Chapter 120 The End of the Patriots
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In the west wing of the White House, in the narrow chief of staff's office, the secretary of state's personal assistant was slamming the table with the chief of staff of the White House: "The Secretary of State told the Chinese Ambassador that the president was investigating, but in fact he could not even call the White House! The president still didn't know! If the F forced him to continue to detain Xia Ming, the Chinese Ambassador would send a protest note! This is a serious diplomatic incident!"
Of course the president knew, the chief of staff muttered to himself.
He said without raising his eyelids: "The president is still having a meeting with the security assistant, which will take at least an hour, and the F-volt is investigated according to law. The Chinese ambassador wants to send a note, so you can continue. I suggest you prepare more sorry and you will use it later."
"That's Xia Ming! God, you don't want to... be too crazy!" The assistant looked incredibly surprised.
"It's not that we are crazy, it's that the world is crazy," the chief of staff shrugged: "We have to do something, of course, as far as I know, everything is legal."
"Yes, what happened is purely an accident, and you don't know it," the assistant said sarcastically: "You are really going to fight a war with the Chinese? Don't recruit the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Security Advisor to the White House?"
"For China, Xia Ming is just a small scholar. They have not yet realized his value." The chief of staff said disapprovingly: "Yes, he was very popular during this period, but what determines the direction of the world is not the heat of public opinion, but our wishes. Even if the worst happens, as long as the president gives in to China on the treasury agreement, everything will be wiped out."
The assistant is still fighting for: "This is not a simple matter of interests. Chinese people value face more than us! We deal with a Chinese scientist who is changing the world in front of the whole world. How much does it cost to appease the Chinese people?"
"No matter how much the price is, it is worth it." The chief of staff glanced at the assistant indifferently. There were too many things that the other party could not get in touch with, and he could only say so much.
What else the assistant wanted to say, the chief of staff secretary knocked in and turned on the TV: "Sir, I think you should take a look at this."
Seeing the live broadcast of fox, the assistant exclaimed: "That is the San Francisco Consul of China!"
F forced the San Francisco branch to block a lot of media downstairs, and there were media helicopters in the sky. The camera gave a group of people pushing in front of the door. The middle-aged man was the San Francisco Consul.
In the chaos, the consul shouted to the reporter's microphone: "You have detained Xia Ming, a citizen of our country for no reason, and threatened his life. On behalf of the Chinese government, I protest strongly! I must see him immediately!"
The chief of staff was a little angry: "Damn it! Go and say hello to the media of Fox and NBC, and immediately interrupt the live broadcast! Let the San Francisco police take the consul away! No, San Francisco definitely doesn't want to take the blame. Let the consul in and let F force him to deal with him!"
The secretary took the order to arrange the matter, and the assistant said gloatingly: "Even if fox and nbc listen to the White House, n will not stop. And there is bbc."
As soon as he finished speaking, the TV screen changed, and both of them were a little surprised. Fox should have not received any news from the White House. So obedient?
Seeing the converted picture, the expressions of the two froze at the same time.
"The trading system of the New York Stock Exchange suddenly broke down and the exchange is urgently evaluating whether to suspend trading. This may be the third time that NYS has suspended trading since its inception."
The scene of the New York Stock Exchange has always been busy in a nervous and orderly manner. At this moment, it is as chaotic as the vegetable market in the camera. The red and green words on the trading screen no longer have obvious changes like traffic lights, but are swiftly swiping.
"The official website homepage of ny-color was replaced by a hacker, and I was sure that the failure was done by the hacker. It was related to the San Francisco F-buster detention incident."
The picture changed to a ny-colored website. On the pure black background, there are bloody red characters, "Release Xia Ming" in English, and "Chinese: "If you want to fight, then fight!"
"**!" The chief of staff cursed: "I have to tell the president immediately!"
On the second floor of the San Francisco F-busting branch building, the man was holding a water cup and pressing towards Xia Ming.
Xia Mingpeng slapped the table, which made the big man stunned. Taking advantage of this gap, he said coldly: "I advise you not to think that you can cover the sky with one hand! You don't know what will happen next!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the agent's phone rang again.
"Consul? Arrange it to another room and treat it well, and I will solve it as soon as possible!"
The agent didn't bother to leave the room and answered the phone in front of Xia Ming.
Then he cried out: "What? New York Stock Exchange!?"
