It was a golden fire emblem.
Yu He froze for a moment, murmuring, "Vulcan?"
While she was stunned, a red alert popped up on the computer screen: the firewall had been breached.
Yu He snapped back to reality, glanced at the code notification, immediately pulled out the USB drive, and then quickly packed up her computer. She left a hundred yuan on the desk and walked away.
In Xing Que, at Tian Yi Pavilion.
Qin Beiting located the opponent's position and quickly skimmed through the files on their computer. Just as he was about to copy them, all the windows on the screen suddenly turned gray.
The opponent had gone offline.
"The coffee shop next door," he told Bei Ming.
Bei Ming immediately took his men to the coffee shop, but as expected, they found no suspicious individuals.
As Bei Ming reported the situation to Qin Beiting over the phone, he was about to ask the store manager to check the surveillance footage when Qin Beiting's voice came through the receiver.
"No need to check. It's already been tampered with."
Not only had the coffee shop's surveillance been tampered with, but even the street cameras that could see the coffee shop had been manipulated beforehand, with their cameras turned off.
Qin Beiting's long, slender fingers tapped rhythmically on the desktop, a smile playing on his lips. His sharp, phoenix-like eyes glinted with suppressed excitement.
He had just successfully infiltrated Raven's computer, but the opponent was clearly prepared; there was no data on the computer.
This was getting more and more interesting.
To repeatedly provoke and test him so brazenly, they shouldn't be caught so easily, or it wouldn't be much fun.
On the other side.
Yu He sat in the back seat of the taxi, her gaze seemingly calm, but her mind was replaying the fire emblem she had just seen and the discussions on the hacker forum about another person who had infiltrated a satellite.
Was that person Vulcan?
Was the Lord of Xing Que Palace Vulcan?
Was Qin Meimei's death also related to him?
No wonder she couldn't beat him twice; he was a king on par with her master.
Just then, her phone screen lit up with a WeChat message.
Yu He came back to her senses, clicked on the message, and was somewhat surprised. It was from her master, S.
S: "Stop investigating Qin family matters."
Yu He's thick, long eyelashes fluttered slightly. The simple sentence sent a chill down her spine.
How did her master know?
Had he been monitoring her all along?
Raven: "Why?"
S: "It's not something you should interfere with."
"How is it not something I should interfere with? My adoptive mother died back then..."
Yu He typed these words but deleted them before sending.
It was her master who had sent her Qin Meimei's information when the clues had run dry.
Now that she had investigated so far and was close to knowing the mastermind, and yet he told her to stop, how could she be content?
Yu He typed and deleted, and finally, there was nothing in the input box.
The other party seemed completely unfazed by her complex emotions and sent another message.
S: "You violated the rules. You are suspended for half a year."
Yu He's typing motion paused. Her gaze flickered as she looked at the words on the screen, knowing he was referring to her hacking into the US satellite and being wanted.
Punishment might be delayed, but it would never be absent.
Yu He felt a lot of unwillingness, but the other party was her master, whom she had known for eight years. Although they had never met, without her master, she wouldn't be who she was today.
Unwillingly, she replied: "Yes."
S: "Good girl."
Yu He: "..."
She returned to the message list and found "A Pig."
Raven: "Help me apply for a new account on the hacker network."
A Pig: "?? What do you need a new account for?"
Raven: "To practice with a secondary account."
A Pig: "Why are you suddenly practicing with a secondary account?"
Practicing with secondary accounts was common; many people on the leaderboards had them, but Yu He had always disdained it, dedicating herself to making "Raven" the number one account on the domestic hacker network, showing great loyalty.
Raven: "My main account was blocked by my master."
A Pig: "Good riddance!"
A Pig: "Now only the venerable God S can control you."
A Pig: "Whispering: Don't think I don't know you've gone online several times behind my back."
Raven: "..."
Raven: "Can't you comfort me?"
A Pig: "God S is doing this for your own good. Look, he hasn't severed your master-disciple relationship, just suspended your account."
A Pig: "Otherwise, with your behavior, you'll be caught sooner or later."
A Pig: "You don't know how I feel every time I see you. It's like looking at a hundred thousand US dollars, constantly struggling, thinking, why let others earn this money when I could earn it myself?"
Raven: "Goodbye, see you on the message in a bottle."
A Pig: "T_T, I was wrong."
A Pig: "Don't be too sad. A new movie from Southern Europe is coming out on Lunar New Year's Day. I'll book a special screening for you. You and your Master Qin can go on a date to lift your spirits."
Yu He: "..."
Qin Beiting had returned to the capital for the New Year. Instead of being comforted, she felt even more disheartened.
The taxi stopped at the entrance of the Ye family's mansion. Yu He paid the fare and got out.
Cheng Lizhu was chatting with Old Madam Ye in the living room. Seeing Yu He enter with a worried look, she couldn't help but ask with concern, "Hehe, are you alright?"
"I'm fine. I'm a bit tired. I'm going up for a nap. Don't disturb me." After saying that, Yu He went upstairs.
Cheng Lizhu and Old Madam Ye exchanged glances.
"Hehe, did she have another fight with Master Qin?" Cheng Lizhu muttered to herself.
The last time she had a disagreement with Master Qin, she was like this, but her expression wasn't this somber.
She suddenly thought of something and looked at Old Madam Ye, "Mom, did Hehe and Master Qin break up?!"
"Don't panic, let's figure out the situation first," Old Madam Ye said with a look of exasperation, "If there's really a problem, then..."
Old Madam Ye whispered something in Cheng Lizhu's ear. Cheng Lizhu gasped, "This... isn't this inappropriate?"
Old Madam Ye glanced at her, "Stop the nonsense. Just listen to my arrangements when the time comes."
Upstairs.
Yu He returned to her room. Little Fragrant Pig immediately jumped down from the bed and rubbed against her leg. After rubbing, it stood by the door, looking up as if waiting for someone.
Seeing it like this, Yu He felt a pang of sadness.
She closed the bedroom door, took off her coat, and hung it on the hanger. "Stop looking. Your dad isn't here."
Little Fragrant Pig grunted a couple of times, seemingly expressing its dissatisfaction.
Yu He threw herself onto the bed, also wanting to express her dissatisfaction.
Just then, her phone rang.
She fumbled for her phone and glanced at it. The caller ID showed Qin Beiting.
She answered the call with a distracted "Hello."
"Baby, I miss you," the man's magnetic voice came from the receiver.
Whether it was the man's soothing voice or the words, Yu He's low mood lifted slightly.
"Mmm," she replied faintly.
Qin Beiting on the other end of the line sensed something was off. "You don't sound very happy. What's wrong?"
"I miss you," Yu He said.
Qin Beiting's breath hitched. "Say that again, I'll record it."
Yu He: "..."