Chapter 284: A Slight Punishment, 283
Xia Yutian walked out of the train station, took a deep breath of fresh air, and felt quite refreshed.
The achievement of this business trip was really great…
Of course, the editor-in-chief still didn’t know what kind of photos he had taken, and if everything went smoothly next, the editor-in-chief and those annoying colleagues might never know. As long as Pei Ningle was willing to pay, he could also keep his word and never leak them.
As for the one million hush money, compared to a music star’s future, it was definitely just a trivial amount of pocket change, right?
Today, Xia Yutian splurged a bit; he didn’t go to the subway station but hailed a taxi roadside.
Considering the worst case, even if Pei Ningle firmly refused to pay, as long as he handed over the photos, he would definitely get a bonus…
When getting out of the taxi, he was still excitedly pondering how to spend the money. But just as he entered the residential area and passed through an unmanned path, he was suddenly attacked.
Someone grabbed his neck from behind and covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel.
In fright, Xia Yutian instinctively took a big breath, feeling his throat full of a strange smell. Soon, his consciousness began to blur; even a short thought was hard to form. The next moment, his consciousness fell into deep darkness.
The person who hid in the dark and suddenly struck was, of course, Wang Heng.
Today, he wore a black T-shirt and jeans, plus a baseball cap and gloves. His backpack contained tools prepared for this operation.
But now it seemed everything was going smoothly, and he might only need a few of the tools.
“The effect is really good.”
Laying this paparazzi entertainment reporter flat on the ground, Wang Heng said so.
A little hamster poked out from the side pocket of the backpack and said indignantly, “Next time, you can’t make me come again! How is this fair? Providing you information is enough; you even made me fetch this medicine!”
Wang Heng shrugged. “Animals stealing things isn’t illegal, but I can’t do it.”
Hamster: “Is this what a law-abiding citizen does? So clever.”
While speaking, Wang Heng had already searched Xia Yutian’s body and found his mobile phone and laptop computer. This laptop had a built-in optical drive, which was perfect and saved Wang Heng a lot of effort.
He took out a prepared system disc from his backpack and cracked the computer’s password in just a few minutes. Soon, he found countless work achievements of this paparazzi big shot. The photos of him and Pei Ningle were, of course, among them.
“This guy’s business capability is pretty good; he took dozens of photos just of me and Pei Ningle… What’s this document? Heh, he even prepared the copy?”
Hamster: “It seems if left completely alone, this scandal might be even bigger than expected.”
“Mysterious male university student enters Pei Ningle’s boudoir late at night and doesn’t come out for an hour…” Wang Heng read the copy draft and couldn’t help laughing. “Factually it’s correct, but these words really make people overthink.”
Hamster: “By the way, couldn’t you find a better place instead of seducing mosquitoes here?”
There were constant “buzzing” sounds around, so while operating the computer, Wang Heng had to wave his hand to drive away the mosquitoes.
He casually replied, “No need, quick battle and quick decision.”
After deleting all photos and documents related to Pei Ningle, Wang Heng connected the paparazzi reporter’s mobile phone to the computer and ran cmd commands. It didn’t take long; the phone’s password was also cracked.
After carefully searching the phone, sure enough, there were backups of the work achievements. So, along with the backups on the phone, Wang Heng deleted them all clean and overwrote with junk data to ensure they couldn’t be recovered.
Doing this naturally came with no psychological burden. After all, these work achievements were strictly things that invaded others’ privacy.
After finishing, Wang Heng searched the guy again and surprisingly found a USB drive.
“There won’t be backups here too, right?” Wang Heng plugged the USB drive into the computer. “Is this the legendary ‘fox has three dens’? Impressive.”
Opening the USB drive, there were no work achievements, just some other things, like AVI and MP4 video files. These files ranged from one to five GB, with filenames as combinations of a few English letters plus strings of numbers, and some Sakura Island text…
Wang Heng clicked to check one and quickly muted the computer: “Yuki, Matsushima, Asuka, Ohashi, Shizhi… Collecting them all is one thing, but sorting them by actress name—this guy is very organized!”
The hamster couldn’t help but marvel: “A 256 GB USB drive, stuffed full, and all collections?”
Wang Heng gave it a sideways glance: “You even know where this guy lives, but you don’t know what’s in his USB collections?”
The hamster spread its little paws: “What are you thinking? I have principles too!”
Regarding this little guy’s principles, Wang Heng had nothing to say, only “heh heh” as response.
He casually deleted the records in the email, checked multiple times to ensure no fish escaped the net, and then Wang Heng started wrapping up—installing pre-prepared hacker scripts on this paparazzi big shot’s phone and computer.
After everything was handled properly, Wang Heng hesitated, then plugged in the USB drive and deleted those goddesses’ videos too.
The hamster couldn’t help sighing: “Wow, you’re so ruthless, vicious enough!”
“Just a little punishment, a little punishment.”
While saying so, Wang Heng created a new txt document on this computer’s desktop and entered some text:
【Think twice before provoking others next time. Our power is beyond your imagination. This time it’s just deleting data; if there’s a next time, whether your body stays intact is questionable. Don’t say you weren’t warned.】
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When Xia Yutian woke up, his mind was still foggy, but his body itched terribly.
Sitting up, he saw many mosquito bite bumps on his arms, one next to another, almost forming patches. And even stranger, why was he sitting on the ground not far from his front door?
He scratched his head and suddenly came to his senses, pulled out his mobile phone, opened a certain folder, and his heart went cold.
The backups on the phone were gone.
Xia Yutian hurriedly unzipped his backpack, took out the computer, and turned it on.
Just then, the mobile phone ringtone rang.
Answering the call, he heard the editor-in-chief’s oily and annoying voice: “Hey, Little Xia, how’s your work going?”
“I…”
Xia Yutian was speechless.
Because he discovered that the work achievements on his computer had been completely deleted!
“Hey, hey,” the editor-in-chief on the other end kept urging, “Little Xia, what are you thinking? I’m asking you!”
Xia Yutian said in stunned silence: “I… sorry…”
“Sorry my foot! Alright, come to the office tomorrow; we need to have a good talk.”
After the editor-in-chief finished, he decisively hung up.
At this moment, he noticed the document on the desktop. Opening it, those few short sentences made him shudder involuntarily.
So, Pei Ningle’s backing was this terrifying?
Xia Yutian sat on the ground, dazed for a while. Suddenly, he pulled out the hard drive from his pocket and plugged it into the computer.
“My god, even this was deleted… Is your backing the Green Dam Lady?!”
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