Chapter 1019 Attack Alarm

Late night, Kassel Academy, ice cellar.

Black chassis stand in the quiet and huge underground space. Rows of server chassis are flashing with light spots. A white automatic inspection robot goes around in the maze of chassis rows. The wheels are on the porcelain white floor tiles. It rolled over and made a small cooing sound, and the green scanning light carefully scanned all the machines passing by, like a king inspecting his territory.

The automatic inspection robot is the latest gadget produced by the Technology Department in recent years. The purpose of its production is to reduce the labor cost of regular physical examinations for Norma, the college secretary. The principle of the small robot is also very simple. It uses smart sensors to continuously obtain status information of inspection objects on both sides. Once faults such as overheating of lines and unresponsive machines are difficult to detect manually, it will immediately upload an error report through the internal network and notify the people in the technical department. Came for repairs as soon as possible.

The automatic inspection robot's inspection route in the computer room is fixed. It moves forward at a speed of one meter per second in a huge 600-square-meter space. It takes almost ten minutes to complete each passage between the chassis, and then returns to the original route. Walking through it again, except for a fixed hour of automatic charging at the charging pile twenty-four hours a day, the rest of the time is spent conscientiously checking every corner of the computer room.

While the automatic inspection robot was performing maintenance inspections for the unknown number of times today, he encountered a problem that he never encountered before at the turn of the third aisle, that is, the road in front of him was blocked by a metal chair. .

In the system of a small robot, if it encounters an obstacle on the road, it should be moved away immediately, because the technology department has equipped it with a manipulator and given it a certain level of intelligent AI. But in the current situation, the robot is Instead of unfolding his robot hand, he immediately started the scanner and pointed it at the person sitting on the chair in front of him to start scanning.

The green laser line scanned the person on the chair from head to toe, and compared it at high speed in the database connected to Norma. It took less than 0.5 seconds to figure out that the person was not on the college's personnel register. The little robot The red indicator light starts to flash, and the alarm system is ready to be activated immediately.

But at this time, a white card without magnetic stripes or patterns was handed to its scanner. Patsy Gattuso, who was holding the white card, said to it, "I have this, so you don't need to call the police." Well, it’s very late now and I don’t want to disturb other people.”

As expected, the speed of the inspection robot's alarm slowed down, and a question mark popped up on the electronic screen. This was not because Zhongzhi's AI allowed him to understand what it means to plead for mercy or take the opportunity to ask for a bribe. After all, it is just a robot, and its only salary is With one hour of full power every day, the battery for the energy-concentrating ring cannot be chewed as a snack.

What really made the little robot freeze in the alarm action was the white card in Patsy's hand. When the white card was handed out, the special characters recorded on the magnetic track of the card made it aware of what the card represented. So it was really persuaded by a word, and after a few seconds, it circled around the chair and popped out a card reader slot towards the man.

Percy inserted the white card into the slot of this cute little guy. The permissions in the magnetic card were read. The red alarm light of the little robot went out, and the green light turned on. A [＞w＜ ] symbol, probably because the "simulating human emotional expression algorithm" written into the AI ​​intelligent program by the malicious programmer is at work.

Patsy doesn't think it's strange, because AIs that are smarter than small robots are everywhere, not to mention that he is now sitting in the "belly" of a super AI working.

"What happened?" In Patsy's ear, the voice of a majestic middle-aged man on the phone rang.

"It's just a routine inspection of the patrol robot. I have connected to Norma's backend." Passi turned his attention back to the laptop in front of him that was connected to the chassis socket. On the screen was a simple interface with only color blocks and rough edges. It reminds me of the BIOS setup interface that is automatically entered by pressing F12 when booting the Windows XP system.

The interface on Patsy's computer is the network backend of Cassel College. The network world of Cassel College is like standing in Norma's back garden, where he can freely access every corner of Norma. Dig out every piece of information recorded on the college network no matter how old it is.

