Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Reached the semifinals in one go.
"I exploited a vulnerability in the Dawn T4 system and gained system permissions. As for the high-frequency signal you mentioned, I suspect some device inside the ruins resonated with the mecha's communication module, generating high-intensity radio waves."
The investigator was puzzled: "Relics? Instruments? Resonance?"
Tao Ying took out his laptop and displayed the Blue Star text he had taken in the rift.
"In the rifts of the Frofa Mountains lie the remains of an era of space wandering."
Tao Ying heard a strange sound deep in the cave at that time. She thought it was an illusion caused by lack of oxygen, but looking back, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the sound she heard was like some ancient machine running.
The two investigators looked at each other.
The technician quickly made a phone call and indeed detected a strange high-energy signal source inside the fissure. After confirmation, it was indeed a relic.
After a comprehensive analysis by the technical department, Tao Ying's claims were confirmed. She hadn't cheated, but had exploited a vulnerability in her mecha to attack the system.
At the same time, the contents of the ruins were also reported to the Interstellar Ruins Administration for subsequent research and protection.
Feng Long sat down helplessly outside the field: "She's fine, let her go."
…
At twelve o'clock in the morning, a large number of Star Network netizens were still waiting for the official announcement of the league.
"Did the Space Ghost Girls cheat? Why hasn't the Ninth Division investigation come out yet? I'm waiting to go to bed!"
"That's right, if they really cheated, then the Space Ghost Team's score doesn't count, right?"
"Family members have been released, and the official announcement has been made!"
Netizens who stayed up late to watch the latest news crowded into the league’s official account.
[Sky Cup League Technical Support]: This afternoon, a large-scale mecha outage in Division 9 has attracted widespread attention. After confirmation from the Sky Cup League technical team and multiple parties, we would like to explain the situation.
[Sky Cup League Technical Support]: The captain of the Space Ghosts team exploited a system vulnerability in the Dawn T4 to gain access to the mechas in the arena, causing them to crash. However, the team did not use any illegal equipment during the electronic attack. This behavior falls under the scope of electronic warfare and complies with league regulations. Therefore, the Space Ghosts team's results will not be adjusted. Thank you for your joint supervision of the fairness of the competition.
The announcement also includes full data on the attack.
"Provisional version, the Space Ghost Girls didn't cheat."
"You mean it only took this guy three minutes to crack Dawn T4's system? You must be kidding! I did see a similar attack during the 27th League, but that happened an hour after the game started!"
"Oh, I remember that electronic warfare. The attacker was from the Empire's top military academy. She rose through the ranks and became a marshal just over a decade after graduation."
"You're telling me that what took the marshal an hour to do only took her three minutes? I can't even get the system permissions in three minutes. I don't believe it."
"What's the point of you not believing it? The technical department provided very detailed data. I have already replicated the attack."
This person excitedly posted a video of the Dawn T4 being remotely controlled, and netizens now completely believed that the Space Ghost Team won purely by relying on their strength.
But some people suddenly reacted.
"Wait a minute, the league's technical department released so many attack details, and a bunch of people rushed to imitate them. Isn't this going to kill the mecha manufacturers? This makeshift team should edit it out!"
But it was too late. More than 300 people downloaded the appendix data and began to replicate the content according to the attack details. For a while, the entire StarCraft T4 fell into a peaceful sleep.
The manufacturer of the Shuguang T4 mecha received a series of calls to the technical department and began to patch the vulnerability program overnight.
Finally, at six in the morning, Garcia Electronics, the mecha manufacturer of Dawn T4, also issued an announcement.
Garcia Electronics: The @Skydome Cup League technical support vulnerability has been fixed. Please update to the latest version as soon as possible. Please post the next announcement during business hours. Okay.
Netizen: I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t laugh but hahahahahahahahahaha.
Netizen: Working overtime in the early morning, is this such a miserable life? I feel sorry for you.
Netizen: The story begins with an attack by the Space Ghost Team... Wait, Space Ghost Team? Isn't this the IP of Haitai Technology? Isn't this a business war?
Garcia seemed to have lost his mind due to working overtime in the middle of the night, and he quickly followed the discussion with resentment.
[Garcia Electronics]: @HaiTai Technology Business War is this how it works? If you have the guts, come in the daytime and face it head-on!
