Chapter 576 - Li Nanli And His Horde Of Sock Puppets – 2
Chapter 576: Li Nanli And His Horde Of Sock Puppets – 2
Gu Yanqi entered the room to tell Fu Zhi and Li Nanli that the meal was ready.
Fu Zhi was typing away on the keyboard. When she heard Gu Yanqi’s voice, she said, “You guys go ahead without me. I have some scores to settle right now, and I’ll join you guys later.”
Gu Yanqi then opened up the door to the study.
Li Nanli replied him without even raised his head up, “I’m doing something personal. Give me five minutes.”
Gu Yanqi did not know what to say.
‘Why do I have a feeling that you two are talking about the same matter?’
Keeping his head low, Li Nanli destroyed 80% of the firewall in the website effortlessly. Just when he was about to press forward, something happened.
The screen of his laptop suddenly blurred, and a line of white codes appeared at the bottom of the screen.
It was a familiar scene, and Li Nanli’s heart skipped a beat.
He pressed his lips tight and squinted his eyes. He did not do anything but just watched his screen.
The captain of the 2nd division realized something was not right. He asked, “What’s going on?”
“They have changed their maintenance programmer,” Li Nanli replied, “Which company owns this website?”
After all, there was no way a small company could afford a programmer of this caliber.
The captain of the 2nd division fell silent for a moment before saying, “It’s an illegal company. They’ve detained captains of the 4th and 5th divisions. We want to save them, so we came for you.”
The captain of the 3rd division also chimed in, “Is it too hard? Do you want us to help? You don’t have to share your points with us.”
“That’s not necessary,” Li Nanli said flatly as he put his fingers on the keyboard, “I can deal with it myself.”
He sounded as if they were too incompetence to work with him. Besides, it’s not the sheer number of people that’s going to take this website down.
When he first came in, there were ten or so programmers tried to hold him off but they could not do it. However, now that they had changed another programmer, things became different. He took control over the entire situation in just a few minutes and successfully removed the virus that Li Nanli planted in their mainframe.
Li Nanli looked at the virus in his laptop.
There was a white rabbit on his screen right now. It was nibbing on a carrot before spitting at Li Nanli.
Its ears were fully erected as if it was telling him that he should not mess with it.
Li Nanli had no idea why but instead of getting angry, he felt the rabbit was adorable.
He raised his brows and put both his hands back on the keyboard. It seemed like he was ready to have a competition with the programmer from the other side.
Generally speaking, a hacker competition would be held every year, be it at home or abroad, and the competition held by the Hacker Alliance was a lot harder. In addition to the written test, they had to go through a series of other matches such as 1V1, 1V5, or even 1V100.
They had to attack other other’s computers by installing viruses on each other’s computers while maintaining the security and protection of personal computers.
—
Right now, Fu Zhi’s face sank when she saw the other side had began to fight back. She closed her game and turned her attention to the computer, her hands danced on the keyboard with feline graces.
Jiang Ningbei sent a text message to her, [How’s it going? It seems to me that he’s getting into the Fu Corporation’s website. Are you sure you can deal with him?]
[Yes. Don’t worry.], Fu Zhi replied
In the meantime, the atmosphere for the International Crime Unit was tense.
None of them were able to get an edge over the other. Just as they watched the website in bated breath, something happened and the tide began to change.
Li Nanli caught a loophole and successfully implanted a virus. Then, his screen lit up. He squinted his eyes, and he was stunned when he saw the words “The Fu Corporation”.
‘The Fu Corporation? Huh? What’s going on here?’
The captain of the 2nd division erupted from his phone, “That’s brilliant! There is another 10% to go, and we will be able to get into their database!”
“So it has been the Fu Corporation the whole time?” Li Nanli asked, his voice dripped with venom.
The heart of the captain of the 2nd division leaped into his throat and answered, “Yes.”
“I’m out of this,” Li Nanli said, “We’ll settle this scores later.”
After that, he took the headset off and hung up the call.
Rabbit, carrot, and the same virus software and tactics as before…
Li Nanli looked towards the bedroom.
Sitting on the couch, Fu Zhi frowned when she noticed that the virus had stopped its attack.
