Mo Fei found this world utterly unfamiliar. In many ways, it differed greatly from his previous life's world, yet there were also many similarities. He compared them online. Thanks to his identity as an online novelist, he knew a little about everything, but nothing in great detail. After all, he wrote novels, not researched history or technology. Novels needed no proof; the author was God!
Did historical facts matter in novels? No. Send a protagonist back in time, and everything could be changed! Did technological rigor matter in novels? No. Pull out a system, and it could do anything!
How wonderful would it be if he were the protagonist of a novel? He could have directly transmigrated into Tony Stark. Why choose him? He was a winner in life: genius inventor, playboy, billionaire, great philanthropist, and more. Countless halos surrounded him, and Pepper Potts was always by his side, tirelessly devoted.
Of course, he also thoroughly proved the rule that if you kept courting death, you would eventually die. He often played himself into a state of blissful agony, but what did that matter? Once Mo Fei transmigrated into his body, none of it would be a problem. Sadly, Mo Fei could only fantasize about it.
After rapidly familiarizing himself with this world, he gained an understanding of its technological level. Compared to his previous life's world, it truly was far more advanced. That pleased Mo Fei immensely. Only then could he stir up trouble on the internet!
"Not bad. Only a world like this can let me make use of my strengths. So how should I choose my people?" Mo Fei began thinking again. Thinking was the only thing he could do right now. It was rather difficult to find such people online. Under normal circumstances, few people contacted others online about robbery. "What about phones?" Mo Fei finally thought of telephones. He could not think of any other way to search.
"Although smartphones haven't appeared yet, mobile phones are already widely used. Motorola and Nokia actually exist here too, though that's normal. IBM appeared in the movies as well. Many things are highly similar, except the technology is much more advanced. So, can I use phones to wiretap all of America?" Mo Fei's ambitions were not small. He actually wanted to monitor the entire United States.
But he still needed to figure out exactly how to do it, so he continued searching online. Thanks to technological development, America's telephone services had long since begun using computers, making things much more convenient for Mo Fei.
Whether landlines or mobile phones, they sent signals to local phone companies or base stations, then connected the call. If they wanted to, telephone companies could theoretically monitor anyone's calls. What Mo Fei needed to do, then, was choose the city where his robbery plan would take place. After all, every city had a telephone company handling local telephone services, while monitoring calls across all of America was beyond him for now.
He could only monitor the phones in one city, so he needed to choose his target. That was easy. Mo Fei simply had to look for the most advanced banks. Banks that used computers for everything were his targets. Naturally, banks with large cash reserves were best, since they would yield more money. Such banks were easy to find too—he only needed to enter a few keywords.
Sure enough, his search returned many targets, though they were heavily concentrated in one place. Manhattan, New York housed a huge number of banks, and the systems they used were extremely advanced, almost all among the finest systems of the era.
"You really are a disaster-prone place. You've been attacked countless times and destroyed countless times too." Mo Fei found the search results rather strange. It was not that other cities lacked advanced systems, but they were more concentrated here, and the amount of cash on hand was enormous.
Furthermore, four of America's Big Six Commercial Banks had their headquarters in New York. That made Mo Fei unable to resist. Robbing their headquarters was unlikely—it would be suicidal—but robbing their branches was entirely possible, especially those branches upgraded with the most advanced security systems. Just looking at them made Mo Fei drool. Now, all he had to do was get to New York!
But how to get there was another problem. Mo Fei now had a basic understanding of computers, yet how to move through the internet remained an issue. He set his sights on Paul again. In particular, obtaining a local IP address was easy enough, but what about one in New York?
"The stupidest method would be to get lucky online, find some data from New York, and crawl through the network after it. The other would be hoping this fat guy has an online friend in New York. Then he could send them a message, and I could follow it over?" Mo Fei came up with two methods. He was not yet sure whether either would work. Network signals did not travel directly; servers existed in between, and he still did not know what to do once he reached one.
"Fatty, I'm counting on you!" To avoid getting lost, Mo Fei chose the second method and checked Paul's chat contacts. That was easy. Among the many contacts, there really was one whose profile listed New York. Mo Fei wanted to verify it, but how to verify it was another problem.
"Checking the other party's IP address is a bit advanced. I need to learn that too. It would be best if I could remotely break in—that's a hacker's basic method. Let's see!" Things posted online were generally not too advanced, but some hackers were bored enough to post little tricks online. Whether they worked or not, Mo Fei had no idea!
However, he possessed an enormous advantage: he learned quickly, and applying what he learned was incredibly easy. In less than a few seconds, he had learned a large number of techniques. After comparing them, though, Mo Fei found that many were repetitive, while some were obscure. In the end, he chose a more common method and directly sent out a command. Network signals traveled quickly; Mo Fei had already learned that.
Network signals were electromagnetic signals, traveling at speeds close to the speed of light. However, electromagnetic interference could occur, so the speed was reduced somewhat to prevent interference. Data immediately came back. "The other side isn't online?"
Mo Fei felt helpless. Among Paul's chat contacts, Jennifer was the only one whose profile listed New York, yet she was not online. There was nothing he could do about it. Now he had to learn how to wait. He found that unbearably difficult, because waiting was always long. For him now, every day felt like a year.
"I wonder if I'll go crazy under these circumstances? Always waiting, waiting, waiting. And I'm here all by myself, with no one to talk to. In an environment like this, I really might go crazy. I'd better study online. I need to find something to do."
Mo Fei was deeply afraid of waiting. If he were simply alone, he would not mind. As an online novelist, he was used to the loneliness of being by himself. But now he had to keep waiting, and that was unbearable. Especially since his urgent desire to possess a body made him desperate to seize every second.
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