Chapter 36: Coming to Declare Victory

Ling Wu returned to the apartment and opened the computer; his slender, fair fingers tapped on the keyboard, and after successfully entering the Academy network, he captured Shen Zhaojue's IP address.

The code on the computer screen scrolled rapidly in response.

At the same time, on the other side.

Darkness private room.

Several young masters were dead drunk, wine bottles rolled all over the floor, and the air was permeated with the smell of alcohol and hormones; the tipsy scent smelled like sinking into depravity.

"Shen Zhaojue, are you done yet?"

"Stop fiddling with that broken phone of yours."

Jing Du and the others were sitting at the booth playing dice; seeing that Shen Zhaojue was slow to come over, Wei Ranxu shouted impatiently.

Several waitresses in miniskirts with hot bodies called out: "Shen, come over and play."

Shen Zhaojue frowned: "Coming, coming, what's the rush?"

He only dared to speak like this to Wei Ranxu, who had a similar family background; he sat down in his seat and gave a fawning smile to Jing Du and the others: "Sorry, Young Master Jing, this phone had some issues, I'll have it replaced tomorrow."

"Otherwise it's always a buzzkill."

A playboy nearby casually mentioned: "Shen, your phone still isn't fixed?"

Shen Zhaojue turned the phone on, tossed it in front of him with the screen facing up, and yawned: "See for yourself, it's been this dead state since just now, even restarting it is useless."

"I don't know which crappy phone company developed this, I have to make my dad acquire them."

"Eh?" That person took a look: "It is quite strange, I use this brand of phone too, I've used it for quite a while and never had this situation."

Jin Shaoyu glanced over unintentionally and saw two strings of numbers and English letters occasionally flashing on the pitch-black phone screen.

"Heh."

He sneered, the mockery very obvious.

That playboy thought he was laughing at him, and immediately shivering, asked: "Jin... Young Master Jin, what are you laughing at?"

Jin Shaoyu's face wore his usual unruly expression: "Do I need to greet you to laugh at something?"

"Is your family feeding you for nothing? Your phone has been hacked and you don't even know, still thinking it's a manufacturer issue."

That person was stunned: "Ah? Hack... hacked?"

Seeing that he was truly ignorant, Jin Shaoyu gave him a cold look, appearing extremely dangerous and oppressive: "Tsk."

"If I lived like you, I would have found a building to jump off of long ago."

【666666】

【As expected of you】

【The young master's mouth is still so acerbic】

【When arguing, can I borrow your mouth to use?】

"What a pain." Shen Zhaojue furrowed his brows: "I'll go back and ask the technical staff, whoever dares to hack my phone, if I find them, I'll have to peel off a few layers of their skin."

A character flashed on his phone screen, and just as he was about to stuff the phone into his pocket, he was stopped.

Jing Du looked at him and said: "Bring it here for me to see."

Shen Zhaojue obediently handed the phone over.

"Right." Jin Shaoyu suddenly realized: "Adu, I just remembered you are a genius in this area."

Jing Du had liked studying computer code since he was a child; no matter how high the confidentiality of a security system was, it was like thin paper in his eyes. As long as he wanted to, he could easily obtain the information he wanted. At the age of seven, he had successfully invaded the database of a large bank and stolen hundreds of millions in funds.

He is the famous hacker J on the Dark Web.

The other party's attack method was quite clever and decisive; if one were not an insider, they would only think the phone suddenly went black and then got stuck on the restart page.

Jing Du: "Have you had someone reinforce your firewall?"

"Firewall?"

Shen Zhaojue thought for a moment: "Of course, my dad was scared by these hackers, and even spent a large sum of money to hire a hacker on the Dark Web specifically to be in charge of this."

He asked cautiously: "Young Master Jing... can this be solved?"

Jing Du took out anti-blue light glasses and put them on; the silver-rimmed glasses made him look even more refined and easy-going, his whole body exuding an aura of abstinence.

He said: "Give me a computer."

The playboy from before said: "J... Young Master Jing, I'll go to the front desk and borrow one for you."

Soon, a laptop was borrowed.

Jing Du asked: "Your IP address."

Shen Zhaojue reported a string of decimal numbers.

Jing Du opened the computer, his slender, bamboo-like fingertips tapping rapidly on the black keyboard, his technique skillful and precise, as if playing a magnificent musical movement.

A string of code soon appeared on the computer screen.

Shen Zhaojue's firewall was designed by a specialist and had strong anti-tracking capabilities; it only needed a little time for decryption, and he could capture the other party's IP to block the malicious intrusion.

But the other party was no ordinary person and could easily avoid it every time.

On the other side.

The curtains in Ling Wu's apartment were all drawn, the room was pitch black as ink, and only the fluorescent light from the computer shone on his face; half of his exquisite face was hidden in the Darkness, and the exposed part was delicate and beautiful.

The smile hooked at the corners of his lips was as dangerous as the Sword of Damocles hanging over one's head.

He placed one hand on the keyboard and calmly took a sip of water.

When the other party was about to track him down, he tapped the Y key with the certainty of victory.

Successfully hacked in!

He entered Shen Zhaojue's bank account, moved 20,000 yuan, used the Academy's public account, transferred it to Qi Yu's bank account, and then wiped the traces of the deposit and transfer completely clean.

"Snap—"

The computer screen suddenly went black.

"What's going on?" Jin Shaoyu noticed his expression was wrong, propped one hand on the sofa, and frowned as he looked over; it was obvious on the screen that he hadn't intercepted the other party's attack.

"Adu, even you couldn't stop it?"

That really is strange.

He cast a glance at Shen Zhaojue beside him: "Who have you provoked?"

Shen Zhaojue swallowed hard: "Young Master Jin, I don't know either... I haven't even stepped out of the Academy gates."

Other than going to threaten Ling Wu this afternoon, he hadn't done anything else; Ling Wu, with that cold and refined appearance, couldn't possibly be a high-level hacker, right?

Isn't that a fantasy?

He quickly dismissed this thought.

Jing Du's expression was calm, his thin lips slightly pursed: "The other party is too patient, they have been waiting for a rabbit to hit a tree; they were only one step away from hacking into the account, but they waited until I was about to track them down before pressing the Y key to enter."

"Do you know what this represents?"

Jin Shaoyu raised an eyebrow: "Arrogance?"

"No..." A cold light reflected off Jing Du's lenses, yet there was a faint excitement of having found a kindred spirit: "That is a composed posture of someone who can retreat unscathed with one hundred percent certainty."

"They belong to the top tier of hackers."

Shen Zhaojue understood: "That awesome?"

After a while.

"Ding!"

The computer screen lit up again, showing a constantly flickering envelope icon, flashing red light frequently, like a provocation from a victor.

Jin Shaoyu lifted his chin slightly, his tone rather cavalier: "Yo, the other party has come to issue a victory declaration; do you want to click it and see?"