Chapter 89
An incredibly adorable little kitten suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the computer screen.
The kitten waved its paws and nodded obediently, so cute it could melt a person’s heart.
Then the little kitten spoke human words: “Done, done!”
“Dalao, are you willing to teach me qinggong?”
Everyone present felt their eyes twitch. They were completely convinced.
This really did not feel like something an eighteen-year-old adult would do. Saying he was thirteen sounded more believable.
Shen Jinfeng chuckled softly, the corner of his lips curving slightly.
[Five minutes.]
The little kitten tilted its head in confusion. “Hm?”
The moment Shen Jinfeng finished speaking, his entire aura abruptly changed.
As the clattering sound of the keyboard rang out, everyone looked over and saw a pair of long, powerful hands, the joints clearly defined, moving over the keyboard so quickly that they could barely catch even an afterimage.
Everyone froze. Their eyes locked onto those hands, pupils dilated, their gazes unable to move away in the slightest.
“Holy shit!”
“The cat disappeared!” Someone noticed something unusual on the computer and cried out.
After nearly half a minute, the image on the screen was finally no longer completely under the hacker’s control.
Replacing it was a string of code. Before anyone could even focus enough to read the first line, the entire screen was instantly covered and drowned by the next wave of characters.
The IT department had busied themselves for ages, and even now they had been working tirelessly without managing to change the screen in the slightest. Yet in the blink of an eye, it had changed?
Someone could not help swallowing.
They murmured, “Was Shen Dalao also a hacker before?”
The person beside them seemed as if their soul was no longer in their own body, but had flown to the chairman sitting in front of the computer.
Even the managers and shareholders stood behind him, simply frozen there. No one even moved to bring over a chair. Their bodies did not shift by even half a step.
A shareholder subconsciously responded to the voice that had come from who knew which little employee, “Yeah. That hacker just said they were top three in the country. Why do I feel like the chairman is even better?”
Yes. Although victory had yet to be decided, that was just how it felt.
Shen Jinfeng’s movements had not stopped. For the moment, he paid no attention to the excited whispers that occasionally came from around him. Since he had said five minutes, he absolutely could not exceed it by even a second.
Soon, the hacker on the other side also reacted and launched a counterattack.
The computer screen turned blue or black again. Webpages, endpoints, and server data kept changing. Both sides attacked back and forth.
After about two minutes, Shen Jinfeng more or less figured out the level of this arrogant brat who kept claiming he was here to “apply for a job.”
His skills really were not bad.
However, this kind of back-and-forth probing was a little boring.
Shen Jinfeng raised his brows. The speed of his hands did not change, but he adjusted his sitting posture. His back, originally upright and proper, bent slightly, and a lazy air inexplicably seeped from him.
Yet somehow, it gave people the feeling that danger was approaching.
The secretary, who had been watching his every move, felt his heart stop for half a beat before clenching fiercely. An inappropriately chuunibyou yet passionate voice flashed through his mind—
The hunt begins!
The pages on the screen flickered even faster. Sometimes a page of code had not yet fully formed before it became illusory again.
Shen Jinfeng abruptly intensified his counterattack. After casually writing two small viruses and sending them back, the other side clearly had not expected it. They had no choice but to split their attention to deal with his viruses, and their original counterattack process was forced to slow down.
He pressed the advantage without giving the other side even a chance to breathe. Layer after layer of encrypted pathways was cracked. The other party’s supposedly traceless and chaotic concealment had nowhere to hide under the charm of algorithms.
While estimating the other party’s level, Shen Jinfeng wrote a new Trojan and let it follow the network channel, relentlessly chasing the other party’s IP, dragging them down and forcing them to retreat in exhaustion.
At the same time, he accelerated his own speed and, with an almost devastating momentum, quickly touched the real IP hidden beneath layer upon layer of locks.
In fact, one could not blame the young man for being too proud or unskilled.
