Inside a rented apartment.
Robert Tapan Morris's fingers flew rapidly across the keyboard, the clattering of keys echoing through the room.
Controlling his computer, he silently infiltrated the local network of Big Apple City University three kilometers away in just three seconds.
Once inside Big Apple City University's local network, Morris's greedy gaze locked onto the university's internal supercomputer—"Windsor Green."
He had been eyeing this "Windsor Green" for a long time.
Ever since the Data Science Center of Big Apple City University announced that they had pushed the boundaries of artificial intelligence using this NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputer—also known as "Windsor Green"—he had been fixated on it.
Just recently, the university's lab published a new SCI paper:
"All lab personnel, including research scientists and graduate students, are developing technologies aimed at enabling machines to learn automatically from unlabelled raw data by observing videos, analyzing images, or listening to audio.
These technologies will be applied in various computer vision fields, including self-driving cars that understand their surroundings, medical imaging analysis capable of detecting tumors or diseases earlier and more accurately than traditional methods, and natural language processing applications that can translate languages, answer questions, or engage in conversation with humans…"
From the moment he saw that news, Robert Tapan Morris had deliberately moved into this very rental unit.
To this day, he had been preparing for more than six months.
Morris began typing line after line of code, deploying the "Worm Virus" he had long prepared.
Within Big Apple City University's deep-level local area network, he operated silently for about one minute and thirty seconds.
Morris carefully bypassed one backdoor after another, eventually penetrating the core algorithm area of the supercomputer.
After four minutes and twenty seconds, Morris successfully seized the highest execution authority of "Windsor Green"!
Big Apple City University's "Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing" Lab.
Although it was just after six in the morning, many researchers who had worked overnight were still in the lab.
Most of them were resting, eyes closed and minds relaxed.
Some carried milk and bread to the lounge by the floor-to-ceiling windows to eat breakfast…
Just then, disaster struck!
A piercing alarm blared hysterically throughout the lab!
All the researchers instantly opened their eyes, jolted into high alert!
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
The alarm blared incessantly!
All researchers in the lab were suddenly kicked out of their applications!
They lost control over their computers!
The entire lab—including all ongoing experiments—came to a screeching halt…
"Oh, my god!"
"What happened? What happened?"
Cries of shock erupted one after another.
Professors and lab supervisors received calls instantly.
At this moment, all computing resources of the Big Apple City University's supercomputer "Windsor Green" had fallen completely under the control of Robert Tapan Morris.
…
"Ha ha!"
"I'm god!"
Robert Tapan Morris's face flushed with excitement, unable to contain himself.
He knew the window of opportunity wouldn't last long, so he immediately moved on to the next phase of his plan.
Using the supercomputer, Morris instantly breached "Big Apple City Times Square"!
All LED screens in Times Square—whether large or small—were stripped of control…
A "Black Crucifixion of Jesus" image appeared at the center of every screen!
Jesus was bound to a cross, pierced and dying…
Below the image, two blood-red lines of text appeared:
"I will die! "
"The whole world should bury me! "
Immediately afterward, the stirring, epic music of Conquest of Paradise began to play!
Its magnificent and grand melody soared across Big Apple City's Times Square!
Outside Times Square, passersby stopped in their tracks, staring in disbelief at the scene before them.
"Next is Wall Street!"
"Ha ha ha!"
Robert Tapan Morris exclaimed with excitement.
His commands flowed like a torrent, countless lines of code rushing into the Wall Street markets powered by Windsor Green's computational strength!
Programmers, security personnel, and red-hat hackers on Wall Street were caught completely off guard.
NASDAQ, the Beautiful Country Stock Exchange, Big Apple City Futures Exchange…
Wall Street collapsed rapidly.
Computers across Wall Street began displaying the same "Crucifixion of Jesus" image and playing Conquest of Paradise, just like in Times Square.
Every second of downtime on Wall Street meant astronomical financial losses!
"Finally, the entire Big Apple City!"
Robert Tapan Morris whispered.
To Morris, hacking into the average person's computer was easier than logging into his own.
Across Big Apple City, he spread the "MyDoom Virus" he had crafted. This virus automatically generated infected files, bundled itself with system processes, and had extremely high transmission and locking capabilities.
One by one, computers across Big Apple City began displaying the "Crucifixion of Jesus" image and playing Conquest of Paradise!
Ten thousand!
One hundred thousand!
One million!
Five million!
Ten million!
The entire Big Apple City plunged into panic…
The news rapidly climbed to the top headlines of major media outlets around the world.
…
In the Republic era, in Metropolis City, the trending topics list featured a headline: "Big Apple City's Information Network Is Under Unprecedented Attack."
Right at that moment.
Lu Li also took out his phone and saw the "Crucifixion of Jesus" image and the Conquest of Paradise music playing in Big Apple City's Times Square.
"I will die! "
"The whole world should bury me! "
Lu Li read the two lines aloud.
His eyes flickered, and then he began digging deeper into the news.
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