Chapter 19 Amaterasu·Police

It was clearly late at night, but the sky was white.The sun was shining in a surreal way. That's what the online world looks like.It's always day, it's always good weather, and it's totally out of touch with reality. Internet players will forget about the passage of time, just like there will never be a clock on the wall in a casino, so that gamblers will linger. Amaterasu went through the light barrier and came to the Internet Causeway Bay. Compared with the real world, the transportation in the Internet world is much more convenient.She herself has never been to Hong Kong in the real world.

The Internet Causeway Bay has not yet been repaired, and many spectators gathered at the scene to watch the gradual reconstruction of Times Square. The Internet police have already backed up the scene records.Where will they take the case for analysis?Don't worry, online news has the answer: Hong Kong Island Police Headquarters. She checked their case-handling procedures and manuals on the Internet.She checked the map, and the location was ten streets away.She was not in the mood to stroll over, so she went through the grating again. Outside the police station, hundreds of reporters and citizens had already stood watching.

"I suspect that some jihadist group that has been silent for a long time launched an offensive." "Yes, only they have such a powerful attack power." "No, I suspect that hackers from Shanghai attacked us, Hong Kong and Shanghai are competitors after all." "Could it be a hacker from Singapore?" "Hackers in Singapore? Never heard of it." "Do you have to pay a fine for being a hacker in Singapore? Singapore is a fine city." Several policemen on the side laughed. According to the results of the real-time translation software, Tianzhao learned that they used Cantonese to talk about the major events that happened just now, but the content of the talks never had much technical content, and there was no direction for investigation. Increase the message flow of the network.

Among the six people, only two are real people, and the other four are humanoid software. It seems that the humanoid software of people who talk in vain is also very boring. Amaterasu thought to himself, what can we find out by calling these incompetent people to be policemen? Unlike the police in the real world, most of the cyber police are not government personnel, but are employed by private organizations, plus volunteers. The level of good and bad varies, whether it is Japan, Hong Kong, or even the United States.Really capable computer hackers will not do the unchallenging and rigid work of the Internet police: wearing uniforms, discipline, and systems... Hackers are rangers and lone rangers. They hate all forms of restraint. Totally conflicting in nature.

Amaterasu suspected that the security system in this police station might be a joke.However, as a first-class hacker, Amaterasu must not underestimate the enemy, every time he attacks, he will use all his skills. She checked on the Internet, and the target room was on the third floor.The highest and deepest layer.Naturally, it is also the layer with the most ambushes.It's fine if you don't make a move, and the task must be completed as soon as you make a move, otherwise it will be troublesome to startle the snake. The director is fat and gray-haired, and looks like a steady character.He stepped out of the gate of the police station, and the reporters immediately rushed to him.

"Excuse me, do you have any ideas?" "Is there any direction for the investigation of 911 in Causeway Bay?" "Is the explosion in Mong Kok related to 9/11 in Causeway Bay?" The director thought for a while, then shook his hand and said: "Everything is still under investigation, no comment." The official reply was like a real police spokesperson. The crowd booed for a while. No one thought that after waiting for so long, the reply would be such a simple sentence. The director thought to himself that although they are called cyber police, they are essentially just a group of volunteers, not real police at all, and they have to arrange their own equipment.

However, netizens can't control these things. If you can't maintain the order of the online world, you will still be scolded. It's really thankless, asking for trouble! After answering a few more questions, the chief returned to the police station and said to his colleagues: "This time the opponent is not easy, we must not relax." Everyone nodded. "The guy used the stealth program to leave the scene just now, do we have any anti-stealth program?" "Reporting sir, we don't have enough funds to purchase a professional-grade anti-stealth program. We only downloaded a beta version for the time being, which can last for seven days."

"Let's wait for these seven days before we talk about it," said the director. Without funds, to put it nicely, I had to use methods that cost nothing and do my best.To put it bluntly, the meat follows the cutting board. "Does the police really have nothing to say, or is there no countermeasure at all?" When the director turned around, he realized that he had bumped into something.Although the online world is virtual, even some physical laws of the real world are also virtualized, and you cannot penetrate the obstacles in front of you—unless you install a hacker program.

He looked down, only to find that a female reporter was knocked to the ground by him.When the director helped her up, she continued to fire: "You are not prepared at all, and you don't even know the origin of the other party." "No, we know who the other party is, but they are too powerful." "Then who are they? Are they the extreme environmental terrorists who are wreaking havoc in the West, or an organization like that? Or an international anti-China group like 'Eliminate the Yellow Peril'?" "Sorry, no comment." The chief frowned, as he did in the real world.