"Now that you have obtained Norma's highest authority, I should not hand over this white card to you, but the situation is different now. Angers and Flamel have cut off the school director regardless of their shame. They do not want to have too close information exchange between the school board and the investigation team before the hearing is over, which means they have been forced into a corner."

On the other end of the phone, Frost Gattuso said coldly, "We are sure to win this hearing. We can imagine that once Angers and Flamel fall, they will definitely clear up some secrets that they don't want us to get. Over the years, they had obtained some information through the power and means of the secret party, but for various reasons they chose to conceal it and not share it with the school board.

These secrets are hidden in a core storage of the Norma server. Back them up regularly and then delete the previous originals. Even we cannot obtain them through remote decoding. Your task is to copy everything in the core storage to a mobile hard disk and send it to the mobile hard disk. Back to the school board for security decoding. "

"Yes." After Patsy responded, the ten fingers of his hands moved alternately, making a crisp sound. The next moment, his fingers began to dance wildly on the keyboard, like a pianist dancing on the hot keys, wearing plain glasses. In the network background, one window after another popped up and was closed. A large amount of information began to be processed. A new white progress bar window popped up in the lower right corner. As Patsy's work began, the blue bar slowly started to rise from 0%.

"In addition, regarding the incident of the King of the Earth and the Mountain, there has been a new view within the school board recently." Frost continued on the phone while working in Passi. "The construction company Transoceanic owned by the Gattuso family We contracted the railway station that was destroyed by the Dragon King in the coastal city, and sealed off the ruins for survey and excavation. We concluded that this time the Dragon King's attack was not a surprise, but actually a high-intensity event. The battle. But the suspicion lies in the fact that neither the two 'S' classes and one 'A' class who were suspected to be the main participants in this battle reported any characteristics of the Dragon King."

"The school board thinks they are shielding the Dragon King?" Percy asked, and at the same time, he did not stop working. Multitasking was a necessary skill for him to be Frost's effective secretary. If necessary, He can multitask.

"No, if this is the case, then they will be branded as traitors who betrayed the human class. I think they are not that stupid. There are some reasons we don't know." Frost said, "It makes the school board even more What is puzzling is why the Dragon King launched this sudden attack."

"According to the intelligence reported by Ange in the two battles between the Bronze and Fire King, the Dragon King who has resurrected from a long slumber should have a very long period of weakness. In this period of time, compared with the heyday They are like babies. But despite this, the Dragon King still chose to attack resolutely, which made people doubt his purpose." Frost said coldly,

"Many school directors believe that the Dragon King is targeting the mastermind who participated in the Battle of the Bronze and Fire Lords and killed Norton and Constantine. After all, among the hybrids present at the time, Lin Nian, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, and the orthodox codename The 'stem' half-breeds of 'Moon' are all involved in the Bronze Project."

"So this was an elaborate revenge?" Patsy said.

"No, I don't think that's the case. If I were the Dragon King, I would observe my enemy after reviving and choose to defeat him in the least labor-intensive and safest way, rather than risking exposure and fighting head-on. "Frost said calmly, "The purpose of the Dragon King's attack on the train station was not assassination, but something else. At that time, there was a more important thing in the train station besides killing compatriots and enemies."

"It's the document," Frost said. "The document about Project Utero."

"The most common thing in the 'Utero' document is the list of people. Is it possible that the Dragon King's own list is also in it? The temple will accidentally include the skin of the Dragon King hidden in human society, which caused the Dragon King to An uneasy commotion," Patsy offered his own opinion.

"That's what I guessed too," Frost Gattuso said calmly, "but now there is no proof."

"Death without evidence?" Patsy's fingers on the keyboard paused slightly.

"This document was intercepted by the Executive Department in Italy, which is a branch of the Temple. Although the Temple is not an 'opponent' for the Secret Party, Italy is our land. The branch of the Temple Society was destroyed immediately after it was exposed, but at the time of its destruction, our people also suffered a strong counterattack. It was against this background that the document was discovered." Frost slowly said Narrating the process of discovering the 'Utero' files,

"At that time, the family's forces were busy liquidating the remnants of the Temple Society. Their 'trump cards' indeed caused us a lot of trouble. Only a few people browsed the document and it was hurriedly passed to the hands of the commissioner of the headquarters. Even if Even the school board did not know the detailed contents of the document. It only roughly knew that there was a file on a particularly sensitive person in the document, so after careful consideration, it was decided to hand over the document to 'S'-level student Lin Nian. An ice-breaking window to rebuild trust.”

