Standing at the entrance of the Shanghai Jiangnan Blind Box flagship store, Tong He couldn't help but hesitate. If he took this step, his fate would be uncertain.
But if he didn't, his future would also be worrying.
"Since I'm here!" Tong He took a deep breath and stepped into the flagship store.
Let's turn back time to last night. After deciding not to play with Ke Xuedong anymore, Tong He seemed to have only one option: to call the police.
However, Tong He knew that calling the police would be useless.
It wasn't that Ke Xuedong had a wide network of connections, but rather, what would he report?
Ke Xuedong was masterminding the falsification of commercial secrets?
Come on, all of this was still in the planning stages. He had only chatted with Ke Xuedong for a while, and Ke Xuedong hadn't even given him a single cent. Nothing had happened yet.
Not to mention that Ke Xuedong would absolutely deny these facts. Even if Ke Xuedong confessed everything to the police, what then?
The police couldn't arrest someone for something that hadn't happened, right?
This wasn't even a case of attempted murder because everything was still verbal. If Ke Xuedong had purchased the magnetic cards or card-swiping devices for forging, it would still be considered attempted crime. But since Ke Xuedong hadn't done anything, the police could at most offer some criticism and education, and nothing else.
On the contrary, if he reported it to the police, Ke Xuedong would have a thousand and one ways to retaliate against him. This was something only a fool would do.
So, Tong He, who had originally made up his mind to call the police, found himself not knowing what to do or who to find. His gaze fell on the magnetic card in his hand.
"Jiangnan's magnetic cards have such a huge loophole. If I help them fill it, they should at least give me some benefits, and at least they won't resent me for changing my phone anymore!"
"Jiangnan is such a big company, they shouldn't be so stingy, right?" Tong He mused, and the more he thought about it, the more it made sense. Thus, he found himself back at the Jiangnan flagship store in Shanghai the next morning.
In reality, Tong He was still a bit naive at this time, too trusting of the integrity of these big companies. If he had known that many years later in another world, a certain company would boldly announce to the entire internet that they were looking for cheats for one of their games, and that anyone who found a cheat could receive a reward of 50,000 yuan.
As a result, a player named "A-Dai" discovered that by using a Golden Mountain Explorer cheat tool from over a decade ago, he could modify the summoner skills in the game, allowing for unlimited use of summoner skills with no cooldown. As long as his fingers were fast enough, he could cast ten heals per second without any issues.
Then this player reported it on the game forum. Not only did he not receive the expected 50,000 yuan reward, but he was also replied to, stating that he was reporting false information.
In response, this player named A-Dai became enraged. He gathered a few friends and they all used this cheat to grind points, reaching around 2000 points in a single night, putting them on par with players like "Wang Cao Mei," "Yang Zhu Chang Chang Zhang," and "Kong Da Qin Nu," almost reaching the top rank in the national server.
Fortunately, at this point, the company finally reacted and directly closed the game's ranking system, and banned these players. However, they didn't expect the matter to be uncontainable and it was leaked, becoming a complete joke.
Many years later, when interviewed, some members of the project team revealed that the reason for A-Dai's incident was, first, the customer service at the time was too foolish.
When A-Dai reported the issue around 10 p.m., the main personnel of the project team had already left work. The customer service representatives responsible for accepting reports were all outsourced personnel who had only a superficial understanding of the game.
When they saw someone reporting that a ten-year-old Golden Mountain Explorer could directly modify a network game from ten years later, this customer service representative simply dismissed it as a bored player messing around.
Secondly, the project leader at the time had bragged about it, and he would absolutely not accept any cheats, otherwise, it would be him admitting he was wrong and would damage his future in the company. Therefore, even if they encountered someone knowledgeable, the matter would be suppressed.
However, they would likely communicate directly with A-Dai, privately give him some benefits, and then secretly fix the bug. That way, everything would seem as if nothing had happened, and their game would remain problem-free.
But A-Dai pushed the matter to the extreme, forcing the project team to ban his account. At the same time, to save face, they had to grit their teeth and refuse to admit it was a cheat, only calling it a bug or something similar.
It is said that they even planned to counter-attack and sue A-Dai, accusing him of infringing upon the normal operation of the game. However, seeing the strong emotional reaction from the entire internet, they did not dare to go through with it.
This was the situation at the time, and the integrity of that company was thus revealed.
Therefore, Tong He was still very foolish and naive. If he had walked in directly like this, over 60% of companies would have counter-attacked.
Fortunately, Liu Xiangjiang was at the store at the time and received a report from his subordinates that someone had discovered a loophole in Jiangnan Coins that could be used to generate large amounts of Jiangnan Coins.
