After communicating with Wang Jiancheng, Chen Nian received a sample of the Stuxnet virus from him - of course, this virus has now been renamed "Hook" by him.

This is a strange beast that spreads the plague in the records of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, "seeing that the country is full of epidemics", probably also pinned Wang Jiancheng's good wishes for this virus.

However, Chen Nian always felt that his name everywhere revealed a breath of middle and second disease, and if he was asked to choose a name, he would prefer the Soviet-style nomenclature in the Cold War in the last century.

The location is coded and numbered, and the word "engineering" must be added at the end, such as the Catherine-Red Starlight-437 project.

Reading it can not only make people feel serious and cautious order, but also full of romantic feelings that belong to that ice and snow.

If this nomenclature is followed, what should this "hook" virus be called?

Chang'an-Electronic Plague-0219 Project?

Well. Sounds cyberpunk-smacked.

Chen Nian couldn't help but smile, he received the virus file, hung up the virtual machine, and ran the virus again by himself.

Although his skills are not very strong, he is more than enough to cope with these basic tasks.

It took most of the day for Chen Nian to confirm that the hook virus was basically usable, so he threw it directly to Li Xiang.

The latter was also amazed by Wang Jiancheng's efficiency, and after receiving the documents, he rushed to Chen Nian's office as soon as possible and asked:

"What's going on? So soon to make it? Functionally fine, right? ”

"Basically, it's fine, I've tested it."

"However, this version 0.1 of the virus is not used directly, it can only be used as a template, and the follow-up intelligence department should be personalized for the attack target."

As Chen Nian said at the beginning, Stuxnet, or the current hook virus, can be viewed in two parts.

Infection, spreading, and concealment are one part, and attacking and destroying are another.

As for the "sabotage" part, the scheme applicable to each different objective is also different.

"I understand, I still understand the most basic things."

Li Xiang nodded hurriedly, although he had never heard of the legend of Stuxnet, and he was not a professional practitioner, but he was still very clear about the concept of "equipment applicability".

So, he went on to ask:

"If we say that we will develop a dedicated version in the future, does that mean that we will start to choose the target industry from now on?"

"For example, whether it is for power stations or large-scale machining plants, whether it is for transportation dispatching departments, or for communication control departments, this needs to have a plan in advance, right?"

"That's right."

Chen Nian replied immediately.

"However, we are not in charge of the formulation of this part of the plan."

"Actually, your intelligence services don't have a say either."

"In the final analysis, you will create what the military needs to destroy, and I estimate that your authority is not enough, so hand it over directly to the higher departments and let them communicate and make decisions."

"You will be responsible for the implementation of the later work."

"Understood."

Li Xiang nodded again.

Of course, he knew what Chen Nian meant by "execution and landing".

To put it bluntly, it's the ones that really get your hands dirty.

In the past few years, although Li Xiang is mainly responsible for the work of public opinion, due to the particularity of the subordinate relationship, he has also dealt with the "executive department" of the serious eight classics.

There was even a time when he wanted to be transferred there for a while, but after listening to the introduction of the work, he lost interest in an instant.

Those so-called front-line intelligence officers, in fact, are not so mysterious in terms of identity or work content, except for the big fish buried deep underwater, the vast majority of intelligence personnel are still responsible for relatively simple and routine affairs.

Collect information from the media and the government on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, chat and eat with informants on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and summarize and form reports on Sundays.

Some specialize in the steel supply chain, others specialize in bulk agricultural products, and some people stare at the data graph of flight delays all day long.

If it's not for the special place of work, to be honest, their job content is not much different from that of account managers in some companies' overseas offices

So this time, what will they do with the process of implantation?

According to Li Xiang's understanding of them, the scenes of sneaking in late at night, bypassing security, staring nervously at the progress bar, and staring at the surveillance over and over again in spy war movies will never happen.

There is a high probability that they will bring in the virus files through informants and insiders who have done a good job of customer relations in advance, with relatively hidden and reasonable reasons.

Such a reason is often so common that you can hardly take it to heart, but when the incident breaks out and you come back to your senses, you find that it has actually been carefully designed.

The most outrageous case Li Xiang has ever seen actually happened in the South Island, when his side wanted to obtain the itinerary information of an important member of the South Island, so he prepared the foreshadowing of his entourage in advance-—— of course, it was the emotional card played.

However, our side did not directly say that we would ask the entourage to report their whereabouts, but asked him to help collect refrigerator magnets after work.

The entourage thought about it, it's not a big deal, anyway, when the gift is sent out, the trip is over, and he won't be stupid enough to run to buy it in person in the middle of the trip, no matter how it is counted, it can't be considered a leak.

So, he gladly agreed.

But then, it was this small refrigerator magnet, combined with the data of the intelligence network, that completely exposed the itinerary of the big man, and finally forced him to suspend the visit plan for the next six months and return to Taipei honestly.

Li Xiang estimates that this virus infiltration is likely to be a similar plot.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look forward to it.

If it is done well, maybe this is another classic case of intelligence warfare, and when the time comes, you will be able to follow the award.

Thinking of this, he put away the USB flash drive in his hand and said to Chen Nian:

"Then we will be responsible for the follow-up of this matter. If there is any change or need in the technology, I will come back to you? ”

"Find Wang Jiancheng, I don't think I will have time."

"New projects again?"

Li Xiang asked curiously.

"Well, the missile boat, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft project, it's urgent, I plan to complete all the technical documentation output work within two weeks."

"Understood, I'll go find him then."

