83: Chapter 83 Requiem? No, it's the Dragon Kingdom's War Song!

In the command room, everyone's eyes were focused on Su Che.

Those gazes were mixed with shock, worry, and a hint of… fear.

Lieutenant General Peng's throat felt dry, and he subconsciously swallowed.

"Engineer Su, what are you trying to do?"

"Doesn't he want to hear a requiem?"

Su Che turned around, his face wearing an almost cruel calmness.

"I will personally command the Pangu Quantum Computer to compose a grand funeral march for him, for the entire Ida Heavy Industries, and for everyone involved in the 'Amaterasu' project."

He took out the captured "Ghost Spider" core storage unit, walked to the main console, and connected it to an independent analysis port.

"This quantum virus is designed very ingeniously."

Su Che's fingers turned into blurs on the keyboard, and on the screen, countless lines of code cascaded down like a waterfall.

"It utilizes the non-local properties of quantum entanglement; once it enters the Pangu Quantum Computer, it will instantly infect all connected quantum nodes, causing irreversible logical collapse."

"It is just like a drop of ink falling into clear water."

Deputy Director Qin felt a chill down his spine; he could not imagine what would happen to the Quantum Computer that the Dragon Country had poured so much heart and soul into if this thing really succeeded.

A pile of scrap metal.

"However…"

Su Che changed his tone, his voice laced with coldness.

"Ida Yuji miscalculated one thing."

"He does not know that our cup of 'water' is not ordinary water."

He slammed the Enter key.

"It is boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius that we just heated up with the Dragon Chip!"

From the analysis port, he dragged the complete structure of the virus code directly into another independent computing module.

The core of that module was exactly that freshly minted 3-nanometer quantum chip!

"Deputy Director Qin, I need you to give me authorization."

Su Che said without turning his head.

"The highest authority that will allow me to temporarily take over all international fiber optic cable exits from the Dragon Country to Sakura Country."

Deputy Director Qin's hand trembled.

This kid is planning a counterattack?!

Lieutenant General Peng did not hesitate at all and immediately picked up the phone.

"Old Qin, give it to him!"

"I will bear the consequences!"

"Also, notify the UN Cybersecurity Council simultaneously that we are conducting a 'network cleanup' operation under an emergency state, and everything is compliant!"

Three minutes later.

Deputy Director Qin personally inserted an electronic authorization into Su Che's console.

"Engineer Su, the path… has been opened."

"Very good."

Su Che watched the screen as the virus code was being frantically parsed and reconstructed by the Dragon Chip at billions of times the speed, his eyes shining terrifyingly bright.

"The essence of a virus is information."

"And the transmission of information requires a carrier."

"Ida Yuji's virus wants to hitch a ride on our Pangu Quantum Computer to pollute our world."

"Then I will…"

Su Che's voice became extremely soft, yet it seemed to drop the temperature of the entire command room by several degrees.

"Transform his virus into a Trojan horse."

"Then, equip this Trojan horse with a warp drive."

"And then, floor the gas pedal and kick it straight into the main servers of Sakura Country!"

He slammed his hands together on the keyboard, making a crisp sound!

"Let's begin!"

"With the Dragon Chip as the sword, and the Pangu Quantum Computer as the bow!"

"Target: Sakura Country, Ida Heavy Industries Central Data Center!"

"Target: Prime Ministers Official Residence, Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office server!"

"Target: Tokyo Electric Power, Mitsubishi Bank, Shinkansen dispatch system…"

Every time he named a target, Deputy Director Qin's eyelids twitched wildly.

This was no longer a counterattack.

This was to… wipe them all out in one wave?!

"Attack initiated!"

Su Che slammed the execute key.

"Hum—"

That tiny Dragon Chip instantly unleashed unparalleled computing power!

The modified quantum virus was no longer a drop of ink.

It had turned into a… "digital worm" with the ability to replicate and evolve infinitely!

It flowed along the opened international fiber optic cables, like a ghost spanning physical space, instantly pouring into the online world of Sakura Country!

...

Sakura Country, Prime Ministers Official Residence.

Takaishi Sayuki and Ida Yuji were kneeling in the tea room, with an encrypted satellite phone placed in front of them.

They were waiting.

Waiting for "Ghost Spider" to send back the news of success.

"Your Excellency Takaishi, please rest assured."

On Ida Yuji's face was the smugness of having victory in his grasp.

"My 'Amaterasu' is a perfect work of art; it will disintegrate the computing myth that the Dragon Country people are most proud of from the inside."

"By then, their 'Southern Gate' will forever be nothing more than a scrap of waste paper."

Takaishi Sayuki nodded with satisfaction.

Suddenly.

The wooden door of the tea room was slammed open, and a secretary scrambled in, his face devoid of all color.

"Prim… Prime Minister! Something is wrong!"

"Baka!" Takaishi Sayuki rebuked angrily, "What kind of behavior is this!"

"Ida Heavy Industries… Ida Heavy Industries' central server… has been… has been attacked!"

Ida Yuji stood up abruptly, his face full of disbelief.

"Impossible! My server has the world's top-tier physical firewall!"

The secretary was on the verge of tears.

"It's not an attack… it's… it's 'erosion'!"

"All of our core data, all confidential files, all design blueprints… are self-destructing in a way that cannot be understood! They are turning into a pile of garbled code!"

Ida Yuji's face turned deathly pale instantly.

Before he could even react.

The secretary's phone rang frantically.

"Report! Tokyo Electric Power system… paralyzed!"

"Report! Shinkansen dispatch system has massive logical errors, nationwide lines are urgently suspended!"

"Report! Mitsubishi Bank core database… wiped clean!"

"Report! Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office… server… has fused!"

One piece of bad news after another, like the most intensive artillery shells, blasted Ida Yuji and Takaishi Sayuki until they were battered and bruised.

Takaishi Sayuki's body went limp, and she collapsed to the floor, murmuring to herself.

"A requiem…"

"This is… the real requiem…"

Ida Yuji rushed to a terminal like a madman, attempting to connect to his company network.

On the screen, it was no longer the familiar login interface.

But a sea of blood red.

In the center of the blood-red background, there was only one line of Chinese characters composed of the simplest binary code.

[——Those who offend us, though they be far away, must be punished!]

"Pfft—"

Looking at that line of text, Ida Yuji felt a fishy sweetness rush straight to his throat, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the entire screen red.

...

Dragon Country, Xishan Command Room.

Su Che slowly stood up from his chair.

On the main screen behind him, countless light dots representing the core network nodes of Sakura Country were extinguishing in patches, turning into a dead silence of darkness.

The whole process took less than ten minutes.

Deputy Director Qin and Lieutenant General Peng were completely speechless.

They looked at Su Che's back, as if they were looking at a… demon god who had walked out of mythology.

Just at this moment.

An encrypted communication request suddenly popped up.

The source of the request was not any unit within the country.

But an unfamiliar quantum encrypted channel from across the ocean.

The header of the channel had only one word.

[Prometheus].

Su Che's eyebrows raised slightly.

He knew this name.

That was the technology alliance formed with the Pan-Pacific Group, where Jiang Yingxue was located, as its core, and Prometheus was one of the largest families behind the scenes controlling this top-tier technology alliance of the Eagle Nation.

Lieutenant General Peng immediately became vigilant, his voice tense.

"Don't answer it!"

That was not an order, but the most direct battlefield intuition of a veteran facing unknown danger.