Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 496: Counter-intrusion successful, all equipment rendered unusable.

After all, once the installation package was unzipped, the previously continuous attack traffic was blocked as if by an impenetrable gate.

Soon, Liu Zhihong was once again so frightened that he couldn't open his mouth.

Because the Star Shield system automatically generates a dynamic illusion wall, it creates tens of thousands of fake server nodes outside of the real servers.

Each node has a simulated database and system logs; if they hadn't seen it on-site, they would definitely have thought it was real.

The hacker teams that launched their frantic attacks all hit empty air instantly.

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Secret data centers in Silicon Valley, USA.

Xinyu was staring at the progress bar on the screen. The progress bar had reached 78%, and they were about to break through the second gate.

"Damn, this little thing is really hard to break through! No wonder it's a telepathic device?"

"You rotten bug, have you forgotten how much they stole from America back then? Our current technology is all thanks to America. They're not easy to deal with."

"Who are you calling a rotten bug?"

"Stop arguing! It's 99! The second level is this difficult, the third level will be even harder. As far as I know, they have tiered protection..."

Although the ghost said this, a victorious smile had already appeared on his face.

But in the next second, the progress bar suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterwards, countless fake database ports popped up on the screen, instantly filling the entire screen and stretching as far as the eye could see.

The third door, which was about to open, vanished instantly.

They were like people who had wandered into a maze, unable to distinguish between what was real and what was fake.

"What happened?"

The lizard slammed its hand on the table, then instinctively looked around at the people around it.

"Who changed the configuration? Why are there so many virtual nodes?"

"I don't know!" The other hackers nearby panicked instantly. "We didn't do anything; the other side's server suddenly changed."

"No! This is a honeypot! But how could there be such a large-scale honeypot? And the generation rate is too fast!"

Ghost also came over, his face extremely grim: "No, our attack packets are completely ineffective. The enemy's defense logic has completely changed; it's not even on the same level as before."

"Like..."

"It's like suddenly switching to a different operating system!"

As soon as Ghost said this, everyone present stared at him.

"impossible.

How could they possibly switch systems in just over ten minutes?

The lizard gritted its teeth, and the other hackers were even more furious, after all, they were about to gain their freedom... but then...

"Keep attacking! Everyone use all your skills. I don't want to see anyone still there just going through the motions."

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"Go all out! I refuse to believe he doesn't have vulnerabilities; let's exploit every single one!"

For the next half hour, they used every means at their disposal.

Scanning, injection, brute-force attacks—all attacks were like pebbles thrown into the ocean, without making a ripple.

Even the server's entry point can't be found!

All their attacks were redirected to false nodes by the fog wall, rendering their efforts futile.

Just when the entire team was about to give up due to the torment of this new firewall, Shadow suddenly cried out in a hoarse voice:

"Oh no! We've been reverse-tracked!"

The enemy system is tracing back to the source via our jump server!

"How could it be so fast? The first layer of the system was broken through so quickly?"

The shadow suddenly seemed to lose all its strength, and the person became a little flustered.

"What?" Thompson's expression changed drastically. "Cut off the springboard! Cut off all links immediately."

"It's too late!"

The shadow, the ghost's hand flew across the keyboard, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"Their tracing speed is too fast, and they're still sending things to our local terminals!"

"What is it?"

"It's a virus, and a virus we've never seen before."

We don't know how this virus was created, but it has all the effects of a virus and is currently consuming our files.

Before he could finish speaking, the computer screen in front of the ghost suddenly turned blue, and then went black and crashed.

"My computer."

Ghost was so angry that he started cursing. Although it wasn't his main unit, the equipment provided by Silver Lake Capital was not cheap, costing at least 500 million, which was all his property.

Once this job is done, it's his!

And now...

He reached out to press the restart button, but there was no response; the virus had taken over the host's permissions.

Then, like a domino effect, one computer after another in the server room started crashing with blue screens, hard drives spinning wildly, data being rapidly copied and then destroyed.

Moreover, this virus seemed to have its own consciousness, spreading rapidly along the local area network. Whether it was a server or a personal terminal, no one connected to the network was spared.

"Unplug the power! Unplug the power now!"

The lizard roared and quickly ripped off the power cord of its host computer.

But even after unplugging the power, it was too late.

This counterattack virus, automatically generated by the kernel, has already infiltrated the device's BIOS layer and cannot be removed even when the power is turned off.

The device will be rendered unusable immediately upon restarting.

In just 3 minutes, all the top-of-the-line equipment in the secret server room was paralyzed.

These top hackers, renowned in the United States and even globally, felt nothing but horror at the scene of devastation.

They've spent their entire lives as hackers, writing countless viruses and breaking into countless systems. They've always been the ones who outsmarted others.

Today, they were actually defeated by a defensive system. They didn't even get close to the enemy before their own base was destroyed.

"This is impossible... This is not a protection system that a human could write."

Fear flashed in the lizard's eyes.

He couldn't understand how the attack rhythm, which was still normal, could have been reversed in just over ten minutes.

Where did Transsion get this 24/7 protection system from?

"Mr. Thompson, we...we lost." Shadow turned his head and finally admitted the reality. "And our real IP has been exposed."

The other party will be able to find this place very quickly.

We must evacuate immediately!

Thompson came to his senses and realized that once the other side obtained concrete evidence, the users' capital and the US government would completely lose face, and it would also provoke a strong counterattack from China.

They dare to attack even America, so what is a small capitalist company?

"Retreat! Destroy all equipment immediately, and evacuate all personnel immediately."

He gritted his teeth and gave the order, his voice tinged with panic.

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Meanwhile, at the Guangzhou command center, everyone was stunned once again.

They knew the protection system was outrageous, but they never expected it to be so amazing!

"You've already cancelled it?"

"This protection system took them down."

Looking at the system, Liu Zhihong suddenly realized that his good brothers might not be able to afford the price.

After all, it can not only defend, but also automatically counterattack, and it does it so well that it's like something out of a science fiction movie.