Chapter 971: Vultures Scavenging for Cadavers (2/2)
She closed her eyes and enjoyed his sweet kisses. Sighing in satisfaction, she made herself more comfortable in his arms. ”Continuing on what I was saying before, the Vetrovs had the wealth and influence accumulated throughout several generations to secretly nurture our own expert lawyers from different countries outside of the organization. On paper, those top lawyers had nothing to do with the Vetrovs except for the fact that we hired them defend our 'rights'. But the truth was that they were unofficial members of the organization right from the start. The authorities weren't stupid. Of course, they all knew about it but what could they do? They had no concrete evidence or eyewitnesses to validate their suspicions.”
”Ah.” Jin Liwei nodded, quickly understanding all the implications of what she said. ”So that's why your brother could openly show himself in public without worrying about the authorities.”
”Actually, that's not accurate. My brother was—is a very meticulous man. He won't parade himself in the open without preparing several escape plans just in case things go awry.”
She noticed him frowning. ”What's wrong?”
He didn't reply.
”Darling? Is something wrong?”
His attention finally snapped back. He cleared his throat and smiled. ”Nothing. There's nothing wrong.”
”Are you sure?”
”En. Don't worry, love.”
She opened her mouth to ask more about it but got distracted when he grabbed the tablet and looked at the image search results for ”Nikolai Vetrov” again.
”Is your brother's photo in here?”
”No.”
”Oh.”
”Well, he did have photos floating on the web before but not anymore.”
”Were you the one who deleted them?”
”Only some.” She shrugged. ”My brother never forced me to help him with hacking. Even back then, he had talented hackers among his subordinates but not as skillful as me.”
”Of course.” He smiled.
Her pride as a legendary hacker reared its head again. Despite this, there was purity in her pride, not conceit. It was a simple knowledge of the level of her skills and confidence in her own capabilities as a world-class hacker.
She explained to Jin Liwei that her brother had his subordinates periodically remove photos of himself on the web. The organization also had people do the same thing with photos of the other Vetrovs. Nevertheless, some photos of the Vetrovs would still appear on the web now and then, especially the dark web and the intranet of various authorities from all over the world, no matter how many times they were deleted.
”But that shouldn't be a problem anymore. Now we have Ketchup and Bacon who are both powerful AIs that could scour the web for these photos and automatically delete them.”
Her expression suddenly turned fierce. She even clenched her fists. ”I may not be proud of being a Vetrov and may not have the same desire as my brother to avenge our annihilation, but there's no way I'll allow other people to feast upon our images like vultures scavenging for cadavers.”