Sweeping the Difficult Task Board!

[Ding, Alipay payment received: 5,000 yuan!]

The pleasant sound rang out from Ye Fan's phone again and again without stopping.

The bloated, obese landlord stared at Ye Fan in shock, disbelief flashing through his eyes. Wasn't he just a poor student?

Why were so many people sending him money?

What exactly did he do?

The landlord's heart was in turmoil.

Looking at the notification on his phone, Ye Fan turned to the landlord and asked, "How much?"

"Uh, including this quarter's rent, sixteen hundred!"

As soon as the landlord finished speaking, Ye Fan said, "I'll pay you two thousand. The extra is interest. Get out of here."

After scanning the code and paying, Ye Fan slammed the door shut, leaving the landlord standing there in bewilderment.

"Hmph, what's with that attitude? Who knows where he got that illegal money from. Hmph, so what if he has money? I'm the landlord!"

"If you've got the ability, go buy yourself a house!"

"Tch!"

The landlord stood outside the door with his hands on his hips, snarling as he shouted.

Ye Fan heard him from inside the room, and his gaze turned somewhat cold. Ever since obtaining the Billion-Crystal Tech System, his demeanor had changed drastically. He was worlds apart from the insecure, self-abasing person he used to be.

Buy a house?

It wouldn't take long.

Ye Fan looked at his balance. There was a total of 130,000 yuan!

Seeing that string of numbers, Ye Fan was incredibly excited. His fists clenched tightly.

When had he ever seen this much money?

This was only the result of three hours, and those had been the simplest tasks. What about difficult tasks?

This money was far too easy to earn!

Ye Fan was thrilled.

Everything he could not afford before, everything he had not dared to buy, he could buy now. Still, this was only a little money. He had to stay steady, or what would make him any different from an upstart?

Continue!

The Difficult Task Board!

Inside the Program Network forum.

"Code K hasn't made a move for an hour. Looks like he was just seeking attention!"

"Single Hand Driving Maserati was right. He's just an attention-seeking clown. I thought he would sweep the Difficult Task Board. Doesn't he just want fame?"

"Let's go, let's go!"

The forum gradually quieted down.

Just as Ye Fan was about to start typing code to fix bugs and take on tasks, he noticed something unusual.

His Prestige seemed to have increased!

Host: Ye Fan!

Prestige: 333

Acquisition Units: Holographic Projection Technology, Supercomputer Technology!

What the hell was this?

When had it increased by 300 Prestige? Where had this Prestige come from?

Ye Fan still did not know how much shock his three-hour board sweep had caused everyone in the forum.

There wasn't even a notification?

"Ding, Prestige +3!"

"Ding, Prestige +1!"

Just as Ye Fan muttered to himself, notification chimes sounded in his mind.

???

Was this system voice-activated?

It was good that there were notifications. That would help him understand how Prestige increased.

Sweeping the board earned Prestige, so what was he waiting for?

He wasn't sleeping tonight.

Sleep? Forget sleep, let's get hyped!

Tap tap tap~

The keyboard clattered once more. His hands seemed to be moving at top speed, incredibly fast, leaving only afterimages across the keys.

Accept task.

Complete task.

Submit Source Code.

Audit Mission.

There were more than twenty tasks on the Difficult Task Board.

Over a hundred people had accepted tasks, yet not a single person had completed one or submitted a task.

But at this moment.

A field of red appeared.

Once a task was submitted, it could no longer be accepted while it was under review. It would be temporarily frozen, and only reopened if the audit failed.

But the sea of red that appeared now made the forum, which had just quieted down, explode once again!

"Holy shit, holy shit! Who the fuck called him a Minor God? This is a Minor God? In just one short hour, he's already completed three tasks! How is that even possible? Is he still human? Give him another three hours, and he'll sweep the entire Difficult Task Board, okay?"

"Terrifying! Even a real expert couldn't possibly do this, right?"

"Exactly! Not even Single Hand Driving Maserati could do it. Didn't he say sweeping the Simple Board was already insanely difficult? It was impossible to sweep it in three hours, but this Code K did it!"

The forum exploded.

The experts who had also been following the forum all fell silent.

They truly could not match Code K's speed. These tasks had all been newly updated today. Forget preparing in advance—it was impossible.

Sitting before his computer, the bespectacled and mild-mannered Single Hand Driving Maserati was furious. He had been slapped in the face, even trampled beneath someone's feet. Just who was this Code K?

Single Hand Driving Maserati, whose hairline was already receding, wore a livid expression. A blazing rage rose within him, and he was deeply unwilling to accept this.

Code K was climbing upward with a foot on his head.

I'll definitely find you!

I refuse to believe you can sweep the Hell Task Board too!

He quickly typed out a line in the forum.

"Code K is nothing more than a despicable person, an attention-seeking clown. You want to become famous through this method? You're still too green. Everyone, be careful. Maybe he isn't even a programmer—maybe he's a hacker!"

A hacker?

The forum was instantly thrown into an uproar.

Hackers were vastly different from them. Hackers specialized in invading other people's computers and stealing all kinds of information for profit.

As for programmers, they were merely responsible for coding and building all kinds of programs and software. They were creators, while hackers were thieves and burglars.

"Holy shit, no wonder! If he's a hacker, wouldn't everyone's computers have been hacked?"

"No wonder! He just has to hack into everyone's nearly completed Source Code and steal it. Wouldn't that make it his?"

"Hackers are all trash!"

The forum was filled with anger. These people had been led along by the narrative, but some smarter people disagreed.

Hackers would never stoop to such petty tricks here. This required Real-name Authentication, and besides, the Net Police were formidable these days. Wouldn't that be courting death?

In truth, when compared directly, programmers were sometimes inferior to hackers because they lacked hackers' skills.

Programmers spent most of their time figuring out how to create things.

Inside Ye Fan's room at Red Leaf Apartment.

Ye Fan's typing slowed, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face because the notification chimes in his mind kept ringing.

"Prestige +10!"

"Prestige +20!"

In just ten minutes, his Prestige had already broken through one thousand.

Why had it increased by so much this time?

Ye Fan browsed the Program Website. Such a large increase in Prestige must have come from here. Sure enough, he found the forum and discovered that it was full of discussions about him.

Code K—every forum post began with something about Code K.

The corners of Ye Fan's mouth rose, and he was in an excellent mood.

There were only a little over five hundred Active Users in the forum.

Although there were only this many people, the more shocked, frightened, excited, or otherwise emotional they became because of him, the deeper those emotions grew, and the more Prestige he gained.

In other words, it was not that each person only gave him Prestige once and then became useless.

That was not how it worked. They would continuously provide him with Prestige as long as they experienced Emotional Fluctuation Value because of him!

So that was how it worked!

Just as Ye Fan learned how Prestige was gained, over at the Programmer Official Website Headquarters!

"Director Liu, Director Liu, it's started again!"

Bang!

The secretary slammed the door open, startling Director Liu, who had been squinting while reading a novel.

"Can't you knock before coming in? Do you know that people can be scared to death?"

The secretary had no time for that. Panting heavily, he shouted, "Director Liu, this is bad! That Code K—"

"What did he do now?!"

Just hearing that name gave Director Liu a massive headache!

"Code K has started sweeping the entire Difficult Task Board!"

Bang!

Upon hearing this, Director Liu shot to his feet!

"What?!"

Director Liu's eyes widened in fury, and even his heart trembled.

Code K, are you even human?!

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