Lin Qian "stands" in this sea of stars, looking for a path to the deep network.
Lu Mingzhe's server is not on the public tier.
It is hidden under at least seven layers of encryption protocols, each with independent defense mechanisms.
Lin Qian began to dive.
The first layer is the basic firewall, which appears as an array of constantly rotating gears.
He passed. It took forty-seven seconds.
The second layer is the biometric lock.
A huge eye appeared in the void, its pupils scanning the characteristics of his consciousness.
Lin Qian carried a brainwave sample extracted from a video of Lu Mingzhe's public speech and disguised it as the thinking pattern of a legitimate user.
The eyes stared for three seconds, then closed and gave way to the passage.
The third floor, the fourth floor...
With each deeper level, the environment becomes more bizarre.
On the fifth floor, Lin Qian saw fragments of his own memory.
A young woman smiled and reached out to touch his face.
On the sixth floor, the void took on the appearance of his safe house.
There was a half-full glass of water on the table and it was raining outside the window. Everything seemed so real.
Lin Qian closed his eyes and walked forward directly, passing through the virtual wall.
The seventh floor.
This is no longer a concrete scene, but a pure "conceptual" space.
Lin Qian "stands" on a sea of flowing mathematical formulas.
The formula is constantly deformed and reorganized, trying to express some ultimate truth. This is the core defense of Lu Mingzhe's server - the "logical maze".
