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Nanchao Nation, February 15th, 12: 44 am local time.
Shi Lei had used his unique skill of giving someone a taste of their own medicine. 99.99% of the internet users in Nanchao Nation were disconnected from the internet.
A large number of Nanchao Nation netizens, who had not slept until late at night, flooded the streets and exchanged information with each other because of a previous rumor.
When all telephone and internet communications were blocked, even if the Nanchao Nation wanted to quickly and efficiently refute the rumor, it would not be an easy task.
Moreover, under such circumstances, no matter what the Nanchao Nation government did to refute the rumor, they would not be able to gain the trust of all the people.
Unless they immediately restored telephone and internet communications.
But how could such a thing be possible?
Shi Lei imitated the method used by the multinational hacker alliance to hack into the Shuangqing City's power grid management system. He wrote a virus called 'Darkness Bringer', which was specifically targeted at the routers and modems of private users in Nanchao Nation. It took over the hardware system of the routers and modems from the lowest level of the system.
The modems and routers were the exchange terminals between individual users and the internet. Once there was a problem with them, the user would naturally be unable to connect to the internet.
However, Shi Lei had set up a very sinister trick. Although Darkness Bringer had taken over the internal hardware system of the routers and modems, the routers and modems would not feed back any error information to the user's computer.
Moreover, the LED lights of the routers and modems that showed their status were also controlled by Darkness Bringer. They would feed back the lights as if they were operating normally, to prevent the user from discovering them.
Darkness Bringer had taken over the hardware system of the routers and modems from the lowest level of the system. Even if the user chose to reset the routers and modems with one click, it would not have any effect.
Ordinary users would not be able to discover the problem with the modems and routers, and the internet service providers would not suspect that it was a problem with the routers and modems.
Because of such a large-scale problem, the internet service providers would only think of more complicated problems instead of such a simple reason.
"Sir, according to the system's automatic statistics, apart from the four major types of internet, there are less than 3,000 ordinary internet users left in Nanchao Nation," Izur reported to Shi Lei.
Shi Lei nodded and smiled. "Izur, continue with the second phase of the plan!"
“Yes，Sir！”
Izur obeyed Shi Lei's orders. Even if the second phase of the plan would have even more serious consequences, and even bring a lot of casualties to the South Dynasty, Izur only obeyed Shi Lei's orders. He would not consider whether or not the orders were reasonable and legal.
Shi Lei's plan was to give them a taste of their own medicine. The South Dynasty, Voisin, and other countries' hacker alliance used a worm virus to hack into Shuangqing City's power grid management system. The second stage of Shi Lei's plan was to use Darkness Emissary to invade the South Dynasty's power grid system!
Nanchao was a small country, so the power grid was simpler. With Izur's help, Shi Lei quickly completed the plan to hack into Nanchao's power grid management system.
The Southern Dynasty's power grid was divided into six regions.
Among them, Gyeonggi Province, Gangwon Province, and Jeju Province each have their own power grid system.
North and South Chungcheong, North and South Gyeongsang, and North and South Jeolla used the same electrical grid system.
In particular, Seoul in Gyeonggi Province had a dual power grid system. One was the main power grid, and the other was the backup power grid.
In other words, if there was a problem with Seoul's main power grid, the backup power grid could also replace the main power grid.
Moreover, the backup power grid was a second system independent of the main power grid. It would not be affected by the main power grid.
There was another special situation. Due to Nanchao's small territory, the entire country's power grid was connected. In other words, even if there was a problem with Gyeonggi Province's power grid, the power grids of Gangwon Province and North and South Chungcheong could also transmit power to Gyeonggi Province's power grid to ensure Gyeonggi Province's power grid.
The entire country's power grid was connected, except for Jeju Province, which was isolated overseas!
If Shi Lei wanted to solve the power supply of the entire South Dynasty, he had to cut off the entire power grid management system of Nanchao at the same time.
Otherwise, it was very likely that he would not be able to achieve his goal.
"Izur, how many IWNSeed do we have in Nanchao?" Shi Lei asked.
In order to hack into the entire power grid system of Nanchao at the same time without using Dream Entertainment's computing resources, Shi Lei built IWNSeed into the Mouth of Darkness when he created it.
Once a computer was attacked by the Mouth of Darkness, not only would it cut off the user's connection to the Internet, but it would also leave an external channel open.
