<h4>Chapter 34: My Friend, Have You Heard Of Little X?</h4>


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    Dawn began to brighten and a marble white expanse gradually permeated the sky, ushering in a new daybreak.


    At this time, in Shangdu’s inner ring wherend was precious, there was a three-hundred-square-meter mansion, from which a faint snoring sound constantly rang out.


    The interior design of the room was of a ssical European aesthetic but the messy clothes around the room, the beer bottles scattered everywhere, and the overturned trash cans and ashtrays, revealed the owner’s sloppiness.


    Upon the luxurious Paris Dream bed, a man, around thirty years of age, was sleeping soundly.


    A trace of heroism from his youth could still be discerned on his face but the gradual weight gain of middle-age had pushed this heroism to the brink of vanishing.


    Modern inte lingo would describe him as “fatty”.


    This man was named Zhan Fei. Seven or eight years back, he relied on YY to make his fortune and established his union four years ago, signing on hundreds of anchors from different tforms. Now, he earned most of his wealth through live broadcasting.


    However, this was only his surface identity.


    Zhan Fei was secretly a hacker as well. When he was young, he had dropped out of school because he heard that there was a promising future in theputer industry. Therefore, he learnedputer programming andter became enchanted by the unrestrained freedom of the inte.


    With this basic foundation of knowledge, Zhan Fei started to ess the dark web, plunging directly into the evilest forbidden area online, that was even unrestricted byw.


    As time passed, Zhan Fei amassed many skills: invading, cracking,piling, dpiling, and so on. When he was sixteen, he even created a highly lethalputer worm by himself, earning hundreds of thousands of U.S. dors.


    Even today, he still lurked in the shadows of the inte. He was like an assassin. In this world, no one knew his true identity.


    However, this could change today.


    “Beep beep beep...”


    Zhan Fei, who had fallen asleep not long ago, was suddenly startled awake by a peculiar rm.


    It sounded like the dulcet tones of a music box. The entire song wasposed of a crisp melody, without any apaniment or harmony. This music was light and pure.


    Nevertheless, to someone who was awakened from sleep, even the most melodious tune would sound like noise pollution.


    “D*mn it...”


    Zhan Fei mumbled hoarsely to himself. He snatched up his phone by the bed, then stared nkly, lost for words.


    When he turned on the screen of his phone, the rm stopped as well.


    His phone indicated that his mailbox had received an anonymous email.


    Although Zhan Fei was close to being middle-aged, he was still very cautious thanks to his frequent trips to the dark web. When he saw this notification, he immediately sensed that something was wrong.


    This was because he had never set a 7 A.M. rm nor had he selected this rm tone that he had never heard before.


    Moreover, this mailbox was the one he had used with his dark web’s identity. In this world, there were fewer than ten people who knew about this email address.


    “Does my phone have a virus?”


    Zhan Fei frowned. His vignt hacker’s instincts prevented him from opening the email. Instead, he got up with a grunt and walked to theputer with his phone.


    He fished around for a USB cable, then connected his phone to theputer. Only then did he download thepressed package on hisputer that had been well fortified.


    Meanwhile, he also started up an Android emtor, preparing to open this unknown email on hisputer.


    After he unzipped the file, he found that there were three software instation packages.


    “Little X Trantion Assistant? What the hell is this?”


    Zhan Fei was rather taken aback and skimmed over the introduction below. “Software that trantes webpages in foreignnguages? But what does that have to do with me?”


    Nheless, considering that it was sent from the dark web after all, Zhan Fei made the necessary preparations before installing the program in the Android emtor.


    The icon of this program was a cartoon image. In essence, it was arge X with two eyes, just like a cartoon.


    Zhan Fei double-clicked on the icon. Instantly, the emtor’s screen was covered by a transparent film while a window popped out from the software.


    “Chinese system detected. Automatically trante all foreignnguages into Chinese?”


    Zhan Fei thought for a second, then clicked “Yes”.


    After that, there was nothing else.


    It seemed that the software would run in the background automatically. Other than that, nothing else changed.


    “That’s all?”


    Zhan Fei was bbergasted. He stared at the lower right corner of his screen disbelievingly but there was no message that some unknown virus had been detected. This instation package seemed to be clean, without any issues.


    However, Zhan Fei soon gathered himself. After some thinking, he tried opening a foreignnguage webpage but the moment it appeared, he saw that this website, which was supposedly written in a foreignnguage, was in Chinese as well?


    “I haven’t visited this page for a while. Did this website develop a Chinese version?”


    Zhan Fei was rather bewildered. Still, he exited this page and opened another well-known webpage written in a foreignnguage.


    However, the shocking thing was that this webpage also disyed actual Chinese characters.


    “This...”


    By this point, Zhan Fei had finally realized something was off.


    “That’s impossible. How can a software change the entire webpage?”


    After puzzling over it, Zhan Fei shook his head quickly. “No, it’s not the webpage that has changed. Does it only change the webpages I’ve opened?”


    With this in mind, Zhan Fei went to the system settings of the emtor and forcibly stopped Little X Trantion Assistant from running. Then, he clicked on that foreignnguage website again.


    He was right. The English webpage remained in English. This website had not set up a Chinese page for users in Maind China.


    “So, that’s it!”


    At this moment, Zhan Fei had a realization atst. However, he started frowning again. Next, he immediately opened the search engine and searched for “Little X Trantion Assistant”.


    There was nothing online.


    “This means that this is an application that hasn’t been officiallyunched?”


    Now, Zhan Fei finally somewhat understood what was going on.


    He could not help feeling excited. Though he did not know about the trantion market, he knew that Baidu Trantor had never been able to trante between English and Chinese so perfectly.


    This technology was far beyond any trantion software on the market.


    “But why was it sent to me?”


    “Beep beep beep...”


    Before he could finish speaking, Zhan Fei’s phone suddenly rang again.


    This time was different than before. This was an unknown phone call.


    The iing call did not disy any number, only the words “Unknown Caller”.


    Zhan Fei was silent for a moment. This could only mean that the base station nearby had been hacked by the caller.


    The sender of the email was contacting him.


    Although Zhan Fei felt a little flustered by this, he got a grip on himself at once. As a hacker, the most important thing to do was remain calm.


    If he could not even keep a cool head, then he could never have be a hacker.


    Moreover, was the other person going to such lengths merely to show off and while they were at it, perhaps send Zhan Fei to prison?


    Chances of that were very slim. This person had probably just got a hold of Zhan Fei’s secrets and wanted to ckmail him.


    Although the other person had the upper ground for now, Zhan Fei might still have an opportunity to retaliate once they had established contact.


    Having considered this, Zhan Fei made up his mind. He lifted his hand and gently epted the call.


    The moment the call was connected, a babyish voice rang out from the phone.


    “My friend, have you heard of Little X?”