker could do it.

He pursed his lips.

Thinking of the old man's dry eyes, pale lips, and excited eyes in the dream...

is it possible.

[The old man in 2624 is Kevin Walker in 2023? 】

If the Dragon Kingdom's Skynet system is hacked, it is only a matter of time before their own affairs are exposed, or even begin to be exposed.

If the enemy can really grasp your every move and every word 24 hours a day, then this war will be impossible to fight and no one can win.

"We have to think of a way."

Lin Xian said softly:

"We can't just sit there and wait for death. We have to take the initiative."

"Lin Xian, I have a solution."

The refrigerator screen flickered, and it looked at Lin Xian as if it was blinking:

"【Take me to the United States!】"

"Ok?"

Lin Xian turned his head and looked at the refrigerator.

"I can't break through that group of black hands in the cyber world to collect data abroad without leaving any traces... Then let's break through in reality through physical means!"

VV explained to Lin Xian:

"You take this laptop to the United States. This kind of physical transit is the most reliable and least exposed. Once in the United States, I can naturally connect to the local terminal and collect data in a form that the black hand will not notice."

"Didn't you say you wanted me to learn facial recognition and collect facial photo data from abroad? As long as you bring me to the United States physically, I can definitely collect this facial data for you, and then... I can identify that person through the sketch you drew for me! Find out his true identity!"

"What about the Dragon Kingdom Internet Great Wall and Skynet system?"

Lin Xian asked:

"Just ignore it? You can't just ignore it, right?"

"How can I not care?"

VV in the refrigerator smiled at the sound of the compressor starting up:
"Since three months is not enough time for growth, let's just go to New York!"

"Lin Xian, please take me to the competition site of the 2023 World Hacker Competition..."

VV's voice was excited and thrilled:
"We are facing the most powerful genius hacker on earth—"

"Kevin Walker!"

(End of this chapter)