Patsy didn't ask who the sensitive person was. He had browsed Lin Nian's files in detail and analyzed Lin Nian, and he had already roughly restored the situation to its fullest.

"In order to prevent the pursuit and counterattack of the remnants of the Templar Society, we planned a perfect escape route for the commissioner who escorted the documents. Facts have proved that our plan was successful. The documents were indeed sent to China, but that is where they arrived. A major accident occurred at the train station, and then the file was accidentally 'destroyed'."

"That document has been viewed by 'very few people'. The school board should not be afraid that the document will be lost or destroyed." Passi pointed to the core. The school board dared to send this document to Lin Nian as an icebreaker. In the hands of Lin Nian, it means that the school board has long been sure of the content of this document and is not afraid of Lin Nian destroying the document.

"This is the most interesting part." Frost said lightly, "After the document was submitted to the commissioner of this department and sent, I immediately contacted the commissioner who had read the document to get first-hand information about the content of the document, but I The reply I received was that the commissioner died unexpectedly during the encirclement and suppression of the Temple Society."

Percy raised his head slightly and stopped what he was doing.

"Of course, I thought there should be more than one person who had seen the document, so I ordered to contact everyone who knew the contents of the document, and the reports I got were surprisingly uniform." Frost's voice gradually turned colder, "Everyone Everyone who read the contents of that document died unexpectedly in a short period of time. Some died in the battles of the Temple Society, and those who did not participate in the battles of the Temple Society died in even more bizarre ways. Cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, and falls. Lou committed suicide.”

"Reminiscent of The Book of Sawyer," Patsy whispered.

The Book of Sawyer, also known as the Book of Murder, is a Latin magic book from the 16th century that has been lost for many years. Only angels can read the secrets inside. If mortals understand and decipher the secrets, they will be able to do it in a short time. Death comes within.

"Someone is silencing people. Originally we just thought it was a whimsical genetic optimization document. After all, there have been countless organizations with such ideas and plans over the years. But when we learned that a mysterious person was silencing people by means we couldn't understand. , we realized the special nature of that document, and by then it was too late to recycle it." Frost said slowly,

"At that time, the document had been sent out. Only a few people knew about Norma's escort route plan for the document. It was already too late for the school board to temporarily recover the document. After that, the document was forwarded once or twice. It was destroyed and the exact contents inside became a mystery.”

"Could it be that the Dragon King is carrying out mass extermination?" Passi asked in a low voice. "If the Dragon King's purpose is that document, then the place where he first appeared can reasonably locate Italy. When the document was handed over, He killed all the insiders at once, chased the documents all the way to China, and then had an encounter with the academy's commissioner at the train station. In the end, he destroyed the document itself. Didn't Lin Nian lie?"

"This is the most likely and most self-explanatory inference." Frost agreed with Patsy's guess and said in a deep voice, "But what I want now is not an inference, but the exact result."

"Then you must know the details of the destroyed document." Passi said. "The only person who knows the contents of the document now is most likely Lin Nian. I profiled him in his dormitory and thought he should There is a high probability that I have read that document."

"It's too difficult to get this kind of information from him, even for you." Frost rejected the underlying meaning of Patsy's words, "The current situation is not ready for you to stand in front of the stage. At this time, give up the idea of ​​​​looking for Lin Nian. Although I hate to say this, this kind of behavior will most likely lead to your own destruction."

"Yes." Percy didn't argue.

