The hackers of the Voodoo Gang have been quite smug recently.
Since a hacker named Hua Tiao from the Voodoo Gang led a faction to split from the gang and moved to Dog Town, the strength of the Voodoo Gang hackers in Taiping Prefecture has visibly declined.
Throughout 2071, the Voodoo Gang in Taiping Prefecture has been trying to restore its former prestige and reestablish its dominance over the region's network.
As of today, it must be said that the actions of the Voodoo Gang hackers have begun to show results.
They have almost regained their monopoly over the Cyberspace of Taiping Prefecture, even forcing the locals to go offline, openly attacking deeply submerged cyber hackers, and engaging in cyber extortion...
Meanwhile, the Voodoo Gang in Dog Town hasn't been running a charity either. Within Dog Town, they play the same game, but relatively speaking, they follow the rules— you can surf the internet safely by paying them...
Doesn't that sound hilarious? But that's the reality; in the Cyber World, you even have to pay a gang internet fees.
Even ordinary people who don't need to go deep suffer from it; otherwise, if your device gets online and some hacker targets you, they'll trace your trouble back through the internet line.
It is precisely because of the Voodoo Gang's high-intensity joint strikes that nearly all of Taiping Prefecture's networks have become the Voodoo Gang's own local area network, except for people like Mercer who occasionally pass by without concern.
Other hackers usually avoid the network domain of Taiping Prefecture, and even if they must go in, they come and go quickly.
The network here usually resembles a tranquil blue ocean, with ripples only appearing when the Voodoo Gang takes action.
However, today, a menacing giant whale appeared in this blue ocean of data.
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"Brigitte, our detection program placed in Taiping Prefecture has detected an unusual network signal fluctuation. Should we organize a team to check it out?"
In Taiping Prefecture, inside the server room of the Voodoo Gang building, a hacker from the gang enthusiastically approached their leader, Brigitte.
Brigitte replied, her face expressionless, while staring at the programs continuously running on her computer, "It might be those traitors led by Hua Tiao fishing. Be careful."
"Don't worry, we'll bring a few brothers with us. I'll see how the junk they've cobbled together measures up against our Sea God!"
The hacker laughed and called a few close friends over to the hacker chair: "Let's see how long today's unlucky soul can last in our hands.
I've just developed a new Black Ice Program. When the time comes, don't fight over it with me. I want to test if it's any good!"
"Heh, just make sure they don't get away." Another female hacker merely exhaled a puff of smoke before placing her cigarette in the ashtray: "Hurry up, I've got a dinner date."
"Keep an eye on it, and if something unexpected happens, don't forget to disconnect them and switch the Sea God Server back to local network mode in time."
Brigitte casually reminded them.
A hacker writing a program on a laptop simply responded with a hum without looking up.
Then, as the cooling beneath a few hacking chairs started up, a total of four Voodoo Gang hackers teamed up for a deep dive into Cyberspace.
In fact, under normal circumstances, the Sea God Server of the Voodoo Gang isn't always connected to the internet. This is to guard against the Voodoo Gang within Dog Town and infiltration by Internet Supervision.
But when their servers connected to the network, they revealed the monstrous appearance the Sea God Server should have, like a giant deep-sea beast.
This enormous sea beast looked like a hundred-meter long serpent with a crocodile's head, perhaps inspired by the Hydra, with a snake's body on top and the lower body resembling a large lizard with back spines, sharp claws, and green scales.
Even in its cyber form, it gave a sticky, disgusting, and horrific feeling.
The Sea God Server, designed specifically to penetrate the Black Wall, essentially functions as a large-scale attack system.
This attack system was specifically created to deploy and use various Black Ice Programs, capable of both stealthily digging through the Black Wall and destroying any hacker opponents encountered in Cyberspace.
This is the biggest reliance of the Voodoo Gang for running rampant online.
When the four Voodoo Gang hackers transformed in Cyberspace into virtual images resembling 'Ironblood Warriors,' with dreadlocks and camouflage painted faces,
they eagerly set off stepping on the gigantic sea beast incarnation of the Sea God Server, accelerating toward the IP address detected by the detection program.
But when they reached the designated location, what they saw was a mysterious hacker standing still in Cyberspace, head down, seemingly lost in thought.
The expressions of the Voodoo Gang hackers grew slightly serious, judging from the detailed clothing on the opposite side and the black cat perched on the shoulder, staring intently at their group with lively eyes.
Their opponent was nothing like the pushover who had accidentally strayed into the network domain of Taiping Prefecture they had imagined.
Exchanging glances, one of the hackers cautiously asked, "Who are you? What are you doing in this Cyberspace? Taiping Prefecture's network doesn't welcome strangers!"
Under their gaze, the hacker turned his face to reveal a somewhat eerie smiling mask.
"I thought you would attack me directly."
As Mercer's mechanical synthesized voice echoed, a hacker from the Voodoo Gang brazenly launched a Sorcery Puppet attack.