Life Game In Other World
Chapter 582: Underground (Big - for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 582: Chapter 582: Underground (Big Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

"Has Jess located this place?"

The door to the cabin was pushed open, and a man in a military officer’s uniform stepped in, his cold gaze resting on the skinny man.

"Don’t worry, our laboratory is well-hidden. As long as he can’t find the system switch, he won’t be able to get in."

The skinny man smiled, lifting his right hand with the palm facing outward. The rough-looking palm split to the sides, revealing a round data port inside.

He pulled out a thick data cable from a corner and inserted it into the port in his palm.

Brilliant streams of light flowed across his face and neck, "Don’t worry, even if he finds a strong hacker, he can’t beat me. I have a complete data computation unit installed in this mechanized body. I am a supercomputer myself. They cannot defeat me on my turf."

"Twenty minutes,"

the man in the military uniform said calmly. "No matter what you are, I need twenty minutes to clean the laboratory and transfer the data. If the Federal Bureau of Investigation discovers these things, it will have a huge impact on the Consortium. The Boss won’t be able to explain this to the board."

"If you can’t handle them within twenty minutes, I’ll handle you."

Having said that, he turned around and closed the door.

The skinny man’s expression turned cold as he watched the man leave, waiting until the footsteps outside had faded away before he lowered his head and scoffed, "A buffoon with muscles for brains."

Then he turned his attention to the surveillance, looking at Jess standing in the reading room, a smile crawling back across his face,

"You’re under my surveillance, just like your old man, trivialized in my arena. You’ve just left my sight for how long, and you think you can challenge me?"

The flowing radiance passed through his eyes.

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"Look, this is our ledger, and this is our warehouse entry and exit log,"

The person in charge of the laboratory offered an ingratiating smile to Hoon before opening another interface on the computer, "This is our laboratory surveillance. As you can see, all of our labs are monitored, and our researchers carry out standard biological experiments."

He pointed to the screens showing each lab through the security cameras, listing each one. "This is the stem cell culture lab, this is the artificial brain lab... All of these experiments are routine and have been approved by the Vitland City government. As a fully-owned laboratory of the Welme Medical Consortium, our experiments meet all the standards..."

"How many laboratories are there in this building in total?"

Hoon’s gaze swept across the monitors.

"A total of 21, plus several reading rooms. Our lab prioritizes safety; to prevent our researchers from creating safety incidents due to fatigue or laxity, we have cameras everywhere except for washrooms and some offices. You see..."

The laboratory head went through the camera feeds once more.

Hoon stopped him at the first-floor corridor’s surveillance, turned his head to glance at Swiet standing nearby.

Swiet got the hint and stepped out of the office.

Soon, Swiet’s figure appeared in the corridor surveillance on the monitor.

Swiet gave a thumbs-up to the camera and then returned to the office.

Hoon nodded at him, then addressed the lab head, "We have no issues here. Since this laboratory belongs to the Welme Medical Consortium, it is certainly trustworthy."

He looked at his wristband, "We don’t have much time left. Can you take us to the warehouse to have a look? If there are no issues, we’ll be on our way."

"Certainly."

The laboratory head breathed a sigh of relief and once again glanced at the three people in the office, "That one..."

"He’s feeling a bit unwell in the stomach,"

Hoon stepped closer to the lab head, "Our Federal Bureau of Investigation building is just like this one, with cameras everywhere. Leaving one’s station for even a moment, you’re bound to be found out. That’s why we generally avoid using the restroom in the building, but when nature calls..."

"Yes, yes, that’s the principle."

The laboratory director nodded eagerly.

"Then, could you please take us to the warehouse first?"

Hoon said with a smile.

"Of course, of course, the warehouse is on the sixth floor; I’ll take you there to have a look."

The director nodded, turned his head, and glanced at the surveillance interfaces on the computer.

At that moment, the middle of the screen showed the surveillance footage of the reading room on the first floor.

The room was empty except for a data cable that had been unplugged, carelessly thrown over the keyboard of the computer on the left side of the reading room.

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"Data dissemination is complete, image system establishment is underway, controlling local endpoints, beginning to send data to the local core servers."

Eve’s gentle voice came through the earpiece.

