Chapter 201
Alice sensed Jack’s identity was shrouded in mystery.
After her question, Andrew remained silent.
She probed, “Can’t I ask?”
Was Jack’s identity classified?
“Ahem, Alice, that’s not what I meant. You’d better ask him yourself. I have a meeting. Gotta go!”
Andrew hung up, freaking out about her question.
Alice was sharp.
He called Jack immediately to warn Jack about that in case Jack might give it away.
Andrew thought he had done enough for Jack as a friend.
Taking the fall for keeping a college student was more than enough. There was nothing else he could help.
Alice thought about Andrew’s words. Jack’s past job was probably shady?
So mysterious.
She checked the news; the buzz had died down. Maybe someone had buried it.
After all, it had caused a stock drop, which was probably giving Ethan a headache.
Alice put down her phone, feeling better.
Yet, she couldn’t sleep after being disturbed, so she opened her computer to fix the AI issues, which should be dealt with sooner or later.
A message about the black market popped up.
Alice logged in, and saw a message from an admin, “Someone wants to buy your firewall system from a while back. They’re offering two million dollars to rewrite one for their company in case of being hacked.”
Easy money.
Alice replied, “Well,5 million dollars.”
The admin replied after a while, “They agreed. They want you to personally install and test it to prove it can withstand attacks. Then you’ll get the rest. Plus, they offer to pay you one million dollars annually for maintenance and emergency fixes.”
It seemed that this company was frequently attacked.
“Okay. What’s the company name?”
“Confidential. You’ll find out when you go to install it.”
So secretive.
They’d made enemies.
Alice didn’t press; anonymity was important in the black market.
She understood. As long as they paid.
Alice took the job. Who would turn down easy money?
She continued coding the AI project. After lunch, she went to the Maple Company.
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But Andrew wasn’t there.
Alice entered her office and stared at them, frowning, “What do you wou?
They came straight to the office!
But Ethan now knew Andrew owned the company.
She wouldn’t worry about him touching it
Ethan raged, I’m here to settle accounts with Andrew. I know you’re insed in the media rzym
Ethan figured it out. He had been humiliated by Andrew last night.
Then the next day, the news about Chloe and Luke had been exposed and wear ofal which topped the comparis
stock.
Also, Alice and Andrew were clearly connected, so Andrew must have done in for Alice
Alice smirked.“Do you have proof?”
“Do I need proof?”
Alice mocked him. “But you always demanded proof for anything imobing me, didn’t you?
No proof meant it was her fault, not Chloe’s
No proof meant she smeared Chloe.
Now he demanded proof?
Ethan was enraged by her expression. He pointed at Alice and snapped “Stop with the excuses! Besides the exposure my company’s firewall keeps getting attacked and the systems crash from time to time! Did you do that?
Hmm? Being attacked by hackers?
Alice laughed.“Looks like you have many enemies, all vultures
“Who else could do this?”
Ethan was furious, ready to strike but hesitated. When meeting Alice’s dark eyes, he gave up
He touched his bruised arm hit by Alice yesterday.
Alice saw him restrain himself. Violence seemed to work on him.
At least he wouldn’t dare attack her again since he knew he couldn’t fight her.
Noah coughed, rising to his feet.“Alice, Ethan is just anxious. Don’t take it to heart.”
Alice was impatient. “You’re not welcome here. Leave!*
“Alice, I won’t leave without an explanation. You hacked my company’s system. Did you steal trade secrets? Just make
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it clear!”
“Explanation, huh?”
Alice opened Andrew’s computer, her face grim, her slender fingers flying across the keyboard.
Code filled the screen, quickly hacking into Ethan’s company system.
Noah cast a glance at Alice in shock, surprised by Alice’s skills.
She wrote code immediately and hacked into Ethan’s system, which is a highly secured system costing a fortune, on the fly. An inadept person wouldn’t be able to do that.
Noah looked at Alice with mixed expressions. He’d underestimated her,
Alice was an exceptional talent in the Welch family, but they kept putting her down and ignoring her.
Ethan sneered, “Alice, you’d better fix my system right now,”
Right then, Ethan’s secretary panicked, “Boss, I’ve got a phone call from our company, saying that the entire system has crashed. Security is compromised. It’s losing control.”
“What?”
Ethan looked at Alice.“Stop! What did you do?”
He thought she was fixing the system, but she wasn’t!
Alice stopped, saying in a cold and calm tone, “You wanted an explanation?”
“That’s not an explanation!”
“If I hacked your company, wouldn’t it be more significant? This is what it would look like. Get it?”
Alice had little facial expression, her eyes quiet. Ethan was sweating.
Ethan went off the deep end, “You… How dare you!”
“You didn’t believe in what I had said just now, so I can only show you the truth. It wasn’t I who attacked your company’s system.”
Alice said it softly. Ethan turned around and shouted at his secretary, “What are you looking at me for? Get IT to fix it! Does it work looking at me?”
A bunch of idiots!
Alice sat on the chair and watched Ethan frantically trying to fix the problem, but it wouldn’t be easy.
Soon, Ethan came to her, his hands on the desk, eyes bloodshot.
He said, “Alice, fix my system! This is your mess!”
Alice tilted her head, saying slightly, “Beg me!”
