Don't follow the rules

Chapter 474: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Fifty)

"Are you kidding me?"

Yingying slapped the head of the member of Jiang Group who came to report.

She held up the soft, fluttering paper presented by the team members and shouted, "I want a map for internal! staff! circulation. What do you want to do by finding me a flyer? Do you want to die?!"

The team member covered the big bump on his head and wanted to cry: "Captain Jiang, calm down! We have tried our best. I don't know what happened. The teammates in Group H can't access the network here. Maybe the mall uses a separate open source system and the normal path can't be connected. You are anxious to get a map, and the only map we can find is the one printed on their promotional flyer..."

"Waste!" Yingying kicked him on the butt and said, "Get out!"

The team members ran away crying.

"He still has the nerve to cry!" Yingying rolled up her sleeves, furious.

"Forget it, Captain Jiang. You should know the people you brought up best. Your teammates will never fool around with any orders you issue. At a time like this, with only a leaflet map, I'm sure they have tried their best." An Han held down Yingying's fist.

Yingying angrily retracted her fist: "That being said, this is just a tattered leaflet, which is not reliable information at all. I will never let my team members go into the ghost story with such a crazy map and die."

An Han pushed up his glasses and said, "Such a large shopping mall definitely needs a communication network that connects the upper and lower levels. As long as we can access their communication network, even if it's just the outermost employee network, we can get a lot of information."

"Didn't you hear me just now?" Yingying grabbed his ear and said, "My people said they couldn't access the network."

An Han said calmly, "To coordinate a large number of people in a shopping mall, it is impossible to rely solely on shouting. Hacking into the communication network is a necessary means for us to enter the mall. It seems that the other party has already prepared for this. However, as long as it is based on normal code, there will always be a common logic. We can first collect the information of customers who have left the mall. Customers of this mall will register real-name accounts, so let your people try to collide with the database first."

Yingying let go of the hand that was pulling her ear and said hesitantly, "Is this okay?"

Anhan: "Honestly, I don't know, but I have nothing to lose by trying."

Yingying pinched the intercom on her shoulder and said, "Group D, please send a few people to collect customer information from Home Furnishing City. The more the better, so that Group H can try to collide with the database."

"Team D received."

"Group H received."

Yingying let go of the intercom and glanced down at Number One.

Number One was facing the building of the Home Furnishing City, with his head tilted, as if listening to something.

"What's wrong with him?" Yingying poked Anhan's stomach with her elbow.

An Han covered his stomach calmly and said, "Big... probably sensing Ning Yao's location."

Yingying observed for a moment, then nudged him with her elbow: "It doesn't seem like he's sensing anything, it's more like he's listening to a radio with a bad signal."

An Han stood further away: "Okay, then I'm listening to the radio."

Yingying wanted to say something, but when she raised her hand, she didn't touch anyone. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Why are you standing so far away?"

An Han held his stomach: "Protect your ribs."

"So crisp." Yingying said with disgust.

"That's right." An Han readily accepted Yingying's sarcasm.

Yingying was too lazy to argue with Anhan about these meaningless things, so she moved closer to No. 1, imitated his actions and tilted her head to listen for a moment, but heard nothing.

"There are too many people here, and it seriously interferes with my hearing." Yingying gave up quickly and directly picked the result of number one.

"Little One~What did you hear?"

Number One blinked: "Heartbeat, a very loud heartbeat."

"Huh?" Yingying was confused and looked at Anhan with suspicion. "Which little loser has a high heart rate before even starting the mission?"

"It's not Anhan," No. 1 shook his head. "It's not a normal heartbeat." He pointed to the main building of the Home Furnishing City and said, "It's coming from inside."

Yingying didn't understand: "There should be a lot of human activity in the mall, so it's not surprising to hear a heartbeat, right?"

Number One shook his head: "No."

"In the building?" An Han suddenly had an idea. "Number One, can I understand your words to mean that this building has a heartbeat?"

"Yeah!" Number One nodded repeatedly. "A loud heartbeat!"

"What the hell? Does this building have a heartbeat?" Yingying took two steps back unconsciously and raised her head to take in the panoramic view of the home furnishing city.

Beep, beep, beep—

There was a flurry of activity on the intercom, but no one spoke for a long time.

Yingying held the intercom and said, "If you have to fart, do it now."

"Captain Jiang, Captain Jiang! Apply to access the encrypted channel."

Yingying said seriously: "Approved."

Then he swiftly took off the intercom on his shoulder, changed the channel, and took out two headphones.

"Here." She handed one to An Han.

After the two put on their equipment, Yingying opened the encrypted channel: "I'm coming in. Let's talk about it."

"Captain Jiang, Group H failed to collide with the database, but there was an unexpected gain. Please listen."

Before Yingying bothered to ask, the other end had already started playing their "unexpected gain" very skillfully.

Both of them wore half of the earphones, lowered their heads, covered the other ear in tacit understanding, and began to listen attentively.

puff puff

"Heartbeat?" Yingying was surprised.

"More than that." An Han motioned for her to listen again.

Yingying closed her eyes and concentrated, carefully capturing the weak electric current hidden beneath the heartbeat and noisy signals.

"It's the sound of blood flowing through blood vessels." Number One stared at the Home Furnishing City building and said emotionlessly, as if he was reciting a first-grade text.

Yingying asked: "Where is this sound coming from?"

"Captain Jiang, this is... this is what we accidentally heard from the headphones when we were trying various methods to hack into the Home City. We can't tell where it came from yet, but we can be sure that this is not an audio signal, but the sound of electricity."

"Not audio? What does that mean?" Yingying looked at Anhan.

An Han pushed up his glasses, which had slipped down. The reflection from the lenses obscured his eyes, making it difficult to see his expression. "I have a guess. If the strange electric current sound captured by Group H is from the same source as the heartbeat sound heard by No. 1, is there a possibility that the network used for internal communication in this strange story is borrowed from some unknown biological energy?"

Yingying slapped him on the back of the head, causing him to stagger: "Are you still pretending to be nice? Speak human language!"

"Ahem," An Han cleared his throat awkwardly. "What I mean is that the reason your hacker team can't hack into Home City's network may not be technical, but because there is no network in Home City at all, and it relies on a huge monster to transmit information."

"How big is the huge monster?" Yingying asked.

Number One raised his arms and made a big circle, which seemed to almost cover the entire home furnishing city.

"It's such a big monster."