atypical dependency

When Xiao Yi rushed to the company, the usually relaxed and carefree space was shrouded in a heavy haze.

Standing at the elevator entrance and just glanced at the numerous partitions, Xiao Yi saw Ji Yi, who had been waiting in front of his office for a long time, walking quickly towards him. But there was a worrying anxiety hovering around.

Xiao Yi looked at her questioningly, waiting for her to report the specific situation, but this time the woman just glanced at a few partitions and signaled Xiao Yi to follow him.

Following Ji Yi, Xiao Yi inspected the computers of several extremely nervous employees in the company, and his expression changed immediately.He squinted at the web page that Ji Yi asked several employees to show him, and said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

"Mr. Xiao—this situation started last night. Many websites began to share the codes designed by our company for customers and also provided free downloads—" a man with glasses standing behind Ji Yi and Xiao Yi trembled. Reporting to Xiao Yi stutteringly, "I have made a summary of the specific information leakage situation, before it was doubled, and it has doubled this morning..."

Focusing on the technical codes that appeared on various public network sharing platforms, Xiao Yi stood up for a while, then suddenly straightened up and glanced sideways at the people waiting beside him.

Ji Yi just wanted to add a few words, but when he saw Xiao Yi's cold face, he immediately fell silent.

"How did this thing get out?"

The speed of the speech was a little high, and Ji Yi realized that the CEO, who was usually calm when they were in trouble, showed such a sullen expression, which meant that the matter was quite serious.

"I've been looking for the source of the leak since yesterday—" Another tall and thin programmer who looked relatively calm poked his glasses and reported to Xiao Yi, "But I can't find any traces of suspicious information for the time being."

"Is it a virus?" Xiao Yi turned around and walked in the direction of the disheveled employees in the other cubicles. Everyone obediently made way for the angry boss, and showed the results displayed on their computer screens to the other party.

"The anti-virus software did not report an error." An employee hurriedly answered.

"Mr. Xiao—" Ji Yi took advantage of the situation and hurriedly interjected, "Since yesterday, the contracted company has called us to break the contract." Her lips were tense, and she worried, "As of today, there are already three big companies that want to follow up with us." We terminate the contract..."

"Find the reason for me from now on." Xiao Yi straightened his collar, raised his head and issued orders to the cubicles of the entire huge office space, "You find the reason through various channels - those codes that are circulating on the Internet, contact me immediately The website is revoked, or they will be held accountable for infringement.”

As soon as the voice fell, the office, which was still as gloomy as a valley before, immediately boiled over. Under Xiao Yi's order, everyone quickly buried their heads in tinkering with the computers in front of them, and there was a spectacular burst of crackling and crisp keyboard sounds in the entire empty space.

After standing silently for a while, Xiao Yi turned his head and said to a weak man with hunched shoulders beside him: "How did you find it in the first place, and where did you find it?"

"Yes, it's an e-mail..." The other party explained in a deep voice.

"Email?" Xiao Yi raised an eyebrow, "Whose is it?"

The man glanced at Xiao Yi, his face was a little pale, he hesitated to speak.

"Speak." Xiao Yi's tone was sonorous, and his eyes pierced the opponent's body inch by inch.

"You, yours."

"what?"

"You, your email address..."

After listening to the thin monkey employee's report, Xiao Yi immediately went back to his office to start a comprehensive search and inspection. After sorting out, he was surprised to find that a secret automatic program had been implanted into his mailbox a long time ago. When he uses email to send information to any platform, there will always be private files attached to his computer that are packaged together in the background and sent to a mobile receiving point where the IP cannot be tracked. For 3 months, the original files on the infected computer are stealthily and completely destroyed.

Xiao Yi studied this situation for two weeks together with several excellent programmers in the company, and finally figured out that the virus had been lurking in his mailbox for nearly two years, collecting every bit of the company's information. aspect information.

