Chapter 1003
Furthermore, this was primarily a problem-solving race.
Who had the free time to sit down and write a full offensive malware script in the middle of a test?
Official Barrett opened and closed his mouth like a fish, desperate to argue back but utterly unable to find a valid counterpoint.
Standing by the side, Lydia stood tall.
After brushing shoulders with death, what did she have left to fear?
Gone was the timid, stuttering girl. She loudly chimed in to back her Captain. “Exactly! When our equipment got poisoned earlier, you said our skills were lacking. You claimed that dealing with unexpected issues was the true spirit of the gauntlet.” “What? Now that they can’t block our code, it’s suddenly a rule violation p>
“Aren’t your double standards a little too obvious? It really makes me wonder if the Doyle family paid you off p>
The referee’s heart pounded with guilt, his face turning a dark shade of red. “What nonsense are you spouting? I am merely raising reasonable suspicions in my capacity as an official! Who gave you the right to question my authority p>
Lydia put her hands on her hips, refusing to back down. “And as a competitor, I’m raising reasonable suspicions based on what I see. Is that a problem p>
He choked on his words, trapped.
Lydia turned her firepower onto Bianca’s squad. “Aren’t you guys using world-class, outrageously expensive setups? How come you can’t even block a script sent from our standard equipment p>
“Is it because you don’t want to p>
Earlier, on the way to the arena, Serena had pushed the motorcycle to terrifying speeds, scaring Lydia half to death.
But when the live audio of the match began broadcasting through her helmet, she had forced herself to calm down.
She had no idea what kind of advanced tech was inside that helmet, but despite the roaring wind, the audio was crystal clear.
She had heard exactly what happened. She heard their computers failing, and she heard the referee unfairly slap them with a yellow card.
Now that she had the chance, she was absolutely going to fire back.
She lifted her chin and declared, “Since this is a programming match, then
use your skills to steal you?
points back if you can hack us, we’ll concedel
Serena and Lydia had taken all the biased garbage the referee had spewed and shoved it right down his throat.
It felt incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
Vanessa and Jasper clapped wildly from the side until their hands turned red.
“You… you’re cheating!” Bianca
raged. “Our firewalls were fortified with specialized tech! There’s no way you could break through them this fast p>
That “specialized tech” was, of course, outside help.
Specifically, the top-tier hackers employed by the Doyle family.
That was why Bianca couldn’t
fathom how a country bumpkin like
Serena could obliterate their
defenses in minutes and plant a
reverse-leeching virus into their system.
“I suspect you’re using banned external software p>
“Referee, I demand they be disqualified! Now p>
Isabella Lancaster stood nearby, her face pale. She watched as her team’s computer science majors scrambled uselessly against the bleeding points.
She looked up at the screen.
In that short span of time, their ranking had plummeted into the bottom ten.
Meanwhile, The Hope Initiative was parked securely in first place, their score still steadily climbing.
If this kept up, Dreamscape Alpha would be eliminated entirely.