191: Chapter 191 A Familiar Encounter: The Swallow Returns

Rushing to the capital, Zhao Yang was picked up by a black SUV as soon as he got off the car.

The license plate was from the Ministry of Public Security, the driver's surname was Cao, and his rank was clearly a Police Superintendent.

Zhao Yang felt a slight stir in his heart, but he didn't ask any more questions.

The street scene along the way began to merge with the capital from another space-time in his memory, but there were still some changes—he didn't see the "Big Pants".

That was the building that made Zhao Yang feel the most uncomfortable in the old space-time.

But in this space-time, a high-rise with a strong sense of science fiction stood there, which was said to be designed with the space station as inspiration.

The car drove into a compound without any signs, and Zhao Yang followed Officer Cao into a large auditorium.

It looked like a large auditorium from the outside, but the inside was completely different: the middle was filled with workstations, surrounded by a circle of screens of various sizes, looking just like a combat command center.

Once he saw the content displayed on the screen, Zhao Yang understood: this was fighting a cyber offensive and defensive war.

"Comrade Zhao Yang, we have been waiting for you."

An old man in his fifties hurried up to meet him, wearing a Zhongshan suit, with short hair, standing straight, and enthusiastically shaking hands with Zhao Yang, "My surname is Wu, just call me Old Wu. The situation is like this..."

It turned out that as the Olympic Games approached, the cyber attacks suffered by the Dragon Kingdom were becoming more and more intensive, and the methods were diverse and hard to defend against.

Although protected by the Great Firewall, there were always places that made people uneasy.

Therefore, the higher-ups gave instructions: before the Olympics, teach these restless guys a lesson to ensure the smooth progress of the Olympic Games.

Zhao Yang, as the designer and creator of the Great Firewall, was directly appointed by the higher-ups to command this operation.

After learning the full story, Zhao Yang just wanted to laugh.

When he was in charge of developing the Great Firewall, he had already designed a perfect counterattack function—when attacked, it could automatically trace the source, strike directly at the root, pursue the attack initiator, and even congest the network ports of the initiator.

But at that time, the higher-ups felt that this function was too aggressive and easy to provide an excuse, so they abandoned it and only kept the defense.

Glancing at the busy crowd below, Zhao Yang secretly complained: If they had known today would happen, why did they do that back then?

Old Wu didn't specifically introduce his identity, but Zhao Yang could see that the person behind him was the State Security.

This operation was a joint action by the State Security, Public Security, and the military.

The purpose of State Security and Public Security was more to ensure the Olympics; while for the military side, Zhao Yang guessed that they wanted to treat this as a cyber war.

Since the military had this intention, Zhao Yang simply let go and let them see what the unadorned nature of cyber warfare was.

Zhao Yang only took less than half an hour to enter the working state, fully utilizing his commanding skills, re-organizing the work arrangements of all personnel, and the efficiency of the command center immediately increased several times.

Subsequently, he directly used the highest authority of the Great Firewall to load the previously hidden functional modules one by one.

Three days later, all functional modules were loaded, and the complete body of the Great Firewall finally revealed its fangs.

One after another, overseas attack sources were ferreted out—attack paths, IP addresses, physical addresses, operator names, sensitive information stored in servers—all were captured by the Great Firewall.

Two weeks later, Zhao Yang began to launch a counterattack against high-value nodes of overseas cyber attacks.

By manipulating the underlying hardware, he caused irreversible crashes in the opponent's System, and even caused the hardware to burn itself out.

Three days later, in America, computer clusters in three companies caught fire.

Five days later, the server rooms of two more European companies caught fire.

A week later, America held a special meeting at the United Nations, emphasizing that the Internet is infrastructure and calling on the world to avoid using the network as a battlefield to launch cyber attacks on other countries.

The Dragon Kingdom didn't say anything, just expressed its support, but the expression of the Dragon Kingdom representative looking like a clown was captured by the media all over the world.

Unfriendly countries and forces admitted defeat, but the temporary cybersecurity team was not disbanded and kept monitoring various trends on the network until the Olympic Games ended smoothly.

This Olympic Games was quite different from the old space-time.

Many athletes were not the ones Zhao Yang was familiar with.

Although the opening ceremony was still directed by the National Master, the opening theme song was changed—the organizing committee selected Passerby's "Star Sea", but didn't use the original English lyrics, instead filling in a new version of Chinese lyrics.

The promotional song used "Victory", and this impassioned war song almost resounded through every competition venue, making the atmosphere of the entire Olympic Games more enthusiastic.

The mainstream Western television stations, whether friendly or unfriendly to the Dragon Kingdom, all used the adjective "the most impassioned in history" when reporting.

After the Olympics ended, Zhao Yang returned to Modu.

Hu Yifei had already started her Ph.D., Zeng Xiaoxian was still a late-night radio host, and the two were still bickering all day long.

The relationship between Sekiya Guchi and Tang Youyou was getting better and better.

Lu Zhanbo had moved into 3502, and when Guo Haiping's daughter Ranran saw Lu Zhanbo, she opened her mouth and called him "Little Uncle-in-law".

Gao Qiqiang and Qin Yumo had also confirmed their relationship.

Lü Ziqiao found Chen Meijia back, and the two were pondering about starting a business, with the project content being related to inspiration.

Zhang Wei received personal tutoring from Zhuge Dasheng and was preparing to challenge the upcoming legal examination.

It was said that he was often mocked by Zhuge Dasheng's daughter, Zhuge Dali, for having a poor memory, which made him lose a lot of Face, and he always complained privately that this sharp-tongued girl would definitely not be able to get married in the future.

In the days when Zhao Yang was away, Lin Wanyu still conscientiously managed Zhao Yang's wealth, and others privately called her Zhao Yang's "Chief Steward".

The Dragon Kingdom won first place in both the gold medal tally and the medal tally at the Olympic Games, and the people were still immersed in a happy atmosphere.

On the other side of the ocean, the subprime mortgage crisis in America had accumulated to a critical value.

As the real estate market began to collapse, the avalanche of the financial crisis arrived.

Immediately after, Lehman Brothers exploded, the American mutual bank collapsed, and the financial tsunami broke out.

As if overnight, an economic recession triggered by the financial crisis enveloped the globe.

All assets fell sharply, a large number of financial institutions went bankrupt, and in some places, people even had to queue for a spot on the rooftop.

But for Zhao Yang, this was a big harvest.

His personal wealth doubled several times.

Qilan Investment made a fortune, and the numbers of the stock market crash all turned into cash on the company's books.

And Trump, who was in America, reaped massive wealth, directly rising to become one of the top families in America.

Next, major economies, including the Dragon Kingdom, would launch large-scale economic stimulus policies.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the wealth harvested from America could be smoothly transferred to the Dragon Kingdom.

Trump carefully selected, finally chose a suitable handler, and sent her to the Dragon Kingdom as the plenipotentiary representative of the Lantis Consortium, fully responsible for investments in the Dragon Kingdom.

Such a key figure, Zhao Yang had to meet.

In the top-floor suite of the Modu International Hotel, Wu Yuedong knocked on the door and said respectfully: "Boss, the person has arrived."

Zhao Yang's gaze turned back from the night view outside the window, and then fixed on the person following behind Wu Yuedong—a beautiful, long-legged woman.

He was stunned for a moment, a flash of heat passing through his eyes: "A sense of déjà vu... the swallow returns."