Not twins novel (Natasha and Kenneth) novel Chapter 519

Chapter 519

Both Natasha and Anthony turned to look at him.

“What's wrong?” Anthony asked.

“Darknetz has been hacked!” Benjamin answered.

“What?”

Benjamin's brows drew together. “Let's continue this conversation later. There is a large number of hackers attacking Darknetz at the moment. Kyle is looking for you right now.”

Upon hearing him, Anthony patted his pockets, only to find no signs of his phone. “I must have left it in the room earlier.”

“Let's go online first,” Benjamin told him.

Anthony nodded. Right as he was about to leave, he turned to Natasha. “Nat...”

“Go on,” she calmly said to them.

Hence, the boys wasted no time heading upstairs.

Natasha narrowed her eyes a little as she watched them leave.

She knew that the boys had to walk down their own paths in life eventually, but she never thought that day would come so soon.

At that, a faint smile grew on Natasha's lips.

When they reached the room and when Anthony went online, Kyle was in the middle of cursing: Anthony, if you don't f*cking get online now, I'm going to go after you!

As he logged in, Anthony typed: I'm here. What's going on?

Kyle: Who the hell knows? There's a large group of people attacking us all of a sudden, and the line of defense is about to break.

Realizing the urgency of the matter, Anthony asked no other questions as he began solving the issue.

He first set up a firewall. Then, he started counterattacking.

It was almost like a battle as Anthony led the hackers of Darknetz to fight against the intruders.

“Do you need my help?” Benjamin, who was watching from the side, asked.

Anthony lifted his head to glance at him. “Did you bring your computer?”

Benjamin gestured toward another unoccupied computer. “I didn't, but there are computers here.”

Anthony spared a glimpse at it. “Forget it. Mr. Dave will know if you use the computers here. With that, he looked back at his computer. “Don't worry. If I couldn't deal with these, my experiences would have all been naught.”

As he spoke, he let his fingers fly across the keyboard, tapping away rapidly. After his conversation with Benjamin, he no longer looked away. Soon, Darknetz began gaining the upper hand.

It was only then Benjamin let a sigh of relief escape him.

However, the longer he stared at the screen, the deeper his frown became.

“Are they hackers from Vermillion Base?” Benjamin suddenly asked.

“You realized?” Anthony asked.

“They're attacking in the same way as they did the last time,” Benjamin remarked.

Anthony, who was still staring at the screen, suddenly seemed much more mature than his age as he said, “It looks like I haven't tormented them enough yet. How dare they attack Darknetz? I'm going to make their lives a living hell this time!”

Thus, Anthony swiftly made it seem like Darknetz was about to fail so that the hackers would bite the bait he had thrown out. Just as the intruders thought that they were winning, he ambushed them with Darknetz's hackers. Finally, they managed to capture the intruding hackers, and Anthony told the group, “Keep them there.”

With that, Anthony went to work on something else.

Kyle was watching from the side the entire time. We were about to win, so what is Anthony up to now?

He could not understand the codes on the screen, so Kyle asked with a frown: Anthony, what are you doing?

He received no response, so a moment later, he repeated: Anthony?

Anthony answered: Be quiet for a while.

Kyle retorted: What? We're about to win, so what are you doing right now?

Anthony replied: Getting some compensation for the trauma.

Kyle probed: What do you mean?

Anthony responded: You'll find out in a bit. With that, Anthony stopped typing.

Five minutes later, Anthony reappeared and strengthened the firewall to stop the intruders from entering the system again.

It seemed like the intruders knew that they had encountered an even more capable hacker, so they stopped their onslaught.

The hackers of Darknetz sighed in relief when the website returned to normal.

Benjamin rolled his eyes at Anthony in response, thinking, It was such a simple thing, but he just had to make it seem so complicated. Oh, but this is Anonymous. I'm worrying for nothing.

Right then, Kyle messaged: If you came any later, we wouldn't have been able to keep the base safe.

Anthony reassured: Don't worry. I've set up three layers of protection. Even if they've gone past the first two, there's still one more where the address is a random one.

Kyle huffed and messaged: You should have told me that earlier.

Anthony: Who knew you'd panic so quickly?

Kyle: Well, are you going to let them go so easily?

Anthony questioned: Uh, what else am I supposed to do?

Kyle answered: This isn't like you.

Anthony: Well, I've got to be forgiving sometimes.

Kyle was in disbelief as he typed: You? Forgiving? I dare you to tell me what you did earlier.

Anthony: Hm? What can I possibly do?

Right as Kyle was about to respond to that, Anthony sent him a form.

Kyle: What is this?

Anthony: The location details of Vermillion Base's recent transaction.

Kyle shrieked as he messaged: What?

Anthony: No need for such excitement. This is just a little gift. After all, Vermillion Base's quite poor.

Kyle: So, the ones who attacked us earlier were Vermillion Base?

“Uh...” Anthony was stumped. Did I just let it slip?

In the end, Anthony chose to give him a vague answer by messaging: I guess so...

Kyle: Vermillion Base's suddenly targeting Darknetz. Does that mean they know Anonymous is in Darknetz now?

Knowing he could not keep things under wraps forever, Anthony confessed: I think Vermillion Base found out about this when I posted a bounty list as Anonymous on Darknetz. Moreover, there have been talks about how I'm one of Darknetz's hackers, so it's nothing unusual that they know about this. I'm guessing they're after me today. I'm the one who pulled Darknetz into this mess.

Anthony thought that Kyle would be angry, but as a member of Darknetz, he had to come clean about the matter eventually. Even if the confession resulted in his departure from Darknetz, he still would not regret this.

Yet, to his surprise, Kyle replied: It looks like Vermillion Base is determined to become enemies with Darknetz. In that case, I'm not going to hold myself back anymore. These pests aren't going to get anything from Darknetz!

Anthony was dumbfounded to hear that from him.

Anthony: You're not angry?

Kyle slowly typed: Of course I am! How dare they think that Darknetz is an easy target? I can't believe they've formed a group to attack us. I'm not going to let them go easy!

Anthony: Uh... How are you planning to go about this?

As if he was merely asking how much a fish was at the wet market, Kyle asked: Well, since they were coming at us as a group, we might as well start big. What about Vermillion Base?

Anthony questioned: So... you mean to say that you want to wipe out Vermillion Base?

Kyle: Having this bunch of people around only makes the people anxious. Therefore, I think we'll be doing a favor for everyone if we annihilate them.

Although his tone was a light-hearted one, Anthony could sense the anger wafting off Kyle.

It looks like they've infuriated Kyle for good this time. Anyway, I share Kyle's sentiment, Anthony thought.