425 Eagle (2/2)

”I forgot to tell you something important. I love you, darling. I can't wait for you to come home. Don't reply.”

Then just like before the message deleted by itself.

Despite his worry, Jin Liwei's mouth curved into a faint smile.

'I love you, too,' he replied to her in his mind instead.

The faint smile disappeared. His cold and serious expression returned, as he watched his employees in shock upon learning that one of the hackers might be Drakon.

As people working in the field of cybersecurity, of course all of them knew about Drakon. In public, they used Drakon as a prime example of what not to become in their line of work. He was a wanted criminal being hunted by several governments from all around the world.

But even when they acted like they were condemning him for all the crimes he was accused of, the truth was that they idolized him deep inside for his superior skills. To these people, Drakon was just so cool!

”Is it really Drakon?!!”

The thought that one of their hacker idols was directly helping them made them so excited and thrilled.

One of them pointed at a computer monitor displaying the bird logo which appeared a few moments ago. ”It's not only Drakon. Look at that logo! I can't be 100% sure but doesn't that look like the logo of the hacker Eagle?”

”Eagle?!! What?!!!”

Everyone was shocked

”Drakon and Eagle... Am I seriously witnessing a battle between the two of them with my own eyes? Am I dreaming? Don't pinch me because I don't want to wake up.”

”Holy shit. This is so awesome!”

”But only if they're really Drakon and Eagle...”

Jin Liwei frowned. He didn't know who this Eagle was so he asked a member of his tech team to explain.

Apparently, Eagle was one of the world-class hackers who rose to prominence after the legendary hacker called Fantom suddenly disappeared. Most of the hackers during that period emulated Fantom's style in the hopes of taking his legendary throne in the hacking world.

Eagle was no different. He wanted to become the next Fantom and periodically defeated other hackers who had the same goal as him. He even started referring to himself as Fantom Eagle. However, no one in the hacking community called him as such. They simply called him Eagle like before.

To many hackers, Fantom was like a sacred being. He was on a completely different realm than them. Only a handful of other hackers in the world were on par with Fantom. However, those god-level hackers were already semi-retired, only popping out now and then. And whenever they appeared, they always took the world by storm. Fantom was definitely the youngest to join their ranks.

The legendary Fantom was highly respected and even worshiped by many hackers. That was why they would never accept Eagle referring to himself as Fantom Eagle. To them, it was the same thing as Eagle announcing to everyone:

”I am God.”

Absolute sacrilege! Totally unacceptable!