Chapter 8 The Hacker
It was no more than an ordinary day. Sinuo said goodbye and left the house. Dugu Hong watched her leaving, stood up from the long chair and connected himself to the network.
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Network security, from day one, had been an area of the society’s attention.
However, more than 100 years had passed. This problem had not been resolved.
To enjoy more convenient and efficient services, it was necessary to agree to different levels of protocol protections. This naturally caused inevitable loopholes.
This was like different new weird diseases that developed with the society’s progress. Obviously, these were results of increasing electromagnetic radiation, urban noises or life pressure.
However, people cannot resist the temptation of advanced technology. This, caused the spread of diseases.
Thus, a profession was born - hacker, to attack the network loopholes to pursue personal benefits.
Or on the contrary, new professions were developed to fix the loopholes and protect network security in exchange for money.
What business generated quick money?
This autistic teenager who had to earn a living used to be considering this question.
The answer is: drug trafficking, prostitution and robbery.
Drug trafficking? He did not have the team. He had no connections or manpower, let alone sales channels.
Prostitution? He was not qualified. He knew himself well. He was just an ordinary person, who would be ignored anywhere. This was not a profession for him.
Robbery? This was more like a joke. He didn’t have physical strength or tools. Maybe he only had a scare less heart.
So, the boy came up with another form of robbery. It didn’t need guns or ammunitions. It didn’t require him to be physically strong. It didn’t kill…
All he needed was a terminal to connect to the network and a calm and keen brain to carry out this type of robbery.
He had accumulated quite good skills in this area during the times when he was autism. The many languages he learnt before also seemed to serve this purpose.
So, there was one more new hacker on the network after he made up his mind.
He enjoyed hacking illegal adult websites, transferring a large portion of the website’s earnings to his own account. At the same time, he also deleted some involuntary videos from the website or fix some loopholes for the website secretly for it to escape the radar of Network Supervisory Authority.
This was a forced robbery.
Many websites turned bankrupt due to illiquid cash flows. There were also websites that survived, having escaped from the radar of the Network Supervisory Authority. In short, either problem was a headache to the website operators.
It was not something he did randomly. In fact, in the 22nd century, almost all countries had allowed adult websites, except for China.
It had been long debated whether China should legalize adult websites. In fact, there was only one focus: how to make sure that adult websites could not be accessed by teenagers.
It was not difficult to do so. With a uniformly managed network ID and strictly issued access permissions, which was the common practice in many countries, this problem had been solved decades ago.
However, it was not possible in China. After batches of network access certificates being issued. The authority still couldn’t control access. The only ones benefited from this was the producers of such access cards. Citizens did not benefit at all.
According to incomplete statistics, citizens had wasted over trillions of dollars on purchasing such access cards.
This was the status quo of China. Dugu Hong’s parents also died in vein on bureaucracy.
Therefore, in Dugu Hong’s mind, there was no laws or illegality, there was no government or criminals. He had his own rules in his mind.
He was a hacker. He stood in between justice and evil. So he only acted to his own rule.
Since he started one year ago, he had never failed.
****
The Dugu Hong in the novel “Jianghu” finally had his big day.
Values of free internal strength, number of channel points, total internal force: 145900, 158950, 304850.
His free internal strength was about to break through 150,000.
If this data was released on the forum, it would definitely shock a great number of people. Because the total internal force of the current No.1 in the world couldn’t be even a fraction of that of Dugu Hong.
150000, this should be a special number...
With free internal strength of 5000, Dugu Hong enabled additional damage through attachment. He started to using the attachment in his internal force to increase damage.
Free internal force of 15000, damage added to the second level.
Free internal force of 50000, damage was upgraded again. At the same time, I learned internal perfusion, which was different from damage attachment. By filling the internal force into weapons or limbs, one could temporarily improve the destructive power.
In this situation, even flowers and leaves could hurt people.
Free internal force of 150,000. Obviously, this was another level...
After the routine operation on Sunday, Dugu Hong got the long-awaited system prompt:
"The player Dugu Hong had achieved outstanding internal force, damage comprehension of level four, internal perfusion comprehension of level two, bursting of new skill comprehension.”
This was it! Dugu Hong was delighted.
Internal force bursting: When one’s internal force achieved a certain level, one could temporarily obtain a big increase in one of his attributes, such as courage, agility, through a special meridian.
It is obviously it would require this skill to break the rope.
But when Dugu Hong launched this skill in a rush, he felt his excitement had distinguished. All the icons were muted in gray under the internal force burst box.
This meant that he only satisfied the conditions for acquiring this kill. But he hadn’t got all the conditions to apply this skill.
Was it because he had insufficient basic attributes?
This didn’t look like a skill that had restrictions on basic attributes.
Was it because of insufficient internal force?
He still remembered, it was called insignificant with lower than 5000 free internal force; entry level with less than 15000 free internal force; intermediate level with less than 50000 free internal force; capable level with less than 150000 free internal force and now the outstanding level Dugu Hong had.
With fewer than 19,000 channel points, it was called weak; with below 57,000 channel points, it was entry level and then it was the slight achievement level.
The total internal force is less than 24,000 was called insignificant; 72,000 or less was called entry level; and 240,000 or below was call roughly skilled and then master level.