Shen Jinfeng had originally been too lazy to make a move. After all, he had experienced countless modern societies and even more advanced technological societies. Generation after generation of updated coding languages, cyberattacks, security defenses…
For him to personally make a move was a little like bullying a child.
But as expected, seeing an arrogant, cocky chuunibyou deliver him such a big gift on a day that was, by his standards, still somewhat important, made him feel just a tiny bit annoyed.
It would be unreasonable not to return the favor.
The final half minute.
The screen that had been flickering unpredictably finally returned to the original blue screen and fireworks.
Only this time, the role of setting off the fireworks had been switched.
Shen Jinfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and patiently waited for the fireworks across the screen to bloom brilliantly.
Only then did he give the other side a thumbs-up in the center of the screen.
[Not bad]
The moment he sent this line, the other person’s fingers, which had originally still been struggling fiercely on the keyboard, paused.
Everyone present was still in a state of shock after that sudden, earth-shattering reversal within just a few short minutes.
When they saw this sentence, half their souls finally returned.
From beginning to end, the secretary’s gaze had never left Shen Jinfeng for even a moment. His finger trembled slightly as he pointed at the screen, and even his voice trembled. “Did the chairman win?!”
Shen Jinfeng even found time to glance back at him and nodded with a smile.
Then he continued typing on the keyboard:
[Are you ready?]
The person on the other side was clearly stunned, as if they had given up struggling and compromised by communicating with him.
[What?] The hacker did not understand. Ready for what?
This scene was exactly the same as when he had been toying with Shen Group’s programmers earlier.
It vividly demonstrated what it meant for fortune to take turns.
The programmer who had given up his seat earlier subconsciously glanced at the stopwatch he had somehow started recording after Shen Jinfeng said “five minutes.”
“Ten, nine, eight… three, two, one!”
He showed the stopwatch on his phone to the others.
At the moment he counted to three, the words on the screen changed again.
Shen Jinfeng replied: [Get ready to start your interview]
???
The hacker was completely confused and clearly had not reacted yet: [What? Interview?]
Someone present was the first to think of something and covered their mouth in disbelief. “No way?”
Shen Jinfeng did not pay attention to the others’ reactions. His fingers, which had been dancing across the keyboard in afterimages, “slowed” down.
“Three, two, one” happened to reach the final number.
He lazily leaned back, his fingers tapping the keyboard a few last times.
The blue screen paused for one second.
Then the entire computer screen shook, revealing a clear, high-definition, but obviously bewildered face.
It was the face of a young man with hair like a bird’s nest, obvious dark circles under his eyes, but extremely delicate features. His skin tone appeared almost sickly pale on the computer screen.
The young man’s face was full of shock. His fingers stiffly patted his own face.
“Hiss!” There was pain!
He stared at himself on the computer.
“Holy shit.”
“How is this possible?”
He leapt up in shock.
Shen Jinfeng’s gaze paused for a moment, then he wordlessly shifted his eyes away.
Everyone present could not help laughing.
It turned out that the young man’s upper body was decently wearing a T-shirt, probably used as pajamas, but his lower body had nothing on!
Uh, no, that was a little ambiguous.
Actually, he was still wearing a pair of underwear.
It was just that when he jumped up, his thighs, clad only in underwear, flashed across the screen, revealing a pale stretch of leg.
…
How to put it?
They were all men. Going shirtless was normal.
In the heat of summer, no one cared if you were naked at home.
Besides, who did you meet at a swimming pool who was not basically wearing only underwear?
In a public restroom, it was the opposite. The whole body was covered except for the part wearing underwear.
Cough, cough. It was just that no one expected the culprit who had arrived so aggressively, with such ill intentions, and thrown the entire company into panic early in the morning, would actually look as if he had just crawled out of bed half-awake.
The other side had treated this “attack” so casually that he had not even put on pants!
And yet, the situation had reversed with shocking force. The expert who confidently claimed his computer skills could definitely rank in the national TOP 3 had been instantly killed.
The arrogant brat who had just threatened to make Shen Dalao teach him qinggong was now blushing so hard through the screen that his whole face was red.
