Chapter 31: A Door
Xia Ji and Old John were both taken aback.
One is a dead thing's speaker, and it suddenly screams for help like a big living person, which is simply hairy.
"Who are you?" Xia Ji asked.
"I'm Xiao Ai." The speaker returned to a mechanical female voice, without a trace of emotion.
"Are you still there? We can help you! Old John also said.
"If you need help, I can call your emergency contact." Xiao Ai's speaker answered the question.
Xiao Ai's speaker turned back into a cold mechanical response, and it seemed that the sudden "help me" was like some kind of malfunction.
But Xia Ji knew that it was by no means a failure.
"Who is calling for help?" Xia Ji asked Old John.
"Maybe it's another prank." Old John thought of Albert.
Xia Ji thought of the poignant voice, and could feel a sense of despair in it, which didn't seem like a prank.
"Let's go."
Xia Ji helped Old John carry a bag of luggage.
Xia Ji still doesn't want to care, he shuttles through the heavens, he has seen a lot of bad things, it is impossible to manage them all, it is not bad to be able to help an old John.
Xia Ji is not a virgin, he doesn't care about things, he finally came to a stable and prosperous plane, he just wants to live his own life.
As for Old John, he would be murdered at any time, and he didn't have time to take care of himself, he didn't object to Xia Ji's proposal, picked up his luggage, and was about to leave the nursing home with Xia Ji.
Just then, three people broke into the room.
The first brown-skinned middle-aged man is Raj, the information director of the nursing home, and behind him is a sheriff in a wide-brimmed hat and a young man with a computer bag.
"Old John, come with us." Raj said.
"What's the matter?" Old John glanced at the sheriff behind Raj and felt that things were not easy.
"The server traffic in the computer room is abnormal, I suspect that someone has secretly installed an illegal program, and the police have been called, this is Sheriff Hank in the town, this is the technical police officer Linus, old John, you are a computer expert, and you have also done operation and maintenance for the computer room, let's go and take a look." Raj said.
For a period of time, there was a shortage of manpower, so John Sr. volunteered to operate and maintain the computer room.
The computer room of the nursing home is stable, and there is not much to do, and John is not a professional but he is doing a good job.
"I'm not available, I'm going to town." Old John said.
"Mr. John, let's be honest, you are also one of the suspects, I would like to ask you a few more questions, please cooperate with the police." Sheriff Hank has a routine poker face.
Old John glanced at Xia Ji helplessly, Xia Ji thought about it, and said to Raj: "In addition to abnormal traffic, what about CPU usage?" ”
"You know? CPU usage is normal. Raj said.
"I used to be a computer science major, can we go and have a look?" Xia Ji said.
As long as John Sr. was in a nursing home, he could be murdered at any time.
Since Xia Ji is in charge of Old John's matter, he has to take care of it to the end, so he can't throw him to die, so he decided to go with Old John.
"What's the use of this old man, I've seen a lot of people who pretend to be a little bit of understanding, it will only hinder my work." The young technical police officer named Li Nas was unhappy with Xia Ji.
Xia Ji smiled slightly, and didn't bother with him.
"Shut up, if you want to be skilled, you won't drop out of college!" Hank scolded.
It seems that this pair of colleagues do not have a good relationship.
Because Hank felt that Linus was a technical rookie, he asked Raj to find an expert to take care of it, and Raj found Old John.
The group went to the computer room, and on the way, Hank asked Old John a few questions, because Old John had done operation and maintenance, and he was also suspicious.
However, after questioning, the suspicion of old John was basically ruled out.
Everyone came to the computer room of the nursing home and came to the inside of the computer room through a metal door with security permissions.
The computer room is divided into two parts, one part is the battery room, and the other part is the computer room.
Inside the computer room, there is a row of vertical rectangular black cabinets, and behind the chassis is a mess of wires that is difficult for even professionals to sort out.
There are paper shells everywhere in the computer room, and there is only a five-horse air conditioner, and the heat wave is steaming, and everyone sweats on their heads after a while they come in.
"The management level of this computer room is so poor, it's just rubbish." Linus said unceremoniously.
Raj, as the information director, looked a little ashamed, in fact, the computer room of a nursing home can be like this, and it is much worse.
Linus took out his laptop, connected to the server, and checked the status of the host.
Li Nas is proficient in operating all kinds of software, and his hands dance rhythmically on the keyboard like playing a piano, like a veteran.
"Hank, this young man is quite skilled, why don't you worry about him?" Raj said.
"Don't mention it, this guy was originally a student at the University of Calliton, but because he was addicted to games, he dropped out of school, and his great future was ruined by himself, if I were his father, I would definitely kick his ass with my boots." Sheriff Hank said.
"Californiaton University, that's the number one school, this young man must be very smart." Raj laughed, he saw that although Hank scolded Linus, it had the meaning of hating iron and not steel, and he still valued this junior very much.
"It's weird, it's weird......" Linus shook his head in confusion.
"What's weird?" Raj said.
"There is indeed an anomaly in the traffic, and every once in a while, the traffic will increase in pulses, but the CPU usage is normal, and no suspicious files have been found, and no signs of memory residency have been found...... Li Nas said.
"Speak human words." Sheriff Hank said.
"In other words, there is no illegal software, only abnormal traffic." Li Nas said.
"And what is all this anomalous traffic for?" Old John was also strange.
Generally speaking, abnormal traffic is usually accompanied by virus software, but here there is only abnormal traffic without virus software, which is not commonplace.
"I made a table of the time points of each traffic pulse burst, and you follow the table to investigate and see if you find anything?" Linus turned the computer.
"Look, what's going on in the nursing home at these points in time?" Sheriff Hank said.
Xia Ji didn't react, but Raj and Old John showed shocked expressions.
"What's the matter?" Sheriff Hank knew there was a clue as soon as he looked at the two of them.
"At these points in time, there are elderly people in our hospital who have passed away." Raj said.
Raj's answer was unexpected, and Sheriff Hank didn't understand, what does the old man's death have to do with data traffic?
"Maybe it's the soul of the old man who has been transformed into traffic data." Linus said half-seriously.
"It's impossible, it's not scientific." Old John said.
Linus shrugged his shoulders, also feeling that his words were too fanciful.
"Although there is no virus, is it possible to disguise it, there is a hidden program?" Old John said.
Inspired to continue tinkering with his notebook, he suddenly smiled and said, "I found a door." ”