This seemed to indicate that his disposable internal force was level five, total internal force was level four and channel points were only level three…
Chapter 8 The Hacker
It was no more than an ordinary day. Sinuo said goodbye and left the house. Dugu Hong watched her leaving, stood up from the long chair and connected himself to the network.
****
Network security, from day one, had been an area of the society’s attention.
However, more than 100 years had passed. This problem had not been resolved.
To enjoy more convenient and efficient services, it was necessary to agree to different levels of protocol protections. This naturally caused inevitable loopholes.
This was like different new weird diseases that developed with the society’s progress. Obviously, these were results of increasing electromagnetic radiation, urban noises or life pressure.
However, people cannot resist the temptation of advanced technology. This, caused the spread of diseases.
Thus, a profession was born - hacker, to attack the network loopholes to pursue personal benefits.
Or on the contrary, new professions were developed to fix the loopholes and protect network security in exchange for money.
What business generated quick money?
This autistic teenager who had to earn a living used to be considering this question.
The answer is: drug trafficking, prostitution and robbery.
Drug trafficking? He did not have the team. He had no connections or manpower, let alone sales channels.
Prostitution? He was not qualified. He knew himself well. He was just an ordinary person, who would be ignored anywhere. This was not a profession for him.
Robbery? This was more like a joke. He didn’t have physical strength or tools. Maybe he only had a scare less heart.
So, the boy came up with another form of robbery. It didn’t need guns or ammunitions. It didn’t require him to be physically strong. It didn’t kill…
All he needed was a terminal to connect to the network and a calm and keen brain to carry out this type of robbery.
He had accumulated quite good skills in this area during the times when he was autism. The many languages he learnt before also seemed to serve this purpose.
So, there was one more new hacker on the network after he made up his mind.
He enjoyed hacking illegal adult websites, transferring a large portion of the website’s earnings to his own account. At the same time, he also deleted some involuntary videos from the website or fix some loopholes for the website secretly for it to escape the radar of Network Supervisory Authority.
This was a forced robbery.
Many websites turned bankrupt due to illiquid cash flows. There were also websites that survived, having escaped from the radar of the Network Supervisory Authority. In short, either problem was a headache to the website operators.
It was not something he did randomly. In fact, in the 22nd century, almost all countries had allowed adult websites, except for China.
It had been long debated whether China should legalize adult websites. In fact, there was only one focus: how to make sure that adult websites could not be accessed by teenagers.
It was not difficult to do so. With a uniformly managed network ID and strictly issued access permissions, which was the common practice in many countries, this problem had been solved decades ago.
However, it was not possible in China. After batches of network access certificates being issued. The authority still couldn’t control access. The only ones benefited from this was the producers of such access cards. Citizens did not benefit at all.
According to incomplete statistics, citizens had wasted over trillions of dollars on purchasing such access cards.
This was the status quo of China. Dugu Hong’s parents also died in vein on bureaucracy.
Therefore, in Dugu Hong’s mind, there was no laws or illegality, there was no government or criminals. He had his own rules in his mind.
He was a hacker. He stood in between justice and evil. So he only acted to his own rule.
Since he started one year ago, he had never failed.
****
The Dugu Hong in the novel “Jianghu” finally had his big day.
Values of free internal strength, number of channel points, total internal force: 145900, 158950, 304850.
His free internal strength was about to break through 150,000.
If this data was released on the forum, it would definitely shock a great number of people. Because the total internal force of the current No.1 in the world couldn’t be even a fraction of that of Dugu Hong.
150000, this should be a special number...
With free internal strength of 5000, Dugu Hong enabled additional damage through attachment. He started to using the attachment in his internal force to increase damage.
Free internal force of 15000, damage added to the second level.
Free internal force of 50000, damage was upgraded again. At the same time, I learned internal perfusion, which was different from damage attachment. By filling the internal force into weapons or limbs, one could temporarily improve the destructive power.
In this situation, even flowers and leaves could hurt people.
Free internal force of 150,000. Obviously, this was another level...
After the routine operation on Sunday, Dugu Hong got the long-awaited system prompt:
"The player Dugu Hong had achieved outstanding internal force, damage comprehension of level four, internal perfusion comprehension of level two, bursting of new skill comprehension.”
This was it! Dugu Hong was delighted.
Internal force bursting: When one’s internal force achieved a certain level, one could temporarily obtain a big increase in one of his attributes, such as courage, agility, through a special meridian.
It is obviously it would require this skill to break the rope.
But when Dugu Hong launched this skill in a rush, he felt his excitement had distinguished. All the icons were muted in gray under the internal force burst box.
This meant that he only satisfied the conditions for acquiring this kill. But he hadn’t got all the conditions to apply this skill.
Was it because he had insufficient basic attributes?
This didn’t look like a skill that had restrictions on basic attributes.
Was it because of insufficient internal force?
He still remembered, it was called insignificant with lower than 5000 free internal force; entry level with less than 15000 free internal force; intermediate level with less than 50000 free internal force; capable level with less than 150000 free internal force and now the outstanding level Dugu Hong had.
With fewer than 19,000 channel points, it was called weak; with below 57,000 channel points, it was entry level and then it was the slight achievement level.
The total internal force is less than 24,000 was called insignificant; 72,000 or less was called entry level; and 240,000 or below was call roughly skilled and then master level.
This seemed to indicate that his disposable internal force was level five, total internal force was level four and channel points were only level three…
