Ex-wife becomes the world's number one hacker

Jiang Yin turned around and blurted out, "Grandma Qin?"

"What are you doing here?" Jiang Yin asked in surprise.

"Come out for a walk with Heming and the others." Grandma Qin took her hand, raised her chin, and pointed to the side: "Look, your brother Heming is over there."

Jiang Yin looked up and saw a tall, upright young man standing not far away – it was Qin Heming.

He was standing around a high table with several friends, drinking and chatting.

Jiang Yin's heart pounded wildly. She quietly took a deep breath and barely managed to maintain her composure.

Compared to four years ago, Qin Heming has grown taller and his shoulders are broader. His well-tailored bespoke suit makes him look dashing.

His facial features are more defined than before, making him appear even more handsome and dashing. His every move exudes the charm of a mature man, yet a hint of his youthful self can still be seen when he smiles.

Qin Heming, who was chatting with a friend, noticed Jiang Yin's gaze and looked up.

He raised his eyebrows in surprise and gestured with his wine glass as a greeting; Jiang Yin smiled in response.

Qin Heming then turned his attention back to drinking and chatting with his friends.

Jiang Yin longed to run over and grab Brother Heming's hand without any worries, just like when she was a child, and pester him to talk about everything under the sun, but reason held her back.

Differences in time, space, and social status have created a huge chasm between them; her brother Heming is now someone she can neither touch nor reach.

I'm already very satisfied to have the chance to see him even once.

Besides, I currently have a mission to complete and simply don't have time for romance.

Jiang Yin composed herself and looked back at Grandma Qin with feigned composure.

Grandma Qin looked at her with a mixture of surprise and delight, and held her hand, examining her from head to toe:

"Yinyin is getting more and more beautiful! Why haven't you called me? Don't you want Grandma Qin anymore?"

"Grandma, the school is strict and the workload is heavy," Jiang Yin said coquettishly, pulling Grandma Qin's hand and shaking it.

"I heard from your Aunt Chen that you didn't take anything with you when you left. Are you doing well now?" Grandma Qin asked with concern, raising her hand to smooth the stray hairs on Jiang Yin's forehead.

"I'm fine, look, I'm perfectly fine, aren't I?" Jiang Yin said, then twirled around, lifting her skirt.

Grandma Qin nodded heavily. It seemed to be a good thing, but she wondered if the person had suffered any hardships in private.

"Sit down, what are you standing for?" came an impatient voice from the side.

It was Qin Heming's younger sister, Qin Wan'er, who came over with two plates of food.

She rolled her eyes when she saw Jiang Yin.

After placing the plate on the table, Qin Wan'er helped Grandma Qin sit down.

Qin Wan'er disliked Jiang Yin because her grandmother favored Jiang Yin more than she did, and she was jealous.

Jiang Yin hurriedly greeted Qin Wan'er, but Qin Wan'er responded with a snort, which Jiang Yin ignored.

Tang Ning had disappeared somewhere.

Jiang Yin then went to the dining table to select some food and drinks, and returned to the table to eat and chat with Grandma Qin.

Through their conversation, Jiang Yin learned that Grandma Qin and her family came to ring the bell at the listing ceremony of a subsidiary of the Qin family in Country A, and also to travel and relax.

Besides Grandma Qin and Qin Heming and his siblings, Qin Heming's parents also came, but the couple are now wandering around somewhere.

Grandpa Qin was not feeling well and did not come along.

During this time, Qin Heming was drinking and chatting with several friends nearby.

Although they got some food later, they mostly drank alcohol. Jiang Yin didn't know that her brother Heming had such a high alcohol tolerance.

Around nine o'clock, Grandma Qin was a little tired, so she said goodbye to Jiang Yin and asked Qin Wan'er to help her back to her room to rest.

At this moment, Tang Ning walked over and whispered to Jiang Yin that she had obtained the room key for the target room. Her voice was also transmitted to her senior brother and sister through the miniature earpiece.

Jiang Yin asked how she got it, and Tang Ning laughed: "The delivery guy bumped into me, and the card was in my jacket pocket. It's a cliché, the people in the Eighth Division have no originality at all."

Jiang Yin chuckled softly as well.

When Jiang Yin looked up again, Qin Heming was no longer in the same spot.

She looked around but couldn't see Qin Heming anywhere.

