Taiping Prefecture.

Badi Grand Hotel in Seaview District.

After V got out of the traffic station, he went straight here.

This is the address of the commission she received from Gloria, where she will complete today's commission later.

Sneak into the Batty Hotel and steal the data from the Voodoo Gang's server base station.

However, the work of stealing data does not start now, but waits for a signal, a melee that leads to chaos.

Regarding the content of the commission, Gloria made it very clear that V would not act on his own initiative and go into the voodoo gang's lair to cause trouble alone.

What she has to do now is to avoid attracting the attention of surrounding voodoo gang spies, hide her whereabouts, and wait for the opportunity to sneak into the hotel.

The Badie Hotel is now completely occupied by Haitians, and is surrounded by faces of their own people. A stranger from outside the place haunting this place can easily arouse suspicion.

In order to hide her whereabouts, she decided to find a snack bar near the hotel to fill her stomach before she had the strength to work.

When I came to a convenience store window, the owner was also Haitian.

With a calm look on his face, V casually ordered a meal, sat under a sun umbrella on the street with a plate in hand, and started eating by himself.

Regarding the commission he received from Lizzy Bar this time, V felt that the reward was a bit inconsistent with the difficulty of the task.

Gloria offered her a reward of 20,000 euros, which was more than the previous tasks combined, but the content of the commission was to sneak into the Barty Hotel to steal server data.

And in order to cover up her actions, Gloria also specifically emphasized that she must wait for the Voodoo Gang and the Animal Gang to fight to avoid being discovered.

V is not sure what the grudges are between the two gangs, but they are definitely not dealt with in Taiping Prefecture. He just needs to follow Gloria's instructions later.

Think about this.

V couldn't help but sigh, the proprietress of Lizi is not only kind-hearted, but also so generous with her actions. No wonder she has established a foothold in the middleman industry so quickly.

Cyberspace.

This blue digital ocean world is filled with endless data flows and symbol changes, forming a vast program network world.

The darkness in front of Lucy's eyes was gradually dispelled by the blue ocean of data, and the entire consciousness condensed and took shape. Now she looks like a digital elf.

It had been a long time since she had been to this cyberspace world. Facing the familiar ocean of data, she couldn't help but take a deep breath, even though there was no need to breathe here.

With the neurological consciousness data stabilized, Lucy can operate normally in cyberspace.

But she still needs to wait for some prompts, prompts from network monitoring.

soon.

A set of ethereal light blue coats appeared around Lucy. This was a concealment program prepared for her by network surveillance to minimize the possibility of being discovered by the Voodoo Gang and to resist a certain degree of malicious program intrusion.

She gently raised her hand, and the ethereal light blue flew straight towards her, covering her whole body, and the entire data consciousness faded a lot, blending into the surrounding blue ocean.

After loading the stealth protection program, Lucy can start taking action, locating the scope provided by network monitoring in this endless data matrix world, and searching for traces of voodoo gang members.

soon.

A light spot shone in front of Lucy's eyes, shining like a star. It was the network signal point set up by network surveillance at the Empire State Building.

She raised her slender right hand and held it in the air towards the flickering light spot. The data world around her changed like stars, as if she was moving quickly into a data flow tunnel.

It didn't take long.

Lucy arrived at the signal point. This cyberspace matrix was constructed from many block programs.

It seems like entering a world full of pillars, where there is no distinction between heaven and earth, and the measurement of dimensions is lost. It is all about reading, running, intruding programs, etc. based on the link of consciousness.

Lucy casually broke open a pillar, hid inside, integrated with the pillar, disguised as a running program, and then waited for opportunities to observe subtle changes in the surrounding situation and data flow.

The reason why she can easily hide in fixed programs is because the network monitoring ICE is loaded. Otherwise, when she tries to break through the walls of these programs, it will cause program confusion and she will be besieged by the firewall.

If the Voodoo Gang wants to find the source of the signal in this program matrix, it will be much more difficult for the Voodoo Gang to hide than Lucy. This is the home of network surveillance.

Lucy pays careful attention to the surrounding situation, and must be cautious in any actions she takes in cyberspace, otherwise she will be invaded by malicious programs released by the other party, and it is very likely that she will be blamed here.

After confirming that there were no traces anywhere, Lucy began to screen matrix areas one after another, trying to find some clues.

The high-intensity work puts her body under high temperature load, especially the brain nerves, so the principle of deep diving is to do as little as possible and as fast as possible.

She is like a leaping data elf, quietly traveling back and forth between solid programs, screening matrix programs one after another.

