Nominal: Hou Liangping blocking the door? He was slapped away!

Beep, beep.

The call failed.

Sweat immediately broke out on his face.

"Spare frequency band".

The duty officer immediately switched shifts.

"Supervisor, the backup frequency band has also been suppressed."

"Third frequency band."

"It was also pressed."

"shortwave?"

"Noise level is full."

The supervisor gritted his teeth and slammed the phone onto the control panel.

"Are these guys in the north crazy? What gives them the right to suppress core and peripheral frequency bands?"

No one dared to answer.

A gray notification suddenly popped up in the upper right corner of the screen, indicating that the underlying backend was not working.

The offline security contingency plan has been triggered.

The supervisor's hand froze in mid-air.

"Who developed the contingency plan at the grassroots level?"

The duty officer quickly checked the log.

"No human login was found; it seems to be automatically triggered in the background."

The supervisor's face darkened further.

The next moment, his spare phone lit up in his pocket.

There is no external network.

There is no base station identification.

Only one offline text message is displayed in the center of the screen.

If the contact wire melts, it should be physically destroyed immediately.

The supervisor stared at the line of text, his lips moving slightly.

"Stop it."

The duty officer had already rushed to the control panel.

"Supervisor, the lower-level privileges are higher than those of the local administrator."

"Pull the main switch."

"The server room has its own power supply."

"Where's the power supply for the robotic arm?"

"It's also connected to an independent power source."

The supervisor turned and rushed towards the server rack area.

The sound of metal sliding could be heard coming from the overhead track.

Heavy robotic arms extended down from the ceiling rails, and the crushing heads at their ends began self-checking, with red lights lighting up one after another.

The duty officer's voice had changed.

"Supervisor, the core server storage disk lock has been released."

The supervisor reached out to press the emergency stop button.

The button is lit up red, but there is no response.

A mechanical female voice came from the computer room's loudspeaker.

"The circuit breaker tripped, and the physical destruction process was initiated."

The supervisor looked up at the row of servers and squeezed out two words.

"It's over."

The next second, the first row of robotic arms pressed down, and the storage disk of the core server was gripped by the heavy-duty crushing head.

……

Core computer room.

As the first row of storage disks was crushed by the shredder, the large screen at the northern command post also turned red.

Zhou Weiguo sat in front of the monitoring console, his sleeves rolled up to his forearms, his eyes fixed on the transmission curve, the cup of tea beside him long since cold.

"Sir, the physical destruction of the core disk in the data center has begun."

Shen Zhong stood behind him, his military uniform buttoned up to the top, his epaulets pressing down on the light, and an unlit cigarette between his fingers.

"Is there any return flow?"

"Logically speaking, it's all gone. All external connections have been cut off, and the frequency bands have been suppressed. They're basically slamming the pot under the guise of a fire."

As soon as Zhou Weiguo finished speaking, the bottom left corner of the screen popped up.

very short.

It was so short that the on-duty confidential staff only had time to blink.

Zhou Weiguo, however, placed his hand on the keyboard and snapped the screen to a halt.

"Wait a minute."

The confidential staff member approached, "Director Zhou, what's wrong?"

"There was a breath here just now."

"overflow?"

"0.5 seconds." Zhou Weiguo zoomed out on that curve. "Before the server room self-destructed, the underlying contingency plan released half a packet of data. It was like a person falling into water and struggling for a moment before sinking."

Shen Zhong did not urge him.

He simply switched the cigarette to his left hand, his gaze fixed on the half-curve.

Zhou Weiguo moved quickly, deploying three layers of isolation mirrors simultaneously. The military-grade sniffing module disassembled the remaining package into more than a dozen pieces, spreading them out on the screen piece by piece like shredded paper.

"The main pipeline is broken, so it can't go through the normal exit and can only go through the pre-buried route."

"Chase."

"We're pursuing it."

The sound of keyboard clicks increased.

The red path extends outward from the core peripheral data center, first circling to civilian backup nodes, then entering a series of gray proxies, and then sinking down through several abandoned domain names. After going around in a big circle, it stops at a place with a vague label.

Zhou Weiguo frowned as he looked at the line of designated locations.

"Handong?"

The clerk next to him was also stunned. "Sir, the landing point of the springboard is in Haizhou, Handong. The name is the old server of Haizhou Port."

Shen Zhong raised his hand and tapped the screen.

"An old server?"

"The registration information shows that the port group purchased it in 1998, scrapped it in 2012, and deregistered the asset in 2016." Zhou Weiguo pulled up the information. "On the books, it should have been lying in the scrap heap long ago."

Shen Zhong stared at the lit path chain.

"The paper may be scrapped, but the thread is still alive."

Zhou Weiguo grinned, but there was no real smile on his face.

"These people are quite frugal; they can't even bear to throw away old equipment."

Shen Zhong put the cigarettes back into the tin box.

"Freeze it."

"Freezing according to local authority is slow."

"Use military-grade technology to force the program to adapt."

Zhou Weiguo paused for a moment, then sat up straight.

"That commotion was quite significant."

"If the noise is too quiet, we won't be able to catch the tail."

"clear."

Zhou Weiguo inserted the access card into the red interface and then pulled over the fingerprint plate of the confidential staff member next to him.

"Two people confirmed."

"confirm."

"The forced start program targets the old servers of Haizhou Port. First, break its shell, then extract its core."

On the screen, a red command was sent back along the hidden route.

The icon for the old server of Haizhou Port first turned yellow, and then was locked in red.

Three seconds later, the debris collection bar began to move forward.

The clerk lowered his voice, "Director Zhou, we've intercepted him."

Zhou Weiguo pulled the fragment apart, revealing several lines of markings on the bottom layer.

Network interface card (NIC) physical address.

Firmware batch.

Special supply number for front-line coordination.

He stared at the string of numbers, his tongue pressing against his teeth.

"Sir, this doesn't look like something the port group has discarded."

Shen Zhong glanced at it.

"Send to Handong."

"For Director Qi?"

"Give this to Qi Tongwei. Have Lu Yike take it to see Du Wenbin."

Handong Provincial Department.

In the ward, Qi Tongwei was wearing a dark coat, his left arm was in a sling across his chest, his face was pale, and his right hand was resting on the edge of the bed.

As soon as the military's synchronized information came in, the staff on duty pushed the screen in front of him.

"Chief Qi, intercepted on the northern front."

After reading the address and number, Qi Tongwei tapped the bedside table with his right knuckles.

笃.

"Lu Yike".

In the special investigation room, Lu Yike was pressing the list of evidence from Du Wenbin's office into a file box.

Her dark suit was neatly buttoned, her hair was tied up, and the key under her collar touched the fabric slightly with her movements.

"Director Qi, I'm here."

"To the interrogation room."

"Du Wenbin?"

"right."

Qi Tongwei sent the intercepted data from the northern route to her terminal.

"He thought that if the server room was smashed and the routing was cut, he could swallow his words. Shen Zhong, on the other hand, managed to extract a server from the half-second fragment of the packet, with the destination marked as Haizhou Port, but the actual core was hidden even deeper."

Lu Yike looked down at the documents, her eyes darkening.

"I'm going there now."

Qi Tongwei tapped the bedside table again.

笃.

"Don't waste time with him. He was just detained, and he's still clinging to the old image of Sha Ruijin. Get rid of that image."

"clear."

The interrogation room was brightly lit.

Du Wenbin sat across the table, his wrists uncuffed, with a glass of water in front of him.

He changed out of the belt with the hidden metal pieces, and the hem of his shirt was rumpled up, but his back was still straight, as if things hadn't gone too far as long as his posture wasn't slumped.