Free Web NovelChapter 108: Chapter 103: My Heart is Really Hurt
One o’clock in the morning.
Li Jiandong’s eyes opened in a sleepy haze. He’d been half-awake all night, unsettled for some reason. He got up and went to check his computer.
The webpage had been tampered with again!
It was the Eagle again!
And again with the DJ music!
"How on earth did Eagle do this?" Li Jiandong felt like he was about to lose his mind. His face was ashen, and sleep was nowhere in sight. He quickly opened the source code file, only to find that the database couldn’t be overwritten. He couldn’t make direct changes.
He decided to concentrate on the math problem.
He studied it carefully!
He studied it some more!
The Math Olympiad level problem, which was even more difficult, was not something that an ordinary person could solve.
Li Jiandong couldn’t even understand the problem, let alone find the solution. He was suddenly reminded of Sun Liang, who he met at the front gate of the No. 13 Middle School.
He had noted Sun Liang’s phone number.
"Thank God I was sharp!" Li Jiandong took a deep breath, wondering if it was too late to call.
But he couldn’t worry about that. He needed a solution fast!
If the problem wasn’t resolved by morning, Director Zhou would be difficult to explain to. It wouldn’t matter if just a few people saw the hacked website; they couldn’t be sure it had been invaded. Perhaps he could say it was a temporary adjustment, a modification, or simply a display error?
Li Jiandong immediately made the call.
Sun Liang was in a sleepy daze, he felt his phone vibrate and after fumbling around for a while found an unknown number. Curious, he picked up the call. "Is this Sun Liang? It’s Officer Li who spoke to you yesterday at noon," came the voice from the other end.
"Officer Li... Okay?"
Sun Liang immediately woke up fully.
Li Jiandong was silent for a long time, unsure how to start the conversation. Eventually, he said, "Sorry to disturb you this late, Sun Liang. There’s an urgent matter. I have a math problem. Can you help me solve it?"
Sun Liang immediately sat upright. He switched on his desk lamp and asked, "It’s so late. Is this considered overtime? How much am I getting paid?"
"One hundred, is that okay? Double the usual."
"No."
Sun Liang remembered Zhao Yi’s words and immediately shook his head, "During the day you’re paying me fifty. Now, you’ve disturbed my sleep, making me solve problems. It’ll affect my performance in class tomorrow. I might fall behind in my studies. Maybe this day means I won’t be able to get into the university I dream of?"
"Okay! Five hundred and that’s it! If you disagree, I’m hanging up!"
Li Jiandong was taken aback.
Even after deducting all his expenses for insurance and other charges, plus his attendance bonus, he made about three thousand a month. And here Sun Liang was demanding five hundred just like that?
This was really daylight robbery!
Li Jiandong inhaled deeply, swallowed his anger, and agreed. freewebnσvel.cѳm
After Li Jiandong’s initial shock, he began to wonder if Sun Liang was somehow blackmailing him, so he sent a text message that said, ’I confirm that I’ll pay you five hundred for helping me solve this problem’. If Sun Liang backed out or refused to help, he would have evidence.
"Meet me outside the school gates tomorrow to give me the money!"
Having his integrity questioned by a high school student was Li Jiandong’s second blow. But he swallowed his pride and sent the humiliating text.
Li Jiandong sent a screenshot of the problem via a multimedia message. Because of slow internet speeds, Sun Liang waited for a while before he could open it. He was curious to see this ’five hundred dollar’ math problem and just how complicated it might be.
When he opened it, he was surprised.
"Isn’t this the same Math Olympiad problem I solved yesterday at noon?"
Bewildered, he looked at the problem. Thinking about the complicated situation between Zhao Yi and Officer Li, he eventually shrugged it off, "Definitely something to do with Zhao Yi. Alright, I’ll give Zhao Yi two hundred and fifty tomorrow. Maybe next time, Officer Li will pay a thousand for an answer!"
After waiting symbolically for five minutes, Sun Liang sent the answer to Li Jiandong.
Li Jiandong was astonished when he received the message.
That was quick!
If his school memories served him right, the problem was supposed to be highly challenging. How could Sun Liang solve it so quickly? frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
"Could it be, just like my colleagues said, that Sun Liang is a math genius?" Li Jiandong realized that he couldn’t comprehend the power of an academic superstar.
He verified the answer.
It was correct!
As soon as he ended the call with Sun Liang, Li Jiandong quickly set about fixing the website.
After all the changes were made, fearing a problem with his own computer, he headed to the nearby department, got a new computer, and changed the management portal, ID, and password.
"This will work!"
"Even if my computer has a problem, it can’t be the case with everyone else’s!"
That night, Li Jiandong slept soundly.
Although he didn’t know where the problem lay, even a highly skilled hacker couldn’t possibly stay in front of the computer all the time, let alone crack the login portal, account, and password in such a short time.
Li Jiandong was awakened by a phone call.
At approximately six in the morning, a coworker from operations called, "Jiandong, wake up! Our website has been hacked again!"
"It’s the Eagle again!"
"You should go check quickly!"
Li Jiandong thought he was dreaming. He had just fixed the website at around three o’clock and felt like he had just fallen asleep, and now someone was telling him that the website had been hacked again?
This was too fast!
When he checked his computer, he found that the news picture was still the Eagle Flash. The connection was still to that single-vocalist dance music. The only difference was...
The math problem had changed?
...
Sun Liang couldn’t wait to share the good news in the morning.
He excitedly said, "Zhao Yi, that Officer Li contacted me again. It was past one in the morning. I was in a daze, and he asked me to solve a problem. This time I asked for five hundred!"
