If you cheat, money will follow

A new day has arrived as expected.

Comrade Xiao Zhao hummed a tune as always and walked briskly into the office.

She turned on her computer, logged into her email, and prepared for a new day of work.

Recalling the thrilling arrest operation some time ago, she still feels quite excited.

The operation ended successfully, and she was praised by her superiors for her quick response.

But Xiao Zhao knew clearly: "Agility? I just shouted a few slogans and slept in the office for a few days. The real efforts are those colleagues who are fighting on the front line."

Although she felt that the award was well deserved, she would not be stupid enough to expose it.

Just as she was immersed in memories, a conspicuous email caught her eye.

The title of the email clearly read: "Important! Urgent processing!"

The sender appears as "MOFA" - Neon Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Again?" She muttered, feeling inexplicably nervous.

I took a look at the sending time: 8:29:59.

She rushed out of the office without hesitation and shouted: "Director! Director!"

The morning passed quickly.

The content of this mysterious email has been grasped by supervisors.

"This method is exactly the same as last time. It's really a master to be able to obtain these secrets in the opponent's base camp and send them to us!"

"Can you trace who did it? Or which agency?"

"It's difficult. Last time we tried to trace it, we found nothing. Moreover, this is definitely not the work of our people."

"This is strange. What is the other party's motive? What are the benefits of doing this?"

"Perhaps it was done by overseas patriots?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. Let's put the source of the email first. The top priority is to report this information immediately and expedite processing."

"That's right. The list in the attachment is huge and even includes some people in key departments and key positions. Some people have been lurking for decades without being discovered. It's really shocking."

Unlike Yingjiang's intimidation, Neon is better at inducement.

Their penetration is deeper, longer, wider, more numerous and more harmful.

They are not limited to a single field, but lurk and collect in all directions, for a long time, and in multiple fields.

Fortunately, this list and corresponding evidence now exists.

The next work will be much simpler, just follow the diagram and follow the clues.

From mid-February to early March, in just over half a month, thousands of people were arrested by security personnel.

They are either in offices, conference sites, streets, production workshops, teaching front lines, or at airports, stations, ferries, borders...

The speed of this operation, the clear goals, the breadth of scope, and the intensity of this operation were unprecedented and shocked the whole world.

Countries have had mixed reactions to this, with some paying close attention, some expressing concern, and some saying it has nothing to do with them.

And in neon country.

The "dong dong dong" sound of knocking on the table kept ringing.

"Tanida-kun, our decades of hard work have been wiped out in just half a month! I want to know who did this? How could they know so much about our situation."

"Hi! Director, we are investigating with all our strength."

In fact, when this domestic work was first launched, Neon had already noticed anomalies.

At first they didn't pay much attention because those arrested were not the core figures.

However, a week later, as the number of people continued to increase, many key personnel lost contact one after another.

They realized the seriousness of the problem and began an internal investigation.

They firmly believe that there must be something wrong internally, but...

"Still investigating? It's been almost a month and you haven't found any clues yet! The superiors have begun to doubt our abilities. I hope you can attach great importance to this issue."

"Hi! Director, please rest assured, we are investigating this matter with all our strength, and we will definitely find out the culprit!"

At this moment, the beautiful female secretary walked into the office:

"Director, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called and hopes to provide further explanation on this incident."

Langley, Virginia, North America.

"Mr. Burns, those dwarfs are in the same trouble as us, and their organization is much larger. We can't pin our hopes on them."

An aide reported.

Burns frowned slightly, showing a trace of disdain:

"David, I've known for a long time that these dwarfs can never become great. They are too arrogant and think that as long as they are large enough, they can easily achieve their goals."

David swallowed and said, "But, Mr. Burns, we urgently need to give Mr. President a clear answer now."

Burns waved his hand and interrupted him: "No, he has no time to take care of our work now. There are more pressing matters to deal with."

"You mean... about Silicon Valley Bank?" David asked tentatively.

"Yes, that's the thing." Burns nodded affirmatively.

David seemed to be relieved, clasped his hands together and said with emotion:

“Thank God and thank you Silicon Valley Bank.”

"Yes, we should indeed thank Silicon Valley Bank." Burns said, but then changed the subject:

"However, we must also delve deeper into why our intelligence network was breached and not through violent means."

David touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "Mr. Burns, I have consulted Google's technical team."

"They said that with the current level of technology, they are not able to do this. But they do not rule out that there are other institutions in the world that already have such capabilities."

"Oh? Who is that? Which organization has this ability?" Burns' eyes became sharp.

David took a deep breath and slowly exhaled: "I suspect it is the Flathead Research Institute. I think they must be secretly studying quantum computing and have made major breakthroughs."

"But unlike Google, they have nothing to prove to the capital markets, so they have kept a low profile."

Burns' face became solemn: "This is what I am worried about. Just like the previous large models of artificial intelligence, they always hide it before the product comes out. If it is their fault, we should How to deal with it?”

David shrugged helplessly: "Uh...Mr. Burns, I'm afraid there's nothing we can do."

Burns sighed and rubbed his temples: "This is exactly what gives me a headache. They were impeccable from beginning to end, and couldn't find any weaknesses."

Speaking of Pingtou Ge Research Institute, since its establishment more than ten years ago, this institution has developed new technologies and achievements as easily as eating.

The advent of every technology has changed the world and attracted the attention of major intelligence agencies around the world.

However, no matter what actions were taken, they ultimately failed.

No matter which agency sent the personnel, there was no news in the end.

Therefore, Pingtou Ge Research Institute has become a forbidden place in the minds of intelligence personnel.

White House.

"Sleeping King" really has no time to care about whether room temperature superconductors have appeared and been applied on the other side of the distant ocean.

His eyes and thoughts were firmly attracted by the recent series of huge shocks in the financial market.

On March 3, Silicon Valley Bank proudly announced that they have won the "Best Bank in North America" ​​award by Forbes magazine for five consecutive years.

However, no one expected that on March 3, this bank, whose only service goal was in the field of innovation, would collapse due to insolvency.

The incident quickly became the largest bank failure in North America since the 2008 financial crisis.

This bank has a history of 40 years and assets of US$2000 billion.

It only took two short days from being hailed as the best to being completely closed.

Such a dramatic change, like a financial crisis, quickly captured the headlines of major media around the world.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was not an isolated incident.

Immediately afterwards, Signature Bank in New York State followed suit and announced its closure.

Before these two banks, there was another cryptocurrency bank called Silver Gate Bank, which announced its bankruptcy on March 3.

In just five days, three banks collapsed one after another, which undoubtedly dropped a cloud bomb on the financial market.