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The air in the trol room at the Third Department’s Haidian pound in Beijing was thick with tobaoke and the hum of puter soles. A dozen tired teis typed away, eager to give the majeneral the impression that they were still alert, even after seventy-two odd hours on the job. Several of them had been asleep at their terminals when the majeneral had walked in. They were now fearful of the trajectory of their various PLA careers. The time on the digital wall clock read 7.08 AM.The majeneral looked pissed. He had stormed in demanding to have an ao the niggling problem of the work intrusion which had been discovered the day before. Hundreds of man hours after the initial discovery, they were still he wiser. And Lieutenant Liu’s future was looking even more precarious than theirs. That fact was being increasingly apparent. The youeis watched from the er of their eyes as the lieutenant, pale-faced and blotchy-skihrough lack of sleep, veins throbbing violently in his neck, tried to explain to the majeneral the teical details of why they were not making progress iing the source of the work intrusions. Yet, the majeneral was only ied in the solution not the meics. His bulky uniformed frame just stood there like an immovable object, puffing away on his cigarette, his eyes dangerously fixed on the lieutenant.
“Sir, the intruder seems to be rewriting the work code to avoid dete. This makes it impossible to detect,” Lieutenant Liu offered weakly. He was rapidly approag the point where he didn’t really care if the majeneral fired him on the spot. He just wao go home, make peace with his wife and fall asleep.
“You are tellihat with millions of New a Yuan of intrusioion AIs, state-of-the-art Id the fact that you see every bit and byte that is geed on the system using this very fand very expensive equipment of yours that you have no idea who the intruder is and what they are doing?” the majeneral howled, pointing his burning cigarette at the numerous displays showing the life signs of the system and its subjects.
“Yes, sir,” Lieutenant Liu said simply, feeling the energy to try to explain drain out of him.
The majeneral was visibly taken aback by Lieutenant Liu’s apathy. He tried to speak but the words stu his throat. In the blink of a seemed that his entire blood supply rushed to his fleshy face. The majeneral was about to explode into a torrent e when his cell ph. A deathly silence desded on the room.
“Speak,” the majeneral anded. Some internal calming teique had been applied and the storm seemed to have resided temporarily.
“It’s me. The student was in Hong Koing up with some Russian.”
“And you have him?” The look on the majeneral’s face suggested that this was not a question but a statement. However, this was lost on the assassin who was not physically present.
“No. Had him in my sights but lost him.”
“Lost him? What the hell do you mean lost him? Is everyone in the PLA inpetent?” the majeneral roared, the storm threatening te again in a violent explosion of thunder and lightning. The men in the room flinched. Yet, the assassin’s voice remained calm.
“He’s go was lucky that I even found him given the circumstances. At any rate, he was in Hong Kong doing a deal with some Russian to sell a puter chip.”
“ark></mark>mputer chip?” The majeneral’s face turned from red to a pale white in the blink of an eye as the blood drained from his face. His whole world seemed to be collapsing around him. Professor Yao’s as in going to New York had set in motion a veritable domino effect that was threatening t down one of the PLA’s most remarkable careers. Everything that he had dreamed off was now in the balance. Everything. For the first time in his career, majeneral Wang started to suspect that he would not be able t the current spate of events under effective trol.
“Yes, I have a Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank safety deposit slip that the stude. The man he was transag with was one Oleg <mark></mark>Krachev, acc to his passport. Retly deceased I am afraid. Collateral damage,” the assassin said without emotion.
“Oleg Krachev,” the majeneral repeated to himself. The name sounded familiar and the utterance of it was merely a query to the vast database of information stored in his brain. Oleg Krachev. The answer came in a split sed. The Moscow Institute of Superputing. Purchasing. Professor Yao had fabricated a sed chip and the student Li Jin was trying to sell it to the Russian. On the professor’s orders?
“Yes. What do you wao do with the slip?”
“Destroy it. I’ll arrao get the chip back directly.”
“There is ahing. The Russian had with him a wireless iional credit transfer unit. He had just transferred a large sum of moo Li Jin so it’s just a matter of trag the movement of the moo find him.”
“Leave that to me. And the other ohis Caldwell character?”
“The AIs are now talking about Shanghai.”
“Shanghai. Are you sure?” The majeneral’s worst nightmares were ing true. Yet, ohe quarry was in Shanghai wouldn’t resolution of that problem be merely academic? The enemy was walking of its own accord into the dragon’s lair. It was a twisted maion of Fool the emperor to cross the sea, yet the e would be the same. Death aru.
“Positive. Beijing too but the probabilities on Shanghai are sky high.”
“The Joplin girl?”
“Still Tokyo. She seems to be leaving a trail. The AIs provided a hotel, room hat one will be easy. I will be in Tokyo by mid afternoon as per your instrus.”
“No failures this time, it doesn’t bee you.”
“Yes, failure is something totally o me. Not something I would like to repeat.”
