<h4>Chapter 243: Hacked! Tang Qing Weeps in Defeat!</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios


    The crack was still on the ground.


    The people in the stands were confused and exchanged nces.


    “Does Miss Tang need to have herputer skills evaluated as well?” Everyone looked at each other on the stands. “She’s Brother Cheng Huo’s junior...”


    Tang Qing had never concealed her proud identity as one of the members of the Hacker Alliance.


    This news had rung throughout the manor when she arrived.


    Other than Cheng Huo, it was extremely difficult to find someone else withparableputer skills.


    People who had just be fans of Qin Ran couldn’t help but say, “Miss Qin is so powerful, it’s not shameful for Miss Tang to lose to her.”


    “Miss Qin also entered the information hall recently, right? Miss Tang can attend to both herputer skills and her strength simultaneously. It’s not an easy feat...”


    Qin Ran’s move had been remarkable...


    After the fight, everyone subconsciously saw Qin Ran as on a different levelpared to Tang Qing.


    The two... were obviously not of the same rank.


    Tang Qing pursed her lips. This was thest thing she wanted and expected.


    At first, she had just used Qin Ran as a stepping stone, but little did she know that she would be stepped on by Qin Ran instead!


    Taking a deep breath, she wanted to retrieve a little bit of pride through herputer skills.


    She walked over and sat down in front of aputer.


    Grabbing the mouse tightly, she finally feltforted. As a hacker, theputer was her biggest support.


    Tang Qing was extremely confident in front of theputer.


    Seeing that Tang Qing was already sitting firmly at her seat, Cheng Shui nced at Qin Ran. “Miss Qin, your seat is over there.”


    He pointed to the edge and motioned for Qin Ran to sit down.


    Computer techniques werepared using the firewall, viruses, and designated attacks. This was especially so for professional hackers like Tang Qing.


    “I know you have some research onputer skills.” Tang Qing nced at Qin Ran with dim eyes. There was no hint of her usual arrogance on her face and she said simply, “As long as you can break my firstyer of firewall before I do, you win.”


    This was the first time Qin Ran met someone who wanted topareputer skills with her.


    Turning on theputer, she heard Tang Qing’s words and slightly raised an eyebrow. She nced at her and smiled casually. “Okay.”


    Cheng Shui couldn’t be the referee of the information hall’spetition and just nced at the two of them. At this stage, he couldn’t change anything either.


    He turned around, acknowledging his fate and signaling Cheng Huo to be the referee.


    Cheng Huo put down the cup in his hand and walked to the ring. He was speechless for a moment after hearing Tang Qing and took a moment to ask, “Are you sure you want to challenge Miss Qin?”


    Tang Qing gripped the mouse tightly and nodded in determination.


    Thus, Cheng Huo said nothing more and just nced at the big screen before saying, “Go ahead.”


    Tang Qing said she wouldn’t attack and really didn’t initiate any.


    She opened up a code page and added a new code to the firewall. While she edited this, her firewall was motionless.


    Qin Ran had yet to attack?


    Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but raise her head to nce at Qin Ran opposite her.


    One of Qin Ran’s hands was on the keyboard while the other wasidzily on the table. She tapped her fingers on the keyboard randomly, and it seemed like she hadn’t started her attack yet.


    Tang Qing couldn’t figure out what she was doing, but she didn’t ck off either.


    She had bit the dust in the previous challenge because she underestimated Qin Ran. This time, no matter what, she wanted Qin Ran to experience the taste of defeat!


    Narrowing her eyes, she stopped looking at Qin Ran and focused on typing quickly on the keyboard.


    Among all the challenges, the favorite of the audience was the strength battle. The foreign trade and procurement hall weren’t particrly interested in the code challenge.


    At this time, the big screen disyed theputer screens of Qin Ran and Tang Qing.


    The people in the other halls couldn’t understand this, but the information hall could.


    When Tang Qingunched her attack, Qin Ran didn’t seem to have made a move and was still typing a code slowly.


    “Jerry, why hasn’t Miss Qin moved?” The young man sitting next to Jerry saw that the code written by Tang Qing had begun to invade Qin Ran’sputer and was slightly puzzled.


    Jerry couldn’t understand it either. “Logically, this shouldn’t be the case. Perhaps Miss Qin is only good at programming and has never learned hacking? We’ll have to wait and see.”


