Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Le Zhengming was wearing an apron and cooking noodles in the kitchen. A pot of tomato and beef brisket soup was placed on the stove nearby, bubbling with hot bubbles.
He didn’t know why, but this scene made Zhuang Li’s eyes slightly warm. A long time ago, when he still longed for love and the warmth of family, he had imagined the same scene, but after waking up from the dream, those beautiful pictures disappeared, leaving only the cold reality.
Would this person also disappear?
He walked into the kitchen with his mobile phone, stood behind Le Zhengming, and poked the other person’s waist with his slender fingertips.
Le Zhengming looked back at him, with a helpless smile in his eyes: “Don’t worry, the water for cooking noodles hasn’t boiled yet.” He opened the refrigerator, took out a small piece of cake, and rubbed the little curly head: “Eat something first to cushion your stomach.”
When he retracted his hand, he twirled his fingertips, as if savoring the soft and fluffy touch.
Zhuang Li’s empty heart suddenly calmed down, and he poked Le Zhengming’s waist again before picking up the cake and taking a bite.
The conversations of the Gong family continued to come from his mobile phone, and the content was quite sensitive, involving many secrets in the military and political circles, as if they were not worried about being overheard at all.
Le Zhengming frowned and said, “There is no signal jammer installed in Gong Xuanqi’s study?” According to common sense, he should not be eavesdropped on so easily. His nickname in the political arena was “Thousand-year-old Fox”.
“Yes, but it is useless to me.” Zhuang Li explained while licking the cream on the cake: “The working principle of the jammer is to interfere with the signal of smart devices. When the signal becomes weak, the smart device cannot be used. If the surrounding signal is amplified to bring the smart device back online, the frequency blocker will lose its effectiveness.
“I used Trojans and vulnerabilities to relocate the Gong family’s router and gateway equipment, and changed the number and frequency of the wifi channel so that it could avoid the interfered frequency band and use another frequency band with good signals. Finally, the radio antennas of the base stations around the Gong family have also been upgraded by me, making their ability to send and receive information more than twice as strong as before.”
“In this way, even if the Gong family blocks all frequency bands, I can still monitor them. The network in this world has no secrets for me.”
Zhuang Li threw the cake paper into the trash can and walked to the sink to wash his hands.
In fact, not only this world, but he could reveal the truth of any world as long as he understood the scientific principles.
Le Zhengming was fascinated by what he heard. The water in the pot boiled for a while before he hurriedly threw the noodles in.
“You are a genius.” He praised sincerely.
Zhuang Li threw water drops on his face and suddenly asked an inexplicable question: “If you were to give me a nickname, what would you call me?”
Le Zhengming was stunned for a moment, and then his ears turned red.
“I won’t give you a nickname.” He clarified extremely seriously.
“Aren’t you going to say it?” Zhuang Li crossed his arms and looked at him with threatening eyes.
Le Zhengming only lasted for a second before surrendering: “I’ll probably call you Curly Hair. I don’t mean to make fun of you, I just think your hairstyle is cute, curly, bouncy, and soft.” The more he talked, the redder his ears became, but the expression on his face was more serious than when attending a military meeting.
Zhuang Li raised his eyebrows and frowned fiercely at first. When he saw the other person’s mouth tightening in fear, he then bent his eyes and smiled happily.
Once again, it was confirmed that Xuan Ming was Le Zhengming, and the emptiness and uneasiness in Zhuang Li’s heart finally disappeared completely. As long as the system was still there and received sufficient energy supply, he would re-encounter “Ming” every time he transmigrated.
That was great.
Zhuang Li stretched out his hand and twisted Le Zhengming’s arm, saying disgustedly: “The muscles are so hard, I’m going to call you big.”
His naughty, flirtatious behavior made Le Zhengming’s ears turn red again, and the heat tended to spread to his neck. Being so easily shy, he didn’t know how he got the name Iron-Blooded General.
In front of Zhuang Li, Le Zhengming was always easily influenced. He held the other person’s hand and said suppressedly: “Don’t make trouble, be careful of getting burned.”
Zhuang Li took advantage of the situation and scratched Le Zhengming’s palm again, and then he calmed down. If he continued, this person’s ears would really bleed, as they were already smoking red.
Le Zhengming kept rubbing the lightly scratched palm, feeling as if his heart had been scratched unexpectedly by a dog’s tail or a cat’s paw. It was itchy, panicked, chaotic… all kinds of emotions were like boiling water as they generally came up.
When he silently suppressed the throbbing in his heart, a section of conversation sounded from Zhuang Li’s mobile phone:
Gong Xuanqi: Le Zhengming has recruited Zhuang Li, will the hacking methods you deployed be discovered?
Zhu Jianrui: “Should, not.” He paused for a second where he shouldn’t have paused, which showed how much his self-confidence had suffered in the past twenty-four hours.
In the past, he would have said categorically – absolutely not!
Gong Xuanqi was a master of insight into people’s hearts and immediately ordered: “Check it now.”
“Okay uncle.”
There was the sound of a chair moving over there. It must be Zhu Jianrui sitting behind the desk and turning on the computer.
As a result, the small black window suspended on Zhuang Li’s mobile phone also showed a picture, and Zhu Jianrui’s enlarged head appeared. He lowered his head, typed on the keyboard quickly with both hands, and looked at the computer screen from time to time, with a serious expression and twinkling eyes. But he couldn’t hide his anxiety.
