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

"boom!"

The titanium alloy door, weighing several hundred kilograms, was kicked off the frame by Lin Chen and slammed heavily onto the cement floor inside the control room.

The entire control room shook violently, and dust mixed with sparks flew everywhere.

In the center of the control room, in front of a huge supercomputer, sat a thin young man.

He wore a pale clown mask and his hands were frantically typing on the keyboard.

The moment the door flew in, the clown hacker was completely dumbfounded.

He spared no expense for this control room. Even a special forces unit wouldn't be able to advance a single meter into the laser array outside in at least half an hour.

How much time has passed? Less than a minute?

How did this door fly in?

The clown hacker's eyes were filled with extreme panic as he stared intently at Lin Chen, who strode out of the smoke and dust, through the holes in his mask.

Lin Chen's cold gaze was as if he were looking at a corpse.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

The clown hacker roared inwardly, his fingers lashing out at the Enter key on the keyboard.

Pressing this button will immediately activate the self-destruct program in the supercomputer, completely and physically destroying all core data, including shady transaction lists and experimental data.

His finger was less than a centimeter away from the Enter key.

Just then, Lin Chen made a move.

There are no fancy moves, just pure speed and power.

The clown hacker only felt a blur before his eyes, and a gust of wind rushed towards him. Lin Chen had already teleported, crossing a distance of more than ten meters and appearing directly in front of him.

"Want to delete data? Did you ask me?"

Lin Chen's voice was as cold as ice.

A ruthless glint flashed in the clown hacker's eyes. He flicked his right hand, and a specially made throwing knife that flashed with blue light popped out of his sleeve.

The throwing knife was coated with a potent poison, and at such close range, he was absolutely certain it would pierce Lin Chen's neck.

However, he had only raised his hand halfway.

Lin Chen didn't even glance at the throwing knife. His right hand shot out like lightning, and he firmly pinched it between his index and middle fingers.

"Ding!"

A crisp metallic clang rang out.

The specially made throwing knife, capable of cutting through gold and jade, was firmly held between Lin Chen's two fingers and could not advance even an inch further.

His eyes were practically bulging out from under the clown hacker mask.

Is this guy even human? Catching a throwing knife with two fingers?

Before he could react, Lin Chen slapped him across the face.

"Snapped!"

Lin Chen used the hidden force of a master-level fighting technique in this slap.

The clown hacker's hard resin mask shattered into pieces, exploding into a pile of fragments.

Along with the shattering of the mask, seven or eight bloody teeth flew out of his mouth.

The clown hacker spun twice in mid-air like a tattered sack before crashing heavily into the nearby instrument cabinet, leaving a large dent.

"With such little courage, you dare to hide behind the screen and provoke me?"

Lin Chen snorted coldly, strode up to the clown hacker, raised his right foot, and mercilessly stepped on his right wrist.

"Snap!"

The crisp sound of bones cracking echoed in the control room.

The clown hacker's wrist was crushed by Lin Chen's kick.

"ah--!"

The clown hacker let out a bloodcurdling scream like a pig being slaughtered, his whole body writhing on the ground like a shrimp in agony, his body convulsing violently.

Lin Chen completely ignored his wails on the ground.

He turned around, pulled up a chair, and sat down imposingly in front of the supercomputer.

At this moment, a red warning box is flashing on the screen. Although the self-destruct program has not been fully activated, the underlying data has already begun to be locked.

Lin Chen placed his hands on the keyboard, and the god-level hacking skills granted by the system instantly erupted.

His ten fingers blurred into a blurry afterimage on the keyboard, the sound of his typing as dense as a torrential downpour.

Lines of complex green code scrolled frantically across the screen.

In just thirty seconds.

Lin Chen not only forcibly terminated the self-destruct program, but also wrote a backdoor to back up all the deeply encrypted files that the clown hacker tried to hide to his own microcomputer.

After doing all this, Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, took out his communicator, and sent a message to Su Qingge outside.

A few minutes later.

A series of hurried footsteps came from outside the control room.

Su Qingge, leading fully armed special police officers, finally broke through the passage destroyed by Lin Chen and rushed into the control room.

As soon as they entered, everyone was stunned by what they saw.

The heavy titanium alloy door lay on the ground like a piece of scrap metal, and the control room was a mess.

The clown hacker who was once so arrogant on the screen is now covered in blood, his wrists twisted in a contorted shape, slumped in the corner, too weak to even scream, only able to let out faint groans.

Lin Chen, meanwhile, was sitting in a chair, leisurely drinking tea, without even a wrinkle on his clothes.

"Lin Chen, are you alright?"

Su Qingge quickly ran forward and looked Lin Chen up and down. Only after confirming that he was unharmed did she finally feel relieved.

Looking at Lin Chen's calm and composed demeanor, Su Qingge's eyes were filled with undisguised admiration.

"Honey, we've caught him."

Lin Chen put down his thermos and handed the hard drive containing the backed-up data to Su Qingge. "However, this guy is just a tool on the periphery; he's not a big fish."

Su Qingge took the hard drive, her brows furrowing slightly: "A mere pawn? What about the real mastermind?"

Lin Chen stood up, his eyes narrowed slightly, and pointed to a document on the screen that he had deciphered.

"He had a top-secret document on his hard drive containing the chemical formula for a substance called 'Paradise'."

Lin Chen's tone became very serious, "This case is very complicated. They've gone to so much trouble, it's definitely not just for simple money. Take this back to the station first, let the technical department and Tingxue investigate it thoroughly."