Panda Burning Incense Pro Max

Yun Jingheng quickly glanced at the split screen on the right.

Tang Wulin's point of light was moving towards Ye Xinglan at an extremely fast speed.

At this moment, Ye Xinglan was still near the main gate, walking unhurriedly, talking to the sentry by the guard post, and carrying the vegetable basket containing two pears in her hand.

He pressed the communication button, his voice low and steady. "Xing Lan, Wulin has succeeded. Don't rush off. A patrol will pass by you on the east side of the main gate in four seconds."

"Wait until they've passed before slowly leaving. The alley to your right rear is a blind spot."

Ye Xinglan did not respond; she was talking to the sentry.

In the scene, Tang Wulin had already passed through the warehouse district and emerged from the east alleyway of the street where Ye Xinglan was.

His figure flashed briefly in the light before disappearing into the alley and never reappearing.

Ye Xinglan continued talking to the sentry, even bowing slightly in salute, his demeanor unusually docile for a swordsman.

Yun Jingheng kept a close eye on the Skynet data.

The strength of the USB flash drive's broadcast signal is increasing; Skynet's tracking program has been activated.

But at the same time, the program he designed also began to work, tracing back up along the encrypted channel.

In the virtual world, the two data streams are like two tearing beasts, one locking onto the target from the front, and the other devouring and tracking the path from the back.

"Terminals 1 and 2 have entered the public area."

Half-Sweet Coffee said softly, "No pursuing units detected, communication station watchtowers not on alert. The USB flash drive signal was not recorded by Skynet, and the tracking program was interfered with."

"Number Two Stealth, activate," Yun Jingheng said in a deep voice.

"Stealth Unit Two has been activated." Half-Sweet Coffee's voice carried a reassuring certainty.

At this moment, Ye Xinglan had already left the main entrance and turned into the alley to the right and behind.

The moment she stepped into the alley, her silhouette blurred slightly in the surveillance footage, like a drop of water disappearing into the surface of oil.

The two idle men leaning against the wall in the alley, dozing off, didn't even look up.

She slowly walked along the wall, and when she came out from the other end, she met Tang Wulin, who was returning from the north, at the agreed-upon alley corner.

"No pursuit detected." Ye Xinglan's voice came through the earpiece, her tone calm.

"Return immediately and take the alternative route."

After giving the instructions, Yun Jingheng ignored the two of them and focused all his attention back on the three screens in front of him.

On the screen, Skynet's tracking program was still probing around like octopus tentacles, but every time it was about to touch the USB drive, it was deflected by the interference it released.

He knew the location of the USB drive had been exposed, and he had to make it a bridgehead for his infiltration before it was rendered useless.

He took out another completely black USB drive from his Storage Soul Tool and inserted it into the port on the side of the computer.

This USB drive was different from the one Tang Wulin took away. It contained a "network weapon" that he himself didn't really want to touch again, which he had secretly modified countless times— the Panda Burning Incense Promax.

The moment it starts up, a minimalist black and white panda icon pops up on the screen, holding an incense stick and slowly bowing, as if it is offering a sacrifice.

It was a totem of a past-life internet virus, yet it also carried a fierceness and mockery unique to the Douluo World.

"Half-Sweet Coffee."

Yun Jingheng pressed Enter, "Deploy the Panda Burning Incense Promax to the public network area of Heaven Dou City, using the North City Communications Station as a springboard to paralyze the civilian network of Heaven Dou City first."

"All news terminals, broadcasting centers, and public surveillance systems will be coated with our 'icing' and spread to other cities via the internet at top speed."

"As you wish," the Half-Sweet Coffee replied casually.

Immediately, it appeared as if countless black and white bears simultaneously emerged from the ground on the screen, one after another, spreading along the lines to cover the entire Heaven Dou City.

The advertising screens, public information kiosks, and civilian communication devices along the street went black one by one in the next few breaths, leaving only the silent panda holding incense, flashing frame by frame in the center of the screen.

"The public network of Heaven Dou City has been locked and is radiating outwards," said Half-Sweet Coffee.

Yun Jingheng didn't have time to nod.

He straightened up, his fingers moving so fast on the keyboard that they blurred into a blur.

Tang Wulin and Ye Xinglan are on their way back. He has only one mission: to personally break down the door of the Federation's highest firewall through the crack created by the USB flash drive.

He touched the door.

Cold and heavy, like an iron curtain hanging over everyone's heads.

"Now..."

He stared at the screen, his fingertip paused for a moment, then fell like a sword. "My turn."

"Half-Sweet Coffee, focus all efforts on controlling the panda's attack on Ming Capital."

"Receive."

The midday sun in Heaven Dou City is intense. At this time of day, the prelude to the Federation midday news would always play on the public soul guidance screen in the city center square.

The vendors, used to the sound, slowly pushed their carts out from the street corner.

The children got used to it; they would stop chasing and running, look up at the smartly dressed councilors speaking on the screen for a while, then get bored and run away noisily again.

But today, the screen suddenly went black.

The first to notice something amiss was the middle-aged man selling baked flatbread on the street corner.

He glanced up at the enormous soul-guided screen, waiting for the half-body image of the Federation senator to appear on the screen.