Of course, the chief's real occupation has nothing to do with being a police officer, but just out of interest, so he applied for the cyber police exam. Although he is not a real policeman, at least he can enjoy himself.The reason why he didn't apply for the police in the real world was that apart from being unable to cope physically, there was another more personal reason.If Freud had seen his dreams, he would have delivered thoughtful and thought-provoking insights. The female reporter saw that the director's expression quickly turned into a look of disgust, and said: "It seems that the information you have is not as good as mine."

When the director heard this, he stopped, "Do you have information?" The female reporter nodded, with a smug face and a smile on her mouth. "Exclusive information, only this one, no other branch." "tell me." "Okay, I sold you a favor today, and you will repay me well in the future, right?" "Yes. I will repay you well." The director nodded again and again, "I am a man of loyalty and trustworthiness." "I can tell you, but the matter is very important. I am afraid that your subordinates have been infiltrated or bought by the enemy, so I can only tell you one person." After hearing this, the bureau chief felt that it made sense, so he nodded. "Let's go in and talk." The bureau chief unconsciously asked the female reporter to lead him forward, and he didn't take the elevator, but only climbed the stairs. The elevator in the police station is actually part of the security system, which can scan the body structure of visitors. ——The female reporter may not know where the elevator is, so she didn't go in. ——However, this is not important, what is important is her information.What is her intelligence? The two went up to the third floor, which was the most confidential floor in the entire police station, and had the most defensive procedures.Due to the unprofessional procedures adopted by the cyber police, the protection capability is limited and they can only cover this floor. Several detectives nodded their heads when they saw the chief coming, just like real police officers. When the bureau chief was about to take the female reporter into her room, she said, "Can you replay the footage of 911 in Causeway Bay? I have something to show you." "Image files are ok!" "No, you need to memorize the files on the spot and attach the on-site materials. You can't see the way just by looking at the image files." The director thought to himself that what she said made sense.Just looking at the video, they have watched it dozens of times and found nothing. He took her to another room and dismissed the three police officers inside. After the door closed automatically, the director said: "I have activated the encryption program and the soundproof screen. Outsiders will never hear our conversation." Unexpectedly, she said: "Not enough." "not enough?" "You still owe me this." The female reporter raised her hand lightly, and the director felt his eyes dim, and bursts of light and shadow came towards him. In the real world, a woman sitting in her room lamented that she was tricked by a hacker. She only blamed herself for being secretive, but she didn't expect the other party to sneak in disguised as a reporter. Yes, the director's real body is not a man, but a woman.She knows that the police force is a male-only industry. No matter how capable and hardworking women are, being a female police officer still makes outsiders feel weird and lacks femininity.However, at this time, she asked herself, what she really lacked was not femininity, but strategy. She was ejected from the online world and lost control.Her phantom in the online world is no longer under her control and becomes an easy target. The system allows a buffer time of fifteen minutes before disconnecting her. Only then can she return to the online world and return to the Hong Kong Island Police Station. "Who dares to attack? It's really courageous." "Forget it! Anyway, if you come here once, you won't come again." "That's right, Causeway Bay has been completely destroyed." While standing guard at the door on the third floor, the two agents exchanged "profound insights" about the earlier attack. At this moment, an agent stepped out of the elevator and asked, "Where's the chief?" "Hello to that female reporter." The third agent nodded and walked towards the director's room. After knocking on the door for a while, there was still no response, and the red light on the door did not turn on, indicating that no one was inside.Walking to the conference room, I found no one there. ——Could it be that the director actually took someone to the most secret intelligence room?This is unusual.No matter what, outsiders should not be allowed to enter the most important place in the entire police station. The red light at the door of the intelligence room did not turn on either. He still opened the door of the intelligence room, and was dumbfounded when he saw it.This is not an intelligence room at all, but a recreation room with a pool table and a table tennis table. ——But, the entertainment room should be on the second floor! He opened the door of another room, which was obviously a prison cell, but turned into a toilet. Although there was no foul smell, it inevitably looked a bit eerie. He couldn't turn his head around for a while, and screamed several times in fright.When the two colleagues saw this, they ran over and saw that he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and they didn't notice anything wrong for a moment.When the two of them wondered what was wrong, they found that all the rooms in the police station were in disorder. The room on the second floor went to the third floor, and the room on the third floor went to the second floor. Each time you open it, it turns into a different room.They rushed to tell other friends, and everyone was amazed, only to realize that it was far more than just a messy room and a change of the door. The most important intelligence room in the entire police station has disappeared. They searched the second and third floors, opened all the doors, but could not find the intelligence room. "What an evil!" said one detective to himself. "It's not evil, it's a computer virus." Another seemingly wiser detective said. "Yes, it's MCEscher." Another person echoed. "What is it?" "MCEscher is a Dutch painter. Many works use space as the subject matter, showing