Liu Xiangjiang was shocked when he heard this news, but that was about it. This was because someone within the company had already mentioned the risk of Jiangnan Coins being stolen, but it wasn't difficult to bypass the password for Jiangnan Coins. Furthermore, the circulation of Jiangnan Coins had already spread throughout the entire Jiangnan Group, like the veins of the Jiangnan Group. It was unreasonable to easily replace it based on a small report.
So Liu Xiangjiang initially intended to order his staff to log the detailed information and then give the student ten blind boxes as a reward to send him away. But then his subordinate reported that the person had also mentioned that Ke Xuedong intended to use this bug, and Liu Xiangjiang immediately jumped up.
This matter was actually related to He Xuedong, which Liu Xiangjiang could no longer tolerate. He immediately ordered someone to bring this informant to his office, only to discover that it was still a student.
Then Tong He explained the detailed situation.
"What? You're saying you can already bypass our password and directly swipe Jiangnan Coins into it!" Liu Xiangjiang initially thought this informant had merely discovered a loophole that allowed Jiangnan Coins to be swiped, but he never expected that this student had already achieved it, and had even swiped 8,000 Jiangnan Coins and exchanged them for a Tianxing mobile phone.
"Yes!" Tong He said, looking cautiously at Liu Xiangjiang. Seeing his expression change, he quickly added, "The phone has already been scammed away. If you want me to return the phone, I can write an IOU for you. I promise to repay you in the future. I hope you won't tell the school about this and give me a way out!"
"Don't worry, since you have confessed everything to us, we will not pursue this matter. The same goes for the phone. Rest assured!" Liu Xiangjiang was very broad-minded. He patted Tong He on the shoulder and comforted him, "By the way, you said Ke Xuedong has a conspiracy. What's going on with that?"
So Tong He explained about Ke Xuedong. Liu Xiangjiang finally understood. He cursed and kicked the sofa, then told Tong He to sit down, saying, "You did the right thing, made the most correct decision. So, not only will we not do anything to you, but we will also give you a reward!"
Liu Xiangjiang smiled and said, "How about this, I'll personally give you a bonus of 10,000 yuan. What do you think?"
"I dare not... I dare not!" Tong He quickly replied, "I'll be satisfied if you let me go."
"No, this bonus is still necessary, but you have to promise us that you will tell us how to bypass the magnetic card loophole, and preferably help us find a solution to this loophole?" Liu Xiangjiang said. This was actually Liu Xiangjiang's fundamental purpose for giving money. This loophole had to be sealed, and the best candidate to seal the loophole was, naturally, the hacker who discovered it.
"That might not be possible!" Tong He shook his head. "It's not that I'm unwilling to help you seal it, but this is a hardware loophole. Unless you recall all the magnetic cards that have been issued and replace them with the latest technology, this loophole cannot be sealed. As long as you continue to use these old magnetic cards, I can find a way to bypass them, even if you design more complex passwords."
"Is the situation that bad?" Liu Xiangjiang felt it was a bit tricky, so he asked Tong He to wait in his office and then immediately called Boss Huang, using the private mobile number that only senior management knew. After all, Boss Huang's work phone was almost constantly being called by people trying to reach him, so it was impossible to get through.
"This was bound to happen. I had already planned to solve this problem in the second half of the year. I didn't expect someone to have already broken through the loophole!" Hearing Liu Xiangjiang's report, Huang He was somewhat shocked, but it seemed to be within his expectations.
After all, even Apple phones were jailbroken and cracked in the future, so it was simply too easy to crack a magnetic card.
"It seems my brand new Jiangnan Coin network needs to be launched ahead of schedule!" Huang He sighed.
"Chairman, you had it ready long ago?" Liu Xiangjiang was shocked.
"Yes, I originally planned to launch it in October, because our company's layout would be completely completed by then. But now that the first person has broken through, the second and third should appear soon. It would be troublesome to launch it then, so let's launch it ahead of schedule." Huang He said.
"Actually, that university student said that this technology is unique to him, and at least he doesn't know anyone in the world who possesses the same magnetic card bypassing technology. So as long as he doesn't leak it, no one should be able to crack it in a short period of time," Liu Xiangjiang said with a smile.
"Regardless, we can't gamble on such a thing!" Huang He smiled slightly. "By the way, you said that Ke Xuedong also planned to get involved, right?"
"Yes, so Chairman, I have a plan. We can lure the snake out of its hole. We can pretend that Tong He is cooperating with Ke Xuedong, let the other party actually start falsifying our Jiangnan Coin data, and then call the police. This way, Ke Xuedong will be imprisoned for at least a few years, and we can also vent our anger!" Liu Xiangjiang said excitedly.