Meanwhile, on the screen in front of Tony Stark, the basic information of Rosalie and Mark was already displayed.
“Jarvis, are you sure that hacker’s IP address is this house?”
He asked with a hint of surprise.
According to the information found by Jarvis, there were only two people in this family.
Rosalie graduated from a third-rate university, worked as an extra in Hollywood, and had never been exposed to network technology before.
Mark was only five years old and had not yet started school.
No matter how one looked at it, this mother and son pair did not seem like the hacker who could hack into the official website of CAA Agency and then hack into Kathy Dale’s computer.
“Sir, I am certain! Moreover, I checked the satellite surveillance near this house, and no outsiders have entered this home recently.”
Jarvis confirmed.
“Interesting!”
Tony Stark became somewhat interested: “Between this mother and son, who is the real hacker?”
There were only two possibilities now.
First, Rosalie hid herself too deeply; not only did she secretly study network technology, but she had never exposed her abilities in this area before.
Second, that five-year-old child named Mark was a top genius no weaker than Tony Stark, becoming a top hacker through self-study at just five years old!
At Mark’s home.
“So, Ms. Rosalie and Mr. Mark, which of you is the hacker who broke into the computer at Kathy Dale’s home?”
Jarvis voiced his doubts on behalf of Tony Stark.
“It’s me!”
Knowing that hiding it any longer was pointless, Mark immediately nodded and admitted his identity.
Given the United States’ protection for minors, even if his actions came to light, he would at most receive community psychological counseling and basically face no punishment.
“Who taught you your hacking skills?”
“I learned it myself from the internet.”
“But kid, you are only five years old!”
“So what if I’m five! I heard that Tony Stark could make his own circuit boards at four and build an internal combustion engine at six. What he can do, I can do too!”
Mark put on a defiant child’s tone.
He could display intelligence surpassing ordinary people, but he would not expose his adult mindset.
In the Marvel Universe, tolerance for children was still quite strong.
No matter how big a mistake was committed, a simple phrase like “He’s still just a child” could forgive everything.
Jarvis’s voice sounded again.
The webcam in front of the computer aimed at Mark, capturing all his movements.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
Mark’s fingers moved swiftly on the keyboard, quickly writing a piece of code, and then ran it.
“Buzz…”
A noise came from the speakers, and the connection between Jarvis and this computer was instantly interrupted.
Three seconds later, Jarvis regained control of the computer.
“Kid, well done!”
Jarvis’s amazed voice rang out again.
Based on what he just did, Mark, a five-year-old child, was already among the top five top hackers in the World.
Jarvis subsequently checked the browsing history in the computer and indeed saw network technology books on computer languages, network security, applied cryptography, and more that Mark had studied.
It continued to flip through the browsing history and soon made an even more astonishing discovery.
“Oh, gosh! You actually even studied advanced mathematics, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, cell biology… Kid, are you studying all this knowledge?”
“Of course!”
Mark nodded in admission.
Stark Mansion.
“Sir, this kid is truly a genius! Twenty years from now, he might be the second Tony Stark!”
Jarvis projected the browsing history onto the big screen, its tone carrying amazement.
Tony Stark finished reading Mark’s study catalog and nodded: “This kid is indeed a genius… However, there will only be one Tony Stark!”
“Alright sir, you are unique! But this child is different… While investigating the information of Rosalie and Mark, I made some unexpected discoveries.”
Jarvis then projected Rosalie and Tony Stark’s hotel check-in record from back then, Mark’s birth certificate, and the news from the San Fernando Valley Entertainment News about Mark being Tony Stark’s illegitimate son together onto the big screen.
“Sir, according to my calculations, the probability that Mark is your biological child is as high as 83%!”
“Pfft!”
Tony Stark had just picked up the red wine next to him to take a sip, but upon hearing Jarvis’s words, he spat it straight out.
“Cough cough, th-this is impossible, Jarvis, stop talking nonsense!”
Looking at Mark’s appearance on the big screen that bore a seven to eight-part resemblance to his own, a rare trace of panic appeared on Tony Stark’s face.
He remembered that on the night he broke up with Kathy Dale, he had indeed randomly pulled a woman he found pleasing to the eye at the crew party to open a hotel room. Enjoying the story? Read on at novelping.com.
Moreover, because he was feeling annoyed, his actions that night were somewhat rough, and he might not even have prepared safety measures.
Had it not been for Jarvis’s investigation, he would have completely forgotten about this matter long ago.
“Sir, if you don’t believe the probability I calculated, you can conduct a DNA test with Mark…”
Jarvis suggested.
“No need, he can’t possibly be my child!”
Tony Stark loudly interrupted Jarvis and ordered: “Disconnect the network connection with the other party, and don’t continue the investigation.”
After speaking, he stood up directly and walked hurriedly out of the dining room.
Tony Stark had been left with deep psychological shadows since childhood due to a lack of family companionship.
He worried that in the future he would be as busy with work as his father Howard, unable to spare time to accompany his children.
Therefore, he had always resisted marriage and even more feared having children of his own.
Upon suddenly learning that he might have a child, Tony Stark’s heart was completely in disarray.
Just as he was about to leave the dining room, Jarvis’s voice came again: “Sir, I found that three top hackers are jointly tracking Mark’s IP. They have already broken through the camouflage trap left by Mark and will soon be able to track his real IP…”
“This has nothing to do with me!”
Tony Stark impatiently interrupted Jarvis’s words, but after a slight hesitation, he still said: “However, three hackers teaming up against a kid is indeed a bit too much, stop them!”
“Yes, sir.”
At Mark’s home.
“Phew… He finally left.”
Seeing that Jarvis disconnected the network connection, Mark instantly breathed a sigh of relief.
In front of Jarvis, he felt that he had almost no secrets to speak of.
“Tap, tap, tap…”
Mark hurriedly applied security patches to his computer.
Although he didn’t know how many seconds such security patches could last in front of Jarvis, they could give him a bit more sense of security.
After upgrading the Super Brain to LV6, Mark had unconsciously bred a sense of arrogance in his heart, sometimes looking at other people as if looking at uncultured monkeys.
His unscrupulous hacking into the CAA official website and Kathy’s home computer earlier was influenced by this psychological state.
Jarvis’s crushing defeat of him in network technology completely shattered his arrogance.