“You have served me well but my patience has limits. Uand?” the majeneral asked the assassin. Lieutenant Liu busy perusing code on a nearby terminal could not help but feel that the same ultimatum applied to him.
“This time there will be no failure,” the assassin said simply.
The majeneral hung up and turned his attention to Lieutenant Liu. The lieutenant stood up shakily aally braced himself to bear the brunt of the majeneral’s ire. He was surprised when it didn’t e but what the majeneral said was much worse.
“You have thirty mio get ready. We are going to Shanghai?”
“Shanghai, but ...” Lieutenant Liu muttered. His face had turned a sickly shade of gray. He looked like he was about to have a psychotic episode. His marriage was surely over. His currency with Majeneral Wang had deed dramatically in value. His body was about to give in. He suspected his blood pressure was sky high.
“Yes, maybe in Shanghai you’ll have better luck doing your job. First, I want you to put Hongqiao and Pudong airports, train stations and ports on high alert. Whoever is intruding in our systems is on their way to Shanghai and we are going to catch them.” This observation had no effe Lieutenant Liu. His eyes had grown wild. His mind was broken with fatigue and his hands just hung loosely at his sides. He didn’t even feel he would have the energy to pick up the telephone. Yet, he khat he had no choice but to tinue on this crazy mission.
“Yes, sir.”
“The AI will be shipped to Shangh<tt>藏书网</tt>ai later today. On a different flight of course. We’ll perform the refiguration of it there and oversee its iion. It’s important that these tests are pleted without further delay. Ohat is done you’ll get your sleep,” the majeneral promised without vi. It was nothing but hollow lip serviothing mattered but the work and the successful iion of the AI.
Lieutenant Liu was now sure of it. The majeneral was crazy, crazy beyond belief. That smoking had obviously given him a tumor in the brain, causing him to think and behave irrationally. All this for some stupid work, which the deranged man believed would make him a hero in New a. So what if it was the cutting edge? It was totally within the realms of possibility that if any of this nonsense came to light the majeneral could be court-martialed for misappropriating gover funds into a secret project that was not gover-approved. The eology was amazing, a world first. It ushered in a new paradigm, oh limitless possibilities that would give New a the edge. And ohe AI was unleashed into cyberspace, the West would never be able to recover from the repercussions of a a-led singularity. Yet, the motivations behind the majeneral’s full on charge into the future made him blind to the realities of the people who worked for him, and the fact that they had families and lives to go home to. The lieutenant khat giving up was not an option. He koo mud would surely be killed if he insisted on quitting.
In a perverse way, despite t<q>?9９ｌib.</q>he fact that he hadn’t slept properly for seventy-two hours, the lieutenant was thankful for the work intruder. The intrusion had proved that the system was fallible and that AIs were not as powerful as all that. All thirty-six intrusioion AIs had failed to stop the intruder, suggesting a hacker of unparalleled ability. Could it be that the intruder was this Cad Caldwell character, the ohat Kenzo Yamamoto had sent the sole to? If so, he was a worthy adversary. Yet, if he went to Shanghai he would surely be caught. The trap would be sprung tight. But if the hacker was smart enough to infiltrate the system from outside Shanghai and remain ued, then he might just be smart enough to avoid dete in the physical world. Anyway, that wasn’t his problem. His problem was the majeneral and now was the time to give him the good news. The other piece of bad o follow would have to be perfectly timed.
“Thank you, sir. We do have one piece of good news. The report on the bugs on the Yamaguchi-gumi has some iing items. First, they know about the Joplin girl’s presen Tokyo and they failed to retrieve the sole because the girl was snatched.” Lieutenant Liu was leaving the biggest bombshell till last.
“Snatched? By who?”
“They re it was an outfit they referred to as HYDRA.”
“HYDRA? Fuother.” It wasn’t an insult to the lieutenant, just an outlet for the majeneral’s mounting exasperation.
“The good news is that the Yakuza don’t have the sole,” Lieutenant Liu offered.
“You dimwit! If HYDRA has the sole that is orders of magnitude worse. Don’t you get it? If they know about the existence of that sole what do you think the ces are that they know about the other sole, the one in the possession of the hacker? And isn’t it possible that they are behind the intrusion attempt, which you so ily ’t figure out.” All this screamed by the majeneral in a fury of spittle and breath pregnant with nie.
“Sorry sir.”
“Fuother and your apologies. Better make sure the tingency Plan is in plad hope we don’t have to use it. If HYDRA is involved then the game is truly over for us.”
Lieutenant Liu was livid beyond description. Now was the time.
“Yes sir. You must also know that Miakahashi has ordered your death.” Lieutenant Liu visibly shuddered as he delivered this piece of information. For the first time ever, he saw what he had always known was true. Within every man, even th<q>.９９ｌib.</q>ose who wielded incredible power, was an insecure individual waiting to be exposed. The look on Majeneral Wang’s blood-drained face was one of unmistakable fear.
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