Chapter 38


    Chapter 38 They Have Been Hacked


    Callum’s voice pulled Elspeth back to her senses. She gazed at him as he looked rather solemn under


    the dim light, and her heart pounded against her chest.


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    “Yeah?”


    Callum had a few sses of wine. He looked slightly different, and his gaze was more profound than


    usual.


    “Do you like ke?”


    She couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows at the question. “What makes you think I like ke?”


    He took a step forward. “If you didn’t like him, why did you shootmercials with him? Why didn’t you


    reject his confession? And…” There was a tinge of something in his voice, and his gaze was so deep


    that she felt that she was drowning.


    Elspeth held his shoulders and said softly, “Callum, you’re drunk.”


    When he heard the word ‘drunk’, he sobered up a little and took a step back. “No, I’m not drunk. I just


    want to remind you not to be with ke. What happenedst time was a lesson.”


    His remarks reminded her of what happened a few months ago when ke’s obsessive fans


    kidnapped her, locked her up in the restroom, and beat her up. She felt a chill down her spine when


    she thought of the crazy fans’ heinous faces.


    Thankfully, she didn’t fancy ke, or his fans, obsessive or not, would have hunted her down any way


    they could.


    “Got it. Thanks for the reminder, but I don’t like ke.” She smiled faintly. “Is that all? If so, I’m going to


    bed now.”


    The current atmosphere was a bit strange. She didn’t know what Callum was thinking about, and he


    was a little odd today, so she had the urge to escape from him.


    He didn’t say anything in response, so she quickly blurted, “Good night. Don’t stay up sote.” Then,


    she hastily went to her room.


    The next day, Callum didn’t call Elspeth to the office to discuss the new quarterly program as usual.


    She felt that it was rather odd but did not ask him about it.


    When it was almost noon, she suddenly heard a cry from the desk not far away. “D*mn! There’s


    something wrong with myputer!”


    She cast a suspicious nce at the shout. In the next second, all theputer screens in the nning


    department became nk. At the same time, horrified shrieks echoed throughout the office.


    “My draft! I didn’t save it!”


    “I just finished drawing the outlines!”


    “What is going on? Can someone please take care of this?!”


    As theints resonated in the office, she rose to her feet, cleared her throat, and said loudly,


    “Alright, calm down.”


    “How can we calm down like you, Miss Lynwood? Everyone’sputers are broken, except yours,”


    someone whined. Elspeth cast a cold re at the person who spoke, and the person shut her mouth in


    fright.


    She designed her own operating system, and no virus could invade and hack herputer, which was


    why herputer was fine.


    Elspeth recognized the person who talked back to her. Her name was Linda Shaw. She was the closest


    to Ophelia when Ophelia came to the office.


    “What? Miss Lynwood’sputer is fine?” All the staff looked at Elspeth’sputer and found that it


    was running smoothly.


    Linda clicked her tongue and sneered, “Miss Lynwood, no offense, but why is yourputer okay


    when all of ourputers are broken? Did you…”


    She trailed off mid-sentence, but everyone knew that she was implying that Elspeth must have done


    something to hack theirputers. They began to suspect Elspeth’s motives for doing so.


    Elspeth red coldly at Linda and asked, “What are you implying?”


    Linda raised her chin to show that she wouldn’t back down. “I’m not bad-mouthing you. I’m just stating


    my opinion. If you didn’t do it, prove it. You don’t have to threaten me!”


    Elspeth turned to look at the other employees. “Do you need me to prove my innocence?”


    A man slowly said, “Miss Lynwood, I know you, so I don’t think you’d do something like this, but—”


    “Why not?!” Linda interjected. “Everyone wants to be the best employee in thepany. By doing


    so, she can defeat the rest of us and steal the limelight!”


    Elspeth immediately understood what she was trying to do with her brazen remarks. “Linda, it seems


    like you know ‘my’ motive better than I do.”


    “What?!” Linda’s face turned pale as she stammered, “No, I don’t! You’re trying to use me, aren’t


    you? M-Myputer broke down too!”


    She pointed to herputer and eximed, “Myputer was the first to break down. The screen


    suddenly turned nk when I was working on the documents!”


    Elspeth raised eyebrows at Linda’s triumphant smirk as she asked, “Can I take a look at your


    computer?”


    “Sure.” Linda nodded confidently. “Feel free to look. It broke down anyway, so there’s nothing to hide.”


    She had hacked theputer with the most destructiveputer virus, so she was confident that


    Elspeth would not be able to restore theputer.


    Elspeth smiled mysteriously as she warned, “Okay. Don’te crying to meter.”


    She went to check Linda’sputer and found that it was hacked by a virus called Efira. It was a


    notoriousputer virus, and there were only five people in the world who could crack it.


    Unfortunately for Linda, Elspeth was one of them.


    Elspeth quickly typed codes on theputer, and strings of iprehensible letters and mathematical


    symbols kept appearing on the screen. The employees watched on in amazement.


    Finally, she managed to crack the virus. The moment she restored theputer, everyone saw Linda’s


    unfinished creation on the screen—a simple sketch of a frog.


    “Oh? The documents you were working on were this frog, huh?” Elspeth mocked.


    “No! M-Maybe when the virus invaded myputer, it changed my documents into this frog!” Linda


    tried to exin herself. As more people looked in her direction skeptically, she flushed and added


    awkwardly, “I did work on the documents. If you don’t believe me, I can show you my backup file—”


    She was too nervous and identally spilled the beans by saying that she had managed to save her


    file.


    “You have a backup? Wow, Miss Shaw, you can predict the future, huh? You knew a virus would hit the


    computer, so you saved your file in advance.” Elspeth didn’t hesitate to expose her lies.


    When Linda saw that her scheme had been exposed, she snarled, “Yeah, I did it, so what?! If it hadn’t


    been for you, I would have be the supervisor when Ava was promoted! I’ve been working


    diligently in thispany for years, and you came out of nowhere and snatched my promotion! So, I’m


    pissed!”


    She had spent years of effort for thepany, but why didn’t she get anything in return?!