The Inconceivable Flame: A Fallen Angel's Disguise

Coming back to her computer room, Ru sat languidly on her swivel chair and gave it a 360-degree spin while waiting for the computers to boot up.

She closed her eyes and let the events of the night replay like a scene from a movie. She had an impeccable memory and perhaps that’s why having a gap between her memory felt even weirder to her. She could remember every tiny incident of her life vividly and yet, she couldn’t remember anything that happened in those two years.

It was pure torture since whenever she tried to put some pressure on her mind, she would get dizzy. It was a feeling like someone was squeezing the life out of her.

"Welcome back, master!" Raven’s human-like voice made Ru open her eyes as she stared at the multiple screens surrounding her.

"Run the virus diagnosis first." Getting the order, Raven started the process and Ru could see the numbers and codes running on the screen before her. It was going to take some time.

She opened the drawers and pulled out a small box from inside. She opened it and a dragon-fly sized drone was before her eyes. She held it in her hand and taking a screwdriver from her precision screwdriver set, she started to fiddle with the drone’s small screws.

While the virus diagnosis was going on, she connected the tiny drone with her computer to install some upgraded software. Using her mobile, she controlled the drone and flew it around for a while to test.

After being done with it, she saw that the virus diagnosis was complete and the content of the hard drive was right before her. Not only that, because of the flash drive that Jack left behind, now she could track all the activities of that particular computer.

"Urgh! Why does this girl have thousands of photos?" Ru groaned in frustration as the only thing in the hard drive were photos, photos, and yes, photos!

"Master, it’s a proven fact that girls like to take photos," Raven answered her in an all-knowing manner.

"What are they? Obsessed with themselves or something?" Ru retorted quite irked for some reason.

"No. But like a human-nature, they like getting the approval of the people. And the best way to do it is, showing their perfect selves." Ru rolled her eyes and snorted in contempt.

"Raven, every human live his own life and fight his own battle. Then why the hell do humans need some strangers approval? Isn’t it like degrading oneself. I’ll call it attention-seeking for no good reason except for showing how desperate you are."

"Master, you are being rude."

"Am I?" Ru challenged.

"Yes! Some doesn’t want attention, they are just lonely enough to find solace in photos."

"Who is teaching you this cr*p?" Ru asked since she definitely didn’t program Raven like this.

"Internet; also known as the World Wide Web. You can learn every skill as long as you are up for it." Ru scrunched up her nose and shook her head. "You should try it, it might help you learn some basic socializing skills."

Ru ignored Raven and focused on going through the photos.

Actually, she knew she wouldn’t find anything in the hard drive from the beginning. The computer IP that she had locked on to last time belonged to none other than Ji Caihong.

It came as a surprise to Ru at first but later she started to connect the dots.

Last time, when she heard that shrill voice that brought a buried memory back, she had ended up with one name; Ji Caihong.

And now, Ji Caihong’s personal computer was being used to invade into Knight Empires server. Ru actually believed that only an idiot would use their personal computer for doing something illegal like that.

So, she simply never considered that Ji Caihong was behind all of it. But whoever it was, he was using Ji Caihong as a shield for sure.

Let’s see how long you can hide.

Ru closed her eyes after looking through a couple of hundred photos, not wanting to continue.

It was a blunder on her part.

Because if she had gone through a few more photos, a certain face might have triggered her buried memory. Alas! She missed the perfect chance.

Fate really didn’t want her to have it easy.