Chapter 483: A Lunatic Like This is a Genius
Rich sighed. “My teacher told me that in the profession of hacking, you would only be a good hacker when others don’t know that you are a hacker. Otherwise, you are a failure, because you won’t have any way of protecting yourself in the real world. He used himself as an example to warn me.”
Xu Cheng: “Have you seen what your teacher is capable of?”
Rich: “No. But, he made me into the hacker I am today, and that’s enough to prove his skills. But unfortunately, for the rest of his life, he could only instruct me into writing the codes he wants for himself, but I would always fall behind his tempo. But, I can see how much he desires to touch the keyboard again. He said, he would never forget the feeling of typing again, just like his first love.”
Xu Cheng smiled and teased, “Why do I feel like you are talking about keyboard warriors? In our Huaxia, keyboard warriors are a terrifying existence. They are enough to sway public opinion and fan the wind. We also call them the cancer of the internet.”
Rich frowned. “Keyboard warrior? What the fack is that?”
Xu Cheng smiled. “Nothing. Can you introduce me to your teacher?”
Rich shook his head. “He won’t see you. If betraying him is the price for you to save my life, then I rather give up the offer.”
Then, Rich turned around and left.
It was very hard to imagine that someone who was so desperate to be treated could also turn around and leave so decisively. It looked like his teacher was a good teacher, and this student was also a good student.
Just when Rich arrived at the door, Xu Cheng shouted, “If I said that I can help him grow a new pair of hands, will you believe it?”
Rich was shocked as his body trembled.
Then, he turned around to look at Xu Cheng, “Are you joking with me? Not to mention if it was him losing a finger or two, both of his arms were amputated! Even if you use prosthetic limbs, there’s no way to connect the broken nerves to allow him to control the fingers with ease. I made so much money and took him to all the top-tier surgeons that were the best in the field, and we couldn’t find a solution. Do you know what the doctors’ advice was? They mockingly told him to learn to type code with his feet!”
Rich then sneered. “Then, that hospital’s database was compromised and its scandals were exposed by my teacher. Guess how he did it? With his feet!”
Xu Cheng was speechless.
Rich turned around and left.
Xu Cheng then said, “I wasn’t joking.”
Rich turned around to look Xu Cheng right in his eyes. After a while, he said seriously, “Are you really being serious?”
Xu Cheng nodded. “I have a dream. I want to gather all the lunatics in the world and then play a game. The scale is too big, it will require many people to participate to play. I’ve come out from a mental institute before, but to be honest, the people there were still not crazy enough, nor were they outstanding enough! So, I don’t care how much of a madman your teacher is, I’m just afraid that he won’t dare to play!”
Rich looked at Xu Cheng and asked, “Are you a politician?”
Xu Cheng shook his head. “Nope. Or you would’ve already found out.”
Rich pursed his lips. “Then a hidden capitalist? A businessman?”
Xu Cheng shook his head again. “Not quite.”
Rich scowled. “Then what are you playing? Let me tell you, little capitalists can’t play against politicians, and big politicians can’t win against capital giants! If you aren’t any of them, what are you trying to play? Want to change the world with just your ideas? Haha, there are too many lunatics in this world. They think their chaotic and crazy thoughts are normal, and the actual normal guys are crazy.”
Xu Cheng nodded. “I think that’s very true. Sometimes, thinking about it, crazy people can see another layer of the world, and maybe that’s the normal world. Look at this world, how different could it be to a lunatic’s world?”
“Looks like I’ve come to the wrong place,” Rich said and left without ever looking back.
But, what he didn’t notice was that Lin Dong was already following him.
Rich put the wig back onto his head. He knew that he didn’t have much time left, so he went to see his teacher and say his last farewell.
His teacher was a man in his thirties without arms. There was no cellphone in his home, no computer, no broadband, and there wasn’t even WiFi.
When Rich went in, he saw his teacher exercising. His teacher loved to stay fit. Many people who encountered such things would usually surrender for the rest of their lives and just live passively, but he was very optimistic. It was because he felt that nothing was more desperate than the betrayal of one’s family.
Seeing his student come in, the middle-aged man said, “You already been inactive online for over half a year now.”
Rich bitterly smiled. “Teacher, you said you wouldn’t touch the internet again, but you couldn’t help but check on me again.”
The middle-aged man laughed and said, “Originally I didn’t want to, but the new neighbor next door installed a strong wifi extender, so I couldn’t help but play around with it a bit with my old Nokia wap Symbian system.”
Just then, Lin Dong came knocking with people of the four mafias.
“Who is it?’ Rich curiously asked.
Lin Dong thought about it and said, “We are from the Disabled People Association here to deliver care packages.”
When Rich opened the door, he noticed that he was tricked.
Seeing those burly guys behind Lin Dong, his face changed. “You guys are…”
“Don’t worry, Rich, we are just here to talk to your teacher.”
“You guys followed me!” Rich narrowed his eyes and his tone became very unfriendly.
“We do not mean harm,” Lin Dong said. Then, he turned to look at the armless man and said, “Your student has cancer, do you know?”
The face of the armless man drastically changed. He looked towards his student and exclaimed, “You never told me about this.”
“Because it’s no use telling you. It’s terminal already.” Lin Dong walked in and said, “My teacher admires him, and he admires the teacher that made him what he is today even more. But, your student is very stubborn, and he’s not willing to give you out. He would rather throw away the chance to be cured by my teacher.”
Rich: “My teacher is no longer in the hacker world, don’t come and force him to do anything!”
The armless man nodded. “I don’t have hands anymore, so I guess my career already ended.”
Lin Dong: “My teacher said, it will work as long as your brain is still working.”
Rich furiously came over to push away Lin Dong and said, “Don’t come and disturb my teacher’s peaceful life.”
The armless man: “You just said… you can cure Rich’s illness?”
Lin Dong slightly nodded. “My teacher indeed can.”
The armless man: “Then just save him. What do you guys need me to do? Just tell me.”
Rich: “Teacher, his teacher is just a lunatic, don’t get involved with him! Do you still remember how you got to the point you are at today? Do you still want to repeat the same mistake?”
Rich’s teacher directly glared at him. “If you die, where can I find another guy to facking take care of me?”
Then, he looked at Lin Dong and said, “Lead the way. I want to see which lunatic can cure cancer. That kind of lunatic shouldn’t be called lunatic, they are called geniuses.”