Livid Guardian's Endless Coddling

Xin understood why he wasn't able to connect to his system when he tried to establish a remote connection from his laptop while in the car.

He also discerned why they were diverted to some club purposefully and analyzed his mistake.

If the attacker was smart enough to break the firewall, the attacker would be smart to leave without a trace. He didn't realize it earlier and went to catch him.

That gave an ample and best time to control over their security without giving out any alarm to them.

If he was present when the attacker was attacking, he was sure he could have controlled the potential damage.

He understood he was overconfident because they always caught the attacker whenever anybody tried to breach.

Xoan didn't want to pressure Xin hence he didn't add more words to him.

Both rushed in and saw Xin's whole lab where all the systems were rebooting or failing to configure.

Xin went ahead and tried to control it but the screen displayed, 'The Game is On.'

Xoan and Xin's lips tilted up reading it as one crossed his arms on his chest and another one's hands were in his pant pockets ready to face the upcoming challenge.

They didn't think there could be other damages. They thought it would be fun to catch the attacker.

But their excitement didn't last long.

Xoan received a call shortly distracting his thoughts. He answered it to hear, "CEO West, the buffers of both television channels are missing."

Xoan frowned. "Use the backup." 

His fierce voice diverted Xin's attention to him.

The panic-stricken voice heard to Xoan, "CEO West, technicians are checking the backup system. Nearly fifty percent of backup is erased."

Xoan's breathing twitched. 

Xin realized the attacker didn't just attack his lab.

He tried to make out the pattern.

At first, the attacker broke their firewall giving them heads up leaving a virtual IP address for them.

Then they controlled his private network.

While they were out there running to catch, they destroyed his lab completely as they slashed the sword on the Focus international.

"Shrewd." It escaped from his lips unthinkingly.

Xin was really impressed by the attacker's plan.

Xoan snarled, "What about the remote server and storage?"

He heard the caller stuttering, "It... it..."

Xoan didn't have patience, "Spout off."

'Thump'

Xin's assistant who was checking the systems was frightened and fell on the floor. He was even scared to move from the floor glancing at Xoan.

Xoan was ferocious.

The caller cried out in fright, "It is completely destroyed."

Xin saw the darkened face of Xoan facing him. Because his lab wasn't as important as the company for him.

Xoan was breathing heavily, "Air anything available to the channels, call manager director, and control the situation."

He couldn't leave their news and entertainment television channel empty so he took that action first before solving the problem.

Focus media had efficient teams so they managed in half an hour with a new idea of live interviewing Xoan's friend who was an international superstar but the fine they had to pay for original airing slot shows was too high.

That too, he had to pay those fines to Morgan Entertainment and Skyline Investments. Because the drama slot belonged to Morgan Entertainment and nearly half of it was produced by Skyline.

With that, Focus was answerable to the fans of those dramas.

Xoan hung up and saw Xin's darkened eyes, "The attacker destroyed the remote server and storage with the television airing buffer..."

Xin and Xoan ran towards the elevator as the latter continued, "According to the technician, fifty percent of backup is destroyed."

Now their first priority was to get the company back in shape instead of catching the attacker. They were partly glad, it didn't happen during the day which would affect the employee's work.

But they didn't realize the mistake they were making.

As soon as they reached the media section, Xin started working to check what he could do.

Xoan was listening to his employees about the problems, how they could solve, and potential problems that might arise. 

Xin was too quick in finding a clue.

He had cracked the mac address of the IP address of a system that he tracked.

He quickly checked the company device and assets list to know who was using the system of the mac address he found. 

He then checked about the employee to know his designation and work section because the IP address belonged to the Focus International system.

He and Xoan quickly went to the twenty-third floor from the seventh floor.

A system was left turned on with a power supply. That was used by the attacker.

Xoan who received a call went aside to handle it without disturbing Xin.

Xin found nearly five percent of the backup data checking the system. 

Then again it led him to another IP address that belonged to Focus International.

The specification on the system was low so it took little time than before to find the next location.

Xoan went behind Xin to the forty-seventh floor. There he found six percent of the compressed data.

Those weren't related to Focus Media but those were also very important data of different projects.

It repeated the same in the same building where they were going up and down continuously.

They knew they were being played like a mouse but that's the only way they could get the backup because when Xin checked to restore it but was failing again and again.

The main plan of Aria and Alan making them run was successfully carried out.

If it was just an attack, they would try to track but for the data, they had no choice.

Soon the Virtual IP address found wasn't the Focus International location.

Xin used his laptop to track the IP location. Since the network traffic at midnight wasn't high, it was very easy for him to locate the 24X7 Internet cafe which wasn't far.

Xoan drove Xin as their bodyguards protected them from other threats if present.

Xoan didn't like how the attacker was playing them like street dogs running everywhere to save themselves desperately.

Excluding Xin, nobody would dare to look him in the eye in his brutish state.

Xin controlled himself from breaking the system for getting the smallest amount of data and another IP address.

Since the Internet Cafe system was highly equipped with the fast processor, he paralyzed the whole network quickly and tracked the system that was actually less than two hundred meters away.

He found the data and another IP but while extracting the data a message popped up.

'Savvy.'

Xin's eyes widened seeing it and what happened next. He couldn't believe his own eyes.