Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2030.

Zhu Xinyu leaned back on the chair of the hotel. There was a computer in front of her. This computer is connected to the hotel's wireless network. The hotel uses a universal router and server. Zhu Xinyu easily found the back door of this system. These are all vulnerabilities that have already been announced, but not every user has updated the patches in a timely manner.

On the screen is an unfamiliar interface. That's the analysis software written by Zhu Xinyu himself. The interface is fairly primitive.

And Zhu Xinyu looked at the ceiling.

Her results are "average excellent". She has always maintained that impression. At the same time, in the eyes of the "guardian", she also behaved more and more rebellious, often running out to play with such a person. In the eyes of her father and the woman, it was a sign that the girl was beginning to rebel. They still don't know how many corporate secrets their daughter has stolen.

They just felt that this girl liked to travel very much, and she went abroad without saying a word.

Zhu Xinyu also did this for a reason.

Every time she wants to steal the technical secrets of a large company, she will find an excuse to travel.

It is better to go abroad.

This is very helpful in masking one's real IP, and even has a certain interference effect on social engineering methods - although it is not strong, it is better than nothing.

Zhu Xinyu's favorite place to use is Southeast Asian countries. It is adjacent to the developed regions of East Asia and has a good network, but it does not have a strong police force. The second is the Russian Federation, the xenophobic power of this rotten power that she can borrow to cover herself.

Of course, the best place in theory is the quagmire of war that the United Nations has no idea about – Iran, Yemen, Somalia, for example. Even if you accidentally touch someone, there is not much danger.

However, entering these places is dangerous in itself. Of course, Zhu Xinyu's pocket money is not enough to hire mercenaries. And she won't ask for this money, because the matter of "hiring mercenaries" itself will leave a record, and it is easy to be locked by people by social engineering means.

And the reason why Zhu Xinyu is so careful is because she is trying to dig up the roots of big capital.

After parting ways with his master "Huo De Xingjun", Zhu Xinyu set himself up as a hero.

She is already stronger than Master. Therefore, she can also obtain the honorific name of "Fire God" alone.

"Zhu Rong", a network guerrilla who specializes in stealing corporate technical secrets and making them public, was born in the world of the World Wide Web.

The first object of Zhu Xinyu was his father's business.

It is a well-known security company, and it has also acquired an online medical mutual aid app to operate. The company even contracted the provincial government's cybersecurity business.

Zhu Xinyu made public the source code of all the company's security products and put them online.

But......

What I wish Xinyu was looking forward to very much did not happen. Her father didn't go bankrupt, and the family didn't even get any poorer.

First, an LLC debt itself does not implicate the owner.

Second, most security companies don't actually win with technology.

Except for the core products of one or two cybersecurity companies that have really mastered technology, most of the products of cybersecurity companies are skinned works.

Source code leaks are also a "no big deal" issue.

If Zhu Xinyu's father's company is a company that has been listed, maybe the stock price will plummet?

But Zhu Xinyu's father's company was not listed.

So, apart from the scolding of my father on the board, the impact was minimal.

It can even continue to contract cybersecurity services for local businesses and governments.

For business users, cybersecurity companies can also play a role as a security consultant and technical support, which is not devalued by open source code.

Zhu Xinyu's father was depressed for a while. He felt insulted by the security software system he had created.

Zhu Xinyu was disappointed with this result.

But she's also aware of the problem.

Many companies actually do not have core "technology". They survive by selling "services" that are not very technical.

If you want to change the world, you should probably start from a more central place.

Bigger businesses. Enterprises that master technology and use intellectual property to block human progress.

It is the greater capital that is at the heart of the "evil". They are the most central power components of the machine that preys on humanity.

Zhu Xinyu began to campaign against these guys.

Of course, it's difficult.

Zhu Xinyu is just an individual. She had found some like-minded people the other day – the extremist online guerrillas of the open access movement, but only a minority. It is difficult for her to use social engineering to steal technical information.

With pure computer technology, there are always some physically isolated materials that cannot be stolen.

Of course, Zhu Xinyu also has a set of methods.

No technology comes out of nowhere. It must have been studied by scholars. And companies can't afford to put every step of a scholar's research in a physically isolated place. There's always some data that gets carried away.

Zhu Xinyu will look at the list of cooperation of enterprises, and then look for those enterprise scholars, and lock these scholars, and even other partners of these scholars, and extract as much information as possible from all aspects.

