Chapter Four: Their Blockade Became My Advertisement

Twelve minutes after the White Tower Alliance released its statement, the first siege hit DayShield's servers. Three-point-four million infected devices attacked at once, producing a traffic peak a hundred times greater than the Haiyue incident. Banks froze DayShield's accounts. Cloud providers canceled compute. Newly signed clients sent termination notices. The top trending headline accused DayShield of using AI to extort corporations, while Han Jing appeared on a livestream as a supposed victim. “Lin Zhou possesses a backdoor that hijacks agents,” he told the camera gravely. “If society does not stop him, tomorrow everyone's cars, medical records, and savings will become hostages.”