How should one put it? The sense of mystery and the act of showing off shattered to pieces all at once.
However, the culprit did not seem to have lied about his age.
He looked very young. He might really be only eighteen.
At the final moment, the culprit scrambled out of the camera’s range and pulled on a pair of pants.
After sweeping his gaze around the messy room, he covered his face in shame, his eyes lifeless.
He had, for the first time, failed at showing off!
How was this possible?!
He angrily hammered his own head.
He had clearly even been able to sneak into the Pretty Country’s Congress. He had clearly invaded all the famous defensive websites around the world. He had clearly crossed hands with several of the most famous top hackers.
It was not that he was bragging. He had full confidence and pride in the fact that at such a young age, his technical skills were already world-class.
But why had he failed so miserably today?
All of a sudden, in just five short minutes, he had been killed so thoroughly that he had no ability to fight back.
The young man crouched on the floor, his face full of doubt about life.
It was over. His face had been exposed too.
Was he going to be reported to the police and arrested?
He now regretted it immensely. If he had known earlier, he should have made proper preparations and taken precautions!
It was all because he had been too arrogant!
Shen Group’s overall network department strength really was very weak. Playing with them was no different from looking at a bunch of weaklings.
Who would have known that a Shen Dalao would suddenly appear? And probably, in Shen Dalao’s eyes, he was also just like a weakling.
Emo.
Wait! No! He had made this whole scene precisely to find Shen Dalao!
That was right. He had never heard of a second person in the world who was this awesome!
So, Shen Dalao being this awesome seemed, well, pretty normal, right?
The young man hesitantly glanced at his network cable. He really wanted to yank it out.
But not only might this computer be ruined, doing that would also make him seem too cowardly.
MD.
One person should bear the consequences of their own actions.
He was the one who did it. Why could he not admit it?
The young man struggled internally for a long time before finally sitting back down at the computer desk with an air of righteous sacrifice.
It was just that the face that everyone had imagined should have been incomparably arrogant was now wilted, still carrying some lingering bewilderment and embarrassment.
When Shen Jinfeng saw that he had returned, he looked over the young man’s face on the screen several times.
He tore off the tape that the programmer had stuck over the camera earlier, then lazily typed a few times on the keyboard.
The two sides suddenly had the feeling of a video call.
The audio also connected.
“You’re back?” His tone was unclear.
At this point, the young man had completely lost the wild arrogance he had shown in their earlier “text exchange.”
He did not dare cover the camera or go offline either.
He gave an awkward nod and waved at Shen Jinfeng. “Hi, Dalao.”
Shen Jinfeng: “…”
He had underestimated this young man. His skin was not ordinarily thick, and his psychological endurance was not ordinarily strong.
Seeing that he did not speak, the young man pursed his lips and randomly tugged at his own hair, making the bird’s nest even messier.
“Dalao, you’re better than me.”
“My skills aren’t as good as yours. I admit defeat. Do whatever you want. Call the police and have me arrested, or make me pay compensation.”
Shen Jinfeng fixed his gaze on him for two seconds.
Then he suddenly asked, “Are you eighteen full years old?”
The young man froze for a moment. “Yeah. I just turned eighteen last month.”
Shen Jinfeng: “Finished university?”
The others could not help looking at him in surprise. Shouldn’t someone this age not even have started university yet?
Unexpectedly, the young man really nodded. “Yeah. I skipped grades. I graduated this year.”
Shen Jinfeng tapped his fingers on the desk, looking as if he was thinking.
“What’s your name?”
The young man hesitated for a moment, but could not withstand his gaze and gave his real name.
“Tu Qing.”
“Tu as in paint, Qing as in the color blue-green.”
A smile spread through Shen Jinfeng’s eyes and brows, and his tone softened slightly.
“Congratulations, Tu Qing.”
“You passed the interview.”
Tu Qing looked up in shock, his mouth falling open, his face full of disbelief. “Ah?”
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