204 Communication Restored 1
“F*ck, what’s going on! Why are you still unable to solve the virus problem?” Satia roared angrily.
Six hours had passed since the outbreak of the virus, but the scientists of Windows hadn’t made any progress.
Any equipment that appeared on the internet would instantly be infected and controlled by the virus.
They only had a superficial understanding of the virus for now.
“The internet has stopped for six hours. Now, the entire world is in a state of panic. As long as we are the first to develop a tool that can kill the virus, we will be the saviors of this world.”
“From now on, Windows will rule the operating systems market.”
“But now, you’re telling me that there’s nothing we can do?” Satia flew into a rage.
“Get back to work immediately. I promise you now that if anyone can develop a virus removal tool in the remaining six hours and restore all the computers installed with Windows, I will apply to the Board of Directors and directly reward you with 100 million!” After saying that, Satia returned to his office.
Other than that, he had no other choice.
The internet was down and so businesses that relied on the internet could not be conducted.
There was no way to communicate with others, or to buy virtual currency online to redeem the data.
Apple, Google and the Linux Foundation, and so on were all in the same boat.
“After the internet went down, the technology of the entire world fell back by 50 years! We have gone back to the mechanical era.” Someone sighed.
“The viruses currently running are developed based on the existing operating systems. As long as we develop a new operating system, these viruses won’t have the soil to survive.” Someone suggested.
“Develop a new operating system? And it’s not based on Linux? Oh, that might take a long time. We only have six hours now. When the time is up, Cerberus will clear all the data.” Someone immediately jumped out to retort.
After the Sunset Empire’s domain name management organization realized that there was no way to eliminate the virus, they found a few very ancient tape servers. To their surprise, these ancient tape servers could still be used.
The programs in these tape servers are fixed and cannot be changed.
It was precisely because of this characteristic that the tape server was immune to virus attacks.
After a while, they finally got the ancient tape servers up and running.
However, this 30-year-old tape server had been replaced 30 years ago because it was too slow.
Compared to 30 years ago, the number of internet devices worldwide had increased by 100,000 times.
Therefore, after only a minute of operation, because all the domain name resolution in the world emitted a huge amount of heat, this ancient machine was almost scrapped.
However, the server only processed one millionth of the requests.
“Oh, f*ck This old thing is too slow! It’s totally useless.” The person in charge of the Sunset Empire’s domain name management organization was disappointed.
“Cerberus is a fool. He actually attacked the most basic facilities of the internet. Great, the domain name servers can’t be used. Even if we want to pay him the ransom, we can’t do it.” Then, he couldn’t help but curse.
Currently, his only hope was that the Red Hat Corporation’s security experts could eliminate the virus in the domain name servers.
Unfortunately, the Red Hat Corporation, which he had placed his hopes on, could not work at all because their computers were controlled by the virus. They were still waiting for the help of the Linux Foundation.
Meanwhile, under Principal Wu’s lead, everyone walked out of the auditorium.
As soon as they arrived on the main road, Academician Lin Qu pulled Li Chengqian aside and asked softly.
“Li Chengqian, tell me the truth about this virus. Did you cause it?”
“No!” Li Chengqian said firmly. He looked at Academician Lin Qu with his head held high.
Academician Lin Qi stared at Li Chengqian for a full minute. After seeing Li Chengqian’s unflinching gaze, he nodded. “Alright, I understand.”
Li Chengqian was baffled. He didn’t know what Academician Lin Qu had understood. He clearly didn’t say anything, and what he said was the truth.
He really didn’t create this Doomsday Extortion Virus.
“According to the news from abroad, the domain name servers have also been controlled by the virus! The internet is completely paralyzed,” Academician Lin Qu said solemnly.
“This is catastrophic for the internet!”
“However to our Divine Dragon Country, it is not entirely bad news. There is an opportunity in the crisis.”
“Because our country’s internet industry developed slowly, so far, after countless trials and applications, and after paying a huge price, we’ve only obtained 60 million IP addresses from the Sunset Empire’s Domain Name Administration. But our country has a billion netizens! There’s not enough IP resources at all.”
“Have you heard of the Iceman Project?” Academician Lin Qu suddenly asked.
“I know. IPv6 is experimental! It can completely solve the problem of the shortage of IP addresses worldwide and also guarantee our country’s network security.” Li Chengqian nodded. He naturally knew about the Iceman Project.