Chapter 91

Long Batian readily gave Zhang Qiu his Alipay account, and Zhang Qiu said, "I'll transfer the money to you after I get back. If you don't receive it, feel free to expose me. If you receive the money but don't do the job, you know what I'm capable of."

"Absolutely not! This is something we did ourselves, it has nothing to do with the boss!" Long Batian said.

The police quickly got out of the car and walked over: "What's going on here? Gang fighting?"

"This guy hit us with his car, thinking he could act all high and mighty just because he drives a BMW. My brothers couldn't stand it and gave him a beating!" Long Batian said.

"Still fighting so arrogantly? Come with us to the station!"

Zhang Qiu and Xiang Yufei watched the scene from the side. When the bus arrived, they got on with the vegetables.

Fortunately, there weren't many people on the bus, so the two found seats at the back. Xiang Yufei couldn't help but ask curiously, "Zhang Qiu, do you know the mafia?"

"Just a few small-time hooligans I've beaten up, not really the mafia," Zhang Qiu said, then added, "Once, a few classmates and I went to have barbecue, and they caused trouble, so I beat them up."

Xiang Yufei nodded and didn't say anything more. She understood now. Thinking of Zhang Qiu's ghostly and elegant martial arts, she believed him.

"Can I borrow your phone for a moment?" Zhang Qiu asked. He wanted to use Xiang Yufei's phone to transfer money on Alipay.

Xiang Yufei guessed this and asked, "You really want to give them money?"

Zhang Qiu nodded and said, "One must be trustworthy. It does cost money to find someone to take the blame!"

He had his own considerations. Although these small-time hooligans were nominally under his control, they were more afraid of him than truly convinced of his authority.

So, while showing them his martial arts, he also needed to show them his kindness. He needed to let them benefit. A combination of carrot and stick was necessary to win their hearts.

This was a good start and an attempt to become a leader. It was necessary to pay a price.

If he could really win over these small-time hooligans, he could have them help with some inconvenient matters. For example, if he had won them over earlier, he wouldn't have felt so helpless with Xiang Yufei's father's problem.

"Since it's your money, spend it as you wish." Xiang Yufei said, unlocking her phone and opening Alipay for Zhang Qiu.

When Zhang Qiu took the phone, she asked, "Zhang Qiu, how much money do you have?"

"Confidential," Zhang Qiu smiled.

"How do you have so much money? Are you really a rich second generation?" Xiang Yufei had this doubt when he lent her money. Zhang Qiu said he had two million, and she was skeptical. But when she asked for a loan, he easily lent her 200,000.

Moreover, Zhang Qiu's casualness in lending the money, using Alipay to transfer it without any conditions, showed that he was not short of money. His wealth was likely much more than 200,000.

"I'm not a rich second generation," Zhang Qiu said, "As for why I have so much money... do you believe me if I say I earned it all?"

"I believe you," Xiang Yufei nodded.

"You know my computer skills are good," Zhang Qiu said, "High-end computer skills are mainly for businesses, and those businesses are often very wealthy. When their computers have problems, the losses can be severe. If I can solve the problems faster, they are very willing to pay."

"Right. I understand! I heard that President Mu gave you 20,000 yuan. That's indeed a good way to earn money, much better than me." Xiang Yufei smiled, "Zhang Qiu, you're really amazing!"

"Too much praise," Zhang Qiu smiled.

"Boasting!" Xiang Yufei laughed along.

When they got home, Zhang Qiu and Xiang Yufei returned with several bags, which made Ye Zhuyun quite curious.

"Why did you two come back together? Could it be..." Ye Zhuyun asked with wide, curious eyes.

Xiang Yufei immediately stopped Ye Zhuyun's wild imagination and replied, "I went to the market to buy vegetables and happened to meet Zhang Qiu on the way back. I made him carry a few bags for me."

"Zhang Qiu, are you going to cook something delicious for me?" After Xiang Yufei explained, Ye Zhuyun's attention shifted to the food. She still remembered the delicious fried rice Zhang Qiu made last time.

A simple, low-tech fried rice could be so delicious, so his real cooking was definitely worth looking forward to.

"Yes, I'm cooking for all of you, not just you!" Zhang Qiu smiled.

"Yay! Hooray! I haven't had anything delicious in a long time." Ye Zhuyun jumped up happily.