After researching and researching, everyone discovered an unbelievable phenomenon——

This virus seems to be tailor-made for Xiao Yi's company. There is a very fixed line of code in the encrypted information of the virus core that is forcibly dug out to determine the attributes of the mailbox. If it is not from Xiao Yi himself or Xiao Yi's employees, then this The so-called "virus" is harmless.

Even after finding the source of the problem, everyone still couldn't think of a way to remove the lingering virus.

Nearly 40.00% of the company's internal encrypted files have been leaked. Although many contracted companies were reluctant to wait at the beginning, after a few weeks of no resolution, they finally resolutely terminated the contract with Xiao Yi's company and condemned it. Less contract liquidated damages.

Although the company urgently mobilized employees to transfer various confidential files to mobile hard disks for backup, this time bomb-like virus still won a decisive victory.

In less than a month, GEOX suffered heavy losses. Newspapers in V City even reported for several days that GEOX cheated other software companies and leaked the signed code.

Even if those who know the inside story feel aggrieved by GEOX, passers-by naturally focus on the result and have no interest in their struggling process.

Originally, a virus problem would not have brought too heavy a blow to GEOX, but because it had previously signed a contract with the well-known NonRam company in V City, and NonRam was almost the biggest victim of the leaked code incident, the person in charge of NR made a fuss. GEOX took advantage of the opportunity to be hyped in the news, and became the main target of the V city's software companies.

Under tremendous pressure, Xiao Yi tried from various angles to save the mess, and even summoned a few friends in the university with high professional performances to help. No trace could be found in the sea of ​​people.

When things got to this point, Ji Yi expressed that Mr. Xiao might have caused some personal grievances, so according to the logic of looking for motives, everyone conducted a rigorous investigation of the surveillance video of the entire company, but in the end there was no progress.

Although Xiao Heng was the first person to be suspected in the early days, after Ji Yi's secret investigation, the kid looked as clean as if he had just climbed out of the Immortal Pond, and there was no suspicious point to criticize.

The company was transferred to Xingyuan Building two years ago due to a fire. Some people suspected that people might have taken advantage of it during the relatively fragile stage of the company. However, because Xingyuan's office is a temporary location, there is no monitoring from Yongjie's side. Perfect, and the final investigation ended without a problem.

After several months of tossing around, not only was it difficult to carry out the investigation, but Xiao Yi was exhausted both physically and mentally. He had to deal with various lawyers and legal agencies, which made him feel unbearably exhausted.

And since the accident happened in the company, Xiao Yi didn't even bother to attend Wei Zhuoyan's mother's funeral.

The other party felt deeply sympathetic when he learned about his company's situation, and rushed to Xiao Yi's company to stay with him overnight after several shifts, until he left temporarily in an emergency.

Wei Zhuoyan didn't know anything about computers. The other party would often move a chair behind Xiao Yi who was working, and stare at the screen full of codes for a long time with an unfathomable gaze. A dumb and deep response: "What the hell is this..."

Although Xiao Yi often smiles and patiently explains the logic of the code to the other party, but this tall and rough man who is huddled on the chair like a little daughter-in-law shows a ignorant and tangled expression, and often gives up and pats his thigh, sighing heroically: "Forget it!" Don’t talk about it, I’d rather go to the scene of the fire right now.”

In such a stressful environment, Wei Zhuoyan's company naturally became Xiao Yi's most steadfast support.

One day, Wei Zhuoyan went to Xiao Yi's company after changing shifts as usual, but unexpectedly saw a lot of media cars and reporters holding microphones at the front door, chattering about something.

Originally, he planned to pretend to be a passer-by and go in through the side door, but he stood out from the crowd and unconsciously glanced into the crowd, and by the way, he caught sight of Xiao Yi, who was guarded by Yan Tian and Ji Yi, with an indifferent expression.

The reporters seemed to be swarming towards meaty sharks, poking the microphone in Xiao Yi's direction indiscriminately. Ji Yi was squeezed in the crowd until his hair was disheveled, his glasses were crooked, and he looked like he was about to collapse; He dutifully stood in front of Xiao Yi, trying his best to push back the tide-like heads in front of him.

