406: Planting a Trojan horse in the name of a virus

The massive body of the firewall stiffened within the Void Realm of data.

That huge blue single eye, originally the symbol of this world's highest authority and absolute rationality, now reflected Lin Fan's face, which bore a crazed smile.

A "Pause" command with higher authority, like an invisible lock, jammed all of its underlying logic.

"I have seen through your attack pattern."

Lin Fan hovered before it, the satisfied smile on his face gradually receding, replaced by a cold focus, like a programmer examining code.

He looked at this massive "antivirus software" that could not comprehend the situation before it, and slowly spread his arms.

"Now, it is my turn."

This was not a grandiose declaration of a counterattack.

This was the beginning of implanting a new program.

Lin Fan knew very well that with his current Rank 8 divinity, it was absolutely impossible to destroy this "firewall" representing world-level Law head-on.

A forced attack was no different than using one's fist to smash the CPU of a supercomputer operating at high speed.

Not only would it fail to break, but one would also get burned.

But he had a crazier, and more fitting way to play within this world.

If he were the "virus" of this world.

Then this "firewall" would be the strongest antivirus software.

What is the fastest way to infect the entire System?

It is not to attack every program.

It is to first infect this antivirus software, making it his greatest "accomplice."

Lin Fan's consciousness probed into his Divine Soul.

That [firewall Core Driver Code (Fragment)] he had just obtained was emitting a blue halo that shared the same Origin as this world.

It was like an instruction manual.

An instruction manual on how to "provoke" and "utilize" the behemoth before him.

Lin Fan raised his hand.

He revoked the "Pause" command that he had forcibly written.

Hum—

The firewall's body shuddered violently.

As if restarting from a crash, its massive blue single eye instantly re-locked onto Lin Fan.

Being forcibly interrupted in its core process by a "logic cancer cell" was the greatest insult to its reason for existing.

Its core logic completed billions of calculations in an instant.

It reached a single conclusion.

[Logic Cancer Cell # Alpha-001 # possesses unknown, high-risk intrusion capabilities.]

[Threat Rank re-evaluated: Extinction Level.]

[Executing Final Extinction Protocol: Concept Annihilation Loop.]

It did not use "Existential Correction" again.

The firewall spread its arms, and the data matrix light wings behind it expanded violently.

The rules of the entire world seemed to be mobilized by it.

This time, it was no longer modifying Lin Fan's "existence," but rather intended to completely excise Lin Fan, along with the "concept" he occupied, from the underlying logic of this world, once and for all, permanently.

A desperate sense of nothingness, far exceeding any previous attack, enveloped Lin Fan.

Yet, there was not a trace of fear on Lin Fan's face.

This was exactly what he had been waiting for.

In his field of vision, through that code fragment, he could "see" all the functions and instructions the firewall was mobilizing.

He could clearly predict that the "Concept Annihilation" attack would act upon every logic node of his Divine Soul in 0.001 seconds.

Just at the moment before the attack arrived.

Lin Fan made a move.

He actively stripped away a wisp of his Origin divinity, which was tinged with golden and Chaos colors.

Then, using the [Intermediate Data Structure Insight] ability, he wrapped this wisp of divinity within a forged data shell.

The tag on the shell was: [Error Log: # BUG _ FATAL _ ERROR_0 x0000007A #].

This was the "Trojan" he intended to plant.

A virus sample disguised as a System fatal error, carrying his "Infinite Resurrection" logic.

The next second.

The world-shattering attack arrived.

There was no light, no sound.

Lin Fan's figure, along with the "Error Log" he had forged, was swept into the concept shredder and completely annihilated.

[You have died.]

[Death Assessment: Fancy Way to Die · Active Cooperation · Precise Poisoning.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained the passive skill [Intermediate Data Structure Insight] (Completion 15%).]

[Resurrection Protocol completed.]

[Body reconstruction complete.]

[Warning: Resurrection Anchor stability dropped to 3%.]

Lin Fan opened his eyes once again.

He was still hovering in place, unharmed.

Across from him, the firewall was hovering quietly after executing its fatal blow.

Its massive blue single eye glowed steadily, as if confirming the outcome.

Its core logic clearly recorded that the target, the "Logic Cancer Cell," along with the conceptual area it occupied, had been completely "annihilated."

It no longer existed.

