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

The Beijing General Administration, the brightly lit cybersecurity center.

The atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like you could wring water out of it.

A dozen or so white-hat hackers, claiming to be the top hackers in the General Administration, were gathered around a supercomputer, looking worried and sweating profusely.

Zhang Ming's laptop has been physically disassembled, and the data on the hard drive has been completely mirrored.

But it didn't work!

The hard drive was encrypted with an extremely complex and unheard-of algorithm!

Moreover, if you attempt to brute-force the hard drive more than three times, the hard drive will trigger a physical self-destruct program!

"Boss, this won't work! The encryption algorithm is too sophisticated! We...we simply can't crack it!"

A young cyber police officer looked at his captain, his face filled with frustration.

"Even if it's unsolvable, we must solve it!"

The captain was sweating profusely and roared at him.

"This is something Consultant Lin personally ordered. If we mess it up, our entire technical department will be fired!"

Just when everyone was at a loss and almost in despair.

A lazy voice rang out behind them.

"Make way, everyone. A bunch of grown men crowding around this broken computer, aren't you tired of it?"

Everyone turned around and saw Lin Chen strolling over, carrying a steaming cup of goji berry tea.

"Advisor Lin...Advisor Lin!"

The cyber police captain, upon seeing Lin Chen, rushed over as if he'd seen a savior, his face contorted with grief, and said:

"Advisor Lin, we're helpless! Their encryption technology is too sophisticated, we..."

"Alright, alright."

Lin Chen waved his hand impatiently, shoving him aside, and then sat down at the control panel with an air of superiority.

"Look at you all, so spineless! It's just some cheap encryption, is it really that big of a deal?"

Lin-Versailles-Chen complained as he placed his hands on the keyboard.

In that instant, his entire demeanor changed drastically!

If he was a retired senior official from the Health Bureau just now, he is now a god who controls the life and death of the entire cyber world!

[God-level hacking skills]!

[God-level Internet Tracking Techniques]!

[Godlike magician's hand speed!]

Three divine skills, unleashing full power!

The surrounding cyber police only saw a blur before their eyes, and Lin Chen's hands had completely disappeared, turning into a blurry afterimage that danced wildly on the keyboard!

"Crackling and popping—"

The dense, torrential sound of keyboard typing instantly resounded throughout the entire network center!

On the main control screen, the encrypted firewall that had previously left everyone helpless was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper in front of Lin Chen!

Countless lines of low-level code that would make an ordinary person dizzy at a glance are cascading down like a waterfall!

"My God... what... what is he doing? He's not cracking it, he's rewriting the firewall's underlying logic!"

"That hand speed... is he even human? I can't even watch a movie this fast at 8x speed!"

"My mom asked me why I was kneeling down watching the pro players' gameplay..."

The surrounding cyber police officers were all dumbfounded, their mouths agape, as if they could fit an egg in them. The way they looked at Lin Chen had completely changed to a fanatical and awe-inspiring look, as if they were looking up to a god!

They even gave up trying to understand the incomprehensible code on the screen, simply staring blankly at Lin Chen's fluid and artistic operations, feeling their souls being elevated.

Lin Chen completely ignored the astonishment around him.

In his eyes, there is only the flow of data.

He didn't even bother to crack the encryption; instead, he bypassed all the defenses and, like a ghost, infiltrated the hard drive's deepest level, beginning to recover the browsing cache that had been deeply deleted and even formatted countless times!

This is the most skillful hunter!

What he wanted to see was not what Zhang Ming had left behind, but what he had seen before!

Five minutes!

Just five minutes!

When Lin Chen's finger gently tapped the last note on the Enter key.

The torrent of code that filled the entire screen came to an abrupt halt.

A forum with an extremely rudimentary interface and a background of a deep starry sky appeared before everyone.

"The 18th layer of the Deep Web, the 'Prometheus' Academic Exchange Forum."

Lin Chen leaned back in his chair, took a sip of goji berry tea, and spoke softly, as if he had only done something insignificant.

"Found it."

"These rats are more cunning than I imagined."

Lin Chen pointed to a pinned post on the screen, a disdainful sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"They didn't post any job openings, but instead posted a physics problem about the possibility of macroscopic quantum states transitioning in multidimensional space as bait."

"This problem is so difficult that no more than three people in the world can solve it."

"Once someone provides the correct answer on the forum, they will send an encrypted email with a 'part-time job invitation' that offers extremely high pay but keeps the location confidential."

"Then, these geniuses who think they've met their mentor will foolishly walk step by step into the trap that the mentor has already dug."

After hearing Lin Chen's explanation, Su Qingge and everyone present felt a chill run down their spines!

What a vicious scheme!

Such precise filtering!

This is practically a silent "hunt" targeting the world's top geniuses!

"Then... what do we do now?"

Su Qingge asked anxiously.

"Is it possible to trace the IP address of the person who posted the message?"

"it's useless."

Lin Chen shook his head.

"The other side used at least a thousand quantum-encrypted virtual springboards, and the signal sources are spread all over the world. Even if all the world's supercomputers were combined, it would take hundreds of years to find them."

"Is this... just going to be the end of it?"

Su Qingge's face was filled with resentment.

"never mind?"

Lin Chen smiled.

That smile was filled with utter contempt and arrogance.

"In my dictionary, Lin Chen, there is no such word as 'never mind'."

"Don't they like setting questions?"

He turned around and looked again at the problem on the screen that had stumped countless physicists.

[God-level Physics Mastery]! Unlocked!

Lin Chen's hands once again became afterimages!

This time, he wasn't typing code; instead, he was frantically writing lines of physical formulas that represented the ultimate truths of the universe on the keyboard!

Schrödinger's equation! The Dirac Sea! String theory! M-membrane!

Countless profound and unfathomable physics theories were perfectly integrated, deduced, and sublimated in his hands!

Ten seconds!

Just ten seconds!

A perfectly logical and rigorously deduced solution, so impressive that it would make Einstein jump out of his coffin and applaud, appeared on the screen!

Amidst the astonished stares of everyone, Lin Chen casually pasted the answer into the forum's reply box.

Then, click "Send!"

"Done."

Lin Chen stretched, stood up, and drank the rest of the goji berry tea in one gulp.

"The bait has been cast; let's see if these rats hiding in the sewers dare to bite my hook."