Wei Zhuoyan was stunned for a while, then suddenly raised his eyebrows and strode forward.

Although he couldn't figure out what was going on, he felt inexplicably annoyed when he saw the man who had always been bright and cheerful in front of him showing a clouded and patient face as if facing a capital punishment.

Squeezing into the crowd without hesitation, he slid up to Yan Tian's side, took over the other's duties, and neatly wrapped Xiao Yi's shoulder with one hand, pulling and shoving the man towards the main entrance.

Obviously stunned by Wei Zhuoyan's appearance, Xiao Yi was brutally carried into the elevator before he had time to react.

The appearance of Wei Zhuoyan gave Ji Yi and Yan Tian instant time. They hurriedly stretched out their arms at the door, accepting overwhelming inquiries from all sides, so that before the elevator in the main hall on the first floor of Yongjie Building closed, the group of predators had not squeezed into the hunting lock up.

The tight elevator box encloses Wei Zhuoyan and Xiao Yi in a confined space.

The suit was still in a mess due to the previous incident. Xiao Yi looked at the bright red numbers flashing on the elevator control panel expressionlessly, and while straightening his collar, he glanced sideways at Wei Zhuoyan: "Why are you here?"

Wei Zhuoyan put his hands in his jacket pockets, maintaining his usual joking style: "Of course I'm here to watch the excitement."

Xiao Yi lowered his eyes and snorted.

"What's going on?" Wei Zhuoyan followed Xiao Yi's example and stared at the elevator board, "It's like a national leader inspecting—" Turning his face, Wei Zhuoyan looked at Xiao Yi and frowned, "Why are there so many people surrounding you? ?”

"I told you about the NonRam company before, didn't I?" Xiao Yi nodded, "It's just hype over there, and we're just cannon fodder here."

"So your code problem is still unsolved?" Wei Zhuoyan lowered his eyes and looked at Xiao Yi, who was beside him with a calm expression.

With a long sigh, Xiao Yi felt that he had the tendency to laugh angrily: "What do you think?"

This question brought some frustration and depression, Wei Zhuoyan frowned faintly after hearing this.

He turned his head and glanced at Xiao Yi again, then suddenly reached out his hand to the red "maintenance" button at the bottom of the elevator operating panel, and pulled it out without hesitation.

In an instant, the elevator trembled twice and stopped stumblingly.

Unexpectedly shaking his shoulders, Xiao Yi looked sideways at Wei Zhuoyan, a little startled for a moment.

Wei Zhuoyan stared at Xiao Yi solemnly, his gaze seemed to burn him into ashes——

And Xiao Yi did have the illusion that he was about to be melted.

The dim light in the elevator instantly smudged the whole space with an inexplicable strange smell. Xiao Yicheng followed Wei Zhuoyan's speechless gaze for about three seconds, restraining his thoughts of resolutely starting to wander, maintaining his consistent Fair and strict, the poker-faced poker face that had fooled all the employees said: "What are you doing?"

His expression was so dignified, Wei Zhuoyan looked at Xiao Yi for a long time, then suddenly reached out and patted Xiao Yi's shoulder, and said seriously, "Because of such a small matter, you are always frowning?"

Xiao Yi's gaze gradually narrowed, and he continued to develop the unknown reason.

Stretching out his fingers to touch the center of Xiao Yi's eyebrows, Wei Zhuoyan stroked them with his rough fingertips, and said in a deep voice, "Boy, do you want to turn yourself into an old man when you're under thirty?"

"..."

"Can such a little thing be so worrying?"

Ren Wei Zhuoyan pressed his fingertips between his eyebrows, and Xiao Yi wanted to refute a few words seriously, but for some reason, seeing Wei Zhuoyan in front of him who was trying to comfort him wholeheartedly, he held back the words rushing in his heart.

"Tonight, come to my bureau." His big hand patted Xiao Yi's shoulder briskly, and Wei Zhuoyan showed a handsome smile that made Xiao Yi never think about it, "Call the police with me."

"..." Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.

"I let you feel what you should really worry about."