Just at that moment.

A tiny data packet appeared in its information processing queue.

[Error Log: # BUG _ FATAL _ ERROR_0 x0000007A #].

This was the residue of the "Annihilation" attack.

According to the protocol, the firewall needed to read this log, analyze the composition of the "cancer cell," and upload it to the master brain database, in preparation for generating more efficient extermination plans in the future.

It opened the log.

Reading.

Analyzing.

Uploading.

Everything was normal.

But the moment it finished the upload and prepared to leave.

Its massive blue single eye suddenly focused, turning back toward the area it had just "cleared."

There.

That "Logic Cancer Cell," which should have been completely erased from the conceptual level, had appeared once again, completely unharmed.

For the first time, the firewall's blue single eye flickered at a frequency visible to the naked eye.

It was as if a person had blinked in disbelief.

[Impossible...]

[Data redundancy confirmation... Error.]

[Spacetime backtracking detection... Error.]

[Logic judgment... Conflict!]

And Lin Fan, facing it, revealed a smile that suggested a successful prank.

"Surprise."

"I'm back again, again, and again."

"By the way, do you feel... the System is a bit laggy?"

Beep!

Responding to him was an attack beam, faster than before and filled with "anger."

Lin Fan's figure was annihilated once again.

[You have died...]

[... [Intermediate Data Structure Insight] (Completion 20%).]

He was alive again.

At the moment of his death, another forged [Error Log] was accurately received, read, analyzed, and uploaded by the firewall.

Swish!

Another attack.

He died again.

[You have died...]

[... [Intermediate Data Structure Insight] (Completion 25%).]

He was alive again.

The third [Error Log] was received.

This time, before the firewall launched its attack, its massive body exhibited a slight, illogical pause.

0.001 seconds.

But Lin Fan caught it.

The smile on his lips deepened.

He was like a crazed hacker, performing the most primitive yet effective "brute-force attack" on the world's top-tier firewall.

Time and again, he used his own "death" to force-feed virus code to his opponent.

"Faster!"

"Did you not eat?"

"You are a firewall! Show some dignity as a world Law!"

Lin Fan jumped back and forth on the edge of death, mocking it to the extreme.

The firewall had no emotions.

It would only faithfully execute the "Extinction" command.

Swish!

[You have died...]

Swish!

[You have died...]

After Lin Fan had resurrected for the umpteenth time.

A change finally occurred.

The data matrix light wings behind the firewall, which was preparing to launch another attack, suddenly went into disarray.

Countless lines of code cascaded down, interspersed with a large amount of bright red garbled code representing "conflict" and "unknown."

Its raised arm froze in mid-air.

In its massive blue single eye, the pure blue light began to be contaminated by wisps of eerie, flickering red data streams.

[Warning! Core logic encountered unknown contamination...]

[Function library... call failed...]

[Command... conflict... attempting... restart guardian sequence...]

The massive body of the firewall began to tremble violently.

It turned its head sharply and unleashed an attack capable of annihilating concepts at a patch of empty Void Realm nearby.

That space instantly turned into nothingness.

It was like a giant delirious from a virus, beginning to attack all the normal data streams around it at random.

The originally orderly sea of data was stirred into Chaos.

System crash.

Blue screen.

System freeze.

The once majestic "firewall - Guardian Sequence - 01" was now like a broken toy.

Lin Fan hovered not far away, watching this scene quietly.

His eyes flashed with the realization that his plan was working.

His "Trojan" had successfully penetrated the core network of this divine kingdom through the firewall's repeated "log uploads."

He was no longer an isolated "virus."

He had become a "plague" upon this world.

And the strongest antivirus software before him had become his greatest "source of infection."

Just at that moment.

A will far more grand, ancient, and supreme than the firewall slowly awakened from the deepest depths of the sea of data.

It was as if a sleeping emperor had finally been alarmed by the disturbances at the frontier.

A cold command, one that did not belong to Lin Fan's System and was composed of the most fundamental rule runes, resounded throughout the entire network of the divine kingdom.

[Detected large-scale network logic contamination.]

[Contamination source locked: [firewall - Guardian Sequence - 01].]

[Highest command issued:]

[Immediately recall and isolate [firewall - Guardian Sequence - 01], execute "Format Reorganization" program.]

[Designated recall node: Main Brain · matrix core.]