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

Chaos, panic, screams...

After a brief moment of deathly silence, the entire concert hall erupted in chaos.

The students looked at each other in horror at the knives scattered on the ground, completely bewildered by what had just happened, but the lingering fear of brushing with death terrified them all.

"Quiet!"

Lin Chen's loud shout contained a trace of [basic hypnotic suggestion], and it overwhelmed all the noise like a thunderclap.

He patted Su Ke'er, who was still trembling in his arms, reassuringly, and said softly.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here."

"Go to the backstage dressing room first, lock the door, and don't open it for anyone until I come back."

"Uh-huh!"

At this moment, Su Ke'er was completely dependent on Lin Chen. She knew this was not the time to act coquettishly, so she nodded vigorously and, escorted by Lin Chen, quickly ran towards the backstage.

Lin Chen watched her enter the backstage area, then turned around and his gaze returned to the control room on the second floor.

His figure flashed, and he rushed up the stairs on the side of the stage at an astonishing speed.

When he kicked open the control room door, it was already empty.

The room was empty.

There was only one lonely laptop in the center of the console.

The screen was lit up, automatically looping an audio file—that damn hypnotic beat.

On the laptop screen, there was a yellow sticky note taped with transparent tape.

There were no words on the sticky note, only a drawn, exaggerated, and eerie smiley face in black marker.

"Bang!"

Li Mingyu, leading a team of heavily armed special police officers, finally arrived late and broke down the door.

When they saw the scene in the room and that defiant smile, everyone's face turned extremely grim.

"Consultant Lin...are you alright?"

Li Mingyu asked breathlessly, his face filled with lingering fear.

He had just received a report of a knife attack at the concert hall, which nearly scared him to death.

"I'm fine, he's the one who's in trouble."

Lin Chen pointed to the laptop, his eyes as cold as ice.

A technical officer immediately stepped forward to check the computer.

"Don't move!"

He had just reached out his hand when Li Mingyu stopped him with a sharp shout.

Li Mingyu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said to Lin Chen with a serious expression.

"Consultant Lin, there's something wrong with this computer."

"Our cybersecurity experts just sent an alert: this computer's IP address is connected to the 'deep web' through an encrypted tunnel! Furthermore, it has an extremely complex self-destruct program installed. Any physical touch, or any attempt to disconnect from the network or crack the password, will trigger the program within 0.1 seconds, physically destroying all data on the hard drive, along with the hard drive itself!"

"Deep Web?"

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, it's the legendary dark side of the internet, a lawless place filled with all sorts of illegal transactions, perverted psychology, and extreme ideologies."

Li Mingyu explained.

"This 'puppet master' is very likely a moderator or creator of some deep web forum."

"This computer is one of the terminals he uses to issue commands."

"So, we can only look at this computer, but we can't touch it?"

"Yes."

Li Mingyu nodded helplessly.

"What we can do now is to evacuate the entire building immediately and then call in bomb disposal experts to carry out physical destruction."

"As for the data inside... I'm afraid it can't be saved."

All the police officers present showed expressions of resentment and frustration.

The most crucial clue left by the murderer was right in front of them, yet they were helpless and could only watch it be destroyed.

This feeling is even worse than losing to an opponent outright.

"Physical destruction?"

A cold, disdainful smirk curled at the corner of Lin Chen's mouth.

"That applies to waste."

Amidst everyone's shocked gazes, Lin Chen sat down at the control panel with an air of authority and pulled the laptop, which was considered a "time bomb," in front of him.

"Advisor Lin! No!"

Li Mingyu was shocked and tried to step forward to stop him.

But it was too late.

Lin Chen's hands were already on the keyboard with lightning speed.

[God-level hacking skills]!

[Godlike magician's hand speed!]

Double limits activated!

Li Mingyu felt a blur before his eyes, and Lin Chen's ten fingers seemed to vanish in an instant.