    If it had been any other hackers, the people on the stands would have felt extremely bored, but this was Qin Ran and Tang Qing. In particr, Qin Ran’s skills defied the natural order.


    Others were willing to watch her in the ring all day, much lesspete against Tang Qing.


    They listened to the exnation from the information hall and were excited instead of disappointed. “Really? Is Miss Qin going to lose? That’s great!”


    Finally, they found her a little more human.


    “Miss Qin is so nice to give someone an out.”


    “Indeed, she didn’t embarrass her.”


    “...”


    Not only these members, but Tang Qing herself also felt like she was going to seed. She looked at the beating lines of code in front of her and saw that the virus had sessfully invaded Qin Ran’sputer.


    Her cold and nk face finally eased as she heaved a sigh of relief.


    She invaded the firewall of Qin Ran’sputer port and pressed “enter”, a smile forming on her face.


    But a familiar scene suddenly appeared—


    Her originally beating code and the port suddenly fell into darkness!


    It was really a very familiar scene. If Tang Qing was capable of remaining sensible at this time, she would definitely recall that when she first entered the manor and tried to check Qin Ran’s and Cheng Juan’sputers, she had encountered the exact same thing!


    But she was too focused on the matter at hand. Typing a string of codes, she tried to save herputer.


    But her screen was still ck!


    The indicator light was lit, but the screen was still ck. She had obviously been hacked!


    Tang Qing’s hands loosened and she felt her hands and feet turn cold. Her mind was nk and she could only look up stiffly at Qin Ran.


    She might have grudgingly epted losing to Qin Ran in terms of strength.


    She thought that Qin Ran had been specially trained, so why should shepare her weakness with her strength?


    Thus, her reluctance had prompted her to start this secondputerpetition.


    She had felt so sure that this time, Qin Ran would lose to her.


    But now...


    She stared at the ck screen of theputer...


    Her proud and aloof expression slowly cracked...


    On the stands, the people saying that “Miss Qin is so good” suddenly quietened.


    “Erm...” someone whispered to a member of the information hall, “is Miss Tang really a member of the Hacker Alliance?”


    They were starting to doubt her abilities.


    “Other than Mr. Cheng Huo, Miss Tang is the most powerful person in the information hall?” Someone looked at the information hall with the eyes of “Brothers, you are all so weak”.


    “What a joke!”


    Everyone in the information hall was speechless.


    Yes, Tang Qing looked soulless and was secretly weeping in defeat.


    Cheng Huo wiped his face and stared at Tang Qing. The originally arrogant and proud woman was now looking like a rag standing in the middle of the ring.


    She was probably second-guessing her life.


    Once again, it was indeed wise of Cheng Shui to put Qin Ran’s namest.


    “Undoubtedly, Miss Qin has won the match.” Cheng Huo announced the result and turned around, returning the mess to Cheng Shui to handle.


    Cheng Shui adjusted his clothes and walked to the middle of the stage. He nced at Qin Ran.


    She rolled up her sleeves and walked back to her seat a little reluctantly.


    Cheng Shui finally heaved a sigh of relief.


    Qin Ran almost reached her seat when she paused.


    Cheng Shui held his breath and stared intently at her.


    She turned around and beamed at the people on the stands. “I wee anyone who wants to challenge me.”


    Cheng Shui was speechless.


    He directly ignored her words and pretended not to hear them. Picking up the name list, he began the assessment of the second neer this year. “Second assessor, Lawrence from thew enforcement hall.”


    Qin Ran nced regretfully at Cheng Shui and walked back to her seat.


    A tall young man came on stage. He had brown hair and only wore a shirt in the cold weather.


    His voice sounded deep when he spoke.


    The assessment of freshmen was also ranked ording to strength. Tang Qing ranked first because of her abilities, super hacking skills, and because of Cheng Huo.


    The second ce had ranked only due to his own strength. He wanted to enter thew enforcement hall and was genuinely capable.


    The moment he got on stage, he stared directly at Qin Ran and said without waiting for Cheng Shui to ask, “I want to challenge 421!”


    Cheng Shui reached out to massage his temple.


    He nced at Qin Ran behind him. She was supporting her chin with one hand, her ck down jacket making her face look snowy white. Her expression was excited and eager to try.


    “Miss Qin, can I please trouble you toe and test your boxing strength?” Cheng Shui ignored Lawrence and just asked Qin Ran respectfully.


    “Oh, okay.” Qin Ran nodded reluctantly and was regretful again.