The deputy leader of the hacker group, codenamed "Compound Eye Spider", was the first to be killed.
After stealing the startup permission of the universal printer from the database and sending it to Booker, the hacker group's task was completed. Right now, the entire temporary operations base is filled with an atmosphere of half-time champagne.
Among the few calm people, Liao Qi was discussing the next work arrangement with the leader of the hacker group, while the deputy leader "Compound Eye Spider" was leading the team responsible for the aftermath to clear away the traces of previous intrusions. .
At that time, Liao Qi noticed that after the three members of the aftermath team connected to the network, they immediately entered the rapid eye movement state, and the muscles on their faces began to twitch unnaturally. He was vaguely uneasy, but he didn't pay too much attention.
After all, in a state of deep connection, it is not uncommon to experience similar physiological states due to abnormal nerve discharges - accidents such as choking to death on one's own saliva when deeply connected to the Internet do not make the news nowadays.
But when the vital signs detector sounded a sharp alarm, everyone in the entire temporary combat base panicked.
"Didn't you see that all three of their signals are 'flat'? What are you doing here standing there?! Go and get the adrenaline!"
The team leader shouted, jumped up suddenly, and rushed towards the three people in the aftermath team. However, it was only a few steps away. When he rushed over, the deputy team leader "Compound Eye Spider" had already tilted his head to the side and died completely.
"How is this possible, how is this possible..."
he muttered in disbelief.
"It's the apoptotic program that's activated."
A voice echoed behind him, and he turned around. At this moment, Liao Qi was looking solemnly at the straight line drawn on the vital signs detector.
At this time, someone on the side hurriedly took a hypodermic syringe and without saying a word, inserted the needle into the chests of the remaining two people. Following a sigh that sounded like a dying person, the other two people immediately began to tremble violently like chaff.
However, this flashback-like reaction didn't last long before it quickly calmed down.
useless……
Looking at the "flat line" on the vital signs detector, Liao Qi thought to himself.
If they had just suffered a hacker attack, these people would have stayed in the hospital for a few days at most with the first aid equipment they had prepared in advance.
But this was not a physical attack using surrounding equipment, but a direct activation of the apoptotic program of these three people.
Brain death is something that cannot be saved by gods.
"But how is that possible?"
The leader of the hacker team stood up and made way for the medical staff. He gritted his teeth and suppressed his excitement. The comrade he had been with day and night was talking and laughing one second, and then let go inexplicably the next second. Human world. After the absurd emotion dissipated for a moment, his heart was already filled with grief and anger.
That emotion needs to be vented.
So, he walked up to Liao Qi and directly grabbed his collar.
"The whole plan was designed by you, and you also implanted the Trojan horse program before. We are just using the 'World Wide Web' as a medium to carry out hacking missions... Tell me, how could they die from the apoptotic program?!"
He said, using both hands to lift up the man in front of him who was appointed by Booker to be the next leader of Icarus.
However, even though he tried his best, blushed, and even pulled the other person's collar with a "tearing" sound, the other person still stood motionless - probably he was angry at this moment, and for a moment He suddenly forgot that the person in front of him was the adjuster of Depth 2.
"Calm down first."
Liao Qi waited for the other party's emotions to gradually calm down and his eyes to become clear before speaking softly.
As he spoke, he gently placed his palms on the other person's hands that tore apart his collar, and then moved gently, but he did not allow the other person to pull away without any resistance.
"It immediately 'flatlined' in just three seconds, and the surrounding equipment showed no trace of being hacked. The only possible cause of their death is that the 'apoptosis program' was activated."
Liao Qi said calmly and slowly.
Then, he continued without waiting for the other party to speak:
"I know that the apoptotic program will only be activated when the stand-in program dives into the abyss and is destroyed. These are all things written in the protocol, and their reliability is guaranteed through the blockchain. Take advantage of a few people.
"so……"
He took a deep breath:
"Excluding all impossibilities, no matter how unbelievable the rest is, it is still the truth - the three of them previously entered the abyss of the dark web and encountered unexpected events there."
Suddenly, everyone present fell silent.
Including the leader of the hacker group who was angry with him before.
After being silent for a long time, he looked at himself as if he were looking at a madman.
"Are you crazy?"
His voice was hoarse.
"No."
To this, Liao Qi answered briefly, and then he walked to the side of the corpses.
"Without a deep dive interface, how could they accidentally enter the Abyss Dark Web when the Styx Firewall still exists?"
Someone next to me asked.
"How much do you know about deep dive interfaces?"
Liao Qi put his hand on the edge of the "Compound-Eyed Spider"'s reclining chair. Looking at his former teammate, his knuckles unconsciously exerted force and squeezed the anti-fall guardrail out of shape.
The others looked at each other in shock when they saw this scene.
Taking a deep breath, Liao Qi once again asked in a tone that did not match his usual reaction:
"How much do you know?"
About the deep dive interface that can pass through the Styx Firewall and dive into the abyss darknet. Almost all the forces that hold deep dive interfaces will not mention it too much.
Most people only know that deep diving interfaces are divided into four levels: α, β, γ, and δ. The higher the level, the greater the bandwidth that can be endured through the interface, the more stable the diving environment, and the deeper the depth that can be reached.
An α-level deep dive interface is a necessary condition for becoming an Olympian god. It is said that those mercenary kings who have exceeded the limits of human intelligence and are "a city of one man" have mastered beta-level deep dive interfaces.
In addition, it is also certain that the deep dive interface must be a real physical interface in basic reality, and not just authentication information such as secret keys or permissions.
After all, during the cyber domain war, countless companies, organizations, and individuals tried to beat each other's brains out, so there must be a tangible carrier for what they were fighting for.
But what is that thing that actually exists?
"From now on, no one should access the network of Theseus Cargo from the previous route. I estimate that the activated interface is eroding their internal network...their sacrifice is valuable."
Liao Qi said.
At this moment, he recalled what the goddess of the moon had said before.
Hecate called the universal printer a "portal" between cyberspace and reality... She had already hinted to this extent at the time, but she didn't even think about it further.
"That universal printer is a deep dive interface." (End of chapter)
