122 Bounceback
Jun got up with a jolt. “What? Our app?”
“Yes! Our IT department is getting a flood of angry complaints that readers are not able to access our app at all. They cannot read anything. Many were purchasing chips when the app suddenly crashed, and they lost their money.”
Chips was Sky app’s currency through which readers accessed the web novel’s paid chapters.
“The authors are sending another bunch of complaints. They are not able to update their chapters they regularly post, and their readers are also getting dissatisfied by this. It’s chaotic everywhere.”
“How did the app suddenly crash?” He coldly asked. “Put me with the IT team right now!”
“But bro, your identity…”
“I don’t care. I will deal with it later. Solving our readers’ and authors’ issues is more important here.”
“I will connect you right away!”
He opened his laptop and joined a conference with them.
“I am Sky CEO. Keep your shock and questions for later on. Just tell me what the fuck is happening with the app?”
The members of the IT department had their jaws dropped. Among them, the women who worked in the team lost all their sense of professionalism.
H-H-Ho-Hottttt!!
Wait, when did we have a CEO!?
Wasn’t it always the President?
“Who. Is. Responsible. For. This?” The iciness in his voice was raised by several notches, and the IT team was reduced into a bucket of sweat.
The IT team manager spoke up, “Sir, we investigated, and it seems like a bug shut down our app out of nowhere?”
“Out of nowhere?” He lowered his tone, making the pressure in the air denser. “Nowhere? Does the bug have wings? If there is a bug, then restore our app with the previous version.”
Another team member quickly added, “Yes, Sir! We tried that as soon as we identified this bug, but even the backup load is not working!”
He narrowed his eyes.
‘Then face the consequences. I will tear Sky down to shreds.’
Green veins popped on his forehead.
Gu Yating…
The team was shit scared as his gaze kept darkening with threat and possibly murder.
Yunru furiously chimed in. “It’s not only the bug. We got an anonymous message on our server too! Read this, bro.”
The IT manager swiftly put up the message on the screen.
‘I hope you got my message Sky CEO.
PS – I feel bad for the readers who might have lost their money while buying your chips? So here’s a compensation tip from me.’
“That bastard sent money! To us! He brings the bug in our systems first, and then he compensates!?” Yunru’s body was twitching for some action. “I will kill that man!”
Sky’s official social media account was beginning to get spammed by its furious readers, especially the ones who lost their money. They were demanding to refund the money they lost in the chip transaction.
Jun dangerously sneered.
“He thinks he can take down Sky by a mere bug attack?”
He took the controls of the app’s software code. His fingers flew on the keyboard, the sound of his rapid typing echoing in the call. All the backup versions on the server had gotten corrupted. Without a backup, it was impossible to load the app back to normalcy.
Jun squinted his gaze, a disdainful smile curling his lips upwards.
He opened another site which was loaded exactly like Sky’s server. The IT team and Yunru watched in amazement and speechlessness.
The manager couldn’t stop himself from asking, curiosity filling within him. “Which server is this?”
“My basement,” Jun sneered.
“…”
“It’s a replica, a backup of the Sky server.”
“B-But we just have three servers. One main server and two as backups, all three of which are not working.”
“I made a fourth server and hosted it in a separate environment.”
He rapidly pulled in the latest app’s backup and loaded it. His movements were so fluid that they could only admire it.
Yunru frowned. “But since when did we have a fourth server! I didn’t know about this!”
Jun shot a deadly glare at him, making him slightly cower. “W-what…?”
“I told you about this server because as the President, you should know. I taught you the process too if not for you sleeping with your eyes open.”
“…”
The IT team threw questioning looks at their President.
You knew about this, President?
Yunru scratched the back of his head, grinning sheepishly. “Oh…So that’s what you were teaching me that day? The code looked so jumbled! I couldn’t make any sense of it…I-I felt sleepy.”
Jun sneered. “Don’t sleep now, or I will shut your eyes forever.”
“Yes!”
The backup load was complete, and the IT team quickly tried opening the app with their hearts beating faster.
“It opened!”
“The app is working!”
“I just logged in!”
They all shed tears of happiness.
“Thank you CEO!”
The first thing Jun did was pull out the list of users who lost their money while buying the chips.
“Send a refund to all these users,” he coldly ordered.
“Yes, Sir!”
A haunting gleam then shone in Jun’s pupils as he gave it a thought.
A bug was too easy. Is he…
—
“Sir, Sky’s app is working now again,” the hacker hired by Yating reported. “We were right. We shouldn’t have attacked their system with the virus. They had another server hosted in a completely different environment. The virus would have been useless.”
The hacker had done an exhaustive analysis, yet he didn’t find a trace of a separate server. But his instincts told otherwise which Yating shared as well.
Yating raised his brow.
“I did have an inkling that he won’t be this stupid of just using two backup servers. He had another one hidden. That’s why I told to simply insert one bug which would force him to use his hidden server,” he narrowed his eyes. “I don’t care if their app is working again. This was the last warning. He knows. If he doesn’t apologize, then I will launch a full blown attack on Sky’s systems from which he can never recover.”
Then he tilted his head and ordered icily. “Do one more thing for me. Find out everything about Butterfly.”
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On the other hand, Ai was ready. Xing Bi was by her side, nodding her head.
“Whatever happens, happens, okay?”
Ai took a deep, silent breath, emptying her mind of any thoughts and worries.
“Yes, Xing Bi. I will face whatever is to come now.”
Ai stared at her mobile screen and finally pressed the ‘Post’ button.