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Baylon–the other half of the legendary duo from theputer 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 techpany 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 hemanded 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 waspletely 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 bypeting 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 bothpetitors, this match will be conducted in Capture the g format.”

“Sloane will take on the role of attacker. Baylon will be the defender. Sloane must attempt to breach the simted targetwork 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 quicklyid out thework structure, fine–tuned the firewalls, locked down the ports, built strict ess control lists, optimized his intrusion detection systems, and wrote scripts to monitor traffic.

Meanwhile, Sloane leaned on her solid technical foundation and sharp instincts ito /iswiftly code a port scanner, scanning the target system and building aplete topological map.

Next, she deployed her own vulnerability detection scripts to check formon 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 waspletely 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.

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

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

“Sloane’s pulled off so many miracles before. I’m betting she breaks through again!”

“This attack–and–defense match is insane. This really is the ultimate showdown. Can’t wait to see the result!”

Time ticked by under a nket of tension. At the 300–minute mark, Baylon hadpleted the full hardening and optimization of his defense system.

No wonder he’d led a team to victory in the global collegiatepetition–his strength was undeniable.

But Sloane was now in her final push. Her keen attention to detail and quick adaptability with cutting–edge techniques allowed her to keep refining her strategy, making her attacks stealthier and more effective.

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