62: Chapter 62: Profoundly Hidden and Not Revealed 62: Chapter 62: Profoundly Hidden and Not Revealed It wasn’t long before Dominic and Sieg returned, surprisingly bringing back a few dinner boxes with them.
“This is the midnight snack prepared by the chef at the police station for us, Allen, you haven’t had a chance to try the food there, have you?” Sieg said teasingly.
“That’s true, who would bother eating there?
I don’t have the credentials for that.”
Allen Zhang took the dinner box and found it well-stocked with at and veggies, as well as ice cream cake and a 330ml fruit-flavored drink – pretty nutritious on the whole.
He also asked them what they had been doing all day in cooperation with the police officers.
“We just read so scripts in front of the dia caras, didn’t do anything else.
Moreover, the shooting process was incredibly exhausting.
It was like making a docuntary – can’t misspeak, can’t read the wrong lines, can’t show any different expressions.
We rehearsed back and forth for a long ti at both the first and second cri scenes…
After shooting several takes, they drove us back.”
Dominic appeared numb and exhausted, complaining, “I’ve finally experienced how tough it is for actors; this job is not ant for humans.
Can you believe I had to repeat a facial expression five or six tis?”
Sieg was speechless, “It’s hard to imagine if those actors in adult films also go through this, the lead male and female surely don’t have it easy!”
Isn’t that obvious?
You ask to control the speed precisely in front of the cara, to evoke the audience’s emotions ticulously – I’d have a hard ti performing at my best, too.
That’s really not a job for the average person.
Being loud is useless, you have to learn how to shout.
“Officer Mig is still lying in the hospital.
He’s been sleeping since he ca out of the ergency room.
Since he doesn’t have much family, other officers on administrative leave heard about it and ca to visit him with their families.
There’s basically no more risk now.
The police are still continuing with the apprehension of those Black attackers, and the results will co out tomorrow.
Mig is very likely to give an interview and attend the award ceremony despite his injuries.
The mayor and City Council mbers seem to be participating as well.
Tomorrow we have to go back to the station,” Dominic said.
Allen Zhang asked about the situation on Sunkist Bar street, originally intending to have them both over to take a look, but hearing that they didn’t have much ti, he temporarily gave up the idea.
“Since you guys don’t have ti, let’s leave it then.
If there are no special circumstances tomorrow, I’ll go there myself,” said Allen Zhang.
The main thing was to see if any valuable information appeared in the daily reports.
After a while, Leo, Monica, David, and Gate also returned one after another, carrying bags full of cans and stacking them at the bridge campsite, each marked with personal labels.
Today, lacking the involvent of Sieg and Dominic, the four of them went all out – each taking care of one street, and collecting more than two thousand cans.
Unfortunately, no particularly valuable items turned up.
Only Gate found a toy building block set which he sold for 22 US Dollars at the recycling station.
Allen Zhang symbolically took 5 US Dollars, rounding it up, bringing his total assets to 2300 US Dollars.
It wasn’t long before Jason and Fitz ca back, cheerily reporting good news, saying they had found buyers – unexpectedly, this stuff is quite popular among high schoolers!
The high school kids in Ivory Tower are just too naive, too rebellious, and love ssing around too much, completely manipulable.
Mostly they are poor perforrs in school, coming from ordinary impoverished community families; they might buy so leaves in secret, but they really haven’t done any cultivation.
Unfortunately, they racked their brains and still didn’t realize that this was a blatant scam targeted at them!
Ran off to buy castor seeds, but ended up with a bunch of adulterated sorghum seeds.
Plant away, you will, without a single peep.
Especially since you don’t dare to make it known outside, to tell your family or call the police to report the scam.
If you did tell, you’d be sure to get a beating from your family first, then be taken to the station by an officer for so reeducation.
If other buddies got wind of it, you’d definitely be mocked and essentially unable to hang around anymore.
All you can do is tell people outside that you ruined the crops by mistake.
Like a mute tasting bitterness, suffering in silence, whoever buys pays the price.
Jason and Fitz still fantasized about expanding and strengthening their business, even having Blitz build them a specific website to supply castor seed, teaching a lesson to bad students in other states.
Just as Blitz got off work and ca back, Jason and Fitz imdiately went to discuss this matter with him.
If they hadn’t brought it up, Allen Zhang almost forgot that Blitz was a programr!
Not just any programr, because Blitz is nearly bald, hardly a hair left on his head.
Curious, Allen Zhang also leaned over to inquire about Blitz’s past and his situation, only to be shocked at what he found out.
Who would have thought, with your bushy eyebrows and white, chubby face, Blitz, you’d turn out to be a famous underground hacker in California?
A pioneer of the first generation of the internet?
WTF?
“Blitz, since you were a programr for a networking company, you must also be skilled in programming, right?
Do you know about the VT Exchange software?” Allen Zhang imdiately told him what happened yesterday.
Blitz nodded, adjusting his glasses, “I’ve heard so about it.
I know a bit about programming myself.
If it was , I could indeed put together such a similar website, but it requires startup funds for setting up base stations and buying identity packs, as well as hiring a team for daily maintenance to prevent remote DDOS attacks, but I wouldn’t really recomnd that you delve into this, it’s deep water!”
“You’re being too modest!
Blitz!!”
Dominic, well aware of Blitz’s past, imdiately explained to Allen Zhang: “Allen, you might not know that Blitz was quite a famous figure when he was young.
In high school, he would hack into the school’s network backend to take control of surveillance equipnt and secretly film intimate videos of the principal and female teachers, then leak them on the campus network for everyone to know!
It beca a hot scandal on campus!”
“In college, he breached the firewall of a company specializing in network security, crashing their system with a trojan horse attack.
He also colluded with others to manipulate the stock market performance of an electric company, forcing the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene and halt trading for the day.
He was tracked down by the internet surveillance departnt to his personal IP address, and the local police departnt gave him a warning at his door, which finally led him to cease his activities.
After graduation, with a rich resu, he was hired as a programr for an antivirus software company.”
“Now I’m just a greasy, middle-aged fat man plagued with serious illness,” Blitz said with self-derisive laughter.
If it hadn’t been for the rise of the internet back then, and the laws against hacking were not well-established, a record like his would have landed him in jail for decades.
How could it have just been a verbal warning?
Allen Zhang’s view of him completely changed.
So hacker boss, who would have thought with those skills, you could end up a vagrant—never saw that coming.
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