AutoTerra: Operating Systems

Chapter 70: Professor Arthanour Morphin

Before the long-distance call between Wirma and Edrick took place, a few minutes ago Wirma's group had just finished eradicating the monsters that had blocked their way to their destination, the Security Deck.

Several monsters lay lifeless in front of the door of a room after being shot by Wirma's group. The group then walked closer to the door. Wirma tries to open the lock panel using Hack Ability.

“Fyuuuh...” Zered stroked the top of his helmet. “Capek is also shooting monsters all the way.”

“Here quite a lot of monsters,” comments Farhan, “untung we three can handle it.”

“It is also difficult to find another way. You see, this is the only way to the Security Deck. Other roads equal closure iron ruins.”

“Udah, done.”

Automatic door open. The three immediately entered the room, closing and locking it from the inside to be safe from monster attacks. Wirma also pulled the lever of the power plant near the door, making the electricity throughout the room active, the lights and all the monitors connected to some of the ship's surveillance cameras lit up.

The room they entered now was the watchdog room. It is used to monitor the state of the ship through each surveillance camera throughout the ship, and a place to provide emergency access to several facilities.

“Farhan, just in case by the door,” pinta Wirma while walking to the front of the monitor.

“Oke.”

Farhan was just keeping watch near the door as Wirma had asked, while Zered began to help Wirma look around at the ship through several surveillance camera monitors.

“Everything active?” ask Wirma to Zered.

Zered watched the monitor as his finger pressed the scroll button. “Not everyone. There are also many areas that are not under camera surveillance. Looks like the cameras there are broken.”

“Past be broken,” said Farhan, leaning against the wall. “Because over time not used or attacks from the monsters.”

Wirma thought for a moment. “Zered, can you use your drone to keep an eye out for areas not under surveillance? There might be something important there.”

“Good.”

Zered walked towards the door. After the door was opened, a drone emerged from the storage of the system. Zered flew the drone away from the room into a dark alley near them.

“OK, I've already flown. If anything suspicious, the drone will send a sign later,” Zered said back inside the room.

“Good.” Wirma fiddled with the control panel near the monitor. “You are trying to keep an eye on the state of the ship area. I will try to find some information through the data stored here.”

Zered again oversaw the condition of several areas of the ship. His finger continued to press the scroll button, switching the surveillance from one camera to another until it came to a halt when it found their three comrades standing negotiating something in front of an inaccessible gate.

“Vice, we found our chairman and colleagues. Looks like they're in trouble.”

Wirma approached Zered, watching the monitor in question. “Report?”

Zered tried to extract information about access problems that occurred in the area through a nearby control panel. “F34 Gate, the border between Dormitory Area and Health Center. System Status: Offline.”

“Hmm...” Wirma stroked his chin. “It seems, they found the fastest way to the Medical Deck. Only thirsty because of access to energy Core Ship does not get there.”

Wirma again switched to the control panel, trying to find the access settings to the backup generator. The backup generator itself serves as an emergency energy generation tool. Usually, this type of generator stores energy from the Core of the Ship so that it can be used in a precarious state, such as power failure or energy is not spread to certain facilities.

“I'll try to hack the backup generator near their location.”

One backup generator program at the tracked location was found. With Hack Capability on AutoTerra System, Wirma is much easier to hack the akases of the generator.

“OK, done. Just try to contact the chairman.”

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“So, need help, Chairman?”

Through the holographic call, Edrick replied, “It seems so. Your group has arrived at the destination area?”

“Heh.” Wirma. “If it has not arrived, surely I will not have time to offer assistance to the chairman himself. We arrived a few minutes ago in the security room, and now we are watching the situation around while looking for important data. When we checked the surveillance camera, apparently there you guys are already standing in front of the gate.”

“Yaa…. We're in trouble.”

Edrick, Astan, and Bery again noticed the gate that bordered the two areas. The gate is quite large, hard, and sturdy. For sure with the weapons or capabilities of the system that Edrick has will not be able to penetrate it. It really must be opened through official access points or hacked.

“Ship Core Energy did not manage to channel up to here, so the gate system died out completely. If only it was lit, I would still be able to hack,” said Edrick.

“It just so happens to be near there is a backup generator. I can turn it on through here and hack the gate system. So, you guys just have to wait and just go in.”

“Good. Do what you can, Vice.”

“Siap, Chairman.”

The three soldiers were waiting for Wirma who was trying to power a backup generator and hack the access gate system.

[F34 Gate System: Online]

It took a few minutes until the backup generator managed to provide energy to the gate, so that the large gate lit up and began to open.

