Chapter 476 - Chapter 476: 476 (1/2)

Chapter 476: 476

After finishing dinner and having a chat in the restaurant’s tea room, discussing cooperation-related matters and agreeing to meet at the company tomorrow for a more detailed conversation, Xiang Kun and the others bid farewell to Zhang Qian and the other “Rising Jiao Entertainment” staff, and returned to the hotel.

Yang Zhen’er and Tang Baona only booked a room for Xiang Kun, but not for Old Xia. Just like before in Star City, they forcefully squeezed Old Xia into their room.

After eating supper together, around eleven or close to midnight, Xiang Kun confirmed through sensory information that the three girls in the next room were already asleep. He first checked Alice’s scan results of the “suspected surveillance” locations he had noted at noon.

Alice discovered a previously undiscovered security system. The backend server of this security system was also connected to a dedicated line network provided by a service provider, seemingly an internal network of the secret department of “Divine Technology”.

To a regular hacker, invading such a system would naturally be quite difficult. The most likely methods would be to first break it from the inside, or control a terminal first and use it as a stepping stone to operate.

But for Alice, any network, any system, any terminal, as long as she can find the node it is connected to at the physical level, whether wired or wireless, it is only a matter of time before she can invade and control it.

When Alice fully integrates into the “Super Sensory Item System” and is able to interpret and utilize more “Super Sensory Information”, she will be able to infiltrate and control any electronic device as long as a “Super-connected Object” is deployed, regardless of whether the target is connected to the internet or has network modules.

While Xiang Kun and Zhang Qian were eating, Alice had already infiltrated and taken control of the hidden security system and followed the clues to quickly figure out the software and hardware operating methods of the system.

Based on the situation Alice had grasped, this security system not only controlled the direct gate, relevant access controls, and internal surveillance in the underground third level, but also had several very clandestine smart cameras around the Brilliant Fortune Building, which were directly connected to this system.

Some of these cameras had specially adjusted imaging modes, including everything from low-light imaging to infrared thermography.

They also had an intelligent system that would scan and identify all creatures using multiple imaging modes, categorize them, and then cross-reference them with a database.

Each type of creature has a normal body temperature range and a standard comparison with their environmental temperature. If the body temperature shows abnormal conditions, for instance, if the body temperature of a homeothermic animal is significantly lower than average, or if a cold-blooded animal shows a abnormal difference between its body temperature and the environment temperature, the system will alert relevant parties through internal display devices.

Clearly, this is a monitoring and identification system designed by “Divine Technology” specifically for “mutants”.

According to what Alice found, security systems of this kind were also installed in other places, likely where secret research bases are located.

Luckily, when Xiang Kun previously visited the secret research base of “Divine Technology” in QiCheng City, he was able to detect and evade the surveillance equipment in the nearby area beforehand. He didn’t dare to get too close and mainly used the “Super Sensory State” to observe.

The servers in the underground network in Peng City serve as one of the main data centers, indicating that even among “Divine Technology’s” secret departments, this particular area is quite special.

Afterwards, Alice sent Xiang Kun several surveillance videos. Each video corresponded to a surveillance point of the security system in the Brilliant Fortune Building, allowing him to get a general idea of the situation inside.

From several of the internal surveillance points, it was clear that there was a closed space behind a heavy metal gate on the underground third floor full of various drones, modified cars and other equipment. Even late at night, there were still two staff members busily maintaining the equipment.

Apart from this, there were many other rooms, some of which didn’t appear in the surveillance videos sent by Alice. They likely didn’t have surveillance installed and were private areas.

However, what Xiang Kun was most interested in was the black GMC camper van parked in the corner, as well as the entrance to the elevator room next to it.

That should lead underground because Alice had confirmed that the third level underground had no elevators leading to the upper levels.

It seemed, his previous inference was correct, this underground area where the rabbit wood carving and the “mutant” was, is here.

