He Was the God of the Internet

Ordinary people might not have noticed, nor did they know about the current cyberwar. Even if they had heard a little, it was only hearsay and could not be taken seriously, perhaps serving as entertainment after meals.

But everyone who followed or even participated in the matter knew that this was a massive war rarely seen in a century.

Guo Hua, the founder of the Eastern Alliance, had established a massive hacker security organization at the age of sixteen. He was hailed as the youngest Hacker Godfather.

He was also the founder of the Eastern Alliance, known as Asia's number one.

Guo Hua was following the matter as well.

When he had first received the news, he had not known how to feel. Surprise? Amusement? Disdain?

Perhaps all of them. He had merely taken Chu Feng for a rich young heir who had become somewhat narrow-minded after developing a fairly impressive piece of software.

Even he had no confidence in facing a joint attack from hackers all over the world.

Or rather than confidence, the question was how many minutes he could hold out.

After all, Origin Company was too young, and Chu Feng was too young—so young that people found it hard to believe.

Guo Hua had not even considered helping Chu Feng. It was not out of indifference; he simply knew it would fail, and investing heavily in a doomed cause was not a wise decision.

When the first attack arrived and he saw Origin Company's fragile first layer of defense, Guo Hua shook his head and sighed. Just as expected?

But what followed left him staring in disbelief.

He had not expected Origin Company to last this long. That alone was enough to make them famous and worth boasting about. After all, no one else had the ability to withstand a worldwide attack for so long.

Yet as time passed, more and more hackers joined the assault. Even renowned veteran hackers entered this war without smoke.

The first firewall had a whole group of hackers fighting fiercely, truly pulling off a switcheroo and throwing the hackers themselves into chaos.

Guo Hua was delighted by what he saw. So it could be done like this. He had learned something new.

After they finally cracked the first firewall, the second firewall presented an eerie interface that made Guo Hua spray out a mouthful of tea.

All the foreigners were dumbfounded, while the Chinese were nearly laughing themselves crazy.

The second firewall turned out to be a Chinese idiom fill-in-the-blank test. One question after another, and a single wrong answer meant starting over. Even Chinese people had to think for ages, let alone foreigners.

The second firewall once again showed foreigners how terrifying Chinese could be. A single idiom could have so many different interpretations...

Fortunately, China was powerful now, and there were many people proficient in Chinese who recognized them as idioms. The second day passed with everyone flipping through idiom dictionaries, giving the country's idiom dictionaries a small boost in popularity and leaving bookstore owners overjoyed.

After they finally cleared the second stage, they were greeted by the third: a listening test.

How the hell were they supposed to deal with this? This time, even many Chinese experts were dumbfounded.

Xiaohong: "Xiaoming, are you coming to my house tonight?"

Xiaoming: "I'm going. I'm not going."

Question: "Is Xiaoming going to Xiaohong's house?"

Girlfriend: "Are you coming or not?"

Boyfriend: "I'm coming!"

Girlfriend: "Are you still coming or not?"

Boyfriend: "I'm not coming anymore."

Question: "What do these 'coming' statements mean?"

It was too difficult... Many foreigners were so frustrated they were almost in tears.

By the third day, many had already fallen.

On the fourth day, it was spot-the-difference, and they had to find the differences with their naked eyes...

On the fifth day came the famous tile-matching game...

By the sixth day, only a few organizations remained, facing the Bagua Maze City...

On the seventh day... no one was left...

Everyone gave up. This was not something a human being should have to do.

The Eastern Alliance members were laughing themselves silly. Who the hell knew what Chu Feng was doing, making hackers around the world play games with him...

Meanwhile, in Chu Feng's office, Lin Lin was frozen in shock. Where was the promised technical challenge? Where was the promised hacker showdown?

Why had things taken such a strange turn? Although she had worried about whether Chu Feng could hold the line, and for the first time hoped she would lose, she had not expected to lose so inexplicably.

The top hackers from every country, thoroughly ground into the floor, also took their hands off their keyboards.

Mitnick had not slept for several days. This defeat left him both dejected and excited. So firewalls could be used like this?

Time was up, yet they had not even breached the firewall. If he learned that Chu Feng had maliciously set up eighty-one firewalls, would he vomit blood?

"General Kalman, I'm sorry. There's nothing more I can do. Origin Company's technology surpasses ours by far," Mitnick reported dejectedly to General Kalman of the United States Department of Information Security.

General Kalman looked like a deflated balloon.

All his earlier ambition had vanished without a trace. He had never expected technology superior to that of the United States to exist in the world, let alone be born in the China he had looked down upon. How could he possibly swallow that?

"It isn't your fault. You did your best. Origin Company is simply too strange. This must be thoroughly investigated."

After comforting Mitnick, General Kalman also discussed the outcome with the director of the CIA.

"We must obtain this Basic Artificial Intelligence. It is too powerful. If it is applied to the military, we will fall behind across the board..."

"I can't get anywhere near this Chu Feng. He completely ignores the United States' invitation. Since we cannot have him, we will destroy him. Without a platform, he will understand that offending the United States is the most unwise choice!" CIA Director Johnson said sinisterly.

Japan, India, and the European Union all gave up on the attack.

A rumor also spread across the internet: Origin Company's designer was the world's greatest hacker. He was the god of the internet, an irreplaceable god.

Chu Feng, who had already become the idol of countless hackers, had no idea what was happening. He was still feeling somewhat regretful. Had he set things too harshly? Had he made all those hackers retreat?

A war of the century ended dramatically under circumstances that were both somewhat absurd and somewhat regrettable.

Once they learned that Origin Company had held the line, Chinese hackers celebrated as though it were the New Year. Origin Company had vaguely become the benchmark for China's internet technology.

Even Guo Hua declared that Origin Company was the world's technological pioneer.

"How about it? I won the bet, didn't I?"

Chu Feng looked at Lin Lin smugly, while she gritted her teeth. What kind of grown man obsessed over something like this all day?

"A loss is a loss. Do whatever you want." Lin Lin gave in completely and readily admitted defeat.

"Hehe, I'll keep the condition for now. I'll tell you when I figure out what I want."

In truth, many people believed that Chu Feng had started this cyberwar simply to show off or advertise Origin Company.

But Chu Feng was not that idle. He had merely taken the opportunity to use the intelligent brain to gather the information he wanted.

Those countries had tried to breach Origin Company's servers through the internet, while Chu Feng had ordered the intelligent brain to secretly infiltrate their computers and obtain the information he wanted, expanding his database in the process.

Even now, they did not know that while they had failed to obtain any information from Origin Company, Chu Feng had turned all their secrets inside out.

When Chu Feng had first returned, he had only gathered information in broad strokes, and some of it even had gaps.

As a result, certain technologies were too advanced, with missing stages in between, making them impossible to apply. The assistant robots he had brought back could do quite a lot, but they lacked research capabilities.

Now that he had integrated the world's data, some technologies could be openly developed. At the very least, experimental results that were nearly complete and only about ten years ahead of their time could be released now without seeming too shocking.

Technology that was too far ahead would only make the world fearful. In the end, even his own country would not spare him. Though he had a spaceship and was not afraid, he did not want to make enemies of the entire world.

A destroyed planet with only himself left on it would be so lonely. How could it compare to the excitement of life now?