Chapter 1416 - Weather Strike En Route
Chapter 1416: Weather Strike En Route
Inside the West Coast Meteorological Monitoring Center, located at the bottom of the supercomputer was the control center of the entire supercomputer.
Colonel Ross connected the tablet to the security program at the door, quickly unlocked the door, and stepped inside first.
Colonel McCarthy ordered the soldiers behind him to secure this place then followed inside.
The ground was covered with dry dust, the rubber-soled boots creaked as they walked forward. Colonel McCarthy looked around once he got in, then wiped the table closest to him with his finger. When he saw the thick layer of dust, he knew that no one had been here for a long time.
“The second console?” Colonel McCarthy asked with an uncertain tone.
When he was here the first time, he searched the area with his soldiers but did not find this room. The console they found was located in the center of the entire supercomputer. Just above their heads, there was a suspension bridge made of aluminum alloy that led directly to the center of the supercomputer.
“No, strictly speaking, it’s not called a console.” Ross sat in the center seat in front of the control center, then he started the long-silent operating system. He moved his dry fingers with some excitement as he said, “We call this place the ‘backdoor’, we generally use this to maintain the security program of the supercomputer, but as long as you want, you can also directly modify the running program of the supercomputer from here…with higher authority.”
“How sure are you?” Colonel McCarthy asked.
“I don’t know,” Colonel Ross said without turning his head while his fingers rapidly clicked on the touchpad, “Like I said, I’m just giving it a try. If it can be done, that’s great. If it can’t be done, then let’s stay here and wait to be rescued.”
Time passed by, and there was only the sound of fingers tapping on the touchpad in the room and Colonel Ross’s muttering.
“…Full Net provided the security services for the West Coast Meteorological Monitoring Center supercomputer! Haha, this is much easier.” His fingers crackled on the touchpad while his eyes moved along with the lines of the code.
At this moment, he had devoted himself to the work at hand.
“Full Net?” Colonel McCarthy slightly frowned, “What is that.”
“Don’t you know?” Colonel Ross glanced at Colonel McCarthy who stood behind him, then focused back on the virtual keyboard on the touchpad. “The second biggest security service provider in North America, also the second biggest in the world. We have outsourced many projects to them, and they have done great.”
“Then how are you going to hack the second-best security program in the United States?” McCarthy looked at the string of numbers on the screen, then asked with a puzzled tone.
“This is actually not difficult, because the safety program they used was the 2160 version. After the weather weapon was put into use, the entire facility completely evaporated from the public’s sight. Since then, not even a fly could get in, let alone security updates. The control terminal and transmitter were completely physically isolated from the outside world. Without a network, there was naturally no information security.” Colonel Ross pressed the last enter key on the touchpad, then watched the series of loading bars on the holographic screen with a hint of proudness, “It just so happens that the 2160 version of the security system used by Full Net was backed up in the database of the Department of Homeland Security. We have studied their security weakness.”
While he watched the codes execute line-by-line, Colonel Ross’s upturned corner of his mouth showed how he felt.
He had not done any work like this for many years.
But he didn’t expect that the skills he thought he would never use again turned out to be useful.
[Whether parameters reset complete]
[Target is set to West Coast…]
[Setting is successful]
[Weather strike is en route, progress is 0.1%…]
They only had to wait!
Colonel Ross clapped his hands as his hands left the touchpad. McCarthy glanced at the progress bar on the screen, and was about to ask “This is it?”, but then he was interrupted by a loud explosion outside the door.
When they felt the tremor sent along the floor, the two of them were slightly taken aback.
“What are those idiots doing.”
Colonel McCarthy looked at the door with a frown and was about to move to the door. However, before he could, the iron door was blasted open by a corpse in kinetic skeleton.
The moment General McCarthy saw the corpse, his pupils constricted, and he reflexively pulled out the laser gun from his waist. But before he could pull down the trigger, a steel boot stepped over the door and was followed by blue rays that thrust forward and a giant hand that was directly aimed at his head.
“SH*T”
With a loud bang, the back protected by the kinetic skeleton came into close contact with the wall.
There was no room for resistance, and Colonel McCarthy was pressed against the wall by the National Guard’s power armor.
Then, Zhang Wei stepped into the control center and rushed to Colonel Ross with a few NAC soldiers. Without saying anything, Zhang Wei knocked the Yankee with his gunstock and took control of the console.
“The weather weapon has been activated…FU*K!” When Zhang Wei saw the line of words on the screen, he immediately grabbed the bruised Colonel Ross from the ground, pressed his head against the touchpad, and pointed the gun right against his head, “Turn off this sh*t right away! I’M NOT KIDDING, I’LL COUNT TO THREE.”
“No need to count.” Ross dry coughed a few times, then coughed up bloody spit, and grinned. “No one can stop this. I’m not kidding.”
“FU*K!”
Zhang Wei kicked Colonel Ross in the stomach, then punched him again, and Ross directly fainted.
As he looked at the West Coast marked in red on the screen in distraught, Zhang Wei immediately called the command post and reported the situation to General Jiang Chen.
“This is Company A. We have successfully controlled the West Coast Meteorological Monitoring Center. But we were still a step too late. The weather weapon has targeted the entire state of California… The procedure cannot be terminated! The blast team is ready to request approval for blasting.”
“What’s the progress?” Jiang Chen asked calmly.
“It has reached 7%… 8%, FU*K!”
“Connect your squad command module to the console, and completely transfer the authority to the command post.” Jiang Chen ordered, “IMMEDIATELY!”
“ROGER!”
Without another word of nonsense, Zhang Wei pulled out a data cable from the left arm of the exoskeleton and directly inserted it into the port under the console. After he tapped a few times on the touchpad and confirmed that the interface was normal, the control authority was immediately transferred to the command post.
At the command post, Li Wang looked the progress bar on the screen, swallowed down the lump in his throat, and made a difficult suggestion, “I’ll let the technical team try…General, can you go back to the airship first?”
“No need,” Jiang Chen shook his head, and before Li Wang dissuaded him, he said, “I will try.”
Everyone in the command post was stunned when they heard this sentence as they all focused on their general.
Jiang Chen ignored the look of surprise and skepticism and took off his headphones. He put them on the table, looked around at the officers all focused on him, and dry coughed a few times.
“Before that… Let me go to the washroom first. I’ll be back soon.”