"Although we achieved a victory, our losses were also extremely heavy," Dean Gu said. "They had more computers than we did, and their overall strength was greater. Defensive measures were weak in that era, so neither side bothered defending. We simply squared off and attacked each other, and in the end, both sides paid a heavy price."
"After that brief period of glory, everything started falling apart."
"There were many con artists who waved our banner, boasting everywhere about their glorious records from the hacker wars back then. After boasting, they took on apprentices, cheated people out of their money and their bodies, and ended up in prison. Once the media reported on them, many people began to question what those so-called red hackers really were."
"Some people had originally been red hackers, but after discovering that being a hacker could make money, they went bad. One person I had personally trained discovered that when attacking gambling websites in Maple Leaf Country, the other side could easily pay to make the problem go away. After that, he made a living doing exactly that."
"There were also many people who, for reasons unknown, spread rumors and disparaged our achievements from back then, saying that we hadn't accomplished anything and had merely humiliated ourselves."
"There were also some younger people who hadn't taken part at all. Perhaps they simply liked these tales of the martial world, so they lied online and claimed they had participated. Then someone would ask them about the technical details, and their answers would be full of holes. Anyone watching would come away feeling that the whole affair reeked of falseness."
Dean Gu's gaze gradually calmed, no longer as agitated as before.
"So later, we fell silent. We stopped talking about what happened back then and stopped admitting