Ch. 396..400: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 396-400

Chapter 396

He jumped for joy and immediately gave up the control panel. Nicole gently tugged at the cuffs, casually tied her long hair behind her head, and then stepped forward.

Looking at the screen, which had turned fully red, Nicole let out a faint smile. She then casually hit a few keys with her right hand to type out a string of extremely concise code.

“Well done,” she said without looking up.

She just gave Zeke a code with Preston’s computer, and he was able to hold on until she arrived, which was not half bad.

Zeke heard her compliment and was cock-a-hoop. Watching the opponent’s waves of attack defused by Nicole, his eyes burst with admiration.

That was Lucifer. No opponent could last longer than five minutes in front of her.

Preston, who followed Nicole from behind, had to admit that Nicole was too fast. He had tried his best but still could not catch up.

When the people around saw that it was Preston, they all gave way to him and looked at Nicole with doubt and jealousy in their eyes. Since it was the second boss who brought her, they thought she must also be a master.

But when Preston saw Nicole standing in front of the control panel, his eyes widened in shock

“Nicole, what are you doing up there? Come down!” She was good, but in Preston’s view, challenging the boss of the other side was akin to throwing straws against the wind.

What he said stunned everyone. They all wondered if she was yet another troublemaker.

Black Shark’s vision went dark, and he almost puked blood, his face miserably pale.

Warbler, on the other hand, looked at Nicole’s pretty face with a deep sense of jealousy in her

eyes.

She stepped forward and tried to drag Nicole down. “Do you know what we’re doing here? This is not a place for a little girl like you who knows nothing to mess with the computer. Get down now!”

Preston was not too happy when he heard this. He smacked Warbler’s hand away and said with a smirk, “Who are you to tell my sister what to do?”

Nicole was better than anyone here, and no one was qualified to lecture her.

Warbler was stunned and then reluctantly let go of her hand. “I didn’t expect her to be a nepotist,’ she mumbled.

As Preston ignored her, Warbler glared at Nicole with intractable jealousy in her eyes.

Meanwhile, Edwin glanced at Warbler with a weird look in his eyes.

Black Shark was jeering at Nicole. “I didn’t expect the boss to bring such a brat here. When even Specter can’t solve the problem, what can she do? She probably can’t even find a way to

download games.” The conceited hackers around him agreed with what he said. They gave up the position to Zeke just out of respect for the top hackers, but Zeke did not seem to be what they imagined. Nevertheless, he was the second on the Hustuaburg hacker list and sixth on the world list, despite his young age, and he was not so legit. They could still tolerate his troublemaking.

But this girl, who came out of nowhere, seemed to be a relative of the boss, so everyone would not accept her.

“Boss, Warbler is right. This is not an Internet café. What are you thinking by letting such a little girl mess with things?”

“Yeah, Boss, you can’t let her do whatever she wants.”

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“I will definitely quit!”

“Me too!”

The scene was chaotic at one point.

Preston actually wanted to stop Nicole. As much as he knew Nicole was good, this was a highly professional hacking duel. He honestly believed that Nicole could handle it.

But when he got closer and saw the screen in front of Nicole, he was confounded.

Edwin also turned his head. He was surprised to see the red on the screen fading rapidly. It was unlikely the strategy of the other side. It seemed more like the opponent had encountered a formidable enemy and was forced to flee with his tail between his legs.

If the attacker’s code was an endless Trojan virus, Nicole’s countermeasure was the fastest and most effective antivirus software, directly suppressing the attacker with no room for escape.

No matter how deep the black hole was, it could not swallow the sword that could cut it in half. Loading to one hundred percent meant that the firewall had been completely breached, and the door was wide open. The maggot-like code would flock in and cannibalize the system here. Seemingly nothing could stop this from happening. But as soon as the code got in, it found a perpetual motion machine-like cutter on its head, cutting it into pieces so fast that even the self-replicating code could not keep up. The cutter turned around and attacked the computer on the other side, completely bringing the attacker’s system down.

Nicole’s action was extremely fast. She did not care about the surrounding noise but continued to type strings of extremely concise code that inexplicably had a natural suppressing ability on the seemingly

powerful program.

The more complicated the attacker’s program was, the more vulnerable it was to this kind of extremely simple code.

The noisy crowd watched what she did. They then looked at the screen in front of her that had been cleaned up. Their doubting voices had stopped, replaced by soft exclamations of awe.

“This is a god-level kind of skill!”

The invincible foe in their eyes had been defeated by Nicole within five minutes and forced to enter defensive mode.

Warbler looked in amazement at what had happened. In Warbler’s perception, no female hacker in Hustuaburg could ever surpass her. But now, after seeing what Nicole did, she was sure that Nicole was multiple times better than she was.

‘Who is she, really?’

Preston was also stunned to see his sister’s badass skill. Like Zeke, he was close by and witnessed everything that Nicole had done.

