Chapter 29: The Mysterious Black Cat Forum

  "However..." Tan Dacheng's tone suddenly changed, and his eyes sparkled as he said: "I can give you a hint, maybe you can find some clues in Ma Jianxin's new office, but how do you get in? I heard there are surveillance devices inside."

  Chu Tianfeng nodded in agreement, Tan Dacheng's words made sense, but it was also very difficult to implement. How could the grand office of the factory director be allowed to let outsiders come in and rummage through?

  Suddenly, he had an idea and asked in a low voice: "Tan Dabo, does Ma Jian's new office have a computer?"

  "Yes, since he became the factory director, he installed one and said that in the future, he would promote paperless office work in the factory!" Tan Dacheng said seriously.

  Chu Tian's heart rose with a glimmer of hope, perhaps Ma Jian's new computer might have some clues. Now computers are synonymous with high technology nationwide, whoever uses a computer is at the forefront of the times. Some people even think that what you input into a computer can be permanently saved, and if you set a password, it's the safest.

  At that time, the term "hacker" was still unfamiliar to the general public!

  "Tan Dabo, has Ma Jian's new computer been connected to the internet?" Chu Tianfeng asked again.

  "It was connected, and the network cable was still set up by us workers to help the telecommunications bureau!" Tan Dacheng said affirmatively.

  Chu Tianfeng's eyes lit up, he was most concerned about this issue. Now directly entering Ma Jianxin's office is too difficult, and it's easy to be caught as a thief. Moreover, even if you're not caught, you'll still leave an image on the surveillance cameras.

  The safest way is to invade the other party's computer through the network. If the other party's computer is not connected to the internet, then no matter how high the technology is, it's useless.

  "It seems I have to learn some hacking skills." Chu Tianfeng muttered to himself, finding that there were still many things he needed to learn, and could only take it one step at a time. Fortunately, his brainpower was quite sufficient after rebirth.

  At this time, suddenly heard the outer door opened, Tan Kai came back.

  Chu Tianfeng took one look at his face, which was a bit swollen and bruised, and his clothes were covered in dust. His heart skipped a beat as he hastily asked: "Kaizi, what's wrong? Have you been fighting with someone again?"

  "Hehe, it's nothing, just accidentally fell." Tan Kai shook his head and smiled.

  Tan Dacheng's heart skipped a beat, and he also asked: "Dakai, did you really fall? Or were you beaten by someone? Do we need to call the police?"

  "Dad, don't worry, it's just a minor injury, I'm fine!" Tan Kai forced a smile.

  Chu Tianfeng knew that Tan Kai had been fighting with people since he was a child, and although he hadn't suffered any major injuries, he had been hurt many times before, but he didn't take it to heart. After sitting for a while, he bid farewell and went home.

  Tan Kai saw him off at the door, looking uneasy and saying nothing.

  "I'm leaving, Ke Zi, use a cold towel on your swollen face!" Chu Tianfeng smiled.

  "Thank you." Tan Kai's lips trembled for a moment.

  When Chu Tianfeng was about to reach his own doorstep, Tan Kai suddenly said from behind: "Tianfeng, be careful for the next few days."

  "Hmm. Why?" Chu Tianfeng turned his head towards Tan Kai.

  "Be careful!" Tan Kai didn't answer his question and deliberately closed the door.

  Chu Tianfeng thought back to Tan Kai's words earlier: "Is he reminding me that someone is going to make a move on me? But he seems unwilling to speak the truth!"

  He returned home, finished his homework and started learning C language diligently. This was an area he had never touched in his previous life, but it was a must-learn subject. Without programming languages, wanting to be a hacker would just be empty talk, wouldn't it?

  These days, Chu Tianfeng has been studying at night and practicing the "Tenglong Eight Styles" self-defense moves in the morning. The book says it's quite magical, but it's actually quite difficult to practice. If Chu Tianfeng didn't have good physical elasticity, flexibility, and explosive power, he wouldn't be able to practice it at all. Even if he forced himself to practice, he would easily get injured.

  After practicing for several days in a row, I finally mastered the first three forms, but I'm not sure about their actual combat effectiveness. Hopefully they're not just fancy moves that look good but are useless.

  Before he knew it, the weekend had arrived and Chu Tianfeng had more time to study. On Sunday afternoon, he left home and took a bus to Xinyuan Internet Cafe.

