Chapter 116: The Visitor from Beyond the Grave (1/2)
“Chinese medicine doctor?” I paused for a moment, then burst into laughter. “Looks like he totally fell for my lies about corpse poisoning!”
Xiaotao sighed. “But we still can’t do anything about it. Not unless he gets so scared that he turns himself in.”
“Wait!” I cried. An idea just popped up in my mind. “Xiaotao, you just made an excellent point! Since we can’t do anything to him right now, we’ll make him incriminate himself?”
“How?” asked Xiaotao excitedly. I could tell from her eyes that she hadn’t given up on the case.
“By sending a visitor from beyond the grave to him!”
I wrote down a list of items for Wang Yuanchao to prepare. I then called Lao Yao.
“Little Song!” he cried when he picked up the phone. “I was just about to call you myself! I’ve given it some thoughts, and I decided to take up Miss Huang’s offer to join you guys!”
Great! Now I don’t have to pay him out of my own pocket every time I need his help.
“That’s good to hear,” I told him, “but you can’t just join the task force without proving yourself. You’ll have to pass a test.”
“Should I hack the server of the Japanese Embassy and replace their flag with the Chinese flag?” he asked.
“No, there’s no need for that. I’ll give you the details later. Take your equipment with you and we’ll meet at this place.”
I covered the phone speaker and asked Xiaotao if I could invite Lao Yao to her house. She nodded and said, “Now that we can’t go back to the police station, my house will act as the makeshift headquarters!”
I told Lao Yao the address of Xiaotao’s apartment and urged him to hurry there.
While Wang Yuanchao went out to buy the items that I needed, Xiaotao and I went ahead to her apartment. We watched TV for a while, then Lao Yao arrived with a huge luggage in tow.
“Are you planning to live here?” Xiaotao asked.
“These are my equipment!”
He then proceeded to set up his equipment in the living room. Once he was all settled in, I gave him an address and told him to hack into their internal network.
Lao Yao stayed silent and didn’t move. “What are you waiting for? Start working!” I urged.
“Haha, you’re cute, Little Song!” he scoffed. “The physical address is of no use to me! What I need is the IP address!”
I froze for a moment. How would I know what the IP address of Zou Wei’s company was?
“Never mind,” said Lao Yao. “I’ll just access their system through the company’s official website.”
He then went on to work, and after a few taps on the keyboard, a list of data flashed on the software interface.
“Okay,” Lao Yao continued. “I’m using data overflow to paralyze the company website’s firewall. Now the internal network’s security is wide open. What do you want me to do? Hack into their system? Get access to their surveillance camera? Just say the word.”
“Yes, get access to their surveillance cameras!” I ordered.
After another few taps on the keyboard, scenes of Zou Wei’s company appeared on the screen.
“Wow, I thought this kind of hacking only existed in movies!” cried Xiaotao excitedly.
“I’m only getting started!” boasted Lao Yao. I interrupted him before he could go on blabbering, and took out a photo of Ma Xiaoli in the car that I printed before and briefly summarized the case to him. I let him do whatever he pleased, as long as he could scare Zou Wei shitless before the day turned dark.
Lao Yao rubbed his hands together and began to work his magic. On the screen, I saw Zou Wei using the computer in his office, then suddenly he fell to the floor on his butt. His face turned deathly pale. I turned my gaze to the computer screen in front of him and saw Ma Xiaoli’s bloody face!
Then the printer next to him automatically started to work, and it spit out an A4 paper with the words ‘The debt of life can only be paid with life.’
Zou Wei screamed and grabbed the intercom phone. Lao Yao grabbed a microphone and handed it to Xiaotao.
“Miss Huang, it’s your time to shine!” he said.
“But my voice sounds nothing like his wife!” Xiaotao argued.
“Let me deal with that,” replied Lao Yao. He then opened up an audio software.