Chapter 30 The Wife Behaves Strangely Around Us

• Nicole returned to her room after a lively dinner. Samuel’s enthusiasm was overwhelming for her. Fortunately, the few of them rarely came home. Gloria wanted to know how they were doing these days, as she was preparing what they would need to take to school later. After taking a shower, Nicole locked the door and turned on her notebook to check the job’s progress. The monitoring code was working properly. Just as she was about to close the notebook lid, she suddenly noticed a program, which she did not code, running in the lower-left corner of the screen. The little program was emitting a faint glow. Nicole’s keen eye immediately recognized what it was: location-tracking malware. “Trying to track me down? Not so easy!” Nicole scoffed, her fingers flying over the keyboard, quickly closing all channels and shutting down this specially built notebook computer. She had many enemies. It would be too dangerous if her location was exposed. But what she did not know was that, as quick as her action was, the tracking malware had still lit up on the map for a split second. Max immediately located her coordinates and quickly reported them to Jared.
• “Mr. Johnston, Lucifer’s action was fast. Our location-tracking program was removed.” Jared’s expression darkened. “It was removed so easily?” It was a top-deciphering program he had bought with top dollar. He had even manually modified it to make it even more stealthy, but Lucifer’s hacking skills had cracked it before he knew it. “Yes, but the program has still displayed its coordinates for 0.1 seconds.” Max was almost cheering with joy as days of monitoring finally came to fruition. “Really?” Jared’s eyes lit up. He also had amazing hacking skills, and 0.1 seconds was all he needed. “I have got the precise coordinates, but it is bizarre.” Max zoomed in on the map and found the signal coordinates were set at San Joto. “Where?” Jared frowned. “The Riddle family house.” Max still felt surprised, even though he had checked and confirmed it repeatedly.
• “In the Riddle family house?” Jared was in disbelief. “How is this possible?” Lucifer, the famous hacker, had been hiding in the Riddle family home, not far away from him. How was this possible? His company abroad had nothing to do with Johnston Group, nor did it have any dealings with the Riddle Corporation. The Riddle family had no reason to sabotage his business. He lost $100 million when his company’s system was paralyzed the last time. $100 million might be a drop in the ocean for him, but it was a great humiliation. So, he wanted to track down Lucifer at all costs. Nevertheless, he never expected this person, who he had thought was somewhere far away, to be this close to him; it was in the Riddle family home. “Could it be that the tracking system has malfunctioned?” Jared was a little incredulous. “Mr. Johnston, your skills are also some of the best in the world. It is impossible that the tracking program you have modified will malfunction.” Max was telling the truth. He sighed quietly, knowing that even Jared, who had always been confident, had started to doubt himself. This just showed how huge the impact was on him. Seeing Jared’s silence, Max could only continue.