Chapter 1416 - Weather Strike En Route (1/2)

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.