Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 433: Park Sang-woo's File
"Six years ago, Park Sang-woo embezzled 160 million credit , and used his power to threaten his subordinates, accepted bribes, and secretly sold the research results of the institute to non-governmental organizations... He was originally sentenced to death, but because most of the embezzled funds were recovered, he was sentenced to exile." Aya Breya read.
"Then how did this guy come back?" The Hound asked, "But then again, I was quite surprised that such a weak researcher could survive in the wilderness."
"According to him, he was found by the heretics on the second day of his exile and brought back to the settlement," Aya said. "Because of his talent, the heretics did not kill him, nor did they use him as a slave... In less than a month, he joined the heretics and became a member of the lowest level."
"Shit... this guy is a member of a heretical sect?! How can we let him come back now..." The Hound shouted in shock, "Wait a minute... Could it be that this guy has turned from evil to good and brought back some important information, so the higher-ups agreed to let him return?"
"Park Sang-woo was captured by our side during a field force raid on an exile settlement two years ago. He submitted an application to the Ark for naturalization, which was approved a week later. He was then immediately assigned to work in the Molten Mine District, where he has been working until today," Aya continued reading.
"It's been over in just a week? When did those agencies become so efficient? What on earth did this guy do to make the people above value him so much?" The Hound asked puzzledly.
"It's not written in the file. It's all blank here about the application for naturalization." Aya turned the screen to Ke Lan and Hound. Just as she said, there was no mention of this matter in Park Sangyou's file.
"Impossible! If it were so easy to return home, he would never have been exiled in the first place!" said the Hound flatly.
"Could it be that your authority level is too low, Team Leader Breya, so this part of the file is not open to you?" Ke Lan suddenly asked.
"My authority level should be the highest in the reconnaissance team. If I can't check it, then it's the same for everyone else." Aya said.
"That's not necessarily true," Ke Lan shook her head, "Let me try?"
"You? This is the Security Bureau's archive. How could you have permission to view it?" Aya frowned and looked at Ke Lan in confusion.
"It's okay to give it a try." Ke Lan extended her hand to her. "Besides, don't forget that I am the commander of this operation. The commander's intelligence authority is of course higher than that of his subordinates."
Ke Lan took the tablet from Aya, then pointed the camera at her eyes and scanned her iris data.
The files on the screen were refreshed immediately, and a line of words appeared in the originally blank space.
"See? Don't think..." Ke Lan was stuck in the middle of his words because he found that the line of text that was refreshed said "This part of the file requires the highest level of authority to view."
Ke Lan's authority level was indeed higher than Aya Breya's, but the higher authority only let him know that such a file did exist, and that the highest level of authority was required to view it. It seemed that he had obtained some useful information, but in fact it was useless.
It is easy to guess that Park Sang-woo was able to return to the Ark because he must have demonstrated his worth in front of the Ark's top management. The existing file is so brief that it must be an abridged version.
“Hahahahahahahahaha…” The hound watching from the side simply squatted on the ground laughing, “I fucking thought it was a cool story that got slapped in the face, but it turns out that I failed to show off and got fucked instead, hahahaha…”
"But at least I'm not wrong. My authority is still higher than that of Team Leader Breya... although not much higher." Ke Lan curled her lips. "Speaking of which, this requires the highest level of authority to view. Only the director of your security bureau can do this in person, right?"
In Ke Lan's opinion, the highest authority should refer to the highest authority within the Security Bureau, while existence like the Undead Crew belongs to the external level.
"From a literal sense, only the director himself should be able to see it..." Aya Breya nodded.
"Wow...good boy, it seems that this stick is involved in top secrets! No wonder the application for naturalization was approved so quickly." The Hound sighed.
"But the issue of authority level is not actually a problem..." Ke Lan said, taking out a portable computer with a thick explosion-proof casing from his backpack, and used a data cable to connect the computer to the "Security Bureau Agent Personal Terminal", which was the tablet that Aya used to check the files.
"What are you going to do?" Looking at Ke Lan's actions, Aya Breya suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Needless to ask? Of course, it's to hack into the Security Bureau's archives... Although I can't connect to the Internet, those files have been copied into this terminal in advance. As long as the information exists, I have a way to dig it out." Ke Lan said, typing quickly on the keyboard.
"Wait...wait a minute, what you are doing is illegal!" Aya subconsciously wanted to stop Ke Lan's behavior.
"Special circumstances require special treatment... If I can get in touch with Ark, I believe your director will lend me the authority. After all, the life and death of researcher Park Sang-woo is unknown, and we know nothing about the cause of the earthquake and the current situation of the garrison base. The most important thing is that I am almost certain that Park Sang-woo is inevitably related to the earthquake. If he is still unwilling to hand over this information to us under such circumstances, then I doubt whether this director is the traitor planted by the heretical sect in the top management of Ark..."
"Fuck, Ke Lan, your remarks are too dangerous. How dare you say that?" When Ke Lan said the last sentence, even the Hound, who always despised authority, was shocked - directly putting the hat of a traitor on the head of the Security Bureau, probably few people would have the courage to say this, let alone in front of a Security Bureau agent team leader .
