Chapter 102 Hacked

Zhou Jiu didn't quite understand why it was customary to put alcohol on the dinner table. This was the case on Ancient Blue Star, and it was the same on other stars.

"Come on, Jiu, let's celebrate your release with a toast." Saiwei was clearly a bit drunk.

Zhou Jiu picked up the water on the table, clinked glasses with Saiwei, and then looked at Qiao Shiyi, who was giving him a subtle wink, and said, "Saiwei, that's all for today. Thank you for welcoming me. It's getting late, and there are still people waiting for me, so I'll be going now."

"Drink, drink for a long time, if you don't drink, you're not a brother."

She wasn't one of the Savy brothers; she was a woman.

"Zhou Jiu, since you haven't had a drink, see Qiao Shi off. I'll take Saiwei home." Qiu said to Zhou Jiu and Qiao Shiyi, with his arm around the slightly drunk Saiwei.

Zhou Jiu gave a "good" gesture and pulled the pretending-drunk Qiao Shiyi out the door.

Sitting in Qiao Shiyi's private aircraft, Zhou Jiu switched to manual control mode and took the pilot's seat.

"Still pretending to be drunk? Qiao Shiyi, have you changed your ways? Don't you like drinking anymore?" Zhou Jiu activated the flying vehicle. "Come on, let's go for a drive."

"I like drinking, but I don't like drinking with my boss. You wouldn't understand the pain of being a working person even if I told you."

"How could I not understand? I used to be a worker, okay? Our first batch of equipment was earned by my own money." Zhou Jiu proudly recounted his past.

"Are you talking about that time you tried to fool someone with your ghost story and got beaten up?"

"However, there's no boss there, and your fortune-telling thing is different from the usual client-vendor relationship. Anyway, I feel like I'll never have the chance to experience my kind of miserable working life." Qiao Shiyi

"I…"

"The aircraft has been hacked and is now in automatic mode. Eleven, what is your aircraft key? I'm disconnecting the smart terminal."

"Qiao Shiyi quickly spoke of the aircraft key."

"What happened?" Qiao Shiyi asked.

The vehicle's displays were all normal, and Zhou Jiu manually drove on the road again.

"Someone hacked in. Luckily, I had manual settings enabled, otherwise we wouldn't have noticed immediately, and we wouldn't have known where we were. Tell me, is it really that dangerous for you to be a celebrity?"

"My car has a safety rating of B, which is the highest level of safety features for public vehicles. I don't usually drive this car; I only drove it today to pick you up, knowing you'd like to operate it yourself since you just got out. I feel like this tactic might not be aimed at me..."

"I just came out, I haven't offended anyone, have I?" Zhou Jiu had just said this when her personal terminal started beeping.

A video started automatically, and the other side of the screen was completely black, with only two black figures visible.

"Fine, forget about it, trouble's here." Zhou Jiu pouted. What had she done to deserve this? She'd just come out and really didn't want to go back in.

"Zhou Jiu, did you ever expect to fall into our hands today?" came the voice from the voice changer.

Zhou Jiu stared straight ahead, flying through the air, and asked, "Eleven, have we fallen into their hands? When? How come I didn't know?"

"I don't know either." Qiao Shiyi spread her hands in agreement, and greeted the video player, "Hey, friends on the other end, who are you? Why don't you even show your face?"

Zhou Jiu chuckled lightly, "What's the point of talking to them? They're just cowards."

"Zhou Jiu, we..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Jiu waved to the screen, "Bye-bye."

The screen is distorted, and the network connection is completely lost.

Why don't you listen to what they have to say?

"There's nothing nice to say. Anyway, people who get in through these means aren't exactly good people." Zhou Jiu curled his lip.

"Okay, but what did you do just now? You shut down the app that someone else had hacked."

"I created a small magnetic field..."

Beep beep beep, the computer automatically started a video call again, interrupting Zhou Jiu's words.

"Huh? These people are still haunting us?" Qiao Shiyi looked at his personal terminal, which was suddenly turned on.

“It’s Lin Xiu and Sun You.” Even though the two were in the shadows, Zhou Jiu recognized them at a glance.

"Qiao Shiyi, you don't even recognize me?" Lin Xiu held up a lamp and shone it on his face.

"Hey, move it further away, it looks like a ghost."

"Hehe, isn't this just to show you the two of us? Even I don't recognize you. Where's Zhou Jiu? Why can't I get through to the personal terminal? I couldn't even hack into it. Has she upgraded the security level again?"

"Hey, I'm driving. Two people just came and hacked the aircraft, and then they hacked her personal computer. It's the same thing you two did, hacking my personal computer. And the video feed looks pretty much the same as what you two are doing right now. But where are you two? It's so dark."

"I just finished a mission and haven't gone back yet. I was planning to pick up Zhou Jiu, but I didn't expect I would have to wrap things up at the last minute."

"This doesn't seem to be the military region number of the First Military Region, does it?" Zhou Jiu had just seen the number on the clothes when Lin Xiu turned on the light.

"Hey, you have sharp eyes. You didn't know, did you? We're currently in the Fourth Army, commonly known as the Blue Star Army, mainly stationed on New Blue Star."

"Wait...you two graduated? And how did you end up in the Fourth Army after graduating from the First Military Academy of the Central Military Academy?"

"It's a long story. There were policy changes and some pushes, and that's how it is. I'll tell you more when we meet later," Sun You interjected.

Okay, after hearing Sun You speak, Zhou Jiu suddenly understood what Sun You meant by "driving forward". "Not bad, I underestimated you."

A smile appeared in Sun You's eyes: "You are putting in the effort, and so am I. When Ancient Blue Star returns, it will also have its own armed forces."

"We can discuss these matters when we meet. Even if we have the foundation, the time allotted for a temporary compliance team is too short, and there's still some internal instability, so it's not convenient."

“Okay, let’s talk when we meet,” Zhou Jiu said, then asked Qiao Shiyi, “Which way?”

All the automated networked intelligent systems were turned off, and at the fork in the road, Zhou Jiu didn't know which way to go.

"Huh? Oh, the right side." Qiao Shiyi slowly realized what Zhou Jiu meant when he asked.

"By the way, you just mentioned that someone hacked into your system. Do you know who they are? Hacking into the spacecraft, where are they taking you?"

"I don't know. It was hidden in the shadows, without revealing any flaws in its location, and the sound was also specially processed." Zhou Jiu said, his mind automatically replaying the scene from just now, and his eyes having observed every corner of the video.

“This vehicle model has a safety level of B, and your personal combat ability is not weak. Coming prepared may indicate that you are organizing a team to commit the crime. Have you offended anyone?” Sun You saw the decorations inside the aircraft and judged the safety level of the vehicle model.

"I don't know, I just came out," Zhou Jiu said, suddenly noticing the unusual color of Sun You in the dim light under the dark conditions.

"Is there a problem on your end?" Zhou Jiu understood Sun You's expression.

"We'll meet up with my dad in his lab when we get back the day after tomorrow. I'll hang up now."