Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 489 - 435 Continuing the Lost Arts_2

Chapter 489: Chapter 435 Continuing the Lost Arts_2

"The emergence of the Helis Sea urges us to continue to triumph in this competition," Todd said, "We are hackers, and our only enemy is the ever-growing information barriers of corporations. We are the information outlaws of this era, infiltrating terminal devices, shutting down exchanges, emptying and stealing any digital assets within cash cards, pilfering crucial information, and creating signal jamming interferences on the battlefield. Only local area networks and physical disconnection can escape our terminal moves!"

The King of Hackers’ grandeur and courage deeply inspired the hackers present, and Xu Yang also felt a stir of emotion.

In this century’s battle to end corporatism, hackers were taking the lead, becoming the decisive force to break the stalemate. He started as a cybersecurity engineer, but fate ultimately bound him deeply to the path of the hacker, as did his nature.

"For this reason," Todd said, "I have stolen part of the source code of the Helis Sea, enough to give you a basic understanding of its framework. In the future, when you attack or build your own XLS Systems, you won’t be helpless; I have also decided to pass on the service key of the deep anonymous network to you all. With it, you can continue to set up anonymous servers in various locations, divert data through encryption algorithms, thus delaying the progress of the entire main server being devoured by digital life."

Large numbers of folders appeared on both sides of Todd’s avatar.

Xu Yang checked briefly, one side contained partial project files of the "Helis Sea," while the other side contained the port keys of the deep anonymous network.

People must build their own servers to alleviate the traffic pressure from the overburdened deep anonymous network, which, as they could see, was already filled with rampant digital life and no longer safe.

This was a task of utmost dedication, with no benefit to speak of, just contributing one’s effort to shoulder the endless burden of the deep anonymous network.

"I, Todd Compton, am moving towards retirement and the end of my physical existence, and will entrust my life to the servers," Todd concluded, "My life and death will entirely depend on whether you are willing to take on the great responsibility of maintaining the servers. If generations of hackers pass on the torch and maintain this ultimate server, I, too, will enjoy eternal life, immortal and carefree. However, if this relay baton ultimately breaks, I too will vanish the moment the servers shut down."

The moment he sent this final message, all the hackers present simultaneously witnessed Todd’s pixelated image gradually disintegrate in mid-air, fade, and turn into a black and white photograph, signifying the downfall of this King of Hackers.

The cheerful music of the Corporatist Golden Age began to play, and under their collective witness, Todd’s digitized persona was uploaded to the digital space of the deep anonymous network, solidifying into an ordinary hexagonal pebble, falling into the Data Dunes, indistinguishable among the other data clusters.

The legendary hacker Todd Compton had reached his life’s end at the age of 85.

Xu Yang was fortunate to have witnessed it all.

After his disappearance, all the hackers simultaneously sat down on the Data Dunes, beginning to receive and download the two legacies left by Todd.

The partial source code of the Helis Sea, and the server configuration key of the deep anonymous network.

Todd had cleverly left behind a series of keys, only seasoned hackers could crack them, like a sophisticated puzzle of appropriate difficulty, with the implication that the faster the puzzle was solved, the stronger the hacker’s skills were.

Legendary hackers one by one cracked the keys, downloading the files. Among the 495 elite hackers present, Xu Yang exhausted his computing power and entered the download section, only to find he was the 56th person to crack it.

It seemed that at least 55 others had more computing power than him, a number that roughly revealed Xu Yang’s position on the world leaderboard.

It was indeed a gathering of highly skilled hackers, where the strong were among the strongest.

Having downloaded and studied the two pieces of information, many hackers turned and left, disappearing into the virtual space.

Xu Yang didn’t rush to leave but stayed to compute and analyze, thoroughly digesting the legacy Todd had left behind, while other hackers also remained, silently studying these core pieces of information.

Xu Yang first studied the core code of the Helis Sea.

It was a brand-new technology that integrated the advantages of artificial intelligence and Digital Mind, constructing a multi-model collaborative hierarchical intelligent operation system, allowing operators to use cognitive intelligence to drive a vast network security system, surpassing all traditional encryption methods.

Traditional firewalls were like "walls," and if they were bypassed or broken through, the protection would fail, necessitating timely key changes to avoid injection attacks and malicious data.

The Helis Sea, on the other hand, was a true "sea." Attackers were required to temporarily upload their consciousness to the inner Helis Sea; otherwise, they couldn’t execute any external operations. Once in the Helis Sea, one would constantly face immense resistance, the deeper one swam, the easier it was to get trapped and ultimately drown, thus achieving perfect defense.

All conglomerates were interconnected, and every giant corporation would come online with the Helis Sea System, Xu Yang thought to himself.

Indeed, traditional hackers would henceforth be completely outclassed by the new network, and he himself was only at the initial stage of recognizing this system, aware of its approach, but not drowning in it.

After reading about the Helis Sea, Xu Yang downloaded the port key of the deep anonymous network, preparing to construct a server room in Anjiu City to share the data pressure.

This was a task passed down in succession; if the deep anonymous network was completely severed, then the hackers would have nowhere to go, a matter of great significance.

After completing all this, Xu Yang took one last look at the Data Dunes.

The dazzling sands of information were teeming with a multitude of Maniac digital lives, and many hackers chose to remain here for a long time, becoming the Guardians of the dunes, using data cleaning programs to kill these frenzied lives, discussing maintenance methods to delay the total collapse of the main server.

The hackers of the Formless System were also constantly in discussion, debating the operation of the entire organization after the death of their founder, Todd.

Everything was developing in a quiet but urgent manner, Xu Yang silently understood.

This was a unique meeting, just as Todd had said at the start, such a grand assembly was unprecedented and would not occur a second time in the world. The hackers’ varied stances and goals made it nearly impossible for them to unite again.

The place was also becoming unsafe.

Xu Yang felt a multitude of emotions but still disconnected and left the virtual space, returning to his real life.