The two sat for a while longer, then heard the senior sister's voice through the earpiece: "Target locked."

This means that the senior student has already struck up a conversation with her target, Professor Skern.

About ten minutes later, my senior's voice came through the headset: "The monitoring is under remote control. Begin the operation."

This means that the surveillance in the target area has been remotely set to loop screen recording, and the surveillance system can no longer capture their presence.

"Received." Tang Ning replied, lazily standing up with Jiang Yin.

The two chatted casually as they walked toward the exit of the hall.

The second to fourth floors of the cruise ship are the accommodation area. Jiang Yin and her group's room is on the third floor, the same floor as the target's room.

The third-floor corridor was long and quiet, with hardly anyone around.

It was still early, and most people were still out and about on other parts of the cruise ship.

Jiang Yin and Tang Ning walked past their own room and headed straight for a VIP room at the stern of the ship.

The rooms at the bow and stern are VIP rooms with windows on two sides and good views.

This operation was not difficult for Jiang Yin; it only required her to copy a file from the safe.

If all goes well, the whole operation will take no more than 10 minutes, and they can disembark at the next stop tomorrow morning.

With a simple swipe of the room card, the two pushed open the door and entered.

Jiang Yin stood still after entering the room. Tang Ning quickly took out a miniature detector and scanned the room. He then nodded to Jiang Yin.

Jiang Yin immediately lunged at the safe placed inside the wardrobe. This first physical barrier was useless to her; her fingers flew across the keys, and the combination lock opened instantly.

The cabinet door popped open, revealing a dark metal box—the so-called "black box" that claimed to provide absolute physical isolation.

Without hesitation, she inserted the specially made USB drive into its interface, and the built-in deconstruction program began to run automatically, breaking through this second line of defense.

Now, she only needs to wait a few seconds to retrieve the laptop from the box and face the final, and most familiar, hurdle: the mutant protection system built with her own algorithms.

However, just as the indicator light on the black box flashed once, and the deconstruction process had just started—

"Target has returned; operation is advised to be suspended." The senior sister's urgent and suppressed voice came through the earpiece.

"Operation suspended. Power off Unit 2. Units 3 and 4, evacuate according to Plan C." The senior's steady voice then rang in the earpiece.

At that moment, Tang Ning and Jiang Yin both heard running sounds coming from the corridor. There were at least five or six people, maybe more.

Downing opened the window facing the stern with lightning speed.

Jiang Yin leaped onto the windowsill, picked up the handwheel, hooked it onto the safety rope that her senior brother had already secured by the window, and slid down.

The safety rope is as thin as a hair, yet incredibly strong.

Professor Skern and his group arrived very quickly.

Jiang Yin had just swiped down when the sound of the room card being swiped to open the door rang out.

Tang Ning immediately opened the window on the other side and jumped into the sea, hoping to divert Skern's attention and buy Jiang Yin more time.

Skern and his group rushed to the window and looked down. Suddenly, the power went out, plunging the entire cruise ship into darkness.

I only vaguely saw two figures; one jumped into the sea, and the other flew onto a deck.

The senior brother caught Jiang Yin from the corner, and at the same time saw people upstairs looking down.

He only had time to say one sentence to Jiang Yin: "Go to the fourth floor, someone will meet you."

He then flipped over and jumped into the sea, hoping to make Skern and the others think that the person who slid down had also jumped into the sea, thus diverting their pursuit of Jiang Yin.

The external spiral staircase was too conspicuous, so Jiang Yin ran to the second floor, pushed open the corridor door, and rushed in.

Dim emergency lights illuminated both ends of the corridor, barely enough to make out objects.

Two guests were standing in the hallway, cursing and swearing because of the power outage.

Not wanting anyone to notice anything amiss, Jiang Yin pretended to be calm and quickly walked to the middle staircase.

As soon as she turned into the stairwell, she started running upstairs.

As I passed the third floor, I heard someone shouting in the corridor:

"There's another person who came up the spiral staircase from the outside. There are two people on each floor. Hurry and chase them."

Jiang Yin felt a chill run down her spine upon hearing this; her senior brother's disguise had failed, and they had discovered her after all.

I rushed up to the 4th floor, opened the stairwell door, and ran quickly into the corridor.

Jiang Yin looked around; under the dim light of the emergency lights, there was no one in sight...