"You pay attention to rest, judging from the current intelligence, although they are menacing, the offensive posture is not aggressive, and it is estimated that it will take more than a year to delay from the last moment we estimated."

"So, you don't have to be too nervous. A year from now, I'm afraid our equipment situation will be completely different. ”

"At least, 055 can reach 4 ships, this is our biggest reliance."

Hearing Li Xiang's comfort, Chen just smiled and didn't speak.

A year later?

We're improving, and so is the other side.

They know the pace of our development inside out, will they give us some breathing time?

The odds are slim.

In this situation, fast is good, and there is no reason to back down

At the same time, the other side.

Qiu Zhengyi sat in his office, his face full of flattering smiles.

He poured a cup of tea for the white man opposite, and after watching the other party pick up the cup, he sat down respectfully and said:

"Mr. Maison, I think we have been able to reach a preliminary consensus on the issue of a new batch of arms sales contracts between our two sides."

"We have no objections to the three sub-contracts of the Patriot missile system, the new F-16 fighter jet, and the M1A2 main battle tank, and we also greatly appreciate the sincerity of your offer."

"However, after discussion, we would like to go one step further and propose new purchasing intentions."

"That is, I have already communicated with you before, about the deployment intention of the missile system."

"We believe that after the situation has developed to the point where it is now, our previous concerns have disappeared or are no longer important."

"This is the most appropriate time."

"Once an agreement is reached, it will be a huge step forward for all parties."

"So, here I would like to make a sincere suggestion to you."

"We hope to deploy in the shortest possible time to deal with the subsequent attacks we may face."

Hearing Qiu Zhengyi's words, Maison on the other side frowned slightly.

Actually, this request is not once or twice.

But neither Congress nor the Corner Tower has always taken a negative attitude towards their proposals.

After all, this system is different from other conventional weapons systems, and once it is implemented, the entire Asia-Pacific region will undergo earth-shaking changes.

At that time, the United States could not afford to take the risk of such a change.

——

But now, as Qiu Zhengyi said, after taking this step, many of the concerns are no longer concerns.

Anyway, it's already torn to the skin, do you care to what extent?

If you let Meissen make the decision, of course it's fine.

But the problem is that his ideas do not represent the thoughts of the entire decision-making hierarchy.

Inside the corner tower, it is still more cautious for now.

Thinking of this, Maison opened his mouth and said:

"Mr. Qiu, I can't give you an accurate answer to this matter."

"What I can tell you is that the above do not approve of your proposal, because in their opinion, the situation has not yet developed to the 'last step.'"

"I think you can understand what I mean by the last step."

"Yes, of course I do."

Qiu Zhengyi sighed and continued:

"But that's a paradox, isn't it?"

"If we don't deploy, the level of nuclear threat we face will rise dramatically, and it's a dilemma to choose between 'reducing the expectation of harm' and 'reducing the probability of occurrence.'"

"Our point of view is very clear, we believe that it is absolutely impossible for the other side to turn on nuclear deterrence for this, they are not gamblers in essence"

"But don't forget, we were beaten out of South Korea by them."

Maison mercilessly interrupted Qiu Zhengyi's words, and the latter was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"That's not a failure"

"No, that's a failure, and that's all we can acknowledge."

Seeing Maison's expression, Qiu Zhengyi didn't want to say anything more, so he had to skip the topic and continued:

"It's not without trial and error."

"I think we can release the news first and test the other party's bottom line."

"There are two consequences to this."

"First, they did show toughness and directly started the war ahead of schedule."

"Second, they protested verbally and let the system go unchecked."

"Either way, it's a sure win for us, isn't it?"

Mason was silent, knowing that Qiu's views represented many people's views on the current situation — including his own.

These people generally believe that the adversary is inherently weak, and it is impossible to react to extremes with provocations other than a direct declaration of war.

Or in other words, the opponent's bottom line is that there is no bottom line.

This seems to have been confirmed by many incidents in the past.

——

But why doesn't Congress and Corner Tower accept such a statement?

In this regard, Meissen has always been puzzled.

But he has an advantage that ordinary people don't have, that is, he doesn't directly treat others as fools when he doesn't understand, but will reflect on whether it is possible that he understands the deviation.

This is considered a certain degree of "modesty".

It's like on the South Korean issue, even if Qiu Zhengyi has put a hot face on his ass, he will never be complacent because of this.

So in the same way, he will not go against the will of the corner tower and make any promises to Qiu Zhengyi.

After a moment's thought, he replied:

"At this point, I can react to the corner tower."

"Of course, I mean, we can use this message as a bargaining chip to move the whole situation forward."

"But it's absolutely impossible to get things done until you get permission."

"Can you understand that?"

"Understood!"

Qiu Zhengyi was overjoyed.

In fact, he didn't expect the other party to really agree.

As long as you allow your own side to release the news, it is already a significant achievement.

Once this news is hyped, as the situation develops further, the most likely outcome is not that the US side retreats in the face of difficulties, but that it is a real show.

At that time, this will become my biggest "achievement", and it will become less difficult to take another step forward.

So, after ending the meeting with Maison, Qiu Zhengyi made arrangements non-stop.

At this moment, the focus of everyone's attention is still on the fishermen detained in the South Island, but just when the heat of public opinion gradually declined, another explosive news was thrown:

The two sides have discussed the deployment and it is possible to reach a consensus in the near future.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar.

No one can fail to understand the meaning.

In an instant, the eyes of the whole world converged on China.

Some are nervously preparing for a possible shock, while others are waiting to see the joke.

But whose joke it was in the end, no one knows

(End of chapter)