Chapter 1496

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The three-layered defense network composed of 879 temporary servers and the triangular defense network composed of three supercomputers were not much different in terms of defense power.

However, when faced with the mysterious intruder, the three-layered defense network collapsed like an avalanche. It seemed that there was no resistance at all. It was like a lamb facing a pack of wolves, only to be slaughtered.

On the contrary, the triangular defense network that Shi Lei did not have high hopes for brought him an unexpected surprise. It successfully blocked the fierce intruder, allowing Shi Lei to reverse analyze the intruder's attack data.

Through analyzing the intruder's attack data, Shi Lei found some clues. The intruder's attack data was not just simple attack data, but comprehensive data with a high degree of paralysis.

The triangular defense network was composed of three supercomputers. Among them, the supercomputers located in Lijian Province and the British Empire were private supercomputers of high-tech companies. The supercomputer's calculation task was very simple. It only dealt with the company's calculation task and basically had no other calculation task.

The supercomputer located in Voisin belonged to Osaka University. It was an academic supercomputer. Its calculation task was mottled and complicated, and it dealt with a lot of data.

Shi Lei analyzed the intruder's attack data and found that the intruder's attack strategy was to impersonate the normal calculation task data of Osaka University's supercomputer. The intruder's attack data was mixed into the normal calculation task data in an attempt to successfully deceive the public.

However, the mysterious intruder did not expect that Shi Lei did not care about the control of the three supercomputers at all. He directly used the task simulator to take full control of the supercomputers.

In other words, although the three supercomputers seemed to be performing their own calculation task on the surface, in fact, they were not performing any calculation task at all. Instead, they put all their calculation resources into the defense system that Shi Lei needed.

When the mysterious intruder impersonated the normal calculation task data of Osaka University's supercomputer and tried to enter the supercomputer through its defense strategy and endless defense system, the intruder was directly intercepted by the endless defense system.

If Shi Lei hadn't chosen the plan of mutual destruction and squeezed all the computing resources out of the three supercomputers, but had instead cautiously kept the computing tasks of the three supercomputers, then the Infinite Defense System wouldn't have stopped the supercomputers from performing their normal computing tasks. The intrusion was convenient because the intruder could quickly break through the defense strategy of the supercomputers and the endless defense system by impersonating the data.

The reason why the three layers of defense network had been broken through so quickly was because of this reason. They were directly killed by the mysterious invader. It wasn't that the Infinite Defense System was useless, but that the weakness of the Infinite Defense System's defense strategy had been exploited by the mysterious invader.

Of course, the weakness of the Infinite Defense System could only be exploited in the external network. It was absolutely impossible to exploit the weakness of the Infinite Defense System in the internal network of Mirui Technology Group.

The internal network of Mirui Technology Group was completely under Izur's control. Izur controlled all the data calculation tasks, and the Infinite Defense System would not let any unauthenticated data enter the internal network of Mirui Technology Group.

Therefore, the weakness of the Infinite Defense System's defense strategy could only be exploited by external networks. Moreover, once Shi Lei chose to destroy himself, the weakness of the Infinite Defense System's defensive strategy would disappear.

Shi Lei breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the methods of the mysterious invader. The invader wasn't omnipotent, and Shi Lei had more options to choose from.

"Damn guy, I was almost scared to death by you. Now it's my turn to deal with you!" Shi Lei's fingers created a series of afterimages on the keyboard as large chunks of source code were displayed on the screen.

The triangular defense network formed by the three supercomputers successfully resisted the invader. Although the invader gradually increased the computing resources, the triangular defense network supported by the IWN Secret Network showed no signs of collapse.

Shi Lei typed the source code while checking the situation of the invader. So far, the attack resources used by the mysterious invader had reached 755 TFLOPS. The loose distributed computing resources injected into the triangular defense network by the IWN Secret Network had reached 355 TFLOPS.

Based on the ratio of the two, Shi Lei determined that the computing resources used by the invader were intensive distributed computing resources. In other words, the invader had a private supercomputer.

In the world, there were only a handful of private supercomputers with a speed of 755 TFLOPS. Even the number of private supercomputers could be counted on one's fingers.

This was because maintaining the normal operation of a supercomputer required a huge continuous investment. Supercomputers were different from personal computers. The continuous operation cost of a personal computer was very low. Supercomputers were different. Normal forces could not afford the operating cost of a supercomputer with a speed of 755 TFLOPS.

"Lijian Province Government?" Shi Lei's first suspect was the Lijian Province Government. It was rumored that the Lijian Province Government had secretly built many supercomputers and used these supercomputers to create havoc on the world's Internet.

However, Shi Lei immediately denied this speculation!

