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The next day, Ye Ling was once again woken up bright and early by that little imp, Luo Yue.

"Master, Master~ Wake up! It’s time to teach me the counter-hacking code!"

Luo Yue tugged on Ye Ling’s arm, pouting.

Ye Ling glanced at his phone. It was only five o’clock. His face was a mask of exasperation.

"I mean, come on, missy, we didn’t go to bed until one in the morning. We’ve gotten less than four hours of sleep. Can’t you give me a break?"

Ye Ling was utterly defeated by Luo Yue.

The girl usually seemed lazy and a bit silly, but she was surprisingly dedicated to this coding stuff. No, ’dedicated’ wasn’t the right word. It was more like a devilish obsession.

"Well, I just couldn’t sleep anymore..."

Luo Yue said, sticking out her tongue playfully.

The truth was, she had gone to bed so late that she woke up extremely early. She couldn’t quite explain why it happened.

In short, she felt a little tired and wanted to sleep, but her mind was wide awake, and sleep wouldn’t come.

Besides, Ye Ling had only taught her the firewall code yesterday and hadn’t gotten around to the offensive counter-hacking code. The anticipation was itching at her, making it even harder to sleep.

"Alright, alright, I’m getting up."

After all that commotion, Ye Ling knew he wouldn’t be getting any more sleep, so he had no choice but to crawl out of bed.

In the past, he would have definitely been exhausted after only four hours of sleep. But his constitution was on a completely different level now. Even with just four hours, he still felt full of energy.

So, Ye Ling spent the entire morning teaching the offensive counter-hacking code to the girl. This set of code was undoubtedly more complex, so it took her longer to learn, but in the end, she had more or less gotten the hang of it.

"Hey, Master, Master! Your defense system is sending out a warning!"

Suddenly, Luo Yue noticed something and immediately pointed to a laptop beside them.

That laptop... was Ning Ruoxi’s!

"Hm?"

Hearing this, Ye Ling’s senses snapped to attention, his eyes instantly locking onto Ning Ruoxi’s laptop.

The laptop’s screen suddenly flashed blue, followed by countless lines of red code and streams of gibberish characters.

This gibberish was clearly a Trojan virus. If the system were breached, there was no doubt that all the data on this machine would be leaked!

’An attack of this level doesn’t look like something a single person could pull off.’

Ye Ling stared intently at the screen, a cold glint in his eyes.

This proved one thing: the attack on Ning Ruoxi’s laptop wasn’t the work of one person, but a whole group.

"Master, you’re a real prophet... It’s a good thing you reinforced Sister Ruoruo’s system defenses yesterday, or this would have been a total disaster!"

Luo Yue couldn’t help but exclaim from the side.

The jumbled characters flashed for a moment before stopping. Green code quickly scrolled across the screen, and soon, it returned to its normal state.

Clearly, this wave of the invasion had failed!

Ye Ling wasn’t surprised by this. The defense system he had designed was top-tier; even he had a hard time finding any loopholes in it!

Plus, with the many hidden code segments he’d included, Ye Ling believed no one in the world could break through this defense—at least, not right now!

’After all, computer technology develops rapidly, and new Trojan viruses pop up all the time. An invincible defense system today might not be so useful in the future.’

But for now, it had clearly succeeded in repelling the malicious external invasion!

"Silly Yueyue, didn’t you just learn the counter-hacking code? Now’s the perfect time for some hands-on practice, don’t you think?"

Ye Ling looked over at Luo Yue and said with a smile.

He really did want to see just how much the girl had managed to grasp.

"You got it!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Yue’s eyes filled with motivation, and she immediately sprang into action.

Her typing speed was also very fast. While not quite on Ye Ling’s godlike level, it was still dizzying to watch.

Ye Ling had already explained the contents and details of the counter-hacking code to her, so she had improved tremendously compared to before.

「At the same time.」

In a somewhat dim room, three to five men sat in front of a table lined with laptops, all displaying countless lines of green code scrolling by.

"Shit! Dammit! We actually failed! How is this possible!"

A blond foreign man slammed his fist on the keyboard, his eyes filled with fury.

His expression was one of utter disbelief.

His name was Johnsen, and he was one of the world’s top-tier hackers.

Recently, the comic ’Lingxi’s Love’ had blown up online, and its fame was even beginning to spread overseas!

Seeing how popular it was, Johnsen got a wicked idea. He gathered some of the top hackers he knew and broke into the Shengding Group’s wireless network to find Ning Ruoxi’s IP address.

Then, he planned to hack into Ning Ruoxi’s laptop to get the manuscript for the second volume of Lingxi’s Love!

He had originally thought that as long as he could get into the Shengding Group’s wireless network and find Ning Ruoxi’s IP, the rest would be a sure thing.

But he never would have imagined that after all his previous steps succeeded, he would fall short at the very last hurdle: hacking into Ning Ruoxi’s system!

This comic artist’s system firewall was actually comparable to the firewalls of the Big Four banks!

"Johnsen, stop spacing out! Something’s happened!"

Just then, his partner next to him suddenly yelled.

"What’s going on?"

Johnsen’s gaze returned to the screen.

And then—all the laptop screens in front of them turned blue in an instant! 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Countless red warning symbols flashed across them, and the laptops even began to vibrate wildly!

"Dammit, how could this happen!?"

Johnsen said in extremely broken Chinese. He frantically hammered at the keyboard, but the red warning symbols just kept multiplying!

This process lasted for only half a minute. After that, their computers suddenly rebooted and returned to normal.

"Dammit, all the important files are gone!"

Johnsen immediately opened a few folders, his face contorting in rage.

He was now realizing what had just happened...

Their computers had been counter-hacked!

"Why does this counter-hacking code look so familiar?"

A middle-aged man with glasses frowned and said in a grave voice.

"Li, have you seen this code before?"

Johnsen immediately looked over at the middle-aged man.