Ch. 391..395: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 391-395

Chapter 391

But now he felt powerless.

He had loved the IT industry since he was a child and spent a lot of time learning.

His ability was second to none in the country, but this job was too frustrating for him.

If this kept on, his and Edwin's company would collapse.

The more he thought about it, the paler his face became.His concentration difficulty was causing mistakes with the code he had entered.

Preston stood up and threw his headphones aside in frustration.

"Damn!"

He was mad at himself for making such a low-level mistake.

But the moment he turned around, someone sat down in his place.

Then he heard the crackling of the keyboard.

Preston looked back and was wide-eyed to see Nicole sitting in front of his laptop.

"Hey! What are you doing?" he yelled.

That was the terminal of his system, and typing in any piece of code incorrectly would cause huge problems for the entire system.

And Nicole, whom he thought knew nothing, was messing with it.

Nicole stared at the screen and hissed.

"Shut up if you don't want your system to crash now."

Her cocky reply struck Preston dumb.

He looked at the computer screen and saw Nicole skillfully enter a string of high-level code that he had never seen before.

Watching the code that she compiled take effect and fix the bug that he had failed to patch, Preston was utterly astonished.

He never expected that his cousin, who came from the countryside, was actually a hacker master.

Moreover, her skill was above his.

After pressing the last key, Nicole let out a smile as she had fixed yet another hidden vulnerability that Preston had not found.

"Done! You can't even fix such a simple thing; I guess this is just a meh system." Nicole sighed and started to look for problems with the system.

Preston slowly came out of his shock.

Being belittled, he, of course, looked not too happy.

But after witnessing what Nicole had done, he could only let go of his ego and take a closer look at the screen.

"You're also a hacker?" he asked in a low voice.

"Haven't you seen it with your own eyes?" she said without looking up.

Preston choked, all the haughty attitude that he had toward Nicole vanishing.

"Who did you learn from? That's badass!"

He had spent a lot of money learning this, yet Nicole from the countryside did it better than he did.

"Talent."

She did not look at him, and her reply upset Preston.

‘She is really arrogant.No wonder the other two sisters hate her so much" He thought to himself.

But at this time, he found Nicole quite pleasing to the eyes.

After all, her skill was of master-level.

After reading the entire system that Preston and Edwin had written, Nicole closed the lid of the laptop, got to her feet, and looked solemnly at Preston.

"What's wrong?"

Preston was confused, not knowing why she looked at him like this.

"Take me to your company."

Preston could not react for a moment.

"What do you mean?"

Nicole then showed him the text message that Edwin had sent her.

"He asked me for help, and I refused last time.For the sake of the Riddle family, I will help you this time."

Preston was stunned.

'Could Nicole be the expert whom Edwin said had refused to help them last time?! Preston almost choked on his saliva and coughed violently.

"Wait-wait a second.Let me confirm it with Edwin."

Chapter 392

Preston went to the balcony to call Edwin.

Nicole could not hear what he was saying, but she could see him looking back at her from time to time with a more and more stunning look on her face.

After hanging up the phone, Preston calmed himself down.

"I didn't know that you knew things about our company."

Nicole nodded calmly.

Edwin had looked for her before, but she did not trust him, and so she did not help him at the time.

But Zeke had already sent her the details of this job.She had just skimmed through but did not want to get involved.

But looking at the state of the system, Edwin would not be able to survive until tomorrow if she did not help him.

Looking at Preston's hesitant look, Nicole said with a half-smile.

"You don't want to take me there?"

"No."

Preston shook his head quickly.

This job had left him in a mess for so many days, and he had already had enough.

"But Edwin said that he texted you about the expert whom you know.I will be grateful if you can introduce us to him."

Nicole looked at him nonchalantly.

"You want to meet the expert? Let's go."

Preston was stunned, wondering what Nicole meant.

Nicole was already in the doorway.

"What are you still waiting for? Let's go."

Preston was a little confused, but he still followed Nicole away.

Preston drove his car and came in front of his company, then watched Nicole go in and still could not wrap his brain around what she meant.

‘Aren't we seeing the hacking master? Why is she going in there? Is she trying to skirt around? But seriously, the skill that she displayed just now was really badass.I wonder how badass the master is behind her"

Preston collected his thoughts and quickly parked the car, then followed Nicole into the company.

Deep down inside, he still believed in Nicole.

Preston did not know why Nicole did this, but he did not question her behavior.

Instead, he overtook her and led the way for her.

The place looked more like a precision studio than a company.

As soon as she entered, Nicole saw the high-tech interior decoration, which had a strong futuristic vibe.

Preston was doing the explanation while secretly looking proudly at Nicole.

He felt a little disappointed when he saw her nonchalant expression.

Nicole knew what he was thinking and felt a little helpless.

