Chapter 246: Old Liu’s Belated Realization (Part 2)

After speaking.

Zhang Quan hurriedly left.

By the time Old Liu and Li Jiahang came out, he had already disappeared around the corner.

Zhao Qingfeng heard the entire conversation clearly.

After Zhang Quan deposited the money, he thanked Zhao Qingfeng with his share of three hundred thousand, “Boss Zhao, this isn’t really scamming them, right? They checked the source code themselves, and I don’t understand it, but they said it was fine.”

Zhao Qingfeng smiled, “Enjoy your money and don’t show up in Beijing anymore, act like this never happened.”

The source code, of course, had no problems.

Zhao Qingfeng wouldn’t be foolish enough to tamper with the source code itself.

But the USB drive was a different story. It was specially crafted by him.

In any case, once Old Liu went back and turned on his computer, he would understand everything.

Zhang Quan was gone, like a gust of wind, coming without a trace and leaving without a shadow.

Old Liu and Li Jiahang excitedly returned to the provincial city, turned on the computer, plugged in the USB drive, and prepared to start development immediately.

But they were both shocked to find.

The source code files that were supposed to be on the USB drive had vanished!

Even.

The copies that Li Jiahang made on his computer to prevent mistakes had also disappeared, leaving behind an empty USB drive!

Old Liu was dumbfounded, “Quick, check the email, didn’t we upload it online?”

Li Jiahang, coming to his senses, sighed with relief.

However, when he opened the email, he found that the code files saved as text documents had all turned into a screen full of gibberish!

A virus!

Li Jiahang spent three hours trying to fix it without success.

Fraud!

Old Liu also came to a realization, “Damn, who is behind this Mingyue cheat! Jiahang, I don’t care about these, you said your school’s teacher is very powerful, go to the school immediately and see if it can be restored. The priority now is our source code, I demand you fix it within two days!”

“Uncle Liu, aren’t you going? What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to Beijing to report to the police! Damn, if I find out who did this, I’ll twist his head off!”

Report to the police?

The key issue was where to find the person.

In 2001, there was no surveillance, and train travel didn’t require real-name registration. Finding Zhang Quan, who could blend into a crowd without standing out, was harder than reaching the heavens.

Old Liu’s company was in chaos.

On the other side, Zhao Qingfeng was already at Zhuo Zhan Mall buying lots of high-end clothes for Shen Lingyao.

The brands and logos weren’t obvious because Shen Lingyao wanted to keep a low profile.

Zhao Qingfeng also preferred to be low-key, not because he thought showing off his wealth was flaunty but because he felt he didn’t have enough money to warrant high-profile behavior.

“Sir, the total for these items comes to thirty-eight thousand. Please make the payment here.”

“Okay.”

Zhao Qingfeng agreed, then suddenly remembered an important issue.

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