Day Six…
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On the other side of Towerville City, a mysterious woman had been sitting in an internet cafe for three hours now. She was so focused on her monitor screen.
She chose to sit on the corner side wherein no one would disturb her. As much as possible she didn't want to attract other people's attention.
A tap-tap from the keyboard resounded in that area. In just a few seconds, several commands were flashing through her screen. They were a combination of letters and numbers as if she was decoding something.
She was trying to break a security code and destroy the security firewall of a certain system. She was searching for someone, trying to locate her location.
"Big Sis… where are you?! Where did that Devil hide you? Please… stay alive!" she mumbled, clenching her teeth.
She was trying to hack the Syphiruz Mafia's information system and secret organization's websites in order to locate Phantomflake's location.
Two years ago, aside from Phantomflake, there was another survivor after the brutal attack launched by the Syphiruz Mafia against Phantom Assassin Guild. She was Black Rose, the hacker. Black Rose was her alias in the guild.
Black Rose was not involved in assassination missions. But she was a vital source of information for the guild. She was Phantomflake's junior sister. She was also trained by Phantom to become a great hacker.
That night, she also received severe injuries. She was shot in the back, her right leg, and her shoulders. Because of that injury, she lost one of her kidneys. She was also in critical condition and was bedridden for six months. It took her one year to completely recover.
Before she lost consciousness, she saw Nathan taking Phantomflake's body that night. It looked like he was desperately trying to revive Phantomflake. She couldn't forget that scene.
She wanted to follow them but she lost all her energy. She was also on the verge of dying. But a good passerby saved her, rushing her to the nearest hospital.
For the past six months, Black Rose had been tracking the Syphiruz Mafia, searching for Phantomflake. She believed that Phantomflake was still alive out there.
And just today, she arrived here at Towerville City. She gathered information from the underground world that the Supreme Leader of the Syphiruz Mafia was staying here in the city. Some of their operations were located here.
Black Rose clenched her fists when she found nothing. It was so hard to gather some clues about the profile of the Supreme Leader of the Syphirus Mafia.
She slammed her eyes shut, rubbing her temples. She was not feeling well today because of jetlag. But as soon as she arrived, she looked for an internet cafe. She needed to buy a new laptop. Her savings were all used to buy a ticket going here and for renting her apartment.
"Sigh. I have no choice. I need to use my hacking ability to earn money!" Black Rose murmured to herself.
Black Rose leaned her back on her chair. She closed her eyes and placed her right elbow over her forehead. She was thinking whom she would target this time.
She snapped her eyes open as an idea came to her mind– The Illegal Gambling Ring Online! The online gambling sites were growing each day. It was rampant. The Red Dragon Mafia was the one operating this worldwide Gambling Ring!
Black Rose's fingers moved quickly as she continued to press the keyboards producing a loud tap-tap sound. She opened one online gambling site called DragonFly. Currently, the Red Dragon Mafia launched an online event for all their VIP clients aka VIP Gamblers!
The money used by people to bet on this site is all saved as Dragocurrency. Black Rose planned to hack the dragocurrency accounts of those people who run the illegal sites.
A few minutes later, she was able to track one dragocurrency account. The Name of the Bank and the account number were now being flashed on her screen and it was written like this:
Royal Bank
Account Number: 14-2418-009116
Type the Amount you will Transfer: ______
Black Rose's lips curled up into a wide grin. She would steal money from this bad guy. Since this is an illegal site, they couldn't report this to the police authority of the cybercrime department. So she was safe!
Black Rose typed the amount of One Million Dragocurrency which was equivalent to One Million Dollars! Then she pressed enter! After five seconds, the amount was transferred to her bank account in an instant.
"Yes!" Black Rose clapped her hands and punched the air. The red warning alert was triggered and the DragonFly website notified the operators that they had been hacked. As precautionary measures, they immediately deleted their accounts while trying to track down the IP address of the hacker.
As she already anticipated this, Black Rose immediately closed all the windows of running programs on the computer and shut it down.
She grabbed her backpack, and proceeded to the cashier, paying her bills. She left the Internet Cafe in a hurry.
"Alright! It's time to withdraw my 'hard-earned' money!" Black Rose mumbled, kissing her savings account card.
She had to buy new equipment and a laptop. She would set her new place as her operation den as she would continue to look for the Supreme Leader of Syphiruz Mafia and Phantomflake. She must find them no matter what!
Meanwhile, in one of the Red Dragon's Headquarters, the operators of the online gambling sites were trying to protect their accounts by setting up another security system that would prevent hackers and attackers from breaking through their system.
"Have you tracked the IP address of the hacker? We must catch him!"
"Sir… Look at this!" Their overall IT officer showed something to their Operation Leader.
On the screen, they saw a symbol of a black rose. It was the hacker's signature.
"Damn! Is that Black Rose of the Phantom Assassin Guild? I thought all the members of Phantom Assassin Guild were annihilated two years ago by the Syphiruz Mafia?"
"How could this be possible?"
"Was she alive? Is she the only survivor?"
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