Working the Night Shift, I Received a Warning From the Future

Chen Mo was just an ordinary cybersecurity engineer in a bank's IT department. His daily work consisted of reviewing alerts, blocking IP addresses, checking logs, writing reports, and enduring endless night shifts. Until one day, at two in the morning. The security operations platform suddenly displayed a critical alert. [Attack Type: Remote Code Execution] [Target: Online Payment Gateway System] [Attack Result: Successful] [Incident Time: September 22, 2:43:17] Chen Mo froze. Because it was currently September 21, 2:17 a.m. At first, he thought there was something wrong with the system clock. Until twenty-four hours later, the attack arrived right on schedule. The attacking IP, the vulnerability, the request path, the method of attack... They were exactly the same as in the alert from the day before. The only difference was this: Chen Mo had been waiting for them for a whole day. After that, data leaks, hacker intrusions, financial attacks, major accidents... More and more alerts from the future appeared on his screen. Everyone started to wonder: Why was this young man always one step ahead of danger? Only Chen Mo knew. He wasn't smarter than anyone else. He had simply... seen the answers in advance. Until one day. A black alert, unlike anything he'd ever seen, appeared in the System. [Incident Level: Catastrophic] [Area Affected: Global] [Incident Time: 17 years from now] [Sender: Chen Mo] The alert contained just one sentence: [Do not trust me.]