Had he stopped fighting? Given up? Finally learned to be afraid?
That wouldn’t do!
She still hadn’t traced his IP address!
Whatever had made her opponent suddenly disappear, Fu Zhi seized the opportunity.
She took the principle of striking an enemy while he was down to its absolute limit!
Her fingers flew across the keyboard. She had already narrowed his location down to Xiangyun Street in Myanmar and was about to go one step further when a hand suddenly passed in front of her.
It closed the laptop completely.
Shut tight, without even the slightest gap.
If the computer went into sleep mode while she was tracing an IP address, she would lose the trail. Her opponent might even seize the chance to trace her back!
“It’s late,” Li Nanli said, his face perfectly calm. “Stop gaming. Come downstairs and eat.”
Fu Zhi: “...”
Fu Zhi: “!!!!”
Fu Zhi: “??????”
Did she look remotely interested in eating right now?
Her gaze moved from the laptop to Li Nanli. She opened her mouth, and all the things she wanted to say condensed into two words. “Well done.”
The sarcasm was absolute.
Li Nanli coughed lightly. It had taken him only a few seconds to run over from the study. He was certain that Fu Zhi had not located his IP address in that time.
“I ordered you milk tea.”
All right, then.
Fu Zhi recovered from her frustration as quickly as she had succumbed to it.
She was probably so certain that she could catch the captain of the 1st division and crush him that she did not dwell on it.
Li Nanli, on the other hand, casually asked, “Still thinking about the game?”
“No. I was tracing the IP address of an annoying little usurper.” Fu Zhi’s explanation was brief, her intense dislike of the captain of the 1st division unmistakable.
Li Nanli: “...”
Wasn’t the captain of the 1st division her superior?
Hadn’t he earned that position by accumulating points?
Wasn’t she impressed by him at all?
Hoping to draw her into a conversation, he asked, “Can you tell me more?”
“Have you heard of the International Crime Unit?”
“A little. I don’t know much about it.”
“You don’t need to.” Fu Zhi gave him a rough explanation, then concluded, “He wanted my 1st division privileges. Shameless!”
Li Nanli: “...”
He had no idea how to respond. He had not realized that this was part of it.
He had always assumed that since Fu Zhi had obtained the position through connections, she would accept her demotion without complaint.
Apparently not.
It really was true that a soldier who did not want to become a general was no good soldier.
“So you don’t admire the captain of the 1st division for earning so many points from missions in just a few days?”
“...” Fu Zhi said, “Don’t you think the International Crime Unit’s system is psychologically manipulating us? We get up earlier than roosters, work harder than donkeys, get paid so little, and have useless access privileges. This captain of the 1st division has been completely brainwashed. He’s far too gullible. When I was in that position, I could get paid without doing anything and look through the true identities of all kinds of important people. Not that those files interested me.”
Fu Zhi disliked the captain of the 1st division. He had been firmly placed on her blacklist.
“Let’s stop talking about him. I don’t think he’s a very decent person. Pay attention to someone like that, and he’ll be a bad influence on you.”
Li Nanli: “...” Really? He didn’t believe it. After all, he was the person she was talking about.
He did not say that, of course. Instead, he asked, “Have you seen Z God’s file? Is he...?”
“Haven’t seen it. Don’t know him. No idea.”
Three denials in a row.
Li Nanli: “...You denied that a little too quickly.”
Meeting his sharp gaze, Fu Zhi said unhurriedly, “Our flight’s tonight. We’re short on time. Let’s eat instead of wasting time talking.”
“...”
—
News that Li Nanli had thrown down his headset and left spread quickly.
Within moments, everyone in the International Crime Unit knew, from the ordinary members and the old gatekeeper to the division captains.
The unit had fallen. It was rotten to the core. Even the captain of the 1st division did not dare oppose the Fu family. Who else could they count on to stand up in this hour of crisis?
Their former captain of the 1st division, now captain of the 8th division, had turned out to be a scheming little lotus.
The kind nobody dared mess with.
Fu Zhi had originally been branded an incompetent beneficiary of connections, and every member of the International Crime Unit had detested her. But now that she had revealed herself as a racing expert, with the Fu Corporation behind her as well, everyone was dumbfounded.