  Boss Qi Wei still warmly welcomed him and let him into a single room inside.

  Through this period of study, Chu Tianfeng has mastered the basic usage of C language and can write two small programs. This is a breakthrough, to know that his previous life was only good at browsing web pages and playing games.

  This is also a forced situation, in order to clear his father's name, he started learning hacking technology from now on.

  "Where can I learn?" Chu Tianfeng was in a dilemma. If it were ten years later, there would be numerous online forums and websites teaching hacking skills, and with some basic knowledge of the internet, one could easily join any of them to learn.

  But now, hackers are still an unfamiliar term in China, and the Internet is not yet widespread! If you want to learn hacking techniques, I guess you have to go to foreign websites.

  Chu Tian's mind suddenly lit up as he recalled his past life working at an internet company as a network promoter, although it didn't require much technical expertise, just organizing posts to promote products every day, but he had contact with many programmers from various companies, among them were highly skilled hackers.

  He often heard people mention that in the United States, there was a very popular hacker forum called Black Cat Forum. Because of its unique name, Chu Tianfeng remembered it more clearly. It is said that this forum gathered many top hackers from all over the United States, and the creator of the forum was a woman with an ID called Black Cat Queen.

  This forum has been established for over 20 years, with a mysterious background. Some people say it was set up by the CIA in a civilian form, but this statement has never been confirmed and there are many doubts. For example, in the early years of the Black Cat Forum, foreign IPs were not restricted. If it was really built by the CIA, wouldn't they be afraid that foreign netizens would spy on the CIA's internal secrets through this forum?

  Since it was established for so long at that time, there must have been this forum ten years ago.

  Chu Tianfeng opened the Yahoo website, searched for Hei Mao Forum, and clicked on it. He was secretly delighted: "It seems that this forum has not blocked overseas IPs yet! If it were ten years later, foreigners would find it very difficult to get in."

  The forum was entered, but inside were all English, Chu Tianfeng had a high school English level, and it was still very difficult for him to understand such a professional hacker forum.

  Although Americans speak English, there are some differences in specific terms, which is professionally called "American English".

  Although Chu Tianfeng had prepared in advance and brought an English-Chinese dictionary with him, looking up unfamiliar words as he went along, he still found that nearly half of the content was not very clear to him. People who study English all know that many sentences are not completely understandable just because you recognize the individual words; there is interference from grammar and context, and some words have multiple meanings making them even harder to understand.

  The biggest interference is still the dialect and local language. Hei Mao Lun Jian was built in Minnesota, USA. Many administrators like to use local dialects and local languages when writing articles, which increases the difficulty for foreigners.

  For example, the word "apple" is known to everyone as meaning an apple, but in American slang it also means a dollar, colloquially referred to as a "block", similar to one yuan or two yuan in RMB, which becomes "one apple" or "two apples" in the US.

  Although Chu Tianfeng was a bit stronger in brainpower, when he encountered these completely unfamiliar contents, he was still at a loss.

  "It won't work, looks like I'll have to find an English expert to ask... Ah, go find Teacher Chen and see if she can help me!" Chu Tianfeng knew that Chen Xuewei, the teacher who taught their class English, had a very strong foundation in English. She had passed the Professional Eight Level exam, TOEFL, and had even studied abroad in the United States! It was just unknown why she had returned to a school in Huaxia Country to teach again.

  There have been many unsolved mysteries surrounding Chen Xuewei's background, which is also one of the reasons why many students are interested in her.

  Chu Tianfeng fetched his notebook and copied down the sentences and sentence structures from the Black Cat Forum that he didn't understand, planning to ask Chen Laoshi for guidance after school. Of course, some of the content was jumbled up in order to avoid letting the teacher know that he was studying "improper" hacking techniques.

  After he came out of the internet cafe at night, his mind was filled with a string of incomprehensible American English from Black Cat Forum, and he thought to himself that he had to discuss it thoroughly with Teacher Chen tomorrow.

  "Big brother, the target has appeared!"

  A black van came out from the corner of the alley, with two men in black suits and sunglasses sitting inside. The one sitting in the front passenger seat was holding a walkie-talkie and speaking into it.

  "Keep up with that kid, find a quiet place to take action, do it neatly!" Pi Wu's voice came over from the intercom.

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