He Ao stood in front of the washbasin in the men’s restroom, turned on the faucet, and rinsed his hands.

"Encounter with a local data attack, local endpoint 12 has been unplugged, local endpoint 21 has been unplugged······"

He Ao turned off the faucet, pulled a paper towel from the side, and dried his hands.

The Mysterious Person had a hacker in his employ.

Jess had made contact with him before, though at that time, Jess did not know the hacker was one of the Mysterious Person’s men.

Jess’s final plan was greatly influenced by this hacker.

He believed the software developed by the hacker could destroy the laboratory’s research data, and he had even installed the hacker’s operating program into his own bracelet.

In reality, however, the so-called operating program was monitoring software used by the hacker to track his actions and whereabouts.

And the program said to be able to destroy the laboratory’s research data didn’t actually work.

Both parties Jess ultimately trusted, the detective agency and the hacker, were the Mysterious Person’s men.

These two parties, along with the Mysterious Person, collectively forged Jess’s trap.

Compared to the detective agency, the hacker probably held a position closer to the core within the Mysterious Person’s team, as Jess’s father was suspected to have been monitored by this hacker as well.

Even in the highly computerized Federation, a good hacker is hard to recruit, so it’s not surprising that this hacker held such a position.

The Second Laboratory, as the Mysterious Person’s lab for producing finished Gene Potions, inevitably hid a wealth of data, data that could complete the final piece of the puzzle regarding the Mysterious Person and the main storyline of this Copy World for He Ao.

Therefore, He Ao’s initial goal was data invasion, prioritizing the search for data.

Trying to breach the laboratory’s firewall from the outside would be quite difficult, and even if it could eventually be breached, it would give the Mysterious Person time to react, swiftly transferring data or even destroying key information.

Thus, he needed to physically enter the laboratory, bypassing the outermost firewall, to first let Eve infiltrate the internal network.

The operation to infiltrate the internal network was not complicated; He Ao only needed to connect his bracelet to the internal network, then let Eve’s data infiltrate, take control of the first internal network terminal, and then it could spread quickly like water.

He Ao’s bracelet didn’t need to be connected to the terminal all the time; as long as the first terminal was controlled, Eve could use the network to make external contact and then bring more data in.

This operation actually required a very short amount of time; once started, it would be easy. But during this process, He Ao had to access the internal network terminal, which was the difficult part of starting.

If the laboratory personnel discovered his identity and purpose first and cut the terminal that could be invaded, the plan would fall through.

So, he had to be fast and discreet to find the Second Laboratory before the Mysterious Person realized what was happening, and then enter the laboratory at a very fast speed. While everyone was still clueless, he would inject the first batch of data into the internal network.

"Retaking control of the local terminal, overclocking the terminal network card, increasing data flow, infiltrating the server..."

Eve’s assault slowed down momentarily, as if she had encountered some kind of obstacle.

Her solution was straightforward: forcibly boost the network, reduce latency, and increase the volume of data.

Eve, with the entire supercomputer array of the Nolanka Group at her disposal for computational power, did not lack processing capability. However, her ability was restricted by internet speed as she was engaged in a remote attack, essentially fighting on foreign ground.

Of course, as the Mysterious Person’s right-hand man, He Ao had also guessed that the hacker might be in this laboratory, so he had made other preparations.

"Uncle Jess,"

Vianne’s voice came through the earpiece again, "There’s a hacker opposite us, seems pretty strong... Your ’friend’ you brought is playing really fierce."

"Is there a way to bypass his defenses and get inside the server? I want to know where the ’back door’ is. The laboratory above this floor should look quite normal, but the real ’laboratory’ must be hidden somewhere."

"Wait a moment, I’m setting up a trap."

Vianne spoke quickly as pitter-patter sounds like torrential rain came from the keyboard on the other end of the earpiece, along with the girl murmuring softly, "How is this guy reacting so fast? Could it be he’s transformed his entire body into a Mechanized Body? It’s so quick."

"Are there any advantages to transforming into a Mechanized Body?"

He Ao walked out of the restroom, casting a glance around the corridor.

"A Mechanized Body is connected to the brain through a bionic neural network, and those specialized computer engineer Mechanized Bodies come with their own network interface, which can convert the human brain’s thought processes into data signals to the greatest extent.

