I Play Dungeons in the Police Station-Chapter 361 - 226: Internet Hacker (Happy National Day!)

Chapter 361: Chapter 226: Internet Hacker (Happy National Day!)

"President Meng, you’re finally here. The technicians are doing their best to fix it, but we still can’t restart the server. The police are here too, but they can’t help either. It’s really over this time."

"Xiao Ke, don’t worry, we’ll find a way."

Mengtao reassured her and led Li Xiang and the others into the office area.

The place was very modern, with shared workstations separated by transparent glass, looking very spacious.

All the technical staff were working hard to restore the database, the sound of keyboards clattering resonated in the air, and everyone’s face was full of seriousness.

On-site were five or six cyber police officers, including the leader of the cyber police squad, Yu Qiu, who was also at a computer attempting to find evidence of the hacker’s intrusion and uncover the hacker.

But...

Outmatched, he could only sigh at the computer screen.

"The servers have been down for more than half an hour, and players are already complaining on the official website. If we don’t get them back online, it will damage our reputation significantly."

Xiao Ke explained the situation to President Meng, hoping she could come up with a solution.

But what could she do?

She didn’t know any capable hackers to fight back, so she could only look at Li Xiang pleadingly.

Treating a dead horse as if it were alive, she really had no other choice.

"Brother Li, do you have any ideas?"

"Let me give it a shot." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Li Xiang handed the leash of the dog to Mengtao, then patted an employee on the shoulder, signaling him to step aside.

The employee, focused on his work, was about to get upset at the interruption, but seeing President Meng beside him, he said nothing and stepped aside.

Li Xiang sat down only to find access denied when trying to log in to the server.

Clearly, they had already lost all permissions to this server, and he was being shut out.

But could this really stop Li Xiang?

Apparently not.

Li Xiang quickly wrote a sniffer tool only a few hundred KB large to scan the server. Soon, he found a system vulnerability and bypassed the firewall, regaining control of the server.

The programmer Li Xiang had displaced was skeptical at first, but when he saw Li Xiang writing code in a text file without even checking for bugs and successfully running it, identifying the system vulnerability in one go, he was overwhelmed.

They had been struggling to access that server, and Li Xiang handled it in ten minutes.

What defines a master?

This is it.

He almost wanted to kneel before Li Xiang.

"President Meng, where did you find this master? I’m so impressed by his skills I feel like kneeling."

Even employees were amazed. Even Mengtao was surprised by these skills and hacking capability: "If I said I found him while walking my dog, would you believe me?"

Mengtao lifted the dog leash in her hand, and only then did the employees notice that she had brought along their department head, as well as an entirely black dog, presumably the master hacker’s dog.

While chatting, Li Xiang’s hands never stopped working. After regaining control of the server, he quickly detected the intruder. The intruder also noticed Li Xiang’s presence, and the two began their showdown on the server.

Li Xiang didn’t want to scare the opponent into disconnecting the network, so he slowed down the pace, engaging the hacker while quietly infiltrating the other party’s computer.

Soon, he traced the network to the opponent’s computer and used his scanning tool to search for system vulnerabilities.

The opponent was also a computer expert, having secured his system, but it was no match for Li Xiang, who quickly breached the defenses and retrieved the real IP address.

Li Xiang saw that the address was in Jinling City, and using the IP address, he retrieved user information from the telecommunications company’s broadband account records.

"Found him, Xu Zihang, 38 years old, local to Jinling, residing at 501, Building 3, Wangjiang District."

Then, Li Xiang took out his phone and found Yu Chuanfei’s number, dialing it.

Yu Chuanfei was the chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Jinling City Public Security Bureau, closest to the hacker and able to reach the location in the shortest possible time.

He had some connections with the Jinling City Public Security Bureau, ensuring Yu Chuanfei would assist.

"Chief Yu, this is Li Xiang."

"Li Xiang, it’s been a while since you visited Jinling, are you here today?"

Yu Chuanfei assumed Li Xiang was in town since he owed Li Xiang a meal from their last encounter and was not willing to let him leave again without a catch-up.

"Not exactly, but I need your team’s help with something."

Yu Chuanfei became serious upon hearing this was a mission and asked, "What task?"

"I’ve pinpointed a hacker currently committing a crime. He’s in your Jinling, at 501, Building 3, Wangjiang District, named Xu Zihang, age 38. You need to bring men to arrest him immediately. I’ll send over the warrant paperwork shortly."

"By rights, I can’t detain someone without a warrant, but since you’re the one asking, I’ll make an exception. Ensure you get that paperwork to me as soon as you can."

Normally, detaining someone without proper authorization would be against protocol, leaving them liable if anything went wrong during the capture operation, so it was typically impermissible.

Given the urgency, if the hacker sensed trouble and fled, it would miss the best chance for capture. Li Xiang had no choice but to request the cooperation of the Jinling City Public Security Bureau.