87: Chapter 87 Ten minutes: Hand over the person, or cut off the water and electricity.

In the hall.

Su Xiaonuan placed the residual code on the main screen.

[ YDTG - EX ... ]

Jiang Xiaowan, wearing a maid outfit, was kneeling by the carpet, scrubbing the floor.

Hearing this string of code, her hand movements paused.

"This is the internal network format of Cloud Top Palace."

She looked up, her voice much lower.

"Previously, every villa in Cloud Top Palace had an independent smart butler system, and EX is an external expansion interface."

Su Xiaonuan's expression darkened further.

"That is to say, someone in the residential area has been keeping an eye on Tiangong No. 1."

Qin Yumo flexed her wrists.

"Master, I'll go and smash the doors one by one."

Su Muxue adjusted her gloves.

"The efficiency is too low. Since the other party dares to spy, they must have hidden methods."

Lin Yuan did not speak immediately.

His fingertips slowly stroked along the seam of his trousers.

He walked to the holographic broadcast console in the hall.

Seeing his actions, Su Xiaonuan felt a pang of apprehension.

"Boss Lin..."

Lin Yuan pressed the red button.

[Full-district broadcast mode activated.]

The next second.

His voice spread to every villa in Cloud Top Palace.

"Last night, someone inside Cloud Top Palace accessed the communication port without authorization."

"Ten minutes."

"Hand over this person."

"Otherwise, all water and power supplies to the perimeter will be cut off."

The broadcast paused for a second.

Lin Yuan added a sentence.

"Don't doubt whether I can do it."

"Whether anyone lives here or not, it makes no difference to me."

The entire Cloud Top Palace exploded into chaos.

In one villa, an old man was mixing milk powder; hearing about the water cut, his hand shook, and the milk powder spilled all over the floor.

"Madman! Lin Yuan is a madman!"

There was also a middle-aged woman who had previously shouted "resource sharing" in the owners' group; she rushed to the balcony and shouted at the neighbor next door.

"Is it that college student in your house? He hugs his computer every day!"

"Bullshit! Wasn't your husband in networking before?"

Some even pushed their nephew who knew how to fix computers out the door, crying and saying, "It's not me, it's him, he's the one who knows these things."

The chain of trust was broken.

The apocalypse makes people huddle together.

With one sentence, Lin Yuan tore them apart into a pack of dogs biting each other again.

At the perimeter intersection.

Fat Dragon led people to block the road.

He held a flamethrower in his hand, his face full of fat folds as he grinned.

"The boss said, ten minutes."

"If there's no result after the time is up, we'll cut the water first."

"Whoever dares to force their way through, I'll treat them to a charcoal-grilled family bucket."

These words were more effective than zombies.

The entire residential area was a cacophony of curses, crying, and begging.

The sixth minute.

A shrill male voice suddenly cut into the channel.

"I know! I know who it is!"

The main screen displayed the view of Villa No. 21.

A middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses stood at the door, facing the surveillance camera, his face covered in sweat.

"Liu Qing from Villa No. 22!"

"She is a computer expert! She even helped me fix my generator a couple of days ago!"

"She also took a dose of insulin from me, saying she would pay me back double in two days!"

"Her parents are dying, she must be capable of anything!"

"Boss Lin, if you want to kill, kill her whole family, don't drag us down!"

In the hall.

Jiang Xiaowan looked up.

"Liu Qing?"

Lin Yuan looked at her.

Jiang Xiaowan spoke immediately.

"She hacked into the Jiang family's core database and almost uncovered my father's money-laundering accounts."

"Later, my father didn't report it to the police and specially approved her to move into Cloud Top Palace."

"She is no ordinary computer expert."

"She is one of the top three in the domestic hacker circle."

"Assuming the other two haven't turned into zombies yet."

Su Xiaonuan's eyes flickered.

"If it's her, she could indeed catch the port vulnerability I had last night."

Lin Yuan looked at the man with gold-rimmed glasses on the screen.

"Fat Dragon."

A voice immediately came through the headset.

"Boss, I'm here."

"Go to No. 22."

"Invite her over."

Fat Dragon grinned.

"Understood, invite her politely."

Five minutes later.

The door of Villa No. 22 was kicked open.

The camera shook.

There was no resistance inside the house.

A thin, weak woman was sitting on the living room floor, her hair messy and matted in several places, her complexion unnaturally pale.

She was holding a man with a high fever in her arms.

On the bed nearby, an old lady with very weak breath was lying there.

The air was thick with the smell of medicine and sweat.

Fat Dragon frowned.

