Chapter 294.2: Cloud Players, You Get To Participate Too!

There was silence on the phone for a while. Eventually, a response came. "... Don't overwork yourself. You still need to focus more on your studies. We can still afford your tuition fee."

"Don't worry, Mom, working part-time is also a kind of learning. I learned a lot from the friends who were doing the test together with me. And I was just trying to share some of our family's burden. Jiujiu is going to take the college entrance examination in June this year, and she wants to study art. When she gets into college, tuition fees, living expenses, paints... there will be many places that need money. Oh right, you don't need to give me living expenses in the future. I have enough money right now.” Ye Wei continued to talk about a lot of things, but eventually, he managed to convince his mother.

Putting down his phone, he took a deep breath. After thinking for a while, he went to an online shop, picked out a phone that cost around 4,000 yuan, and sent the link to his younger sister.

Pineapple Jiujiu: ?

Ye Wei: Like it?

Pineapple Jiujiu: What do you want? Just to be clear, I don’t have a lot of pocket money. If you need money to buy food, I can lend you a little bit, but I can't buy a mobile phone for you. (Alert.jpg)

Ye Wei: Seriously! Is your brother the kind of person who would spend his younger sister's money? Forget it, I originally wanted to buy it for you as a gift, but after thinking about it again, I feel like it will affect your studies too much. So you can wait until you get into college.

Jiujiu loves pineapple: NO! You’re the best!!! I was wrong! QAQ

Seeing the pitiful emojis spammed by his sister, the corners of Ye Wei's mouth curled up unconsciously.

How would he spend his money after he got rich? He hadn't really thought about this question before.

Although he was an all-powerful tier 0 player in Wasteland Online, with Wasteland Online's slow test progress, he never expected to rely on it to make a living.

Whatever it was... His previous efforts finally paid off.

While playing with his friends, he could also make money and give his family members a better life.

Damn it!

This damn company is playing the sugar-coated card again!

Turning off the phone, Ye Wei looked towards the dormitory behind him.

His roommates were playing Pubg together as a team. Yells of ‘cover me’, and ‘smoke grenade’, filled the room as a fierce gun battle erupted on their screens.

Unfortunately... Those games that could only be played on a screen were no longer attractive to him.

Looking at the black helmet on the table, Ye Wei suddenly felt a slight warmth in his heart. "Thanks, brother."

...

On the far side of the ocean in the same world. In a dark room somewhere in Virginia.

There was only a single computer that was still on in the room, and it was the only laptop that was not connected to the internet.

At the moment, a string of characters remained on the flickering screen.

"Don't try to be smart."

"Your rules can solve other people's problems."

"You have your own problems to solve, and you might as well take care of them if you have so much free time time."

"This is a warning."

It was also the only progress they had made in the past six months.

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Scratching his messy hair with his left hand, the curly-haired man tried to move the mouse with a frustrated expression.

"It's useless... This computer can't be saved either."

That was the office of the CIA's special operations force, code-named ‘Wasteland’, and their target was a website that shouldn’t exist but could still be accessed by the public.

They first discovered the site in a gaming community.

In the beginning, no one took it seriously, but just regarded it as a meme being played by a group of netizens in the Chinese culture appreciation circle.

It wasn't until more and more videos were released that a senior agent named Fick tried to find the back door of the website out of curiosity. But gradually, he realized the seriousness of the matter.

The site didn't exist at all, but it could be accessed normally.

This abnormal situation even made him believe that he had discovered aliens.

At first, the Federation didn't pay much attention to such trivial issues. After all, if they even needed to look into such a small matter, their grassroots personnel would die of exhaustion.

However, considering that the phenomenon was really abnormal, after reporting level by level, the CIA finally set up a special team.

It was a great opportunity for Fick who was placed in charge of the team. As long as he could complete the mission well, he would definitely be appreciated by his superior.

In this way, he and his team worked overtime day and night in this dim room for half a year, and even learned how to speak mandarin. Unfortunately there was still no progress.

The other party's server security was impeccable, and there were no loopholes at all, which caused a headache for the network information security experts Fick hired.

However, the situation finally took a turn for the better recently.

The other party released the in-game transaction system in what they called the ‘Beta 0.2 version’ update.

After all... A system contained the most loopholes when it was just developed. Moreover, didn't the game always mention that there were some bugs that were fixed in the update announcements?

Fick had reason to believe that this newly launched silver coins trade platform would become a breakthrough to the mysterious game!

For the smooth operation of this mission, Fick recruited the best information technology team he could find and asked them to hack into the server of the website at all costs to find the location of the anonymous company.