“Yes, at least we did not find anything suspicious here.” Then Edrick asked Bery, “True, right?”

Bery hurriedly tracked suspicious things through the radar that Edrick had shared earlier. The one that was seen empty, did not find any suspicious spots inside there.

Bery nodded. “True, Chairman. There's nothing suspicious here. This whole area is safe.”

“We go straight in?” ask Astan to make sure.

“Sure.” Edrick's back to Wirma's holographic. “Thank you for the help, Wirma. You and your two associates can return to duty. Make sure to collect important evidence related to events on this ship.”

“Siap, Chairman.”

The holographic call ended. Edrick gave a warning to Bery and Astan to immediately move into the area. While holding each other's weapons, the three entered and started looking for anything important they could get.

...~*~*~*~...

One of the rooms on the Public Deck was successfully entered by Tenma, Lavisto, and Irawan. The room is a document storage room. There are many computer booths lined up and shelves containing various types of neatly arranged tabs there, indicating that this room has not been touched by monsters or anything like that at all. And at the end of the room there is also a giant monitor.

“This room is really safe,” said Lavisto while walking after Tenma and Irawan who had entered before him. “It seems like it has not been touched at all since three years ago?”

“Iyaaa…. This is the first room we found is still in a neat state,” commented Irawan. “About, his energy access is on till here?”

Tenma approached the part of the control panel in front of the giant monitor, trying to turn it on. The system can be turned on, but a giant monitor and some computers simply do not respond, possibly already damaged.

“The system is on,” said Tenma, “we can search for the necessary data from here.”

Lavisto tried to check the data of several computers that could still be turned on, while Irawan was busy looking for something that he thought was important for them to collect in every corner of the room.

Tenma himself began to check important data through the control panel. Just as he was about to open a program, his eyes were distracted by a dark room some distance beside him. Tenma became curious, the room was too suspicious for him. Maybe there's something important there. He must check for himself.

“Irawan, can you check this section. I'll check into the room,” Tenma's orders while pointing to the room in question.

“Good, Tenma.”

After Tenma left the two of them there, Irawan began to check the control panel data. It took a few minutes until Irawan managed to find many important documents in a program. Luckily the security system can be hacked first Tenma who is also a user of Hack Ability, so Irawan can access it more easily.

“Hei, Lavisto! I found the data we were looking for!”

“Really?”

Lavisto immediately left the computer she was checking on, approached Irawan and stood beside him. His eyes also see the data found Irawan on the control panel monitor.

As per their expectations, the data found is the data they are looking for, namely evidence of transactions embezzlement of funds to the documents of staff involved in the case between BioEmerald and the Feron Company.

“I don't think they'll keep it in one place,” commented Lavisto.

“Maybe this is a backup document. If the main document is usually stored in different offices according to the division,” reply Irawan comments. “Good. We try to make sure that all this data is correct that we are looking for.”

They both read the documents. Because it is certain that it is all original documents, Irawan tried to download it to the flash that has been prepared. The downloaded data is quite a lot, so it takes quite a long time for the download process.

While waiting for the process to be completed, Irawan opened one of the documents that were successfully downloaded. The document is the bio-data of one of the ship's most important staff. It appears on the photo of the face of a middle-aged man with all parts of his hair bleached and a wrinkled face.

“Professor Arthanour Morphin, expert in Biotechnology and Pharmacy. Position as head of Biotechnology Division and is the most important person in various projects.” Irawan read the document. “Many projects, yes? Till males I read it.”

“Try to check other data. I think that is not too important, deh,” advice Lavisto start bete.

“What's important? He's a division head, a professional scientist. It must also be involved in the case of BioEmerald and the Feron.” Company

“Entahlah. I'm sorry to see the data. Achievements and projects that are done a lot, his face was like a cartoon character antagonist.”

“Yeee, it's ‘mah because you're envious. As long as you go to school at the academy ‘kan the value that you can always drop,” ledek Irawan while reading the data.

As long as they were talking, without them noticing something was trying to get close to them from behind. A strange figure approached quietly, silently silent.

“If about face ‘mah, ordinary,” comments Irawan back. “People who often think will usually face serem.”

“Ah, time?” tanya Lavisto could not believe it.

The figure drew closer behind them, blocked by the shadow of the room, preparing to take aggressive action.

“Good. We'll take a look at one of these guys' achievements.” Irawan went back to reading the document. “Professor Arthanour also leads a project—.”

“Irawan, beware!”

“Ap— Argh!!”

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