[Haitai Technology]: @Garcia Electronics This is not a business war, it's just that the team we invested in is more competitive. It's not impossible to attack head-on, just lie down.
Netizen: Aren’t you two competitors? Why are you chatting with each other?
Netizen: Someone please tell me whether this is a business war or not!
Netizen: An honest person in the industry has given the answer. Haitai Technology has never made enemies in the industry and is very Buddhist.
Netizen: I can testify that President Irina is only engaged in business war with Iowa Technology. These two companies are the real enemies.
Netizens quickly photoshopped emoticons.
Space Ghost Girls: Let the two mecha manufacturers fight for me, what did I do.jpg
The meme quickly spread online, and the name of the Space Ghost Team spread throughout the league group.
Almost all the league students knew that they ranked first in the overall standings of the audition competition.
"I heard the Space Ghost Girls team is made up of freshmen? I thought the newcomers from Diyi and Turantis were already very impressive, but I didn't expect there's this rising star waiting for me. I'm already looking forward to the upcoming game!"
Zhu Xiaorui, as a student of Turantis, also learned the news as the competition had just ended.
She kept tagging Tao Ying's account in the group.
"Oh my god, Mr. S, your team scored 2222 points? Our Turantis team only scored over 500."
"Hey, Teacher S is the captain of the famous Space Ghost Girl Team?"
"How long have you not been online? Your information is so behind the times? The Space Ghost Girls were our opponents in the last friendly match."
"What? It's her! I thought we played that friendly match beautifully, Teacher S! It turns out you were hiding your strength all along. You're so good at electronic warfare, but you didn't even make a move in the friendly match!"
Tao Ying: "It's just a friendly match after all."
She told lies.
I didn't use electronic attacks in the friendly match because I was considering that I might encounter Turantis in the auditions and wanted to guard against this group of tactical maniacs, so I didn't show my full strength before.
Tao Ying blinked.
But let’s not talk about this matter anymore. I still have to pretend to be a good person.
On the other side, Lin Biege turned on his laptop and was dizzy from the pop-up messages from his classmates.
She still couldn't believe that they had won first place in the ninth division.
Yesterday, Lin Biege was so busy operating on the court that he didn't pay any attention to the results. As soon as he got off the court, he was pulled into the inquiry room for questioning and didn't even have a chance to ask about the score.
So it was not until she was released from the inquiry room and Tao Ying greeted her that she was told that their team's score was 2222.
Yesterday, Lin Biege was in a daze until he got home.
"Shadow, 2222 hey." "I know."
"Four twos, a king bomb!" "Yeah, I heard it."
The first military academy in the empire only scored more than 500 points. How did they do it?
"Pumpkin, pinch me, I must be dreaming. Pumpkin? Why don't you answer me?"
Tao Ying said helplessly: "She went to sleep."
Lin Biege slept with his eyes open all night. The next day, he was in a trance throughout the class.
On the third day, Lin Biege finally returned to normal and attended classes with his beloved captain. Then he saw Tao Ying hand in two more assignments with a look of astonishment on his face.
“When did you finish your coursework?”
"When you were sleeping the other day."
"Shouldn't you be sleeping at that time?"
Tao Ying felt the questioning gazes of her teammates, asking, "Are you still healthy?", and replied without a guilty conscience, "I slept for four hours straight, that's enough."
"If it doesn't work, give me some sedatives."
Tao Ying was chatting with her teammates, and when she entered the training ground, she happened to meet Zhou Zhen and his team.
"Hi." Yao Mengtao greeted them.
Tao Ying remembered that they also participated in the auditions and seemed to be drawn into the same competition area as Di Yi, so she asked casually.
"How was your competition?"
Several people had different expressions on their faces. Finally, Zhou Zhen shook his head and said, "We ranked 11th in the third division, so we were eliminated."
Sun Dang: "It's all Di Yi's fault. If they hadn't targeted us at the last moment, we would have definitely advanced!"
Yao Mengtao waved her hand: "Forget it, I'm not as skilled as others, no excuses."
Yao Mengtao looked at the team in front of her and felt very emotional.
At the beginning of the course battle, Yao Mengtao felt that they were very weak. At that time, student F with physical fitness was absent, so the course battle could only be 2v2. Yao Mengtao pushed Zhou Zhen and Sun Dang out and had no interest in fighting with them at all.
Who would have thought that this problematic combination could actually take first place in the standings?
