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Joel narrowed his eyes and continued typing: ‘Is there some kind of misunderstanding between us?’
The other party: ‘Not with you.’
Joel: ‘Then who is it?’
The other party: ‘Your younger sister.’
Joel wrote: ‘What did my sister do to offend you?’
The other party: ‘Hmph, I took a fancy to her and want her to be my servant, but she is actually being so ungrateful!’
Joel: “?”
He narrowed his eyes and typed: “Well, that’s certainly pretty ungrateful.” The other party: “Right? So many people dream of becoming my servant, but I never agree. How dare she refuse me when I chose her?”
Joel: “What I mean is, you’re pretty ungrateful.”
The other party fell silent.
Joel continued to type: ‘It’s for your own good that I’m forbidding the Smith Corporation’s young missy from becoming your servant.” The other party: ‘How so?’
Joel replied: “I’m afraid that she’ll drive you to your grave.”
The other party: “!!!”
The lip corners of the staff standing behind Joel couldn’t help but spasm. Their boss was simply too sharp-tongued. However, they didn’t dare to say anything, and could only look at one another.
The other party soon sent another reply: ‘What does that mean? My life expectancy will be shortened? Why?’
Joel: “?”
A question mark appeared above his head before he realized that the other party might be a foreigner, so he might not understand certain English phrases.
Thus, Joel changed to a straightforward choice of words. He wrote: ‘What I mean is, you are not blessed enough to have her around! Neither are you worthy of it!’ The other party understood this time. His speed of response clearly became fasterobviously, he had become a little angry. He wrote: “Since you are so reluctant to part with your sister, then you’ll have to suffer my anger! In this age of the Internet, I wonder how many days the Smith Corporation can survive without the Internet?”
“Haha, I’m really looking forward to seeing how the second biggest company in the country takes step after step towards its doom!”
Joel narrowed his eyes. He wanted to say more, but the other party obviously couldn’t be bothered to argue with him anymore and had turned off the computer screen.
In an instant, all the computers in the Smith Corporation went down and could not be turned on anymore.
Joel got up. Speedy sat in front of the computer and started to repair the network again. However, he was sweating profusely. How could he possibly be a match for the top hacker Q?
Speedy felt immense pressure. He suddenly stood up and said, “Mr. Smith, I… I’m not doing this anymore.”
Joel looked at him sharply. “Are you unable to do it? Or are you afraid of doing it?”
Speedy swallowed and replied, “Both, I guess! Q and Y are the leaders of the Hacker Alliance. If I offend him, I’ll have a hard time in the Hacker Alliance in the future!”
Joel frowned. “As far as I know, the Hacker Alliance does not restrict your work, nor does it require you to avoid going against Q and Y.”
Speedy lowered his head. “Yes, there are no clear rules, but if I offend my boss, I won’t be able to stay in this line of work anymore. I’m sorry.” Joel stared at him and suddenly said, “You don’t usually do much work, do you? But the Smith Corporation pays you a huge amount every year. Do you think we give you that money so that you can easily quit on us during crucial moments like these?”
Speedy frowned when he heard him. He said, “Mr. Smith, I have a good suggestion for you now, and that is to get Ms. Smith to admit her mistake and give in to the other party. The servant and master talk is probably just a joke! There is no need for the Smith Corporation to fight them just because of a joke.”
Joel’s expression turned cold. “I am the head of the Smith Corporation. Your task is to repair the network for me!”
Speedy swallowed and suddenly walked to the door. “Mr. Smith, I can’t do this! I’m leaving!”
The IT manager frowned as he watched Speedy leave. He asked, “Mr. Smith, if even Speedy leaves, what are we going to do next?!”
Joel lowered his eyes.
Speedy was simply too unprofessional! He had gotten cold feet and escaped just because of fear. Joel had really misjudged him. He slowly said, “Continue trying to repair the network. I will think of something!”
After speaking, he looked at the panicked employees at a loss around him and said calmly, “None of the Smith Corporation’s revenue comes from telecommunications. Our businesses are all in the physical industry. What’s there to be scared of even without the Internet? It’s just a 30% loss!”
After making the bad-ass statement, Joel left, planning to ask Nora what was going on.
The Smith Corporation’s situation actually wasn’t as good as how Joel had put it just now.
The physical industry was currently in decline in the States whereas new media networks were flourishing. The Smith Corporation had also opened a few companies doing online businesses.
All the servers were in the Smith Corporation. Once the servers went down, those in other places…
He had only just thought of that when someone hurried over and said, “Mr. Smith, our games’ players are all sending feedback that they can’t access the games. They are threatening to uninstall the apps!”
“Mr. Smith, the live-streamers on our live-streaming app are asking why they can’t access the app and what’s wrong with the servers!”
“Mr. Smith, we had to make a fund transfer for the big deal today, but now that there is no Internet, we can’t complete the transfer…”
All sorts of problems came one after another.
Joel got his subordinates to deal with them one by one, and then he entered his office.
It was already evening by then. The troubled Joel rubbed his temples and took out his cell phone. His finger was already on Nora’s number when his executive assistant pushed the door open and came in. “Mr. Smith, we are trending on social media!”
Joel was surprised.
He closed the call app and went to take a look at the trending topics on social media first.
There were five to six trending topics, such as #SmithCorporationServersBreakDown, #SmithCorporation GetsHacked, #XXMobileGameServerDown, and so on. They occupied the first few places among the most popular topics.
Obviously, someone had paid money to make them trend.
Comments had already exploded:
“Oh my god, has something gone wrong with the Smith Corporation’s network? Can we still trust the Smith Corporation?”
“Why were they hacked? Do they take cyber security so unprofessionally when they are such a big company?”.
“My personal information registered with the Smith Corporation won’t be stolen, right?”
“This is unacceptable! How can they still call themselves the second-best enterprise in the country when this is all they can do? Is a company whose network defenses were breached so easily really trustworthy?!”
“This is too much! I finally took time off today to play games for a whole day, yet they are suddenly telling me that the server is down, so I can’t log in? What the hell? I’m uninstalling this! Goodbye!”
All sorts of rumors flew all about the Internet.
Everyone in the company could only keep watch on the ongoings with their own Internet hotspots. All of them were terribly anxious, yet also helpless.
The IT department was even starting to call up people for help. However, the moment IT experts heard that it was Q targeting them, no one dared to come over and help.
The people in the IT department had no choice but to work overtime! But no matter how hard they tried, they simply weren’t the other party’s match!
Q was constantly online. Once they found a flaw and fixed it, Q would attack again. It was impossible for them to guard against him!
Everyone panicked.
“Mr. Smith, this is terrible! Our stocks are plummeting!”
His executive assistant delivered another piece of bad news. All the trending topics about their server downtime had finally ushered in the most terrifying crisis for the Smith Corporation!