649: Chapter 649: Temporary Worker!
Great Achievents!
649: Chapter 649: Temporary Worker!
Great Achievents!
The cabinet was scorching hot!
The technical supervisor’s heart was even more anxious and burning!
The fault had occurred in such a bizarre manner, with sparks flying out, nearly starting a fire.
So much so that when the cabinet was opened, an even more pungent sll of charred material assaulted the nostrils.
Soon, the server room was pervaded by the sll of burning.
The anxious supervisor who had opened the cabinet was tearing up and coughing violently.
What he saw was a ss of charred components, the servers appeared as if they had combusted from within, blackening a large area.
At that mont.
The red phone in the server room suddenly exploded into ringing.
It was clearly the general manager calling to demand accountability.
The technical supervisor turned to answer it, only for the call to be disconnected.
“We’re screwed!
Definitely going to get chewed out for this one!”
“Don’t just stand there, hurry up and fix it!
Cough, cough…
If you can fix it within ten minutes, I’ll give you a bonus from my own pocket!!”
The technical supervisor kept coughing.
He felt that the burnt sll was extrely acrid to the nostrils.
The odor from a typical short circuit and charring wasn’t usually this strong.
But now was not the ti to think too much about it.
Wu Jie started the server room’s backup exhaust fan to speed up the smoke extraction, then picked up the pliers and a screwdriver, and imdiately set about dismantling the equipnt.
Exactly!
What do you an ‘fix it’?
You take it apart first, then talk.
Before the technical supervisor had ti to react, Wu Jie, with nimble hands and feet, turned the equipnt and cables inside the cabinet into a ss.
“Hey, damn it, I told you to fix it, not tear it apart!”
“Ah?
You said to fix it within ten minutes, so I thought I could dismantle and replace it with a new one!”
“I…
damn!
Then hurry up!
I’ll go look for the parts!”
While speaking, the technical supervisor turned and headed for the shelves.
Bang!
The server room door was kicked open with force.
A pot-bellied foreigner with a bulbous nose, high nasal bridge, and a shiny bald head ca in.
“What the hell happened?
Why did the power and internet suddenly cut off?”
“What on earth are you doing?
Do you have any idea how much loss this will cause?”
“And who are you?
Why are you even here?”
…
As soon as he began to speak, the pot-bellied foreigner rattled off a barrage of questions.
“Boss, he’s the network engineer we temporarily recruited.
I was handing over work to him in the server room when the cabinet suddenly caught fire, and we had a malfunction; I guess it was due to the continuous work, causing the communication server to overheat…”
The technical supervisor hadn’t finished speaking when the foreigner waved his hand to interrupt him.
“I don’t care how you do it, but you have to restore power and internet within ten minutes, or else you’re fired!”
After throwing down those harsh words, the foreigner turned and stomped away in anger.
Ten minutes?
Does he think this is an internet cafe, where if the computer has an issue, a simple reboot will do?
The cabinet had been burnt to a crisp, and just cleaning it up would take ti.
Plus, they would have to redo the network cabling, connect to network switches, communication servers…
Even with the help of the technical supervisor, as every second ticked by, ten minutes passed without everything being sorted out.
All of a sudden!
As Wu Jie and the other were busily working, the foreigner returned.
He ca in making a fuss, bellowing:
“You two incompetents, it’s been ten minutes already, why isn’t it fixed?”
“Aren’t the servers ready to use?
The system is pre-installed by the headquarters, just switch them out and it should work, so what’s the hold-up?”
The technical supervisor hurriedly explained:
“The cleaning and installation are all done, and we are currently testing, just give us a few more minutes!”
“What the hell kind of test?
Our equipnt is customized and tuned by the top hackers at headquarters, there can’t possibly be any issue!”
The foreigner said and then rushed over to Wu Jie, shouting loudly:
“What are you waiting for?
Stop your damned testing right now!
Imdiately!
Restore the power and internet this instant!”
His tone was urgent, his deanor aggressive.
Wu Jie could understand this frantic mood.
After all, the interruption in communication had a huge impact on the business proceedings.
Perhaps the high-rollers who had planned to place their bets here, because of the phone lines being down, may have gone elsewhere to gamble.
Who could afford such a loss?
“Are you sure you want to restore it now?”
“Of course!
Do it now!”
The foreigner glared with furrowed brows and a loud voice that, within the confined space of the server room, made one’s eardrums buzz.
Wu Jie barely smiled, first turned on the circuit breaker, and then ‘as ordered’ closed the master switch.
In an instant!
There was a hissing sound.
Sparks flew, blue smoke filled the room.
The recently replaced communication server emitted a burnt sll.
And the circuit breaker had automatically tripped again.
Witnessing this scene and the sll of burnt components…
Both the technical supervisor and the foreigner were dumbstruck on the spot.
Wu Jie imdiately stepped back and shrugged:
“You told to restore it without testing, so this isn’t my fault.
Besides, I’m only a temp!”
At those words, the foreigner turned red-faced and swollen with rage.
“I…
I…”
He struggled to speak, but for a long ti, the foreigner couldn’t say another word.
While the technical supervisor turned deathly pale and said urgently:
“I suggest that we imdiately contact headquarters to temporarily divert Yi Continent’s business elsewhere to avoid custor losses!”
The foreign devil bellowed angrily upon hearing this:
“Do I need you to remind ?
Hurry up and find a way to fix this damn equipnt!”
“Ah?
