Chapter 1185 Shadow King!
Because of Ling Yi, the five of them had stayed together in the sa team they created together since the Scout Academy days called ‘ZF’. They had always talked, shared great mories, shared their woes with each other.
That day, they ca together to inspect the cha hold and the cha engineers maintaining their chas with a serious expression, so they just stood there and quietly watched the whole process. They didn’t want to disturb the engineers.
However, sothing happened. One of the logisticians accidentally tripped and his body fell onto a cha engineer. The cha engineer fumbled and accidentally pressed a button on his work station, causing the alarm of the cha he was working on to deafen everyone’s ears. It alerted everyone in the cha hold.
The logisticians imdiately rushed towards the alarm to stop it. While the logisticians were rampaging through the cha hold to stop the alarm, Tao Xiaotao was easily knocked over due to his small size. In a flurry, he hurriedly grabbed the panel of a work station in order to prevent himself from falling. Yi Tiange and others saw his plight and quickly ca to help him up. However, due to the pushing and shoving of the crowd, they touched another work station while the way to rescue Tao Xiaotao.
The six people looked at each other with confusion in their eyes. Why did Li Lanfeng show this to them? Even in the midst of the constant shoving and pushing, they were very far away from their chas. There was no footage of them touching the chas.
“Do you want to know why I show you that?” Li Lanfeng smiled. “Let show you which cha is linked to the work station.”
When they heard the answer to their confusion, their expressions turned grave. They were all smart people so they definitely could guess which cha did this work station link to. As expected, after the footage zood out, the linked cha was Ling Yi’s cha.
“But the person can’t hack the cha through the work station, right? Even an imperial hacker won’t be able to hack the optical supercomputer of a cha that quickly.” Yi Tiange refuted. If this fact wasn’t brought up, all five of them would be suspicious.
“You have to ask Ling Yi if he had ever leaked his passcode to anyone. Anyone that has the passcode, along with the ability of an imperial hacker, will be able to get into the cha’s superoptical computer in an instant. The group of you stood there for more than a minute so there’s ample ti to download the video.”
Ling Yi’s face looked so pale as if there was no more blood in his body. He looked at his friends with an apologetic gaze. Then, his gaze landed on Tao Xiaotao and his lips started trembling. He didn’t if his lips were trembling because of the shock, disappointnt, or that he just wanted to cry.
Finally, he bit his lips and yelled with a hoarse voice as he spitted out the na of his worst enemy syllable by syllable , “Tao. Xiao. Tao!”
Tao Xiaotao shrunk back in fear of the monster his leader had suddenly turned into. His face was pale as he shouted back, “Brother Yi, how could you suspect ?”
Ling Yi stood up and walked over with heavy footsteps. “How could I not! Only you have asked for my passcode!”
He didn’t directly tell Tao Xiaotao his passcode. Instead, it was through Tao Xiaotao’s continuous probing guesses that one day he finally found out his passcode. When he heard his passcode coming out of Tao Xiaotao’s mouth, he smiled nonchalantly at Tao Xiaotao’s correct guess and just loosely told him to forget about it. After all, allowing Tao Xiaotao to know about his passcode wasn’t a really big deal to him back then. He always treated Tao Xiaotao as his younger brother so he wasn’t concerned about Tao Xiaotao using his passcode against him. To a normal citizen, knowing a cha’s passcode would usually almost equate to nothing, but it to an imperial hacker, it would open up many new possibilities.
Tao Xiaotao furiously shook his head. “Brother Ling, it’s not . It really isn’t . I was just curious. You didn’t tell anything, right? I don’t know any passcode. I don’t know.”
“But you constantly probed for my passcode during our daily conversations.” Ling Yi closed his eyes and opened them after a while. His gaze was firm. “Tao Xiaotao, I don’t know how you beca an imperial hacker but all the evidence point to you. I will not believe you again.”
“Brother Yi, Brother Yi, if you think that I’m guilty, prove that I’m an imperial hacker. I have never awoken any hacking abilities. How can I be an imperial hacker? Brother Yi, you can’t suspect just like this. Brother Yi, I didn’t do it.” Tao Xiaotao started crying loudly. He was frightened by the sudden accusation.
Ling Yi’s anger subsided a little. Tao Xiaotao already had an innate talent of the wind elent. It was rare for soone to have two innate talents. The advancent of soone with two innate talents was much slower than a normal person. Based on Tao Xiaotao’s age, even if he was a genius, it was impossible for him to advance to the imperial level so quickly. Did he falsely accuse Tao Xiaotao?
Ling Yi looked at Li Lanfeng instinctively. Li Lanfeng shook his head secretly in disappointnt when he noticed the gaze. He had no more confidence in the intelligence of the loyalists in the Ling family. They spend so much effort grooming Ling Yi but look at him now, blankly looking at him with a dazed gaze. How much better could the other loyalists be? No wonder Ling Lan had to handle everything on his own. Li Lanfeng couldn’t help but feel vex for Ling Lan’s misfortune.
However, Li Lanfeng maintained his expressionless face. He raised his eyebrows at Ling Yi before turning to Tao Xiaotao. “Are you really Tao Xiaotao?”
Everyone went dazed as they creepily turned their heads to Tao Xiaotao.
Even Yang Mingzhi and the team leaders were unable to remain calm.
“Indeed, the real Tao Xiaotao doesn’t have this ability but you have. Should I call you Shadow King?” Li Lanfeng smiled as he revealed a secret.
“Shadow King!” Yang Mingzhi and Gu Dongyang exclaid in astonishnt.
Luo Lang, Zhao Jun, and Ling Yi were puzzled while Xie Yi was in deep thought.
“Who is Shadow King?” Luo Lang was curious so when he noticed Xie Yi’s knowing expression, he grabbed Xie Yi’s arm and asked him.
Usually, Xie Yi would even spare a glance at the person asking him even if the person was on his knees begging him, but this was Luo Lang. Even if he didn’t know anything, he would find an answer.
Xie Yi told Luo Lang what he heard before. “The Shadow King is an imperial hacker who had gained great fa from the virtual world around 30 years ago. His techniques had reached the imperial level too. He was recognised as the hacker with the highest chance of becoming a god-class hacker.”
“However, 20 years ago, he disappeared. His na beca a taboo subject in the Federation. There were no traces of him in the annals of ti as if he never existed. Not many people from our generation know of him. His data is only left in the secret database of so elite families. This database can only be read by the important people from the families. However, Li Lanfeng belonged to the branch family. How did he know of this person?”
“That ans that Shadow King should be around 40 years old, right? How could it be Tao Xiaotao?” Luo Lang looked at Tao Xiaotao’s young face. This man was obviously only 20 years old.
Xie Yi shrugged. “We’ll see what Brother Feng says.”
Tao Xiaotao shuddered when he heard the Shadow King. He looked up innocently and asked Li Lanfeng, “What did you say? Who is Shadow King?”
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