It's not just a result. Trial-and-error data, abandoned ideas, she wants everything.

And occasionally, she was able to get "something that is still a few steps away from the result" and "information that has been slightly reduced due to the passage of time".

Over time, she also learned to write "a virus that can recognize files that may be technical and automatically package them for sending."

This is the proud work of wishing the rain. As long as the virus inadvertently invades a place that would otherwise be inaccessible, the "packing" may be done automatically when no one is noticing. After that, the packaged data can also be hidden in someone else's computer, waiting for the next transfer.

Zhu Xinyu is most often "patronized" by various high-tech enterprises, especially electronic information technology.

She's always wanted to try to take down some pharmaceutical companies. But pharmaceutical companies are about selling products. They are more inclined to "master patents" than to "master technology". So even if Zhu Xinyu steals some processes, he can't let people use them by themselves.

At this moment, "Zhurong" has experienced a hundred battles.

But......

- Has the world changed because of this......

Zhu Xinyu looked at the ceiling of the room.

Maybe it's because it's the rainy season in Thailand. The continuous rain made Zhu Xinyu's mood gloomy for no reason.

She began to think about the past.

Did doing it yourself change the world?

Is creating "prestige" like Master is a viable path?

Thinking of this, Zhu Xinyu shook his head and tried to get rid of this thought.

- Master's reasoning is actually not very reasonable. I'm going to figure my way out on my own......

- I will definitely be more ...... in the future

At this moment, a chat app sounds a chime.

This is a chat software written by Zhu Xinyu himself, with only the most rudimentary functions. It has no other advantages, namely "concealment" and "secrecy".

The client of this software, Zhu Xinyu only passed on to a few people.

Those people are the online "guerrillas" of the extremist wing of the "open access movement". Some of them are hackers, while others are scholars and intellectuals who make various appeals on the Internet. Some of these people are also connected to real-life social activists.

They are the "allies" of Zhu Xinyu.

It's just that Zhu Xinyu has always been active in the form of "hackers". She only contacts a very small number of people.

Zhu Xinyu remembered that this person was also a scholar.

Ichigo: [Zhurong, where did you get this data?] It's amazing. It's amazing. 】

Zhu Xinyu thought about it. The data she automatically sent back from the previous batch of viruses did contain a biological profile. In terms of content, it should be molecular biology or biochemistry or something like that. Although Zhu Xinyu has stolen a lot of things, in the non-professional field, she is not much better than the average high school student.

Zhu Rong: [Judging from the number, I should have gotten it from that translation software company.] 】

Ichigo: [Are you kidding?] 】

Zhu Rong: [?] 】

Ichigo: [This could involve proteomics, it could involve genetics, it could involve ...... Gosh, it's hard for me to describe, but it doesn't involve cognitive science. It's never going to be on a translation software company's server. 】

Zhu Rong: [Really? It may have been a mistake. 】

Using the cooperating scholars as a springboard, the virus was secretly transmitted to other scholars, and then sent back information that was not the target in the first place.

Many scholars have interdisciplinary projects. A virus that jumps from Scholar A to Scholar B in a different specialty will most likely only need to go through one or two relays.

Zhu Xinyu's virus has strict self-extinguishing conditions. She writes a virus that will self-kill after a single attack. At the same time, a batch of virus, as well as its replicators, will self-delete when the system time reaches a predetermined point, regardless of whether there is an attack or not.

Although there are many accidental injuries, they are not few, and they are rarely detected.

At this time, Zhu Xinyu will face two choices.

If the scholar who was "mistakenly injured" is also a lackey of the capitalist and will want to contribute to the intellectual property rights of the capitalist, then Zhu Xinyu will not hesitate to disclose this data.

But if not, then Zhu Xinyu will consider it at his discretion.

At this time, she needs to be identified by a professional.

This guy with the ID of Ichigo is her assistant.

Zhu Rong: [Tell me the result directly.] What is this research by what scholars? Is there a need to make it public? 】

Ichigo: [I don't know...... It's hard for me to say. It's all too rare. I searched all published papers. Do you know? Now there is only one person on the planet working on this. She's sure to win the Nobel Prize. 】

Ichigo: [Oh my god, that's amazing.] 】

Zhu Xinyu frowned.

Zhu Rong: [So what is this?] 】

Ichigo: [Enzyme system study of hot spring archaea.] Only Ms. Njaguti Ndebil is working on it. 】

[Do you know Ms. Endebiller? 】