[Fall: Threats are useless, I’m just not checking]
[Fall: If you’re so tough, hit me through the Internet cable.GIF]
After a moment of silence, he lifted the hand holding a cigarette and rubbed his temples.
If force didn’t work, then he had to play it soft. A few seconds later, he sent another message.
[There’s still one year left]
Gu Huaijin had been receiving almost instantaneous responses to his previous messages, but after he sent this one, there was silence from the other side for about a minute.
Seeing this, Gu Huaijin dimmed his phone screen and took out a lighter from his pocket, lighting his cigarette.
Gu Huaijin stood by the floor-to-ceiling window for a long time, so long that ten minutes had passed, and there was still no message from Fall.
A frown creased Gu Huaijin’s brow as he took out his phone and sent another message to Fall.
The message was sent, like a stone sinking into the sea, causing not a ripple, not a single response.
After five more minutes, Gu Huaijin sent another message to Fall.
[Fall: Stop rushing me. I’m done for!]
Not understanding, Gu Huaijin silently sent a question mark again.
Once again, the message sank without a trace, and there was no more activity from Fall’s end.
"Zhizhi, someone is trying to restore the surveillance video you destroyed!"
At that time, Gu Zhiqi was eating at a barbecue stand.
In this world of the novel, the only aspect far surpassing Aquamarine Star was the food.
Gu Zhiqi was quite satisfied with this.
When the excited milky voice rang in her mind, Gu Zhiqi raised her eyebrows and while munching on skewers, she asked, "Who?"
"Seems like it’s a guy named Fall. But don’t worry, he’s been pushed back by Chubby Chiu," Chubby Chiu said with considerable pride in his tone.
Gu Zhiqi paused in her skewer-eating and let out an indifferent "oh" before burying herself in eating again.
"This guy called Fall is actually ranked third on the Webweaver Hacker Ranking."
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhiqi momentarily stopped eating the skewer, "Third? Wasn’t he second?"
She remembered that in the novel, Fall was the second-ranked hacker.
How did he become third?
"It’s third, the second is... let me see..."
Ever since Chubby Chiu connected to the network of this world, Gu Zhiqi hardly needed to go online. If she wanted to search for anything on the internet, Chubby Chiu would help her.
"The second is a guy named An."
As Chubby Chiu finished speaking, the Webweaver Hacker Ranking page was projected into Gu Zhiqi’s mind.
Gu Zhiqi only checked the top four, and then fell silent.
"Hehe, during our clash just now, I beat him in a second. You know, this Webweaver Ranking is very up-to-date, it updates in real-time." Chubby Chiu’s milk voice carried a hint of innocence.
"I was really holding back. I deliberately stalled with him for more than twenty minutes."
"Hey! No more talking. That guy has found help, and I think I can claim the title of number one hacker tonight." After saying this excitedly, Chubby Chiu disappeared.
It seemed that Fall had found help from the top hacker, and Chubby Chiu was going to beat him.
Central Hospital, a certain ward.
A young man with purple hair, Jiang Qi, lay on the bed with an expression of distaste, idly counting his fingers.
After counting three times, he glanced at the young girl sitting not far away and spoke up, "Boss, when exactly is my wife coming?"
On a sofa not far from the bed, Gu Xiyue had a laptop on her lap. She wore a focused expression, eyes fixed on the laptop screen, fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard.