Life Dungeon Game

How many laboratories are there in this building?

Hu En's gaze swept over the surveillance footage.

"There are 21 in total, plus a few reading rooms. Safety is our top priority in the lab. To prevent researchers from causing accidents due to fatigue or relaxation, we have surveillance cameras everywhere except for the restrooms and some offices. You see…"

The lab director operated the controls again, swiping across the monitoring interfaces.

Hu En pointed at the surveillance camera in the first-floor corridor, turned around, and glanced at Sweetie beside him.

Sweet immediately understood and left the office.

Soon, Sweet appeared in the corridor as seen on the surveillance footage.

Sweet made a gesture towards the camera.

OK, then I went back to my office.

Hu En nodded to him, then looked at the head of the laboratory, "We have no problem. Since this laboratory is owned by the Huierme Medical Foundation, it is naturally trustworthy."

He glanced at his bracelet. "We don't have much time left. Could you take us to the warehouse? If there are no problems, we'll leave."

"of course can."

The lab director breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the three people in the office again. "That one..."

"He has some stomach discomfort,"

Hu En leaned against the lab director. "Our FBI building is just like this place; it's under surveillance everywhere. If you leave your post for even a moment, you'll be discovered. So we generally don't use the restroom in the building, but when nature calls..."

"Yes, yes, that makes sense."

The lab director nodded quickly.

"Then please take us to the warehouse first."

Hu En laughed.

"Okay, okay, the warehouse is on the sixth floor. I'll take you there."

The person in charge nodded, then turned around and glanced at the monitoring interfaces on the computer.

At this moment, the center of the screen is displaying the surveillance footage of the first-floor reading room.

The screen was empty except for a disconnected data cable lying haphazardly on the keyboard of the computer on the left side of the reading room.

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"Data diffusion is complete. The mirror system is being established. Local endpoints are being controlled. Data is being sent to the local core server."

Eve's gentle voice came through the headphones.

He Ao stood in front of the sink in the men's restroom, turned on the tap, and rinsed his hands.

"Local data attack detected; local endpoint 12 and local endpoint 21 have been removed..."

He Ao turned off the tap, tore off a paper towel, and dried his hands.

The mysterious man has a hacker working for him.

Jess had contacted that hacker before, though at the time Jess didn't know the hacker was working for Mysterio.

Jess's final plans were largely influenced by this hacker.

He believed the software the hackers had developed for him could destroy the lab's research data, and he even installed the hackers' operating program into his wristband.

In reality, the so-called operating procedure was actually monitoring software used by the hacker to monitor his behavior and location.

The program that the hackers claimed could destroy the lab's research data did not work.

The two parties Jess ultimately trusted—the detective agency and the hacker—were both affiliated with the Mysterious Man.

These two parties, along with the mysterious figure, jointly created Jess's deadly predicament.

Compared to the detective agency, the hacker's position in the mysterious man's team should be closer to the core, because Jess's father was also suspected of being monitored by this hacker.

Even in a federation with highly advanced computer technology, it is difficult to recruit a good hacker, so it is not surprising that this hacker is in this position.

As the laboratory where the mysterious person produces finished gene-based drugs, the second laboratory must contain a large amount of data. This data can help Heo complete the final piece of the puzzle regarding the mysterious person and the main storyline of this instance.

Therefore, He Ao's initial goal was

In data intrusion, the priority is to find the data itself.

It would be very difficult to breach the laboratory's firewall from the outside. Even if it were eventually breached, it would give the mysterious figure time to react, quickly transfer data, or even destroy critical data.

Therefore, he needed to enter the laboratory, physically bypass the outermost firewall, and first have Eve infiltrate the internal network.

The operation of hacking into the internal network is not complicated. He Ao only needs to connect the bracelet into the internal network, then let Eve's data infiltrate and control the first internal network terminal, and then it can spread rapidly like water.

He's bracelet doesn't need to be constantly connected to the intranet. Once the first terminal is available, Eve can use the network to communicate with the outside world on her own and then put in more data.

This operation actually takes very little time; once it begins, it's quite easy.

However, He Ao must access the internal network terminal before the other party can react, so the difficulty lies in the beginning.

Once his identity and purpose were discovered by the lab staff, who cut off the data network he could hack before he could, the plan was aborted.

Therefore, he had to be fast and secretive. Before the mysterious man could react, he had to find the second laboratory, enter it at an extremely fast speed, and inject the first piece of data into the internal network before anyone could react.

"Gaining control of the local terminal, overclocking the terminal's network card, increasing data traffic, accelerating the attack on the core server..."

Eve's attack slowed down for a short time, seemingly encountering some kind of obstacle.

Eve's solution was simple: forcibly improve the network, reduce latency, and increase the amount of data.

For Eve, with the entire Nolanca Group's supercomputer array as her computing power support, she has no shortage of computing power. However, since she is fighting on foreign soil and launching remote attacks, the only thing limiting her ability is the network speed.

Of course, as a key figure under the mysterious man, the hacker should also be in this laboratory, so He Ao made other preparations as well.

"Uncle Jess,"

Viana's voice came through the earpiece again, "There's a hacker on the other side, and she seems pretty strong... This 'friend' you found plays really aggressively. How come she doesn't care about wasting computing power at all? Does she have a supercomputer array?"

"Is there a way to bypass his defenses and get inside the server?" He asked in a low voice. "I want to know where the 'secret door' is. The upper floors of this building should be normal; the real 'laboratory' should be hidden somewhere."

"Wait a minute, I'm setting a trap to draw that guy's attention. Your 'friend' should be able to break through the server's defenses then,"

Vianna spoke quickly, and from the other end of the headset came the clattering of keyboards like a downpour, along with the girl's soft muttering, "Seriously, how come this guy reacts so fast? Could it be that he's completely transformed into a cybernetic body? Is he that crazy?"

What are the advantages of converting to a prosthetic body?

He Ao walked out of the bathroom and glanced around the corridor.

"The prosthetic body and brain use bionic neural network connections, which is a kind of specialized computer engineering..."

The Shiyi system has a built-in network interface, which can convert human brain thoughts into data signals to the greatest extent possible.

"If it's a more advanced prosthetic body, it also has its own computer core, making it a mobile computer that can perform data operations at a speed far exceeding human hand speed."

Vianna typed rapidly on the keyboard while quickly replying to He Ao.

"However, using this type of prosthetic body also highly binds oneself to the network. While gaining powerful cyberattack capabilities, if one's own defenses fail and data overflows, damaging the prosthetic body's functionality, the chaotic prosthetic body could very well destroy the brain directly..."

"This guy saw through my three-layered trap, he's got some skills, but you still fell for it! Idiot!"

As Vianna finished speaking, Eve's voice rang in He Ao's ears at the same time, "Core server under control, searching all intranet data, hidden data found, decrypting, 'second layer' laboratory discovered, secret door behind the meeting room, decoding password..."

He Ao looked up at the sign for the reception room not far ahead.

This meeting room is right across from the person in charge's office.

Hu En and the person in charge had already left this floor.

He Ao walked to the door of the reception room, and the door, controlled by an electronic lock, opened automatically. He Ao pushed the door open and entered.

As he stepped into the reception room, the soft sound of mechanical operation began.

To the right of the entrance, a huge bookshelf slowly moves aside, revealing a hidden elevator.

Bright light shone in front of the elevator door, and a strong smell of blood filled He Ao's nostrils.

"Attempting to infiltrate the second laboratory network..."

Eve's voice rang in He's ears, but the elevator door remained closed and did not open.

He Ao walked up to the elevator. This elevator did not have floor buttons, but only a card swipe button, which seemed to be electronically controlled.

“Data access blocked,” Eve’s voice rang in Heo’s ears, “resolving firewall.”

“Uncle Jess, this hidden lab is not on the same network as the lab above. The firewall of the hidden lab is very strong, so it may take some time.”

Viana's voice rang out at the same time.

"I see."

He Ao glanced at the elevator door and pulled the bone axe out from behind his back.

He tossed the axe handle in his hand, adjusted his grip, and then chopped the elevator door in front of him with the axe.

boom--

The elevator door swayed up and down, and the axe blade disappeared into the crack in the door.

"Uncle Jess, what are you doing making such a loud noise over there?"

Viana asked with some curiosity.

"Try using some physical methods to bypass the firewall."

The pure white bone axe cleaved through the gap in the elevator door.

Immediately afterwards, slender fingers reached in along the opened gap and then pulled forcefully to both sides.

The sturdy metal elevator door was torn apart like brittle paper.

There was no elevator car behind the elevator door, only a deep, dark void.

Without hesitation, He Ao jumped directly into the darkness.

Soon, he made contact with the 'ground'.

There are no other elevator doors here; the ground beneath your feet is made of hard alloy.

This appears to be some kind of horizontal partition installed inside the elevator shaft.

Elevator shafts are like 'gates' that prevent outsiders from entering.

The once unobstructed elevator shaft was divided into an "H" shape by this gate, with the hidden underground laboratory located below.