But the screen seemed to have its breath cut off from the inside; without even a prelude, it flashed with a "snap," the blue light dimmed, and finally froze on a minimalist black and white screen.

A panda, holding three incense sticks, bows deeply towards the screen.

The scene was extremely simple, so simple that it was almost quiet. If it hadn't appeared in the busiest part of the city center at midday, almost no one would have thought it posed any threat.

"What's this?" The man baking flatbread flipped the bread in the pan, his eyes glued to it.

The panda moved again, and the wisps of smoke from the three incense sticks slowly curled up on the screen, as if they were actually burning.

The surrounding vendors also gradually stopped what they were doing.

The woman selling cloth exclaimed "Huh?" and asked if the city had changed its radio station again.

The students were the first to get excited, crowding around the screen, laughing and jumping, saying it was a new cartoon and much more interesting than the Federation midday news.

But then, one by one, the traffic information screens on the street, the self-service payment machines, and even the price display screen at the end of the conveyor belt went black.

The panda seemed to run, darting from one screen to another, from one end of the street to the other.

Even a little girl who was video chatting with someone in the store exclaimed "Wow!" saying that her father's face had disappeared and turned into a black and white bear.

In an instant, all devices in the eastern part of Heaven Dou City that were connected to the internet went on strike at the same time.

There was no explosion, no smoke, and no alarm.

The entire city seemed to be swept away by an invisible tide, and the electronic pulse of civilization was stopped in a matter of breaths.

People gathered around the black screen on the street, pointing and gesturing. Some laughed, some were bewildered, and some patted the screen, thinking it was just a bad signal.

Meanwhile, in Ming Capital.

Federation Cyber Security Department Building.

The first sound to be heard was the Level 1 warning from Monitoring Station No. 3 in the southwest corner.

The sound wasn't loud, but the duty officer choked on his coffee, covered his mouth, and rushed to the control panel, his previously squinted eyes suddenly widening.

On the screen, the green nodes representing the Heaven Dou City public network are turning gray in large swaths, like a forest burned by fire, leaving only black, smoky skeletons.

"What's going on?!" he shouted, but before his voice had even faded, another warning rang out from another direction.

Then came the second, third, and seventh alarms. The entire hall seemed to have been suddenly thrown into boiling water. Dozens of alarms blared simultaneously, and the red and blue warning lights cast uncertain shadows on everyone's faces.

"Massive network outage in Heaven Dou City!"

Someone shouted, "Public broadcasting, civilian communications, military networks, and information terminals are all in an abnormal state; there's an attack!"

"An attack whose source cannot be traced," another, slightly older operator added in a low, dry voice.

The duty manager of the cybersecurity department rushed out from the inner room, his tie askew and his hand still on the button.

He quickly scanned the frantically scrolling data on the main screen, his face instantly darkening.

The attack was like a black snake covered in countless fine scales, nimbly circling around the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, neither advancing nor retreating, but slowly eroding the city's network nodes bit by bit.

Military signals within the Skynet coverage area also began to be intermittently lost.

"Quickly! Activate Level 3 emergency response! Everyone, switch to manual protocol and switch the core data flow of Heaven Dou City to the backup line!" the supervisor roared.

"The backup line is also infected!"

A young man at the south workstation said in a trembling voice, "The moment I cut into it, it started to disintegrate, like something inside... was copying it!"

"Copy?"

"It's a panda!"

Another female operator, wearing headphones, suddenly removed them, her face pale, and turned around. "All the infected terminals are displaying the same panda! More advanced than any sample we've ever recorded!"

"It... it's not stealing data, it's locking down all our external interfaces!"

Before the words were even finished, a row of large screens facing due east simultaneously switched to black and white.

The panda holding incense appeared on every screen, its dark circles shining brightly, the three incense sticks burning slowly, as if holding an extremely quiet funeral for someone.

Inside the Ming Capital Cybersecurity Hall, dozens of faces were reflected in a ghastly white light on the screen.

"Where's Skynet? Why isn't Skynet responding yet?!" The supervisor slammed his fist on the edge of the control panel and roared.

The liaison officer in the corner hurriedly dialed the encrypted channel number twenty-seven, but all he heard in his earpiece was a piercing electrical noise.

He shouted "Skynet Node One, please respond" three times before a faint sound, mixed with buzzing and alarms, finally came through.

"Skynet Engineering Department... This is Skynet Engineering Department..."

The voice rose intermittently from deep water, interspersed with the clatter of keyboards, "We... are being hacked... the central scheduling system is malfunctioning... no, not malfunctioning, it's being reverse-infiltrated... we're trying to cut... zzzz!"

Before the communication line was cut off, a very heavy thud came from the other end; the soul guidance device had been burned through.

Immediately afterwards, only static remained on the backup channel of the Skynet Engineering Department.

There was a half-second of silence in the hall.

Then, all the alarms were simultaneously raised to their highest level.

Some people started shouting, and others ripped their headphones off and slammed them on the table.

The black and white panda remained unhurriedly standing in the center of the main screen, with incense smoke curling around it, as if bowing deeply to the entire Ming Capital cybersecurity department.