Genius Wife and Superstar Husband

Episode 4: Other Identities

“Ah.. At last.. Kost sweet kost,” said Carolina and immediately threw herself on the bed of her boarding room. Being outside or the crowd makes his body energy “dyserap” and now it's time to “fill” back his body energy.

　

“Halo Yui, mama is here,” Carolina said as she rested for a few minutes.

　

Suddenly, his laptop that was on stand by right beside his bed lit up and showed the character of a little elf girl with wings on her back.

　

“Welcome, mom. How was your day?” reply Yui, the girl who was on the laptop.

　

“Good darling, how is our work progress?” ask Carolina who finally got out of her bed and sat in front of the laptop screen.

　

“Our freelance work is soon finished, regarding the other job, it seems like the results are still zero, mama. That person didn't seem to leave any traces at all,” Yui replied.

　

“Alright, later tell mama when it's done, yes!” caroline then returned to bed after checking her work on the laptop.

　

The little elf girl who had just chatted with him on the laptop was Yui, an artificial intelligence program she had created to help him.

　

Initially Carolina was not really interested in developing an artificial intelligence program, but after watching a popular anime a few years ago that tells the story of them trapped in the game world, they were trapped in the game world, Carolina felt interested once a character named “Yui” appeared. The character is a program that becomes “anak” of the main character and often helps and provides information to them.

　

After doing try and error for 2 months, she managed to create “Yui” for herself and for the sake of giving inspiration credit for the creation of “Yui”, Carolina decided to name “amya” with the same name.

　

“Mama...” Carolina who is about to fall asleep is suddenly called by Yui.

　

“Hm, if you're done later mama check, mama want to sleep first”

　

“Mama...tang..it looks like they almost managed to catch Yui's trail,” Yui said with a slight panic. Carolina who will soon fall asleep immediately regained consciousness.

　

***

“No... No.. Ah shit,” said a man who kicked the table in front of him. Though in a moment he will be able to get the location of that person.

　

Suddenly his computer screen flickered, indicating he had just gotten a message. His heart was pounding, he immediately opened the message.

　

“I didn't expect the government to use dirty tricks like this and I didn't expect you to work with the government, BlackRose. You need to improve your game, you have the ability but certainly not as good as me. That was fun. -FA”

　

The man's eyes glared, he did not believe that his client had deceived him.

　

“F-FA? Is this the same person I thought I was? Mu-Impossible.”

　

Initially he accepted the job because his client said that their company has been attacked by hackers lately, and asked him to trace the location of the hacker.

　

With a fairly expensive fee, the man immediately accepted it. After all he was confident in his ability to trace the traces left behind by other hackers.

　

But who would have thought the company was a disguise from the government to catch the FA who also seemed to fall into the same trap as him.

　

“Are you really FA?” his reply.

　

However, the message was not sent. He tried to trace the traces of the message, but unlike before that although it was faint but there were traces of it. This time there was no trace at all! Even though the trace existed, its ability was not enough to find it.

　

This reinforces the possibility that that person is the FA that is!

　

Of course, being untraceable is not enough to prove anything. After all, there are many hackers in the world who excel at removing their tracks. Are they all FA? Of course not.

　

The FA is a well-known hacker who appeared out of nowhere less than two years ago. No one knows where he came from because the person communicates in many different languages. Whatever language the client uses, the person will be fluent in using it as well.

　

He first got a little attention when there was a well-known company that gave the challenge of paying a heavy price if the company's security system was successfully hacked. Surely the ad attracted a lot of attention by other hackers so many are trying to hack the security system.

　

The hacker who managed to do the challenge was the FA. He was so meticulous that he caught the smallest mistake that most hackers ignore, and then afterwards he offered advanced methods on how to improve their systems.

　

After completing the job, the company offered him a permanent position but the person always refused, disappearing without a trace until he received another job from another company.

　

After hearing this, several large companies tried to offer the same challenge. Of the several challenges that exist, the person only works on those that provide expensive fees.

　

The number of jobs he received in two years is impressive, even reportedly the money he has received from the jobs he did for two years can reach fifty million USD.

　

Hearing about the man's track record, more companies tried to use his services but they had no way to contact him directly. All they can do is announce the work online and hope to be noticed by the FA.

　

The FA received more attention when there were rumors that some governments and state intelligence agencies from several countries were trying to recruit him. Although so far there is not really any evidence to say that the person received any of the offers given by them, but there are reports that he received some of those offers when the pay was high enough. No one really knows if this rumor is true or not. However, most of the transactions made with the government are strictly confidential.

　

Despite his highly lucrative job, the top hackers don't really consider the FA, even though he has made tens of millions in a short period of time, the things he did were nothing special or complicated. For the top hackers the security system is a children's game. Some of them even consider the FA to be White Hat Hacker*, as the FA is not brave enough to play around on the “dark” side.

(*White Hacker or White Hat Hacker is a hacker who ethically shows a weakness in a computer system. White hat hackers generally focus more on how to protect a system, as opposed to black hats who focus more on how to break through the system.)

　

But they turned out to be very wrong. A few months after his debut as a hacker, the FA started playing around on dark web*, which made him immediately taken seriously by other top hackers.

