Chapter 483 - PLAYING DIRTY (1/2)
Hu Lei walked to Akira and pushed back the ergonomic chair along with the pregnant lady away from the computer. However, Akira's eyes remained glued to the screen, as if she could not see anything else. Hu Lei turned the chair to face her directly with red eyes.
”Is the computer more attractive than me?” Hu Lei asked with a teasing smile.
”Yes,” Akira said without hesitation.
Hu Lei was defeated in a single move. However, she was resilient, and she understood the hearts of tech junkies. Well, not exactly, but she could deal with them. For instance, when Zhong Feng told her about some new great technology, she would gasp, nod and exclaim.
And he would be very happy.
”Did you find something new?” She asked Akira.
The bloodshot eyes finally focused on Hu Lei. Then, Akira lodged into an explanation about something relating to the guy who set up the hunt and the dead pool. The complicated details passed over Hu Lei's head, but she grasped the core matter.
”You have a suspect?” She asked in surprise.
”Yeah. I listened to what Zhong Feng said and decided to stop looking at things in a standard approach. The person hunting me down knows that I am a hacker. However, they are confident enough that I cannot find them.” Akira said excitedly.
”I decided to scrap my usual MO. Every hacker has some predictable patterns. If someone can anticipate the moves of a hacker, they can avoid detection. The only way I could catch this guy was abandoning every formula I use and develop a new procedure.” She continued.
Hu Lei nodded. ”So, did you succeed?”
Akira rolled her eyes. ”A little, but it turns out that it is extremely hard to switch styles. I keep falling back to the old patterns. I could not get anywhere. But I also found a breakthrough. If I cannot change my patterns, it means that the person behind Watch and the dead pool might have the same problem.”
”So, I have been studying the information Zhong Feng collected on the streaming app and the dead pool.” She smiled with satisfaction. ”And I have noticed a familiar pattern in the underlying coding. I think I know the culprit.”
”Who is it?” Hu Lei asked.
Akira's face changed into one of morose. ”I think it is one of my old team members. Only two of them are versatile enough to have come up with the idea and execute it. But I cannot discount the fact it is not a single person.”
Hu Lei once again felt heartache for the young lady. ”What are you going to do?”
”I can hardly storm there and accuse anyone. Plus, if I accuse a fellow agent of treason, I need solid evidence. Otherwise, I will be the one at a disadvantage.” Akira lowered her head in thought.
She could also tell the Chief and Raiden about her suspicions and the things she had found. However, her current ȧssumptions were based on the fact that she knew the general style Fuji and Miki used when investigating.
It was not enough to be used even as circumstantial evidence. The two of them probably studied under the same teacher, so their styles were similar. And she was not close enough to either of them to identify any uniqueness between them.
If she forced the Chief to take her side, the entire case would probably come apart. She needed to move with care to avoid alerting the skin or harming innocent people.