Preston did not talk much at home, and she did not expect him to have such a temperament.

When it came to issues that he knew, he had a lot to talk about.

The two walked along, with Preston taking the lead in the elevator.

Nicole raised an eyebrow and followed suit.

It was a fully transparent sightseeing elevator, which offered a superb view of the outside, and people outside could see things on the inside.

On each floor, many people looked at the slowly ascending elevator.

They were curious about who the girl following the boss was.

 

Chapter 393

Thinking of Edwin, who hurried over today at noon, and the little boy whom Black Shark brought this morning, everyone had a curious look on their faces.

But they quickly retracted their gazes and looked at the computer in front of them solemnly.

After all, the company had a big problem, and each of them had been working overtime for almost half a month, day and night in shifts, to keep an eye on the defense net in their hands because once a position went wrong, the entire team would fall.

This immense pressure overwhelmed many people.

They were irascible, talking about how to solve the problem.

Nicole looked at these thin young men and said, "They all must have had a long day."

Preston nodded.

He knew best what kind of life these people had had during this time.

Preston looked at Nicole and said helplessly, "Yeah, s o we really need you to call someone to help quickly.You said you wanted to come to my company, and now I have already brought you here.Can you call the master over?"

Preston did not know what she wanted to confirm about by coming in person.

Nicole glanced at him and did not say a word.

The elevator stopped at the top floor, where Nicole could see at a glance that it was spacious with classy decoration in shades of gray, a relatively large mainframe in the center, where a group of people surrounded Zeke and Edwin, who had a serious look on their faces.

A skinny and pale man looked at Zeke and said impatiently, "You said you would find someone to fix it.Why hasn't the person arrived yet?"

Zeke glanced at Black Shark.

Nicole had sent him a message when she returned, and now she should be on her way.

"Be patient.The rescue will be here right away."

Edwin looked at the firewall that was blinking its red warning light and looked at Zeke with doubt.

"Specter, this firewall seems to disintegrate internally.Is this what you've done?"

Zeke looked at him calmly and nodded.

Black Shark blew up instantly.

"Why did you do this?"

‘He dismantled this firewall from within.When it collapses, the time and efforts many of us have spent i n the past few days will all come to nothing.What the hell is he thinking?’ thought Black Shark.

But Zeke just glanced at him nonchalantly and said calmly, "I want to test your emergency response mechanism."

‘Test our emergency response mechanism? Why?' Everyone looked at Zeke doubtfully.

Zeke sighed, looked at the self-deleting firewall program, and said faintly, "Destroy the emergency firewall mechanism."

‘What? This is the last line of defense against incessant attacks.Instead of helping us defend against the attack, Zeke wants to destroy the firewall.How could he do this?! Everyone looked at Zeke angrily.

A female hacker code -named Warbler stepped forward and angrily scolded Black Shark, saying, "Look what kind of people you've invited! He is not here to help but to sabotage us all."

She was the most powerful female hacker in the organization and was indispensable for holding up the defensive front.

Seeing Zeke wanting to destroy the things that she had spent much effort to build, Warbler was almost going crazy.

But she did not get mad at Zeke when she saw his baby face.

Instead, she vented all her anger on Black Shark, who brought Zeke over.

Black Shark was upset.

He did not know that this so- called top hacker on The Hunters was not up to scratch.

He would not grant Zeke any privilege simply because he was also a male.

So he frowned and grilled Zeke.

"What do you want, Zeke?"

Zeke did not look at him but stared at the Jwogoo, which was slightly inferior to the JW3000.

The screen clearly showed that the self-destruction procedure was about to be ready.

He quickly pressed the start button, and soon, angry roars rose in the company.

"Who the hell took down the firewall that I had worked so hard to guard for half a month?"

Chapter 394

"Aaaah, I will kill him!"

"Take me along.I want to see what floor that bastard is on!"

"It crumbled straight away; the floors must be high.Oh, wait a second! How come it's the top floor's IP?"

‘The mainframe has crashed?' Everyone looked at what happened, consternation replacing anger on their faces.

‘Those two bosses are mad?! Black Shark and Warbler watched with reddening eyes as the mischievous child-like Zeke caused their server to crash.

"Specter, I will kill you!"

Zeke ignored the roar and typed rapidly on the keyboard.

Before this, he had seen Nicole upload a program that she always used.

So it did not matter now, even though the system's firewall had collapsed.

Zeke had called up all the code information quickly and watched the thing automatically doing its cracking.

‘Raster! It must be faster than the other guy!' The other guy's encroachment was like an endless black hole as if the infinite reproduction of the cracked code far exceeded the parsing speed of ordinary people's brains.

Facing such an opponent, fine beads of sweat started to pop up on Zeke's forehead.