Yes, something happened on the New York Stock Exchange. The buying and selling procedure, which was originally controlled by the computer, suddenly lost control. The stocks bought by A ran to B's account, and the stocks sold by B ran to C's account. What's even more terrifying is that there was also a problem with the bulk buying and selling procedure, which was like spilling money, randomly distributed transactions to each account.
From the time of the problem to the present, in just over ten minutes, millions of orders have made mistakes. NYS officials are urgently discussing whether to suspend transactions.
It is logical that this decision is not difficult, but the technical department reported that this was a database fault and could not be repaired for a while or even on the same day.
Although there are other exchanges that can trade, or even non-electronic transactions, they have been hit hard in the end. If closed, this will be the third time in NYS's history of trading, and it is likely that the longest closure time will be the longest, and the loss is difficult to estimate.
nyse is no longer as good as Nasdaq and even the Haidu Exchange in China in terms of trading volume, but it is still the core of securities trading in traditional industries and financial industries in the United States. The average trading volume per trading day exceeds 50 billion US dollars. Not to mention the suspension for a whole day, the technical failure of the trading system six years ago, which stopped for three and a half hours, made countless people wail.
So NY Se is still illusioned and hopes to solve the problem online.
The agent stopped the big man and asked, "You did it!?"
Originally, he thought he could take everything in his hands, but he didn't expect that first it was a video, and then the stock exchange. Xia Ming played cards completely unreasonable, and every card was a shocking ghost. It made him feel that he was not on the same level as Xia Ming.
"I am here." Xia Ming spread his hands openly and instructed Xia Xiaoyan to go and touch the Nasdaq.
This was the first move he left behind. He took the time to "visit" NYS and Nasdaq, and buried Trojans in the database server of the trading system.
Although the protection of the securities trading system is more tight and powerful than that of banks, it is not difficult for a powerful eixia Xiaoyan to sneak into the database to create some chaos.
"The ny-color system is too old and full of loopholes. The failure six years ago was actually a hacker intrusion, but they concealed it. I suggest that they ask Google to rebuild the transaction system with ei to completely prevent hackers."
Xia Ming said sincerely that if the trading system is wrapped with ei, it is indeed impregnable. As long as ei's will mapping is complex enough, even if he is, he will have to spend a lot of time parsing out a complete will model before he can attack.
"Doesn't it have anything to do with you?" The agent showed him the phone, and the screen was a page of the blackened official website of NYS.
"Isn't this done by a hacker? Oh. It should be called a red guest," Xia Ming sighed, "Look, this is the disaster you have caused. You think that the whole thing is just using powerful state machines to deal with a person. But where am I alone?"
The agent calmed down: "I don't believe that your Chinese government will be so efficient and can make a decision to attack the ny sex trading system in such a short time. But this is nothing. No matter how much the loss of ny sex is, it has nothing to do with us. On the contrary, the financial dogs we are crying are the people we hate the most. I am very happy to be able to use your hand to cure them."
"Oh, it seems that your understanding is a bit deviant," Xia Ming shook his head: "I don't think the target of the red guests is ny color."
The agent raised his eyebrows, looked down at his phone, and the corners of his mouth twitched. The same failure began to occur in the Nasdaq, but the scale was very small.
"Alphabet is listed on Nasdaq. Mr. Xia, you still care about your stocks." The agent was so sarcastic, but his forehead began to sweat.
"Look, you are nervous. As you said, you hate financial dogs, but it is the financial dogs and their lackeys who control this country. I believe that they will not sit back and watch their state machines break away from control and move in a direction that harms their interests."
Xia Ming said, "And, are you sure the disaster is just on the exchange?"
In the Oval Office of the White House, the elderly president with few hairs on his head put down his phone and looked at the chief of staff without saying a word because the other party's phone kept ringing.
"Nasdaq has also begun. Now we are in a state of war with China, cyber war! I didn't believe what they said, but now I believe that Xia Ming really has the ability to influence the whole world."
After the chief of staff snatched more than a dozen phone calls, the ringtone finally stopped. The president said to himself: "I think my next choice will be recorded in history..."
"Yes, you need strong will and extraordinary courage," said the chief of staff.
The president tapped the table with his knuckles: "Old man, I know you are a more determined patriot than me, but what I need now is rational advice."
The chief of staff said: "No, what you need is the choice of the goal, whether it is for the benefit of the United States for the next century, or for the next re-election."
The president asked: "The question is, how great a person must be, so that his life and death will determine the interests of the United States for the next century?"
