Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Chapter 424 Fortune Turns Around

She hates it most when people post question marks, so she immediately started yelling: "What the hell are you doing with question marks? Can't you even ask a question?"

Deng Huairou: "What's wrong with you? You haven't talked to me for so long, and now you're bombarding me like a bomb."

Li Shuangshuang: "Something's happened, I'm going abroad and I'm not coming back."

Deng Huairou: "What happened? You just said Yu Ru did it, what the hell? What did she do?"

Li Shuangshuang: "You'll figure it out yourself. Anyway, Yu Ru is a tough character, so be careful if you run into her."

Deng Huairou: "What kind of trouble can she cause? I think I ran into her last year and we got into a fight. I scratched her little face all over."

Looking at the seemingly smug text displayed on the screen, Li Shuangshuang didn't reply. She turned off her phone and started packing her luggage.

After packing her things, she had her driver take her back to her parents' house. She knew about the accident at the tea factory, and as a member of that family, she felt she had to go back and check on things.

……

When she returned to Nancheng, she went to the tea factory first. It was already after get off work hours, but the factory was still noisy. When she went in, she saw her father scolding someone.

"What's wrong with you all? Didn't you notice something was wrong with the tea when you just finished the first batch?" Mr. Li shouted sternly at the workers underground.

No worker responded, so the head of the supervision team stepped forward and said, "Boss, the temperature of that tea is wrong, but not by much, so no one noticed in the first batch. It was indeed close to the standard. The main problem now is the machine. It shows the temperature is correct, but the actual temperature doesn't match."

"Is that about the same? Try brewing it yourself and take a sip. How much of a difference is there in the taste? Even a degree higher or lower in temperature won't make a difference!" Father Li roared.

"Boss, let's ask the person who sold the machine first. There's a problem with this machine, and we can ask for compensation to recover some of our losses," the tea factory's assistant suggested.

Mr. Li's face was gloomy, and he didn't reply. Although the worker didn't notice the temperature problem in time, he was the one who started and adjusted the machine this time. In fact, he was primarily responsible, and the blame couldn't be placed on the worker. He turned to look for his assistant, but instead found Li Shuangshuang first.

Li Shuangshuang stood by and watched for a long time. Seeing that her father had temporarily stopped talking, she stepped forward and said, "Dad."

"Shuangshuang, what brings you here?" Seeing his daughter, Mr. Li's expression softened.

"Something happened at the factory, so I came back to check on it."

Mr. Li sighed in frustration, "It's a mess right now. You should go home first. I'll handle things here."

"it is good."

Before leaving, Li Shuangshuang pulled aside the head of the supervision team to inquire about the situation, and only then did she learn the specific reasons for the tea factory's accident.

Intelligent machines sometimes run programs that differ from their pre-programmed routines…

Li Shuangshuang thought of her compromised phone, and her heart sank further. On her way home, she posted a question on her phone: "Is one million yuan enough to hire a top-tier hacker? If a hacker steals important information from my electronic device, can I call the police to have her arrested?"

She received replies very quickly after posting this, and she read them carefully one by one, starting from the first one.

"Dude, are you trying to fob me off like a beggar? Where are you going to get a million dollars? Do you know how much the highest reward is for fixing a vulnerability? Ten million US dollars!"

"It depends on what kind of high-level hacker you're referring to. If you just want to access someone else's information, it'll cost 20 yuan. I've heard that some hackers can even control satellites. If you want to hire someone at that level, you'd need to have at least several million yuan in your pocket."

"The police don't care if I'm robbed of 10,000 yuan, let alone an invisible and intangible cyber hacker like you."

"I agree with the comment above. Many police officers are just incompetent. To defeat a hacker, you have to fight magic with magic, and hire an even more powerful hacker to defeat them."

"The most awesome hacker right now is probably the boss of Red Star. His appearance fee seems to be no less than a million US dollars [doge emoji]"

"Finding Red Star's contact information is impressive enough, but how could someone else have stolen his electronic information?"

……

After reading the dozens of comments that had replied to her, Li Shuangshuang felt even more desperate. After thinking for a long time, she sent a message to Zhang Jingxiang: "Jingxiang, tell her that I'm going to process my departure paperwork in the next few days and I won't be coming back."

After a long time, the other party replied with a single word: "Okay".

Li Shuangshuang leaned back in her seat, gazing wearily at the scenery outside the car window. Not long ago, she had enjoyed an enviable life: a high-quality fiancé, a comfortable family background, and a thriving career. Now, all of that was gone, vanished without a trace in just a few days.

As the saying goes, "You can't make a wall out of mud," but even mud can dry and harden one day. Once it stands up, it can no longer be molded or manipulated. Instead, it has sharp edges and corners, making it impossible to confront it head-on. In a daze, she remembered an article by Yu Ru that she had once read and which was posted on the bulletin board as a model essay. It quoted this sentence: "Poverty should not be completely deceitful. The affairs of the world are ever-changing and must be understood in cycles."

Back then, she laughed at Yu Ru for being delusional, saying that someone like her, born into poverty, would always be poor. Who knew that fortunes would turn around so easily?

If only she hadn't laughed at that article back then.

……

Zhang Jingxiang immediately took a screenshot of the message he received from Li Shuangshuang and sent it to Yu Ru.

After reviewing the documents, Yu Ru withdrew control over the tea factory's machine programs.

"Mom, is it just sending her abroad? You're not even attacking her dad's tea factory anymore? What if she makes a comeback someday? o(o?`3?′o)?!!!"

"So what do you want to do?" Yu Ru asked with a smile.

"Kill them to prevent future troubles."

"That makes sense. But killing someone costs money and requires planning, which is quite troublesome. It's good to spare her life; she can be my ATM. I'll take her away once she makes money. What do you think?"

“(?′w`? ) That’s right! Mom is right. A continuous supply is better than a one-time purchase.”

"Yeah, and her abilities determine her ceiling. Her ceiling won't exceed mine, so it's fine if she makes a comeback. She's going abroad now, so she'll have even less chance to get revenge on me. If she dares to come back, I'll have someone deal with her."