Redemption from the Abyss: The School Beauty Insists on Pulling Me Out of the Mire

"Mr. Lu, stop joking around."

Zhou Zixu took a deep breath, feeling that he had been deceived by the capitalists:

"I admit that today's Gen Z is really something, they can even write a few scripts to botnet."

"Back when I was working myself to the bone at that big tech company, he was probably still memorizing his multiplication tables!"

Before Lu Wen could even speak, Lin Lu couldn't help but chime in.

"Xie Wang has already turned eighteen, okay!" Lin Lu retorted.

Lu Wen looked at Zhou Zixu as if he were an alien:

"No? Old Zhou, as the cybersecurity supervisor, the village lost internet last week? Didn't you see that live stream that went viral in Beijing?"

Lu Wen walked over and patted Zhou Zixu on the shoulder:

"The ruthless guy who utterly crushed that Shadow guy and casually burned his motherboard—that's the guy right here!"

Zhou Zixu was stunned. He was in seclusion writing code at the time and hadn't watched the live stream.

He looked at Xie Wang's young face; that school uniform was far too deceptive.

"Really...really?" Zhou Zixu asked, half believing it.

Xie Wang was not angry at his questioning.

He stood up and walked to Zhou Zixu's workstation.

On the screen, a piece of source tracing code is displayed, and the terminal interface is stuck on an error message.

"You were typing very loudly outside just now. You pressed the Enter key four times and it gave an error message. Were you getting a little annoyed?"

Xie Wang had one hand in his coat pocket, leaned slightly forward, and glanced at Zhou Zixu's screen for two seconds:

"You're writing a defensive reverse tracing script, trying to bypass the other side's jump server, right?"

Zhou Zixu was taken aback: "How did you know?"

"The code is written all over his face." Xie Wang stretched out his slender finger and lightly tapped a line on the screen:

"Your approach is sound, but the algorithm is too bloated. On line 278, you used a nested recursive function to exhaustively enumerate dynamic IPs. When the other party uses multiple proxy pools, your memory overflow is inevitable, which is why you've fallen into an infinite loop."

Zhou Zixu's expression changed instantly.

He suddenly leaned closer to the screen, staring at the line Xie Wang was pointing to.

"Also," Xie Wang straightened up and calmly offered his suggestions for revision:

"Remove the recursion and replace it with a Bloom filter for hash deduplication. Also, in line 412, your API call is not disguised, which can easily expose your physical MAC address when tracing back. Remember to add an obfuscation layer."

Zhou Zixu's eyes widened little by little.

He immediately pulled out a chair and sat down, modifying a few lines of code according to Xie Wang's approach, replacing the original recursive algorithm.

Press the Enter key.

The terminal interface, which had been frozen and displaying errors, suddenly started scrolling smoothly, and a long list of filtered real IP addresses was neatly displayed on the screen.

pass!

Zhou Zixu looked at the smoothly running interface and gasped.

He turned his head and looked at Xie Wang with the awe that an expert has for a top expert.

"I'm impressed." Zhou Zixu stood up, his expression revealing genuine admiration.

"Heroes emerge from among the young, and I've certainly witnessed that today. Mr. Xie, if the technical department encounters any problems in the future, we'll have to rely on your guidance."

"Just call me Xie Wang." Xie Wang smiled faintly.

"Now that we're here at Xinghuo, let's work together to expand the business."

The "trust" issue in the technical department has been resolved.

Beside him, Su Qinghe was sitting on the sofa, holding Xinghuo Network's financial ledgers for the past few days.

The genius's brain handles these accounts with ease, it's like a game-changer.

Su Qinghe adjusted his glasses, looked up, and stared at Lu Wen with a cool expression: "President Lu."

"Yes! Sister-in-law, what are your orders?" Lu Wen quickly stood up straight.

Su Qinghe pointed to several data items in the ledger:

"Registered capital, server rental fees, advance payments of staff salaries, and renovation costs for this office—Spark Network's expenditures this week have been enormous."

She paused, a hint of helpless laughter in her voice:

"And currently, apart from the fifty yuan in cash that Boss Wang gave me for repairing the photocopier, there is zero income."

Lu Wen blushed and scratched his head awkwardly.

"Well... everything is difficult at the beginning. I've been frantically running around to generate business these past few days, and several medium-sized companies have already expressed interest in having us do security testing."

"No rush." ​​Xie Wang walked over and patted Lu Wen on the shoulder: "A solid foundation is more important than anything else. We'll give it another shot after the college entrance exam."

After the business was finished, the atmosphere finally relaxed.

Lu Wen has now completely let loose.

He circled around her like a deer in the forest, sometimes asking if she was alright, sometimes offering to massage her shoulders.

"Little Lu, didn't I look cool when I was handing over work to Lao Zhou?" Lu Wenqiu praised.

"Get away! You have static electricity!" Lin Lu pushed him away, her face flushed, but he grabbed her hand and she couldn't break free no matter what she did.

The two of them started playfully cuddling and bickering in the office, oblivious to everyone else around them.

Su Qinghe glanced at the clock on the wall; it was already seven o'clock in the evening.

