The satellites in Earth’s orbit are of varying compositions. Among these satellites, some are the personal property of Yawgmoth, some belong to King Aqini, others are registered under the name of a Scientific Knight Order, and some are part of the defensive arsenal of the Gene Bank. There are also a small number of privately launched satellites.
However, no matter what kind of satellite it is, in order to function to its full capability, it needs to be connected to the network.
If you only have one base station and one satellite, you can’t even ensure that you receive the satellite’s signal at all times, let alone use it for anything specific.
Therefore, almost all satellites are equipped with a standardized communication protocol, constituting a part of the "public network" currently used by mankind.
And these communication protocols were completed by a team led by King Aqini, naturally containing "backdoors" from King Aqini.
But aside from the standard protocols shared by everyone, there are also some satellites equipped with special, non-standard communication protocols.
These non-standard protocols can only communicate with other protocols of the same type.
If we use "traffic planning" as a metaphor, then the satellite network between the Earth-Moon system is like a gigantic web of highways. Each node on these highways has a "checkpoint" in place.
And naturally, there are those who would devise ways to build "tunnels" around their own checkpoints, attempting to carve out a "private road".
For example, after the incident with the Eighth Martial God, the tension between the Scientific Knights and King Aqini intensified. The Scientific Knight Order was actively trying to establish decentralized networks.
And this "Hall of Righteousness" belonged to the "private path" prepared by the Iron Heart Dharma King for the Hermit of Heavenly Machine.
This was supposed to be safe.
But Xiang Shan discovered this path.
Xiang Shan essentially followed the "private road" of the Iron Heart Dharma King and entered a "checkpoint" that had been tampered with by the Iron Heart Dharma King.
Then, Xiang Shan tampered with it openly and aboveboard.
Xiang Shan wasn’t trying to alarm the surveillance on purpose. It’s just that he "could not stay concealed".
Xiang Shan would directly launch a probing attack on the satellite’s system and then, based on the "hand feel" of the attack feedback, use targeted "curses" to gain privileges, and plant specific "Gu".
And he didn’t care at all about triggering the firewall.
This really shouldn’t have been a big problem.
But the trouble was, the "checkpoints" supervised by the Iron Heart Dharma King were, either nominally owned by King Aqini or nominally owned by Yawgmoth; in short, they were in the areas where King Aqini prided himself on having the strongest control.
The Iron Heart Dharma King had accomplished all this relying on the psychology of "darkness under the lamp."
And if the firewalls of these satellites were startled, the feedback data would be presented to King Aqini.
Back on Earth, Xiang Shan was smiling with great self-satisfaction: "Anyways, I won’t be the first one to get in trouble when the time comes..."
In front of Xiang Shan, data surged towards him like a tsunami... No, he was the one speeding forward, he was the one rushing towards the data "mountains"!
This was the evidence of Xiang Shan’s full engagement. His entire brain was invested in the operation of Inner Strength, the influx of data, and the operation of Inner Strength, which caused a synesthesia of the senses. Internal masters, through meditation training and the aid of virtual reality technology, turned this dream-like state into a "use of the brain’s natural instincts to assist in Inner Strength offensives and defenses."
In this mental state, a mere raising of one’s hands or a move of one’s feet could represent the output and interaction of hundreds, even thousands of lines of code or the upload and download of several G and even T data packets.
Xiang Shan was like an unstoppable river flow, surging within the already established riverbed. He surged, roared, eroded, using his own power to change the riverbed itself.
"Oh dear," Xiang Shan sighed. "It’s been eighty years, and you still haven’t thought about redeveloping a new satellite intelligence system... But then again."
The computing power of satellites is inevitably much weaker compared to ground computers built at the same cost and at the same time.
Because their performance requirements are completely different.
Ground computers can rely on the planet’s magnetic field to resist radiation and can even conceal themselves deep within the earth. But orbital satellites cannot do that. They can only depend on their own materials and magnetic fields for protection.
The more precise the device, the more susceptible it is to malfunction.
The computers loaded on satellites upgrade at a slower pace than regular computers.
This also led to the defenses Xiang Shan encountered not entirely abandoning those from the age of the Eighth Martial God.
Many vulnerabilities from that era are still remaining today.
Xiang Shan was carefully searching...
At that moment, he saw a "firelight".
In his perception, it was like a burning sun setting.
And from his own mental vision, Iron Heart Dharma King saw a tsunami.
The images seen by the two men were not the same. In Xiang Shan’s mind, he was the river, and Iron Heart Dharma King was a fireball. But in the Iron Heart Dharma King’s view, he was a rock falling from the sky, facing a tsunami.
It was as if the two men were having two interconnected dreams.
The differences in their brain neural networks and the underlying cognition caused them to dream differently about the same stream of data.
And then came the collision.
Without a second thought, Xiang Shan marshalled all his Inner Strength and launched an attack.
Across the network, two Internal Strength Masters engaged in direct combat!
But the clash was brief, with the Iron Heart Dharma King choosing to "step back half a step".
It wasn’t "out of fear of the enemy". The two were separated by the distance between Earth and Moon. The 1.28 Light Second delay meant that they couldn’t actually harm each other. Iron Heart Dharma King attacking the base station where Xiang Shan was located had to contend with this 1.28 Light Second delay. Xiang Shan’s counterattack faced the same delay.
And naturally, the Earth’s satellite orbit is closer to Earth.
Xiang Shan held the geographical advantage.
The opponent’s Inner Strength was indeed extraordinary. Realizing that he couldn’t defeat his enemy, Iron Heart Dharma King reluctantly turned to do something else.
He needed to cover up the traces of Xiang Shan.
That’s right, although reluctant, Iron Heart Dharma King had to do this. He needed to suppress the alarm of the firewall and erase the traces of the intrusion.
On the other side, Xiang Shan laughed.
"Why is it still you..."
This Inner Strength, this personal style...
This was the person who had made a deal with the Eighth Martial God all those years ago!
Another piece of the puzzle.
This indicates that an Internal Strength Master from the Six Dragons Sect, who was in the Earth-Moon system eighty years ago and is still here now.
Such a level of Inner Strength is extremely rare.
By comparing the activity records of the Internal Masters at these two time points, one might hope to dig out this high-ranking member of the Six Dragons Sect.
Xiang Shan’s Inner Strength surged.
Now, it was time for the next step of the plan.
Iron Heart Dharma King suddenly had a bad feeling.
In his perception, the "tsunami" suddenly began to disintegrate...
But this was not a sign that the attack was stopping.
The disintegrated tsunami became countless droplets, flowing across the imagined "land".
Xiang Shan further expanded the scope of his erosion!