Xiao Xun looked at the three words on the screen, thinking: It was as expected, the other party must be one of the three, otherwise they wouldn't have used these three words to mock him.
Knowing his opponent, Xiao Xun began to think of a countermeasure.
At this moment, his phone suddenly received a message, which read: I didn't expect you to have some brains. Since you already know I am Dark Commander, I will give you two days to leave Saint Roman Group, otherwise, the price you will pay is something you, an ordinary person, cannot afford.
Xiao Xun looked at the message on his phone with a confused expression, scratching the back of his head. "What does this mean? He is Dark Commander, so who am I?"
He initially thought the other party had seen through his identity, but now it seemed they wanted to impersonate him to scare him.
So he put down his phone and once again "dove into the deep sea."
He searched for all past records related to Dark Commander and found no traces of operation from any other similar personnel besides himself.
"Who is using my identity? However, I can confirm that the other party does not know that the Dark Commander they are impersonating is the Dark Commander himself."
Seeing that the other party wasn't sending any more messages and he couldn't contact him, Xiao Xun decided it was better to strike decisively than to wait for death.
He thought about "beating the grass to startle the snake" to see if he could "lure the snake out of its hole" and determine if it was one of his three old "arch-enemies."
If it wasn't one of the three, then others would be relatively easier to deal with. There were plenty of computer geniuses, but not many who could master technology to its fullest extent, especially regarding system logic.
He glanced at the time, 8 PM. The "night owls" should not have come out yet.
He went out and saw that Mu Jiahe was no longer at the dining table.
He went to the master bedroom on the second floor and gently knocked on the door. There was no answer, so he assumed she had already gone to another world.
He turned back to the dining room, ate a piece of cake, and then returned to his own bedroom.
Xiao Xun's hands danced rapidly on the keyboard. He had to track the real address of the Ark survivor in a short period. To find an active and profound hacker, he had to screen thousands of dynamic addresses in an extremely short time, then filter out the most accurate active IP based on patterns.
He failed the first time, failed the second time, and on the third attempt, he was discovered by the other party, who directly cut off his internet connection.
"This doesn't fit his usual style! Could he have been investigated recently too?"
The Ark survivor had lost his target, and the last known address was in a very remote small country, famous worldwide for its "red-light district."
However, this also confirmed one thing: the person targeting him was not him, because cross-border "communication" was subject to delays due to network speed and national firewalls. Any message would have a delay.
And the person targeting him must be within the country.
Since it wasn't him, Xiao Xun began to trace the dynamic address of another expert, Black Shark. Black Shark's counter-tracking ability was exceptionally strong. Sometimes, before the opponent could find his address, he could find the opponent's address and achieve data loss through precise delivery of pop-up content.
Xiao Xun had accidentally stumbled upon the other party's attack route online back then. Feeling bored (actually just being mischievous), he disrupted Black Shark's attack, causing a precise attack to turn into a widespread computer virus propagation.
All of Black Shark's "bots" were infected with the virus, which then spread on a large scale, causing all home computers at that time to be infected with Black Shark's virus.
The consequence was that Black Shark was backfired by his own virus. His entire computer host could not handle it, and the motherboard was burned. The two also became enemies because of this.
Black Shark's virus was famous worldwide, whether on PC or mobile, so he was the second most likely person after the Ark survivor to target him. He had the capability.
Through screening and filtering, the final scope was not only within the same country as Xiao Xun but also within the same city.
Xiao Xun nodded, a slight smile on his lips. "It seems it's you, you big silly fish, daring to use my name. I'll make you..."
Just as he was about to launch an attack on the searched address, he stopped. "Right! Black Shark is a world-class master, why would he use my name? And from the message he sent, it's clear he doesn't know my real identity."
While Xiao Xun was thinking and hesitating, Black Shark detected his intention to attack and began to counterattack.
Xiao Xun also used the simplest and most effective method: "calling the police."
It was more useful than any high-level skill. He directly told Zhang Ming the few addresses where Black Shark might be hiding, which was a bit against the "code of honor."
But it didn't matter. Ever since that incident, Xiao Xun had decided not to be involved in these hacker fields anymore.
The third target was Lei. That was even less likely. Although Lei had some past grievances with Xiao Xun, it didn't escalate to an issue of interest, because the wealth Lei possessed was enough to buy the entire Saint Roman Group. He was one of the oldest hackers, a senior master of the internet.
He didn't need to hide his address intentionally because almost everyone knew his real identity. He owned a private island in the ocean of a large continent and had long retired from "underground affairs."
His friction with Xiao Xun was due to Xiao Xun's youthful arrogance when he first entered the field, attacking a foreign private equity fund and obtaining some confidential documents, which forced Lei to intervene, and thus he learned the true identity of their boss behind the scenes.
Excluding these three people, there was still another possibility, and the biggest one at that: someone hired top hackers to target him.
If that were the case, then Black Shark's possibility was still the greatest. Now it depended on the arrest situation on Zhang Ming's end.
At this moment, Chu Ningxiang sent a message: "I'm done with my evening study. It's autumn, but the weather still feels so stuffy, like it's about to rain heavily. What are you doing right now?"
Xiao Xun thought for a long time and drafted a long message, but before sending it, he cleared it and finally sent a "thinking of you" emoji.
The other party immediately replied with a "whining kitten" emoji.
Xiao Xun licked his lips and sent a message, "If you're not busy this week, I'll come find you, okay?"
Ten minutes later, the other party replied with a grimace followed by a "good" and sent her school address.
Xiao Xun put down his phone, opened a computer game, and casually started a single-player dungeon. He studied tactics and strategies, finding that playing the game felt like having "heavenly eyes" to strategize on the battlefield.
As a game match was nearing its end, Zhang Ming called. "Third brother, we caught the person. Do you want to come and take a look?"
"Wait a moment, I'm on my way."
After hanging up, he didn't care about the computer, put on a windbreaker, and went out. However, this time he didn't drive his sedan but a relatively low-key business car, which could also be called an enlarged "minivan."
Upon arriving at the police station, Zhang Ming was already waiting for him at the entrance.
The first thing Xiao Xun said to Zhang Ming was, "Caught him?"
Zhang Ming nodded. "Caught him, but can't get anything out of him."
"Can I participate in the interrogation?" he immediately regretted it.
Zhang Ming's expression also changed. "How can that be allowed? If you have evidence proving his identity, then you are a witness. I can let you see because you are the one who reported it, nothing else."
After speaking, Zhang Ming pushed open a door and let Xiao Xun walk in.
The room was very small. In front of them was a brown glass, behind which was the interrogation room, where the person being interrogated could be clearly seen.
Xiao Xun asked with disbelief, "He is the famous Black Shark?"