Under the cover of night, the black commercial vehicle slid into an abandoned logistics warehouse on the edge of the city like a ghost.
The rolling shutter door rose and fell silently, blocking out all prying eyes from the outside world.
The warehouse was bare, lit only by a few emergency lights. On a makeshift workbench in the central area, several high-powered encryption servers were spinning at high speed, their indicator lights flashing wildly.
Ye Qingliu sat in front of the main control screen, his gray-blue eyes reflecting the data stream that flowed like a waterfall, and his fingers flew on the keyboard so fast that only afterimages were left.
Hua Jinyue was like a vigilant cat, holding the butterfly knife that she never left behind, standing guard in the shadow of the entrance. Her sweet face was filled with cold concentration.
The car door opened, and Duan Shuce protected Ning Xiwan and got out quickly.
The edge of the Band-Aid on the side of Ning Xiwan's neck was slightly dark red, and her face looked even paler under the cold light, but her eyes were surprisingly bright, like quenched cold stars.
"Give me the thing." Duan Shuce's voice was low and tense, with the smell of gunpowder after a war.
Hua Jinyue immediately handed over the metal box containing the physical key.
Duan Shuce took the box and without any hesitation, strode to Ye Qingliu and inserted the key into the interface of a special military-grade decryption terminal.
"Qingliu, top priority! Immediately analyze, package, and upload the Skynet core database! Simultaneously initiate multi-channel mirror backups. Targets: the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Global Anti-Bioterrorism NGO nodes, and... those 'safe houses' we agreed upon overseas!"
"Got it." Ye Qingliu's voice was clear and steady, carrying a sense of absolute control beyond his years. The keyboard tapping sound instantly became more intense, like a torrential downpour hitting iron sheets.
"Data transmission in progress... Encryption complete... Channel stable... Mirror backup established... Estimated time for completion: 9 minutes and 47 seconds."
Ye Qingliu's voice is like a precise timepiece.
Every second seemed stretched out. The only sounds in the warehouse were the low hum of servers and the clacking of keyboards.
Duan Shuce stood beside Ning Xiwan like the most vigilant guard, his gun loaded and his sharp eyes scanning every shadowy corner of the warehouse.
Hua Jinyue's figure was looming at the entrance, the butterfly knife on her fingertips opened and closed silently, and a cold light flashed.
Ning Xiwan quietly watched the progress bar jumping on the screen.
Flowing in there are the darkest secrets of Ning Biotechnology, the countless lives and souls devoured by the "Prometheus Project", and the poisonous blood flowing under the guise of her biological parents as philanthropists.
She needed this coldness to face the coming, most cruel trial.
Time passes in silent anxiety.
Sudden!
Ye Qingliu's gray-blue pupils suddenly shrank! In the corner of the screen, an extremely tiny red triangle sign, representing abnormal network activity, suddenly lit up and flashed wildly.
"Warning! High-intensity reverse tracking signal detected! Source... Ning's Biological Basement's third floor! Intensity S-level! Target locked onto our main transmission channel! Attempting to forcibly inject a logic bomb to destroy the data packet structure!"
Ye Qingliu's voice instantly rose, carrying an unprecedented solemnity, "The other side has a top expert! The reaction speed is beyond expectations!"
Duan Shuce and Ning Xiwan's hearts sank at the same time! It was Ning Yuanshan! He finally realized what was going on! And he used his hidden trump card!
"Can you stop it?" Duan Shuce's voice was as cold as a knife.
Ye Qingliu didn't answer. His fingers were already stretched to their limit, practically forming shadows as they danced across the keyboard. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, and a cold fighting spirit burned in his gray-blue eyes.
"Establishing a dynamic firewall... rerouting... launching counter-worms... give me... thirty seconds!"
The atmosphere in the warehouse instantly became extremely tense, and the air seemed to freeze.
Hua Jinyue's figure disappeared instantly, like a cheetah blending into the darkness, lurking in the shadows closer to the workbench, with all his muscles tensed, ready to deal with physical attacks at any time.
The red triangle sign on the screen, representing the reverse attack, was like a leech, constantly attacking the defense line established by Ye Qingliu. The data streams collided crazily, emitting a shrill alarm.
Twenty seconds... twenty-five seconds... Ye Qingliu's breathing became heavy and sweat slid down his cheeks.
Just when the red triangle was about to break through the last virtual barrier!
Ye Qingliu's eyes flashed with cold light! His fingers suddenly struck a complex key combination!
"Mirror channel, overload release!"
Buzz——!
The server array roared under immense pressure! A powerful, aggressive command, disguised as a torrent of data, followed the enemy's reverse tracking signal path, fiercely repelling it like a venomous snake.
The red triangle sign on the screen suddenly flashed violently, and then suddenly dimmed and disappeared like a stubbed-out cigarette!
"Counterattack successful! The reverse tracking source was paralyzed by overload! The logic bomb was eliminated! The main channel... is clear!"
Ye Qingliu let out a long breath, his tense shoulders relaxed slightly, but his voice was still a little hoarse from exhaustion.
"Data transfer... resumed! Final completion countdown: 2 minutes and 11 seconds!"
Duan Shuce and Ning Xiwan's tense nerves relaxed slightly, but their sense of crisis remained unchanged.
Ning Yuanshan suffered a great loss and will never let it go!
really!
Duan Shuce's encrypted communicator vibrated rapidly! It was Ning Xiuyuan calling! His voice was filled with deliberately suppressed anxiety and a hint of subtle fear:
"Shuce! Wanwan! Dad... he's crazy! He knows! The entire lab's independent security system has been activated with the highest authority! All channels have been physically locked!"
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