104: Chapter 104 Using a Trillion as a Lucky Charm?

In the No. 1 Detention Center of Donghai City, the iron bars of the holding cell were ice-cold.

Wang Fugui sat cross-legged on the hard bed, his eyes bloodshot and pupils unfocused. He seemed to be dazed, but in reality, the System interface in his mind was flickering frantically.

"Since you don't want me to live, then let's all die together! I'm going to spend all the money I've ever had today! I want every bank card in Donghai City to have ten extra zeros in its balance!"

The muscles in Wang Fugui's face twitched slightly due to extreme excitement.

[Beep—Ultimate command confirmed.]

[Bypassing physical network restrictions... Building quantum transmission channel...]

[Target: All active personal bank accounts in Donghai City.]

[Transfer amount set: Random distribution. Total: One trillion.]

[Launch!]

Boom!

No sound could be heard in the real world, but in the ocean of bits within the financial network, a tsunami erupted instantly.

No. 44 Hongqi Road, third basement level.

A piercing red alarm sounded without warning, and dozens of large surveillance screens instantly turned blood red.

"Director! Data overflow! Serious overflow!"

The bank president's call went directly to Director Gu's private line. His voice was laced with tears, and one could even hear the sound of a cup being smashed on the other end: "Director Gu! It's crazy! It's all gone crazy! Just in the last second, our backend data volume surged fifty million times! There is an unknown flow of funds frantically pouring into every account! If this goes through, a steamed bun in Donghai City will cost twenty million tomorrow!"

Gu Changan stood in front of the command console, still holding that thermos cup.

He watched the red curve on the screen rising almost vertically, his face as calm as stagnant water.

"What are you panicking about?"

Gu Changan set the phone to speaker mode, his voice steady and powerful: "This is a terrorist attack, not a windfall. As long as it hasn't landed, it's not money, it's a data bomb."

Beside him, Chen Xiaobei's fingers tapped on the Keyboard, creating afterimages, his forehead covered in sweat: "Boss, this guy is risking his life this time! This is a source injection at the System level; it's like pouring poison into the main pipeline of a water treatment plant. Physical network disconnection won't be fast enough!"

"Who told you to disconnect the network?"

Gu Changan put down the thermos, his eyes like torches: "Open the floodgates. Let him transfer it."

The command hall instantly fell into dead silence.

Everyone looked at Gu Changan in astonishment.

"Open it?" Chen Xiaobei swallowed, "Boss, if that one trillion gets in, our financial System will truly become scrap paper."

"That's the way of the old era."

Gu Changan took a black card out of his pocket and gently inserted it into the card slot of the command console.

On the card was a line of small gold-stamped characters: [DCEP · Central Control].

"In this country, the flow of every cent must pass through the clearing nodes of the central bank's digital currency System." Gu Changan braced his hands on the command console, his eyes sharp, "Wang Fugui's System operates on old web novel logic, thinking that having numbers means you can exchange them for goods. But in reality, unverified numbers are not even as good as Happy Beans."

He pressed the Enter key hard.

"Activate the 'Black Hole Protocol.' Mark the abnormal data source across the entire network, and define this flow of funds as 'illegal virus code' for me."

Inside the detention center.

In his mind, Wang Fugui watched the progress bar soar to 100%, a ferocious, manic laugh appearing on his face.

"Tremble! You poor wretches! Feel the fear of being drowned by money!"

However, one second passed.

Ten minutes passed.

The outside world was quiet.

The anticipated riot did not happen; the detention center guards were still patrolling calmly, and even the television news was still broadcasting the midday weather forecast.

"What's going on? Where is the money? Did the transfer succeed?" Wang Fugui pulled at his hair in anxiety.

[Beep—Data transmission complete. The other party has received it.]

"If they received it, why is there no reaction?" Wang Fugui roared.

Underground command center.

Gu Changan watched the huge vortex-shaped icon on the screen.

