You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

After sending the message, Jiang Che opened an app icon on his phone.

It is a location monitoring program that is bound to the positioning chip in the USB flash drive firmware.

At this moment, the light spot on the screen remained quietly within the coordinate range of the dormitory building, without moving.

It seems the fish haven't taken the bait yet.

Jiang Che put his phone back in his pocket and walked towards the cafeteria.

Sunlight filters through the ginkgo trees lining the campus paths, casting large patches of golden light on the ground.

The Kyoto University campus in autumn is so beautiful it's as if it's been covered with a soft-focus filter. Students wearing colorful hoodies and jackets ride bicycles through the dappled sunlight.

There weren't many people in the cafeteria on a weekend morning. Jiang Che went to the window and bought two servings of pan-fried buns, two servings of congee with preserved egg and lean pork, and a fried egg. He then prepared to send a message to Uncle Liu, asking him to drive to the school gate to pick him up.

Just as he took his phone out of his pocket, it suddenly vibrated.

Jiang Che glanced down and a cold smile immediately appeared on his lips.

The screen prominently displayed an alarm from the location monitoring program.

After opening the program interface, the previously quiet dots on the screen are now flashing red light waves.

The USB drive has been moved.

Jiang Che, however, didn't react much. He walked slowly toward the cafeteria entrance while looking at the USB drive program logs constantly coming in on his phone.

The red dot flashed for only a moment before returning to white.

This means the USB drive has not been moved.

Jiang Che didn't think Lu Ziang had put the USB drive back; he was more inclined to believe that Lu Ziang had plugged the USB drive into the computer, preparing to start deciphering it.

Sure enough, the program's log bar started displaying data the next second.

This perfectly confirmed his conjecture.

"Device access detection... has been triggered."

"Encryption layer being read... AES-256 protocol successfully identified."

"Code breaking progress... 11%..."

Jiang Che glanced at the time in the status bar at the top of the screen.

From the time he left the dormitory until now, it has only been about twenty minutes.

In other words, he had just left the dormitory when Lu Ziang discovered the USB drive.

Moreover, the other party didn't just take the USB drive out and look at it; they directly connected it to the device and began to decrypt the encryption.

Encryption algorithms at the level of AES-256 are beyond the capabilities of even a first-year business administration student.

Even for students with a formal computer science background, without professional decryption tools and a certain foundation in cryptography, it is by no means easy to complete the decryption in a short period of time.

But the other party is already trying.

Moreover, judging from the log refresh rate, the decryption efficiency is not low.

What does this tell us?

This indicates that the other party not only possesses the technology to crack codes, but also already has the tools to do so.

This further proves that this is not the first time the other party has done this kind of thing.

Jiang Che's smile turned cold.

Lu Zi'ang, oh Lu Zi'ang.

They've kept it well hidden.

He usually appears gentle, reserved, and unassuming in the dormitory.

Whether playing games or chatting, I never actively inquire about any sensitive topics.

If it weren't for that day when I accidentally glimpsed his chat interface with Gu Yanzhou on his phone, if it weren't for Su Qinghe helping him peel back the layers of appearances...

He might very well continue to be kept in the dark by this person.

Jiang Che put away his phone, his expression returned to normal, and he quickly left the cafeteria.

……

Let's go back twenty minutes.

412 Dormitory.

After Jiang Che left, Lu Ziang was the only one left in the room.

Even though Jiang Che had left, he still maintained the lazy posture of lying in bed watching videos.

Only after Jiang Che's footsteps faded into the distance and he confirmed that there was no sign of him returning in the corridor did he put down his phone, get out of bed, and roll over.

Lu Ziang walked to the window, slightly pulled back a corner of the curtain, and glanced down through the glass.

Jiang Che was walking across the small square in front of the dormitory building, heading towards the cafeteria.

He didn't even notice that a pair of eyes were secretly watching him from the shadows.

Lu Ziang smiled slightly, a faint smile playing on his lips. He then lowered the curtains and turned his gaze to Jiang Che's desk.

He had seen everything Jiang Che did at the table.

Get the textbooks and the charger.

Everything seemed normal; there was nothing wrong with it.

But Lu Zi'ang was incredibly perceptive and immediately discovered the problem.

When Jiang Che came back, he only took two textbooks and a charging cable.

If you're just picking up these things, there's absolutely no need to make a special trip.

Based on Lu Ziang's observations of Jiang Che over this period, Jiang Che is not a studious person and is unlikely to travel all the way back to school from home for two textbooks.

As for charging cables, they are even less necessary. The heir of the prestigious Jiang Sheng Group doesn't even have a spare charging cable.

In this way, Lu Ziang could be certain that Jiang Che had a different purpose for returning this time.

Lu Ziang narrowed his eyes as he pondered, wondering what the purpose could be.

His gaze slowly swept around the empty dormitory room.

Jiang Che chose to return when he was the only one left in the dormitory...

Could it be that Jiang Che came back this time because of him?

This realization immediately stirred a sense of vigilance in Lu Zi'ang's heart.

But it was only a fleeting sense of alertness, which quickly dissipated with the morning breeze blowing in from the window.

Lu Ziang didn't seem worried that his long-hidden true identity would be exposed.

A moment later, Lu Ziang walked slowly to Jiang Che's desk and calmly scanned the desktop.

There wasn't much on the table except for a few textbooks, a few pens, and a glass.

Everything seems normal.

Lu Ziang reached out and slowly flipped through the stack of textbooks.

The next second, my finger suddenly touched a hard little thing.

Lu Ziang paused slightly, took out the object, and realized it was an inconspicuous little USB flash drive.

He frowned and looked down for a few seconds. Why would Jiang Che hide the USB drive in such a place that was neither particularly hidden nor particularly obvious?

But Lu Ziang knew that Jiang Che was always meticulous in his work.

The things that would make him stay in a place like this are either really unimportant things that he just casually left behind.

Either it was done intentionally.

Lu Ziang realized that this was likely a trap deliberately set for him by Jiang Che.

Logically speaking, Lu Ziang would never be so foolish as to jump into a trap knowing it was a trap.

But Lu Zi'ang did the opposite.

He took the USB drive back to his bed and then took out a laptop from the back of the wardrobe.

He had never used this computer in front of Jiang Che and Xu Wenbin.

The software installed inside is not something that ordinary students should have.

Lu Ziang turned on the computer with practiced ease and then inserted the USB drive into the port.

An encryption prompt immediately popped up on the screen.