‘Damn it! If Nicole is still not coming, I won't be able t o hold on any longer! Black Shark and Warbler watched him desperately crack their defense system and decided to stop a madman like Zeke.

But Edwin, who had been silent all this while, suddenly stopped them from doing so.

"Hold your horses! He must have his way!"

The two looked at him in disbelief.

"Boss, why do you believe in him so much?"

‘What's going on? Why protect this brat when he's here creating a mess, Boss?' Edwin said nothing but just looked on with mixed feelings.

Zeke had also become a little anxious now.

It was a second before the defense system was completely breached.

If Nicole could not make it here on time, he would have to clash head-on with the guy at the other end.

Thinking of the strength of his opponent, even Zeke had a hint of fear in his eyes.

"No way I could beat him"

Zeke rarely conceded defeat in his area of expertise, but this wormhole -like reproduction and erosion of endless code, as far as he knew, could only be written by one person.

The progress bar showed 99 percent, and because information transmission had microseconds of the inspection period, Zeke was now barely faster than the other side.

He did not notice the atmosphere around him, which had become silent.

Black Shark and Warbler looked at the almost blood-red screen and closed their eyes silently.

It's over! It's all over!' Black Shark was now extremely regretful.

His defense system was supposed to hold up for another three days or so, but now it was ruined by a brat.

He looked at the progress bar, which read 99.9 percent, and felt like wanting to kill Zeke.

Looking at the blood-red screen, Warbler was supposed to feel the saddest because she was the master designer of this firewall.

But when she took a careful look at the interface, she somehow felt that something was wrong.

This code seemed to be inconsistent with her original design, and it was even a thousand times more advanced than what she had designed.

Her mind went blank for a moment at seeing this code.

‘What's going on here?' Most top hackers were conceited, and so were Black Sharks and Warbler.

 

Chapter 395

No way she would admit that she was not good enough to understand that code.

Zeke did not have time to think about what was going on in their minds.

His fingers had started to tremble, but instead of taking a step back, he stood strong in front of the terrifying opponent.

‘Lucifer—only Lucifer could beat that man, and all I have to do is buy her time"

Thinking of this, Zeke's eyes started to look determined, as if he recalled when Lucifer grew up with him step by step many years ago, and he no longer let fear destroy him but slowly calmed down.

As Lucifer had said, "the hardest thing for a person was to surpass oneself, but few could overcome their own fears."

Looking at the screen that had turned crimson, Zeke's shaking finally stopped, and Edwin's voice came from behind him.

"It's okay.We will just give up if you're scared."

Edwin could tell long ago that the boy was indeed helping him.

Warbler looked at her boss with puzzlement as if she did not understand what he meant.

Zeke gritted his teeth upon hearing what Edwin said.

"I'm not afraid of him," he said determinedly.

Edwin looked at him and gently shook his head.

Even he could tell that the other guy had not really launched an attack, but even in the process of cracking the code, Zeke had almost lost.

He seemed to be scared of the hacker on the other side.

Looking at Black Shark's attitude toward Zeke at the beginning, it was not hard for Edwin to imagine that Zeke should be much better than Black Shark, even the top hacker in Hustuaburg.

But he looked so clumsy and appeared powerless when facing the opponent on the other side.

Edwin's brow furrowed tightly as he wondered what kind of opponent Zeke was facing this time.

Black Shark and Warbler had lost their hope.

They stood and watched coldly as their boss tried to comfort the teenager.

Just then, Warbler's keen ear heard the crisp bell of the elevator arriving behind them.

‘Maybe the people downstairs come up to demand an explanation when they see the firewall crumple," she said in her mind.

She could not care less, as she was entirely attracted t o the seemingly magical code, and she could not take her eyes off it.

Several people around were also staring at the computer screen in front of Zeke, and no one cared to look at the elevator.

Zeke clenched his fingers nervously, watching as the progress bar was about to hit 100% while thinking that Lucifer might have been tied up with something else and could not make it here on time.

Zeke shook his head to shake the thought from his mind.

He then stared again at the Jwogoo and whispered something to himself.

If those people around him got closer, they would have heard him repeating a sentence.

"People live to surpass themselves."

The last mile of the progress bar was often ridiculously slow.

Zeke was so nervous that he could hear his increasingly agitated heartbeat.

He tried to fight back the urge to run away and quietly waited for this battle to arrive.

Just then, he heard a flat voice come from behind him.

"Get out of the way."

Such an indifferent voice was raising some eyebrows.

They all wondered which fool had come to the top floor and said something so cocky.

Zeke was also stunned upon hearing the voice, and then he could not hide the intense surprise in his eyes.

He turned his head excitedly and looked at Nicole's cold and beautiful face as if he had seen a savior, with two streams of tears flowing down his face.

"Nicole, you're finally here!"