All the servers of media platforms and social software crashed at the same time, and the internet finally and thoroughly cleared up.
Right after that, some people discovered that the cropped surveillance video they had downloaded, saved or collected was gone, along with the screenshots.
Netizens instantly realized that their phones had been hacked and their privacy had been peered at, and this operation made everyone start to feel nervous.
But this was just the beginning.
Soon, the media platforms and social software seemed to resume normal operation – after endless scrolling, a video finally popped up.
Back to normal?
When they opened it, the video turned out to be the complete surveillance video released by the police. Other than this video, they couldn't pull out anything else or conduct any other operation.
Everyone was full of confusion in their minds. They exited and entered another software to check, only to find the same video jumping out.
They switched to another platform, still the same video.
Other than apps like calendar, calculator, weather forecast and some niche platforms, the platforms and software that people often used and were familiar with were all forcibly occupied by this video!
The netizens didn't believe in evil forces and tried all kinds of methods like closing background and reopening, uninstalling apps and redownloading, restarting their phones, but it was still the same.
Facing the manipulated phones, the netizens couldn’t help feeling numb in their hearts and an unspeakable sense of psychological discomfort.
"Ha! Did Master Qin make a move? This move is too awesome and too overbearing, Master doesn't say much but acts decisively."
"He directly paralyzed the servers, and even so many servers at the same time, only that man can do it."
"These online sprayers and wilfully blind people finally shut up. Offending someone is not good, offending Miss Qiao is deadly funny!"
"This operation should be recorded in history books, right? Such a big move, such a big pattern."
"Just one video? Master Qin should have put all the trash’s crimes up there. Let's see how those sprayers can still pretend to be blind."
"I think this one video is enough. To verify this one truth, to prove this one innocence."
"This is the first time I've experienced online violence so closely happening around me. It's really horrifying. I don't know how Miss Qiao is doing after being besieged by those sprayers with all the comments I posted."
In the classroom, the students discussed with phones that could only watch that one video, feeling extremely refreshed in their hearts.
"It's the segment where Miss Qiao got off the car calmly with an innocent face saying 'the car needs repair' after the car accident. I watched it dozens of times."
"Miss Qiao seems to treat this Xiaowo very special. I wonder if Master Qin feels jealous?"
Qin Hanyue sent another message: [If you don't make a move, I will!]
Qiao Ying moved her hands from the keyboard to her phone and replied: [Mind your own business.]
Qin Hanyue: [Alright.]
Qiao Ying took a bath and went to bed to rest.
She was completely unaffected by this incident, whether being wrongly accused and vilified to the skin, or witnessing the tragic death of the Baojun car owner’s accident. Qiao Ying didn’t have any ripples in her heart, just as Cheng Jinyan said, it was some trivial matter.
On the contrary, those onlookers and spectators who upheld justice were unable to sleep, holding phones that could only watch that video yet unable to do anything else, sleepless through the night. They could no longer lift up their keyboards.
At the same time, landmark buildings and towering skyscrapers were lit up nationwide, with technicians working overtime to repair servers.
They spent their whole life’s learning and struggled all night, but everything was futile. None of them could compete with this mysterious and powerful hacker.
That night, most of the country's population lost sleep.
Qiao Ying’s move directly shocked the nation.
After three o'clock midnight, a black seven-seater business car stopped outside the villa. Instructor Hou and two men got out of the car.
Then the doorbell rang.
Soon, footsteps sounded in the villa.
Followed by the click, the light in the villa's living room turned on.
The Fourth Master ran to the floor-to-ceiling window and called out twice at the outside.
The dog barking led Instructor Hou and the other two men over.
Although the Fourth Master recognized Instructor Hou, he didn't open the door to let people in. Instead, he called out twice more, wanting to drive people away.
Before Instructor Hou could do anything, Fourth Master turned off the light and went back upstairs.
The curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows were also automatically drawn.
The three men outside looked at each other in dismay.
"Let me call her." Instructor Qing Hou took out his cell phone.
