You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

The highest-level control room of the Internet Surveillance Section of the Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau.

Right now, this place is like a pressure cooker about to explode!

Dozens of top-of-the-line servers roared under the strain, their cooling fans spinning so hard they seemed about to fly off.

A dozen of Jiangcheng's top cybersecurity experts were sitting in front of their computers, sweating profusely, their hands frantically typing on the keyboards.

Everyone's eyes were bloodshot, and their faces were as pale as paper.

"No! The firewall has been breached again!"

"Damn it! What kind of virus is this?! Its source code is constantly self-recombining and mutating! Our antivirus software can't even detect its exhaust fumes!"

"Unable to trace the IP address! The other party used at least thousands of botnets distributed around the world as stepping stones; the signal source is as elusive as an eel!"

Old Wang, the head of the Internet Surveillance Section, a veteran special police officer with balding hair and twenty years of experience in network attack and defense, was so anxious that he ripped out a large clump of his already thinning hair.

"Useless! All of you are useless!"

Lu Zhenhua, the director of the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau, was standing in front of the big screen, trembling with anger, pointing at the group of experts and cursing them!

"Three hours! Now there are only two and a half hours left! The lives of millions of people in this city are hanging by a thread, and you can't even find a single clue?!"

"Director Lu, it's really not that we're incompetent!"

Old Wang was almost in tears.

"This Jack is definitely one of the top three hackers in the world! The ransomware he implanted uses a military-grade asymmetric encryption algorithm! Even if we called in the National Security Agency, they wouldn't be able to crack it for at least ten days to two weeks!"

"Bang!"

Just then, the heavy security door to the control room was kicked open from the outside by an extremely violent force!

The loud noise startled everyone.

Lin Chen strode in with his long, straight legs and an aura of cold indifference that kept strangers at bay.

Su Qingge followed closely behind him.

"Lin Chen! You're finally here!"

When Lu Zhenhua saw Lin Chen, it was like seeing a lifeline, and he rushed to greet him.

"The situation is extremely critical. Jack has hidden the clues in an internal network virus, and our people can't crack it at all!"

"Director Lu, leave it to me."

Without uttering a single unnecessary word, Lin Chen walked straight to Lao Wang's workstation.

"Get out of the way."

Lin Chen coldly uttered two words.

"Who are you?!"

Old Wang was already furious, and when he saw a young punk daring to boss him around, he immediately lost his temper.

"This is the city bureau's top-secret internal network control computer! Do you even know anything about coding? Do you understand network attack and defense?! What are you doing, messing around like this?!"

"roll."

Lin Chen's eyes turned cold. He didn't bother to waste words with him. He stretched out his right hand, grabbed Old Wang's collar, and lifted the 160-pound fat man off the chair like a chicken, then casually tossed him aside!

"you--!"

Old Wang was about to explode.

"Shut up! Let him do it!" Lu Zhenhua roared, immediately silencing everyone present.

Lin Chen sat steadily in front of the main control computer.

He stared at the crimson garbled text on the screen, which was refreshing like a waterfall, and a cold, extremely disdainful smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

Military-grade encryption?

Top three hackers in the world?

Before the power of the system, they are all just chickens and dogs!

"Buzz—!"

Deep within Lin Chen's mind, his god-level hacking skills suddenly erupted!

In an instant, countless green data streams seemed to be reflected in Lin Chen's pupils!

His brain transformed into the world's most terrifying super quantum computer, breaking the human limit in computing speed within 0.1 seconds!

"Crackling sound—!!!"

Lin Chen's hands slammed onto the keyboard!

That's a hand speed that no human could possibly have!

To everyone's utter astonishment, Lin Chen's ten fingers transformed into a blurry afterimage!

The sound of the keyboard was so loud that it became an extremely piercing buzzing sound, as if a heavy machine gun was firing wildly in the room!

"This...how is this possible?!"

Old Wang, who had been thrown aside, nearly had his eyes pop out of their sockets!

He stared intently at the big screen.

The once indestructible and constantly mutating Scarlet Virus code was torn apart and shattered like paper under the impact of Lin Chen's extremely violent code torrent!

"Jack did use a brute-force springboard, that's for sure."

Lin Chen frantically typed on the keyboard while giving his commentary in an extremely cold and emotionless voice.

"But he was too arrogant."

"In order to showcase his 'art,' he deliberately left an extremely subtle logical flaw in line 7429 of the virus's code."

"If we trace this vulnerability further, the final IP address will point to the abandoned chemical plant in the south of the city."

Upon hearing this, Li Mingyu, who had just rushed back to the police station and was about to claim credit, instantly lit up!

"An abandoned chemical plant in the south of the city?! Great! I'll lead a team to search it right away!"

Li Mingyu roared excitedly.

"idiot."

Lin Chen didn't even turn his head, but coldly cursed.

Who are you calling a jerk?!

Li Mingyu was furious.

"I'm calling you a brainless, single-celled organism."

Lin Chen's hand speed increased again. "That's a deliberate smokescreen left by Jack! A classic case of thinking three steps ahead before acting one! His real signal source isn't on the network at all, but in a node of an underground physical fiber optic cable!"

"Break for me!!!"

Lin Chen let out a low shout and slammed his right hand down on the Enter key with extreme ferocity!

"Snapped!"

The scarlet virus on the big screen instantly collapsed, turning into countless points of light!

Immediately afterwards, an extremely clear 3D electronic map of Jiangcheng City appeared on the screen!

On the map, three extremely glaring red coordinates are flashing wildly!

The entire control room was deathly silent.

All the network experts, including Lao Wang, looked at Lin Chen as if he were God. Some of them even collapsed to their knees!

Three minutes!

It only took less than three minutes!

This man used an extremely violent and tyrannical manner to pin that so-called "top three hackers in the world" to the ground and rub them against the ground!

"Found it."

Lin Chen leaned back in his chair, his eyes as cold as knives.

"The first coordinate is on the high-speed subway line 3."

"The second coordinate is at the headquarters of the Ye Group."

"The third coordinate is at the city museum."

Lin Chen stood up, and his domineering aura of complete control instantly enveloped the entire control room.

He didn't consult Lu Zhenhua, but directly began issuing top-level orders!

"Qingge! Take the bomb squad and head to the city museum immediately! Remember, do not act rashly without my orders!"

"yes!"

Su Qingge saluted without hesitation and then ran out.

"Li Mingyu".

Lin Chen turned his head and looked at Li Mingyu, whose face was full of resentment, a sly smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Didn't you want to make a name for yourself? That abandoned chemical plant in the south of the city, although it's a smokescreen, could very well be hiding Jack's accomplices."

"This arduous task is now entrusted to you."

"Take your men and turn that place upside down."

Upon hearing this, Li Mingyu felt something was amiss, but the thought of possibly catching Jack's accomplices immediately made him puff out his chest in excitement.

"Mission accomplished! Lin Chen, just you wait and see me make a name for myself!"

Watching Li Mingyu rush out like a fool, Lin Chen sneered inwardly.

Go to a chemical plant and eat dust, you idiot. It'll save you from getting in the way here.

"Lin Chen, what about you?"

Lu Zhenhua asked anxiously.

Lin Chen grabbed the car keys from the table, a chilling killing intent flashing in his deep eyes.

"I'm going to Metro Line 3, and... Yip's Building."