"Besides, he is not the only person in the world who has read that document and is still alive." Frost said, "Executive Director von Schneider, I suspect he is also one of the insiders. The Temple The document was intercepted by someone from the Execution Department. The first person to read the document was also a specialist from the Execution Department. According to the rules and regulations of the Execution Department, as soon as Class E confidential information is obtained, he should take the initiative to report it to his immediate superior. His immediate superior The superior is the head of the execution department, and von Schneider was solely responsible for that operation. I have reason to believe that Schneider was also an insider of this intelligence."

"It happens that Schneider has been inside the academy due to his health condition. Today, when security has been strengthened countless times after the Battle of Constantine, even if the Dragon King wants to break into the academy and murder a secret party leader, it will be a problem." Frost said , "So he was also one of the few people alive to read that document."

"Do you need me to talk to Secretary Schneider?"

"It's useless. That man is standing on Angers' side. People like him are like stones in a pit. Once they choose to side, they will never move away. The current situation is not suitable for blatant execution. "We have to go under the knife." Frost said coldly, "But we have no chance of regaining the contents of that document. We must know that Schneider's direct superior is Angers, so Angers is also one of the insiders."

"The possibility of obtaining information from Principal Angers."

"Think, Patsy, I said before that Angers and Flamel will regularly stuff some secret information into Norma's core storage. According to the cloud display, the latest backup update of Norma's storage is Soon after the files were destroyed." Frost sneered, "Report on the current progress of the backup copy."

"89%, sir." Passi glanced at the half-filled blue progress bar on his notebook and understood the scheming of Frost Gattuso, a senior conspirator and strategist.

"Immediately return to Italy after the data is backed up. I need you to personally escort this mobile hard drive. Only you can ensure that the hard drive can be safely delivered to me with the highest probability." Frost ordered.

Passi also gradually understood the significance of sending him in person for this hearing. Frost Gattuso always likes to use one purpose to hide another purpose, and often in the end he always has two purposes. can be achieved.

Until the end, Frost was silent for a moment and then said, "Actually, there is one thing I'm not sure about, because it's just a guess."

Patsy said nothing, just listened quietly.

Normally, in the eyes of everyone, Frost Gattuso is a terrifying figure who never hesitates and can instantly decide the tone of anything. And this kind of figure is also full of suspicion and uncertainty. These words are also Only Patsy, the secretary, had a chance to hear, and he would only speak to Patsy.

"The Dragon King's appearance to snatch the documents this time is related to a person that everyone has ignored for the time being." Frost said slowly.

Patsy immediately guessed who the person Frost was talking about who had been ignored by everyone, and whispered, "There shouldn't be much correlation between the two. She has an alibi."

"I'm not talking about the possibility that she is the Dragon King." Frost said, "I just think there is some connection, but the current information is too trivial to lay out the trajectory of this connection. At this point It's such a coincidence that she chose to defect. There should be some important information hidden in that document about her. If I can get that information, I think we can connect everything."

"I think that day will come soon." Passi glanced at the progress bar that had reached 98% in the lower right corner of the computer screen and said.

Frost's side also fell into silence, and the call automatically hung up after three seconds. Patsy was used to such abrupt endings and put away the phone. At this time, the progress bar has reached 99%, and with only one final jump left, he can unplug the USB flash drive on the side of the computer and send it to the desk of Gattuso's acting boss overnight.

He waited patiently, and began to sort out all the information that Frost had told him before, trying to establish the "track" that Frost had failed to establish. During this period, he looked at the progress bar several times, and also I don’t know if it’s due to psychological effects, but the 99% progress bar has been stuck there and has not reached 100%.

The network is stuck?

Patsy gave up this ridiculous idea in an instant, because he was now in a supercomputer computer room. The dedicated network line here was as thick as a human arm, and there was almost no lag in the upstream and download speeds.

Percy glanced at the time on his phone. It was now 03:03 in the morning. It was already late at night. After completing the copy, he still had half an hour to rush to the airport on the top of the mountain, where a preheated helicopter would arrive. He was flown directly to Chicago International Airport, where the private jet owned by the Gattuso family had its fuel tanks filled.

But just then, when Patsy was about to turn off the phone screen, his peripheral vision suddenly drifted to the upper right corner of the phone, and he couldn't move it away anymore.

