The hackers were still feeling smug, blissfully ignorant that they had already become fish on Emperor J's chopping board, awaiting slaughter.
Just then, Lan Jin forcefully struck the enter key, and a terrifyingly electric smile burst from the corners of her mouth—wicked and wild, "Game, over."
As her words fell, all the hackers heard was a "pfft" sound as billows of black smoke rose from their mainframes—that was clearly a sign of burned-out motherboards.
"Fuck!"
"Shit!"
Only at this moment did they realize they had been calculated against all along, and they had unwittingly plunged into the traps set by others, the epitome of a counterproductive scheme.
Their reputation as the world's top hackers was about to be destroyed.
One thought flitted across their minds: I really want to go die.
