Chapter 800
Coincidentally, Rayson knocked and came in to hand Vinson a document. Subsequently, Vinson instructed him to take Arielle to the Specialized Forces.
Before she left, he reminded her, “Call me at once if anything happens.”
He behaved as if he were her old nanny.
Nodding helplessly, Arielle went off with Rayson.
Meanwhile, the Specialized Forces were in chaos as all of them were preparing to hunt for Cindy.
Before Arielle‘s arrival, Vinson had instructed them to treat her as an important guest.
Therefore, the deputy captain personally came to receive her.
“Ms. Moore, this way, please. This is the security control room. Today, all our systems have been paralyzed since an hour ago. Also, that was the same time when we realized Cindy was gone.”
Arielle nodded before entering the room.
Inside, a few technical members of the Specialized Forces were struggling to repair the system.
“Sir.” One of the men greeted the deputy captain when they saw him enter with Arielle.
“Just ignore me and carry on. By the way, how are the
repairs coming along?”
The staff shook his head in resignation. “Although we have verified that someone hacked into our system, created a backdoor, and inserted a virus into it, we are unable to remove the virus given how powerful it is.”
The deputy captain was shocked. “What kind of virus is that to be able to stump all of you?”
The staff shook his head. “We won‘t be able to remove it unless we break its encryption. However, it is so complex that we will likely need one day to do so.”
“That long?”
With an apologetic expression, the deputy captain explained, “Ms. Moore, I‘m sorry. They said that we need at least one day‘s time. Why don‘t you go back and wait for our call?”
“Well, let me try.” Just as she spoke, Arielle walked up to the technical staff under the deputy captain‘s look of amazement. She asked, “Can you lend me your computer?”
The staff asked in surprise, “Do you know how to break the code?
“Let me try.”
The staff then gave the deputy captain a quizzical look.
Within the Specialized Forces, non–members were not
allowed to use the computers.
The deputy captain nodded. “Let Ms. Moore have a go, she is a friend of Captain Nightshire.”
“Understood. Ms. Moore, please go ahead.” The staff gestured to her as he stepped aside.
The man was the captain of the technical department. When the rest of the staff saw that their captain had made way for a young lady, they began to grumble softly.
“What‘s wrong with the deputy captain? Does he think that all of us are inferior to the young lady? Is that the reason why he brought her here to remove the virus?”
“Our captain is no different. How can he give up his seat for her? This isn‘t a place where young girls fool around.”
After mumbling for a while, their words drifted to their captain‘s ears.
The captain hadn‘t thought much about it initially as there was no harm in letting a young lady try.
But having heard his subordinate‘s comments, he began to feel self–conscious.
All this while, men had dominated the IT industry.
On the dark web‘s hacker chart, there were no girls within the top fifty. It was one thing for the deputy
captain to bring a lady over, but considering how young she was, it felt like an insult to them.
“Save it,” the technical team captain quipped with a darkened expression. “After all, it‘s impossible for her to break the code. Since she‘s a friend of the captain, just let her give it a go. Anyway, we have nothing to lose.”
