In other words...
Jaxon still didn't know that Black Mirage had entered the country.
Even the Ghost Alliance's tech couldn't detect him.
That meant very few people in all of Elyndor could have known about Black Mirage's arrival.
He must have used an unconventional, hidden route.
"I haven't received any intel on my end either... This Black Mirage has some skills," Nicholas said, his eyes narrowed as he scanned the screen for any trace of the
man.
"As long as he's here," Serena said with a slight smile. "It saves me the trouble of waiting for him."
Nicholas's dark, captivating eyes shifted to look at Serena. The tide of emotion he had been suppressing surged once more.
Watching the excitement bloom in her eyes, his well-defined fingers clenched into a fist.
Black Mirage was here.
Once their target was in the net, she... would return to the Lancaster family.
Did she not feel a single shred of reluctance?
Just then, a shrill alarm blared through the control room.
[Warning! Network system under high-intensity attack!]
[Warning! Firewall pressure increasing!]
[Warning! Firewall breach in progress!]
On the massive screen, the stable data streams instantly dissolved into chaos.
Countless lines of code transformed into a dense swarm of viruses, attempting to break through the villa's security system firewall.
"Heh, they're finally here."
Serena pulled out a chair and sat down at the main console. "Just like rats in a sewer. When they can't get past the physical defenses, they resort to dirty tricks. Do they really think sending a team of hackers to paralyze the security system will give them a chance to break in?"
Her hands fell onto the keyboard, a smirk playing on her lips. "Amateurs trying to play in the big leagues."
Her ten fingers flew, becoming a blur of motion.
The chaotic data on the screen instantly seemed to find a backbone, precisely intercepting the attack under her commands.
"Find the attack source and lock the
II
coordinates, Serena said, her
a glance
fingertips flying.
at Nicholas. "Can you track them?"
Nicholas sat down beside her. "What do you think?"
As he spoke, his fingers also began to move rapidly across the console.
Code scrolled swiftly across the screen.
To Serena, the enemy's fierce cyberattack was laughably weak.
With Nicholas assisting, they tracked the enemy's system.
Serena ruthlessly hammered out a backdoor and slipped a ghost-tracer into their system.
The fluid, seamless operation made Nicholas raise an eyebrow slightly. "Your methods... are very Gray Zone."
Serena didn't look up, her fingers never stopping. Her voice was faint. "You've seen them before?"
Nicholas chuckled. "Just a guess."
Qu
His gaze felt on her rapidly moving fingers. The strings of code typed seemed to counter the enemy's attack with almost no resistance.
His smile deepened. "Impressive."
Serena wasn't surprised that
Nicholas knew about a place likenet
Gray Zone, which operated in the gray area between legal and illegal.
She had always felt that this man's background was unfathomably deep.
As time passed, Serena's fingers suddenly paused, then she tapped twice more. "Found him. Black Mirage..."
On the screen, an extremely inconspicuous signal node flickered almost imperceptibly.
"Southeast corner, thirty yards from the villa's perimeter."
As she spoke, she deliberately left a tiny loophole in the massive defense network.
The loophole was made to look like it had been caused by the high-intensity attack.
After typing the final command, the smile on her lips curved into a wicked arc.
It was a wild, unrestrained, and utterly devilish expression.
"The bait is set. Now we wait for the big fish to bite."