Chapter 189 - Bounties (1/2)

”So, do I proceed?” asked D.i.c.k.

”Connect to the site, swipe the card and press escape along F6, F9 and F11 and type in my name along with your wife's middle name,” said Bruce.

”What for?” asked D.i.c.k.

”Only the current president among the ten of us can check the details of the person when there is an issue, but if we are setting up an account there is a way for me to monitor the account by use of a temporary password,” said Bruce.

”You can monitor accounts like this?” asked D.i.c.k.

”If we were actually setting up the accounts, we already are aware of the person's identity and we were vouching for them. So, it makes sense that we are obviously given the option to monitor them,” said Bruce.

”Ok. I am done. Are you able to access?”

”Yes. Branson Shades. That it?” asked Bruce.

”Yeah. Do you have my account under surveillance too?”

”Yes. But I don't use it often. I came to trust you over the years, and I have my daughter to keep a look out,” laughed Bruce.

”I don't care. So, what is your plan with him?” asked D.i.c.k.

”I will keep a lookout for him. I owe that to Walter, and it is good thing that he supports us. It would make things much more difficult if our way of life is disturbed,” said Bruce as he ended the call.

D.i.c.k sent the details of the account to Balthazar and continued on his way in his shuttle. Balthazar had been waiting for D.i.c.k to respond and was glad to receive the details of the account. He needed a secure station to set up a few requests on ShadowCard.

There are a bunch of issue with this. He couldn't use his wrist band or any devices in the mansion for this. He could be monitored by his family and he needed access to a more secure device. He didn't want his family to know anything about it. So, he had to go find a secure access outside the mansion, preferably even the city.

Equipment was the main problem for him. He needed equipment to establish a secure communication interface. Such equipments are usually regulated. This would have been a very huge problem, if he hadn't had his early years in the military being trained about establish communication channels.

Every city has a security organization that provides general security services to various buildings. These security organizations tend have labs which are to be used for providing maintenance services to the various equipment that they provided. That was a place where he could find the required parts and the tools to assemble them to form a device he needs. Apart from that, there would be maintenance personnel who would be using those tools for on spot maintenance work. He thought of breaking into a lab but felt that it was a bit over the top and they would have the best security features to secure the lab entrance. He finally decided to go ahead with robbing the cybercafe that he owned.

He made a call to Rudra and asked him to log off the game as he went to the workshop. The workshop had been outfitted with security by Rudra and he needed to have a look at them, if possible before he broke them and called the maintenance personnel. When he reached the workshop, he found Rudra waiting for him at his office.

”What happened? You sounded serious when you called. Did something happen with that name issue again?” asked Rudra.

”It has nothing to do with Divine Swords. I have handled that issue and there is going to be no legal issue about that. My cousin Jack is with me and he has no intentions to d.i.c.k around about it from now on,” assured Balthazar.

”What I need is something different. I need you to help me with a slight bit of fraud for which I will be paying for. It is kind of urgent,” said Balthazar. ”You got at soldering gun from your maintenance supplies.”

”I don't understand.”

”You don't need to. Just be prepared call the security provider for a maintenance personnel. Inform him that there has been some power surge triggering the auditory alarm of the place. Be careful to inform that there was no notification being sent to you, but it is disturbing the environment. So, I the owner who was at the place broke it to prevent the nuisance,” said Balthazar as he went to security control box and pulled it out and started break it apart and took a few parts while using the solder gun to create some burn marks near some parts.

”What the hell?”

”I needed the parts. Make the call. I am waiting,” said Balthazar sitting on the table.

”We need a maintenance personnel,” said Rudra making a call to the security company as he repeated the story told by Balthazar and showed him the broken apparatus in his office. The company replied that it will be taken care of as soon as possible.

”Good,” said Balthazar as he took out a few parts from the control panel. These parts be usually used to transmit secure messages to the organization and to the customers terminal in case of a violation. He could assemble these with a few others and get a device which could establish a secure channel, though it would much slower than those used by D.i.c.k or others.

”It is best if you let me do the talking,” said Balthazar as he collected the required parts. ”Is a private space available, where I can do my thing.”

”I will look into it,” he said, and he checked the logs of the place. ”Have two available currently. You can take one. The thing was booked and will be in needed in an hour. For how much time do you need it?”

”That depends on the arrival of the maintenance personnel. Just, be prepared to temporarily offer some other with some excuse of maintenance if the customer arrives before I am done. I also need a few spare parts for network interfaces. I believe you will have a few available,” requested Balthazar.

”Yes,” said Rudra. ”What do you need?”

”Two pairs of network interfaces preferably the best you have. Should be backwards compatible with older versions,” started Balthazar and continued with a list of other parts commonly used in computers which could be tinkered a bit to transmit data encrypted and secured.

The maintenance personnel soon came to the place in a few minutes and started shouting at Rudra for busting the box. ”It is irresponsible of you to just break the control box. You could have just broken the speaker. Breaking a control box was useless and would cost a lot more to replace,” he yelled.

”I was the one who broke the box,” said Balthazar stopping the personnel. ”I have already identified the issue, there was an electrical surge that burnt through few of the parts and caused malfunction of encryption module failing to transmit the alarm to either the customer or your company. It was an issue with the electrical conduits which had caused an issue in few of our devices.”

”Who are you?”

”I am Balthazar Blyth, the owner of this place and also currently providing my engineering services. I have noticed that the lights of the control panel were indicating it to be the cause. So, I broke it to prevent any issue before the customers get worried. The speakers have also been harmed and I have managed to set them right before you came along with other issues that sprung up, but I realized that the working ones would continue with alarm. So, I decided to bust up the control box, then I noticed the burns and disposed of the burnt parts. The rest are all here,” explained Balthazar.

”You are Balthazar Blyth, the colonel of the border force?” asked the guy.