Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

"Cheers! To the glory of America!"

Paul Smith held up his amber-colored whiskey glass, his smile almost distorted with arrogance.

He seemed to have already seen the technical blueprints that were enough to overturn the world order.

It is turning into strings of green code, flowing into one's own pocket, becoming a deluge of US dollars and medals for promotion.

The hacker agent took a deep breath in excitement.

With a sudden burst of force, he slammed his index finger down on the Enter key, the symbol of victory.

"Execute the send!"

however.

The anticipated smooth progress bar reaching 100% and the "Transfer Successful" message popping up on the screen did not appear.

That green progress bar.

It was as if I had been frozen in place, stuck at 99%.

Not moving at all!

"What happened?" Paul's smile froze instantly.

His hand holding the wine glass froze in mid-air, his brows furrowed, and a barely perceptible hint of panic flashed in his eyes.

"Sir, the data... the data seems to be stuck!"

The hacker agent was sweating profusely, his fingers frantically typing on the keyboard.

The chaotic crackling sounds were particularly jarring in the quiet telecommunications room.

However, no matter how many commands he entered, the progress bar on the screen remained stagnant.

Even the mouse cursor was completely frozen, and the entire system seemed to be stuck in some kind of infinite loop!

"Fuck! Why did it have to crash at this time!"

Paul slammed his glass down on the table in a fit of rage, spilling wine all over his hand.

"Reboot immediately! Download that last 1% at all costs!"

This is top-secret information that concerns his life, fortune, and future success!

We're just one step away from victory; how can we afford to falter at this crucial juncture!

While Paul and the other agents were frantically troubleshooting the problem in the communications room, like ants on a hot plate...

Inside the east wing of Nanluoguxiang.

The fire in the stove was burning brightly.

Zhang Huaimin sat cross-legged on the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove).

Looking at Paul's comical, exasperated, and scratching face on the holographic screen.

A cold, mocking smile curled at the corner of his lips.

"Trying to take my things to curry favor?"

Zhang Huaimin gave a disdainful sneer.

"Don't you even consider whether you have the stomach to digest it!"

He stretched out his fair little hand and gently swiped it in the air to bring up the system panel.

In the 1960s, there was no internet, and even computers were primitive and enormous.

Paul believed he was using a "sophisticated hacking" method based on telephone lines and vacuum tubes.

Faced with the future technologies integrated by Zhang Huaimin.

It's like trying to use an abacus to challenge a quantum computer!

Crude, bulky, and riddled with flaws!

"system."

Zhang Huaimin gave the instructions in his mind.

"Extracting the characteristics of a 'god-level electronic data reverse tracker'!"

[Ding! Extracting... Extraction successful!]

[This requires 1000 Shock Points. Confirm fusion?]

"Merger confirmed! Target locked: the abnormal data stream currently being intruded upon!"

Om-!

As Zhang Huaimin's command was given.

The screen on that "broken radio" that had been modified and was originally just used to receive satellite signals and for monitoring.

Suddenly, an extremely dazzling and deep blue electric light burst forth!

The electric light did not dissipate into the air.

Instead, it transforms into countless data particles that are invisible to the naked eye.

In an instant, it followed that invisible physical telephone line and frantically went upstream!

It's like a deep-sea hound with an extremely keen sense of smell and lightning-fast speed.

Following the network paths that Paul and his group thought were perfectly hidden.

They started an extremely domineering and unreasonable reverse tracking!

This is a revolutionary, dimension-reduction tracking technology!

It does not require breaking through layers of firewalls or complex password decryption.

It directly and brute-force reversed the data transmission at the underlying physical channel!

"Beep beep beep..."

On the holographic screen in front of Zhang Huaimin, a long string of complex red codes and coordinate parameters began to flash wildly.

It took less than three seconds.

[Ding! Reverse tracking successful!]

[The location of the primary intrusion source has been identified: a secret room in the top-floor presidential suite of a luxury hotel on Wangfujing Street, Beijing!]

"As expected, he was hiding in the hotel."

Zhang Huaimin looked at the flashing red dot on the screen without any surprise.

But that's not enough!

How can we just catch a few lackeys in China and do justice to their meticulously planned "hacker war"?

"Ling'er, follow this line and keep digging!"

Zhang Huaimin's eyes became incredibly sharp, revealing a ruthless determination to eradicate the enemy completely.

"He's a spy chief in China; without technical support from headquarters, he couldn't have gotten his hands on such a high-powered hacking device."

"I need to know exactly which IP address that crappy machine in their hideout is connected to!"

"Find out the address of their hideout too!"

[Yes, Master! Deep network node penetration is underway...]

[Cracking in progress... 10%... 50%... 90%...]

The blue light on the holographic screen is flowing faster and faster.

It was as if the cable had traversed thousands of mountains and rivers and penetrated the bottom of countless oceans.

[Ding! Deep tracking complete!]

[The source IP address of the secondary command has been successfully located!]

[Location: Across the ocean, on the third basement level of the Western intelligence agency headquarters, in the core server cluster of the server room!]

Looking at the holographic screen, there were two coordinates that were locked in place and flashing with a blinding red light.

Zhang Huaimin clapped his hands in satisfaction.

"Now we've even found the mouse hole."

He turned his head and looked at Chen Bing, who had just finished making a phone call and walked in from outside, bringing with him a chill.

Chen Bing was dressed in civilian clothes today, but he couldn't hide his military aura.

"Brother Chen, have Grandpa Zhou and the others set off yet?"

Chen Bing patted the snowflakes off his clothes and nodded with a stern expression.

"Don't worry, Huaimin. Director Zhou has personally led the team and mobilized the most capable personnel in the station."

"More than 20 people, including plainclothes officers and armed police, have quietly surrounded the foreign-related hotel."

Chen Bing glanced at the holographic screen.

Although he didn't understand those complicated red codes and coordinate graphs.

But he could sense a dangerous atmosphere permeating the room, an atmosphere that seemed poised to unleash a massacre.

"The moment you give the signal, Chief Zhou and his men will break down the door and arrest them!"

After hearing this, Zhang Huaimin's smile deepened.

He casually picked up a half-eaten red apple from the table and took a big bite.

The crisp sound was particularly loud in the quiet east wing.

"Arresting people is Grandpa Zhou's job, we won't steal it."

Zhang Huaimin chewed on an apple, his large, dark eyes gleaming.

He stared intently at the coordinate dot on the screen that represented the headquarters of the Western intelligence agency.

His eyes revealed an absolute domineering aura that sent chills down one's spine—the aura of a great power controlling technology!

You dare to hack into my territory and steal things?

Then we must be prepared to be wiped out completely!

As for me...

Zhang Huaimin swallowed the fruit, turned to Chen Bing, and gave him a brilliant yet extremely cold smile.

"Brother Chen."

"Would you like to see fireworks?"