death of hope

Chapter 223 "Corporate Warrior" (139) is close to the truth

It was pitch black, and everything was green in night vision.

Hot brass casings slammed into the ground, clanging.

The mutant's bodily fluids sprayed out, burning holes in the wall.

After the fighting, the gunfire died down,
The tactical boots creaked on the broken glass.

Corporate warriors stepped over the blood-stained desks and the test benches full of bullet holes,
The shattered bodies of the mutants gradually became limp, and some of those still twitching were patched with knives.

On the swivel chair, human corpses were gnawed into skeletons.

"Clear! The laboratory is cleared!"

"Turn off the night vision and turn on the lights!"

"Destroyed 8 adults and 21 juveniles. I have to say, this ghost thing reproduces very fast."

"Spread out and start searching."

"I'm thirsty, how about you?" The hacker stood next to the vending machine, pulled out a data cable from the arm computer, inserted it into the vending machine's inspection port, and then clicked and operated on the touch screen.

A few seconds later, there was a bang bang bang bang, beer, carbonated drinks, potato chips, and XX sets, many goods rushed out of the vending machine's pick-up port, scattered all over the place,
Shaft took off his helmet, opened a can of lemon salt soda, and took a sip: "It's not ice, the taste is bad..."

"Boom!" Lynch slapped the soda can out of the hacker's hand:

"You fool! Aren't you afraid of the poison in the air? Put on your helmet!"

Shaft still had a hippie smile on his face:
"I'm sorry, Boss, I just...remember when I was young, my classmates all ate and drank delicious food, but I was poor and could only find my own way. Since I cracked the vending machine, I have never been hungry again."

"Poor guy." Wang Hongye cast a pitiful look.

"Children from rich families will not become hackers." Shaft smiled wryly.

"Boss, there are 9MM pistol shell casings on the ground, not the model we use, and a P38 micro-sound automatic pistol is thrown in the trash can."

"Pick it up, seal the fingerprints on the surface of the gun with tape, and put one piece in a plastic evidence bag."

"If the shooting happened before the accident, the conjecture of the headquarters is correct. This is not an accident, but a man-made tragedy."

"Hmm, business competition has become militarized. It's not easy for office workers."

"After the inspection, there are no living people, and the corpses have been gnawed to pieces by the mutants. It is impossible to judge the number of gunshot deaths."

"I don't know which company is instigating it, but it is most likely the KMS Group."

"Not necessarily, our company has a lot of enemies, after all, big trees attract wind."

"This is not something we should worry about. Let the members of the board of directors worry about it. But, we also have to investigate the murderer who directly committed the crime. Shaft, help me unlock this security door."

"Haha, Miaokai! It's really fun, and the severed hand I picked up is quite useful!"

Shaft triumphantly dangled the severed limb, like a butcher shop owner playing with a pig's trotter. He tried to scare the scouts with his severed hand, but the scouts were not afraid at all. Wang Hongye was from the FBI's anti-drug department. Calm like a forensic doctor.

"Stop! Stop playing!"

Mehmadi said angrily: "Hacker, don't insult the corpse, you will offend the dead!"

"Hey, will there be ghosts coming to lift my bed in the middle of the night? It's so scary!"

"Don't you know that there are gods up three feet! You don't have to believe it, it's really unlucky and don't cry when the time comes!"

"Look, the bearded man is so annoying."

"I'm doing it for you, little brat!"

"You're old, you're awesome, okay? Then I...with reverence and grief, use this severed hand to unlock it, and occasionally scratch the itchy flesh on the butt, is it okay?"

"Bastard! You will be damned, little X bastard!"

"That's enough, Mahmadi, and Shaft, you two, stop fighting, I want to get the surveillance video."

"Okay! Boss!" The hacker stuck out his tongue at the sniper through the mask, and then got busy.

"The power supply in the computer room has been restored, and the system is starting up...Administrator privileges have been obtained, So Eazy! It's too simple."

"Thank you, let me take a look...Damn it, this mouse is too small, it's still stained with blood..."

"It's Captain, your hands are too big."

"Fortunately, the data in the hard disk is still there... Hacker, you can help me operate this video playback system is really difficult to use! Back to before the incident happened."

"Boss, you are so stupid, just click and hold the cursor and drag it back and forth...I found it."

"Wait, go back a little more!"

"Look, it was break time. Scientists and experimental assistants were resting or eating. The food for these grandchildren is not bad, pizza... Takoyaki? Good guy, I want to join the job."

"Shaft, do the right thing!"

"Oops, don't hit me...Boss...Look, a chunky guy in a uniform came in... Whoops! He shot at a co-worker, and the fat guy is the murderer!"

"What is he doing?"

"Drain the biochemical solution in the glass tube, smash the glass with a crowbar, and release the XB32 variant... So that's it... This fat guy is the ghost."

"Going back a bit... the first person he killed, the bald old man in the white coat, was the head of this subsidiary, Dr. Fabineo."

"This person is a technical expert poached from KMS by our company's headhunters. A bloody revenge, KMS can't get it, and McMillan can't get it either."

"Continue to look back, adjust to other camera angles, stop! He is... typing code? Come on, this is it!"

"A hacker too?"

"I don't know, but this fat guy must have the level of a computer engineer. He implanted a Trojan horse program in the system in advance. After the attack, he obtained administrator privileges and entered DOS commands on the host computer, causing the entire ship's early warning equipment to be paralyzed."

"But why...he didn't take the research materials and run away in an escape airship. Selling the specimens to KMS can be exchanged for a large amount of money."

"This ship is too far away from any human colony. The lifeboat doesn't have enough fuel, and the surrounding sector is full of our McMillan patrol planes. He can't escape."

"Then... he should be planning to sacrifice himself to give money to his family? He's a man."

"Continue to drag the progress bar...I don't understand...Why do the mutants only kill the company's people and not the traitor?"

"I don't know, maybe it's some kind of control method."

"In this case, the murderer may still be alive. Let's see where he escaped to?"

"The camera connected to the channel in Area C is damaged and cannot be traced further."

"Okay, this information is enough, Shaft, help me find out the identity of the murderer, and enter the personnel file."

"It's strange...the data is not encrypted...it's too...easy...I found it, Jonas Hagrall, nicknamed Fatty Joe, is a computer engineer on board and has only been on the job for three months."

"Hey? Why did the red light flash? What's going on!"

"Warning! Alert! Data theft has been discovered. In order to protect the property of McMillan, all escape pods are closed. The Oratius will self-destruct in 30 minutes..."

(End of this chapter)