The Real Heiress Rules the World (Sloane Rivers) novel Chapter 116

Chapter 116 The Ultimate Showdown

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Baylon–the other half of the legendary duo from the computer science department, known alongside Leroy as the “Stonebridge Legends.”

A true tech purist, Baylon barely spoke more than necessary. He avoided social interaction whenever he could, immersing himself wholly in his studies.

He once led a team to victory in a global collegiate programming showdown, and his skill level was practically unfathomable.

Thanks to his top–tier technical ability, Baylon had been courted by several major tech firms- including some of the industry’s biggest names.

It was rumored that the most influential tech company in the entire Stonebridge region had already made him an offer: a guaranteed job as soon as he graduated. That alone said everything about the level of respect he commanded in the field.

Now, here he was, standing among the audience—no doubt having just witnessed the match between Leroy and Sloane.

With long strides, Baylon stepped onto the stage, brushing past Leroy. Leroy turned his head slightly and said under his breath, “I’m really looking forward to your match.”

Without slowing down, Baylon reached the front of the stage. “Sloane, your performance just now was incredible,” he said. “Watching from the audience got my blood pumping. As your senior, I’ll shamelessly ask for the honor of challenging you myself.”

Sloane raised a brow. This version of Baylon was completely different from the one she’d seen at Mr. Samson’s. And it seemed like he was intentionally keeping his distance from her. She had no idea what his angle was.

Still, despite her doubts, she kept her usual confident smile, “You’re too kind, Baylon. It’s an honor for me to learn by competing with someone as skilled as you.”

Baylon gave a slight smile. “Then let’s begin. I hope you’ll give it your all, Sloane–let’s make this match a good one.”

Professor Molly stepped up again, face stern, and made the announcement. “Given the exceptional caliber of both competitors, this match will be conducted in Capture the Flag format.”

“Sloane will take on the role of attacker. Baylon will be the defender. Sloane must attempt to breach the simulated target network constructed by Baylon within 360 minutes. No premade

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CTF frameworks or off–the–shelf attack/defense libraries may be used–everything must be self–developed.”

The match began. Baylon quickly laid out the network structure, fine–tuned the firewalls, locked down the ports, built strict access control lists, optimized his intrusion detection systems, and wrote scripts to monitor traffic.

Meanwhile, Sloane leaned on her solid technical foundation and sharp instincts to swiftly code a port scanner, scanning the target system and building a complete topological map.

Next, she deployed her own vulnerability detection scripts to check for common exploits like SQL injection and buffer overflow–her technique clean and precise.

As soon as she found potential vulnerabilities, she analyzed the defense mechanisms and cleverly used proxies and encrypted tunnels to hide her traffic.

The audience was completely drawn in by the intense, high–stakes atmosphere. Everyone stared at the screens, not even daring to blink, afraid they’d miss a critical move.

The comment stream surged like a tidal wave, filled with reactions and debate.

“Baylon has serious defensive experience–this won’t be easy for Sloane!”

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