The Wife Is A Superstar 3

Chapter 451 - Must Protect

Louis immediately obeyed his mommy's order. He abandoned his task and retreated, quickly heading his way back to the safety of their home network. Unfortunately, he was unable to poof out of his current predicament. He had been more or less locked inside the virtual place he was in. Even his emergency escape doors were either corrupted or completely destroyed.

It wasn't that Louis had been careless. Not at all. Jennie programmed Louis to apply all safety precautions of the highest level first before performing any task, no matter how simple or complex it was. Not to mention that Jennie was also present this time to oversee the situation and to make sure that Louis was performing exactly as he was instructed.

Just a few moments ago, Louis had been digging and gathering information about the members of the Young family who had history working for the Singapore branch of Manoban Corporation. Since Jennie didn't give him any specific type of information to focus on, Louis randomly collected anything that he laid his paws on.

Everything was going smoothly...until Louis triggered some type of an intrusion detection system (IDS). It was hidden and very sophisticated that even an advanced AI like Louis failed to detect it in time.

Usually, Louis was able to circumvent or even completely disable any IDS because Jennie had stored several ways to do so in her cat AI's extensive database which continued to grow each day through self-learning. This IDS, however, wasn't something Louis recognized. No matches were found in his own database. It was a completely new, never-before-seen IDS that was practically undetectable by hackers before triggering it.

It wasn't Louis' fault, nor was it Jennie's.

The IDS was just that powerful. After triggering it, Louis instantaneously became the target of a malicious attack. This was the moment Jennie reacted and shouted at Louis to retreat.

Back to the present, Jennie immediately went into full hacker-mode in order to protect and retrieve Louis from his precarious situation. Louis wasn't equipped to deal with such forceful and malicious attacks from an unknown source, so Jennie had to manually defend him. Jennie's fingers flew over several keyboards in front of her in a blur. Her expression showed that she was in deep concentration.

Lisa stood beside her and watched her in action. He didn't dare make any sudden movements or noise that might disturb his baby girl and break her concentration. Her earlier shout had alarmed him. He looked at the image of Louis in one of the computer monitors on the side.

The white cat lay unmoving in his earlier sphinx-like position. His green eyes lost their usual glow. They became dull and frozen instead. His expression was blank, not animated like usual. It was as if his soul had left his body.

Lisa knew that he was just an AI, not a real cat or person, so it was impossible for him to have his own soul. Nevertheless, he and Jennie still treated him like their own child—a very smart one at that. Everyone in both their households also interacted with Louis like a human, even more so than they did with Lily and Leo because he could hold an actual conversation with them.

Lisa had actually grown to love a virtual cat as if it was his own child. In a normal situation, he would think that it was something ridiculous and even childish. It was similar to those news reports about weird people marrying anime characters. But ever since he fell in love with his baby girl, there wasn't anything normal about their lives anymore.

He was engaged to marry one of the most brilliant yet dangerous hackers in the whole world. He had confirmed that she was the real Drakon. Not to mention that she was also a student of the legendary school of geniuses, Cross Academy. She also made him a father of three kids (so far)—two live cats and a virtual one. Her eccentricities influenced him to adjust his own definition of what was weird and what was normal.

Louis might be weird to others but for him, his baby girl, and everyone in both their households, the virtual white cat was an important member of their family. No matter what others thought, Louis was his child with Ruby Jane! He didn't want anything bad to happen to their child. Seeing Louis' almost lifeless appearance on the computer monitor filled him with a parental kind of fear.

Lisa gripped the edge of the ergonomic chair, mentally sending his baby girl strength to defend their third child from danger. He was worried, but he believed in her hacking skills.

'You can do it, love,' he silently cheered for her.

As for Jennie, she had already figured out the pattern in the automatic attacks on Louis. The attacks may seem random at first, but a hacking-aid software she developed had successfully calculated the attacks' algorithm.

Jennie was about to activate Louis again and feed him the algorithm so that he could also start defending himself, when the attacks suddenly changed patterns and even increased in intensity. The attacks this time no longer felt random but targeted and more vicious.

"It's a person!" Jennie exclaimed.

Her fingers increased in speed and became more fluid, as they flew all over the several keyboards surrounding her. She entered a deeper level of concentration. Although her body wasn't tense and was performing in its optimal state, the deepening furrow between her brows and the droplets of sweat trickling down her forehead and back showed that she was actually struggling against the enemy hacker.

"Must protect Louis, must not let him be discovered, must not let anyone steal him..." she muttered like a mantra, even as her entire aura began to change.

The furrow between her brows smoothed out. Her expression became cold, and her movements more mechanical. It was like she had transformed into a highly efficient robot. She even stopped sweating.

Lisa, who was standing beside her and was watching her the whole time, frowned and did a double take. Then he rubbed his eyes and looked at her again.

For a moment, he thought he saw a beautiful but emotionless blonde woman instead of his baby girl. But when he looked again, it was still his beautiful Ruby Jane. He shook his head at what he thought was his overactive imagination.

'I must be tired. My eyes are playing tricks on me,' he thought to himself.