"Do I look like I'm short on cash?!" Ou Minghan slammed the table again, his gruffness stemming from the fact that he had to pay Ye Zhi, which made him feel incredibly stifled.
The mere thought that Ye Zhi had forced him into a corner, leaving him with the choice of either paying up or enduring the repulsive advertising herself, filled Ou Minghan with rage.
How dare Ye Zhi provoke him like this! Did she truly believe that because she was Ye Qin Ya's sister, he wouldn't do anything to her?
"Feng Jie, go notify the Jin Ying team," Ou Minghan said with a grim face and a venomous tone. "Wasn't she plastered everywhere with her publicity today? I want her website to be inaccessible, her software to be unregisterable! After today, all her promotions will become her biggest joke!"
Feng Jie's heart skipped a beat. The Jin Ying team was a group of hackers privately employed by Ou Minghan, with no affiliation to Qian Bai, answering only to him. They were frequently used to attack rival company websites.
The fact that Ou Minghan was deploying the Jin Ying team so quickly indicated just how enraged he was. Feng Jie quickly agreed, pulling out his phone to contact the Jin Ying team.
At Taoxun Company, Chen Wei, who had been on high alert, perked up. "They've started their attack!"
"It's all yours," Ye Zhi said, patting his shoulder, unsurprised.
They had long anticipated that Ou Minghan would resort to hacker attacks to disrupt their website, so they were prepared.
Chen Wei took a deep breath, his hands resting lightly on the keyboard.
He was a computer genius. In college, his programs had already been selected for textbooks. In terms of hacking skills, he was second to none. He had never used his hacking skills to retaliate against Qian Bai Company not because he couldn't, but because he had high moral standards and disdained such actions.
It was time to teach Ou Minghan a lesson.
"Ms. Ye, please rest assured," Chen Wei's fingers danced nimbly across the keyboard, not hindering his speech. "I've already set up a trap; their attack won't succeed. Moreover, the new recruits in our network security department are quite capable, and we can track them and launch a counter-offensive. The specific method is..."
He glanced up at Ye Zhi. Seeing that although Ye Zhi was listening intently, she didn't seem to grasp the details, he sheepishly stopped himself.
"I don't understand the technical details, so I'll leave it to you. I have complete confidence," Ye Zhi said calmly.
Chen Wei nodded heavily, his fingers flying across the keyboard once more.
Ye Zhi watched for a while, feeling a sense of disappointment.
She had initially imagined a hacker battle unfolding like in the movies: screens filled with incomprehensible lines of code, hackers in black attire and sunglasses hunched over their computers, accompanied by an exhilarating soundtrack, as if to convey the brutal clashes of the virtual world. However...
Reality was quite disillusioning.
Of course, even without the flashy special effects, she could tell that Chen Wei was truly skilled. Even when dealing with a hacker attack, he maintained a composed demeanor.
"Oh, right," Ye Zhi asked, frowning, "What did Ou Minghan call that group of hackers he's cultivating? Something with 'eagle'?"
"The Jin Ying team," Chen Wei replied with a wry smile. "When I was still at Qian Bai, he wanted to form the Jin Ying team and intended to have me train them. I disagreed, so he gradually sidelined me."
"That sounds like something he'd do. But," Ye Zhi asked, a hint of confusion in her voice, "why did he choose such a strange name, Jin Ying team?"
"The name..." Chen Wei's expression shifted, and he spoke with some hesitation. "He did tell me. He said he wanted to build a hacker force, like the Embroidered Uniform Guard, his personal henchmen."
Ye Zhi: ...
She finally understood why Chen Wei had looked so embarrassed earlier when he was explaining.
What kind of chuunibyou was this? Just hearing the explanation made Ye Zhi cringe so hard her toes curled into a three-bedroom apartment.
"Oh, you mentioned earlier that you could track them," Ye Zhi suddenly asked. "Can you help me send a message?"
"Certainly, what message do you want to send?" Chen Wei asked.
Ye Zhi's lips curved into a faint smile. It was time to add some excitement to this silent war.
Qian Bai Company.
When Feng Jie heard from his phone that the leader of the Jin Ying team reported their attack had failed to breach the opponent's defenses, that the other side was prepared, had laid traps, and that they couldn't escape, and were even tracked, he felt a chill run down his spine. Not only that, but the opponent had brazenly sent a message:
"Gotcha!"
Feng Jie's back felt cold. He was so startled he nearly dropped his phone.
At that moment, he felt as if a pair of eyes were secretly watching him, observing his every move.
Feng Jie looked around in fear. Only when he realized that this was Ou Minghan's office and there couldn't possibly be any cameras or people watching did he relax.
"Crash—"
Ou Minghan angrily swept everything off his desk to the floor, roaring almost madly, "Useless! A bunch of useless trash! What are these good-for-nothings even doing!"
However, in his heart, he was both shocked and furious. Ye Zhi's message was directed at him!
She knew he was behind it, as if she had his every move figured out!
This feeling of being manipulated like a puppet made him uncomfortable and stifled. He had never experienced such humiliation!
Feng Jie, having narrowly dodged a flying coffee cup, breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he had long since noticed Ou Minghan's violent tendencies; whenever he encountered something extremely infuriating, he would fly into a rage on the spot. This allowed him to dodge in time, otherwise, he would have been disfigured.
Seeing Ou Minghan about to smash something else, Feng Jie quickly voiced his guess, "President, it seems Taoxun Company has hired even more formidable hackers..."
"Aren't the most formidable hackers all in the Jin Ying team now?" Ou Minghan interrupted impatiently. Suddenly, as if a thought struck him, his pupils widened dramatically. "Wait, could it be..."
The next moment, Ou Minghan lunged forward, grabbed his phone, flipped through his contacts, found a name he hadn't contacted in a long time, and dialed.
The call was answered quickly. Ou Minghan spoke first, demanding sternly, "Chen Hong, where is Chen Wei?!"
"Huh?" Chen Hong's voice sounded guilty. He chuckled obsequiously, "Young Master Ou, he, he's still in N City, in his rented place. I even went to cause trouble for him yesterday..."
"Tell me the truth!" Ou Minghan said menacingly. "Chen Hong, if you dare lie to me, I'll take your life!"
"Young Master Ou, it's really not my fault..." Chen Hong, terrified, began to wail, his nose running. "Half a month ago, I went to cause trouble for Chen Wei, and I got beaten up!"