The reason was simple. The attack resources of the mysterious invader were stuck at 755 TFLOPS and did not continue to increase. If the mysterious invader was the Lijian Province Government, then the attack resources of the mysterious invader would definitely continue to increase until the triangular defense network was completely destroyed.

But now, the triangular defense network was impregnable. The mysterious invader was blocked by the triangular defense network and could not advance any further.

"If it's not the Lijian Province Government, then who could it be?" Shi Lei muttered to himself again.

Investigating the identity of a hacker was never an easy task, especially the identity of an expert hacker. That was a secret among secrets.

The mysterious invader was an expert, an absolute expert. The other party had keenly grasped the weakness of the Infinite Defense System's defense strategy and destroyed the three layers of defense network. This proved that the other party was an expert.

There were only three ways to investigate the other party's identity.

First, Shi Lei could reverse-trace the other party's real IP address and investigate the invader's computer information and real-life address to determine the other party's identity.

This method was not very reliable. The mysterious invader's technical ability was very high. It would not be easy for Shi Lei to reverse-trace the other party's real IP address.

The second method was even more unreliable. It was to directly ask the other party's identity. Although this method had a certain success rate, it was not much different from winning the lottery.

The only reliable method was the third one. It was for Shi Lei and the mysterious invader to attack each other and determine the other party's possible identity through the other party's attack methods.

If Shi Lei and Raphael were to attack each other, Shi Lei would be able to tell in a short time that the hacker on the other side was Raphael.

If the mysterious invader was a hacker that Shi Lei was familiar with, Shi Lei might be able to determine the other party's identity through their attacks.

However, the other party would definitely not be able to determine Shi Lei's identity through this method! Because Shi Lei had been reborn, there were very few hackers who had come into contact with him in this life. Naturally, there were very few hackers who were familiar with Shi Lei's attack methods.

After deciding on the execution plan, Shi Lei immediately used the computing resources of IWN's Secret Network to bypass the battlefield of the mysterious invader and the triangular defense network. He began to reverse-trace the mysterious invader.

Although the mysterious invader was an expert among experts, Shi Lei was also a world-class hacker. Shi Lei stood at the peak of the hacker world. Even if Shi Lei did not think that he could find the other party's real IP address through reverse-tracing, Shi Lei did not give up.

IWN's Secret Network had gathered 6,255 tflops of computing resources. 355 tflops of computing resources were used to support the triangular defense network against the mysterious invader.

Shi Lei used the other 455 tflops of computing resources to reverse-trace the mysterious invader's attack data channel.

The huge amount of reverse-tracing data allowed the mysterious invader to immediately detect Shi Lei's actions. The mysterious invader reacted quickly. He immediately canceled his attack on the triangular defense network and retracted the 755 tflops of intensive distributed computing resources to block Shi Lei's attack data channel. He attacked Shi Lei directly.

However, the mysterious invader had underestimated Shi Lei. Although the mysterious invader's reaction was fast, with Izur's help, Shi Lei's reaction was just as fast.

When the mysterious invader retracted the attack data on the triangular defense network, Shi Lei simultaneously ordered Izur to redirect the 355 tflops of computing resources of IWN's Secret Network into the reverse-tracing attack sequence.

Originally, the mysterious invader's 755 tflops of intensive distributed computing resources were already struggling to defend against the 455 tflops of loose distributed computing resources.

Now, with the addition of the 355 tflops of loose distributed computing resources into the attack sequence, the 755 tflops of intensive distributed computing resources of the mysterious invader was instantly shattered into pieces.

The mysterious invader could only retreat in the face of the 6,255 tflops of computing resources. Just like how the mysterious invader had destroyed the three layers of defense network at the beginning, Shi Lei continued to break through the mysterious invader's defense.

It was not that the mysterious invader did not put up any resistance. It was just that the mysterious invader had underestimated Shi Lei's computing resources. In a battle between hackers, when their technical strength was about the same, it was often a battle of hardware performance.

In movies, using a laptop to defeat a supercomputer could only happen in movies. In reality, unless the laptop was just a front-end device connected to a huge cluster of computing resources in the background, it would be impossible. Otherwise, how could a laptop break through the supercomputer's defense?

In the increasingly modern era, the hacker war had evolved into a hardware war!

Shi Lei controlled powerful hardware resources, or Shi Lei controlled powerful hardware resources through the Hero's World and IWN's Secret Network. To a certain extent, Shi Lei was much, much more powerful than the world's top hackers.

As Shi Lei's reverse-intrusion progressed, Shi Lei broke through the mysterious invader's defense system one by one. Shi Lei gradually guessed the identity of the mysterious invader.

The characteristics of the mysterious invader were very obvious. First, it controlled 755 tflops of computing resources. At the same time, it possessed powerful hacking skills and had a grudge against Shi Lei. All in all, the identity of the mysterious invader was clear!

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