Instead, there was a terrifying afterimage that was so fast that it could not be captured by the naked eye!

"Crackling and popping—"

The crisp sound of keyboard typing was no longer a series of individual notes, but a continuous chorus, like a torrential downpour on a tin roof, so dense it made one's scalp tingle!

On the computer screen, the once peaceful desktop was instantly covered by countless black code windows.

Line after line, string after string of complex instructions representing the underlying data that ordinary people simply cannot understand, are frantically refreshing and scrolling on the screen like a raging waterfall!

The technical officer felt as if his eyes were about to be blinded by the light after just one glance, and his mind went completely blank, like a primary school student who had just learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, watching a quantum mechanical calculation in a different dimension.

"What...what is he doing?"

A young SWAT officer asked, dumbfounded.

"I don't know... but it seems really amazing..."

Another SWAT officer muttered to himself.

Li Mingyu stared intently at the screen. Although he couldn't understand it either, he could sense that Lin Chen was currently waging a thrilling war in a network world that they couldn't comprehend!

Lin Chen didn't even touch the surface defense that connected to the deep network!

Because he knew it was a trap, a pretext used to lure and mock the pursuers.

Any attempt to breach the defenses head-on will trigger the self-destruct mechanism.

He chose a path that no one could have imagined, a path that was extremely reckless!

Using his "god-level physics expertise" to understand computer hardware structure, combined with his "god-level hacking skills," he directly found an extremely small "low-level physical memory overflow" vulnerability between the computer's CPU and memory—a vulnerability that only exists in theory!

Instead of dismantling the bomb, he bypassed the fuse and took control of its core from the inside!

This is no longer hacking!

This is magic! This is a miracle of the online world!

"Found it."

Three minutes later, the torrential pounding stopped abruptly.

Lin Chen's hands returned to the keyboard steadily, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

On the screen, all the code windows disappeared instantly.

Instead, a dark web forum with a dark red color scheme and an interface designed like a hellish scroll was created.

The forum's name was none other than "Gokuraku Jodo" (Paradise on Earth)!

The forum was filled with all sorts of anti-social and anti-humanitarian remarks. But what chilled the police officers present the most was a post pinned to the top of the forum—"The New World Purification List."

Clicking on the post reveals a long, constantly updated list.

It records names, photos, home addresses, and detailed personal information.

These people were all "doxxed" by the fervent followers of the forum through various means; they were seen as "social scum" and "people who need to be purified."

At the end of the list, Lin Chen saw two names that had just been crossed out with a red X.

Wang Hai.

Liu Feng.

It was those two Ye Group executives who were "accidentally" murdered!

Li Mingyu gasped in shock; he finally understood the madness of this "puppet master."

He wasn't fighting alone at all. He used this deep web forum to cultivate a large group of fanatical believers who were deeply brainwashed by him and were ready to sacrifice themselves for him at any time!

"Detain everyone on this list who is currently in the country!"

Su Qingge arrived at the control room at some point, and upon seeing the list, she immediately and decisively issued the order.

Lin Chen didn't look at the list; his gaze fell on the forum's backend management interface.

He looked at the administrator account belonging to the "Puppet Master," which had the highest privileges, and a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He neither deleted the forum nor modified any data.

He simply used his lightning-fast typing speed to subtly insert a single line of code—a short code that only he could understand—into the forum's massive and complex underlying code.

A perfect "logic bomb".

After doing all this, he snapped his laptop shut.

"All done. Call off."

Li Mingyu was stunned.

"Advisor Lin, is that all? Aren't you going to deal with this forum?"

Lin Chen stood up, dusted off his hands, and said calmly:

"What's the rush? The bait has already been laid; we're just waiting for the fish to bite again."

"As long as that self-important puppeteer logs into this account again and tries to give orders to his followers..."

A cold, deathly glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

"This 'logic bomb' will instantly package his real IP address and the physical coordinates of his computer and send them directly to my phone."