Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 532: Crooked? 110? I'm calling the police!
After Xingdian's brief introduction, Duolong's eyes widened.
Although Meituan has been saved for the time being, Taobao has fallen into crisis. Now in the Alibaba headquarters, monitoring alarms indicating data exceeding the threshold are ringing one after another, and red warning lights are flashing wildly on the monitoring screen.

The response time of Taobao's core interface has exceeded the warning line, and user complaints are pouring in.

I just received information that the average response time of Taobao's interface is currently 0.5 seconds slower due to the attack.

Don’t underestimate this 0.5 seconds. In the IT industry, if the interface response time exceeds 1 second, users will perceive it as “slow”.

This directly affects Taobao's core business, which is also the reason for the outbreak of user complaints.

A few minutes later, while several defense shields were resisting the attack, they quietly opened a small hole from the back and "spitted out" the Meituan server cluster.

Seeing this, the torrent of data that had originally besieged the defense shield immediately turned its spearhead and headed straight for Meituan.

Meituan trembles: Save me, save me.
Soon, Meituan's data centers and server clusters across the country, which had been freed from Alibaba's protection, were swaying like a sampan in a storm, facing wave after wave of overwhelming impact.

The CPU temperature alarm and memory overflow prompt flashed alternately like wailing sounds; various indicators were like soft hands clutching bed sheets, sometimes tight and sometimes loose; the ups and downs were even more violent than those of the A-share market, and from time to time there would be sudden stops like spasms.

Finally, around 3 p.m.

Meituan’s server cluster was completely paralyzed, and it was forced to put up a “system maintenance and upgrade” sign to the outside world.

As one side temporarily raised the white flag and surrendered, the flood did not launch another attack on Ali's situation, but receded like a tide.
The other side retreated, but the Alibaba team was unwilling to give in. They had never fought such a cowardly battle before - they were not able to attack at home, and they could not defend either. It was a great shame and humiliation.

Seeing the other side retreat, they immediately split up and attacked, vowing to find out every clue of the other side.

The battle thus entered the second stage: close combat, even more thrilling...

5pm, Meituan headquarters.

Wang Xing's knuckles were clenched white, and the blue light from the surveillance screen shone on his face, revealing the bulging blue veins on his forehead.

2 hours, who knows how he spent these 2 hours.

He didn't need to understand the command lines that scrolled like a waterfall of code - the tense back of Alibaba's chief security expert Duolong, the sweat-soaked hair on Xingdian's forehead, and the trembling ending voice of Mu Rongjun when he was explaining, all conveyed the same message: it is still unknown when Meituan will fix it.

Wang Xing felt that if things continued like this, one of him and Meituan would have to go first.

Even though he had some guesses in his mind, he couldn't help but ask Duolong, who looked stern and serious, "When will the system return to normal?"

Duolong's fingertips flew across the mechanical keyboard, and the rapid typing sound was particularly harsh in the silent conference room. He stared at the code scrolling on the screen with a frown, as if he was chasing some invisible prey.

Wang Xing's question was like a stone thrown into a deep pool, failing to cause even a ripple.

Xing Dian took off his glasses and rubbed his red eyes: "It's not as simple as you think. Every time we think we have locked an IP, it will jump to another node the next second. This is not an ordinary hacker attack, but a carefully planned cyber war."

Mu Rongjun has been paying close attention to the battle situation. His voice is a little hoarse: "They are like ghosts. When the enemy advances, we retreat. When the enemy stays, we harass. Not only do we have to deal with the attacks, but we also have to distract ourselves to trace the source. Fighting on two fronts has stretched our resources to the limit."

Wang Xing's temples were throbbing. He seemed to have already seen the scene tomorrow morning when investors would block the door of his office to demand an explanation.

Those elites in suits and ties don’t care about hacker attacks, they only care about the numbers in the financial reports - and at this moment, Meituan’s numbers are evaporating at a rate of millions per hour.

"No time." Duolong spat out four words coldly, his eyes never leaving the screen.

The arrogance of Alibaba's chief security officer made Wang Xing clench his fists until his knuckles turned white.

If it was Meituan’s own employees who dared to speak to him like this, he would have fired them on the spot. There would be no other outcome.

"Then at least tell me who the opponent is? Is it Ele.me?" Wang Xing suppressed his anger, his voice trembling slightly.