He waited for a long time without anyone answering. Instructor Hou called again for the second time, and then found in horror that he was blacklisted.
Instructor Hou instantly didn't want to continue. He was only responsible for bringing people here as a guide, yet got blacklisted by Qiao Ying. This loss was too great.
The middle-aged man said, "What a hot temper."
The younger man was about to ring the doorbell again but was stopped by Instructor Hou: "She’s probably sleeping now. Let’s wait until dawn."
The two men frowned slightly.
Not to mention the paralysis of the nationwide network will cause how much economic loss to the country, now the nation’s people are in panic and need soothing.
They didn’t have patience to wait for someone to wake up.
"She does things entirely based on her mood, hard to fathom. If she gets annoyed, this talk probably won’t go smoothly," Hou Qing advised.
"Your boss told me Instructor Hou is a retired member of the Inferno. Are you afraid of a little girl?” asked the middle-aged man.
Instructor Hou went silent and didn’t argue much: “You’ll know when you see her after dawn.”
"I'm going to see what she’s like.”
The three waited idly, constantly receiving urging calls from above.
Under tremendous pressure, Instructor Hou blocked the two people who wanted to ring the doorbell over and over again.
Finally it was dawn.
It was three hours past sunrise when there was finally movement in the villa.
This time Instructor Hou went to press the doorbell, but found that there was no response to the doorbell and it didn't ring.
They had pressed it once last night, it couldn't have broken just then by coincidence, could it?
The only possibility was that the homeowner did it intentionally.
Instructor Hou started knocking on the door instead.
But the people inside seemed not to hear.
The younger man squeezed out Instructor Hou upon seeing this and banged loudly on the door, provoking a vicious response from the Fourth Master.
Hou Qing looked at the two unpleasant faces and thought: See, offended them.
The three figures who also had status and power were stopped by a closed door.
The situation was urgent, the matter was important, and the two wanted to break in.
Once again they were stopped by Hou Qing.
Instructor Hou persuaded them earnestly, “Just wait.”
So they waited bitterly for two hours. These two were doing things on behalf of the country, when had they ever suffered such anger.
Without the door opening, Xiao He came to find Qiao Ying.
Thanks to Xiao He’s help, the three got inside.
Qiao Ying looked up and saw two unfamiliar faces, one middle-aged and one young, wearing suits and ties with an extraordinary aura.
At this point Qiao Ying was sitting leisurely on the sofa drinking coffee, still maintaining her calm and unruffled appearance. Finally the two met the legendary figure face to face.
How utterly nonchalant. With things causing such great chaos, she not only had a good sleep, but also leisurely drank coffee.
They didn’t know if she had the ability to paralyze the entire network, but just looking at this mentality, she was no longer an ordinary person.
The two sized up Qiao Ying.
"We have important matters to discuss with Miss Qiao. We need you to excuse us for a moment,” Instructor Hou said to Xiao He.
Before Xiao He could speak, Qiao Ying called Xiao He to come over and sit down. This was her turf.
This move made the two men frown slightly.
Instructor Hou didn’t have much reaction though.
Hou Qing looked at Xiao He, and then told Qiao Ying the identities of these two.
Qiao Ying responded nonchalantly, “People from the country? What do you want with me?”
Seeing that Qiao Ying was still calm and composed even after hearing their identities, the two inadvertently respected Qiao Ying more. She had guts.
"My surname is Liang," said the middle-aged man, taking out his ID. "I came to understand some situations from you, and I also hope you can cooperate."
Qiao Ying didn’t speak or pay him any attention.
The middle-aged man restrained his temper: “Do you know the network is still paralyzed now, causing panic across the nation?"
Qiao Ying responded lightly: “What does it have to do with me?”
The middle-aged man's face darkened slightly, his momentum suddenly changed, and he spoke officially: “This is a major event, even foreign countries are paying close attention. This will cause great negative impact on our country. The state cannot allow you to go unbridled. If you did this, you must immediately restore the network.”
The paralysis of the network caused almost all office buildings across the country to stop working.
Qiao Ying: “Where is the evidence?”
