I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

The main difficulty lies in this aspect. If this problem could be solved, the market would already be flooded with 3D modeled games, instead of the current trend of cardboard cutouts and battles.

The people they could find either weren't satisfied with the treatment or couldn't understand Chen Ya's ideas.

If he weren't so busy, Chen Ya would have liked to learn the technology himself and lead the team to tackle the problem.

...Back in his office, he opened his laptop and began to deal with the backlog of official business.

At noon, I went downstairs for lunch, leaving my laptop on the table while I ate.

After dinner, Chen Ya went upstairs and turned on his laptop.

After staring at the screen for a long time, he realized why he had been unconsciously staring at it.

A rather incongruous little gadget appeared on the desktop.

It was a document that I had never created, yet it truly existed there, right in the center of my desktop.

Double-click to open the document, and a sentence suddenly appears:

"Here's what I wanted, thank you!"

Below this line of smaller text, there is a tiny letter as a signature—

“Y”.

Chapter 365: No more pretense, the truth comes out.

The letter Y is just one of the 26 letters of the alphabet; it is neither great nor ordinary.

But at this moment, Chen Ya felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity with this letter, and at the same time, he felt a little scared.

The scariest thing is that he just checked the entire computer and still doesn't know what he lost.

"Brother Ya, what's wrong?"

As soon as Ishikawa Tō entered from outside, Chen Ya instructed him to close the door.

Ishikawa Takashi rarely saw Chen Ya acting so...sneaky, or rather, mysterious.

"what happened?"

"How much do you know about hackers?" Chen Ya asked.

"You mean data intrusion and attacks? I don't specialize in that area. I work in construction, like a construction worker. Hackers are like security guards on construction sites."

"I think your analogy is disrespectful to security guards."

"Excuse me."

Chen Ya looked grave and said to Ishikawa Takashi, "My computer has been hacked."

Ishikawa Toru was startled and asked, "When?"

Ishikawa Dong breathed a slight sigh of relief after seeing that it was Chen Ya's laptop.

The company has set up a local area network. If one computer is compromised, it means that the entire security system has been breached, and all the data will be leaked.

Fortunately, Chen Ya's laptop was not connected to the local area network, so the company's system was still secure.

It's safe, at least for now.

Ishikawa Takashi sat down in Chen Ya's seat, glanced at the open document, and turned to ask:

"Was the content of this document left by the other side?"

"Ah."

"It appeared on the screen immediately without any modifications?"

"Yes."

Ishikawa Dong bit his finger.

“I think I’ve heard of this Y before,” Ishikawa Takashi said. “There’s a forum for ‘tech geeks,’ and Y is a relatively well-known figure on that forum, having done quite a few famous things.”

"For example?" Chen Ya asked.

“For example, we found a huge loophole in the E'chang factory,” Shi Chuan Dong said with a pursed mouth. “By exploiting that loophole, we can embezzle tens of millions of yuan in cash from the E'chang factory’s accounts.”

Chen Ya frowned and said, "Would the Hubei factory suffer such a loss?"

“Of course, E Factory wouldn’t suffer a loss, but Y didn’t let E Factory suffer a loss,” Shi Chuan Dong said. “Y just packaged the vulnerabilities he found and sent them to E Factory, and told them how to fix the vulnerabilities.”

Chen Ya's eyebrows twitched: "You actually have a lot of principles?"

Ishikawa Tō smiled wryly: "Yeah, this Y gives off the vibe of a carefree, cynical type. He can be so carefree, he must be someone who doesn't lack money in life."

After speaking, Ishikawa Takashi paused, then added:

"However, he still didn't understand the wickedness of the world. The factory received his warning, but immediately reported him and even threatened to put him in jail."

Chen Ya's eyebrows practically flew up to his forehead: "Why are you so domineering?"

“That’s right,” Ishikawa Takashi said indignantly, “Normally, such a talent should be recruited by us, but the Hubei factory turned around and put him in jail.”

Chen Ya sneered: "The Hubei factory has always been domineering, and they probably don't lack talent. I've heard that the Hubei factory has a lot of influence in the system, and if they wanted to arrest someone, they could definitely do it. But did they actually arrest anyone in the end?"

Ishikawa Tōdō said, "We actually found it."

"Found it?" Chen Ya was a little surprised.

He thought that a hacker with such high skills wouldn't give himself away, but he was actually caught by the E factory.

Ishikawa Takashi said, "However, they weren't found through technical means, but through social engineering..."

"Social engineering" is a very interesting concept in the IT field.

It means that one should not achieve one's goals through offensive and defensive tactics using procedures and technology.

Instead, they directly attack the opponent's physical body, using inducement and deception to achieve their goal.

Launching a direct attack on the player without playing a monster card is considered an attack.