Even the mild-mannered Xing Dian was annoyed by Wang Xing's endless questions. He pulled at his collar, which felt a little tight, and said, "I don't know. Don't push me. The other party is much more complicated and powerful than you think. If you can't wait, you can choose to call the police!"

"You..." Wang Xing was so angry that he almost cursed. His breath was stuck in his chest and he almost passed out, but he swallowed the rest of the words.

Do you think I didn't want to call the police? If I hadn't pinned my hopes on you, I would have called the police long ago, but what happened? A bunch of rubbish!
Wang Xing knew that this sentence must never be said out loud.

But he knew better that apart from psychological comfort, it had no practical effect.

Can they handle something that even Alibaba can’t handle?
What's more, today is the weekend. By the time they start taking action, Meituan will probably have passed the seventh day.

Unless the priority is raised by one dimension, Meituan is just a private enterprise, a small private enterprise in the eyes of the above.

It's far from having that level of influence.

Just now he saw rumors on the Internet such as: "Meituan is dead, burn paper if there is anything wrong" and "Wang Xing ran away with his sister-in-law".

Wang Xing felt a little regretful for calling Jack Ma.

Originally, they were able to make some repairs themselves and it was barely usable. Now, Alibaba has come and directly used Meituan as a battlefield. You guys are happy about the fight, but we didn't let you crash Meituan's server.

It feels like when he used to use his computer even though it clearly had a virus, he could still use it no matter what he did. But if you installed antivirus software to check for viruses, the system would crash directly.

"How about calling the police? What if something unexpected happens? Meituan has already stopped operating, so it can't get any worse." This idea emerged in Wang Xing's mind and he could not get rid of it.

Thinking of this, Wang Xing called Wang Huiwen over and said loudly in front of everyone at Alibaba, "Old Wang, I don't think we can fix this problem in a short time. Let's call the police."

“Yeah, OK!” Wang Huiwen nodded. As he was about to walk out, he heard Wang Xing say, “Forget it. I’ll go with you.”

As they talked, the two walked to the balcony, and Wang Huiwen made a phone call.

"What? 110? I want to call the police."

For some reason, Wang Huiwen called the police for the first time in his life. He was even a little embarrassed to speak up. "It's like this, we at Meituan"

A few minutes later, Wang Huiwen hung up the phone, turned to Wang Xing and said, "The police will come in about an hour."

Wang Xing sat at an employee's workstation, holding his head in his hands, looking helpless. At this moment, he no longer cared about the strange looks from the employees around him. As soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with the miserable situation of Meituan in the past few days.

"Ah, what's the point of calling the police other than psychological comfort?" He sighed, his voice full of fatigue. "Old Wang, do you think that if we hadn't done those little tricks before, would the result today be different?"

"It's a pity there is no if," Wang Huiwen responded in a low voice, with a hint of regret in his tone.

"Have you figured out the losses over the past few days?" Wang Xing raised his head with a hint of expectation in his eyes, yet he was afraid to hear the answer.

"Including today." Wang Huiwen moved his lips and spit out the number with difficulty, "5 million is just the apparent loss. The tens of millions of users who have been lost in the past few days are not included. If we count..."

He didn't continue, but Wang Xing already understood what he meant.

Wang Xing leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, sighed, and felt mixed emotions.

Even though Meituan now has a total of around 1.5 million users, just like Sina Weibo’s fans, more than half of them are zombie fans.

The tens of millions of users lost in these three days are real active users. Today, the cost of attracting new users on the Internet is no longer as cheap as before, and the price increase is even more exaggerated than the housing price.

In the past few years, the cost of each active user may be less than 10 yuan, but this year, especially in the group buying market, the price is at least more than 50 yuan, per person.

Wang Huiwen didn't say it, but Wang Xing knew it in his heart. Some things just need to be tacitly understood and must not be put on the scale, otherwise even he would not be able to handle it.

Wang Xing smiled bitterly, "Haha, times have really changed. We haven't played offline, and now someone has cut off our online support."

"There is no right or wrong in business, there are only winners and losers."

"Yes, but now I really want to fight Ele.me in an open and aboveboard manner. Unfortunately, it is impossible to defy fate!"

As they chatted, they began to recall the early days of their business and thought about their original intention of founding Meituan. When did their mindset change?
At this moment, there was a sudden burst of noise from the conference room requisitioned by Alibaba not far behind, and even some curses.

