Under the Heiress' Facade
Chapter 329

It was a golden bonfire symbol.

Hera was stunned for a moment and murmured, "Vulcan?"

In that moment of distraction, a red alert flashed on her screen, indicating a breach in the firewall.

Hera quickly regained her composure and checked the code alert. She then promptly removed the USB flash drive, kept her laptop, and left ten dollars on the table before leaving.

In Astral Nova's Skyscraper, Bernard successfully pinpointed the opponent's location and swiftly browsed through his files. Just as he was about to copy them, all the stacked windows on the screen suddenly turned gray.

The next second, that person disconnected.

"Next door café," he said to Samson.

Samson promptly brought his people to the café. As expected, they didn't replace anyone suspicious.

After Samson reported the situation to Bernard, he planned to replace the café manager to check the surveillance.

Just then, Bernard's voice came through the phone. "Don't bother checking. Someone has already tampered with it."

It wasn't just the café's surveillance that had been tampered with. Even the street cameras that had a view of the café had been turned off beforehand.

Bernard's fingers tapped rhythmically on the table. He smiled as his eyes gleamed with excitement.

He had successfully infiltrated Raven's computer, but the other party had clearly anticipated that. Hence, there was no information to be found. He found the whole scenario growing more intriguing.

Raven had been persistently taunting and testing him. However, Bernard didn't want to catch him too soon, or it would ruin the fun.

Meanwhile, Hera had already hopped into a cab. Her gaze was calm, but in her mind, she kept replaying the bonfire symbol she had just seen and the discussion about another person hacking on Cyber Web earlier.

She began to harbor a series of suspicions. Could that person be Vulcan? Was the grandmaster of Astral Nova Vulcan? Was Queenie's death also related to him?

It was no wonder Hera couldn't beat him in both attempts to infiltrate. After all, he was a formidable opponent, just like S.

Just then, her phone screen lit up with a WhatsApp message.

Hera snapped back to reality and clicked on it. She was somewhat surprised to replace it was from her mentor, S.

S: "Stop digging deeper into the Killian family's affairs."

Hera slightly squinted her eyes. It was a simple sentence, yet it sent a shiver down her spine.

She wondered how S knew she was investigating the Killian family. She began to suspect that S had been monitoring her all along. Raven: "Why?"

S: "That's not something you should get involved in."

Raven: "Why isn't it something I should get involved in? It was my foster mother who died back then..." Just after Hera finished typing those words, she deleted them.

When the clues went cold back then, it was S who sent her Queenie's information.

Now that she was close to

uncovering the mastermind behind it

all, S suddenly stopped her from

investigating further. This left her

feeling extremely frustrated.

Hera kept typing and deleting repeatedly.

The person on the other end, however, seemed completely indifferent to her current turmoil. He sent her another message.

S: "You've violated the rules. Your account will be suspended for six months."

Hera paused her typing, her gaze

flickering as she read the message. She knew he was referring to her hacking of the Miridian satellite, which led to her being wanted.

The punishment might be delayed, but it would never be absent.

Hera felt reluctant, but S was someone she had known for eight years. Although they had never met in person, without S, she wouldn't be who she was today.

With a reluctant heart, she replied: "Okay."

S: "Good."

Hera was at a loss for words.

She navigated back to the message list and found Piglet.

Raven: "Help me get a new account on Cyber Web."