With the limited ingredients, Zhang Qiu made several home-style dishes that were both visually and taste-wise excellent. Ye Zhuyun and Xiang Yufei praised them endlessly, almost eating their tongues off.

At the same time, Ye Zhuyun said that having Zhang Qiu move in was a wise decision.

Zhang Qiu couldn't help but pout and tease, "You didn't seem to want me to move in at first." Ye Zhuyun stuck out her tongue and said, "But you're here now, aren't you?"

After finishing the meal with the two beautiful women and enjoying their company, the dishes and utensils were naturally washed by the two girls.

Zhang Qiu returned to his room, turned on the monitor, and checked the situation of the Halloween virus.

Currently, there was no fourth-generation virus, but the third-generation virus had already spread across multiple fields.

In Suxian City, even the education system was almost completely paralyzed. The system used for computer grading in the joint exams was somehow infected, forcing the originally computer-graded questions to be graded manually.

This undoubtedly increased the pressure on human resources, so qualified teachers were being called in to grade the exams.

After seeing this news, Zhang Qiu remembered the reason for the school's holiday. Wasn't it because too many teachers were called in to grade exams, so the school took the opportunity to give a holiday?

It turned out that the education system's computers were also infected, requiring additional manpower to grade exams. Previously, multiple-choice and true/false questions were graded by computers, but now they needed to be graded manually, which required more teachers to avoid delays in releasing the results.

However, the grading system should have been very secure and closed. How did it get infected? He wondered if someone was deliberately causing trouble. But this wasn't something Zhang Qiu was interested in, so he didn't think much about it.

Seeing the widespread spread of the Halloween virus, he logged into the "Qiu Ge" pseudonym and released a specialized tool for the third-generation Halloween virus.

This time, the release caused an even greater stir than the last time.

At this moment, the experts from the Cybersecurity Bureau also learned about it immediately. After the "Qiu Ge" pseudonym released the second-generation specialized tool and became popular, the experts had been keeping an eye on him.

So when "Qiu Ge" made a move, several experts immediately tracked him.

When Zhang Qiu released the tool, he felt that someone was tracking his real IP. However, Zhang Qiu didn't bother with them and continued to release the specialized tool.

By the time the tool was released, those people had only broken through half of Zhang Qiu's proxies, still far from the IP of the No. 1 server.

At this point, Zhang Qiu began to counterattack.

All the bots were immediately mobilized by Zhang Qiu. In an instant, over 10 teraflops of computing power were used for counter-tracking and reverse tracking.

The few cybersecurity experts tracking him clearly didn't expect Qiu Ge to counterattack so quickly and quickly rallied to defend.

Similarly, they also mobilized bots, used countless proxies, and set numerous traps for Qiu Ge to fall into.

However, to their surprise, Qiu Ge could easily see through and bypass their traps.

Soon, they couldn't track Qiu Ge's IP anymore, and their own IPs were about to be tracked.

So they stopped attacking and began to fully defend against Qiu Ge's tracking.

Zhang Qiu felt that their defensive strength had increased, adding many obstacles to his tracking process.

Fortunately, Zhang Qiu's world-class skills were not to be underestimated. He was at least a step ahead of those experts. With sufficient computing power, the experts finally couldn't hold up and began to retreat, their IPs about to be exposed.

Fortunately, at this moment, they suddenly mobilized the Cybersecurity Bureau's public shelter servers, using their powerful defense to tie up Zhang Qiu.

A shelter server is used to protect the real IP address. This type of server has extremely strong defense, super performance, and a very complex IP.

Using a shelter server to connect to the network can significantly enhance security.

Tracking to this point, Zhang Qiu was at a loss. This shelter server was too strong. His 10 teraflops of computing power was like a stone in the water.

So Zhang Qiu decisively gave up the tracking, erased all traces of his online activity, and logged off.

After logging off, he couldn't help but think, "Who is tracking me? I didn't think being so low-key would still attract attention."

This matter had no leads, and after thinking about it for a while without an answer, he stopped thinking about it.

He then continued to edit the incomplete analysis software, aiming to analyze the mutation patterns of the Halloween virus and develop a "vaccine" for it as soon as possible.

Only in this way could he truly solve the virus. This would not only solidify and elevate his skills but also earn him more fame online.

Or, he could start a company to launch this "vaccine" product, become famous, enter the market, and earn his first pot of gold.