Asked you to write a book, not to confess your criminal record!

At present, the main clue he had gathered pointed towards "Myanmar area-Baisheng Group" "Morgan Group-Southeast Asia division".

"Addictive drugs" as the world's largest illegal trade.

Forces involved in the trafficking of "addictive drugs" often also managed the trade in "weapons and humans", supported by formidable armed forces in the background.

Therefore, such criminal cases were complex and investigation work was difficult to carry out.

"Ah... no progress at all!"

Qin Yun leaned back in his chair, slumped into his seat, squinted his eyes, and then rubbed them with his hand to ease the fatigue.

After a while.

He grabbed the mouse again and opened a bookmarked webpage on his computer.

— "International Forum-Underworld".

That's right.

He had been monitoring this forum section for a long time, especially the "Black Ice" area which contained various posts about "addictive drugs", providing him with some material for his case studies.

At the same time, a variety of users were active there.

He believed that the clue he was looking for might well appear there.

Hoping for a bit of luck, he logged into the "International Forum-Underworld" every now and then to have a look.

However, the website that evening surprised him.

"International Forum-Underworld" was shut down!

"What happened?" Qin Yun frowned slightly, the white light of the screen reflecting on his face, showing a look of surprise.

He had investigated "Hacker Kingdom" before and knew that the person behind this section was a master hacker.

Logically speaking.

The "Underworld" section should not shut down without any special circumstances.

"Go check 'Dark Live'."

Qin Yun muttered to himself.

'Dark Live' was a global large-scale hacker live streaming platform which often featured hosts explaining the technical applications within "Hacker Kingdom", and one could easily find out why the "Underworld" section was shut down.

Qin Yun typed a series of web addresses into the search bar and quickly navigated to the 'Dark Live' streaming platform.

Before he could click into a followed stream, he saw several popular live rooms on the homepage of the live streaming platform.

They all had "Underworld" written on them.

[Live "Underworld" experiences web intrusion in full!]

[The "Underworld" is under attack by a major hacker organization!]

[Confirmed! "Underworld" has been subjected to large-scale intrusion by hackers from Southeast Asia, and the site is currently shut down!]

[...]

"Hacked?" Qin Yun's eyebrows furrowed, and then he quickly entered one of the live streams.

The live broadcast showed a real-time three-dimensional map of a network attack.

Multiple light trails lit up on the map, moving across the sky like colorful shooting stars streaking through a pitch-black night.

In the bottom right corner of the live broadcast.

There stood a hacker host, named Tom, wearing a black mask covering his face entirely, not even the eyes showing, and he was explaining in English:

"About half an hour ago, 'International Forum-Underworld' was hit by a barrage of XSS attacks. We can currently confirm that the attackers launching the cyberattacks are located in the Southeast Asia region, we can see this light trail..."

The live room had a substantial number of online viewers and plenty of comments flying by.

[I'm a loyal fan of "Hacker Kingdom" and "Black Ice", with no "Underworld", I'm 'homeless' now!]

[Southeast Asia region? Who is attacking an ordinary forum section?]

[Is there an Influent Author in the live room who can help track who's attacking "Underworld"?]

[I was still learning techniques until it suddenly closed!]

[I really want to know who's behind this mischief!]
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[Does anyone have information? Speak up!]

[...]

Qin Yun glanced at the comments.

He, too, was getting curious—who would attack a forum section for no reason?

At that moment, host Tom suddenly stopped, then left the camera view. After about five or six seconds, he reappeared.

"My friends, I have some rather unfortunate news to share!"

The hacker host Tom's voice was processed, but it was still evident that his tone was somewhat grim.

[Is it that the "International Forum-Underworld" section has reopened?]

[Who is the instigator?]

[My friend, do you know who is causing trouble?]

[...]

Most of those in the live room were hackers or aspiring hackers.

Among them, many are fans of "Hacker Kingdom"!

They were all very focused on this incident.

Then, the host Tom said, "Just now, through a secret channel, I received the attacker information for the 'Underworld' shutdown event."

At this point, Qin Yun became interested.

His eyes were glued to the live broadcast, ears perked up, carefully listening to every word host Tom uttered.

Host Tom didn't leave them hanging and directly revealed the news he got, "The attacker is the Southeast Asia branch of the Morgan Group."

Wow!

A single stone stirred up a thousand waves!

The chat in the live broadcast room suddenly came like a torrential downpour.

[The Morgan Group is done for, the 'Underworld' section is finished!]

[This is a giant of the grey-black industry in Southeast Asia!]

[Yes, many international police can't do anything about them!]

[The founder of 'Underworld,' Mr. Lin, isn't he a web novel writer? How did he get involved with the Morgan Group?]

[How could such a huge Morgan Group make a move against a web novel writer?]

[I'm so angry, the Morgan Group actually made a move against my idol!]

[...]

Confusion, doubt, and surprise, these emotions surfaced in the comments of the live chat.

Similarly, Qin Yun felt the same way.

How could the Morgan Group attack a minor forum section?

Could it be that this forum section had touched their interests?

Several questions swirled in his mind.

Subsequently, he sighed softly, muttering, "This forum section created by the web novel writer, I guess there's no way to reopen it now."

The audience in the live broadcast room thought the same thing.

This wasn't a pessimistic view.

On the contrary, it was based on their understanding of the Morgan Group that they made such a judgment.

The reputation of the Morgan Group in the grey-black domain was simply too loud.

It had a wide range of operations, and a multitude of internal organizations.

Therefore, globally, people with no backing who offended them almost always chose to give in, compromise, and hide.

What more for an ordinary web novel writer?

As Qin Yun pondered, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, so arrogant. Don't let me find any evidence!"

At this moment, the host Tom in the live broadcast room, looking at the real-time network attack monitoring map, continued to explain, "Friends, the Morgan Group is still attacking the servers of the 'International Forum-Underworld' section, woah! That Mr. Lin hasn't compromised! He's still holding on!"

Host Tom saw that the server of the 'Underworld' section on the map was still lit up, as if it was actively defending!

[This is dangerous, but Mr. Lin is so brave!]

[Mr. Lin hasn't given up, he actually dares to stand up to the Morgan Group!]

[Damn Morgan Group, to actually trouble an ordinary web novel writer!]

[Does Mr. Lin not know the opponent is the Morgan Group?]

[Sob! I'm a bit teary-eyed!]

[A web novel writer dares to stand up against such a giant?]

[...]

The audience watched in a daze as that light point remained illuminated.

Qin Yun felt somewhat stirred.

But he fell silent, staring intently at that light point.

In his estimation, that light point would soon dim, eventually extinguishing, invaded, controlled, and destroyed by the Morgan Group!

Alas—

He sighed silently to himself.

Suddenly!

An excited voice rang out in Qin Yun's ears, coming from the live broadcast's host, Tom.

"Look! Mr. Lin is counterattacking! He's counterattacking!"

Qin Yun's head snapped up, leaning forward to see, his eyes fixed on that light point on the 'real-time network attack monitoring map'!

At that moment!

A blue light shot out fiercely from that light point!

Qin Yun's mouth opened slightly as his gaze followed the light, that blue light, shining against the pitch-black backdrop, crossing over the globe model above, aiming precisely at the Southeast Asia region!

Its target, the Morgan Group!