Huo Bo thought for a moment and recalled his memory. He asked Jiang Chen, "Do you remember the time you were hit by a bicycle two days before the final exam of the second semester of your second year of junior high school?"
Jiang Chen nodded: "My hand was injured, and I didn't finish the Chinese composition during the exam."
"Oh! I remember it too!" Chen Xu slapped the table, "It was the semester when Jiang Zi saved a little boy who was in a car accident. At that time, I said he did a good deed and saved a life, but a few days later, he was hit by a bicycle. It was so tragic! I also remember that the teacher gave him 5 points for the composition before he finished it, but he still ranked first in the grade in the total score."
"That time." Huo Bo said, "The person who hit you was Sun Zhi."
"A week before the final exam, about the time you saved someone, I noticed someone was following us after school, but we never caught him. So the day before the final exam, I skipped the last class in the afternoon and waited at the school gate to see who was following you and what their purpose was. I ended up seeing the person who hit you on his bicycle."
Chen Xu asked, “The Sun Zhi who bumped into Jiang Chen that time?”
Huo Bo hummed and said, "It was also at that time that I realized that he was not following us, but Jiang Chen. However, at that time he only admitted that he hit Jiang Chen with his bicycle, but he did not admit that he had followed him before. When I caught him that day, he also argued that he followed Jiang Chen because he felt guilty and wanted to apologize to Jiang Chen."
"In the second year of junior high school..." Chen Xu frowned and pondered, "So Sun Zhi has been secretly watching Jiang Chen for a long time, but why? And Zhang Zhipeng said that Sun Zhi didn't want to go against Jiang Chen himself, but someone behind the scenes asked him to do so. Who is that person?"
Huo Bo: "Zhang Zhipeng? The one wearing glasses in your class?"
"He doesn't wear it now." Chen Xu said, "He probably had myopia surgery during the winter vacation and hasn't worn it this semester. But that's not the point. The point is, why did Sun Zhi, who was only in the first grade at that time, follow Jiang Chen, and why did he hit him then, and why did he attack Jiang Chen now? Damn, these questions make me feel terrified."
"What's so scary?"
"Isn't it scary?" Chen Xu lay on the table, made a ferocious expression, lowered his voice and slowed down his speech: "In a place we don't know, there has been a pair of eyes staring at us. It may have been three years or even longer. You don't know what he wants to do or what his purpose is, and you don't know what he will do in the future. Isn't this scary?"
Huo Bo raised an eyebrow: "Not scary."
"If this isn't scary, then what do you think is scary?"
"It's impossible for a person to monitor someone for no reason, nor would he attack someone for no reason." Huo Bo said calmly: "And it happened so long ago, which means there must be something behind it. As long as we know this inside story, this matter will not be scary anymore."
"It's terrifying even if we know the truth!" Shen Xu grabbed a cat and held it in his arms. The cat meowed and quickly ran away from his arms. He looked up at the cat climbing frame in disappointment, then shrank his neck and said, "Besides, we don't know why!"
Huo Bo turned and looked at Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen stroked the blue cat beside him without looking up.
Huo Bo sat up straight, knocked on the table and said, "Why did Sun Zhi cause trouble for you? Do you know?"
Jiang Chen lowered his eyes, and Shen Xu glanced at Huo Bo's expression. Just as he was about to ask more questions, he saw a boy in an apron holding a palm-sized kitten standing by the table.
Xu Chang handed the cat to Shen Xu: "This is a male."
Chen Xu was stunned, pointed at the tip of his nose, and said blankly: "Give it to me? But why give me a male."
Huo Bo also turned his head to look over. Xu Chang placed the cat in his palm and said calmly, "It's still young and doesn't pick people. I'll let you pet it for a while."
Chen Xu carefully took the kitten, held it in front of his eyes and looked at it without blinking, his whole face bursting with a different kind of brilliance, "Jiang Zi, Huo Bo, look, does it like me? It's licking my hand!"
Jiang Chen heaved a sigh of relief and smiled at Xu Chang. The young man nodded to him slightly and turned to leave.
Being interrupted like this, Shen Xu was completely immersed in the joy of petting the cat, while Huo Bo glanced at Jiang Chen when he smiled at Xu Chang, pursed his lips and did not mention the matter again.
…
After arriving home, Jiang Chen went straight into the room and turned on the computer.
The email showed that there was one unread message. He clicked it and saw only two words: Received.
After closing the email page, Jiang Chen opened the browser and entered an extremely complicated URL. He pressed the Enter key and the screen suddenly went black, then a freeze page appeared. He was not in a hurry, his fingers jumping on the keyboard. After a few seconds, the blue screen returned to white. After a few seconds of freezing, lines of code quickly appeared. Jiang Chen's fingers were faster than the code. After each line of code appeared, he would type a string of code below that line of code. After three or four pages of rapid sliding, the screen was black again, with only a pair of white wings flapping in the middle. After the wings trembled several times, an ordinary forum appeared on the screen.
Jiang Chen slid the mouse and browsed the pages quickly. Suddenly, a bell-shaped pattern flashed in the lower right corner. He moved the mouse down and clicked on the message.
【196: Brother, I've heard a lot about you. Can we be friends?】
Jiang Chen raised his finger slightly and was about to exit the conversation interface when he saw another message pop up.