If conditions permitted, it was best to get the relevant data of the system that could allow one to play while sleeping. That would become the key to his success!

Regardless of whether he would succeed or not, he had to try!

Whatever it was, the other party had always been very laid-back before, and did not respond to their frequent attacks. Presumably, the other party did not dare to offend their powerful country.

However, what Fick did not expect was that when he exchanged 1 BTC for 1 silver coin, the entire system would collapse.

The other party not only killed their server, but also deleted all the data.

Looking at the dead computers in the room, Fick felt his heart bleeding. His scalp was numb, and his hands and feet were cold.

He seemed to be able to see his boss cursing at him the next day.

"All 147 servers were wiped out... It's over."

His hands left the keyboard, and another information technology expert sitting in front of the computer finally gave up struggling.

"Our opponents are monsters. What's frustrating is not how clever their methods are, but their technology is beyond my comprehension."

"Do you know what I went through just now? I felt like a primitive man holding a stone spear to defend the city, facing a giant sent by Odin. I’m not even sure I angered it, but it still reached for me...” As he spoke, he showed his little finger on his right hand, and continued to babble those strange words incoherently.

"... At most one little finger of the giant touched us, but this is already beyond the limit of our servers."

Fick swallowed hard. "Don't scare yourself..."

He admitted that there may be some gaps between them in the field of information technology, but it was not as exaggerated as the other guy said.

However...

He didn’t sound very sure when he spoke either.

The IT specialist shook his head. "It's not that I'm scaring myself... Forget it, you won't understand. Honestly, this was an unbalanced duel in the first place. It's not something they would be proud of that they won, but there's nothing shameful for me to lose."

After dropping these words, he leaned back on the chair in exhaustion with an expression as if he completely gave up.

"By the way, which of you turned off the light?" Glancing at the ceiling above his head, and then at his laptop, he suddenly frowned.

"Power cut?"

What's the use of a power cut now?

Fick took out his phone and looked at it, but there was no signal.

At this moment, his subordinate hurried in from the outside, with disbelief and horror written all over his face.

"It's a power cut, and not just here. The entire state lost power! Damn it, there’s no signal at the base station, and switching backup generators takes time. Now the whole department is in a mess. I don't want to connect the 2 things together, but it just happened a few seconds ago."

Looking at the man who walked in from the door, the room was deadly silent.

Power outage in the whole state...

Compared with the economic loss caused by the power outage of the entire state, it was insignificant that they lost more than 100 servers...

Fick gulped. Although it was still March, he felt that the room was suffocatingly hot. His mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

Obviously, the other party seemed to be afraid in their previous attacks, but why did they suddenly fight back this time?

Thinking about it now, it felt like it wasn't that the other party didn't dare to fight back before, but that they didn't bother to pay attention to their attacks. This time, the opponent not only made a move, but also countered without distinction and restriction, unplugging the entire state!

Isn't this going a little bit too far?

The curly-haired man sitting in front of the computer slammed the table angrily. "This is a terrorist attack!"

Fick shot him a quick glance and coughed lightly, "Do you have evidence? If there is no evidence... It's best not to connect these together."

The second they called it a terrorist attack, they had to make a formal response. And once a formal response was made, he, as the person in charge, would be responsible for the losses caused by this failure.

Why bother? Besides, no one had claimed responsibility for this attack yet.

After the generator was restarted, the communication was restored, and the light in the room was also turned back on.

However, the atmosphere in the room was slightly heavy.

An agent pinched his brows and said with a headache. "... What kind of company is this company exactly?"

Fick also wanted to ask the same thing.

With such incredible technology, they actually used it... To make games? It was no different than wasting time playing

DOTA

after being reborn.

Helmet...... If only I could get a helmet.

Just as Fick thought of it, his heart skipped a beat.

If the wallet that received the bitcoin could be traced, at least one player’s identity could be identified. Even if the other party was on the other side of the ocean, and it was inconvenient for them to send someone to contact them directly, but there were too many indirect means to win over citizens of

third world countries...

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Wait.

A drop of cold sweat suddenly streaked across Fick's forehead.

A second ago, he suddenly realized that he might be planning an extremely dangerous thing.

It was not that hard to get a helmet. But just getting a helmet wouldn't solve anything.

As for the price, it was even more stupid.

Those lunatics had a way to paralyze the power system of a state in a few seconds, and not only couldn't they find where the problem was, there was even no evidence to prove that it was related to them.

Perhaps... I should seriously consider the true meaning of that warning and the risk of hidden dangers spreading from the federal power system to other systems.

1. I want to state that this is in no way political it’s all part of the plot ☜