Lucy was anxious, and so far she had searched but found nothing.

Either the hackers of the Voodoo Gang have not yet entered the vicinity of the signal source, or their methods are too sophisticated and they have disguised themselves too well.

This is not only a technical contest, but also a time contest.

The Voodoo Gang also has little time left. If they cannot break through the signal source as soon as possible and invade and disrupt the network monitoring base server, sooner or later their home server will be detected by network signal fluctuations.

By then, what awaits them is a pushback by force, not a cyberspace war.

On the Internet, the Voodoo Gang has a natural advantage.

In the material world, the Voodoo Gang is definitely no match for the Animal Gang.

finally.

Lucy has searched most of the area, leaving only a few square matrices, which are the places with the strictest network surveillance firewalls.

No matter who wants to invade from there, the difficulty is several times that of other places.

suddenly.

Lucy, hiding in the solid program, discovered some clues.

She saw some small worm-like programs infiltrating into some solid programs, and hid in without anyone noticing.

However, these solid programs did not attract firewall attention, indicating that they were not destructive viruses.

It is more like a kind of resident program, hiding in the body of the program, lurking and waiting for opportunities.

Worm virus.

What is the Voodoo Gang trying to do?

Do they want to finish their work in one battle, invading and burning down the network monitoring server in one go?

In an area with tighter firewalls, there are also more solid programs and a greater number of worms that can be parasitized.

By then.

Once the Voodoo Gang attacks, most solid network monitoring programs will be paralyzed, causing hardware failure.

They then gathered their strength to break through the firewall from here, resist the counterattack of network surveillance ICE, and directly destroy the signal source.

Then the plan to force the Voodoo Gang will be difficult to realize.

Lucy realized that the situation was not good, stopped, hid in a safe place, continued to wait, waited for the mastermind behind the scenes to come forward, and then called the network to monitor the ICE attack.

Deep dive indoors.

Tang Yu observed various elements on the electronic display and made sure Lucy was safe.

The deep dive moment is the most vulnerable and dangerous time for a cyber hacker, which is equivalent to exposing one's own weaknesses without reservation, without any knowledge of what is happening in the outside world.

Life or death depends entirely on the thoughts of the people waiting outside.

Therefore, even though Tang Yu became a top hacker back then, he rarely conducted deep dives.

He saw Lucy in the water tank, her breathing was still steady, and there were wisps of hot air exhaling from the tip of her nose, indicating that nothing unusual had happened to her in the cyberspace.

Hackers deep in cyberspace lack awareness of the outside world, but they will still show physical symptoms after being attacked, ranging from pain all over the body to smoke in the brain.

Network monitoring agent Mosley in the control room sent a message: "She is in cyberspace and has reached the signal source. Everything is normal now."

Tang Yu estimated that Lucy was not in danger yet, so he asked, "Have you detected any movements in the Voodoo Gang?"

Mosley looked at the signal fluctuation monitoring and characterization images, which did not show any abnormalities. The Voodoo Gang hid network activities very deeply.

But he still knew through some special techniques that the Voodoo Gang had been dispatched. However, he was unable to accurately track them for the time being. Lucy needed to conduct further searches in cyberspace. After discovering the target, he launched network monitoring ICE in a targeted manner.

"Not yet."

"The Voodoo Gang is backed by the Poseidon System. It is a completely independent and hidden sub-network. It usually performs 'action and retreat' style hacking operations without leaving any clues."

"Either our hackers can catch it in advance, or we can wait for the Voodoo Gang to launch an attack and then we can find a way to counterattack."

The initiative of the former lies in the hands of network surveillance, while the initiative of the latter lies in the hands of voodoo gangs.

There are already many Voodoo Gang informants around the Empire State Building, waiting for opportunities to gather information on the periphery. They want to use jammers to block the network surveillance server, but they have obviously failed.

Mosley continued: "The Voodoo Gang is not a good enemy. If we fail to use ICE to trap them at the first time, our deep dive hackers will encounter a great threat."

"Once you have the clues, you can escape immediately after running ICE."

"If the deep dive still yields no results after a while, we can slow down and try other methods."

The method Mosley pointed to was to attack by force, try to arrest one or two Voodoo gang members, and get out of their minds where the Voodoo Gang was hiding.

Tang Yu also agreed with Mosley's statement.

The hacker's deep dive time should not be too long, and the Voodoo Gang is already certain to die, so there is no need for Lucy to take more risks inside.

Tang Yu looked at the electronic screen and still hadn't received Lucy's request signal to leave the cyberspace, which meant that she was still taking action.
To be continued...