Bit Mania [Hacking]

It was less than three months after Octo was released from prison. In the spring of 04, the sharp sirens sounded in the Network Information Operations Department of Rhondstone Air Force Base. Familiar offensive routines, unique programming techniques, and supercilious computing speed... …After resisting the cyber bombing with the code name Octo, Qi Xingchu was brought to Admiral Modric's office.

"Is this what you call 'persuasion'?" The general sneered, and threw a stack of documents on the table: "Do you know that the FBI can now arrest you for the crime of endangering national security."

Xing Chu frowned tightly, picked up the information and read it: "Maybe there is some misunderstanding..."

"You will be suspended for a period of time." The admiral gestured to him to leave.

"……I understand."

After Qi Xingchu left, the adjutant standing on the side said: "General, it is unacceptable that Qi Xingchu reduced Octo's sentence, and he let Octo go. It's too dangerous. I don't think we should just appease him like this..."

The admiral smiled inexplicably: "Although Octo's escape surprised me, it's okay to go with the flow. Next, spread the news that Octo was released by Qi. I believe that it won't take long before Qi will be fully used by me." .”

"He's a rare piece of good material, but he's still too young after all," he said. "For a talent like that, you have to destroy him before you can reshape him into something I can handle."

Soon, rumors spread as if they had grown wings. People became suspicious of Qi Xingchu's arrest of Octo at a young age. Some media even described his arrest and release as a farce of two people colluding , speculated about the inside story and potential purpose of the entanglement between these two young geniuses, and the corporate units that had been invaded by Octo in the past reacted fiercely, and came to them one after another, demanding Qi Xingchu indiscriminately. What's more, threats, violence, intimidation, and revenge methods were imposed on Xingchu one after another without stopping.

He was labeled with a heavy, sordid label - a fraudster.

The young security expert closed the door tightly and put furniture against the door. The windows were nailed tightly with steel plates, so that no sunlight could penetrate. There was a roaring crowd outside the house, and the room could only rely on electric lighting.

He could only secretly drive to a 24-hour convenience store in the early hours of the morning to buy necessities. Several times he could not escape the attacks of the retaliators. The window glass was smashed with a hammer, and the glass shards fell into the car. One lost control and hit the iron railing on the side of the road.

Only those who have faced riots will understand how debilitating the existence of malicious mobs can be.His face was pale, panting quickly, he tried his best to break away from the crowd and fled back to his residence, he dug out the medicine box to prescribe medicine for himself, when the phone rang at home, he thought it was another threatening or cursing call, but when he saw the incoming call, he was stunned Pick up.

"mom……"

"I don't have a son like you!..."

Not long after, the water and electricity supply of the residence was forced to cut off. In a dark room, he slowly sat down against the wall. The wound he suffered from being surrounded by the crowd amplified the pain in the silence. Eyes, silently survived night after night.

After that, the general sent a military vehicle to take him back to the air force base.

After that, Octo and Zheng Xiu sat in the waiting hall of Huaguo Airport from Beimi to Huaguo Airport. He said to the latter with a relieved smile on his face: "I decided to trust Qi Xingchu."

Octo said, "Xiu, I don't need a gun anymore."

Then he asked again: "How about not being a hacker, let's do something else, you help me think about it? Come back to China with me..."

At this moment, a group of FBI agents broke into the waiting hall and surrounded the two of them.

Octo's smile froze on his face.

Zheng Xiu got up and drew his gun.

Pull the safety, the tongue of flame is spit out from the muzzle without hesitation, the bullet rushes out of the gun chamber, cuts through the space, the crowd resounds from the screams of women and the curses of men, the sound of hurried footsteps, all kinds of metal, glass, etc. , the crisp sound of plastic falling to the ground, the emergency announcement from the airport broadcast... those familiar sounds that just faded away from memory echoed in the man's ears again, pulling him away from a beautiful dream. Back to the reality of ups and downs.

The only person who knew that he was going to China from here was Qi Xingchu.

"No, I don't believe that Qi Xingchu will..."

"Go!" Zheng Xiu pulled him up and squeezed into the crowd to escape from the safe exit. Octo was held in his arms, so hard that he felt that he was almost embedded in the latter's chest, his rapid heartbeat, The hot breath, the crowded and chaotic crowd... He felt that the clothes behind his back were a little hot and humid, and when he touched them with his hand, his eyes were bright red.

