"Ehh… Mr. Karlos, why are you looking at me like that? And where am I, in the first aid room?" professor Han asked in confusion.
Xin stood up and let him take a view of the entire class with his own eyes. It was pretty much dead and silent.
Seeing everyone in the class was sleeping, professor Han abruptly stood up and had a closer look at them. Not a single student was awake except Xin.
"Mr. Xin, any idea, what happened to them? I don't think they are acting…. Something feels wrong here."
"Yes, professor, not only them but the entire world is sleeping right now."
Professor Han "…"
It was hard on his part to swallow that news in one gulp. Something came to his mind, and like Xin, Professor Han too rushed into the security guard's office, took the key of the terrace, and climbed up high to take a look at the nearby places. And like Xin, he found the whole world had stopped around him.
Not any human, nor any machines were working around him. While he was taking a look at the school surroundings and the city, Xin followed him to the terrace and acted like he hadn't been there.
"Mr. Xin, come here, come here. See this!!" Professor Han shouted at the top of his lungs.
Xin went near and pretended to be an innocent guy who didn't know anything about these happenings and exclaimed, "Damn!! The whole city has stopped working."
"Yes, Mr. Xin, not only the city but the factories outside the city have stopped working. I can't see any smoke coming out of it now."
"Oh, yes, I observed just now."
After checking over the city from the terrace, both of them returned to the classroom and thought of ways to wake up the rest of the students.
Being a hardcore otaku and novel reader, Professor Han was getting ideas out of the world. At one moment, he was thinking about the plot of that novel where the male lead and the female lead were the only ones who remain alive on earth, and everyone else died because of some virus.
But he rejected comparing that plot and their current situation because both of them were males, and he didn't want to spend the rest of his life with another male. He still wanted to get a hot, sexy, figured chick as her wife.
Next, he thought of a plot where they would be stuck in an apocalyptic world and have to fight for their survival. But then again, he rejected that idea since he couldn't see any signs of the apocalypse or any zombie around him.
While he was busy thinking about different novel plots and comparing their current situation to those plots, Xin was doing something shady in the class with his laptop on the teacher's table.
Since they hadn't held any introduction sessions, and Xin was pretty much new to that world, he took the chance when everybody was asleep and hacked the school database to look up their name, family, and background.
After saving a copy of the entire database on an online cloud storage service, Xin shut down his laptop and had a look at his old professor.
"Professor Han, what are you doing there?!" Xin asked in confusion. Some time ago, Professor Han was fantasizing about the novel plots and their current situation outside the classroom. But when Xin went outside, he was not there anymore.
Xin followed the sound coming from the down floor and found Professor Han there, before the principal's office.
Xin asked again, "Professor Han, what are you doing there?! Are you trying to do something?"
Before Xin continued, Professor Han replied and said, "Hiss!! Don't make a noise. I am not doing anything shady."
"Then why are you trying to open the principal chamber door?"
Professor Han sighed out and told Xin the entire story that happened some days ago. As usual, professor Han completed his duty for the day and passed through the principal chamber heading towards his home when he heard a loud noise coming from the inside.
"Dad, how can you do something like that?!! You still have your kids. And you are giving it to someone else."
"Yes, you all are my kids. And all are well off enough to lead your own life without being dependent on me, then why do you all have a problem if I give it to someone else?"
Professor Han told Xin how the principal's kids were forcing him to sign on some papers and take something from him. They even threatened him to sign on it, or else they will burn down his entire empire.
Xin already had a hunch about what might be those papers and what was the thing that they wanted to take from their father. He understood why his professor was curious about it and wanted to take a look at it.
After pondering over it for some time, Xin offered help to professor Han by saying, "Leave it to me."
Being a hardcore otaku and a detective movie lover, Professor Han was of the idea that Xin will kick the door and break it like those detectives and agents in one try.
But his expectation was crushed when Xin went near the door and flicked it once to open it.
Professor Han "…."
Xin "…."
Both were dumbfounded, looking at each other.
Professor Han was surprised at how Xin opened the door of the chamber with just a flick. And Xin was dumbfounded by seeing the dumbfounded face of the professor.
"What?!!" Xin asked while knitting his eyes.
"Mr. Xin, how did you do that?! Opening the door with just a flick?"
"Oh, this? I just hacked the mainframe computer, then accessed the tri-layered secure database of the company that's providing CCTV and automated door service to our school and opened it from the keys found there." This is what Xin was about to yell out, but then he remembered he was not the programming genius Xin anymore.
Even though he hacked the company's computer and its secured servers as usual with his smartphone, he could no longer tell about that to anyone, not for the time being at least.
After snapping out of his astonishment professor, Han couldn't contain his excitement and asked, "Mr. Xin did you hack the computers of the company providing our school CCTV and automated door services and opened it from there?!"
Xin "…"
The moment professor Han asked him about hacking; he literally got choked. Even though he was not showing it on his face, he was suffering waves of heart attacks from inside.
While Xin was hacking the computers, he was taking extreme precautions not to let his professor know what he was fiddling on his mobile and silently hack the computer to access the servers.
'Then how come he found out about it?' Xin pondered.
"I have seen people in the movie how they hacked the computers just with their mobile phones and touch the door with a stylish pose to open it after that."
Xin "…"
"Well, never mind. You are just a last-year high school student. I don't think you even know about ethical hacking. Forget about hacking the company's multi-layered secured server."
Xin "…"
"I think you are just checking the material of the door, and it opened up on its own."
Xin "…"
"Well, good for us, let's go." Said Professor Han and led the way to the principal chamber.