Bati Grand Hotel.
The headquarters of the Voodoo Boys.
This hotel, once lavishly decorated but abandoned midway, became the dwelling place of the Voodoo Boys.
The base was filled with a large amount of hacking equipment, and the Voodoo Boys hackers were constantly operating on them.
"Come on, let's see what's inside this data fortress of Ascension Technology."
The second-in-command of the Voodoo Boys, Placide, a Black man wearing a black coat, was directing his hackers to go into deep dive and attempt to infiltrate the data fortress of Ascension Technology.
Upon receiving Placide's order, several hackers under him sat on their hacking chairs without question and connected to the deep dive interface.
In cyberspace, these Voodoo Boys hackers secretly approached the data fortress of Ascension Technology.
An ICE blocked their path.
But facing the ICE defenses of this data fortress, these hackers were clearly full of confidence.
The Voodoo Boys had launched countless attacks on corporate data fortresses.
These hackers were all meticulously trained by the Voodoo Boys, skilled in various network intrusion operations.
In this regard, they considered themselves professionals.
Except for the data fortresses of top companies, which were impenetrable due to overly strong ICE and protection from a large number of hackers employed by the companies.
Other smaller companies could be considered their prey, and breaking into their data fortresses was just a matter of time.
Without wasting time, these hackers began attempting to breach this ICE.
As they expected, the so-called data fortress of Ascension Technology did not have very high ICE defense strength, and they believed it wouldn't take long before they could infiltrate the data fortress.
These hackers began working hard to break through this defense, and soon they successfully breached Ascension Technology's ICE.
Data worth ten thousand taels of gold was hidden behind this ICE firewall, and the Voodoo Boys hackers immediately entered the data fortress through the ICE vulnerability they had just breached.
But just as they were about to steal the data within Ascension Technology's data fortress.
They found it was empty, with no data whatsoever.
"Where's the data?" a Voodoo Boys hacker asked in surprise.
They shouldn't have come to the wrong place; this was indeed the data fortress of Ascension Technology.
But why was there eerily no data here?
Of course, these Voodoo Boys couldn't find any data here.
Because all the data had already been transferred by Lisandra.
As for these hackers being able to break into Ascension Technology's data fortress.
It was entirely because Lisandra had not done any defensive enhancements on the corporate data fortress's ICE from the beginning.
In order not to let other companies discover Lisandra's secret, Ascension Technology had always maintained similar network defense capabilities to typical companies.
Many hackers had previously successfully breached Ascension Technology's ICE and entered the data fortress.
However, the data in this data fortress was non-core outer layer data; the real core data had always been protected by Lisandra in the deepest part.
Originally, these Voodoo Boys hackers, upon infiltrating the data fortress, should have been able to obtain some non-core data.
As it turned out, it was a bad coincidence that they arrived here just as Lisandra had completed the transfer of all data.
Now, Lisandra hadn't even had time to do data camouflage before they broke in.
Currently, in this data fortress, only streams of data were flowing through it towards another, deeper network space.
And in the eyes of the Voodoo Boys hackers, they saw these data streams flowing towards an eerie crimson wall, and then disappearing.
This crimson wall had many similarities to the Blackwall they had been exploring and researching.
Both seemed to be constructs used to isolate two areas of cyberspace.
The Voodoo Boys hackers, who were extremely sensitive to this, immediately noticed this strange phenomenon.
They just didn't know that behind this crimson wall was none other than the Deep Space Network constructed by atlas.
And just as they wanted to go and investigate this crimson wall.
Without any warning, Lisandra locked onto them.
Lisandra's enormous virtual avatar appeared before these Voodoo Boys hackers.
Lisandra had noticed these Voodoo Boys hackers when they infiltrated the data fortress.
Only after confirming their identity as merely gang hackers did Lisandra reveal her fangs at this moment.
Facing these untimely intruders, Lisandra had no intention of letting them off.
With a casual wave of her hand, Lisandra crushed the consciousness of one Voodoo Boys hacker.
Their companion was instantly killed right beside them, and only then did the other hackers react.
Looking at the giant Lisandra, the Voodoo Boys hackers, who had long dealt with the Blackwall and AIs, immediately realized that this conscious entity before them was a powerful AI, not a hacker.
Combining this with the eerie crimson wall, these Voodoo Boys hackers realized that they seemed to have discovered some extraordinary secret.
But at this moment, they didn't seem to have the mind to care about any secrets.
Because now even their own lives were in danger.
This unknown powerful AI could easily crush their deep dive consciousness; if they didn't find a way to escape, they would die in this damned cyberspace.
Without hesitation, these Voodoo Boys hackers immediately used all their might, attempting to break free from Lisandra's control.
But this was basically futile.
One after another, the hackers were mercilessly erased by Lisandra.
Watching their companions die one by one, the remaining Voodoo Boys hackers felt increasingly despairing.
But fortunately, at the most critical moment, the last remaining Voodoo Boys hacker 'luckily' broke free from the restraints.
He immediately fled from this data fortress at his fastest speed.
No matter what, he didn't want to die at the hands of this damned mysterious AI.
Inside the data fortress, Lisandra watched the escaping Voodoo Boys hacker with a cold expression, seemingly indifferent.
"Lucky little one, run, run hard. Show me where you bugs are hiding."
Given Lisandra's capabilities, these low-level hackers from the Voodoo Boys naturally couldn't truly escape Lisandra's grasp.
Lisandra's goal was to see where this hacker gang, audacious enough to target Ascension Technology, was hiding in this network.
Her target was not just these few hackers.
The Voodoo Boys hacker escaped from Ascension Technology's data fortress, not daring to linger for a moment, and returned to the Voodoo Boys' network space.
And Lisandra used the mark left on him to track down the network address of the Voodoo Boys.
However, what surprised Lisandra slightly was that the mark she left lost its response after tracking to a certain location.
"Hmm?"
With curiosity, Lisandra set off for the network space where the mark had disappeared.
There, she saw a network barrier, separating two different network spaces.
Clearly, the hacker had blocked her trace after passing through here.
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