Rebirth: My Home Has Become a Gathering Place for Young Women with a "Crazy" Spirit

"Not interested in money..." Su Yue looked thoughtful. Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck her. "Then let's use my beauty to seduce him. I'll go and shoot him. When I use my ultimate weapon, I'm sure I can make him submit obediently."

Ruan Zhihuan also volunteered, saying, "I'll go with Yueyue. I refuse to believe that the two of us can't take down this old Z!"

Seeing the two sisters' behavior, Xu Han shook his head helplessly, "Do you two even know where this old Z is before you go and shoot him?"

Qin Lang felt a warmth in his heart. These two got along well, and they would really stand up for each other when something happened.

"Don't worry, I'll try again." Qin Lang opened his phone again and edited a new verification message for Old Z: "My original videos have been copied using technical means. I need someone with better technical skills to help me."

The QQ notification sounded less than two minutes after the message was sent.

Qin Lang opened the chat window and saw that Old Z had accepted his friend request. A slight smile appeared on his lips as he opened the chat window.

The profile picture on the other end was against a completely black background with a white letter "z" in the center. Qin Lang glanced at the person's signature: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

Old Z sent a message, getting straight to the point: "Just tell me, what's going on?"

Qin Lang briefly explained the situation with Mo G, and then sent a voice message saying, "I need your help with a technical assessment to prove that the other party copied and plagiarized. ... Name your price."

After sending this message, Qin Lang paused, then added, "Or you can mention other conditions if you have them."

After the message was sent, Old Z on the other end seemed to fall silent again.

The message came two minutes later.

Old Z: "You don't need to come to me with this kind of thing, just report it to the platform."

Qin Lang: "The platform's reporting process is too slow, I can't wait that long. Besides, the other party has a team of online trolls manipulating public opinion, I'm afraid the platform will just try to smooth things over, and that would be a huge loss for me. I need direct and compelling evidence, preferably something that can technically pinpoint the source of the other party's video, directly proving that he copied it from my account."

This time, Old Z didn't hesitate and replied directly: "You're being a bit delusional. It's very difficult to definitively prove 'Video A was copied from Video B' simply from the video itself. ...Unless you have watermark information or hidden markers on your end."

Qin Lang doesn't understand technologies like video tracing, digital fingerprint comparison, or even code-level analysis, but he does have a certain level of technical skill in video production.

Seeing Old Z's response, he replied, "I have watermarks. Each of my video project files contains hidden timestamps and original watermarks, embedded at the frame level in random positions. But the other party has erased all of this information. Even if they could extract it, it wouldn't prove that it came from my video."

Old Z fell silent again.

This silence lasted even longer, a full three minutes.

Just when Qin Lang thought the other party was no longer going to talk to him, a message suddenly popped up.

Old Z: "The watermark you mentioned, is it randomly embedded at the frame level?"

Qin Lang: "Yes. In my past life... cough, I worked on animation and short video production for a long time. To prevent it from being copied, I specifically researched this technology. Although it wasn't particularly advanced, it was at least my own."

Old Z fell silent again.

Qin Lang waited a while, and seeing that the other party still hadn't replied, he pressed on, "...So, can you help me get it done?"

Old Z: "I'm busy."

"I'm busy at least this month. If you're not in a rush, I can show you next month when I'm done with my work."

Upon seeing this message, Qin Lang's expression changed slightly, and he muttered, "Are you even speaking human language? Next month? By then it'll be too late, and I won't need you anymore!"

Should we find someone else?

But finding someone takes time, and we don't even know if they have the skills.

After a moment's consideration, Qin Lang still didn't want to give up on this old Z.

Qin Lang: "This is quite urgent for me. Could you please help me resolve this first? You can name any conditions you wish to meet."

Old Z: "Let me tell you, I'm in trouble right now. I can't even handle my own problems, how can I possibly help you?"

Qin Lang pressed on, asking, "What's the trouble?"

Old Z: "What trouble? What's the use of telling you? You can't solve it anyway."

The voice message from Old Z already carried a clear tone of impatience.

Qin Lang refused to give up and sent another message: "Tell me what you think, maybe I can help."

Old Z fell silent again.

Fortunately, the silence didn't last long, only about half a minute.

Old Z: "I'm working on a project that collects social data across all platforms. A while ago, I was targeted. Someone somehow got hold of my web crawler framework, reverse-engineered my code, and maliciously attacked my server. Now my crawler won't run, and the server gets injected with malicious code every few days. It's been more than a week just fixing it."

Looking at the message, Qin Lang frowned slightly; this thing did indeed touch upon a blind spot in his knowledge.

Old Z then sent another message: "What's worse is that that bastard actually used my framework to scrape data everywhere, and then he tried to pin all the blame for the illegal data collection on me. Now several platforms have blacklisted me, and even normal requests are being blocked by my IP."

"To be honest, that guy is quite skilled, second only to me, and maybe even better. I've tried to counter him several times but haven't been able to, and I've been really stressed out lately."

After saying all this, Old Z over there probably realized that he was wasting his time telling Qin Lang all this.

Therefore, he wanted to end the chat as soon as possible.

Old Z: "Alright. You should go find someone else. I have things to do now."

After reading this information, Qin Lang's mind raced, and he replied to Old Z, "I might actually be able to help you. Do you know who they are? Is it an individual or a team?"

Old Z on the other end was about to delete Qin Lang, but upon seeing his message, his pupils contracted, and he immediately replied: "I don't know. There's only one IP address's information. I checked, and it's using an overseas proxy, so the real source can't be traced at all. But the other party's behavior pattern is very distinctive; they only attack a few specific target servers, and they're only active between 2 AM and 4 AM."

Qin Lang didn't really understand these things; he was just asking casually. The important thing was that someone was now on his mind—perhaps this person could help Old Z.

In his past life, by chance, he met a top expert in the cybersecurity field, known in the industry as "Falcon," a leading penetration testing expert in China. He met this expert at a private cocktail party, and later, through a series of coincidences, they had a story...