mtl008 Chapter 122 The Company is Hacked
Chapter 122 The Company is Hacked
Qin Reng ignored her and turned to walk towards the conference room. Yu Yuetong was stunned for a moment, looking at the tall and slender figure in front of her, a complex emotion flashing through her heart. It was a kind of charisma in Qin Reng that she had never felt before when reading books—unfathomable, yet admirable.
Just then, a piercing alarm sounded from the company's main server, and everyone looked up at the same time, their expressions becoming even more serious.
Just as the piercing buzzing of the company's main server had not completely subsided, the technical director rushed in from the server room, his face etched with an unspeakable embarrassment and anxiety. Wiping the sweat from his brow, he reported in a trembling voice, "President Qin, the main server just suffered an extremely complex attack. All the layers of firewalls we set up have been breached, and the system can't hold out for much longer!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Yuetong internally screamed "It's all over!" She used all her acting skills to force a calm and aloof demeanor, lowering her voice to feign composure as she asked, "Then... what do we do?!"
Qin Reng swept a cold gaze over, devoid of any warmth, "Calm down, like a Qin Group president."
"Stay calm is your job! I'm the spokesperson for the working class at the bottom of society. You really shouldn't expect me to be good at this kind of thing." Yu Yuetong replied through gritted teeth. His indifferent attitude made her inexplicably irritated.
“If you have time to complain, you should learn a few more technical terms!” he retorted without holding back, then turned to the technical director, “Can you pinpoint the source of the attack? Be quick, don’t waste my time.”
The technical director shuddered under his gaze and stammered, "For now... we can still pinpoint the region, but the specific IP address will require further decryption..."
"Useless." Qin Reng interrupted coldly, his tone so icy it could freeze the air. "One hour, lock the IP address, or pack your bags and get out."
The moment this oppressive aura was unleashed, everyone around fell silent, and the air was filled with the despair of a “prepared army of corporate slaves ready to resign.”
Yu Yuetong sneaked up to Qin Reng and nudged his waist with her elbow. "Hey, is it really necessary? You scared these people so much they're almost crying."
"If you cry again, will you add half a server for me?" Qin Reng glanced down at her, expressionless. "Since you've borrowed my identity, you should understand that this position doesn't need comfort, it only needs results."
"Tsk, those evil capitalists..." Yu Yuetong rolled her eyes in anger, but before she could say anything more, the director's urgent shout, trembling slightly, interrupted their quiet argument.
"President Qin, we've made a new discovery!"
The two turned their heads at the same time and saw a search circle that was expanding on his screen, with the center of the circle resting in a somewhat familiar location.
"This is..." Qin Reng narrowed his eyes and tapped the conference table with his long, slender fingers, "The Jiangnan villa district?"
Yu Yuetong stiffened, and unconsciously let out a dry laugh, "Uh, this name sounds familiar..."
"Sounds familiar?" His voice turned cold, like a knife. "It seems you care about Ji Momo quite a bit."
"Hey, hey, hey, what kind of nonsense is this?!" Yu Yuetong was exasperated. She could feel the subtle gazes from several pairs of eyes in the company directed at her. "Isn't the point that we're being targeted and blackmailed?!"
Qin Reng looked at her with a half-smile, his expression conveying a dangerous message. "Yes, the trouble Miss Ji has left for the company has never stopped since the debts started being paid off."
"No... wait!" Yu Yuetong raised her hands in surrender, about to retort, but suddenly stopped, as if realizing something. "Wait, she won't really go this far this time, will she?"
Qin Reng merely raised an eyebrow, and a few words slipped from his thin lips like ice cubes: "If you want to know the answer, come with me."
Yu Yuetong's eyes widened like saucers. "You...you're going to just charge straight there?!"
"Or should we wait until she blows this place up?" He glanced at her sideways, then turned to instruct his assistant, "Prepare the car. We'll leave in five minutes." Before Yue Tong could object, he strode towards the elevator, leaving her with the words, "If you don't want to be exposed, you'd better come along."
Yu Yuetong took a deep breath, her mind automatically playing various disaster movie theme songs. She knew that every time Qin Reng used this resolute tone to suppress her, her resistance would basically be futile.
But just as she took a step, the entire company's circuitry suddenly flickered, the office lights went out instantly, some computers on the desks even started sparking, and the alarm on the main server abruptly turned into a shrill, piercing wail.
"Beep—! Beep—! Beep—!"
Inside the office, after a brief two-second darkness, the alarm blared like a demon's shriek, and the remaining computer screens flickered with unsettling red light, as if mocking the incompetence of everyone present.
"Tsk!" Qin Reng cursed under his breath, then strode over to the main server and pointed at the few technical staff who were sweating profusely. "What are you all standing there for? Blinking your eyes?!"
"Mr. Qin... Mr. Qin, our backup power supply has also been... tampered with, and we are currently... repairing it..." an engineer stammered, his lips trembling so much they were practically shaking.
“If we keep repairing like this, you’ll all be ruined.” He glanced down at his watch, his gaze sharp as a blade, making it hard to breathe. “Restore all core data backups within fifteen minutes, or your year-end bonuses will be docked.”
Upon hearing this, the office erupted in a series of swallowing sounds, as if someone was about to faint. Yu Yuetong stood to the side, her expression as dramatic as a filtered meme.
"Hey, kid!" She forced a low voice and secretly gestured two "calm down" gestures to Qin Reng. "With your line of thinking, I'm afraid the situation won't be salvaged, and the employees will turn on you first."
He gave her a cold look, his eyes saying nothing but "Shut up."
Just as the two were exchanging cryptic remarks, a technician suddenly raised his head tremblingly and said, "President Qin, we... the location tracking has been lost. The hackers have launched a reverse attack... directly assaulting the company's cloud data storage database, and are suspected of attempting to implant a virus to wipe out information."
These few words instantly caused the air temperature to drop sharply, and some people even secretly wiped the cold sweat that had broken out on their foreheads.
"Implantation?" Qin Reng frowned, enunciating each word clearly. "Where is the process at?"
"Less than half, but very fast..."
He narrowed his eyes, his expression almost radiating danger. "We still don't know who did it, right?"
The technician lowered his head and nodded guiltily.
Yu Yuetong gasped; this script was going way too far. She felt that if things continued like this, she might not only expose her transmigrator identity, but also end up in the hospital for emergency treatment.
Qin Reng chuckled softly, casually tapping the table, the sound of his knuckles clicking echoing endlessly in the room. "It seems the Jiangnan villa district really is a wonderful place..."