Zombie Bodyguard
Chapter 761 - 758 Crisis and Opportunity

Chapter 761: Chapter 758 Crisis and Opportunity

"Is there a problem?" Lin Tian caught the fruit knife, exchanged glances with Miss, and both vanished from the spot. Two shadows darted past; Lin Tian appeared first beside the console, with Miss a beat behind him.

Lin Tian looked at Miss with surprise. The sudden burst of speed from Miss was incredibly fast. Since her advancement to the Postnatal Perfection Realm, it was the first time Lin Tian saw such an explosive speed from her, which was much faster than before. The path of the sword truly lived up to its reputation for speed.

However, the emergency at hand left no time for detailed questions, so he turned his attention to the large screen in the center.

The screen, originally a light blue background, was now incessantly flashing with rows of red code that appeared automatically, continuously refreshing the display.

Meanwhile, Liu Wenxing’s fingers were flying over a virtual keyboard. The code he was entering was green. The red and green codes refreshed nonstop, as if combating something.

At this moment, Liu Wenxing’s hands moved at least twice as fast as when he started, his face tense and his forehead dotted with sweat. Despite the cooling air from the computer center’s platform, Liu Wenxing was still sweating, indicating the immense pressure he was under.

"Sister, take a look, this situation suddenly occurred, and I have no idea what’s going on," Xiao Manxuan said, pointing at the screen.

Indeed, without her saying it, Miss was already closely watching the screen. Whether it was Liu Wenxing’s tense state or the anomalies exhibited on the screen, Miss could tell that something was abnormal.

"Nuwa, what’s going on?" Miss asked with a frown.

"Miss, there are dual self-destruction programs on this USB drive’s firewall. The first was a decoy. When I bypassed it, I accidentally triggered the second self-destruction program," Nuwa replied. Even in such a dire situation, her voice remained calm.

That was the advantage of an intelligent virtual persona; devoid of human emotions and unlike humans, they do not exhibit adverse physiological responses when under stress. They can always maintain a consistent and calm demeanor, regardless of any emergencies.

"Could the data be deleted?" Miss asked, her eyes flashing.

"The self-destruction program has two steps to destroy the data. First, it formats the USB drive; second, it rewrites a large amount of irrelevant data to overwrite the old one, preventing us from recovering it. However, I already have a way to deal with this," Nuwa explained.

"What’s the method?" Miss continued to inquire.

"Normally, we could bypass the self-destruction program when cracking the USB drive, but now that the second self-destruction program has been triggered, it uses read and write operations on the data during the destruction process."

"I can write a program that masquerades as the self-destruction program. As the USB drive’s underlying system will treat this fake program as executing the self-destruction, it will not be intercepted. With this masquerade, I can perform read and write operations on the data, copying it out; thus, we don’t even need to crack the firewall."

"Or rather, this could be considered a form of indirect cracking," Nuwa detailed.

She said a lot, including many technical terms. Lin Tian did not understand these terms, but he grasped the meaning.

Nuwa’s intent was clear, like she was laying siege to a city to capture a precious item. If the city was too strong to breach, she would disguise herself as one of the enemy soldiers or civilians to sneak inside, then stealthily steal the item away.

Of course, it sounded simple, but the actual execution was complicated. Before disguising as the self-destruction program, one would need to calculate the program’s code and then move on to the "disguise" operation.

The computational demands for this calculation were vast to a terrifying degree, but fortunately, Nuwa had resources like the supercomputer; otherwise, she would have no solution.

With a method in hand, the problem became much simpler. Using the supercomputer’s enormous computing power, which while impossible to fully utilize, was more than enough to handle the USB drive.

Thirty minutes passed, and the red code no longer appeared on the screen. Liu Wenxing entered the last line of code and finally stopped typing.

"Phew..." Liu Wenxing let out a long breath and then said, "Finally got it sorted. That was close, thank goodness for the supercomputer, otherwise it would have been touch and go."

Nuwa also said at the same time, "Miss, the data from the USB drive has been copied out, and it’s intact."

"Good, I got it," Miss nodded, then said, "Let’s eat something first. We can look at the content later since it isn’t going anywhere."

After a quick dinner, Lin Tian and the others regrouped in front of the screen. Miss called on Nuwa once again.

"Nuwa, open the files and display them on the screen," Miss ordered.

No sooner had the words left her mouth than a compressed data file appeared on the screen. After decompressing, several files emerged. Nuwa opened all the files, displaying them on the generously sized screen with ease.

Lin Tian was the fastest when it came to browsing text. As soon as Nuwa opened the files, his gaze darted over them, and his penetrating vision had scanned everything in a few breaths, reading all the files.

As he read the materials, Lin Tian’s eyebrows deeply furrowed. These weren’t any scientific secrets but merely accounts and lists of names, along with relationship charts. Within these lists and charts, he spotted the name Sun Hai.

Initially, Lin Tian couldn’t make heads or tails of it, not until he read the last document did things become clear—Sun Hai was no good thing.

"Miss, what do you think?" Lin Tian turned and asked, believing that Miss had also finished reading.

Miss had a troubled expression, and she told Nuwa, "Close the files."

The display changed as Nuwa switched back to the main interface, gathering up all the data. Lin Tian understood the meaning behind Miss’s action; the content involved in the documents was problematic, and it wasn’t beneficial for Liu Wenxing and Xiao Manxuan to know about it—in fact, it could pose a danger to them.

Especially Liu Wenxing, with no protection, anyone scheming in the shadows could easily cause harm.

The entire file detailed dealings between Sun Hai and various international crime syndicates, including their transaction records, content, and organizational structures.

"It’s more serious than I thought. I didn’t expect Sun Hai to do such things. These documents, if put on the desk of Interpol, would not just lead to Sun Hai’s capture but also would dismantle many crime syndicates," Miss said with some concern.

Her worry wasn’t whether Sun Hai would be caught, but that as a shareholder of Xiao Group, his arrest could implicate the Xiao Group.

Liu Wenxing and Xiao Manxuan both hadn’t finished browsing the data but maintained silence. Both were intelligent and knew what questions to ask and what not to; some things are safer not known than known.

"Since I learned about the USB drive, I thought Sun Hai was just after money, maybe involved in smuggling at worst. I never imagined he’d be involved in international crimes. He’d really do anything for money," Miss shook her head.

"What will you do about it, Miss?" Lin Tian asked.

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