The return of Blank

Jiang Yue was browsing through her laptop.

She read the report regarding what happened to Paragon these past months she wasn't active.

That guy sent files from the day she started to be inactive and that was almost 2 years ago.

She could still remember that 2 years ago, Arcane Union is only made up of 4 small hacker alliances.

Paragon was made up of white-hat hackers while Arcane Union was made up of black-hat hackers. They have different objectives yet it is inevitable for them to bump into each other as one mostly defends while the other attacks.

They do not pose a threat at that time to Paragon as Paragon had been in the hacking field for almost 4 decades. However it only rose to fame when she joined the Alliance, and that's when her code name 'Blank' started to spread in every country.

No one would dare to cross Paragon 2 years ago.

It wasn't even an exaggeration to say that the name 'Blank' made any hacker tremble from fear or giddy from excitement.

The year Blank started to appear was 4 years ago.

Her appearance wasn't like any hacker, which was to let their existence be known little by little. Instead, the very first hacking that she did as Blank was hacking into the Border Control Division. It was not to steal any data but instead, she informed them about an illegal transaction about weapon deployment inside their Country.

It was a feat that was new to everyone.

No one has dared to hack into the Border Control Division, and no hacker has done that to snitch an illegal transaction.

With that one hacking incident, she became famous.

Then she started to accept missions as a member of Paragon.

Her skills weren't only limited to hacking but she is also skilled in programming.

Her identity as Blank is also well-known as someone who created the best computer defense programs and security systems.

Every hacking mission she has taken always ended up as successful. Every security system she had made had no vulnerabilities and every broken defense wall has pre-emptive countermeasures, so, no one had ever broken through it.

With that, not a single hacker would dare to say other names other than 'Blank' once the topic of the best hacker is brought up.

Her existence was like a boost, Paragon became the top Hacker Alliance out there, and every hacker who wasn't part of any group started to anticipate becoming a part of Paragon.

Yet now, a hacker union that can't even compare to Paragon before dared to poach their members.

Arcane Union started to be heedless when their Alliance was starting to grow bigger and Blank was already inactive for a year which never happened before.

The first thing they did was sure to go against Paragon because they messed with Luo Corporation, a company that had worked with Paragon for almost 3 decades. The partnership between the two was overseen by Paragon's President, Sun Guang.

The news that a hacker named 'Zion' from Arcane Union was able to hack Luo Corporation started to spread.

Everyone thought that the security system used by the company was made by Blank, which made everyone think that someone was finally able to defeat this hacker.

What that hacker didn't tell anyone was that the security system wasn't made by Blank, but instead by the President of Paragon, Sun Guang. Zion knows about it because she's very familiar with Blank's works since she had tried hundreds of times to break through it, but none was successful.

However, that certain information was hidden from anyone.

To make matters worse, the Luo Corporation which had worked for decades with Paragon, ended the partnership.

The reason wasn't explained but everyone could deduce why.

From that incident, everyone thought that Paragon isn't as great as it was before.

Now Arcane Union dared to poach their members and Cipher, a core member of Paragon.

Other than a few remaining members, now only she, Phantom, and Xiaoli are left to handle the Alliance.

She had known about her Master's partnership with Luo Corporation before and she never thought that it would end someday.

Jiang Yue was occupied with her father's recovery at that time so she was unaware of what happened in the hacking industry.

She knew that it must be Luo Zhelan's father who was in partnership with her Master.

She was just inactive for 2 years yet everything went upside down.

Her fingers glided through the laptop, it was so fast that a person could barely see the movements of her hands.

She broke through the new security system of the Luo Corporation and went ahead, and searched the data for the hacking activity 2 years ago. There, she found the previous security system that her Master made.

She looked through how it was broken down and found some traces.

Her serious expression finally eased as a grin appeared on her lips.

"Zion huh..." She scoffed as she analyzed the trace and found a channel for her to use.

Her eyes glinted as her laptop started to show warnings about intruding on the network security of Zion's computer.