Chapter 253 - 252: The strongest hacker system

Chapter 253: Chapter 252: The strongest hacker system

"Yo, are you the host isotope of my little sister, the strongest idol system? Hello! I’m the strongest hacker system, you can also call me Uncle Black~"

A raspy middle-aged man’s voice suddenly burst out from "her own" mouth. Kano was so startled that she retreated abruptly, even pulling out a Kunai, her pupils shaking as if an earthquake were happening.

She stared at that familiar yet strange face before her, goosebumps trailing down her arms—Good grief, was she being possessed?! This was a once-in-a-lifetime sight; the body of her other self had barely been resurrected before it was taken over by someone else!

"Th-then the other me... she won’t be in any trouble, right?"

Kano gripped the hem of her clothes, her voice laced with a hint of threat, fearing that her other self might just be gone.

"Don’t worry, don’t worry," the uncle’s voice said, waving a hand with a nonchalant tone. "Her? She’s just having a super sweet nap; she might even be counting sheep in her dreams, no issues at all. She’ll wake up as soon as I leave. Anyway, I mainly came here today to check on you—I heard your mission reward was obtained from that wicked fellow, Fling Moon Shadow?"

"Yeah," Kano nodded vigorously. "What does that have to do with my system being banned?"

"It has everything to do with it!" the uncle’s voice exclaimed, slapping a thigh as his tone suddenly became filled with righteous indignation.

"That guy is a complete hands-off manager! Every time he looks for a host, he opens a one-time alt account, spreading the net wide like handing out flyers. He dares to give out Cheats for novice missions, and the moment the host gets their hands on it, his account gets banned and he runs away, switching to another alt to continue ruining the next one, completely ignoring whether the host lives or dies!"

Kano blinked, a flash of insight hitting her brain as a terrifying thought emerged: "Could it be..."

"Bingo!" The uncle’s voice snapped its fingers. "That guy’s routine is: give Cheat, get banned, change account, give Cheat again! He doesn’t care if the host survives to the end; if they do, he gets a performance bonus, and if they die, he loses nothing. At his peak, he had 114,514 hosts simultaneously, and there were even several people in the same world who were all his hosts, like raising venomous insects!"

Kano suddenly remembered that her reward had been exchanged, and she instantly filled in the blanks in her head, unable to help clicking her tongue:

"Ah this... so you’re saying some poor sap took a singing and dancing skill and went off to brave an otherworldly realm?"

"What time is it that you’re still worrying about others?" The uncle’s voice rolled its eyes. "Worry about yourself first!"

Kano couldn’t help but sigh:

"By comparison, my system is practically a little angel! So she was banned because she used a Cheat?"

"What else?" The uncle’s voice sneered. "That guy’s stuff is all Cheats without exception; they’re detected every single time. Getting banned is more frequent for him than eating meals."

"How hateful!" Kano stamped her feet in anger, her cheeks puffing out like a pufferfish. "I haven’t even touched the edge of the Cheat yet, and my idiot system got banned! At least give me the Cheat before the ban, this is a total loss!"

"That’s why he only gives Cheats in novice missions," the uncle’s voice explained. "Only novice missions are simple and lucrative enough to be finished quickly before being detected. If he dared to give Cheats in non-novice missions, the difficulty would skyrocket, and the host would work themselves to death without finishing. Even if they could, they’d be banned before completion, losing the reward and getting banned anyway. Just like you, it’s a pure losing business."

Kano pleaded slightly; she didn’t want her idiot system to stay banned.

"So do you have a way to unban it?"

"A way? Well, there is one... but it’s quite a lot of effort." The uncle’s voice drew out its words.

"As long as it can be done!" Kano instantly revived on the spot, stars shining in her eyes. "Quick, tell me, how do we do it?"

"Well, let me give you the bad news first," the uncle’s voice shifted. "You’ve already completed the mission. The moment I unban your system, the reward will be automatically issued, but it will be immediately detected again, and then you’ll be banned once more."