Xiang Kun communicated with Alice a little more, confirming her control level of the intelligent security system. He then left the hotel and went to the Brilliant Fortune Building.

The security system of the third basement floor of the Brilliant Fortune Building mainly relies on intelligent recognition. The electronic gates and access control are all automatic, with no manual verification or supervision.

The so-called “artificial intelligence” of this security system, in Alice’s words, is as “foolish”. She easily had it fully taken over.

After the monitoring of the Brilliant Fortune Building was all taken over by Alice, Xiang Kun no longer had to deliberately avoid monitoring. His appearance on the screen was controlled by Alice, replaced and covered with previously recorded footage. The intelligent recognition system used to discern “mutants” did not function either.

Returning to the outside of the Brilliant Fortune Building, which he had observed earlier from the “Best Fish in the World” restaurant, Xiang Kun sensed the “Super-connected sphere” he had placed on the crashed drone at Wushu Mountain earlier. He found its location did not match the third basement floor position Alice sent him, deviating quite a bit.

By comparing it with the drainage system blueprints found by Alice, he speculated that the sphere had most likely drifted into a sewer during the drone recycling and cleaning on the third basement floor, currently depositing in one section of the sewer.

If that was the case, there was not a single “Super-connected Objects” left in that third basement floor – the Super-connected Objects Old Xia set up during the day were all above ground.

In fact, now if Xiang Kun wanted, with Alice’s help, he could go straight down from the dedicated channel of the third basement floor. The surveillance would not detect him, the electronic gates would open for him, and his journey would be unimpeded. All he had to do was avoid the two poor workers who were still “working overtime” on drone maintenance on the third basement floor. This was a piece of cake for him.

After entering the third basement level, he could naturally set up “Super-connected Objects” at will. He could even throw “Super-connected Objects” down the elevator shaft. In this way, the places underground where those few “mutated creatures” were, could have not only the rabbit wood carving “Emotion Infused Objects”, but also “Super-connected Objects” within the sensing range to call upon, which would allow him to do more things and exert a deeper influence.

However, considering that he didn’t know much about the characteristics and abilities of the “mutated creatures” next to the rabbit wood carving. He didn’t know if they had some special ways, like smell or other senses, to detect traces left by “mutated creatures” and notice that he had been there.

So, to be on the safe side, Xiang Kun decided not to go in person right now.

At this point, he kind of missed “001”, “002”, and other derivative ant legions. They were perfect for this kind of stealth operation to plant “Super-connected Objects”. Even if they were discovered, it wouldn’t arouse much suspicion.

Unfortunately, he didn’t bring “001” and “002” to Peng City, as they had been left in Chongyun Village.

However, Xiang Kun wasn’t without other means to layout “Super-connected Objects”.

He directly controlled ten “Super-connected spheres” to enter from the special entrance and exit of the third basement floor, rolling along the road. After they were out of sensing range, he went to the first and second level parking lot of the Brilliant Fortune Building, which was open to company employees and visitors.

The entrance to the parking lot was guarded all night and equipped with a lot of surveillance equipment. But with Alice’s assistance and Xiang Kun’s superior sensory abilities, he easily infiltrated it, arriving directly on the second basement level.

In the second basement level, he found a location relatively closer to those spheres on a straight line. Xiang Kun could then enter a “Super Sensory State”, continue to perceive and control them, and conduct “Spatial Deployment”.

His control of these “Super-connected Objects” is only related to distance. It doesn’t matter what is in between.

As for the specific deployment location, Xiang Kun could easily match the spatial structure cognition in the Super Sensory State with the interior surveillance footage of the third basement floor previously given by Alice and find a great hiding corner.

The tungsten steel balls were really small, making them extremely easy to hide. Plus, the third basement floor was extremely spacious, and the two people who were still doing drone maintenance could not notice the movement of the ten “sneaky” tungsten steel balls hugging the wall dozens of meters away from them.