Song He waited patiently.
The students tapped away at their keyboards, occasionally shouting out a word or two to communicate the direction of their attack.
The meeting room was filled with hackers' professional terminology and jargon. Song He couldn't understand any of it and could only watch.
After watching for a long while, he felt awkward... He couldn't understand a thing even when he watched.
"About how long will it take?" Song He couldn't help asking.
"The other side's network defenses are pretty tight. It'll take quite a while to break through. Teacher, you should go rest first. Leave this to us." The student in the red hoodie said, "Probably anywhere from a few hours to a day or two!"
Song He and the student in the red hoodie added each other on WeChat. His profile picture was a Ctrl key, though Song He had no idea what it meant. His WeChat name, meanwhile, was a person's name: Li Zicheng.
The moment Song He saw the name, he almost lost his composure. Dude, are you the Chuang Wang?
"Is that your real name or a pseudonym?" Song He couldn't help asking.
Li Zicheng smiled shyly. "My real name. It's a local custom back home. When naming a child, you first ask a fortune-teller to come up with dozens of auspicious characters, then draw lots. My dad happened to draw 'Zicheng.'"
Song He smiled. "Not bad. Standing on your own feet and achieving success. Thanks for your hard work, everyone. Communicate with me anytime if anything comes up."
After leaving the meeting room, Song He returned to his office and opened the monitoring software on his computer.
There was a small camera in the corner of the meeting room, which he could view from his computer. It had originally been used