For example, a company's server would automatically shut down at midnight every night, and they couldn't figure out how hackers managed to do that.

It was only after staking out the location that they discovered the hackers had bribed their cleaning lady to unplug the power cord every time she left work.

This is called "social engineering".

Ishikawa Takashi said, "The company issued a notice at the time, saying that they would give a large sum of money to thank the hacker and asked him to contact the company. When Y contacted their customer service, they launched a phone tracking and finally caught Y."

After a long silence, Chen Ya finally uttered a sentence:

"How despicable."

“But note what I just said, it was finding Y, not catching Y,” Ishikawa Takashi said. “For some reason, the usually successful E-factory failed this time; they couldn’t get Y into jail.”

"why?"

Ishikawa Takashi shrugged and said, "I don't know. Anyway, this matter was eventually dropped. I vaguely heard that Y has a powerful background, and the Hubei factory didn't dare to touch him after discovering his identity. Maybe Y is also from some big factory."

After listening, Chen Ya nodded and asked, "And then?"

"Later, Y did several similar things and got away scot-free each time, which made him famous. Of course, only in a small circle," Ishikawa Takashi said. "In short, he's a legendary figure."

"So, why would this legendary figure target us?" Chen Ya asked, spreading his hands.

Ishikawa Tōdō said, "I don't know either. Could it be that he was bribed by our competitor?"

Chen Ya immediately thought of Cai Zhenyi. He didn't answer, but he couldn't rule out that possibility.

Ishikawa Dong frowned and muttered:

"Given Y's personality, it seems unlikely that he would be controlled by anyone. Besides, how could he be bribed with money..."

“Anyway,” Chen Ya said, “there are two urgent matters right now. First, can you find out which documents were stolen from me?”

Ishikawa Takashi said with a serious expression, "I'll give it a try."

He pressed Win+R to bring up the Run dialog box, opened Event Viewer, and began searching for traces left on the computer.

After a full hour of struggling, Ishikawa Takashi finally looked up from the computer screen, his forehead covered in sweat.

"No, my skills are too poor. I can't find any abnormal records. The other side may have deleted all the traces."

This was exactly what Chen Ya had expected.

If Y wasn't confident, he wouldn't have so brazenly left his "I was here" signature on his screen.

"Since we can't find it, then the second important thing is—can you get in touch with Y?"

Ishikawa Tō, scratching his head, said, "I can't guarantee that. I can post something on the forum and hope Y will see it and contact us."

Chen Ya nodded: "Could you install a firewall on my computer?"

"Well, although it doesn't seem very useful, it's always better to have one installed."

After all this trouble, Chen Ya, who had wasted half a day, was exhausted.

Now, the company has added another talent shortage: it is still missing a technical security personnel.

The development of Genmo involves many things that can be considered trade secrets. Judging from the current situation, the competitors are not very principled, so he cannot pin his hopes on luck.

With his hands supporting his chin, Chen Ya pondered for a long time before turning his gaze to the bright blue interface in front of him.

[Information Technology Subcategory]

[Basic Hacking Skills: 1000 Gold]

Intermediate Hacking Skills: 10000 Gold

[Advanced Hacking Techniques: 10 Gold]

[Ultimate Hacking Technique: 100 Million Gold]

"..."

The system's shop coins can be exchanged for real money at a 1:1 ratio, meaning that even the most advanced hacking skills can be obtained for just one million.

In the past, this amount wouldn't have been much, but in the current financially strained situation, Chen Ya was truly short of money and couldn't afford it.

After much hesitation and a long internal struggle, he finally let go of the burden in his heart.

I originally wanted to achieve this as an ordinary person, but I didn't expect to be met with only contempt and alienation.

I'm not pretending anymore, I'm laying my cards on the table.

I am a genius writer, a renowned director, and the most awesome musician in history!

Chen Ya opened the social media app on his laptop, thought for a moment, then closed it and opened the app on his phone.

He opened a long-dormant account and re-entered the password.

The reason he didn't use a laptop was because his laptop had been hacked, and he felt that computers were no longer safe.

After logging into his account, he sent a short message to a familiar contact.

"Please transfer the copyright fee to me. Bank account: xxxxxx..."

The other person replied with a crying face emoji almost instantly.

Soon, a barrage of messages came in:

"Teacher JX... I thought you deleted me..."

"I'm so happy! They finally contacted me! You're still alive!"

"I'll call right now! I'll call right now! I'll call you right away!"

"I used the express lane, and the money arrived instantly!"

Chen Ya turned off his phone.

Soon, my phone beeped with a notification.

I opened the text message and saw:

"Your XX bank account has received a deposit of 13457736 yuan..."

Chen Ya put down his phone.

The money has been recovered.

……

Ye Cheng is an ordinary college graduate who has just joined Beichen Company and works in the technical team.