Chapter One Hundred: Temporarily Showing Off

  Pang Guang patted his chest proudly, like a proud rooster: "What's the point of saying polite words to me? Rest assured, with this thousand-year-old handsome guy taking action, Junya Creative Studio will definitely thrive."

  Lin Junyun looked at Pang Guang's big and awkward appearance, "Haha" laughed, all the gloom in his heart was completely swept away: "Well, thousand-year-old demon, ah... no, thousand-year-old handsome guy, from today on, let's work together, husband and wife, to take our business out of Dong City, out of the country, and into the world."

  "Is the thousand-year-old demon still following his husband and wife?" Pang Guang looked at Lin Junyun: "Didn't we agree not to mention this?"

  "Dummy, just kidding!" Lin Junyun said with a vicious pinch on Pang Guang's arm, until he pinched him to beg for mercy before letting go and saying: "If we don't joke around, the atmosphere won't be lively, got it?"

  "Alright, alright......" Pang Guang flashed a hint of an unruly smile: "Wife, let's divide up the work and cooperate. Now I'll go play some games for a while, you hurry up and start working on production."

  "Good." Lin Junyun responded with a sentence and then went back to his room to rummage through things.

  After entering the room, Pang Guang opened his computer and didn't open the familiar game interface. Instead, he directly logged onto QQ, opened a QQ group called "Hacker Jianghu", and then opened the website of a certain online mall to check the logistics status.

  A few months can completely change a person. Since Pang Guang studied hard and diligently, he became very enthusiastic about exploring many things. He had already mastered the coursework of his second year in high school, and it seemed like he was born with a natural talent for computer hardware and software. While other classmates only grasped theoretical knowledge, he had accumulated countless practical experiences. With dedication, he quickly got the hang of it. After numerous practice sessions, his reputation gradually spread within the small circle of Dongcheng Middle School's high school department. Whenever classmates encountered computer problems, they would often seek Pang Guang's help.

  Pang Guang's reputation in this small circle is indeed not covered, with a very good word of mouth. He has some research on both software and hardware, and as long as his classmates find him, there are almost no problems he can't solve. For computers that have problems, he has a set of methods that work every time. First, he roughly checks the computer after turning it on, and if the screen is always flashing but eventually shows a colorful desktop, he immediately pulls out tools to reinstall the system. If reinstalling the system doesn't work, he partitions the hard drive again and reinstalls the system, and the computer miraculously comes back to life, leaving behind classmates with a puzzled expression. Although the computer can be used again, the Japanese adult videos stored on the E drive are gone. These classmates include both males and females, but none of them dare to ask questions. Since Pang Guang helped fix their computers without charging any labor fees, they don't dare to complain about the lost videos. If the computer couldn't be used anymore, they wouldn't even have the chance to watch or download adult videos again.

  For those who can't see the display, even the English text is invisible, Pang Guang has a solution. He starts by replacing hardware in order from largest to smallest, starting with the motherboard. However, he doesn't directly ask his classmates to replace it, but instead pretends to be an expert, taking out a multimeter and diagnostic cards, testing this and that, and quickly comes to a conclusion: "This motherboard's clock frequency is very unstable, the south bridge is broken, the north bridge is broken, the CPU chip is damaged, the core power supply is damaged, and the +12V line has a large capacitor failure..." He spouts out a bunch of professional terms that leave people dizzy, and tricks others into letting him tinker with their computers. The terms he uses are all things he learned from books during this time, and his ultimate goal is to convince them to replace the motherboard. This trick actually solves more than 90% of his classmates' computer problems, and makes Pang Guang famous among his peers. Not only do high school students like to find him when they have computer problems, but even junior high school teachers and students know about Pang Guang's expertise. Through buying and selling hardware at a markup, Pang Guang earns a decent amount of money, enough for pocket change, which is also one of the reasons he didn't mind Lin Junyang using his allowance.

  Lin Junyun of course knew that Pang Guang was no longer the same as before, but living together every day, she didn't think Pang Guang had changed much, only knowing that he loved to tinker with computers and was very enthusiastic about helping others tinker with computers. There was a period when she even heard this tongue twister: Computer broken? Slow? No problem, believe in Guang Ge's eternal life, official second generation can't stand loneliness, computer school flower grasps it in one hand.

  Of course, there are exceptions. When Pang Guang reinstalled the system, reformatted the hard drive, replaced the motherboard, replaced the memory, replaced the power supply, and even suspected that the case size was not suitable for heat dissipation and replaced it, the problem still wasn't solved. However, this didn't stump Pang Guang. In the end, he gazed at the monitor with a thoughtful expression: "Oh my god, I said so! How can you always fail to find the cause of the problem? This computer should be in a museum! The development of hardware is far behind the trend of software development. This computer is already outdated and needs to be replaced!"

