They slumped sideways in the seats as almost everyone had a can of soda as they enjoyed the aftermath of the great battle.
Although they hadn’t managed to break through the last bastion of the Special Operations Forces, they had breached many nodes in the Huaxia Empire. Their successes included parts of the Special Operations Forces’ website, as well as the Cabinet’s and Senate’s websites.
It was now time to appreciate the loot from their raid!
The head of the US Military Secret Laboratory giddily pressed the start button.
A series of yellow flowers appeared on the giant screen inside the secret laboratory. As the graphics flipped and decompressed, files revealed themselves one by one.
Just as they were about to open the first decompressed file, it suddenly exploded like a bomb!
Fireworks exploded on their screens as all the data turned into horizontal and vertical lines!
The edges of the lines glowed a pale gold. Like taunting eyes, they flashed, rotated, rolled, and combined into all sorts of patterns. It looked exactly like their firework displays on the Fourth of July!
Everyone was stunned silly by this sudden change of events. In one instant, everyone inside the secret laboratory froze. No one spoke for a long time. The entire room was as quiet as if it was the end of the world.
In the end, the head of the laboratory was the first one to react.
“What the f*ck!? What happened?” he bellowed. “Who accepted this folder?!”
“…Stop right there! Don’t open up any more files! We have to send all the data we retrieved to the test inbox and filter for viruses!”
An experienced engineer suddenly realized something as he fearfully stared at the Troy.exe program inside the folder. “There’s a Trojan! Trojan virus!”
In ancient Greek mythology, the Greeks never won the city of Troy.
Afterward, a Greek commander thought of an idea.
He had his people construct a huge wooden horse with a hollow belly so people could hide inside.
He hid Greek warriors inside the wooden horse’s belly and left it outside the gates of Troy with their soldiers hidden inside.
The long besieged city of Troy did not see any Greeks, so they assumed the Greek soldiers had retreated. The wooden horse left outside the city were rolled inside as spoils of war.
At night, the Trojans fell asleep. The Greeks hidden inside the bellies of the wooden horses came out under the cover of night and completely slaughtered all the Trojans and seized the city.
As a result, the Trojan horse symbolized letting the enemy in and leading to one’s own demise.
Gu Nianzhi had frantically selected a modified Trojan virus using the same principle.
As the Americans’ cyber attacks began to retreat, they’d attempted to download as much of the Huaxia Imperial internet network’s data and content as possible. Gu Nianzhi had taken the opportunity to disguise her Trojan virus as critical system data and insert it into their download package.
“What? There’s a Trojan virus?!”
The warning had come one step too late.
When the realization dawned on everyone, Troy.exe had already begun executing.
It wasn’t an AI program, so it couldn’t be reprogrammed or hide in waiting. It only knew how to loyally execute the command given by its programmer to wipe out all data!
When the personnel in the secret laboratory retreated, they hadn’t realized that they had let in a huge Trojan horse!
The computer used to open the system files was connected to the host computer. At the moment the screen displayed countless fireworks, their system crashed and their hard drives were wiped!
In less than one minute’s time, all the file packages downloaded from the Huaxia Empire’s network were completely deleted. It then expanded to all the computers connected to the host computer!
“Shut it off! Shut it down!”
“Oh no! Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t!”
The head of the US Military Secret Laboratory pulled on the few hairs remaining on his head and mourned angrily. “Shut down all the computers! Cut off the power supply if you can’t shut them off! Cut the power! I’d rather smash all the computers than let this thing continue to wreak havoc! Have you all forgotten about the German Federal Intelligence Service?!”
The department head’s crazed rant awakened all the blankly-staring personnel.
They quickly moved to delegate tasks. They were shutting down computers, cutting power, and pulling out Ethernet cables and using hammers to furiously smash the main computer!
The Troy.exe was too powerful. It wasn’t complex at all or built with AI. It only had one function—to delete everything!
