This was not common for her.
After patiently filtering remotely for five or six minutes, Valerie finally discovered a virus program disguised as a system file on the computer. She curled her lips and began to analyze the program without hesitation.
She wanted to see who was watching her remotely. If it was Mercer's crew, she could use the software's network tracking and positioning method to directly locate where Mercer and his group were currently.
Once she confirmed it was indeed a networked program, Valerie transmitted a positioning software to the computer and then started the monitoring program on the computer to begin network positioning and tracking.
Next was the patient waiting.
As long as the other party connects to view the program through remote equipment, the positioning and tracking program she had transmitted into the bar's computer could immediately lock the party's IP address.
With the efficiency of Agent Arasaka, after locking the IP, if they were within Night City's range, it would take less than 5-7 minutes to directly drop at the other party's doorstep.
"Let's go, we can leave now." With Valerie's command, the agent in the driver's seat stepped on the gas pedal.
Valerie sat in the passenger seat patiently waiting, her posture poised as she leaned against the car seat, even having spare time to admire her blue nails.
She was not worried that this was a trap; in a certain way, she was even waiting for the other party to discover abnormalities and launch a network attack.
With the skill level of Night City's hackers, trying to confront her online? That would be rather ridiculous.
"Did you encounter a hacker?" The agent beside her had worked with Valerie several times and was well aware of her hacker skills, fully confident.
Valerie casually stroked her nails as she said, "Someone just hacked into the camera, watching us through it."
"Shouldn't we leave immediately?" The agent was a bit nervous, looking around constantly.
However, Valerie remained calm, saying, "Don't worry, I've taken control of the cameras around Wild Wolf... any suspicious targets found around?"
"No, there's only a small thug from the Valentino Gang, but that guy shouldn't be here to keep an eye on us... haha, he even has the leisure to give us the middle finger." The male agent said this while driving, keeping alert to their surroundings.
"Hold on, my phishing program has taken effect."
Valerie, upon detecting that the computer at Wild Wolf Bar made a network data connection, without hesitation activated the Sorcery Puppet program she had placed on the computer, her prosthetic eye shimmered, waiting for the phishing program to complete automatic infiltration.
Got it!
She curled her lips, confidently waiting for the program to bring back the other party's IP address.
It didn't let her wait long, only about ten seconds later, her Sorcery Puppet program sent back a data packet.
However, as Valerie opened the data packet, her expression changed dramatically.
[A: Hello~ Miss Valerie, looking for me?]
Valerie pressed the shutdown button of her Network Access Vault without hesitation, then immediately reached out to force a disconnection of her brain-computer interface, using the system files stored for self-protection in her brain-computer interface to perform formatting.
In an instant, her prosthetic eye and other cybernetic parts went offline, Valerie could only gasp for breath, waiting silently while the agent beside her anxiously and repeatedly inquired loudly, "What happened? Were you hacked? Where is the enemy?"
Valerie was still calm, but a bit frustrated, saying, "I knew I should have used a laptop to collect data... Damn it, it's fine, just keep driving!"
Ten seconds later, the brain-computer interface restarted and returned to a safe version, while the prosthetics rebooted.
As the prosthetics restarted, Valerie couldn't help but curse quietly in the car, "What the hell is going on? I was counter-invaded!?"
Unbelievable!
How is this possible!?
As soon as the other party connected to Wild Wolf Bar's computer, they discovered her hidden Sorcery Puppet program and cracked her program within those ten seconds?
Valerie had to admit—she had never encountered such a formidable hacker!
Valerie even dared not to directly open her Network Access Vault.
She could only ask the agent beside her with a grim expression to quickly drive back to the company; she had to perform a format and reboot of her access vault using a laptop to avoid the other party hiding anything in the data like a Sorcery Puppet.
Well...
Valerie's heart was not filled with fear; instead, her fighting spirit soared, and she became even more interested in this person called A.
After graduating from Arasaka Academy with top honors, Valerie skipped the entry-level employee process and was directly recruited into Arasaka Company's counterintelligence division.
She was also dispatched directly to the current focus of Arasaka Company's business, Night City Arasaka Company, serving in a role where the value even surpassed that of ministers in other branches.
In just the two years of work so far, her salary completed a leap from a regular employee in the counterintelligence department network group straight to becoming an Agent Arasaka.
Although being an Agent Arasaka wasn't considered a very high position, without a doubt, if one aspired to follow the technical route upward at Arasaka, becoming an agent was only a step away from management.