In the basement of a detached villa in Hokkaido, Island Nation.
Amahae Chiki stared intently at the computer screen, his fingers constantly tapping across the keyboard. Even as code streamed through the window, his expression remained blank.
He was a member of the Joker Organization.
When the Chinese Character Programming Language had first emerged, someone started a discussion group for it on a hacker forum and named it Joker.
His father happened to be of Huaxia descent, and he knew Chinese. Wanting to learn this entirely new computer language, he joined the group.
They had repeatedly used the Chinese Character Programming Language to write all kinds of code and tools, gradually gaining more knowledge and experience.
When they learned that the virus behind the Jiangnan Virus incident in Huaxia had been written using the Chinese Character Programming Language, they became curious about its code and what had given it such insane spreading power. So they plotted to steal the virus's source code.
When they discovered the virus's terrifying ability to spread and penetrate firewalls, they were ecstatic. To show the world their skills, they planned the insane operation of hijacking an entire city's network.
This caused internal conflict within Joker.
The founder of Joker and some of its members left, while the rest formed the new Joker Organization.
After successfully planning the hijacking of a city's network, they had gained their sense of accomplishment, split the money, and vanished. They rarely contacted one another afterward.
However, news had suddenly broken some time ago that the "Joker Organization" had reappeared and infiltrated the CIA. As members of the group, they were all dumbfounded.
They had been able to hijack a city's network because ordinary people's firewalls were easy to breach. Combined with the Joker Virus's powerful ability to spread and the