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"Okay. What’s the situation now?"

Ye Ling nodded, his gaze sweeping across the server room as he asked.

"The attacks on the company’s website haven’t let up. In fact, they’ve increased. But we’ve upgraded the system several times, so we shouldn’t have any major issues in the short term."

Zhang Zhi said.

"No major issues in the short term isn’t good enough. And it shouldn’t be ’we shouldn’t have,’ it should be a one-hundred-percent guarantee."

Ye Ling stated at once.

"Chairman Ye, the scale of the attacks Shengding Group is currently enduring is the largest malicious offensive against an internet company in Xia Country in recent years. Even the world’s top hackers wouldn’t dare guarantee one-hundred-percent security."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhi frowned. "Besides," he said with a hint of arrogance, "with my firewall protecting the system, I’m confident there won’t be any major issues."

’In his eyes, Ye Ling was just a handsome rich kid. For an ’outsider’ like him to be telling him what to do... it was no surprise that a high-level tech expert like himself felt a little resentful.’

Before Zhang Zhi could even finish speaking, a man sitting at a computer nearby shot to his feet.

"This is bad, Chief! The system is under attack from multiple vectors, and it’s crashed!"

"How is that possible!"

Zhang Zhi’s expression changed instantly. Forgetting the boast he’d just made to Ye Ling, he snapped, "Didn’t we just upgrade the system? How could it have crashed again!?"

"It’s true!"

The man insisted, his expression grave. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Seeing that the man wasn’t lying, Zhang Zhi hurried back to his own workstation. It only took a glance for him to confirm it: Shengding Group’s websites were all under attack!

And it wasn’t just one website. Dozens of sites had been hit simultaneously by a massive wave of attacks. Over ninety percent of the servers were down!

"Dammit!"

Even someone like Zhang Zhi looked grim as his fingers flew across the keyboard.

He hammered out line after line of code, but the system screen remained a sea of red alerts. Clearly, his efforts weren’t enough to restore the system immediately.

It was no use. The attack was too bizarre, and with so many sites hit at once, even a self-proclaimed computer expert like Zhang Zhi felt his blood run cold.

An attack of this magnitude couldn’t have been launched by one person. ’It must be the work of a team!’

Ye Ling walked up behind him, glanced at the screen for a moment, and then said, "Let me."

"Huh?"

Zhang Zhi was dumbfounded, not quite processing what Ye Ling had just said. Ye Ling didn’t waste any more words and simply pulled him away from the chair.

"Let me."

With that, Ye Ling sat down and began to type.

"You..."

Zhang Zhi was about to say something, but Zhu Yun, who was standing to the side, stopped him.

"Let Chairman Ye try."

’Although Zhu Yun had no idea what Ye Ling was planning, he was her boss. Since he’d made a move, her job was to support him completely.’

"Sister Yun, it’s the middle of the day! Every minute we waste could mean huge losses for the company..."

Zhang Zhi was growing anxious. ’Why is Sister Yun going along with this young rich kid’s reckless behavior?’

"That’s enough. Just watch for now."

Zhu Yun waved him off. Her intuition told her that Ye Ling wasn’t the type to show off for no reason.

Besides.

’Shengding belongs to Ye Ling now. What right did she have to stop him anyway?’

Seeing this, Zhang Zhi could only sigh and stand to the side, his eyes glued anxiously to the screen.

But then.

As he watched Ye Ling, watched him type line after line of code, his expression gradually shifted from anxiety and confusion to shock and utter astonishment.

The moment Ye Ling typed the last line of code and hit the Enter key.

DING!

In that instant, every computer in the server room returned to normal operation.

"Chief, the system is back up! We can access all the websites again!"

The same man from before called out, his voice filled with joyous surprise.

"How is that possible!?"

At that moment, Zhang Zhi’s jaw nearly hit the floor.

A system-wide crash of that magnitude... even for him, a fix would have taken at least half a day, and that’s with the help of his entire team.

’But Ye Ling... he’d solved the whole problem by himself in just a few moments?’

"Chairman Ye, is it... fixed now?"

Even Zhu Yun’s voice was strained.

’She didn’t know anything about computers, but she could tell from Zhang Zhi’s reaction that Ye Ling had just solved a massive problem.’

’A problem that even Zhang Zhi couldn’t have fixed so quickly!’

"No."

Ye Ling shook his head.

Hearing that, Zhu Yun breathed a sigh of relief. ’After all, if he had fixed it that easily, that would be just too scary.’

’This kid has money, he knows how to invest, he has vision, he’s handsome, and he’s a computer genius... Is he even human?’

But Ye Ling’s next words left her stunned all over again.

"The system is restored for now, but the websites could still crash. I’m going to strengthen the firewall."

As he spoke, Ye Ling’s fingers began flying across the keyboard again.

A system crash caused by an attack of this nature would have been genuinely difficult for Zhang Zhi and his team to handle. While the attack methods were unsophisticated, the sheer volume was overwhelming...

Shengding Group had dozens of websites, and with nearly all of them down, they would have had to be repaired and brought back online one by one.

The amount of time that would have taken goes without saying.

But in Ye Ling’s hands, it was a different story entirely. With his abilities, resolving this sort of mess was a trivial matter.

CLACK CLACK CLACK...

Ye Ling’s fingers flew across the keyboard as lines of green code scrolled down the screen.

Zhang Zhi, however, was watching with rapt attention. He no longer saw Ye Ling with the same attitude he’d had at the beginning...

Before, he might have shown Ye Ling respect, but it was only the deference of an employee toward the chairman.

But now, his respect was genuine. It was the reverence a junior holds for a master!

Ye Ling’s display of skill was nothing short of miraculous!

It was terrifying!