Breathing stagnantly, Octo raised his head in a daze, a drop of cold sweat fell down Zheng Xiu's chin and onto his eyelids.

"... Zheng Xiu!"

"Have you forgotten our original oath?" At that moment, Qi Xingchu and Luo Zixin, who were thousands of miles away, questioned each other in their hearts at the same time.

Wholehearted trust is still too much for both parties.

Zheng Xiu was shot and wounded. In order to avoid the pursuit of the US police and the blockade of the airport, the two decided to smuggle a cargo ship across the Atlantic Ocean and flee to the Middle East through the Suez Canal - this chaotic land that is at war with the US.

It was already the summer of [-], the scorching sun on the Atlantic was baking the sea surface, and the smell of fishy and salty mixed with corruption and fermentation permeated the cabin. Zheng Xiu was lying on a cowhide bag, and the inflammation of the wound was not properly treated. , his condition continued to worsen in the hot weather, causing him to have repeated fevers, and he was hardly awake.

Octo sat on the ground, put Zheng Xiu's head on his lap, and patted his flushed and hot face lightly. The latter muttered, and Octo took out a small medicine bottle from his pocket and poured it Taking out the few vitamin C pills left, he pinched Zheng Xiu’s mouth and stuffed two pills in, then carefully put them away, then unscrewed the kettle, and pressed the spout on Zheng Xiu’s lips, Zheng Xiu frowned tightly, The will to survive drove him to swallow a few mouthfuls, and then gasped for breath uncontrollably.

The water feeder took another cigarette and lit it, and brought it to Zheng Xiu's mouth, and the latter took a few puffs obediently. Octo saw it, and gently brushed away the bangs on Zheng Xiu's forehead with his fingers, and finally sighed, but turned his head to see Zheng Xiu opened his eyes, looking at him intently.

"Do you regret it?" Octo asked.

Zheng Xiu still looked at him like that, and shook his head slowly and slightly.

In the smog, he stroked the handsome face in his arms, and said after a long time, "I'm so stupid..."

The man in his arms curled his mouth, struggled to hold the hand resting on his face, interlocked his fingers from the back of his hand, and closed his eyes.

Do you know what light is? The thing you have been longing for and chasing all this time is in front of you, and you try your best to grab it with your hands—when you catch it, at that moment, hold it firmly, so the light converges, and everything around you Then fell into darkness.

Do you regret it?Are you scared? ... No, even if the road ahead is vast and dark and endless, even if the palm of your hand is burned, you will not let go until death.

The sound of the surging waves beat against the hull, and the bodies of the two of them shook slightly. Far away from the port, there were no birds in the boundless sea. At sunset, the setting sun blew its last light and heat like dying, and half of the sky was ignited. Burning fiercely, at the last moment, a golden line seemed to be drawn horizontally at the junction of the sea and the sky, and the brilliance of the setting sun was all restrained.

As the sky darkened, the two wandering figures cuddled closely, and under the arrest of the US police, the country they were at war with became the only gap in their survival. At this moment, Octo and Isreal, who are waiting for the unknown future together, can think of In the last part of their lives, they will walk through this land of gunpowder and smoke. After thinking about it, only this kind of cradle full of blood and fire can allow them to vent their inner despair and hatred to the fullest, and eventually lead to an irreparable catastrophe.Those legendary deeds, those youth without regrets, those intertwined flames of war, and those oaths of doomsday have written their unique chapters.

Stepping on the land of the date palm country, the sky filled with yellow sand mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke poured into the nostrils, hordes of infantry chariots crushed the road, air strike missiles devastated the land, scattered women and children sitting on the side of the road, Through the cloth towel to prevent wind and sand, I stared at the stranger in front of me with a kind of poor and war-torn eyes.

At that time, the rice army had already marched into Baghdad, and Saddam Hussein had been captured, but the rice army refused to withdraw its troops. The domestic turmoil in Datepalm was turbulent, anti-mi sentiment was high, and small-scale armed conflicts occurred frequently in various places. Octo was helping the local people After a medium-sized people's army wiped out a platoon of the US air force, the two sides contacted each other, and finally Zheng Xiu was treated by a local hospital.

