Chapter 99 - Hackathon

"Let's see how long you can keep up with my skills.'

"Back at ya," Fily said and stretched her hands.

"Fily?" Petunia called again from the outside.

"Did you tell them to capture us?" Fily asked her brother on the chat.

"Oh, right. I did~ HAHHAHA!" Kuya Koi laughed maniacally.

"I see, you're such a coward you'd rather cheat than challenge me huh?"

"Fily they're really coming if you don't move I'll have no choice but to distract them for you," Petunia whispered aggressively which pressured Fily.

[Fily: Could you please shh..] Fily typed and sent in less than a second to Petunia who thankfully stopped making noise.

"What cheat? I'm not cheating. It's not my fault you revealed to me easily where you're currently at." Fily's brother said.

"Here's the deal, if those goons come and catch us right now, do you think we could still proceed with this challenge? Do you really want to win without putting up a fight? Is that what you want? A meaningless win."

"Hey! Slow down there lady, how is utilizing my resources to the fullest cheating?"

"You're cheating by preventing me from fighting you! I thought you're looking for a worthy opponent? Are you really just going to scrap this battle for an easy win?"

"That sounds boring."

"Exactly!" Fily typed with a smirk on her face. "Stop them from coming here, and if you win, I'll gladly surrender myself along with Petunia. But if I win, you're going to give me the map and the reverse pattern of this light disruption, deal?"

"Okay, deal." Fily's brother answered with the same smile as Fily.

'She really doesn't know why I'm doing this, huh?' he thought to himself while preparing his mind security for Fily's attacks.

When Fily saw the green light on the upper corner of her eyes, she immediately put her mind to work, cracking all the codes and puzzles that her brother made especially for her using his top-notch knowledge that could almost be on par with Fily's intelligence, but only if Fily was isolated from her sisters.

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"What should I do?" Petunia thought to herself while looking back and forth from Fily and the door where she could clearly hear three guys and a crone talking nonsense while waiting for their Boss's signal.

Fily was concentrating deeply while sitting in a lotus position while the tunnel was just cold and bare.

Aside from the glinting glasses on the wall, Petunia could almost mistake this place for an underground grave tomb. And not only was it because of the sharp glasses on the wall and the fallen underground building, Petunia could also smell dead people and all kinds of things underground.

'Were the people down here buried alive along with the whole building?" she thought while also looking for a hiding place.

The underground tunnel was not exactly just a straight narrow tunnel that was dug straight up from the front to the back, but there were also spare spaces on the side that the old building managed to preserve thanks to its fairly strong foundations.

There were rooms and mannequins which were very weird and unfamiliar for Petunia to look at using her night vision.

"Their big eyes are creepy." She thought.

Petunia found a steel rod from one of the spaces of the building and put it in the doorknobs, "If they really decide to go here, I will run away from you, Fily. As long as you can escape, I'm fine being the sacrifice. I'll die soon anyway so, not that my life matters anymore." Petunia murmured while shrugging.

And since Fily was super focused on her work, Petunia was almost sure she didn't hear any of those things that she said, so Petunia just continued on looking for a bigger opening in this tunnel where she could hide Fily at.

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"Is this all you've got!?" Fily said while her eyes were burning in passion for burning her brother's five primary securities out of fifteen in just three minutes.

"That's an easy level, and don't worry, I'm currently making more codes for you to crack so just you wait." Fily's brother said while Fily just rolled her eyes at her screen for having to solve a very obvious one.

"What comes first, egg or chicken? Are you seriously asking me this?" Fily said after reading the question in front of her.

"Yes. It's that simple, innit?"

"Tch." Fily said and entered egg.

"Should I start asking personal questions now? Since you're so weak even mom could hack your system now."

"Stop it, I'm not a child who needs surveillance!" Fily said after remembering the fact that her mom had been watching her ever since she got here, even without her permission and without even being detected by Fily's self-made advanced mind security.

"Why are you so hostile towards us? But so soft with your friends… It's almost as if we're not even family." Kuya Koi suddenly ranted.

"Who do you think did it first? You're the oldest, I think you should know the answer to that already." Fily answered with much certainty. "Ten!" Fily said out loud, counting all the checkpoints that she had smashed using her skills.

'Did mom lie to me? I thought Fily had been drastically losing her touch due to lack of practice? Or was she just faking it?' Kuya Koi thought to himself while coding more challenges for Fily.

"I think you're underestimating me, Kuya. Why don't you just sit down and let me code your mind security program for you? I'll make sure to make it Fily proof just for you if you'll let me." Fily said and laughed as if she was already taking the victory.

"This ain't good, my system is crashing and she's targeting my comms instead of my files." Kuya Koi thought to himself while biting his lower lip out of pressure.

Since Fily was desperate to get the map to this new tunnel system that her brother masterminded for the Crones along with the files for the light disruption system, Kuya Koi automatically assumed that Fily would target his file system first, but what Fily did was to target his communication to the Crones first, which she thought would buy her more time to destroy her brother's system completely.

"And now for the big bang," Fily said and pressed enter.

"Goodbye, brother!" Fily said once again while watching her brother lose connection from all across the island, thanks to Venedette's help and his lack of security in that area.