【196: Don't close the dialog box. We are all friends in the same forum. I'm looking for you because I want to discuss a business deal with you.】
Jiang Chen paused and typed on the keyboard:
【D: What business? 】
【196: Holy shit! Master, you replied to me! Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. If the forum didn’t allow screenshots, I would definitely take a screenshot to show off and put it in my heirloom folder! This is my first time talking to Master Zi!】
Jiang Chen flexed his fingers, wanting to close this interface.
【196: Master, Master! Don't bother! I won't talk nonsense! I really want to discuss a business deal with you! 1 million, you take 70% and I take 30%, how about that?】
Before Jiang Chen could ask more, the other side had already started explaining:
【196: Actually, it's very simple. We just help a network company to strengthen and modify its firewall. But it's easy, but it's not easy either. I don't know if the company has offended someone. For three consecutive days, the server was attacked no less than ten times. Almost every time, it was attacked again just after it was built. The loss was heavy. So if we want to take this job, we can't do it in one go. There may be later maintenance to do, so the price is higher. 】
【D: Why are you looking for me? 】
【196: Because you are a hot topic recently. You registered for less than a month, and your code has gone from five digits to D. From the number-grabbing battle to the ranking battle, every game was exciting. Everyone is curious about who you are and why you came to our forum to play. I am curious too, so I came to talk to you. If you agree, I will make a profit. If you disagree, I will not lose anything.】
[196: The most important thing is, as long as 26 God accepts an order, I can still raise the price of this order.]
【D: I remember X specialized in firewalls. 】
【196: Yes, but Master X has set up a block, so ordinary people can't send private messages. No, I should say that all the Masters of Letters have blocked private messages from non-friends, so only you can contact him.】
【196: Besides, aren’t you ranked higher than God X?】
All registered users of this forum are named with letters or numbers. The first 26 people who registered are named with English letters, and the following people are ranked starting from 1. The later the person registers, the longer the number. However, there are exceptions, which is a feature of hacker forums, known as the Battle for Numbers.
As the name suggests, it is a competition between hackers represented by different numerical usernames. Often, the hacker with a larger username challenges the hacker with a smaller username. If the hacker with the larger username wins, he can seize the username of the hacker with the smaller username, and his name displayed on the forum will be replaced with the number of the hacker he successfully challenged.
In addition to the number-grabbing battle, there is also the ranking battle. The number-grabbing battle ranges from single-digit to five-digit numbers. As long as the username is a number, you can initiate a challenge. There is no limit on the size of the number. Even a hacker with the username 99999 can challenge a hacker with the username 1. The ranking battle is different. There are a total of 26 hackers with usernames with letters, and they are nicknamed "26 Gods" by everyone in the forum, so the ranking battle is also called the "ascension battle" or "godhood defense battle."
"Ascension War" refers to a challenge between hackers with digital usernames and hackers with alphabetic usernames. If a digital username wants to obtain an alphabetic username, it must start from Z, the last in the ranking. Only after defeating Z can it challenge the next one in the previous ranking. The "Godhood Defense War" is a battle between hackers with alphabetic usernames. If a hacker wants to keep his or her alphabetic ranking, he or she must withstand the challenge from the next one in the alphabet.
Therefore, everyone assumes that the ranking is equivalent to strength, from Z to A, the stronger the strength is, and the more difficult it is to challenge. This is indeed the case. In the ten years since the forum was founded, the ranking before K has hardly changed much. However, a newcomer who had just registered on the forum and had a five-digit username, saw his username increase from five digits to 1 and then from 1 to D within two weeks. It can be said that this has set off a wave of heated discussion.
【196: God D, can I ask you a question? 】
Jiang Chen was thinking about whether to take this deal, when he saw the words pop up on the screen and replied:
【D: What’s the problem?】
[196: Why don't you challenge God C? Why did you stop at D? We all thought you would directly challenge God A.]
【D: I like the letter D. 】
【196: ...I am convinced by this answer!】
Jiang Chen tapped the table with his fingers, pondered for a few seconds, and typed:
[D: Please send me the information about the business you mentioned. If there is no problem, I will take it.]
【196: Really??? !!!】
【D: Yes.】
After sending this message, Jiang Chen closed the dialog box and concentrated on completing the small program he designed.
On the other side, on a certain floor of the men's dormitory building of Yanda University.
Mo Xi expressed his shock and joy with three question marks and three exclamation marks, and forced himself to wait for the other party's answer. When he finally saw the word "hmm", he jumped up from his chair, dancing like a madman: "Fuck, fuck, fuck, I actually got a ride with the boss! It's a blessing from heaven! I can sit at home and three hundred thousand dollars falls from the sky! Fuck!"
His roommate took off his headphones and turned to ask him, "Did you go crazy writing the speech?"
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I think I’m crazy too hahahaha…” Mo Xi ran to his roommate’s desk, squatted down and grabbed his hand and said, “Third brother, pinch me, pinch me right now, let me see if I’m hallucinating.”
The roommate pinched his thigh hard, and a scream accompanied by laughter rang out, frightening the sleeping person so much that he jumped up.
"What the hell, are you yelling and screaming in the middle of the night?"
"It's like a pie falling from the sky, and you're not allowing me to scream!" Mo Xi jumped up and down in excitement, unable to stop for a moment.
My roommate on the bed covered himself with the quilt, yawned, and said sleepily, "You have to go back to Yan No. 1 Middle School to give a speech to outstanding graduates tomorrow. Save some energy. Don't stand on the flag-raising platform with a weak expression on your face, otherwise your juniors will think that all our Yan University students are like this. That will ruin our Yan University's century-old reputation."
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