He noticed that for each small code of the attacker, Nicole used different variants to deal with it, ensuring that the attacker was not given the opportunity to survive and continue to

replicate, suppressing the attacker’s powerful replication ability, and perfectly approaching the source of all the codes, which was the host machine of the attacker. ‘What a speed and responsiveness! Could it be that there is no master behind Nicole, and the real master is Nicole herself?’

Preston looked at his sister with his mouth agape. But soon, he closed his mouth back, and his expression returned to normal. ‘What’s there to be surprised about?’ Preston thought. ‘She is my sister! If

she says she could move the earth, I would immediately find her a lever.’

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She is just a hacker, nothing to shout about.’

Zeke watched calmly as Nicole took care of everything. He looked at the people who were rooted to the spot and felt a sense of superiority.

He had already seen Nicole perform her skill multiple times and had long been used to it, so much so that he could now applaud with a straight face,

Zeke casually glanced at their expressions, curling his mouth with disdain.

‘Dumbo!

Edwin looked at Nicole; he had never intended to stop her when she arrived.

He and Nicole had known each other for a long time. When he first saw her, his gut feeling told him that this person had got something in her.

That was why he was so reckless, asking for her help for the first time.

He just did not expect that there was not another master behind her. Instead, she was the master

Edwin raised an eyebrow with interest with a deep appreciation in his eyes,

But the next second he looked at the screen in front of Nicole, his mouth twitching, and he was speechless.

He could not believe that this girl had hacked into the enemy’s computer, manipulating the enemy’s system, deleting everything-including the desktop icons-on it.

She did not even leave the Minesweeper for the other guy.

The group of hackers watched Nicole’s every move and was all quiet for a second.

Black Shark wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with embarrassment, “She-she is the boss?”

Zeke scratched his chin and smiled darkly as he looked at the few letters that Nicole subconsciously typed with her left hand.

On the other side, White looked angrily at the white screen on his computer, which had only a few small black Esperian letters blinking frantically in the lower right corner.

(JUSTSINGASONG.)

It looked like ridicule, and the tiny letters were spinning and jumping in their place. White cursed in Mecrounia’s most vulgar slang and then smashed the screen to the floor.

‘It’s Lucifer again! This bastard has ruined it all!’

Someone outside the house entered in a hurry as if hearing the noise here. The person looked at White’s angry face and frowned. “What happened?”

White paced back and forth in the room irritably, rapidly muttering a long string of Esperians.

The person who stormed in quickly summed it up in two words: missio

It had been 20 seconds since he came in. The signature on the screen that was exclusive to

Lucifer had gone, so he did not know what had happened. ‘But since the mission has failed, White will have to face Mr. Holder’s wrath.’

Thinking of this, the person bowed respectfully and said, “Mr. Holder wants to see you.”

Meanwhile, on the Preston side, everything was over in just three and a half minutes. Nicole slowly pulled back her hand and stepped down from the control panel, only to find everyone looking at her as if they saw a ghost. She looked at them in puzzlement. She had disguised her signature, and they could only see white on the screen; no way they could see the black text at the bottom.

 

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So why did this group of people look at her with strange eyes?’ Zeke came silently behind Nicole and whispered, “I-I accepted the job with my code name, Specter, thinking that it was just another firewall job. I didn’t know the opponent would turn out to be White.”

He was Specter and yet treated Nicole in this way, so the other people need not be rocket scientists to figure out who Nicole was

After Zeke and Nicole had exchanged intel, Black Shark cautiously stepped forward and asked Nicole, “Do you know Lucifer?”

They could not find a second person who could perform such a drastic and sophisticated skill in Hustuaburg

“No. I don’t know.” Nicole said with a straight face.

She ignored the hesitant eyes of those people and casually beckoned Zeke to leave.

Just then, a surly voice came from behind her.

“She couldn’t have been Lucifer. I’m now wondering if this boy is Specter.”

Warbler walked over slowly. Ignoring Black Shark’s disapproving look, she said contemptuously,

“They must have been sent by the other side. Otherwise, why destroy our firewall, and why do they know so well the attack methods of the other side? As far as I know, the attacker is skillful and brutal; it is impossible to defeat him so easily. I guess they must be the spies sent by the attacker, who is desperate to steal our information. So they were sent to distract us.”

Nicole had only taken three and a half minutes to defeat the attack, which had been stumping her for over half a month. So Warbler was jealous of Nicole.

Many of those who had heard what Warbler said started to look at Nicole suspiciously.

‘Yeah, everything seemed to have gone so smoothly-so much so that it feels unreal.’

With so many people agreeing with what she said, Warbler looked at Nicole provocatively. ‘I’m the best female hacker in Hustuaburg; no way this woman is better than me.’

Nicole stood there nonchalantly, looking at her with no emotion in her eyes.

Zeke frowned too, and he looked at Warbler with doubt, seriously suspicious that she had not even figured out what Nicole was doing in the last minute and a half.

