That was the sound of a drone. Xu Xiangbei became alert immediately. On the highway, with nobody around, someone must have deployed a drone here specifically for him.

He realized he was being tracked by the drone.

He quickly shifted gears and hit the accelerator. The Porsche engine roared like thunder, and the speed shot up from one hundred to one hundred eighty miles per hour.

Whoosh, the immense thrust brought about intense excitement.

But what was shocking was that the bottom of the drone suddenly spewed a burst of fire, and the sound of the machine gun turret spinning echoed clearly in the air, accompanied by the sound of bullets hitting the roadbed like hail.

Xu Xiangbei broke into a cold sweat. If he hadn’t suddenly sped up, he would have been riddled with bullets.

He hurriedly continued to shift gears, hitting the accelerator. The Porsche turned into a flash of lightning, and only when he felt he had shaken off the drone did he start to slow down.

Who was spying on him? Trying to assassinate him with a drone.

The enormous pressure was like a mountain weighing on him, making it hard to breathe. He felt a chill in his body as his clothes were soaked with cold sweat. The air conditioning blowing cold wind made it feel especially chilly.

At Purple Gold Villa, Xu Xiangbei told Jenny about the drone attack on the highway.

Jenny checked for a long time, but since it was nighttime, the surveillance on the highway wasn’t effective. They didn’t capture the drone, only Xu Xiangbei’s severe speeding and bullets scattered on the highway.

"Regarding your drone ambush incident, I couldn’t find anything, but the Thunderbird Group’s server room was deliberately set on fire, and the arsonist has been found."

A specially processed photo restored and enlarged the blurred pixels, revealing a fat face. It was Lei Ziming’s second uncle, Lei Zhensheng.

Lei Zhensheng sneaked into the computer room from the basement, first doused the server with gasoline, and then set it on fire with a lighter. Although the video was dim, you could see his actions and his fat face.

Since Lei Zhensheng betrayed the Lei Family, he disappeared from the public eye. Who would have thought he would suddenly reappear?

"We’ve issued a wanted order, and all the police in Earth Sea City are looking for him."

Zuo Mu interjected: "I know where Lei Zhensheng usually hangs out. He has a lover, and I went with Lei Ziming to find him once. Why Lei Ziming went to look for him, I don’t know, I just know it’s in building 5 of New Moon District, I don’t know the exact room number."

Building 5, Room 301, New Moon District.

Jenny asked the security and found out the room number where Lei Zhensheng lived.

Lei Zhensheng has a fat head and big ears and loves wearing an antique gold pocket watch.

In this age, not many people like wearing pocket watches. His characteristic of always wearing an expensive pocket watch was known to all the security in the district.

No one knew who Lei Zhensheng was, but they all knew the fat man wearing the pocket watch lived in building 5, room 301.

When they caught Lei Zhensheng, he was still snoring at home. He hadn’t slept well the night before because he set the server room on fire. At his age, he wasn’t good at staying up late, and he had to catch up on even a little lost sleep.

So it was easy to catch Lei Zhensheng.

It was also easy to make him confess.

No need for harsh interrogation, just glaring at him and pressing the baton to make it crackle. He was so scared he went limp, like a piece of boneless pork.

"It was my brother who came to see me at night and asked me to do it. He said if I set the server room and servers on fire to destroy the data, he would allow me back into the Lei Group."

Xu Xiangbei shouted: "Impossible, your brother died during the day in the four-story building that was burned down. How could he come to ask you to burn the server?"

Jenny sternly asked Xu Xiangbei: "Did you really see him blow himself up in the building?"

"I personally witnessed it with Zuo Mu. The old bastard pressed the controller in his hand, and the whole building collapsed instantly. If Zuo Mu and I hadn’t escaped quickly, we would have died there."

Zuo Mu answered seriously: "I did see Lei Zhenrong, but I felt his face was covered by a film, not his real self, but a kind of holographic projection."

Jenny doubted: "But we only found two charred skeletons and didn’t discover a third body. Are you sure you didn’t see it wrong?"

Xu Xiangbei thought carefully: "We might have fallen into Lei Zhenrong’s trick. Seeing is not believing; hearing is. Their Thunderbird Group is full of these holographic images. What we saw was not a real person but a holographic image."

Jenny smiled: "As long as he’s not dead, we can find him and put both him and his son in jail."

The doorbell of Purple Gold Villa rang, and Xu Xiangbei saw a familiar figure. Her long black hair like ink draped over her shoulders. Her beautiful face showed not a trace of dust, and her skin was splendid and radiant, emanating a youthful glow.

"Miss Liu, our programmer, you’re finally here. How are you going to save our game?"

Hearing that the Thunderbird Group’s server had been destroyed, Liu Ningyan specially took leave from Jiangcheng University to come to Earth Sea.

Liu Ningyan tossed her hair and said excitedly: "I want to check the extent of the server damage to see if it can be repaired. I had a call with an American data recovery master yesterday, and he told me that as long as it isn’t burned to ashes, there’s a possibility of recovery. If we can recover the server data, our game can go back online."

Xu Xiangbei was also quite delighted: "It seems our Ancient Moon Red Dust can be saved."

"Aren’t you going to take me to the Thunderbird Group now?"

Jenny shook hands with Liu Ningyan: "Let’s go to the Thunderbird Group together."

The Thunderbird Group, missing the Lei father and son, was now like scattered sand. The office was almost deserted, with many employees having left. The original network administrator had resigned, no wonder his phone was always off. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The three of Xu Xiangbei went to the Thunderbird Group’s server room, a scene of devastation, with scorched network cables, electrical cables, and broken hosts everywhere.

Liu Ningyan carefully inspected the burnt servers, full of confidence: "From the outside, only half is burned. We can recover some of the data. We just need to take the disks from the disk array back."

But because the server case was burned, the disks, chassis, and everything melted together and couldn’t be removed intact. So they had no choice but to have the entire server moved, ready to be shipped to the American data recovery master to recover the data.

After moving the server, Liu Ningyan did not leave. Instead, she connected her laptop in the office.

Xu Xiangbei poured her a glass of water: "Our beautiful hacker, what are you thinking again?"

"Haven’t you noticed that all this is too obvious? All the game programs on the server were painstakingly developed by Thunderbird Company, with Lei Zhenrong pouring countless efforts into it, and he just let it burn? It’s not that simple."