"What happened?!"
At Gotham Police Department, Barbara, who had originally looked relaxed and at ease, was now growing frantic.
She had just broken through several firewalls. The hacker had come out to exchange a few blows with her, only to be driven back. Just as she was about to trace the computer's address and investigate offline—
The other side directly slammed her with a torrent of data. The massive stream crashed down on her like a tsunami.
They had no sense of fair play whatsoever and gave her no chance to surrender, simply battering her computer until it began to overload.
The laptop Barbara had bought with her scholarship money was already giving off a burnt smell. Before she could reach out and cut the power—
With a crackle, sparks flashed. The overloaded computer popped, its keyboard swelling up as black smoke rose from it.
"Oh my God, are you grilling something?"
Major Crimes Unit detective Renee Montoya walked in with her nose covered. Seeing the scorched laptop and Barbara's crestfallen expression, she could not immediately figure out what had happened.
"What's wrong with you?" Renee Montoya asked.
Barbara looked as though she was about to cry, so Renee hurried over. "Who upset our little sweetheart?"
"With that much data, it couldn't have come from nowhere! Only a large database could handle that kind of volume."
Barbara spoke as she thought, forcing back the tears that had nearly spilled out and instead focusing seriously on the problem.
She was now intensely curious about that unknown hacker. Though he had overwhelmed her with a data stream, he had also exposed his trail.
"Sister Renee, what did you come here for?" After finishing her analysis and determining the direction of her investigation, Barbara finally remembered that Renee was still there.
"You heartless