NOVEL WEB Chapter 309: Lightning War?
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Dark Live.
Global hacker streaming platform.
This is the gathering place for countless hackers, ranging from top-tier hackers to beginners known as "Bai," who flip through Dark Live in their free time.
Angelina moved her fingers and logged onto Dark Live with practiced ease.
Immediately, she confirmed her equipment and network.
She clicked "Start Streaming."
As expected of a network company, the internet speed within "720" was incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, Angelina's stream appeared on Dark Live.
However, the screen in the streaming room was pitch black.
Angelina clicked her mouse, and with a few keystrokes from her delicate left hand, a virtual avatar appeared in the lower right corner of the stream.
Casually, she posted a message in her hacker circle.
——Major event, come quickly.
Attached streaming link.
Following that, she put her stream on the trending homepage, and in just one minute, thousands of people surged into the stream.
[Goddess Lena is streaming!?]
[The missing person returns, it's been so long since your last stream!]
[Here we go, what's the major event?]
[Lena really streams at random times, thank God, as soon as I came in, I saw Lena's stream!]
[...]
In front of the computer.
Angelina had already adjusted her voice, and with a slight smile, she said in fluent English, "I've received inside information that a mysterious force wants to go to war with AW. Now, I will stream this rare annihilation battle live for everyone through internal channels."
Cyber confrontations are often called network defenses and offenses.
This time, facing a well-known large hacker organization in North America, Angelina used the word "annihilation battle."
The number of viewers in the stream increased exponentially.
Just now there were a thousand, but now it has climbed to nearly ten thousand.
The speed was undeniably fast.
The screen in the streaming room was soon covered with a dense barrage of comments.
[AW? Someone is taking on AW again?]
[Lately AW is always at war, seems like they lose more than they win, huh!]
[Buddy upstairs, AW hasn't won any of its recent major operations.]
[Let me add something, they lost to the same person every time, the author of "Hacker Kingdom," Mr. Lin.]
[Holy mackerel, Lena just said it's an annihilation battle!]
[Is she saying that the mysterious force wants to annihilate AW?]
[Whoa!]
[Goddess Lena, who is the mysterious force?]
Angelina adjusted a lock of hair by her temple and said with a light smile, "Take a guess."
For a moment, the barrage was filled with guesses about the mysterious force Angelina was referring to.
Mr. Lin, HK, and some mentioned the Morgan Group.
At that time.
Angelina multitasked.
On one hand, she kept an eye on the 720 company's firewall, and on the other, she watched the situation in the streaming room and began operating.
She was already well-versed in this.
The "Kaspersky" network attack real-time monitoring map appeared in the stream.
A dark globe model slowly rotated.
Bands of different colored lights encircled it, representing the global hacker community's outward attacks, thick as thieves.
The network was always active in unseen places.
Attacks and intrusions are commonplace for hackers.
Angelina's focus was on the North America region, where numerous blinking dots representing servers continually emitted light rays, indicating ongoing outward network attacks.
These dots were very likely AW's.
[Lena, by revealing the news that a mysterious force wants to annihilate AW so directly, AW is definitely going to retaliate.]
[Exactly, wouldn't this negate the element of surprise?]
[In hacking battles, unless the technology is far superior, a stealthy and cunning approach is the prudent method.]
[Isn't there anyone from AW here?]
[...]
Many in the streaming room voiced their doubts.
Angelina's face lit up with a brilliant smile, her exquisitely perfect features like a sunlit sprite in a forest, now carrying a hint of confidence.
She spoke, "As far as I know, they don't intend to ambush AW, but..."
Angelina paused for a moment.
The viewers in the streaming room all felt their hearts skip a beat.
"Declare war!"
Angelina's voice was solemn and clear.
Every hacker in the streaming room heard her loud and clear.
Those present had a deep impression of AW and understood them very well.
AW was the definitive black-hat hacker overlord of North America, and all hackers in that region, even if not part of AW, were connected to AW, at least in terms of mutual interests.
Now, a mysterious force was appearing to declare war on AW?
[Is this because AW has been losing too much lately, and now someone wants to deliver a finishing blow?]
[Impossible! It won't be easy to prove someone can overpower AW in a head-to-head confrontation!]
[Right, except for those few losses, I've hardly heard of AW's defeats.]
[Things are getting more interesting!]
[It's hard to imagine, if AW loses this time, what a huge embarrassment that would be?]
[Kind of like, being wiped off the map?]
[Nobody from AW here? Really no one to speak out?]
[...]
In Angelina's streaming room, with a bit of technical skill, the stream quickly made its way to the homepages of major video streaming platforms worldwide, and the top headlines also hit the trending searches.
>North Bear hackers claim someone is initiating an annihilation war against AW!
>Lena
>Who is the mysterious force?
>AW
Various keywords and trending topics spread rapidly, both intentionally and unintentionally promoted.
The news of Lin Chuan launching an annihilation war against AW was like dropping a missile into a placid lake, instantly stirring up thousands of waves, one after the other, in a raging torrent.
AW, being network-savvy, was naturally the first to discover the news.
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