Free Web NovelChapter 106: Chapter 101: Cloning Surveillance
The Mathematical Olympiad is coming soon.
Sun Liang and Zhao Yi from 13th Middle School were the only ones who made it to the provincial competition. Niu Lianhua took the Olympiad very seriously. During their regular practice, both Sun Liang and Zhao Yi performed well, showing problem-solving skills far superior to hers.
Niu Lianhua couldn’t teach them much, but she could help with buying reference books and supervise their practice.
During lunchtime, Niu Lianhua would check on Sun Liang and Zhao Yi’s progress with the Olympiad problems. She would provide them with prior and classic problems, urging them to complete them and understand the solution, even if they couldn’t solve them themselves.
Zhao Yi also valued the Mathematical Olympiad highly.
If he could win a first prize in the provincial competition, it would grant him an additional twenty points on the College Entrance Examination. For students who can score over 600, these twenty points could be decisive in getting them into top-tier universities.
Niu Lianhua was here again today.
She came in with a reference book in her hand, along with a few printed problems. She handed over the problems to Zhao Yi.
Sun Liang wasn’t in the classroom.
"Where’s Sun Liang?" Niu Lianhua asked, frowning slightly in dissatisfaction.
"I don’t know."
"He didn’t have lunch with you?"
Zhao Yi replied, "We went across the street for lunch. I returned as soon as I finished eating. I didn’t pay attention to him, not sure what he’s up to." He also found it a bit strange, as Sun Liang should have returned by now.
Niu Lianhua simply nodded and left.
Perhaps she went to find Sun Liang, or maybe she went back to her office or some other place to rest.
Just as Zhao Yi was about to start solving problems, he heard Zhao Linlin say resentfully, "I feel like you and Sun Liang are closer to her than I am. It seems that she is more like your aunt, actually, no, your mother."
Lin Xiaoqing burst into laughter, and responded by saying, "Linlin, stop being sour. Teacher Niu is just valuing the competition."
"I know that!"
Zhao Linlin sighed, "She has been teaching for many years and none of her students have won a medal in the Olympiad. Of course she would value this."
"You’re just being dramatic!"
Zhao Yi disdainfully retorted, "You were the one who was complaining about Teacher Niu being too involved, and now you are sour because she is not paying attention to you."
"Exactly! Isn’t that what you wanted?" Lin Xiaoqing joined in, "Who was the one always saying, ’I truly wish Aunt Niu could leave me alone’. Your grades have improved, and Teacher Niu no longer forces you to attend physics remedial classes."
"Or do you wish to continue those extra classes?" Zhao Yi added.
"Do you want Teacher Niu to supervise your study 24/7?" Lin Xiaoqing continued.
Zhao Linlin glanced at Lin Xiaoqing and then turned to look at Zhao Yi, feeling frustrated she exclaimed, "You two!"
She gnashed her teeth and said, "You two are starting to sound like a married couple!"
"Oh my!"
Lin Xiaoqing blushed, quickly denying it, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"But it’s true."
Zhao Linlin, having found an opportunity to counterattack, couldn’t stop her laughter, "Look at you two, always backing each other up. Like a harmonious couple!"
"Stop spouting nonsense!"
"I’m not spouting nonsense!"
"You’re the one who’s acting like a couple with him!"
"Really?" Zhao Linlin laughed, "Then why don’t you let him be with me!"
"Take him!"
"No thanks, I don’t want him!"
"I’m giving him to you!"
"He reeks! Just keep him!"
Zhao Yi was initially amused by their banter, but he soon realized that something was off. It seemed like he was getting all the disdain.
While the two girls were still joking around, Sun Liang rushed into the classroom, excitedly yelling, "I just made fifty yuan!"
The room’s attention turned to him.
Sun Liang rushed to Zhao Yi’s side and excitedly said, "There was a policeman at the door looking for me. He was asking others about me. I got a bit scared, so I went over to ask what was going on. Guess what he wanted?"
"Why don’t you just say it?"
Zhao Yi’s indifferent tone seemed somewhat discouraging.
Sun Liang didn’t mind at all, and continued excitedly, "He asked me to do a math problem! A real math problem indeed, a problem I had worked on recently, last week, remember? That last difficult question on the math paper."
"He said that if I helped solve it, he would pay me."
"He offered twenty right away!"
"I just thought he was joking, so I asked fifty, right? He surprisingly agreed, for the first time ever, I witnessed such good luck, when the problem was solved, he did give me a fifty!"
"Bear in mind, asking me any future question, each one, at the very least...five yuan! A tenth!"
Sun Liang said as he pulled out the red banknote from his pocket, he strangely noticed something odd in the reactions of the others, "What’s wrong with you guys?"
Zhao Yi and the others exchanged glances.
Lin Xiaoqing was the first to break, covering her mouth to stifle her giggles, then couldn’t help but laugh out loud, holding her stomach and shaking her shoulders.
Zhao Linlin also joined in the laughter.
Zhao Yi took a deep breath, smiled, and said to Sun Liang, "If anyone else finds you tomorrow, you should ask for five hundred!"
"Don’t work for anything less than five hundred!"
"Oh yes, this is the paper Teacher Niu brought, here, the problems on it are quite hard..."
...
He arrived home that night.
Zhao Yi went straight into work mode, making the final corrections on the paper, after he was almost through, he emailed a copy to Professor Liu for him to review.
Professor Liu quickly replied, "You can go ahead and submit it. I’ve already spoken with Kamani, she’ll provide you with a review in a few days. Minor formatting errors are acceptable, she will help you correct and improve on them."
After saying this, Professor Liu added, "That’s the job of a peer-review editor." freewebnovel.cσ๓
Is that true?
Is the editor at the Journal of the ACM that considerate? Would they even improve the submission’s format?
Zhao Yi felt something was wrong and decided to search online, finding an introduction about ’Kamani’.
Sherry Carmeneni.
A Doctor of Biology and Information Science, Professor at Oxford University, Editor at the Journal of the ACM...
It’s crucial, she’s a female editor?
years old?
Zhao Yi imagined the ’pure friendship between Professor Liu and Professor Kamani, established through academic exchanges when they were young’, then shook his head, realizing his assumptions were inappropriate.
Respect them!
Don’t overthink!
After finishing up with his paper, he remembered about the police website and realized the hacking incident had been shelved again.
Zhao Yi entered the admin portal link, and received a prompt, ’you have entered the wrong link’.
"They’ve changed the portal?"
He opened the police website again, viewed the information using source code mode. Some of the website’s admin portal filenames are located in the root directory of the web page.
Zhao Yi found several file names, but none of them led to the admin portal after trying.
This is troublesome!
The other party deliberately hid the admin portal. It won’t be easy finding it.
Zhao Yi opened the browsing history of the router. There were many visits to the police website, but due to the security features of the router and browser, like the chat messages in Penguin, most suffixes are hidden, decoding the garbled text is nearly impossible.
"There needs to be a solution!"
Zhao Yi opened the shared folder of the ’Red Heart Alliance’ group. Although most of the content were basics, some introductions to website hacks might inspire him?
He examined it carefully.
After patiently reading for a while, Zhao Yi found an introduction on ’forged router information’. By constructing packets of source and destination host, it enables an attack on the sensitive information of the targeted host.
He suddenly had a brainwave, "Can I replicate the information?"
"Create forged data packets with a replicating feature to mimic the information sent by the target host, and then transmit it to my computer?"
Zhao Yi, with a spark of inspiration, decided.
Time to act!
Let’s give it a try!
