Tony Stark quickly put his humiliating spectacle behind him. Being the carefree sort, he did not dwell on it.
After signing two checks—one donated to the school library, the other to the poor guy handling the aftermath—he left without looking back.
Even if he wanted to deal with the Joker Virus, he could take his time with it after getting home. He was not used to the keyboards here. Besides, he wanted to study CK's work in depth, and that would take time.
Tony Stark was now sitting in the lounge with a group of computer geeks, discussing what had just happened.
"So you're saying the host I invaded was a fake?" Tony asked in disbelief.
"Yeah. After discussing it with the others, that's the most likely conclusion. And you were headed in the wrong direction from the start."
"How was I wrong?" the arrogant young master said stubbornly.
"The first clue CK gave you was that you needed to protect yourself, not invade him."
Tony had wanted to argue that if he had successfully invaded the other side and stopped any possible timer program, would that not have interrupted the virus infection?
But since a fake host space had been used to trick him, Tony naturally had not found any programs related to the virus, much less stopped anything from happening. As a result, the computer he had used had been infected too.
"Did anyone find out where that BBS is hosted?" Tony asked. If it could not be settled online, then arranging a real-life showdown offline was an eternal truth.
"We checked. That IP belongs to the University of Chicago on the East Coast. But the people in Chicago investigated, and none of the staff managing the computer room had set up that BBS. There isn't even a