Chapter 313: Chapter 313

At this moment, the phone chimed, and Zeng Liang excitedly dashed upstairs.

"Mom, take your time eating, don’t mind me."

With those words, he rushed back to his room.

He closed the door and immediately opened the dark web, and sure enough, Rain’s icon was lit.

Xu Jian had made him a little program so that his phone would notify him when Rain was online.

Zeng Liang suddenly felt that this dark web had opened the door to a new world, both novel and interesting. This time, he wasn’t just looking for a hacker to help Mr. Jiang win the school heartthrob contest but also driven by his own interest and curiosity.

Zeng Liang immediately clicked into Rain’s direct message window and sent a greeting [Hello].

The top two figures on the leaderboard had disabled private messaging, so there was no way to contact them. Rain was different; he often took on bounty tasks and hadn’t turned off private messaging.

The other party didn’t respond. Zeng Liang thought for a moment that these experts must be quite busy and wouldn’t have time for idle chat. So, Zeng Liang edited a piece of text explaining his request and offered a good price before sending it over.

Ten minutes later, the other party replied with an OK.

The night at Lanya High School was tranquil, with only the sound of the north wind whooshing by.

In a computer room on the top floor of the administration building, several high-performance desktop computers were simultaneously running, some with programs running and others switched to surveillance screens.

The vast office had dimmed, with only the glaring light from these computer screens illuminating the space.

A man walked over with a bowl of instant noodles, peeled a boiled egg, and threw it into the hot soup, then tore off a couple of leaves from a lettuce on the window sill and tossed them in as well.

Whether they were washed or not didn’t matter; a little dirt never killed anyone.

The aroma of instant noodles quickly spread in the enclosed space.

The man turned on the nearest computer and looked for a show to watch while eating.

Just then, a terminal device suddenly emitted an alarm, indicating an unknown virus intrusion.

The Lanya Group, wealthy and powerful, had bought the best network security management system developed by an international network security firm, where any hacker viruses would be annihilated before they even reached the firewall.

Besides, he maintained and upgraded it daily, patching loopholes. Any fool would be risking it coming here.

Sure enough, the alarm was quickly dismissed, and everything returned to normal.

However, something quickly dispersed along the network beneath the invisible dark net.

The man hummed a tune, cheerfully opening the instant noodle lid.

Instantly, the pungent aroma of additives combined with the noodle smell hit him in the face, causing him to squint contentedly.

After taking the first bite, he seemed to remember something and logged into the forum on his phone to take a glance.

In the afternoon, he had received a call from Director Shen, asking him to publish a school heartthrob competition announcement as an administrator.

The school beauty contest had just ended, and now another school heartthrob contest was immediately organized.

Truly a private school with so many activities and even official support, these kids living in luxury were too blessed.

However, thinking about the vote-rigging incident in the cafeteria at noon, the administrator found his noodles tasteless.

Wasn’t this just slapping him, the administrator, in the face? If the school investigated, it would be his fault.

These privileged kids, where did they meet the hackers?

The instant noodles no longer appetizing, he put down his chopsticks and hurried to check again; he absolutely couldn’t let any hackers take advantage again.

The man rolled up his sleeves, his sharp eyes piercing through thick lenses, casting themselves into the network world like a soldier patrolling his territory armed to the teeth, missing no suspicious detail.

Shen You’an closed the laptop, yawned, washed up, and went to bed.

In the darkness, Shen You’an’s lips curled into a smile, his dark eyes sparkling brightly in the night, teeming with cunning brilliance.

When Zeng Liang woke up, the first thing he did was check his phone.

Rain had sent him a message.

[Sorry, I can’t take this job. Find someone better.]

Zeng Liang was stunned; it had been agreed upon last night, so why had it changed by the morning?

Are hackers all so untrustworthy?

Zeng Liang immediately called Xu Jian to ask what had happened.

Xu Jian paused and said, "There’s only one possibility; he couldn’t breach the forum’s firewall."

Zeng Liang said incredulously, "Isn’t he ranked third in the country? How could he be so incompetent?"

His faith shattered in an instant.

Xu Jian said, "Our school’s administrator is also very skilled. I heard he’s a security expert the group hired heavily."

"Then how did the hackers that Luuo Yunqi and Leng Yunyang hired get through so easily? Could they have found someone better than Rain? How can we even play?"

Xu Jian thought for a moment and said, "I think after yesterday’s incident, the administrator upgraded the network. Previously, there hadn’t been such incidents. Now with the alert, after the upgrade, I doubt even the top-notch hacker Leng Yunyang hired could get through."

This was the only plausible explanation.

Zeng Liang said, "The school claims to be fair, and it truly is." The source of thɪs content is NovelHub(.)net

With so many admirers of Leng Yunyang, winning won’t be easy; it seems the brothers will have to work hard with the old-fashioned way these days.