the visual interlacing and contradictions of three-dimensional space in two-dimensional space: in one painting, water flows against the force of gravity; in another, several stairs are connected end to end Then, it becomes a strange cycle." He immediately found these two paintings from the Internet to display, and everyone understood and opened their eyes. He continued: "When the virus is in the building, the chaos in front of us will appear. Let alone the location of the room is messed up, sometimes it is impossible to leave the building." "Then what shall we do?" Tianzhao looks at the data mirror and downloads at high speed.However, no matter how fast the speed is, it will take twenty minutes, and it is inevitable to be anxious.The size of the mirror image was much larger than she had imagined. Although the Escher virus she spread is the latest enhanced version, Escher itself is not a very lethal virus, just a joke.She estimated that the building's own antivirus program would crack Escher within eight minutes at the earliest, and fifteen minutes at the latest. She can stand aside and wait for the file to download slowly, but she will be caught before the download is complete.A better way is to compress the file first and then copy it over, but it takes ten minutes to compress it once, the file becomes smaller, but it takes eight minutes to copy it again, and the total time is eighteen minutes.This plan is not worthwhile. She re-watched the image twice, and confirmed that the target that the poisoning man was going to follow was one of the twenty or so people in front of the light barrier. In this case, why did she take down the mirror image in a radius of ten streets?There is too much redundant information in it.No, it's too early to say whether it's redundant, but with limited time, we should target these twenty people, and just copy their data. Anxious police finally found a solution. "I just contacted the antivirus software company, and it has started to actively download the solution to deal with Escher." "Very good, it can save a little time." "How much can I save? It's only about a hundred seconds, there is no difference at all." "God knows, it's very likely that the one hundred seconds or less than two minutes is enough to affect the key to solving the case." It took Amaterasu five minutes to split the image, lock the area to be downloaded, and another 93 seconds to download. Data downloading. There are still ten seconds. But she didn't start cutting as soon as she entered the door, and she might not have time to take out the data within eight minutes. There are five seconds left. Soon. four seconds. It will be over soon. three seconds. You can leave right away. two seconds. The download is complete. one second. Confirmed. At this time, the door of the room was also opened, and dozens of people rushed in and surrounded her. "Director, are you okay?" The director turned around, with a puzzled look on his face, a little slow to react, and asked, "What's the matter?" "The bureau's building was just infected with the Escher virus. We couldn't find it earlier, but we just finished detoxifying it, and finally found the door to come in." Hearing this, the chief couldn't help yelling: "Why are you so careless? You have to guard well. If someone breaks into the police station and steals things, what face will our police have?" A group of police officers nodded repeatedly and watched the chief leave the intelligence room. The chief stopped in front of the chief's office, did not open the door and entered, but walked to the stairs, turned his head before the steps, and said to everyone: "I want to take a walk outside in person, please guard the police station for me, don't come out. What a mess!" Everyone nodded. The deputy director immediately said: "Check every corner of the police station immediately to see if there are any remaining viruses?" "clear." He directs everyone to act one by one.Soon, more than 30 people were in their positions, and they worked together to carry out inspections, anti-drug operations, or return to their original positions. Seeing that everything seemed to be normal and nothing happened for the time being, the deputy director arrested a police officer and asked, "Didn't you say there was a female reporter just now?" "What female reporter?" "After the director held a press conference, a female reporter whispered to him, and then the two walked together. When we came up to find the director, the police station hit Escher." "Yes, but I don't see that female reporter leaving!" The deputy director said: "There are strange things in the middle, check the entry and exit records, and then compare the video. See where the female reporter went?" "clear." He arranged for the two to run to the security management room. The deputy chief paced back and forth, the more he thought about it, the more inappropriate he became. At this moment, he saw the door of the lift open, and the chief stepped out, looking ashamed. "Why did you come back so soon?" After hearing this, the director replied in embarrassment: "It's not too fast!" "Are you OK!" "No." "Where did you go?" "Didn't go anywhere." The director didn't look him in the face, and asked instead, "Where did you go?" The deputy director only felt that the director was shrinking and shrinking, and he was very strange when he talked about him from left to right, so he asked: "What did you do in the intelligence room just now?" The chief shook his head after hearing this, "I didn't enter the intelligence room." After hearing this, the deputy director knew what had happened, and asked, "What kind of virus did we get infected just now?" The director asked back: "Have we got a virus?" ——Really fell for it! The deputy director asked again: "You left the police station for about twenty minutes, right?" The director nodded: "Yes. I just came back." He is not willing to confess that he was ejected from the online world, what a shame! "Oops! It's terrible." The deputy director screamed strangely. "What's the matter?" The director hurriedly asked, obviously something big happened. The deputy director stayed for a few seconds, then recovered his composure before saying, "After you left, the reporter who came with you changed into your appearance, did something in the intelligence room, and then walked out of the main entrance in front of us."

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