"That was so thrilling!" Long Aotian exclaimed as he returned to his dorm and gazed at the computer in front of him.
As for the bags and packaging from the phones and computer, he had already disposed of them before using [Flying Thunder God] to return to his dorm. He hadn't thrown them into the school trash cans. Better safe than sorry.
He connected his laptop to his phone's mobile data, plugged the phone issued by the school into the computer with a cable, and began hacking into the school system.
Long Aotian wasn't worried about getting caught. The phone number wasn't his, and even if they tracked him down, he could just use [Flying Thunder God] to reach D Intersection, dump the computer in the sea, then come back. Problem solved.
First, he found the school system. Using his hacking skills, Long Aotian obtained the system administrator's account and logged into the backend. He found the accounts and point totals for every student in the year. His own account showed a balance of 11.75 million points.
Long Aotian fell silent...
Even if he laundered the points through the system, if anyone investigated, over ten million points in a first-year student's account barely two weeks into the school year would look suspicious no matter how you looked at it.
Long Aotian decided to make some adjustments. First, he separated his own account and hid it privately. Then he created a new account under the name Long Aotian and put it in the system, loading it with fifty thousand points from his own balance.
[Points: 11.75 million (fake account: 50,000 points)]
Satisfied with his work, he moved on to setting up the account that would launder the points. It was a little complicated, so pay close attention.
He created an account named "a," then programmed it to direct incoming payments through a chain of student accounts.
Whenever someone sent points to account a, they would first pass through student accounts, rotating through them until they finally reached account a.
For example, if someone sent 100,000 points to account a, the points would first go to Sakayanagi Arisu's account, then 100,000 would be deducted from her balance and sent to another student, continuing in a loop.
First round: 100,000 → Sakayanagi Arisu's account → student x → student x → student x (the 99th student) → Ayanokoji Kiyotaka → Sakayanagi Arisu's account...
At this point, you might be asking: wouldn't the points just keep going around and never reach account a?
Don't rush. This is only the first round.
Second round: 100,000 → Sakayanagi Arisu's account (-100,000) → student x (the 99th student) → Ayanokoji Kiyotaka...
The principle behind the second round was simple. The 100,000 points would still rotate, but this time, the next student's points would be deducted to keep the rotation going. If the first student didn't have enough points, the system would keep deducting from the next student until it had enough to make up the required amount.
Third round: original 100,000 → Sakayanagi Arisu → xxx (one of the 99 students) → account a, five seconds later
New 100,000 → Sakayanagi Arisu → xxx (the 99th student) → Ayanokoji Kiyotaka...
The principle behind the third round was simple too. The original 100,000 points would be passed through the 99 students, with one of them chosen to send the points to account a. Meanwhile, a new 100,000 points would go around just like the original amount.
Fourth round: new 100,000 → Sakayanagi Arisu.
The principle behind the fourth round was also very simple: return the points that had been collected.
Now, let's see what happened once the points reached account a.
100,000 points → account a → account b → Long Aotian.
That's right. It still wasn't safe enough, so Long Aotian had created another account, b. The points would only reach Long Aotian after passing through account b.
And that wasn't the end of it. The whole process would take about a minute.
The system would show a record of payments and receipts, so he had to add another program.
This program would follow the rotating points and delete the transaction records. With that, most of the work was done.
Account a would blend in with the student accounts. If it was discovered, that didn't matter; the privately hidden account b would quietly take its place.
And even if account b was discovered, it didn't matter. It had no transaction records. If someone deleted it, then no one else could play, either. It would trigger a hidden program that restarted the system, and every account would be reset to zero points at once—except for Long Aotian's privately hidden account.
"Done." Long Aotian clapped his hands and closed the computer, a wicked smile spreading across his face. "Heh heh heh. From now on, I'll use this account a to extort money."
As for why Sakayanagi Arisu was the first one, well, that was because the chairman of the school was his father. And Ayanokoji Kiyotaka was the last one, so the protagonist could take the blame.
[Ding! Mission: Long Aotian's Redemption]
[Ding! Mission complete]
[Reward: Buff increased to 50% of the points earned]
Umm, he'd almost forgotten about this mission. The completion notification had taken a while to appear, though. Typical.
He checked his phone. It was already past seven. What a long day.
Nothing else mattered now. Long Aotian lay back down on his bed and decided to catch up on some sleep.
P.S. It's over! I'm cooked! My book was supposed to go on sale on December 8, but they took it down the very next day. And there are comments saying I'm not a good author because I stopped updating. The system says my content is too similar to two other Classroom of the Elite fanfics. I want to apologize to those two authors first, though it probably won't happen again, since the earlier chapters are just transitional plot.
Because the book got taken down, I thought about giving up writing for two days. But then I came back and decided to make some changes to see if I could get it back up. If there are still problems, then I'll just stop playing nice and rewrite the content I've already finished.
Half a month later~~
Time passed quickly. Ever since that day, Long Aotian had gone to class, attended lessons, and tutored Sakura Airi every day. As she grew more and more comfortable with him, their feelings for each other had grown by leaps and bounds—though something about it felt a little off.
There was one funny thing worth mentioning. The last time Long Aotian saw the protagonist at the café, he had secretly recorded a video.
A few days later, Long Aotian used the video to strike a deal with Sakayanagi Arisu and get some points. Sakayanagi Arisu was very interested in Ayanokoji Kiyotaka—she had come to the school to face him in a contest—so she traded him 20,000 points for it. Judging by Sakayanagi Arisu's expression, Long Aotian could tell that the image of a certain young man was crumbling in the girl's heart.
[Points: Original 11.75 million → 11.78 million (earnings buff: 20,000 → 30,000) → Current: 11,750 points (fake account: 50,000 points) (I'm too lazy to keep calculating, so I won't show this later)]
P.S. Long Aotian was human too, and he had expenses. Besides, he often brought things for Sakura Airi when he visited her—gifts, and the chance to eat the food she cooked for free.
The downside was that Sakayanagi Arisu had started to think Long Aotian was dangerous. During the latter half of that month, she tried to recruit him, but he turned her down every time. Long Aotian knew what Sakayanagi Arisu was thinking. Even though her father was the chairman, he wasn't afraid of her targeting him. (That was basically impossible anyway.)
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