"Old Yang, keep watching him. I'll go take a look."
After a brief moment's thought, Xia Xu gave him his instructions and rose to leave.
He was quite interested in the chubby young hacker mentioned in the plot just now.
To join the Superbrain plot as a major supporting character, with a role clearly meant to provide the protagonist, Griffin Jones, with "hacking support," the young man's talent and abilities certainly couldn't be poor. Even at worst, he would have a Three-Star talent.
Though that paled somewhat beside Little White Flower's Five-Star programming talent, this young man was already a genuine professional who had developed his gift-a hacker capable of breaking into the official traffic management system.
Little White Flower, meanwhile, was only just getting started, and her energy was currently focused on preparing for the college entrance exams. Xia Xu didn't want to distract her.
Besides, programming and hacking were actually quite different. Programming was a very broad umbrella term that certainly included hacking, but in general usage, it clearly leaned more toward writing programs, whereas hacking focused on network offense and defense, intrusion, and cracking.
If the young man's talent was "hacking" and reached Four-Star level, then the talent he displayed in that particular field might not fall far short of Five-Star programming-at least, it would be stronger than Four-Star programming.
If Xia Xu could recruit a hacking expert like him, gathering intelligence and tracking other people's movements would clearly become much easier. He and Old Yang would complement each other perfectly.
With those two at its core, he would have the rudimentary framework of an "intelligence network" covering both online and offline activities. Later, he could build an intelligence organization simply by recruiting some lower-level personnel around them.
Moreover, it seemed he still hadn't resolved the hidden