The chief of staff sighed: "It seems you have made a decision."
"Yes, although I believe in you, those patriots, and believe that solving this person will bring great benefits to the United States in the future. But we will not only not enjoy the treatment of heroes, but also bear the infamy that thousands of people are criticized by us in our lifetime. All disputes, turmoil and charges between China and the United States will be held on us."
The president said bitterly: "And my current decision will be remembered by people when the United States declines in the future, and I will be scolded for being scolded by me without courage."
"But this is nothing. The United States needs to do a lot of things on the right path. You are right. My choice is to ensure re-election. It was the phone call of the party just now, and he told me that if the incident is not settled as soon as possible, and the Republican Party will cooperate with them before the Democratic Party takes measures..."
As if you heard the final ruling, the chief of staff was depressed. He said depressedly: "If you use courage to make a decision, I am not going to send you the public opinion analysis of social relations consultants. Big data analysis of online public opinion shows that 92% of Americans believe that if it is not forcing yourself to make decisions but your decision, then there must be something wrong with your spirit."
The president's eyebrows hopped: "You mean... to convince Americans that my mental state is normal..."
The chief of staff nodded heavily: "I'm afraid we have to make some sacrifices."
The phone on the desk rang again, and the president picked up the phone. The telephone line was pulled long, and he responded a few times. After hanging it, he smiled bitterly: "There is a problem with the eastern power grid. Now 17 control centers have lost control capabilities, and five cities have begun to lose power."
"Oh, no! The power outage in the US and Canada almost killed me 16 years ago!" the chief of staff said with a face covering.
"If they were real patriots, they would forgive me," the president said, calling.
The agent's face became paler and paler in the San Francisco Fist Division. He turned his gaze from the mobile phone screen to Xia Ming's face, as if he wanted to find out what was related to Xia Ming, but he did not find anything.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "Mr. Xia. Can you tell me why the Hongke you mentioned attacked the power grid?"
"You should ask me how to end this matter," Xia Ming was convinced, and the second one was released. Although these American patriots had mastered the state machine, once the real American rulers could not sit still, what would the consequences? People with normal IQs would have some imagination.
The agent's IQ is obviously not low, so he didn't ask the man to continue. There should be any special medicine in that water cup, which cannot be found by ordinary medical examinations. It is unlikely that he will be directly poisoned. It is mostly to create the illusion of a certain disease and bring him to the hospital to continue to torture him.
"Okay, answer your question. After the power grid in the United States experienced a major power outage in 2003, it began to learn from the lessons and gradually integrate the original decentralized power grid into a whole. However, your states and cities have been quarreling about the power grid control system and have not established a unified management system. Many collaborations have to be completed through the external network."
"Although you have put a lot of effort into security protection, the security is not much better than banks and stock exchanges. As long as you lay a sniffer and monitor data flow and control instructions for a long time, you can find the vulnerabilities."
"This is actually a good thing. When the power is stopped and everyone comes out of the office and home, breathe fresh air, bask in the sun, and change their mood. It is also a warning to your power grid. To ensure safety, either build a unified intranet or choose ei for protection and management."
Xia Ming suddenly became long-winded and talked about the situation of the US power grid in detail because he found that the agent's expression was a bit abnormal.
Even the big man was a little surprised that this long speech did not receive a response from the agent.
Seeing the agent gritting his teeth and his eyes gradually turned firm, Xia Ming realized that this was a critical moment and this guy was going to take the risk.
At this time, he didn't care about so much. He was about to use his eye contact to kill people again, but suddenly he felt something and rushed into the corner.
"For America!"
The agent shouted in a low voice. As soon as he pulled out his pistol, he had a blood hole in his forehead. The bullet penetrated his brain, carrying a ball of blood and brain tissue, and dyed a blooming scarlet flower on the white wall.
Another sound was on the burly man. He faced the window, and bullets shot in from the left temple and shot out from the right, splashing a little spark on the door wrapped in iron.
Xia Ming shrank in the corner. When he saw the two of them killing at the same time, he realized that the target was not him.
I'll just silence you!
Confirm that the sniper did not aim here again, Xia Ming stood up.
The agent raised his head and sat on the chair, blood flowing down his forehead, dividing his face in half. His eyes were still open, staring at the ceiling empty.
"By the way, I don't know what your name is?"
Xia Ming murmured to himself: "It's such a pity. I can only call you anonymous. Mr. Anonymous, I didn't even think of such a thing."
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