Chapter 872
The biggest concern that Linus had was searching for the person who altered the program for the dog
walking route.
Although it was not rocket science, all that was needed for several parameters to be reset. However, in
order to do that, basic technical skills for runningputer programs were still needed as the person
would need to login and search for the correct program to do so—something that a child who struggled
to add and subtractplex numbers could do.
Moreover, not everyone had ess to Nichs’ controls. One needed to log in with his administrator
password to adjust the functions and moreover, the perpetrator even deleted all the logs recording the
changes made.
Nobody knew how Nichs’ dog walking route had been tampered with.
They shot a nce at the three children ying in the mud and broke out in cold sweat.
When Stanley heard about the news, hepletely lost hisposure. “This is the third time! The
third f*cking time! What has my kid done to deserve your treatment? You are all animals—no, worse
than that!”
His furkid had been merely minding its own business, but both Faye and the Mitchells manipted the
dog to hurt others. Not only did Carmen have the nerve to frame Judge for attacking children, Sophia
even made the husky model at her shop to boost the sales of her dog cors and chains. Only God
knew how much revenue Judge brought in for her and all he received for his hard work was a pat on
his head—and nothing else. This is too much!
To quell Stanley’s incessant rant, the children’s fathers conducted a search for the ck money from
the little mob’s underground business and redistributed it—Judge took half the share as he was rightly
deserving of it while the other half was evenly shared by the three musketeers.
Carmen, who was feeling unjustified, whipped out her little book where she had recorded the dog’s
performance. The husky was duly paid with pets that he received on his head and the urrence of his
tail wagging. She raised her fingers and counted his payout—each of them as per the pay ratio and
precise to the decimal point. The sry she paid Judge was fair—no more, no less!
After that, Judge was fired from herpany and he was not allowed to mingle with them anymore.
Stanley left with his dog’s pay and brought him to his beach vi. I’m angry! I’m noting back!
With a cold case being solved, it meant that her dog petting empire was ruined and her secret base
was exposed. She was furious and even declined to drink her milk until Cooper dug up about 200 in
loose change and told her that Stan had returned it out of guilt. She counted the amount and only fell
asleep after she was satisfied.
After seeing that Carmen had fallen asleep, Sophia gently exited the room and saw that Linus was still
studying Nichs and Shae.
It had perplexed him to learn that all of the logs had been eradicated and the robots’ dog walking routes
were changed. Even after much observation, he failed to discover the perpetrator.
Cooper also took the matter seriously and personally investigated it.
Linus had hacked Nichs using a backdoor method to monitor Sophia at her residence many years
ago, but Cooper had since blocked that ess.
However, as Cooper still held the passcode to it, the ess was not temporarily removed. It was only
inactive and served as a folder for memory backups.
He had almost forgotten about the backup folder and now that he did, he immediately retrieved the files
from there and discovered the log change. Indeed, someone had logged in with Linus’ ount and
password to alter the parameters of the dog walking route beforepletely removing their trace. It
was such a pity that the perpetrator was unaware of the backup function.
The backup had a video recording of the perpetrator—it was Carmen with her lollipop dangling from the
corner of her mouth, wearing the expression of a seasoned operator as she adeptly changed Nichs’
parameters.
Linus had enjoyed having Carmen’spany when he did maintenance work on Nichs and Shae.
He even demonstrated to her how he did it, thinking that she was too young to grasp what it was all
about. Little was he aware that she had secretly learned all of his methods, altered the dog walking
program on her own, led the dogs to her kindergarten, and ultimately built her dog petting business.
What she never expected was her perfect crime to be exposed.
Carmen had roughly known that the days of her illegal venture were numbered since day one, so she
made as much as she could on a daily basis. In the imminent event that she was caught, she could at
least y dumb and get out of trouble scot-free.
She had almost escaped unscathed with the incidents of Judge biting children and her beating Albert
up, but a little girl like her had missed out on one important loophole to her wed n.
Sophia felt as if she was beginning to know her daughter all over again. Beneath Carmen’s sweet,
innocent looks, she was already a tyrant who exploited her employees. Imagine what she would be
capable of when she grows up!
On the other hand, Cooper felt like Christopher Columbus when he first discovered America and
developed a newfound admiration for his vicious little granddaughter. Not bad; she takes after me!
Now that the mystery had been resolved, Sophia saw that Michael loitered in front of her house. He
looked like he had something to tell her, but was hesitant to do so. He paced back and forth in front of
Vi No. 2 as his shadow blended with and departed from the shade under the trees. The scent of
tobo filled the air around him.
Sophia had never recalled seeing Michael smoke in front of her and never knew that he maintained
that habit.
Donning her sleeping robe, she went out the door. As she arrived at the trees not far from her garden,
there were mosquitoes flying around. The sweet, captivating scent of her fragrance found its way to
him with the help of the evening breeze, causing him to finally stop in his tracks before he walked to her
with his head hung low.
The both of them faced each other, but said nothing. He had a lot on his mind, butcked the courage
to voice his thoughts.
Finally, Sophia broke the silence by raising her hand and pping his cheek, leaving a fresh handprint
on his cheek.
Michael felt a sting on his cheek, but he did not react. Instead, he lowered his head in shame and
replied with guilt, “I’m sorry; it is my fault that I failed to protect Carmen and you. I have failed as a
father and a husband.”
He considered that he failed as a father when Carmen was almost bullied in school. If it had not been
for his own negligence, Sophia could have avoided being hurt for the second time and would not be
depressed. He deserved the p from Sophia!
Sophia frowned and asked, “What’s wrong with you? I was merely killing that mosquito on your face.”
She then opened her palm to reveal the disfigured carcass of a mosquito buried in the messy puddle of
Michael’s blood.
A stunned Michael fell into silence.
Following that, they both sat down on a long bench where Sophia took her insect repellent to spray on
his face. His mind was clouded by his numerous thoughts and woes that he was oblivious to the
mosquito bite on his face—where a bump had begun to rise from that bite.
Stter! Sophia attentively sprayed and rubbed the repellent on Michael’s face before noticing several
more bumps across his body. “Look at you—there are many mosquitoes flying around us. What are
you doing out here and getting yourself bitten by them? There are mosquitoes and you never killed
them yourself. Look here… and here… as well as here—there are bumps all over!”
As she spoke, she pinched his bumps, leaving the marks of a cross.
Michael gazed at her while she grumbled and reminisced about the past. After a long pause, he finally
summoned the courage to speak and asked with apprehension after the lump in his throat moved.
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“Sophia… Did you find out what happened that time?”