"Alright."

Su Qinghe put on the scarf:

"Little Deer, we're heading back now. We're having hot pot at home tonight. Mr. Lu has to stay at the company to review resumes and work overtime. Would you like to come back with us for dinner?"

Lin Lu's eyes lit up instantly at the mention of hot pot, and she shook off Lu Wen's hand without hesitation:

"Go away! I want to eat something delicious!"

Lu Wen stretched out his hand, his face contorted with the pain of abandonment:

"Sister-in-law! You're inhuman! You stole my wife right in front of me!"

"President Lu, please work overtime and try to double that fifty yuan in revenue as soon as possible."

Xie Wang mercilessly added insult to injury.

……

[19:40 PM · Genting Music Room Underground Garage]

Lu Yi, wearing a black woolen overcoat and carrying two large cabbages and a bundle of noodles, floated out.

"Master Lu?" Xie Wang raised an eyebrow and called out.

Lu Yi stopped, adjusted his glasses, and glanced at the large and small bags of hot pot ingredients they were carrying.

He sighed softly:

"It's you again... these mortals filled with grease and noise. I had hoped to have a conversation about the meaning of life with these two cabbages on this chilly winter night..."

"Stop talking nonsense."

Xie Wang had long since figured out this kid's tricks. He walked over, grabbed Lu Yi by the back of his collar, and dragged him into the elevator like a chick.

"Why eat boiled cabbage on such a cold day? Let's go upstairs and have hot pot. It'll be more lively with lots of people."

Lu Yi made a symbolic struggle twice, then followed along obediently, muttering to himself:

"You forced me to do this. My fragile body is ultimately unable to resist the power of carbohydrates and calories."

Lin Lu and Su Qinghe were laughing so hard they couldn't stand up straight.

……

[20:30 PM · Room 1602]

The steaming hot pot broth simmered in the center of the table, its aroma instantly filling the entire room.

The rice ball came running out as soon as it smelled the aroma, and squatted down at Su Qinghe's feet, meowing and begging for meat.

Four people sat around the table.

As Lin Lu added shrimp paste to the pot, she excitedly shared gossip with Su Qinghe.

Although Lu Yi kept saying "red oil is the abyss of sin," he was faster than anyone else when it came to eating, picking up a large piece of tripe and tossing it around in the pot.

Xie Wang sat next to Su Qinghe, skillfully preparing the dipping sauce for her and casually scooping her favorite fatty beef into her bowl.

……

An hour later, the wind swept away the remaining clouds.

The dishes on the table were completely devoured, and the four of them sprawled out on the sofa and carpet in the living room, too full to even lift a finger.

"I can't take it anymore, I feel like the shrimp paste is already stuck in my throat."

Lin Lu rubbed her round belly and leaned against the cushion, humming softly.

Lu Yi held a glass of warm water, staring intently at the ceiling, and let out a sage's sigh after a satisfying meal:

"When the body is oversaturated, the soul falls into a shameful laziness. We are now like lambs being raised in a greenhouse, waiting to be slaughtered."

"Master Lu, you've finished eating and entered 'sage mode,' right?" Xie Wang scooped the rice ball into his arms and kneaded it.

"Eating too much makes me sleepy." Su Qinghe also took off his glasses, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and looked like a satisfied cat.

"No way! I finally get a day off, I can't just sleep like this!"

Lin Lu suddenly perked up, sprang to her feet, pulled her phone out of her pocket, and excitedly suggested:

"Let's play games! Honor of Kings! Let's have a couple of rounds in the Rift to digest! Qinghe, Wangshen, wanna come?"

Xie Wang raised an eyebrow and glanced at Su Qinghe: "Teacher Su, wanna play?" "Let's play a couple of rounds, to clear our heads." Su Qinghe also took out his phone.

Lin Lu turned to look at Lu Yi: "Master Lu, what about you? Don't tell me all you scholars play Minesweeper."

"Games are nothing more than meaningless data collisions in a virtual world..." Lu Yi slowly pulled his phone out of his coat pocket, tapped the TIMI icon, and...

"But I'm willing to reluctantly descend to earth and fight in order to observe humanity's desire to win."

"Alright! Log in!" The four quickly logged in, and Lin Lu created a five-player room and invited the other three to join.

"Huh? Wait a minute." Lin Lu looked at the four people in the room and suddenly realized, "You can't play ranked games in four-player teams! It's only three- or five-player teams, and we're one person short!"

Xie Wang glanced at his friend list: "Is Shen Hao online? Let's invite him to make up the numbers."

"Shen Hao said he's going to the library with Youyou tonight, he won't have time to play games." Lin Lu rolled her eyes.

"A guy who values ​​women more than friends."

"What should we do then? We can't expect Lu Wen to crawl over from the company right now to give us a beating, can we?" Xie Wang clicked his tongue.

"No problem, just recruiting in the lobby!" Lin Lu opened the recruitment lobby in the general channel with ease and casually sent a team-up announcement:

[Five-player squad, 4 missing 1, looking for a marksman, anyone who's a normal player will do!]