At the same time, it would also modify the user's computer security policy.
IWNSeed was the seed of IWN's secret network. This meant that the computer planted with IWNSeed would become a computing node of IWN's secret network.
IWNSeed included in the Mouth of Darkness would modify the computer's security policy. First, it would disable the computer's feedback signal. When the signal was disabled, the LED display on the front panel would not notify the user that the computer was still in use.
Secondly, IWNSeed would also control the CPU .Fan, which was the CPU's cooling fan, and disable it to zero speed by default.
This way, when the CPU was working, the fan would not make any noise and attract the attention of the computer's user.
IWNSeed would implement the same strategy for users with independent graphics cards. It would directly disable the fan of the independent graphics card or the pump of the water cooling equipment.
IWNSeed would also block the video output interface to prevent the screen display from displaying any image information.
IWNSeed would also control the writing and reading of the hard disk. Its purpose was also to reduce the generation of sound.
IWNSeed would virtualize the memory into a hard disk as a temporary storage space.
Anyway, IWNSeed did not need a lot of hard disk space.
As for whether the computer planted with IWNSeed would have any adverse effects if it worked with poor cooling, such as burning the CPU, burning the independent graphics card, or burning the motherboard, what did that have to do with Shi Lei?
After all, it was not Shi Lei's computer, right?
Could they still find Shi Lei and ask for compensation?
Shi Lei only wanted to say that if their computer was still within the warranty period, then he would congratulate them.
As for the situation where the computer exceeded the warranty period, they should be grateful to Shi Lei for giving them a reason to replace the computer.
"Sir, we have planted a total of more than 7.6 million IWNSeed computers in Nanchao. Currently, we have a total of 892 Tflops of loose distributed computing resources," Izur responded to Shi Lei.
In the era of 2008, the central processing units of computers were far less powerful than those of later generations.
Using the E8400 released by Intel in 2008 as an example, this was a dual-core, dual-threaded central processing unit with a frequency of 3.0 GHz.
After a series of conversions, the computing resources of the E8400 were about 24 Gflops. 1 Tflops was equivalent to 1,000 Gflops. In other words, at least 40 computers with the E8400 central processing unit were required to have 1 Tflops of computing resources at full power.
However, in the era of 2008, the E8400 central processing unit was not a low-end product. It was a high-end product!
Even though IWNSeed had planted more than 7.6 million computers in Nanchao, it still only obtained close to 900 Tflops of computing resources.
After all, Izur could not allow the computers that were banned by IWNSeed to run at full power in order to prevent their central processing units from being destroyed.
However, close to 900 Tflops of computing resources was a terrifying number, even if it was loose distributed computing resources.
A smile appeared on Shi Lei's face. Previously, Shi Lei had estimated in his heart that 300 Tflops of computing resources would be enough.
Now that he had nearly tripled the estimated value, how could Shi Lei not be happy?
"Izur, integrate and optimize all IWNSeed computers and build a Second IWN!" Shi Lei ordered.
The so-called Second IWN was the "second IWN Secret Web". It was also a temporary IWN Secret Web. Once this operation was over, the Second IWN Secret Web would be terminated.
At the same time, all IWNSeed computers would activate their self-deletion function and completely delete all information about their existence.
"Please wait a moment, sir. The system is integrating and optimizing the IWNSeed. It will take 2 minutes and 57 seconds to complete the construction of the Second IWN," Izur replied Shi Lei.
Shi Lei waited patiently for three minutes.
Seconds ticked by. After close to three minutes, Izur reported, "Sir, the construction of the Second IWN has been completed. The system has automatically divided the Second IWN into seven parts. They will be used to attack the six power grid management systems of Nanchao and the backup system of Gyeonggi Province."
"Let's begin!" Shi Lei's hands quickly tapped on the keyboard.
When Shi Lei's order was issued, Nanchao, which was shrouded in darkness, was plunged into an even greater crisis.
If someone were to take a plane and fly above Nanchao, they would see a spectacular scene.
All the lights in Nanchao, starting from Gangwon Province all the way to Jeju Province, were disappearing rapidly. The whole country was plunged into darkness.
There was no internet, no telephone network, no electricity supply, and it was late at night. The situation in Nanchao was really bad...
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