“What do you all think about what happened today?” a member of the 2nd division asked.
“Fu Zhi doesn’t think of the International Crime Unit as her home at all!”
“Exactly! She may be capable, but she never did any missions before, did she? No wonder she was assigned to the 8th division without a single member under her. There’s a reason for that!”
“But I heard that once the chief commander comes back, a few people from each division will be transferred to the 8th. Of course, if anyone wants to leave their current division early, they can apply in advance on the official website.”
“Who’s going? Not me! I, Zhang San, am saying this right now: if Fu Zhi breaks my brother’s wings, I’ll destroy her Fu Corporation!”
“But joining the 8th division would give us connections to the Fu Corporation. We could get to know that expert hacker too. Maybe Fu Zhi would even teach us to race?”
“...Still not going. Who with any backbone would join her division? Are you going?”
“No way!”
—
After leaving the Li Mansion, Fu Zhi opened her phone and suddenly discovered countless requests to join her division.
Her inbox was full of professional introductions, as though people were applying for jobs.
[My name is Zhang San. Height: 188 centimeters. Weight: 155 jin. No bad habits. I hope to have the opportunity to fight alongside Miss Fu. Please consider selecting me as a member of your division.]
[My name is Xu Liu, formerly deputy captain of the 1st division. Your reputation brought me here. All I ask is to join your division and achieve great things together.]
[...]
Fu Zhi: “...”
Had she stirred up every hornet’s nest in the International Crime Unit?
She ignored the messages and called Ye Jiu. “Head over to Yuanshi Villa. I’m taking you home.”
This would be his first visit home to see Xu Wei since his operation.
Three or four days had passed.
Until now, Fu Zhi had handled all the explanations to Xu Wei and Lu Jingqing about his being taken away and cut open.
Ye Jiu had no idea how to face Xu Wei, who would surely flood the place with tears.
Standing nervously outside the front door, he asked Fu Zhi, “Did you tell Mom why I was taken away for surgery?”
He was trying to get their stories straight. After all, she could hardly have told Xu Wei that he was a genetically modified human taken away for research on a living subject.
Fu Zhi opened her mouth.
Before she could speak, the villa’s front door opened.
Xu Wei, carrying a bag of rubbish outside, spotted the siblings.
The sight of Ye Jiu in particular instantly brought tears to her eyes.
Ye Jiu naturally opened his arms. “Don’t cry, Big Weiwei. Don’t blame the decline of human decency and morals. Although I’m the victim here—”
A slap successfully cut him off.
Xu Wei pulled over a wooden stool and stood on it, twisting Ye Jiu’s ear. “Well, well! If Zhizhi hadn’t told me, I would never have known! You had a kidney removed and sold it just to buy a new game console?!”
Ye Jiu: “????”
What the hell? How had it come to this?
Fu Zhi reminded him, “Your body is a gift from your parents. Selling a kidney is an outrage against heaven.”
Ye Jiu: “????”
He understood now. Anything that involved dealing with other people simply could not be left to Fu Zhi.
Xu Wei had always thought Ye Jiu was joking when he said he had no spending money. Who knew the boy could be this irresponsible? “Even your younger sister has more sense than you! How could you get involved with a criminal trade like that?”
She had been so upset with him that she had barely eaten properly for days. Had Fu Zhi not insisted that Ye Jiu needed time to calm down and should not see her yet, she would have gone to visit her son long ago.
His face contorted as his ear was pulled. “Mom, I was wrong. Stop twisting it.” This was humiliating!
Xu Wei paid no attention to his concerns. Worried that she might pull at his wound, however, she finally let go. “I’m taking out the rubbish. Go inside and lie down. If anyone ever asks you to sell a kidney again, hit them over the head with a shovel. Understand?”
“...” Ye Jiu rubbed his nose, a little embarrassed. “But Mom, I’m still a child. Being that violent doesn’t fit my image.”
“It’s fine. I ordered you a little shovel online.” From behind her, Xu Wei produced a pink shovel. “Look how pretty and pink it is. Even someone getting their skull cracked with a cute pink shovel would be happy.”
Ye Jiu: “...”
Fu Zhi: “...”