Chapter 1: The Greatness of Yang Yawei

  With a "pop" sound, Yang Yawei's laptop screen went black, and before he could pull out the power cord, his laptop emitted a burning smell.

  "Damn it!" Yang Yiwei was on the verge of tears, this is a classic case of losing everything while trying to steal a chicken! Who knew that this time's target would be the legendary hacker? And what's more, a master one at that! But this master is too ruthless, okay, you messed up my system, but did you have to blow up my computer as well?!

  Of course, Yang Yawei would not admit that he deserved it. To put it simply, it's actually quite simple. Yang Yawei is not a computer expert or a hacker. Although he is a student in the Computer Science department of S University, after graduation, at most, he will just become a mediocre programmer, and can't even become a senior programming engineer.

  Yang Yawei's monthly living expenses were limited to only 1,000 yuan. What can you do with just 1,000 yuan in this day and age? His family was already heavily burdened by this 1,000 yuan, so Yang Yawei had no choice but to think of ways to make some extra money himself. When he first entered university, Yang Yawei "went through thick and thin" and "exerted the strength of nine cows and two tigers" to get into a hacker technology forum called Matrix Revolution.

  There are nearly a thousand online forums that claim to be hacker communities, but Yang Yiwei never thought that the forum he registered on a whim when the Matrix Revolution was first created would eventually become a professional technical forum.

  Whether or not there are hackers like Yang Yawei, the software and posts published on this forum are quite professional in his opinion. At least from the perspective of a computer science major like him, many of the software programs are incomprehensible to him.

  Yang Yawei encountered this tragedy because nowadays iPhone sneakers are very popular, causing many beautiful women to take selfies. In the S University forum, people often ask for the decryption password of a certain beauty's space album. Yang Yawei is not talented, but he has obtained some decryption software from the Matrix Revolution, and decrypting these passwords is easy, so he can also make a lot of extra money.

  Often walking by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet! Who would have known, the 10,000 yuan reward on the school forum was actually a scam, a huge scam, and Yang Yawei just jumped down like that. This time what they asked for wasn't cracking the password of the space album, but cracking some beauty's computer password, in other words, invading some beauty's computer, also providing this beauty's IP address.

  The invading basic step Yang Yawei still knew, he wouldn't hack into the black family's computer, so he could only use the remote connection trick. The problem was that remote connection required either the owner's consent or their account password. Just then, Yang Yawei tried to crack this beauty's password, who would have thought that in three to five minutes, his own computer turned into a pile of scrap iron.

  Some tangled hair, for a house man, the computer is more intimate than his wife. The wife is broken, Yang Yawei can only gloomily put his laptop into his bag and head to the outside computer city. If it's a system problem, he can handle it himself, but this hardware issue has Yang Yawei at a loss.

  "What's up, brother?" Yang Yawei had just opened the dormitory door and happened to run into Lao Si Bingming, who was returning from outside. He looked like he had just finished training. When Yang Yawei reported for duty in his first year, he came a bit late and wasn't assigned to the same room as others from his department. Instead, he was assigned to live with three students from the Sports Academy. However, this dormitory was a genuine graduate student dormitory, so Yang Yawei wouldn't think of switching back.

  Yang Yawei opened his mouth with a gloomy expression after shaking the computer bag in his hand: "The computer is broken, I'll go take a look to see if it can be repaired."

  "I'm saying, can't you just get rid of it and buy a new one? Nowadays, even the free tablets that come with phones are almost as good as this computer's specs. What can you do with this thing except practice programming and log onto QQ?" Bian Ming said with a smirk.

  Yang Yiwei rolled his eyes and lazily waved his hand to leave, nonsense, if I had the financial resources, I'd want to buy 10,000 of them, but the problem is that he's short on money, who's going to foot the bill?

  "He's gone." Yang Yawei dropped a sentence and flashed away. After spending more than half an hour, he finally arrived at the computer city closest to S University. Yang Yawei directly carried his own computer into a store that repaired and purchased second-hand computers, and then handed it over.

  The repairman casually asked a few questions about how it was burned, and then took out Yang Yawei's computer from the bag. As soon as he took it out, a pungent smell of burning wafted out, and without even disassembling it, the boss directly said: "Damn, brother, this computer is beyond repair, just throw it away."

  "What? Why?" This is nonsense. It's not even worth looking at, let alone fixing. You're learning software on your own, and you don't even have a computer.

  "Look, this computer should be from around 2007. Many of its hardware components are no longer available, and with such a strong burning smell, the motherboard and CPU must be damaged, and it's possible that the hard drive is also ruined. Not to mention other things, just the memory sticks alone would cost more than the latest ones if you wanted to replace them. Plus the motherboard... what's the point of repairing it? This thing is done for, sell it to us and we can give you a recycling price of around 700-800 yuan." The boss said straightforwardly.

