Blitz disassembled the discarded hard drives and threw them into the trash bin nearby, then continued to install a batch of new solid-state drives for retesting. Those that worked were kept, and those that didn’t were replaced and tested with other drives.
Round and round, after almost half an hour, only 64 of the solid-state drives in the box were usable.
But even among these 64 drives, not every one of them was guaranteed to contain a complete system and valuable stored items.
Blitz continued the testing, opening multiple system split-screens simultaneously. Some directly black-screened showing system damage, some glitched out, and in the end, only a dozen or so solid-state drives’ systems and storage archives were relatively intact.
Blitz briskly moved through batch after batch, continuously opening root directories, until hitting a wall with encryption on a folder marked with indecipherable code.
Blitz felt a bit surprised, "This file is encrypted with a key, I bet there’s something good inside!"
Allen Zhang and Jason also curiously gathered around, but even the encrypted file couldn’t stop Blitz’s intrusion. After a few minutes of trying, he quickly cracked the code.
Upon opening, he found that there were three storage data entries, which together amounted to about 0.15 Bitcoin.
"Bitcoin!? Dude, you’re rich!!" Jason exclaimed excitedly.
Allen Zhang kept his composure, looking at the remaining solid-state drives, "Is there only Bitcoin on this drive? Shouldn’t there be some other encrypted files as well?"
"Wait till I find them out," Blitz was also somewhat pleased. He hadn’t expected to find virtual currency stored on these unwanted solid-state drives.
Blitz tested several other drives and, sure enough, encountered new barriers and encrypted files. Half an hour later, after decrypting, he opened the root directory and was left speechless.
"This one contains 200GB of personal private selfies..."
Allen Zhang and Jason appreciated the private selfies and noticed that the female protagonist was not Jennifer. The male protagonist was a lanky, tall white male wearing glasses – they couldn’t tell if he was Jennifer’s ex-husband.
Blitz continued to decrypt other files and soon found new storage data, chuckling, "Another 0.15 BTC, adding up to a total of 0.3 Bitcoin!"
Jason immediately took out his phone to check the current price of Bitcoin, $63,561.85. It had noticeably dropped from yesterday’s price. The value of 0.3 Bitcoin was $19,068.555.
The market’s fluctuations were indeed frightening, with a different price every day. Who knew how many short-term traders had been reaped like leeks, starting to feel the heat.
Blitz extracted the Bitcoin and stored it on a USB drive, setting a new key. Functionally, it also served as a cold wallet now, though withdrawing again required manual online operation on a computer.
He asked, "Do you need me to help you sell it?"
"No need for an offline sale?" Allen Zhang asked in surprise, "Just yesterday, Jennifer and I had sold some Bitcoin, and the other party requested an offline transaction."
"If you want cash, indeed you need an offline transaction. But if it’s bank transfer payment, it’s done online, or you can directly exchange it for USDT," Blitz said. "But I don’t recommend you store USDT, nor do I recommend holding onto Bitcoin, as I feel it’s going to fluctuate for a while, dropping at least another 5 points."
"If you can find me a reliable buyer, I certainly wouldn’t mind an offline trade."
Allen Zhang readily agreed. He had no intentions of holding onto such virtual currency. If it weren’t for the timely sale yesterday, he would have woken up today to a loss of hundreds of dollars – who could bear that?
Immediately, Blitz used Jason’s account to log onto a website and began searching for buyers, eventually making contact with one.
"Done, they agreed to purchase the Bitcoin for $19,000. We’re meeting in the underground parking lot of the Sixth District."