Chapter 952 - White corp. annual meeting (4) (1/2)
~ Los Angeles, White corp. annual meeting ~
Thursday, October 24, 5:32 PM
Alexander excused himself and went to the restroom.
He locked himself in a stall and got a laptop out of his bag.
Within few minutes, Alex accessed internal network of White corp. and started the execution of his script. After confirming that tool is corrupted and two services are failing, he erased traces of his login history and disconnected from the network.
With this, his work is done. His last favor to Eva.
He sent her a text: ”I did my part. He will be delayed. The rest is on you. Don't call me again.”
Alexander left the restroom without waiting for a response.
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5:48 PM
Jeff is on the stage, delivering his closing speech and thanking everyone for attending the event with wishes for another successful year (and more) ahead of them.
Aiden checked his phone and frowned. He stepped away and made a call.
”Problem?”, Sarah asked when she saw Aiden's expression.
”Yeah…”, he exhaled. ”Two services are down. Ops tried fixing it, but they can't figure it out.”
”Bad timing.” Sarah stood up and looked down. Number of people are leaving the venue in order to avoid the crowd… but that only means that the streets and parking lots will be crowded already. ”It will take forever to reach the office or home. You will need to fix it from here.”
Aiden nodded and grumpily went to reach his laptop. He wanted to spend rest of the evening enjoying dinner and then pampering Sarah. Not debugging some production issue.
Sarah followed him and powered up her laptop. ”I will help you.”
Aiden smiled and leaned his head on Sarah's shoulder while waiting for his laptop to establish a connection to White corp. internal network.
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6:11 PM
Jeff returned to the VIP room.
Sophia and Felix are ready to leave but are waiting for Jeff to thank him for the invitation.
Oscar and Elanor left as soon as the event ended. They will catch up with Jeff next day.
Steve and Bridgette left with Sophia and Felix. They will have a reservation for a dinner together. Aiden and Sarah were supposed to join them as well, but due to this issue they are debugging, they told them to head out first.
”Did something happen?”, Jeff asked as he approached Aiden and Sarah who were looking at lines of code on their screens.
Aiden nodded faintly before responding. ”Yeah. Two of my services went down. We figured out that it's because one tool failed and everything is back up, but we can't find the caused the problem.”
Jeff frowned. ”Can't you look into it tomorrow?”
Aiden sighed. ”The relevant information will be buried with newer one, and the logs might recycle by then. It's best if we look it up right away… Don't wait for us.”
Jeff checked time on his wristwatch. ”This place will be open until eight. Do you need more time than that?”
”We don't know.” Sarah responded. She knows that these things can easily take hours, even with two of them working together on it.
”OK. I will call the manager to let him know you two are here.”, Jeff made a call and after that gave a number to Aiden. ”If you stay longer than eight, let him know.”
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