Copy the software from the memory stick to Andrew Stone’s laptop. The Alienware laptop, worth over twenty thousand yuan on the market, might not have special features like the military laptops—such as waterproofing or built-in satellite signal reception—but in terms of hardware, it could easily outclass other laptops of its kind by a mile.

Henry Lawson’s fingers danced across the keyboard like a pianist, opening one command input window after another on the desktop. As strings of commands were entered, the software began searching for its attack target.

The network used by Donghai University students was the campus network, which saved Henry Lawson a lot of time. Within a few minutes, the software had found its target.

“Heh heh, the show’s about to start!” A sly smile appeared at the corner of Henry Lawson’s mouth as his fingers flew across the keyboard again. The command windows on the desktop switched rapidly, and one attack command after another was born at his fingertips.

……

Ashley Young’s dorm layout and arrangement were exactly the same as Henry Lawson’s, with the only difference being that she had the room all to herself. Fresh out of the shower, Ashley Young looked even more radiant than during the day, like a lotus emerging from water. The white nightdress she wore did nothing to hide her stunning figure; her full chest traced a perky arc beneath the fabric, with two faintly visible raised dots at the top of the curve—she was wearing nothing underneath!

Lying on her back on the bed, Ashley Young gazed at the milky-white ceiling light, recalling Henry Lawson’s awkwardness in the pavilion earlier. The corners of her mouth unconsciously curled upward. Although she had only met him a few times and couldn’t say she really knew him, from their interactions so far, Ashley Young simply couldn’t connect this roguish Henry Lawson with the cold-blooded youth described in the files—who, at fifteen, dared to confront fully armed drug dealers head-on, infiltrate a drug den to face the drug lord “Eight-faced Buddha” Balang, blind him in one eye, and force him to flee in panic. Henry Lawson, or rather Mad Dragon, what kind of person are you really? Why does everyone call you a madman?

“Beep beep beep…”

The laptop on Ashley Young’s desk suddenly emitted a shrill alarm. She walked over and sat down, seeing a warning on the screen that her computer’s firewall was under hacker attack. Ashley Young gave a cold smile. It must be another suitor trying to hack her computer, hoping to find something valuable to them, like private photos.

After entering a string of defense commands on the keyboard, Ashley Young was about to get up and leave. She didn’t bother with this endless harassment, and she believed that no one at Donghai University could completely breach her computer’s firewall.

But just as she stood up from her chair, the firewall sounded another alarm—the attacker had already broken through the outer defenses and started to infiltrate!

Ashley Young’s expression changed. She sat back down, her ten slender fingers dancing gracefully across the keyboard, entering commands even faster than Henry Lawson.

Ashley Young was using a laptop with no brand markings. Its black body looked unremarkable, but if Henry Lawson were present, he would have been shocked. Because Ashley Young’s laptop not only ran a fully Linux-based and open-source system, but also had a built-in satellite signal receiver and waterproofing—features found only in elite military special forces laptops!

……

The noise Henry Lawson made on the keyboard caught the attention of Andrew Stone, who was lying on the bed pretending to be asleep. He sat up behind Henry Lawson, watching him skillfully input commands and launch a hacker attack, and was a bit surprised. When he’d first heard Henry Lawson say he was involved in both the red and blue domains, he hadn’t thought much of it.

Every field has its own experts. Andrew Stone didn’t think someone dabbling in both the red and blue domains could be that skilled. But judging by Henry Lawson’s current level, his red domain attacks seemed to be on par with his own. If his red domain skills were this good, how strong was his blue domain defense?

Is this a DDOS attack? Watching Henry Lawson mobilize his controlled “zombies” to launch a flood-like assault on the opponent’s firewall, Andrew Stone mentally compared Henry Lawson’s skills to his own. But soon, Andrew Stone’s expression changed, because he realized Henry Lawson’s attack method wasn’t an ordinary DDOS attack. This was… Crimson Torrent?! The signature move of the master hacker Ghost!

Andrew Stone had heard from his father that Ghost had suddenly disappeared because he’d been secretly recruited by the military. Staring at Henry Lawson’s back, Andrew Stone’s confusion deepened. Special forces close-combat skills, Ghost’s signature move “Crimson Torrent”—Henry Lawson, you must be from the military, but which special forces unit are you from? Snow Wolf? Night Tiger? Southwest Falcon? Or the legendary… Dragon Concealment?!

Chapter 12: You’re Still Far From It

Watching Henry Lawson use Ghost’s signature move “Crimson Torrent” to completely breach her firewall, seeing that familiar data stream attack, the corners of Ashley Young’s mouth once again curled into a beautiful arc. “Crimson Torrent? I think I know who you are now—Mad Dragon of the Dragon Concealment unit, Henry Lawson!”