Wang Xing's heart skipped a beat, fearing that these arrogant, unruly and incompetent guys would start a fight with his own employees.

If that's the case, the call to the police just now was not in vain.

He and Wang Huiwen quickly ran to the conference room, pushed the door open, and saw that the worst situation had not happened, and they were immediately relieved.

At this time, everyone in the meeting room was cursing:
"Fuck, if I catch you, I'll kill you!"

"Coward, coward, do you have the guts to fight with real weapons? Playing Russian dolls is just a waste of your skills."

"Come and attack Alibaba Cloud Shield if you dare. You are no hero if you bully Meituan." This furious guy obviously forgot that it was Cloud Shield that failed to hold out that led to the strategic abandonment of Meituan.
"Oh my god, I gave you the upper hand, why are you running? I will definitely lock you down in another half an hour."

".I guess I won't be able to sleep well this year. It's so uncomfortable."

"Hey. What are they doing?"

Some of these people were muttering to themselves, some were in a daze, and some were cursing. They had completely lost the demeanor of the masters they had before, and instead looked like angry old ladies in the market who were embarrassed because their bargaining failed.

Afterwards, Wang Xing learned a great piece of news from Mu Rongjun.

"Okay? How come? Yes." Wang Xing looked at Mu Rongjun and winked over there, but seeing that these guys were dejected and looked like they had lost a battle, he didn't think that was the case.

As Mu Rongjun described the situation vividly, Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen's eyes widened.

The other party retreated on their own initiative? What was the reason? I didn't hear them calling the police, did I?
It turned out that not long after they called the police, the other party suddenly called off the attack. Not only did they not leave a "corpse", they even "kindly" helped clean up the battlefield despite Ali's relentless pursuit. Their level of meticulousness was more professional than that of a housekeeper.

What is even more speechless is that the other party also helped Meituan fix several security vulnerabilities and left a message, which was a bug discovered when attacking Alibaba Cloud Shield just now.

Bugs are not very important, but they are very insulting.
No wonder Ali and his gang, who claimed to be "God is the boss and they are second to none" during the day, were so furious. Even Xingdian and Duolong's faces turned frighteningly green, they were simply like shrimps and pigs with hearts as cold as snow.

As he listened, Wang Xing felt secretly happy for some reason.

The next moment, he suddenly realized what was going on, with an expression of disbelief on his face: "Wait, are you saying that after we called the police, the other party retreated?"

Uh, no? Calling the police is really that effective?

If I had called the police at the beginning, wouldn't that have been the end of it? Why bother giving a board seat to Ma in exchange for these people, when in the end it was useless?
No, it was still useful—it directly brought down Meituan, which could have survived for some time.

The experiences of the past two days have tortured the atheist Wang Xing to the point that he has begun to believe in metaphysics.

At 6: in the evening, Meituan finally returned to normal.

Wang Huiwen even spent a large sum of money to buy some media hot searches to announce it to the world.

But I don’t know how much effect it will have. After all, it is easy to pour water, but it is difficult to collect it.

In the end, Alibaba's technical team still had professional ethics. Perhaps out of a compensatory mentality, they reinforced and upgraded Meituan's network security system accordingly, and based on their own capabilities, they listed a list of optimization suggestions at the transformation and vulnerability levels. After finishing these, they called it a day and left.

After all, they came a long way to help you solve the problem. No matter how effective it was, it was reasonable for Wang Xing to thank them on behalf of Meituan and personally send them to the door to say goodbye.

Wang Xing's original plan was to throw a celebratory banquet for the people at Alibaba after the job was done and everyone was happy. But now it seems he can save himself the trouble. Even if he wanted to treat them, looking at the state of these people, they would not be able to eat.

After seeing the guests off, Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen were about to walk into the building when they were suddenly stopped by someone: "Mr. Wang, please stay."

Wang Xing turned his head and saw a young man wearing a Meituan rider's uniform standing not far away.

He was a little impatient at first, and frowned: "Looking for me? Go use the Meituan APP if it works."

"Uh, Mr. Wang, you misunderstood. I'm the salesperson of the Kunlun Mirror on the other side. Didn't you see that Meituan has had problems these past two days?
I just want to ask you if you would like to purchase our Bi'an Kunlun Mirror enterprise-level security system to ensure that Meituan is impregnable and will say goodbye to malicious network attacks from now on."

(End of this chapter)