He temporarily turned off the signal jammer and tried to invade Le Zhengming’s private network. For him, this activity was as simple as playing a game.
However, today, he tried many methods but could not reenter the network. What was even more frightening was that none of the viruses and Trojans he installed responded. In other words, all his hidden tricks had been eliminated by the other party!
It was Zhuang Li! Apart from that man, Zhu Jianrui could not think of anyone else having this ability.
The anxiety hidden in his eyes soon spread to his face, and dense cold sweat broke out from his forehead, betraying his panic and fear.
He was defeated one after another in the areas he was best at, and his self-confidence was severely damaged again.
Gong Xuanqi saw the problem on his face, so he walked to the desk, bent down and looked at the computer screen, and said in a cold tone: “What’s wrong, has your arrangement been discovered?”
An elegant face appeared on the screen of Zhuang Li’s mobile phone. Compared with the handsome Gong Xuanlin, Gong Xuanqi looked not bad at all. No wonder his support rate among the people was so high. If the reformists hadn’t pushed Le Zhengming out, they may lose a lot of votes in terms of appearance.
Zhu Jianrui lowered his head in embarrassment: “I was discovered by Zhuang Li.”
Gong Xuanqi’s face was gloomy for a moment, and then he asked: “Didn’t you say that you also arranged many tricks that are hard to detect? Have those tricks been discovered as well?”
“Let me take a look.” Zhu Jianrui took out a set of equipment for sending and receiving signals and fiddled with it carefully for a while. When he couldn’t get a reply, cold sweat on his forehead fell down drop by drop on his temples.
“The dolphin attack and the spy processor were also discovered by them.” He looked at Gong Xuanqi, his face full of panic.
Only in this situation would he behave like a child, with red eyes and nose, showing his helplessness that could not be concealed.
Gong Xuanqi’s eyes flashed with a cold dark light, but his mouth comforted softly: “It doesn’t matter, just forget it if we are discovered. Anyway, they can’t find any evidence of our monitoring.”
“Yes.” Zhu Jianrui nodded while wiping his sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water.
Gong Xuanlin asked angrily: “Zhuang Li’s hacking skills are so good. You have lived with him for more than ten years, and you haven’t discovered anything at all?”
Speaking of this, Zhu Jianrui couldn’t help being stunned.
He suddenly remembered an old incident. When he first came into contact with computers when he was five years old, Zhuang Li once held him on his lap and said with a smile: “Son, daddy can teach you to learn computers, okay? Dad is a super super powerful hacker!”
Zhu Jianrui, who had taught himself some hacking techniques and was studying with a top hacker, pushed his head away in disgust and snorted: “No! Dad is a loser!”
At that time, he already understood the meaning of loser and knew how much harm these three words would cause Zhuang Li, but he pretended that he was an ordinary five-year-old child who didn’t understand anything, and insulted him so unscrupulously, and hurt him.
Zhuang Li loosened his hold on him, rubbed his head, and sighed helplessly and sadly.
Since then, Zhuang Li had never mentioned teaching his son how to use computers.
At that time, Zhu Jianrui only thought that the other party was bragging. Looking back now, he realized how terrifying the two “supers” connected together were.
What had he missed all these years because of pride and prejudice? What had been lost? If he had followed Zhuang Li to learn hacking techniques early in time, would he still be defeated by him now? No, with his high IQ, Zhuang Li would not be his opponent anymore.
The more Zhu Jianrui thought about it, the more regretful he became, and his heart began to ache.
Gong Xuanlin saw the answer on his twisted face and couldn’t help but curse: “You found out, right? But you didn’t take it seriously? How do you do things? I really doubt that your IQ is 190, you must have paid off the psychiatrist to lie to me! Idiot!”
Thinking of the useless Zhu Miaomiao who only indulged in pleasure, Gong Xuanlin added viciously: “As stupid as your mother!”
The originally close relationship between father and son suddenly fell to freezing point and was torn apart.
Zhu Jianrui clearly understood the character of the Gong family. They were cold, heartless, selfish, and vicious. For them, people in the world were only divided into two categories: those who could be used, and those who could not be used. Based on this judgment, they would adopt different attitudes towards different people, either to win them over, or to deceive, or to eliminate.
Zhu Jianrui had known all this for a long time, but he still couldn’t stand the temptation of power and wealth, so he arranged for his mother and Gong Xuanlin to reunite after a long separation, and he abandoned his weak and incompetent adoptive father without hesitation.
However, when everything went according to the script he wrote, he was extremely horrified to find that the world was completely different from what he had foreseen.
Zhuang Li was not a loser, on the contrary, his methods were crueler than those of the Gong family. To him, bringing down a large company was as easy as knocking down a row of building blocks. When he loved someone, he was willing to give them anything; and if he didn’t love them, he would use all means to destroy them.
At the beginning, his love as his father was just so strong and selfless. He never thought about whether his child had a high IQ or whether he could be of any use to him…
Zhu Jianrui gritted his teeth and forced himself not to fall into this memory. He had already pushed Zhuang Li to the opposite side, so let’s break up completely!
It was just one failure, it was nothing. Zhuang Li was already thirty-two years old, half of his life had passed, but he was only fourteen years old this year! Thinking like this, the unwillingness and regret in his heart gradually calmed down.
However, the situation quickly escaped Zhu Jianrui’s control.
A group of heavily armed soldiers actually kicked open the door and broke in. They pointed their wooden baton at his head and said coldly: “Zhu Jianrui, you are under arrest!”
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