That massive flow of one trillion in funds, as soon as it touched the bank System's firewall, was like a clay ox entering the sea.

"Report! Black Hole Protocol is in effect!"

The technician shouted excitedly: "The central bank's anti-money laundering System automatically identified the abnormal characteristics; all transfer requests from this source have been blocked outside the settlement layer! Interception rate 100%!"

Gu Changan sneered: "If you want to pour dirty water into the ocean, you have to ask the ocean if it agrees. Xiaobei, don't waste such good traffic."

"Understood!"

Chen Xiaobei rubbed his hands excitedly: "Data diversion starting! Target: National Supercomputing Center AI training model."

"Mr. Wang's assist this time is beautiful! Our new generation of financial risk control AI was just worrying about not having enough magnitude of malicious attack samples for stress testing."

Thus, that "huge sum" of one trillion, enough to buy half the Earth, didn't even make a sound and directly became a free sparring sandbag for the national supercomputer.

Gu Changan picked up the microphone on the table and connected to the city-wide financial broadcasting System.

"Attention all units, this is Gu Changan. The System fluctuation just now was a national-level financial security stress test exercise. The exercise is now concluded, the data has been rolled back, no need to panic. Repeat, this was just an exercise."

Wang Fugui was completely dumbfounded.

He watched in his mind as the number representing the funds returned to zero, and then watched it disappear without any effect.

"Impossible... This is impossible!"

He jumped up from the bed, pacing in circles like a trapped beast.

"Is this System fake? Why is the transfer useless? Did they pull all the network cables?"

[Host, it is detected that this plane uses extremely high-level digital currency tracking technology. Our funds lack legal source markers and have been determined by the System to be invalid garbled code.]

"Garbled code? My money is garbled code?"

Wang Fugui was trembling with rage, a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes: "If a transfer doesn't work, then I'll spend it! Let those people outside holding my supplementary cards swipe! Go buy! Go empty out all the luxury stores for me!"

"System! Issue an order to all bound Puppets! Unlimited overdraft! Right now, swipe until you break every POS machine in Donghai City!"

In the center of Donghai City, at a top-tier luxury mall.

Several young people with suspicious expressions rushed into the store, each holding a black card, frantically slapping them against the counter.

"Wrap up this whole row of bags for me! Swipe the card!"

The sales assistant was startled, trembling as they took the card and swiped it on the POS machine.

Beep—

This time, it did not show "Insufficient balance."

The POS machine's screen suddenly turned red, emitting a sharp alarm sound.

[Warning! E-CNY anti-money laundering risk control triggered!]

[Account status: Suspected major financial fraud.]

[Current location locked.]

Before that young person could react, his phone suddenly lit up automatically. The screen forcibly popped up the Amap navigation route to the nearest police station and began broadcasting at maximum volume:

"Turn right at the intersection ahead, walk 500 meters to reach the Xinhua Road Police Station. Surrender now to seek leniency. Please do not attempt to escape; your identity information has been uploaded to the Skynet System."

"What the f*ck?!"

The young person was so scared that the black card in his hand fell straight into the sewer, and he turned and ran.

But after running only two steps, the advertisement on the large mall screen suddenly cut off, replaced by Gu Changan's cold face.

"What are you running for?"

The Gu Changan on the screen seemed to be staring right at him, his tone as plain as chatting about daily life: "In this era of connectivity, as long as I want to, I can check the production year of the bottle of water you bought. You're using an illegally generated fake card to spend money within a digital currency System that monitors the entire chain?"

Gu Changan pointed behind the young person.

Two plainclothes Special Police officers who were shopping suddenly sprang into action, using a standard grappling move to pin the person firmly to the floor.

"This is simply insulting our intelligence."

Inside the detention center.

Wang Fugui listened to the series of [Task Failed], [Puppet Arrested], and [Funds Frozen] notifications coming from the System in his mind, and he collapsed onto the floor.