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

Somewhere in Beijing, a heavily modified black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter RV is quietly parked in an underground parking lot with extremely tight signal jamming.

This is the mobile command center of "Ghost".

Inside the carriage, Ghost sat in front of a row of computer screens emitting a ghostly blue light, his slender fingers flying across the keyboard. For the first time, a look of seriousness appeared on his face, which had been hidden in the shadows.

On the screen, the life signal representing the "scorpion" has changed from green to red, indicating that it has been captured.

"waste!"

The ghost muttered a curse under his breath, a hint of ferocity flashing in his eyes.

The arson plot at the logistics center was part of his meticulously planned scheme, and the fact that it failed so quickly made him wary of the man named Lin Chen for the first time.

But his inherent arrogance prevented him from backing down in the slightest.

"Physical destruction failed... It's okay."

The ghost's lips curled into a cold and cruel smile once more.

"Then I'll show you that in the world of the internet, I am the true god!"

He activated the second plan.

Meanwhile, at the Yip Group headquarters building, on the top floor, in the president's office.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like it could drip water.

Ye Qingcheng stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, her usually aloof and beautiful face now filled with anxiety and anger.

On the large data monitoring screen behind her, the green data stream representing the group's network security status was being violently attacked by an extremely terrifying, tsunami-like torrent of red data!

"Warning! Warning! We are under a devastating DDoS attack from an unknown source! Traffic peak has exceeded 1T!"

"The first layer of the firewall has been breached!"

"The core database encryption protocol is being brute-force cracked!"

The piercing alarms and the panicked reports from technicians rose and fell.

The Ye Group's massively invested and supposedly impregnable cybersecurity system is now like a small boat teetering in a storm, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

Meanwhile, in the southern suburbs of Beijing, outside the Ye Group's most crucial data base station, several mercenaries disguised as power maintenance workers had quietly cut off the backup physical fiber optic cable.

The online and offline battles are being waged simultaneously!

"Bang!"

The office door was pushed open, and Lin Chen strode in.

"Lin Chen!"

Upon seeing him, Ye Qingcheng's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, seemed to find its anchor instantly, and she quickly went to greet him.

Lin Chen didn't say anything, but gave her a reassuring look, and then walked very naturally to the leather boss's chair that symbolized the power of a trillion-dollar empire and sat down.

He patted his thigh.

Ye Qingcheng blushed, but in this critical moment, she did not hesitate at all and obediently sat in Lin Chen's lap, where he held her tightly with one arm.

"Qingcheng, watch."

Lin Chen gently rested his chin on her fragrant shoulder, his warm breath brushing against her ear.

"Watch how I make him spit out everything he's eaten, with interest."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Chen placed his hands on the keyboard.

[God-level Hacking Skills]! Activated!

[Logic Bomb]! Implanted!

The next second, those slender hands transformed into a blurry phantom, playing a deathly symphony on the keyboard!

"Crackling and popping—"

The dense, torrential pounding sound instantly drowned out all the alarms and noise in the office.

All the technicians stopped what they were doing, staring in disbelief at the man who was holding their Ice Queen while typing out miraculous code.

Lin Chen made no attempt to repair the crumbling firewall, nor did he defend against the endless torrent of data.

He did something crazy that no one could understand.

He proactively opened a "honeypot" port within the company, which was a trap disguised as a core database.

He was like an unguarded beauty, opening his arms to that bloodthirsty beast!

Inside the mobile command vehicle, Ghost stared at the gaping hole that had suddenly appeared on the screen, paused for a moment, and then let out a contemptuous laugh.

"Foolish! How dare you make such a basic mistake at a time like this! Lin Chen, Ye Qingcheng, you're finished!"

Without hesitation, he immediately directed his most ferocious super virus, codenamed "Hellhound," to surge wildly into the port!

He could almost see the apocalyptic scene of the Ye Group's core data being completely stolen and the servers being completely formatted.

However, just as the "Hellhound" virus flooded into the "honeypot"...

An unexpected change occurred!

That seemingly fragile "honey pot" instantly transformed into a bottomless black hole!

The countless tracking Trojans that Lin Chen had already planted, disguised as ordinary data, were instantly activated like a swarm of piranhas that had smelled blood!

Following the path of the "Cerberus" virus invasion, they surged upstream at a terrifying speed that defied the laws of the internet!

"What?!"

The smile on the ghost's face froze instantly.

He was horrified to discover that his virus had become the other party's guiding light!

He tried to sever the connection, but it was too late!

A devilish smile curled at the corners of Lin Chen's mouth.

"Gotcha, you little mouse."

Just thirty seconds!

Inside the ghost command vehicle, the dozen or so computer screens that represented the authority of his cyber empire all went black in an instant!

Immediately afterwards, a huge, extremely mocking smiley face made of code appeared on the screen.

"puff!"

The ghost spat out a mouthful of blood.

This isn't over yet! Lin Chen's attack has only just begun.

He followed the locked path and stormed in, directly breaching several overseas dark web accounts that Ghost used to hire hackers and purchase equipment.

Transfer funds, clear accounts, close accounts!

All in one go!

"No! My money! This can't be!"

Ghost stared at the string of numbers in his account that had instantly been wiped out—tens of millions of dollars in dirty money he had accumulated over the years!

He let out a beastly roar and smashed the monitor in front of him with a punch.

The alarm had stopped in the president's office of the Yip Group.

That torrent of red data has long since vanished without a trace.

Lin Chen tapped the Enter key lightly, as if he were just flicking off a bit of cigarette ash.

He turned his head and gently kissed Ye Qingcheng's slightly parted red lips, which were trembling with shock and admiration.

"Now, it's quiet."