However, international humanitarian supplies are only a drop in the bucket for a country devastated by war. Drinking water, antibiotics, and painkillers will always be in short supply.

Zheng Xiu finished the operation by biting a strip of cloth.The doctor in the field threw the blood-stained bullets into the tray and exclaimed, "It's incredible, I survived."

Octo sat next to him, clasped fingers with the people on the operating table from beginning to end, and said softly, "He is a miracle in my life."

After all, he was young, and Zheng Xiu's body recovered after all, and the time has entered [-]. The people's army named "Mahmud" where the two belonged was the same as many civilian armed forces at that time because of the disparity in strength. , finally gave up his resistance and decided to surrender to the Mi army.

Because of their special technical means, Octo and the others have a detached position in the army. It was night, when the leaders of the People's Army met to propose a decision to surrender, and the two of them who got the news left the date palm country quietly at the first time.

Before leaving the country, Octo monitored the FBI’s intelligence agencies through the network and found that after Mahmoud’s leaders surrendered to the Mi Army, they quickly recognized them on the list of Most Wanted terrorists announced by the Mi Army and reported them to the The commander of the Mi Army in the Date Palm Country, the United States took action immediately, mobilizing the Marine Corps from the southeast of the Date Palm Country, which has been stationed all year round since the Gulf War, to round up the two of them. The date has been postponed again.The situation was so pressing that the two had no choice but to head west in a straight line.

On the way to the west, they encountered a humanitarian rescue team from the United Nations by chance. During the brief contact disguised as war reporters, Zheng Xiu met Ulysses, a psychologist who was about to go to the country of date palms.Under the dangerous situation, a crazy and decisive idea took shape in Zheng Xiu's mind.

"...I'm afraid I can't... I, although I am indeed researching this subject, I don't have even a little clinical experiment to support it!" The doctor named Ulysses frowned and pondered: "Once the tower of memory is alone No one can guarantee what kind of chain reaction will happen if a certain layer is removed..."

"Do your best," Zheng Xiu said, "Time is running out."

"Can you tell me why you did this?"

"When you finish hypnotizing me, you will know."

"I really can't guarantee the result, you have to be prepared to become an idiot..."

"let's start."

In the early morning of the next day, the dawn light pierced the horizon, and the young man slowly opened his eyes, a trace of bewilderment flashed in his eyes. The morning light shone on his handsome face, coating it with a hazy brilliance. The indifferent face in the middle made the doctor in front of him lose his mind for a moment, and the next moment, the muzzle of the gun was pressed against the doctor's forehead softly.

"Congratulations, you made it, doctor." Zheng Xiu said softly, "I have one more request—that is, please keep this matter a secret for me forever."

When the trigger was pulled, with a slight click, the blood was sprayed on the yellow ground, and the expression of astonishment was permanently fixed on the face of the deceased.

Combat helicopters circled the border of the date palm country, armed tanks patrolled, and military dogs led special forces to search for the whereabouts of the exiles. The encirclement narrowed sharply, and Octo and Isreal were besieged at the border of the date palm country.

On the night of March 21, [-], in an abandoned underground garage on the border, Octo sat cross-legged on the ground with a laptop on his knees. His face was dark and inexplicable under the dim light of the screen.

He typed a few characters, frowned, pondered for a long time, and said, "I suspect that someone is impersonating me, but there is no clue yet...I want to find out the whereabouts of this fake Octo, and maybe use him to help us get out of trouble."

Isreal sat next to him, burying his head in mixing a paint tray. He paused for a moment when he heard the words, and then acted as if he didn't hear it. His thumb was stained with camouflage paint, and he carefully painted on his and Octo's faces, and then held Octo. He stared at his face for a moment, then stood up abruptly.

"I'll go outside to check the situation."

"must be careful."

After Octo finished speaking, he watched Zheng Xiu pick up the gun and walk to the door of the garage, but suddenly stopped, stood with his back to him for a while, then turned back suddenly, and strode towards him. He was about to ask what happened, but Zheng Xiu Xiu had already knelt down on one knee in front of him. At the last moment when he covered his eyes with one hand, he saw Zheng Xiu's face zoomed in quickly in his sight. His lips warmed up, and the other party seemed to pause for a moment. Immediately, an incomparable An intense kiss ensued.

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