Chapter 149 Hacker Tools
The heavy soundproof door of the chairman's office of Starlight Technology was tightly closed, completely isolating the noise from the outside world.
Yu Ling wasn't sitting in the large, luxurious chairman's chair. She was huddled in a humble assistant chair in the corner of the office, leaning slightly forward, the spare laptop with a cracked screen in front of her dimly lit.
On the screen, there was neither Star Shine’s financial report nor a plan awaiting approval.
Instead, the website's homepage featured an extremely childish design and quirky artwork—a warm yellow background covered in grinning cartoon fried eggs and a Shiba Inu holding a spatula. The website's logo featured a flamboyantly written calligraphy: "The Pancake Man Foundation—Let Love and Food Warm Every Corner."
The website's content was unremarkable, filled with staged press releases about various "charitable deeds" and inspirational speeches. But Yu Ling's gaze, like the most precise probe, was fixed on the inconspicuous URL suffix in the browser's address bar.
A top-level domain extension. Exclusively for nonprofit organizations. Registration requirements are extremely high, and the review process is rigorous. It's definitely not something you can just throw together a makeshift team and apply for.
A ridiculous foundation established by the "bankrupt pancake man" owns a top-level non-profit organization domain name?
The huge doubts were causing a huge wave in Ling's dead heart! All the fragments of "coincidence" in the past few days collided and pieced together crazily in her mind!
"Permanent property rights" houses falling from the sky!
The changing face of the "landlord" Wang Daqiang and the "interest warehouse"!
“Sugar Frosting Loan” with 0 interest rate!
Broken coffee cups worth "two hundred million"!
The "winning plan" appeared out of nowhere at the bidding meeting!
And... that blood-stained little bear Band-Aid that carries the scent of Zhao Chen!
Every time! Every time she hit rock bottom, in a state of disarray, there was always an invisible hand that accurately, gently, yet powerfully pulled her out! Using money, resources, and absurd excuses, they stuffed her back into the orbit called "Zhao Chen's Protection"!
"Noble person"? "Coincidence"?
Bullshit!
This is clearly a carefully designed and ubiquitous "Truman Show"!
And she, Yu Ling, is the poor heroine who is kept in the dark, monitored in all directions, and manipulated at will!
A huge rage and a sense of humiliation at being completely fooled surged through her chest like magma! It was even more unbearable than Gu Qianqian's viciousness! Because this time, the hand controlling her fate came from the man she had once given her heart to, but who had "run away"!
Zhao Chen!
What on earth do you want to do?!
Hiding in a Caribbean tax haven, playing with my life like a marionette, is that fun?!
"Hu..." Yu Ling took a deep breath, suppressing the roar that threatened to burst through her throat. Icy anger solidified in her eyes, transforming into a calmness bordering on paranoia.
She needs evidence.
Conclusive and irrefutable evidence that can expose the "Pancake Man" hiding behind the scenes!
Her fingers flew across the keyboard, opening a software with a black skull icon hidden deep in the hard drive. It was a half-baked hacking tool she had learned from a senior in the computer department out of curiosity during college, and she never thought she would really use it one day.
The software interface is pitch black, with a stream of green characters dancing on it.
Yu Ling's fingers trembled slightly due to nervousness and anger, but the commands she typed on the keyboard were extremely clear and decisive.
Step 1: Bypass the childish cartoon interface on the front end of the website and scan the server port directly.
Scan results: ...No response? The server is like a black hole, swallowing all detection signals!
Yu Ling's brows furrowed sharply! This level of security... far surpassed that of ordinary non-profit organizations! Even tighter than some large financial institutions!
Step 2: Try DNS resolution tracking.
Result: The IP address jumped like a ghost between several top data centers around the world, ultimately pointing to an anonymous server node in the Cayman Islands! Exactly the same destination as the one in Zhao Chen's screensaver photo!
Cayman Islands!
Tax haven!
Zhao Chen!
Yu Ling's heart felt like it was being gripped by an icy hand! She bit her lower lip, tasting blood. Her fingertips tapped the keyboard faster and harder!
Step 3: Brute force the website backend! (Extremely risky and likely to trigger alarms)
She entered possible username combinations for "Jianbing Man" and exhausted the passwords...
Fail! Fail! Fail!
The firewall is like a wall of sighs! Every failed attempt is accompanied by a glaring red alarm flashing on the software interface!
The immense frustration and anger of being mocked by an invisible force nearly made Yu Ling want to smash her computer! Was she really going to give up like this?!
No!
She stared at the grinning Shiba Inu logo on the screen! A crazy idea flashed through her mind like lightning!
She exited the brute force cracking program. Her fingers twitched like a twitch as she typed a very special, non-standard SQL injection statement on the keyboard! The core of the statement pointed to an extremely unpopular, almost forgotten database query vulnerability—
This was the backdoor that the hacker senior had drunkenly boasted about in the internal library system of a top university! He had once jokingly said that this vulnerability was like a brand, engraved with the Stanford emblem!
Yu Ling held her breath and pressed Enter!
The green characters on the screen scrolled madly! The red alarm of the firewall flashed madly! The software beeped shrilly!
Just when Ling thought she was about to trigger a devastating counterattack, or even be locked onto by the opponent—
The scrolling stopped!
An extremely simple, DOS-era, text-only backend interface suddenly appeared, like a ghost from time travel! No graphics, no buttons, only cold, scrolling lines... the operation log!
Yu Ling's heart instantly jumped into her throat! She stared at the screen intently!
Log records flow like water:
[System time: 202X-10-28 03:15:22 GMT-8] User: Chen_Zhao logged into the backend. IP: …
"[System Time: 202X-10-28 03:17:05 GMT-8] User: Chen_Zhao Operation: Modify the property status of "President's Wife's Freehold House." Note: Upgrade the security system (Level 7) and activate the 'Jianbing Man Guardian Protocol'."
"[System time: 202X-10-30 09:48:33 GMT-8] User: Chen_Zhao Action: Initiate 'Sugar Frosting Loan' approval process. Amount: 3600.00 yuan. Target account: Yu Ling. Status: Instant approval."
"[System Time: 202X-11-01 02:01:18 GMT-8] User: Chen_Zhao Operation: Calling the 'Winning Plan' Resource Library (Permission: S-Level). Associated Project: Xinghui Technology - Xinghai Strategy. Note: Remote Technical Support (Jianbing Man Protocol 007)."
…
One by one!
One after another!
The time, place, and operation content perfectly correspond to every "help from a noble person" and "coincidence" she has experienced!
Operator: Chen_Zhao!
Yu Ling's breathing suddenly stopped! The blood seemed to rush to her head instantly, and then it was completely drained away in the next second!
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