There is a place where the mobile phone signal is displayed. The mountain symbol that should have been full is now a dead gray cross, which means that his mobile phone is currently in a signal-free state.

This moment forced him to think of Frost's sudden silence just now. It was not that Frost on the other side of the ocean felt that the topic was meaningless and did not want to continue talking, so he hung up the phone, but that the interruption of the mobile phone signal forcibly cut off the call between them!

Patsy suddenly looked at the computer screen. The progress bar was still stuck at 99%. It was certain that there was indeed a problem with the backup progress. Some intuition made him quickly reach out to pull out the USB flash drive, but the next moment, a red light suddenly appeared in the computer room. , the door closed with a bang! At the same time, a blood-red "Error" pop-up window suddenly popped up on the laptop screen, 99% of the progress bar quickly returned to 0%, and all the backup files in the USB flash drive were cleared!

The red light flashed and the alarm bell began to ring.

Everything was a foregone conclusion and all the efforts were in vain, but Patsy was not angry or annoyed. He just sat quietly in the red-light computer room and silently thought about which step he had made wrong.

At this time, a blue light slowly lit up behind Patsy.

He seemed to realize something, pushed away the computer stand and stood up from the chair. He turned around and saw the previous inspection robot parked not far away. The imager attached to his belly condensed a blue beam of light in the corridor, and finally converged. She became a beautiful girl in a bright blue dress wearing a white dress.

The latest portable virtual imaging technology from the Technology Department.

Patsy was no stranger to this virtual image of a girl in a white dress with her eyes closed as if she was asleep. He could even call her name.

EVA, the war personality of college secretary Norma, the real super AI personality of Kassel College, was the one who blocked his backup work.

EVA, which was condensed from scratch, slowly opened her eyes. Her bright blue eyes stared at Patsy and politely nodded to him, "Good evening, stranger."

"Good evening. I think I should have the authority to do my own work here." Patsy said calmly as before, showing the white card in the card slot that symbolized top authority.

"You do have the authority to operate. The alarm sounded not because of your actions." EVA's eyes did not stay on the white card and nodded slightly towards Passi. "The alarm in the computer room sounded because I detected There are violent activities going on in the ice cellar. An important faculty member in the school has been seriously injured, so a necessary blockade has been carried out in accordance with the safety regulations. During the blockade, all activities in the ice cellar will be prohibited, including the activities you have done before. Work."

"Violence was detected in the ice cellar? How is that possible?" Patsy raised his head and asked.

"According to my alarm, the head of the Executive Department, Professor von Schneider, was assassinated in the ice cellar at 3:05 this morning. He is now in a critical stage. All suspects in the ice cellar will be blocked until they are found. The authorized person will arrive and handle it.”

A strange look suddenly flashed in Patsy's eyes, but he quickly regained his composure and immediately showed the white card again: "Do I have enough authority?"

"The certification has been passed. The route has been planned for you. Please contact the site for support as quickly as possible." A green light flashed in EVA's eyes, and a new pop-up window appeared on the laptop screen behind Passi. The simplest route Automatic diagram planning.

Patsy turned to look at the screen and carefully observed the clear route map on it. At the end, he found that his end point turned out to be an unexpected place - the lower level of the ice cellar, the Zoological and Botanical Garden.

It was a really bad location and the guy who was attacked was a pretty bad choice. Percy thought.

EVA raised her hand, the red light in the computer room went out, and the white lights lit up one by one. Finally, the closed thick door opened automatically, revealing the straight metal corridor. The automatic elevator at the end of the sight touched the pleasant "ding" sound. "It opened with a sound, waiting for the passengers who came on board from time to time.

"The alarm is on, the road ahead is clear, and your military fortunes will be prosperous." EVA turned sideways to get out of the way, and the small inspection robot on the ground also got out of the way sensibly, looking at Percy in the computer room, and the screen showed [:)]-like symbol.

Percy glanced at EVA, then at the inspection robot, put away the white card, and walked straight and quickly to the elevator waiting for him.