  His classmate listened to Pang Guang's advice as if it were from a god, and immediately ran off to beg his parents to buy a new computer. His parents said that they had just bought the computer less than half a year ago, why did he need to replace it? He cried and said that it was what Pang Guang said, do you know who he is? The son of the director of the East City Public Security Bureau! A high-ranking official's son didn't charge him a single penny for repairing his computer, would he deceive him? What, don't you believe me? Go ask around at our school and see. He was already famous when he first came to our school, a big shot! Reporters were all clamoring to interview him, and normally it's hard for classmates to even get a glimpse of him. Now that he had condescended to help repair his computer, what could possibly go wrong?

  After the classmate replaced the computer set, the problem was thoroughly solved. With the new computer in hand, he was overjoyed and boasted about how amazing Pang Guang was, saying that he didn't even need to lift a finger, just mentioning his name would solve all problems.

  The one who said this was none other than Liu Miao, the male lead vocalist of "Qing Feng Legend", a grassroots band that is popular on the streets and alleys of Dongcheng District. He had long wanted to buy a new computer, but his family's financial situation wasn't good, so he took advantage of Pang Guang's influence to finally get what he wanted.

  This winter vacation, he accompanied Zhou Li to sing in all the large and small song and dance halls in the entire Dongcheng District. Wherever they went, they could stir up wave after wave of boiling voices. Gradually, Liu Xiao and Zhou Li were no longer satisfied with singing in small song and dance halls, so they bought two train tickets and went straight to the provincial city to participate in the new star competition organized by the Provincial Cultural and Art Troupe. Unexpectedly, relying on Zhou Li's heavenly voice with a hint of unruliness and Liu Xiao's tacit cooperation, the judges and audience went crazy, and in the end, an unknown combination unexpectedly won the championship, making the name "Qingfeng Legend" shine. The entire Dongcheng District not only knew about it among the post-80s and post-90s generations but also many middle-aged mothers knew about Liu Xiao and Zhou Li, and they all educated their children: Look at how hardworking they are.

  Parents were in a state of panic, but Pang Guang had shifted his focus and was deeply fascinated with hacking invasion techniques. However, only he knew that after diligently studying for so long, he had tried all the hacking tools he could download, but not only did he fail to successfully invade any computer, but these virus-ridden tools also infected his own computer. His new computer became slow like an old cow pulling a broken cart, and just starting it up made him collapse. After pressing the power button, he would make himself a cup of tea, go to the bathroom, and by the time he returned to his computer, the scrolling bar hadn't even finished loading. In a state of desperation, he reinstalled the system, but his computer was smooth for less than two minutes before it became infected again. The IE window opened three windows in one second, each with a seductive girl and ambiguous text prompts. Before Pang Guang could react, the girls had filled up the entire screen, creating a spectacular scene that made him almost bleed from his nose. With a heavy heart, he decided to use his old trick of formatting the entire disk. Viruses? Girls? All gone! Of course, after the format, along with the disappearance of the viruses and girls, the tens of Gs of Japanese movies Pang Guang had accumulated over winter break also disappeared, taking with them countless hours of effort and electricity bills.

  Pang Guang looked at the computer that was running smoothly as before, his heart was boiling. Damn hacker, you hacked into my little underwear, I won't let you have your way, just wait, this vendetta will not be settled until it's avenged. Your crappy computer is nothing, after a while, I'll directly launch an air-to-ground missile and blow that piece of junk to smithereens.

  This thing dates back to last week, he gathered his energy and silently thanked his dad for buying him a new computer. He opened up World of Warcraft and suddenly discovered that the ID number he had used for years couldn't log in, always prompting a password error. At first, he thought it was because the caps lock key wasn't switched over, but after confirming it was correct and trying to log in several times, it still prompted a password error. He suspected it was because the wireless keyboard battery was low, and maybe he missed a character when entering the password. After carefully trying for almost half an hour, he finally realized that his account had been stolen. Just as he was beating his legs and crying, a system prompt suddenly popped up: "Dummy, your account was stolen by me. I'm bored with playing, so I'll give it back to you."

  "Who?" Pang Guang stared at the prompt box for half a day, wanting to type something to scold his mother, but he didn't know how to curse. The mouse clicked back and forth, but there was no way to find an entrance to argue with the other party, even if you smashed the computer to pieces.

  With a "bang", Pang Guang slapped the table and shouted in a loud voice: "Damn it, who are you?"

  "Ding Dong" A system prompt box popped up in the center of the computer screen: "I'm a hacker, I just easily took down several M country's meat chickens. As an expert, I'm very lonely and want to try the taste of teasing little birds."

  Pang Guang suddenly felt a chill run down his back and stammered: "Can you hear me speaking?"

  The system prompt box popped up: "Not only can I hear you speak, but I can also see you. The scallions in your teeth are really disgusting. Would you mind using a toothpick to remove them? You're so old and still don't understand the importance of hygiene."

  Pang Guang's eyes widened, and he turned his head to glance at the dresser with a mixture of surprise and embarrassment. Sure enough, there was a scallion flower stuck between his teeth from eating porridge earlier.

  Pang Guang suddenly inhaled a mouthful of cold air, his hair standing on end as he looked around, almost fainting with his eyes wide open, his lips twitching and eyebrows jumping wildly as he couldn't utter a word.