Executives nodded one after another, some lowering their heads in feigned remorse, as if reflecting on their shortcomings.
“We are an internet company, we must lead civilized trends. If even our employees operating the software are spewing profanity, how can we advocate for users to refrain from it? Don’t you agree?” Zhao Chengye said with a smile. “If people want to succeed, they must present themselves in a proper manner…”
The secretary suddenly pushed open the door, looking flustered, and rushed to Zhao Chengye’s side with her phone, showing him the screen.
Zhao Chengye stared at the screen for a few seconds, his smile instantly freezing.
Immediately after, his entire face contorted, his pupils contracted, and his expression was a mixture of fear and anger, as if he had seen some unbelievable news!
Two seconds later, he couldn’t hold back. Blood rushed to his head, he slammed the table, and cursed loudly, his voice shaking the roof.
“Son of a bitch! XXX, you scammer, you’re looking for death! You actually scammed my software! Is your mother a wholesaler? Who the hell wouldn’t you scam? You had to go and scam…”
The secretary shook her head in panic, signaling to Zhao Chengye.
Zhao Chengye immediately stopped speaking, but the anger and fear on his face were still unconcealable. He gritted his teeth, as if he could devour someone.
He looked at the stunned executives in the conference room and waved his hand impatiently, “Meeting adjourned! I have urgent matters to attend to!”
The executives, who were already taken aback by their boss’s outburst, quickly got up and left upon hearing the adjournment order, clearing the conference room in a hurry.
The elevators in the hallway were just opening, and the executives squeezed into them like a school of fish.
As soon as the elevator doors closed, whispers erupted from within.
“This is the first time I’ve seen the boss use so much profanity. What happened?”
“Did someone scam the boss? Wasn’t he just cursing at a scammer?”
“Doesn’t seem like it. You know our boss, he’s always the one scamming others, not the other way around.”
“That’s absurd, the boss seemed quite scared?”
“Could it be that some big shot encountered a scammer using our software and took it out on our boss? They’ve been blocking a lot of scam accounts recently, haven’t they?”
“Hey! You know what, you might actually be right!”
These executives, who usually appeared solemn and dignified as business magnates in front of the media and the public, were now crammed into the elevator, their faces full of gossip, chattering like curious babies. After all, their boss’s loss of composure was too severe to not be curious.
Suddenly, an executive in the corner raised his phone. “Hey, hey, hey! The boss sent me a message, I’ll know what’s going on soon!”
Everyone turned their heads, looking at the executive expectantly.
But the next second, the executive stared at his phone screen, his expression also contorted, a mixture of terror and anger, and he started cursing!
“Son of a bitch! Is this scammer cursed? This is going to kill me! You could have scammed my own father, but why did you have to provoke…”
The cursing suddenly stopped. The executive jolted, abruptly shut his mouth, forced an awkward smile at those around him, and then rushed to the elevator buttons, pressing them several times.
The elevator stopped, opened, and he scrambled out, sprinting down the hallway.
The other executives in the elevator looked at each other, their expressions bewildered and suspicious.
The boss has gone mad, and a colleague has followed suit?
“I have a feeling… it’s better if we don’t know about this,” a female executive said faintly. “It seems to touch upon something that cannot be mentioned.”
A moment of silence.
“Huh? What are you talking about?” someone next to her asked. “I fell asleep during the meeting just now, I don’t know what happened?”
“I fell asleep too, I don’t know anything.”
“Yeah, yeah, I don’t know.”
“I was even dozing off in the elevator just now!”
As the elevator doors opened, the executives filed out, dispersing with unspoken understanding.
…
Biron Star, Green Sea City.
A disheveled man sat in front of a computer desk, a cigarette in his mouth, his fingers flying across the keyboard.
On the computer screen, six chat windows were open simultaneously.
The man’s account name was “Miss Sister,” and his avatar was a picture of a beautiful woman.
“Damn it, why isn’t anyone falling for it anymore? Is my scamming skill too low?” the man grumbled, smashing the keyboard.
Suddenly, the six chat windows on the screen closed neatly.
The man was startled, thinking it was a problem with his keyboard smashing. He quickly lifted his hand, then grabbed the mouse, trying to open the chat box he was just in.
However, the mouse was no longer responding.
The mouse on the screen seemed to come alive, moving agilely and clicking on the homepage.
“Hey, what the hell is going on?” the man grumbled, smashing the mouse.
A series of warning sounds rang out. A warning popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen, a red box from the antivirus software: “Wall-breaching attack detected!”
The man was stunned, his expression instantly turning panicked. “Holy crap, did I get a virus?”
The man was a bit flustered, moving the mouse and typing on the keyboard, trying to do something. But the mouse and keyboard were as good as dead; no matter how he typed or clicked, there was no response.
At the same time, the mouse on the screen unhurriedly moved to the antivirus software on the desktop, directly clicking uninstall, then confirming.
The warning sounds instantly disappeared, and the red box from the antivirus software was gone.
A prompt for successful uninstallation of the antivirus software popped up, and the mouse gently clicked confirm.
The man stared in disbelief. “Damn it, I paid a hundred yuan a month for this membership, and you’re gone just like that!”
The mouse continued to move, clicking on the man’s “Wisteria Tree Hole” homepage, opening the blacklist function, and removing an account named “Jiang Shui” from the blacklist.
Immediately after, a message popped up.
Jiang Shui: “Your location is Maxim Hotel, Room 405, East Sixth Avenue, Green Sea City, Biron Star.”
With a loud bang, the man’s chair flipped over. He was so scared he almost twitched.
“Holy crap! Damn it! Holy crap!” the man screamed, feeling enveloped by an immense, unknown power.
He scrambled up and furiously smashed the keyboard. This time, it responded. He quickly typed.
Miss Sister: “Who are you! What do you want! Are you a hacker! How do you know my location!”
Jiang Shui: “The ID card you used to check into this hotel room shows your name as Benjin York, age 28. However, this ID card is fake, a forged document, so you are likely an illegal immigrant.”
The man became even more terrified. He stared at the words on the screen, feeling a chill run down his spine.
He couldn’t even curse anymore. His mind was gripped by deep fear, and he had temporarily lost the ability to think, only able to stare blankly as the other party continued to send messages.
Jiang Shui: “This makes things easier. Illegal immigrants have no identity, and no one will know if they die. You think you’re safe by cursing at people through a computer screen? I spoke to you politely, and you insulted me. Do you know who I am?”
Jiang Shui: “You won’t get to know, because you are about to die. The person killing you is on their way up, and they’ve already entered the first-floor elevator!”
Jiang Shui: “Second floor!”
Jiang Shui: “Third floor!”
Jiang Shui: “Fourth floor!”
Jiang Shui: “They are heading to your room, are you ready to die?”
With a thunderous crash, the room door was kicked open. The man screamed hysterically, jumped up violently, and fell to the floor, losing consciousness.