Chapter 102: Is This Just an Ordinary Office Worker?

"Can you hack into the bank's security system?" Zhou Qiaoqiao was stunned.

She had watched a livestream for a while.

She knew the Program Crew's assessment of Xu Mo—just an ordinary office worker.

But Zhou Qiaoqiao felt a bit annoyed.

Did the Program Crew misjudge?

Those four characters "ordinary" probably need quotation marks, right?

Someone who can hack the bank's security system.

Also called an ordinary office worker?

Of course, another possibility is that Xu Mo is bragging.

Maybe he simply can't breach the bank's security system at all.

But looking at Xu Mo's expression.

Zhou Qiaoqiao thought.

The chance that Xu Mo is bragging is low.

Very likely, he actually has the skill!

"Sure I can," Xu Mo replied, "It's not hard; infiltrating systems is a basic Hacker Technique, right?"

Zhou Qiaoqiao: "???"

Did those words really come out of someone's mouth?

Hacking a bank's security system, not difficult?

And since when does breaching a bank's security system count as a basic Hacker Technique?

What the hell is this standard?

Who the hell set it?

In that instant, Zhou Qiaoqiao suddenly felt something.

She felt unworthy of calling herself a hacker.

Her heart instantly went half cold.

But at that moment, Xu Mo mercilessly added another blow.

"How come you don't even know this?"

Hearing that...

Zhou Qiaoqiao went numb.

Her young soul was instantly hit by ten thousand points of critical damage.

How could she not even know this...

Well asked.

Where would she even know!

After a pause, Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at Xu Mo with a puzzled expression.

"Where did you learn your Hacker Technique?"

Xu Mo, spouting nonsense without a hint of embarrassment, answered without thinking, "Self-taught."

"Self-taught? No one taught you?"

"Yeah, I taught myself as a kid just to boost my Penguin membership, and I gave myself a permanent one."

Zhou Qiaoqiao: "???"

Learning Hacker Technique just to boost Penguin membership?

That's ridiculously inspiring.

Not only Zhou Qiaoqiao was shocked.

Yang Jingxuan was also very shocked by this.

"Impressive... Publish a book, Xu Mo, write your self-taught hacker life into a book; I've already thought of a title: 'Those Years I Was a Hacker', what do you think?"

"Or call it 'Crazy! Learned Hacking Just to Boost Penguin Membership?'"

Xu Mo helplessly waved his hand.

"Enough of this nonsense, let's get back to the bank robbery."

He was counting on his fingers.

Xu Mo began to calculate.

"We now know the Program Crew hasn't moved the gold, and we can handle the one-click alarm button; we're only missing the final preparation—planning the escape route."

"Wait," Zhou Qiaoqiao suddenly said, "We haven't decided which bank to rob yet; we need to pick the target bank before we can plan the escape route."

Hangcheng has so many banks.

Even now, they haven't even settled on which bank to rob.

Xu Mo leaned forward and glanced at the map on the computer.

"Then let's pick a bank first."

Hearing that, Zhou Qiaoqiao also looked at the screen.

The map showed red dots.

All of them were relatively large banks in Hangcheng.

There were dozens of them.

What they need to do now is to choose among these dozens of banks.

Select one as their robbery target.

Zhou Qiaoqiao gave a cursory glance at the locations of the dozens of banks.

She then began to mutter.

"This one won't do, it's too close to the Police Station…"

"This one also won't work, it's in a bustling district, not easy to escape…"

But just as she was seriously trying to filter out a bank they could target,

Xu Mo suddenly spoke.

"We don't need to make it that complicated; we only need to know the Police's dispatch route after a bank robbery report and how long it takes them to reach the bank."

"Banks that the Police can reach quickly after a call need not be considered; on the contrary, the bank that takes the longest for the Police to arrive at is the one we prioritize."

"The longer it takes the Police to arrive at a bank, the more time we have, making it relatively safer."

"We also need to memorize the Police's dispatch route; after we succeed, we must avoid that route when fleeing and simply hack all the surveillance along our escape path."

As soon as Xu Mo finished speaking, Yang Jingxuan immediately raised a question.

"Didn't we say we could handle the one‑click alarm button? Then why worry about the Police?"

Xu Mo looked at Yang Jingxuan and explained softly.

"Disabling the one‑click alarm button only prevents the teller from reporting immediately; it merely delays the Police receiving the news."

"We can control the people inside the bank from not calling the alarm, but we can't control those outside; someone outside will surely report."

"In plain terms, disabling the teller's one‑click alarm only buys us time; the Police will eventually learn of the robbery and dispatch at once upon receiving the news."

Yang Jingxuan nodded as if half‑understanding.

She understood Xu Mo's point.

Hacking the bank's security system to stop the teller from reporting immediately is only the first safeguard.

Choosing a bank that takes the Police the longest to reach is the second safeguard.

Planning an escape route that doesn't overlap the Police's dispatch route is the third safeguard.

Hacking all surveillance along the escape path is the fourth safeguard.

With these four safeguards,

we can maximize the operation's success rate and their safety.

After Xu Mo finished the explanation,

Zhou Qiaoqiao also grasped Xu Mo's meaning.

But she still had a question.

"I get your point, but… how do we know the exact time the Police need to rush to each bank and their dispatch routes?"

"We could just trigger an alarm once and find out," Xu Mo replied.

"Got it! Use a virtual number to make a False Alarm Report, right?"

Xu Mo scratched his head.

"That's actually a method, but it probably won't work now. When I rescued you, I used it once; if they receive a call, they'll check the number, and if they find it's a virtual number… they likely won't dispatch."

Zhou Qiaoqiao was momentarily at a loss.

"Makes sense; the Police probably won't fall into the same trap twice… What should we do? Maybe spend some money to hire someone to call the alarm?"

"No need, I have another method that will convince them," Xu Mo smiled, flashing a big white tooth.

Seeing that smile,

Yang Jingxuan knew instantly.

Xu Mo's Sheer Cliff let out a poorly held fart.

The next second, Xu Mo reached out and pointed at Zhou Qiaoqiao's computer.

"I can hack into the bank's security system, use their one‑click alarm button to trigger an alarm; with that alarm, the Police will definitely dispatch immediately."

"But there's no rush now; we'll do it in front of the camera later. If we pull this off while we're 'showering', the Program Crew will surely be suspicious."

Saying that, Xu Mo glanced at the time on the computer.

One and a half hours later, the time was about right.

He turned off the bathroom shower and, on a whim, turned on the hair dryer.

Live Broadcast Room.

"They're done, coming out, and they're all using hair dryers now!"

"Xu Mo really disappointed me; he was busy eating meat and didn't even give us a sip of soup!"

"It took an hour and a half; Xu Mo must have taken a blue pill, right?"

"What are those blue little pills? Are they effective? I have a friend…"