"You..." Aya's face suddenly turned pale. She stared at Ke Lan and wanted to refute his words, but found that she couldn't seem to find any suitable reason.
This guy is right. Special cases require special treatment. Under the current circumstances, the Security Bureau should not hide this crucial information from them.
"But, but...if you forcibly invade the terminal..." Aya continued, "if the security program finds out, it will activate the self-destruct program. Each personal terminal is equipped with three pieces of compressed crystal explosives. Not only will the machine be destroyed, but you will also be affected by the explosion!"
"Crystallized explosives? Can this thing also be used as a grenade in a crisis?" Ke Lan said half-jokingly, but the speed of typing on the keyboard did not slow down at all.
"I demand that you stop the invasion immediately!" Aya couldn't help but raise her voice.
"I order myself in the name of the commander to continue the invasion." Ke Lan replied without raising his head.
"Are you crazy? If the machine self-destructs, at this distance, you will be seriously injured even if you are wearing power armor!" Aya shouted at Ke Lan, and tried to snatch the personal terminal from Ke Lan.
"In the name of the commander, I order you, Aya Breya, the leader of the third field agent team of DAS, to stand still and don't move!" Ke Lan shouted sternly.
"You... are simply unreasonable!" Aya glared at Ke Lan, not knowing for a moment whether she should obey the order or rush forward to seize the personal terminal.
But at this moment, Ke Lan suddenly opened the back cover of the personal terminal, and used a pair of tweezers to pick out three pieces of "compressed crystalline explosives" wrapped in silver aluminum foil, which looked like chewing gum, from the gap of the chip.
Each of the three pieces of explosives has a red line and a green line connected to the end. Ke Lan looked up at Aya and said, "Should we cut the green line first or the red line first? Or should we cut them both?"
"Don't cut it! Don't cut any of them! If any of the wires are cut, it will explode immediately... immediately?" Just when Aya was trying to stop Ke Lan, Ke Lan had already pulled off the three pieces of explosives that looked like chewing gum.
The explosion did not occur.
“…What’s going on?”
"Maybe it's a defective dud?" Ke Lan threw three pieces of compressed crystal explosives to Aya, who quickly bent down and caught them with her hands, fearing that the thing had been hit by something.
"Don't worry, this thing won't explode without the corresponding pulse signal. It's safer than C4 plastic explosive." Ke Lan said.
This type of compressed crystal explosive was not created by humans, but was a product of the Alpha civilization. Its essence was an explosive device that used a crystal structure chip as a "detonator" and high-quality energy crystals as a charge after being compressed. Although humans could not replicate this type of crystal explosive, they could use a pulse signal to activate the crystal structure and detonate it.
"Why... why didn't it explode?" Aya looked at Ke Lan in confusion, then looked at the three pieces of crystal explosives lying in the palm of her hand.
"Because I deleted the terminal's self-destruct program and modified the firewall's recognition logic. If this thing was originally a fierce woman wearing a metal chastity belt and dynamite in her pants, then now it is a naked, promiscuous woman..." At this point, Ke Lan seemed to think that this metaphor was a bit inappropriate and simply changed the subject. "Anyway, I succeeded in the invasion."
"...You... succeeded in the invasion? How is that possible?" Aya didn't pay attention to Ke Lan's strange metaphors. She stared at the terminal and muttered.
"After all, there is no way to connect to the Internet here, and I can't update security measures in real time. Using this loophole, I forged a highest-authority account and entered the system's backend openly. Your system checks once every 0.05 seconds, which means that within 0.05 seconds, I will be discovered to be a fake and detected by the security system, which will then detonate the explosives."
Ke Lan paused, then continued, "But the problem is that without the Internet, I can't compare the highest-authority account I forged with the online data in real time. In other words, these 0.05 seconds will never pass. This is a fatal problem. If a terminal falls into the hands of a bad guy, as long as that guy blocks the network signal, things will be troublesome."
“But… even if you want to forge an account with the highest authority, you still need our director’s biometric data. Without it, you can’t even get through the first door,” Aya said.
"Uh... I don't know why, but with my authority, the data I can access contains these things... There is even a table recording the menstrual periods of all female agents..." Ke Lan said, "I was saying... Actually, my authority is quite high."
This is most likely a "little back door" that the undead crew would leave for themselves, Ke Lan thought to himself.
"Don't talk about this. No one is interested in the menstrual period of female agents. Hurry up and find Park Sangyou's complete profile--" The Hound urged from the side.
"Don't worry, I'm searching... There are so many files, it will take some time--" Ke Lan's words were stuck for the second time, because he found that the file they had seen before was Park Sangyou's "complete file" in the Security Bureau!
As for the confidential information involved in his application for naturalization, there is no data retained !
"Damn it... they didn't even enter those things... into the digital archive." Ke Lan was stunned for a long time before he uttered these words.
He finally understood that the "highest authority" just now did not refer to the highest authority within the Security Bureau that only belonged to the director, but the "highest authority" of the Undead Crew Council for "the entire Ark and all mankind"!
Ke Lan suddenly felt like she had been tricked.
"This means... that even the Security Bureau has no right to know the secrets involving Park Sang-woo?" Hound said in astonishment, "Then who else is qualified to know except the Security Bureau?"