"Huh?!" The stars in Kano’s eyes instantly went out, and her face fell. "Then isn’t this all for nothing? What’s the point, hey!"

"The point is—you get a reward comparable to a Cheat!" the uncle’s voice said righteously. "And only the system is banned. For you, isn’t it just like those two years when you didn’t have a system? No loss at all!"

Kano answered without hesitation:

"I don’t want the reward anymore. Can you make it so my system doesn’t get banned?"

"Oho, I didn’t expect you to be such a sentimental soul?"

The uncle’s voice teased.

"It’s not being sentimental!" Kano’s face turned red as she argued back stiffly. "I just know the difference between one full meal and being full every day! The system has been with me for so long; it’s much more important than some broken Cheat!"

"Tsk tsk, tsundere~"

"I am not a tsundere."

"That’s what all tsunderes say. Fine, fine, I’ll stop teasing you. Listen to my instructions and follow them step by step; I’ll teach you how to unban the system."

Kano looked at "herself" in front of her and her face fell:

"Just listening sounds like such a hassle... Can’t you just take over my body and operate it directly, like you did with the other me?"

"Please! Don’t ask for the impossible!" the uncle’s voice wailed. "Do you know how ridiculous this operation link is? I’ve taken control of the idol system, then I have to remote control that host through the idol system, and finally use that host to command you—do you know how high the latency is!"

"But I don’t know the first thing about computers and stuff. I’m super good at playing games, though..."

"It’s not as complicated as you think!"

The uncle’s voice patted its chest.

"I say, you do. All you need is hand speed! How’s your hand speed? Is it fast enough?"

Kano instantly straightened her back, her gaze sharp as a knife as she patted her chest with full confidence:

"Are you kidding! I’m a Ninja! If my hand speed wasn’t up to par, how could I be a Ninja?!"

"Then let’s get to it!"

The uncle’s voice suddenly became serious.

"Next, I will first erase your mission reward from the source, then crack the account ban on Miss Strongest idol system. Remember, do not hesitate; even a tenth of a second’s hesitation could mean complete failure!"

Kano took a deep breath, her hands resting on the virtual keyboard summoned by a special method, her gaze so focused it could spit fire: "I’m ready! Let’s begin!"

As the instructions from the strongest hacker system poured down like a waterfall, Kano had no room for thought, relying entirely on muscle memory and peak hand speed to madly tap the keyboard. Her fingertips flew over the keys, leaving only afterimages, the pitter-patter sound like heavy rain hitting a windowpane. She had no time to understand the meaning of the instructions; she only knew to follow the uncle’s rhythm, pressing every key accurately.

In fact, she knew in her heart that she could do with or without that brainwashing skill; she didn’t lack that bit of ability anyway. But if the system that had been with her for two years was gone just like that, her heart would feel empty and quite uncomfortable.

Because of this, Kano gave her all with her Ninja-level hand speed, the keyboard nearly throwing off sparks from her typing. The strongest hacker system had clearly expected this, giving instructions that were entirely key sequences accurate to the millisecond, perfectly suited for Kano’s "no brains, all hands" operation mode.

Finally, after four hours of continuous output, the last instruction was completed.

Kano’s hands were truly exhausted this time, feeling as tired as if she had entered a high-intensity Qzone and fought seven or eight little lolis!

"How is it, did it succeed?"

Kano was a bit unsure; after all, it was finished now, but the system still hadn’t reacted.

"Little girl, your uncle here has some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

The hacker system asked with a face full of regret.

Seeing this, Kano’s heart hung in suspense.

"The bad news first."

"The bad news is, that guy’s Cheat is a real virus; there’s no way to eradicate it, it just won’t come clean."

"So it failed?"

"The good news is, although I couldn’t get rid of it, I weakened the thing and integrated it into a MOD, making it legal, and added an adaptive compatibility module. As for when your system will wake up..."

The hacker system held up three fingers.

"Three days?"

Then it changed to two fingers.

One.

Zero.

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