"Liu Qing?"

The woman looked up.

She wore thick glasses, her voice very soft.

"It's me."

"I was the one who connected to the port last night."

"My father is infected. My mother has diabetes and ran out of insulin."

"I wanted to contact the outside to trade for medicine."

She paused.

"I didn't send out the information about Tiangong No. 1."

"The scan only reached the outer broadcast permissions."

Behind Fat Dragon, the man with gold-rimmed glasses squeezed in.

He pointed at Liu Qing.

"See! I told you it was her!"

"Boss Lin is wise! Brother Fat Dragon, my reward for reporting..."

Fat Dragon backhanded him across the face.

The man with gold-rimmed glasses hit the wall, his glasses shattering on the floor.

"She helped you fix your generator, and you turn around and sell her out?"

Fat Dragon spat.

"Even I, who have been around the block, find you disgusting."

The man covered his face.

"No... Big Brother, if I don't report her, we'll all have our water and power cut off!"

"She made a mistake! I am acting for the greater good!"

Fat Dragon raised his foot and stepped on the back of his hand.

"If you keep blabbering, I'll let you go explain your 'greater good' to the zombies yourself."

The man immediately shut up.

At this moment.

A drone flew in through the broken window.

Snap.

A small medical kit landed at Liu Qing's feet.

Inside was a box of antibiotics.

A dose of insulin.

And two bags of high-calorie liquid food.

Lin Yuan's voice came from the drone.

"The medicine is for you."

Liu Qing looked at the medicine box, her hands beginning to tremble.

She didn't touch it.

She looked at the camera first.

Lin Yuan's voice continued.

"Your parents can live."

"But from today on."

Lin Yuan paused.

"Your eyes will watch the network for me, and your hands will close the doors for me."

"Whoever dares to reach into Tiangong No. 1, you must be the first to discover it."

"If you can do it, come over."

Liu Qing did not hesitate.

She picked up the insulin, her hand trembling violently as she pushed the needle into her mother's skin.

The first needle didn't go in.

She bit her lip and succeeded on the second attempt.

Beads of blood appeared, but she acted as if she didn't see them, staring intently at her mother's gradually stabilizing breathing.

Then she fed the antibiotics to her father.

Seeing her father's fever subside slightly after swallowing the medicine, Liu Qing's eyes behind her glasses turned red.

After doing all this, she stood up.

"I can do it."

[Ding! Target Liu Qing (Beauty 85), emotional fluctuation reached the extreme!]

[Favorability critical hit +6%! Current favorability: 6%!]

Lin Yuan's eyebrows twitched.

Beauty 85?

This disheveled shut-in?

He looked at Su Xiaonuan.

"Relocate her parents to a nearby villa."

"Assign two people to guard them."

"Arrange basic food and medicine."

"Arrange for Liu Qing to be in B1, with Jiang Xiaowan."

Su Xiaonuan nodded.

"Understood."

Jiang Xiaowan lowered her head and continued scrubbing the floor.

She knew what this move by Lin Yuan meant.

Saving her parents.

And holding them hostage.

Giving hope.

And giving chains.

This bastard is really not human.

But it just so happens that this kind of 'not human' is the most useful right now.

Ten minutes later.

Liu Qing was brought into Tiangong No. 1.

Su Muxue performed decontamination.

Liu Qing stood at the hall entrance, holding a keyboard, her hair obscuring half her face, wearing a somewhat faded hoodie.

Tang Qiqi circled around her.

"You are the legendary hacker?"

"Why do you look like a shut-in who hasn't been out in three days?"

Liu Qing looked down.

"I haven't been out in seven days."

Tang Qiqi choked on her words.

"You win."

Su Xiaonuan handed her an access card.

"B1 server room, temporary access."

"I will monitor all your operations in real-time."

Liu Qing took the card.

"Okay."

Lin Yuan looked at her.

"The first thing."

"Find out who was waiting for Jiang Xiaowan to open the breach last night."

Liu Qing adjusted her thick glasses.

"It wasn't me."

"I was just the second person to enter."

The hall was quiet for a moment.

Su Xiaonuan looked up.

"What did you say?"

Liu Qing's voice was still very soft.

"The port opened at 23:41 last night."

"At 23:41:09, a probe entered first."

"It disguised itself as a Cloud Top Palace EX node."

"I followed behind it."

"But it withdrew very quickly."

Lin Yuan's hand, which was stroking his trouser seam, stopped.

"Can you find out who it is?"

Liu Qing shook her head.

"Not right now."

"But it left a handshake marker."

She looked up.

"It's military format."