"How did you accomplish that electronic attack?" Yao Mengtao couldn't help but ask Tao Ying curiously.
"The official gave us the mecha model in advance, so it's not difficult to find a loophole."
Tao Ying said it lightly, but Yao Mengtao didn't think so. There had been similar electronic warfare in the league before, but because the result was too one-sided, since then, the mechas in the league have strengthened their security defenses and are difficult to crack.
Therefore, in recent leagues, there have been almost no electronic attacks, but more physical interference on the field like Kirisame E.
In order to find the loophole, Tao Ying's efforts were definitely not as easy as she appeared.
Originally, Yao Mengtao thought that she would feel unbalanced because the team had won, but at this moment she felt unusually calm.
Yao Mengtao extended her hand: "Good luck in the next game too."
Tao Ying smiled and shook hands back: "Thank you."
Sun Dang, with his blond hair, said: "I will continue to follow your competition."
Tao Ying said calmly, "Well, it's not like I really need your attention."
Sun Dang: “…”
…
While waiting for the next game, Nan Gua searched for the official video of the auditions, cut out dozens of pictures, and arranged them, intending to post them on the photo wall in the living room.
The photos include Lin Biege drawing his sword coolly, her swinging a hammer, and Xiaoying holding the barrel of the Tianji Zero gun in the avalanche and leaping back in a dashing manner.
Nan Gua posted it behind the group photo of the Turantis friendly match, with pictures of their first, second, and third losses above it.
And the first time they defeated Zhou Zhen and her team.
Tao Ying and Lin Biege also came over to help with pasting.
Lin Biege looked at the photo and sighed, "Our cooperation was terrible at the beginning."
"Yes, at that time, Xiaoying had a broken bone and was lying in the medical cabin, reviewing our tactics."
"We didn't live here at the time."
“After winning one game, we never lost again.”
Nan Gua and Lin Biege looked up. They had always thought that winning the finals was an illusory goal, an unattainable dream.
The captain was just bored and said it for fun.
But I don’t feel that way anymore.
They seemed to be figuring out its shape step by step.
There is still a large blank space on the photo wall for them to fill.
Just like that, we made it to the finals!
"Shadow, I feel like as long as you're on the team, we can't lose."
"Oh?" Tao Ying pressed a thumbtack and turned her head in surprise.
She chuckled. "Do I really have to be on the team? I can still help you win even if I'm lying in the medical bay."
"Then please don't go into the medical bay. Have you taken your medicine today? Why didn't Xiaoye remind you, Xiaoye? Xiaoye!"
Lin Biege called out seven or eight times, but Xiaoye didn't respond at all.
Tao Ying looked down at the chubby robot, tapped its forehead, and called out "Xiao Ye".
The smart butler seemed to have received some signal and started up quickly.
It gave a sleepy expression: "What's the matter, Master?"
Lin Biege was wondering why Shadow's calling Xiaoye worked, but her calling him didn't, when she saw their beloved captain staring straight at the smart housekeeper, as if thinking about something.
Tao Ying muttered, "Could it be that my voiceprint is set as the wake-up condition... Never mind, Xiaoye, let's go into power saving mode."
"Order received."
The little robot shrank stiffly into the corner.
Lin Biege: "It doesn't seem as smart as before."
Nan Gua came over and said, "I always feel like I've lost my soul."
Tao Ying nodded thoughtfully: "Maybe."
…
For the Sky Cup, there were 5,723 registered teams from all galaxies. After a round of auditions, 1,900 teams advanced.
The second round of auditions will begin soon.
The schedule for these rounds of auditions is very tight and is a great test of physical strength.
Tao Ying decided to make a quick decision, and she immediately tried the previous loophole after she came on stage.
A warning message pops up on the panel.
【Failed to obtain root privileges.】
The loophole was plugged.
It seems that after the previous round of fermentation, the organizers have urgently upgraded the firewall of the mecha.
But it doesn’t matter, it just takes a little longer, Tao Ying shrugged.
An hour later, all the mechas in the arena fell down again.
[The Space Ghost Team advances to the third round! ]
In the third and fourth rounds, Tao Ying did the same thing.
The number of teams in the competition dropped sharply from 1,900 to 630, then to 210, and finally to 70.
The auditions were over, with only seventy teams remaining.
The Space Ghost Team rushed to the semi-finals in one go.
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