This…
Both sets of failover redundancy systems, totaling four servers, have issues, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to fix them quickly!”
“You still have to fix it!
If you can’t, I’ll have headquarters send soone to replace you right away!”
After issuing that threat, the foreign devil stord off in a rage.
Looking at the cabinet in front of him, still emitting blue smoke, the technical director was almost smoking from his head as well.
It’s unbelievable, why did it suddenly malfunction?
In the past at most there would be alarms for overload overheating, but now it’s continuously sparking and smoking – could it be an issue with the power supply circuit?
“Alright, stop dawdling and start taking it apart fast!”
“If it can be fixed, fix it; if not, headquarters will have to send new equipnt right away!”
The technical director muttered and sighed, unwittingly letting Wu Jie in on significant information.
So this place was really just a regional division.
They had a highly capable headquarter and all the communication servers operating in this room were assembled by themselves.
I suspect even the firewall, managent system, application software, etc., were all ticulously developed in-house.
The purpose, of course, was to ensure secure and covert communication with clients and data transfer back and forth with headquarters.
Looking at the layout of these cabinets, one set of equipnt was for communicating with clients, while another set was for liaison with their headquarters.
Relatively independent, without any correlation to each other.
It’s like a criminal having two phones, one for external business contacts, and the other for internal communications.
Wu Jie could at most hack and track the communication with clients, but internal conversations…
of course, were beyond his knowledge.
It’s like knowing soone’s phone number, you can listen in, track, locate, etc.
But if they don’t say they have another phone and don’t reveal its number, then there’s no way to monitor it.
However…
Now it’s all good!
After sabotaging twice in a row, the server room was completely shut down.
Wu Jie could now legitimately dismantle the ‘faulty’ servers one by one, preparing them for repair.
After inspecting them for a while, the technical director was truly frantic.
He told Wu Jie to first dismantle the broken equipnt, then he rushed to report the situation.
After all, these were custom-made equipnt, and even if they ‘robbed Peter to pay Paul’ and added from inventory spares, they could at most repair two servers; the rest had to wait for urgent deliveries from headquarters, and only after the spare parts arrived could they be fully repaired!
Of course, it would be best if new servers were sent over; no need for repairs, so much easier and simpler.
But…
He had no idea about Wu Jie’s impressively quick hand speed!
He hadn’t even returned before Wu Jie had already repaired two servers.
Once they were powered up and booted, Wu Jie quickly copied data and left behind an extrely hidden Trojan program.
His movents were professional and quick, aiming for speed.
When the technical director returned, Wu Jie imdiately had him repair the server while he went to work on the network cables.
This way, not only could he make the technical director believe that Wu Jie hadn’t tampered with anything while he was gone,
but after a series of operations by the technical director, Wu Jie silently gained his administrative privileges without needing to hack.
Reassembly, equipnt installation, technical adjustnts…
After a series of work was completed, they were finally able to restore power and network, and by then it was already noon.
At this ti, the foreign devil ca again to hear the work report from the technical director on the scene.
Though they could resu business operations now, the stability of the two sets of equipnt working on a single server each was hard to ensure.
There’s a chance they might malfunction again under high load.
However…
The matches would begin in the evening, and from noon onwards, there would definitely be a surge in business volu with many clients placing bets.
After listening, the foreign devil decided to notify headquarters to resu taking business here.
But they also had to arrange for air freight imdiately to deliver more spare parts and servers.
Once the foreign devil left, the technical director had the receptionist bring Wu Jie a boxed lunch.
He instructed Wu Jie that after eating, he could take a nap on the folding bed or play gas,.
But if there was any issue, or when the new servers arrived, he must devote his full effort to the task, and then he hurried off.
From beginning to end.
It never crossed his mind that Wu Jie was a technical spy, not there to maintain equipnt, but to commit data theft and tracking.
Once the door closed, the server room was left with only the buzzing of the cooling fans and the exhaust fans.
While eating the boxed lunch, Wu Jie carefully took in the small server room.
There indeed were caras, but they were installed in the center of the ceiling, just monitoring the cabinets and casings.
He had already tampered with the equipnt during the repair, so why would he need to touch the cabinets again now?
Having finished the boxed lunch and settled on the folding bed in the corner, he took out his own laptop and began his ‘programr’s ti.’
As a temp, Wu Jie was free to do whatever he wanted on his own computer without intervention from the technical director.
After all, as long as he didn’t touch the casing or the cabinets, the business would continue smoothly.
So…
Wu Jie sat ‘boldly and openly’ on the folding bed, his back against the wall, operating his computer.
Using the hidden Trojan, he quickly infiltrated the server nearby.
Of course, this couldn’t really be called an infiltration, it was a perfectly legitimate login.
In the office area outside, one could imagine the salespeople busy making calls and using computers in their glass cubicles.
After taking orders over the phone, they passed each custor’s betting information through a dedicated computer and a specialized network to this place.
After encryption and compression, this information beca special data packets sent to their headquarters’ central server.
Using a dedicated network, specific encryption, and confidential transmission!
This thod, of course, maximized secrecy.
It could be said that without a high-level insider’s cooperation, it would be impossible to leak information.
It’s like not understanding the codes and secret language, how could one know what two strangers are discussing or planning with their babbling.
And now…
Wu Jie certainly wasn’t going to let them know that even a temp worker could accomplish a great feat!
Sneak into the village, no shooting!
After successfully breaching the central server at headquarters, Wu Jie felt as if he had discovered a new continent.
This ti, he truly struck gold…
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