The entire operating system of White’s computer had been deleted by Nicole, and she had even erected a new firewall. So it would take at least half a year before White could try to break through the firewall again.

And the deal would have long been over within half a year. The conspiracy that she was a spy sent by the enemy was pure rubbish.

“You’re a staff member here?” he asked casually.

Warbler exploded in an instant. She angrily pointed at Zeke and said coldly, “What do you

think? Of course, I am! I’ll tell you what, I’m the chief engineer of the company’s security program. You have destroyed my security project, and I’m going to make you pay—” Before her voice trailed off, Edwin suddenly spoke with a faint voice from behind her. “That’s enough.”

The real security program had long since crumbled, and the emergency system was bound to be defeated today. The attacker was cunning enough to design an illusion that its own firewall still existed. The attacker enjoyed the feeling of playing with the opponent as if he were an omnipotent god, setting up a huge fraud scheme for everyone to walk into it.

But in reality, the real emergency security program had been breached. The attacker had created an illusion that everything would only collapse after three days to distract them from the attack targets. If they continued to fall for the attacker’s “firewall,” they would discover the database had been emptied only when they were preparing to fight back. That would be three days later, the time the attacker would take down the “firewall.”

 

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In three days, the attacker could have stolen everything Edwin and his bunch had devoted so much effort to safeguard. When they finally lost all the valuable data to the attacker, those who were mentally weak would definitely suffer a mental breakdown the moment they discovered the truth: the” firewall” they had worked so hard to protect for days on end was actually a trap – identical to the original firewall — and they themselves might have even executed part of that “firewall” program.

In other words, Nicole had done them justice by wiping all data on the attacker’s hard drive.

Edwin could imagine how wretched the attacker must have felt for having to watch his data being wiped away. The emotional damage could be even worse than what Eric and his bunch would experience if they were to fall for the trap.

The reason Edwin and the bunch had not noticed the trap was simply that the attacker’s strategy was beyond their level.

After Edwin explained the situation briefly, he looked at Warbler, who showed mixed emotions on her face and let out a sigh.

There was a long pause of silence after everyone had learned the truth. Never had they expected that Zeke was not the one who had taken down their firewall. In fact, the attacker had long breached it and even built a fake clone.

While the employees stopped talking, Edwin walked to Nicole and Zeke and bowed to them.” Thank you!” he said sincerely.

Nicole’s tranquil gaze was calmer than ever as she looked at Edwin. She gave him a nod and prepared to leave without saying a word.

Zeke followed Nicole, planning to tag along.

In fact, the two were not bothered whether Edwin and the bunch were feeling in debt. After all, they were paid to do the job.

When Preston had finally recovered to his senses, he grabbed his car keys and clapped his hands.

“Everybody, the crisis has been resolved. I’m giving you three paid days off. Go home and rest

well.”

Only then was the rest of them roused from the daze. They were all feeling ashamed for doubting Nicole after listening to Edwin’s explanation.

“We’re so sorry. We doubted you after listening to Warbler. We weren’t in our right mind…”

Before he could finish his words, another person behind him poked him and said with a gloating mockery, “If I’m not mistaken, weren’t you the first who said you would resign?”

The man blushed to tears. He waved his hand, trying to explain. But he was an introverted hacker who seldom socialized. In the end, he could not squeeze a word after a long while.

When he was frustrated to the roof, Nicole’s tranquil voice came.

“It’s okay.” It was a reply to his apology.

That man was startled. His eyes looking at Nicole were full of gratitude.

The reply also stunned the rest of them for a moment as they did not expect Nicole to be easy to talk with.

‘We assumed that she must be hard to get along with because of her indifferent countenance. But now it seems that not only is she pretty, she

is way more affable than any of us could imagine.’ At the thought of this, everyone looked at Nicole with an earnest gaze. Well, everyone except for Warbler thought that. She was glaring at Nicole’s back.

Edwin’s explanation was like a slap in Warbler’s face. As the chief firewall engineer, not only had she failed to notice the system she oversaw had been replaced with a clone, but she had also tried to fix and restructure that fake firewall system with all her might. She felt herself utterly stupid. ‘Everyone, including the attacker, must be thinking I’m the most foolish and useless of all,’ thought Warbler while gritting her teeth in resentment.

She had never suffered such a defeat and made such a grave mistake in her profession!

Although Edwin did not blame her, she could faintly notice a faint disappointment in his eyes. Warbler dug her nails into her palm without noticing. ‘If this b*tch hadn’t seen through the attacker’s tricks, I would’ve remained the most competent female hacker in this company, and Edwin wouldn’t have treated me this way. And most importantly, this pretentious b*tch wouldn’t have become the center of attention!’

‘Even if we had failed our mission, I would’ve had the means to whitewash everything. But this b*tch has put me in a tight spot!’ She stared resentfully at Nicole with naked venom in her eyes.