  Yang Yiwei was in a dilemma, he knew that the computer had many hardware components from several years ago, which were more expensive than the latest hardware, although their performance was much worse. However, because those old hardware were no longer produced and were all second-hand, there were no new ones available for purchase, and the prices were still high.

  According to the boss, this computer doesn't need to be repaired after all. However, if it's not fixed, I'll have to buy a new one. The problem is that I only have over 1,000 yuan on me right now. Even if I eat baozi at the cafeteria every day and save 300 yuan for food, I'll only have 700 yuan left. What good computer can you buy with 700 yuan? The second-hand computer I'd buy would probably be no better than this one.

  "Alright, boss, take a look at this computer and tell me how much it's worth. I'll give it to you, but you have to check if the hard drive is damaged or not. If it's not burned, I need the data inside. Also, boss, do you have any good second-hand laptops to recommend? Something in the hundreds would be fine, I'm a bit short on cash, so just get something that'll do for now." Yang Yiwei said after a brief pause.

  "This? This pile of junk... you're giving it to me... I reckon I'll have to throw it away too. Alright, since this machine is relatively new and the monitor is fine, I can still use it if I add some hardware. I'll give you 100 for it. No problem, right? Let me take a look inside. As for the second-hand laptops, they're all several hundred yuan over there. You try turning one on and see which price is good." The boss didn't mince words, directly tossing out a string of sentences before going to disassemble Yang Yawei's computer.

  Yang Yawei glanced at the old laptops on the counter next to him, all of which had prices attached, ranging from over 1,000 to over 400. However, when he saw the model that cost over 400, Yang Yawei curled his lip - it was a Lenovo laptop released in 2003, and its hard drive probably didn't even have 20G.

  This thing is probably just used as a brick after buying it back, programming? Bullshit. But Yang Yawei didn't pick on him for the time being, he wanted to see how bad his laptop was damaged, the boss disassembled the computer at an incredible speed, Yang Yawei just glanced at it a few times, and the back cover of the computer was opened, looking inside, various hardware had almost changed color, Yang Yawei immediately became depressed.

  Wow! It seems like there aren't many viruses that can damage hardware these days, but this beauty is quite ruthless. "Boss, adding the 100 yuan you just gave me, I'll give you a maximum of 800 yuan. Recommend to me the best performing laptop, appearance doesn't matter, as long as the hardware doesn't have any issues."

  This old wife is already useless, can only buy another second-hand wife to use, Yang Yiwei said with some heartache while covering the cash in his pocket.

  "This... now that you mention it, there is a suitable one for you, but... I'll say this first, the hard drive of this laptop has 120G, but it has a problem, it can't be partitioned. This computer should have been used by an expert, once you try to partition it, an encryption program will pop up. We've tried everything, even low-level formatting is impossible. And I haven't even opened the back cover of this laptop, the screws are basically all ruined. Since it still works, I didn't bother opening it." The boss hesitated for a moment before speaking up.

  "Oh? Take it out and let me see." Yang Yawei couldn't bear to hear the words "high hand" now, people who study computer science all have a hacker dream, just like how everyone dreams of becoming a rich and handsome guy. What's more, Yang Yawei had just been trampled on like a small white rabbit, it was really miserable. Since it was used by a high hand, maybe there are still some useful things left in the hard drive.

  The boss nodded and immediately pulled out a laptop from under the counter and put it in front of Yang Yawei. However, as soon as Yang Yawei saw this laptop, he almost went crazy. What kind of performance is this? Its appearance was not like the current ones, the screen was also 14 inches, but the problem was that these 14 inches were square-shaped, probably an old machine from around 2002 or 2003.

  "Don't look at me like that, I'm telling you, this computer's performance is really good. Don't judge by its appearance, try booting it up and you'll see." The boss glanced at Yang Yawei's gaze and immediately knew what he was thinking, and quickly spoke up.

  Yang Yawei nodded and directly pressed the power button. The computer immediately made a booting sound, and soon the XP interface appeared on the screen. Yang Yawei raised an eyebrow, unexpectedly able to install XP. If it were really a 2002 laptop, installing XP would likely not be enough memory, and looking at this boot speed, this configuration is probably similar to his own computer.

  In just over 30 seconds, the computer entered the desktop. The desktop was blank and empty, with only a few basic icons such as "My Computer" and "Recycle Bin". Yang Yawei directly opened "My Computer", and inside, the hard drive was indeed divided into four partitions, each of which was 30G in size. However, the D disk's 30G was completely filled up, while the E and F disks were empty. The C disk should have only had a system installed, using less than 6G.