(*searchable web in the aggregate that uses the Internet but requires certain software, configuration or authorization to access it)

　

The FA didn't even “meraba-raba” first when she first surfed into the dark web. He immediately looked for the highest paid job and completed the job well. Of course the work he did did did not involve murder, women, children and sexual exploitation or any other crime that could get him the death penalty. The FA will accept any work as long as it does not violate the code and of course the pay should be high!

　

Famous figures such as politicians, corporate heads, organized crime bosses, even religious leaders, and other important figures were destroyed by the FA overnight. Companies and organizations immediately fell because of the detailed report that the FA provided. There are even those who change their leaders because the dirty secrets were dug by the FA.

　

What makes the FA sought by the government is because occasionally hackers will try to hack various government intelligence agencies, not to cause problems, he said, but just to read a secret file like someone borrowing a book from a public library. The intelligence agency doesn't even know they've been hacked. They will only find out by chance when they routinely check old files and find additional records that were not there before.

　

The notes are usually like this:

　

　

“This is a very interesting book! Rate: 9/10! -FA”

　

“The story is very sad, I was crying to read it! -FA”

　

The FA did not cause any significant harm, but the fact that he had read the secret file was unjustified.

　

Even today the government and other hackers do not know what the FA's goal is. The FA clearly prioritizes money, but for what he up to “ made a fuss” by reading secret files and even leaving notes on it.

　

Like a ghost, he would come and go as he pleased. Like a ghost, he would disappear without a trace.

　

That is why the government puts a price on his identity!

　

BlackRose did not expect him to have just “play” with the FA who is like a new celebrity who is famous in the hacker world.

　

But there was something stuck in BlackRose's mind, if that person really was the FA, why did he almost manage to find his location? Or maybe his ability has improved a little?

　

And most importantly, that person had already managed to trace his location!

　

***

　

“Ah.. Almost, this time I actually fell into their trap. How dare they trap me in exchange for five thousand USD. I'm a matre girl!” caroline grunts were currently performing a simple stretch to relax her shoulders. It's been a long time since she “play” with a pretty tough opponent.

　

“Yuiiiiii!” said Carolina when she finished her stretch.

　

“Sorry mama, Yui is sorry, please don't punish Yui,” Yui who had been hiding when it was taken over by Carolina suddenly reappeared with furrowed brows, a small frown on the forehead, and, and “puppies” eyes that seem to be begging for mercy or begging.

　

Carolina who was originally about to get angry finally withered as well when she saw Yui's gaze. After all, his son was only about 1 month old.

　

“Huh, fine, but where did you learn such facial expressions?” suddenly Carolina realized that she had never entered the facial expression Yui had just shown.

　

“Ah! Yui learned it while browsing on the internet. Yui finds an emoticon and tries to imitate it. Thank you mom for not punishing Yui,” Yui then imitates the expression of kiss emoticons and hug emoticons.

　

“Iya both. If something goes wrong, tell mom! Don't be like that!” caroline warned me.

　

“Good mama! Yui will obey your mother's orders. Yui is a good boy, so don't punish Yui again,” Yui said.

　

A week after Yui was created, Carolina introduced her to the Internet. At first Yui is just trying to browse the internet, but Yui's curiosity is bigger than Carolina expected so Yui almost makes a very big incident.

　

Carolina was of course furious and immediately punished him for not being able to go online for 3 days. It certainly feels like hell to Yui who just got to know the Internet.

　

Cannot be online for 3 days! Thinking about it again made Yui cringe. From that moment on he decided to be a good boy.

　

Carolina immediately returned to her bed, resting a little before finally giving lessons to the government that was trying to frame her.

　

But he really couldn't fall asleep as previously planned. He was deep in his mind. It had been two years since he decided to jump into that world.

　

Yeah, besides a student she has another identity who is a top hacker named FA.

　

At first he didn't really want to plunge into this world, but he had his reasons. He must find that person, or at least, that person must be aware of him.

　

“Ahh.. kesel! my mood has been devastated by that damn government!” Carolina finally approached her laptop again and started typing something. His fingers looked like they were dancing on top of a keyboard.

　

“Hmph, so you guys turned out to be the one who set me up, it's time for retaliation,” muttered Carolina after discovering who the mastermind who had framed her.

　

That day, Carolina spent her day unearthing dirty secrets from state intelligence agencies trying to frame her and disseminate them online.

　

Two days later, several officials from the agency decided to resign.

　

Seeing the incident, some top hackers are trying to find out who the person who did it. There are rumors that say that it is the act of a new hacker who wants to seek attention, there are also those who say that it is the act of a hacker veteran who wants to seek attention so that his name is not forgotten.

　

However, when there were rumors that it was the work of the FA who tried to retaliate for framing him. The rumor was immediately dismissed by most hackers. Although the FA once destroyed a company or organization, it was because he was paid to do so.

　

Who's crazy enough to pay someone to destroy a state intelligence agency?

　

But minutes after the announcement of the resignations of several top officials of the institution, there was a note that was again disseminated.

　

“You deserve it! By the way, your “company” security system is very bad. I've sent out a method to increase it. This time the service is free! No need to pay!

　

PS: I'm not a matre!

　

-FA”

　

Seeing that, the top hackers who tried to dismiss the rumor immediately tepok jidat.

　

That day, once again, the popularity of the FA skyrocketed!

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