"If it’s one of the more advanced Mechanized Bodies, they also have a built-in computing core, essentially a mobile computer, enabling extremely fast data operations."

Vianne replied to He Ao rapidly while typing swiftly,

"However, using such a Mechanized Body also highly integrates oneself with the network. While gaining powerful network attack capabilities, if one’s own defense fails and data overflow damages the functionalities of the Mechanized Body, it could also potentially destroy the brain with its own chaos..."

"The guy cracked my three layers of traps, not bad. But you’re still falling for it! Fool!"

As Vianne’s voice fell, Eve’s voice also simultaneously rang in He Ao’s ear, "Core server controlled, retrieving all intranet data, hidden data found, decrypting, ’Second Layer’ laboratory discovered, back door behind the reception room, deciphering password..."

He Ao lifted his head and saw the doorplate of the reception room not far ahead.

This reception room was located opposite the office of the person in charge.

At this moment, Hoon had already left this floor with the person in charge.

He Ao arrived at the entrance to the reception room. The door, controlled by an electronic lock, opened automatically, and He Ao pushed the door and entered.

As his footsteps crossed into the reception room, a faint mechanical sound began to echo.

To his right upon entering, a massive bookshelf slowly shifted aside, revealing a hidden elevator.

The bright light shone in front of this elevator door, and a thick scent of blood permeated He Ao’s nostrils.

"Attempting to penetrate the Second Laboratory network..."

Along with Eve’s voice, the elevator door remained tightly shut without opening.

He Ao approached the elevator, which had no floor buttons, only a card swipe pad, seemingly electronically controlled.

"Data access blocked," Eve’s voice rang in He Ao’s ear, "Deciphering firewall."

"Uncle Jess, the firewall of the hidden laboratory is separate from the one upstairs, and it’s very strong. It might take some time," Vianne’s voice also sounded concurrently.

"Understood."

He Ao glanced at the elevator door and drew the bone axe from his back.

He adjusted the grip on the handle, then swung the axe directly at the elevator door in front of him.

Boom—

The entire elevator door shook up and down, the blade of the axe biting into the door.

He Ao pulled out the axe, then chopped down again.

Boom boom boom—

"Uncle Jess, what’s all that noise over there? What are you doing?" Vianne asked curiously.

"Attempting some physical methods to bypass the firewall."

The pristine bone axe cleaved directly toward the gap in the elevator door, breaking it open with a loud bang.

Slim fingers then reached into the opened gap and with a forceful pull to the sides, the sturdy metal elevator doors were torn open like brittle paper.

Behind the elevator door was not a car, but a deep pitch black.

Without hesitation, He Ao leaped into the darkness.

Soon, he landed on what felt like ’ground’.

There were no other elevator doors here, only the hard alloy beneath his feet.

This appeared to be some kind of ’gate’ set up within the elevator shaft.

He Ao crouched down and scraped the axe blade across the ground, but the sharp edge only left shallow marks on the alloy gate.

The Mysterious Person was indeed generous; such an alloy was getting close to the strength that could damage C-level metals, and a piece this big must be worth a lot.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the elevator shaft, several individuals dressed in Research Institute uniforms emerged.

"Jess, you maniac, what are you doing here?" The foremost researcher charged at He Ao, injecting a Gene Potion into his body and then leaping high, thrusting a knife toward He Ao’s chest.

The massive axe swept through the air, splashing blood onto the surrounding pristine lab coats.

He Ao took off the bracelet and put it back on his wrist, looking at those ’familiar’ faces around him.

Many of these people were from the laboratory Jess used to oversee, where they had developed the Gene Potion together with Jess.

At this moment, their mental state was unusually agitated.

The scent of blood in the air grew even more intense.

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"What are you doing?"

Inside a room aglow with light, a man in a military uniform appeared on the screen, "I don’t have many people I can send to stop him."

"That was just an accident. The computing power I can mobilize here far exceeds what’s available outside. I’ll keep all of them outside," the gaunt man said, his hands plugged into data cables, with powerful light coursing over his body. The heat generated from overclocking made the air around him twitch slightly. He no longer had the energy to converse with the military-uniformed man, "I won’t fall for the same trap twice."