When a very simple program went into a powerful computer, it’s speed was no less than a fish in the water. It deleted data in no time and perfectly exemplified the meaning of “virus.” It infected and breached data at lightning speeds.
All programs were the same, so a computer’s CPU was the most critical data benchmark that determined a computer’s quality.
But at a time like this, the faster the CPU, the higher the speed of the Troy.exe’s deletion.
When their shut off speed couldn’t surpass the speed of computer infection, they could only use brute force. By smashing the host computer and causing physical destruction, they attempted to prevent the program from breaching the cloud drives through the hard drive. That would actually be disastrous!
The electrical system in the laboratory was affected, so the lights flickered and illuminated the entire postmodern secret laboratory like it was a doomsday catastrophe movie.
Countless expensive pieces of equipment were destroyed, and years of data gleaned from hard work was also completely deleted without a trace.
It would be fine if there were backup copies, but the issue was that their secret laboratory was the most confidential place in the entire United States. This was the database for many of the US Military server’s backup copies!
They could only watch as all the databases for the backup copies were destroyed and all data was lost!
Just as they’d fully exhausted themselves from smashing and assumed that they had stopped the Trojan virus from executing further attacks, a bright circle of light appeared on the gigantic screen on the wall.
A cute pink piggy walked out of the circle of light. It rolled towards them twice before turning around, turning its back at them. A short tail was revealed on its round bottom as it wiggled at them.
The circle of light gradually shrunk until the cute, pink piggy disappeared into the circle of light.
“WTF! It’s the Pink Piggy again!”
The head of the US Military Secret Laboratory cried out furiously. He completely lost the good mood and authority he’d had when he’d mentioned wanting to recruit the Pink Piggy.
Storming out of the laboratory, he grabbed the base’s phone and didn’t hesitate before calling the CIA.
“I want the Pink Piggy’s head! I need him to be brought to the United States! Bring him to justice! I need to execute him myself! I need to flay his skin off and make it into lampshades! One will sit in each of your offices!”
He wailed madly, yelling, “I don’t care what methods you use, I need you to arrest Pink Piggy! Extradite him to the United States! I don’t care what nationality he is! I don’t care where he is! No one has ever taken advantage of me without paying the price!”
The head of the US Military Secret Laboratory was also a great genius. He’d led a number of top-secret US Military experiments that could never be made public. He had provided invaluable technical support to the US military, CIA, and FBI.
He was so arrogant that he didn’t even deign to use a name. He called himself Mr. X and didn’t use a first or last name–only a code name.
He loved the United States passionately and had vowed from the day he joined the US military that he would devote all his life to the United States and the US military.
In this world, the United States was the biggest superpower on the planet. He would make sure that the United States would always be the number one country in the world.
While he could abuse others, other people couldn’t abuse him.
If someone else abused him, then that person didn’t deserve to exist in this world.
He wouldn’t tolerate the existence of such a person!
The person on the other end of the line was the Director of the CIA, one of the most powerful people in the United States.
He was furious when he heard that the Military Secret Laboratory had suffered a devastating attack.
He angrily slammed the desk with his fist and stood up. “The Huaxia Empire took this too far! How dare they initiate cyber attacks against our nation! How shameless! Shame on them!”
When he said this, he was completely disregarding the fact that this cyberwar had been initiated by his own Military Secret Laboratory.
To him, the US Military Secret Laboratory invading another country’s network was a normal day. They couldn’t be blamed, so they required other countries to respect what they did on a normal day.
However, being attacked themselves was considered treason!
A violation of international law!
A violation of international morals and regulations!
He must launch a public opinion war around the world to condemn the shameless and hegemonist Huaxia Empire!
The Director of the CIA set down the phone and immediately called his assistant over. “Contact our personnel right now and ask them to get started. Also, call the White House now and tell the President that I need to see him right now. Ask him to refrain from using Twitter for 24 hours!”
