Chapter 29: The Murderer (5)
The moment the elevator door is locked, Maxwell Sean and Abraham Don realize that something is wrong.
Only in one case will Omega cut off all roads to the computer room...... That is, the system determines that the current threat is serious enough to destroy the entire system. In this case, the Omega system's underlying kill switch takes over the entire computer, cutting off all access to the computer room, then backing up the core data, sending a distress signal, and shutting down the server.
This is Omega's self-protection measure, as the underlying code was written by engineers decades ago when the system was still being designed, in order to preserve the core data of the system and prevent information leakage in the server...... Now the world situation has changed, the Shanghai Naval Military Academy security area has become the last island for human survival, even if the system sends a distress signal will not be received, but the system's safety switch is still working, it judges that Omega is threatened by life and death, so the entire system is closed.
If it weren't for Omega's sudden disappearance, the Colonel and Abel would have almost forgotten that there was such a thing in the system.
Neither the Red-Eye Invasion nor the Battle of the Slayer Empress had pushed Omega to this point.
The first priority for the kill switch is to protect the data of the Omega system, so it closes the computer room, backs up the data, and then shuts down the servers...... But it keeps the Omega Destroying Safe Zone.
Omega's server room is the information and control center of the entire academy, she controls the supply and distribution of fresh water, electricity, energy and all means of survival in the security zone, and even the security defense system of the academy is under the control of Omega, once Omega is shut down, then the security zone will be completely chaotic.
Without electricity and energy, the survivors in the safe zone will become primitive people overnight, the most basic survival will not be guaranteed, all the defense systems in the safe zone will fail, and if the hunters invade at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"Damn! Why didn't this girl turn this thing off? The colonel asked.
"Originally, she turned it off." The middle-aged man replied, "But when we rebooted the system, the switch restarted along with it." ”
"What happens next?" The colonel asked.
"The kill switch is just a short piece of code, it can't judge the level of external threats by itself, it can only receive information and data from the system, and once the threat level reaches a certain threshold, the kill switch will be triggered." The middle-aged man struggled to recall, "The logic of its work itself is very simple, there are only two options, one is 'allow' and the other is 'forbidden'......"
"Simple!" The colonel interrupted him.
"Let's say it's just a fuse, and if the current is too high, the fuse will be blown off!" The middle-aged man spoke quickly, "This design was originally designed to protect omegas, but today this design has lost its original purpose, as for what will happen next...... If the fuse blows, the power will naturally go out! ”
"The kill switch would take away control of the system from the princess, and then compress and pack her up and stuff her into a box and send it out." The middle-aged man continued.
"Send it out? Where to? ”
"Go to a safer place." "But there's no place safer than here," said the middle-aged man...... That's why I say this broken switch is a retarded person! After sending the princess away, it will gradually shut down all servers and empty the information on the servers to prevent outsiders from intruding and stealing data. ”
"How long do we have left?" The colonel was sweating profusely.
"An hour at most!" The middle-aged man replied.
The two old guys turned around and rushed out of the office, their feet on the stairs "tom", and disappeared as soon as the smoke slipped, leaving the entire office standing in a daze.
Land Patrol Belle Rehro became a storm Anna was stunned for a few seconds, and then turned around and rushed out.
The elevator is no longer available, and the only way to the server room is the narrow staircase under the main building...... This road is used to service servers in an emergency, and Maxwell Sean and Abraham Don walked this road twenty years ago, and today they will use this road to access the computer room again.
The colonel and the middle-aged man ran wildly all the way, these two old guys hadn't been so frightened for a long time, the wind and waves had been strong for so many years, even if the hunters invaded the academy, the colonel had the strength to sit in the office and drink tea.
"It took about an hour for the kill switch to completely wipe out the data and shut down the server, and within that hour, we still had a chance." The middle-aged man was panting, and sure enough, he was older and had not exercised for a long time, and his physical strength was not as good as it was back then, "No matter what, we can't let it shut down the server." ”
"What would be the worst consequence if it shut down the server?"
"The princess is the owner of the nuclear reactor under our feet, and the operation and self-inspection and maintenance of the entire reactor depend on the princess, if the princess is gone, then the reactor ......"
The colonel's face turned pale, and he remembered that there was a super bomb under his feet, AN1800B, the most advanced nuclear reactor built before the complete destruction of human society, and the power and energy of the entire safety zone were provided by it.
Maxwell asked in a low voice, "Will the nuclear reactor leak?"
The middle-aged man shook his head.
"It's not a leak, the reactor's safety device prevents the core from overheating, and if the reactor gets out of control, it shuts itself down."
The colonel breathed a sigh of relief, if the server shutdown would lead to a nuclear leak, it would be over, and the last shelter of humanity would become a hell on earth like Chernobyl.
"Don't be in a hurry to rejoice, the outcome of the reactor shutdown is just as bad as the leak." The middle-aged man said, "AN1800B is a fast breeder reactor, using liquid sodium as a coolant, in principle, once this reactor starts operation, it can no longer be shut down, because once it is shut down, the heat is lost, the liquid metal sodium used for cooling will be completely solidified, and the entire circulation pipe will be tightly blocked!" ”
The colonel didn't come from a science or engineering background, but he could understand what the middle-aged man meant.
"Once the reactor is turned off, it is impossible to turn it on again?"
The middle-aged man nodded, "The entire reactor will solidify into a large metal lump. ”
The colonel's heart, which had just fallen, hung again, and if the nuclear reactor could not be started again, then the safe zone would lose all electricity and energy.
"So what to do?"
"We only have one way!" The middle-aged man said, "Stop this 205 kill switch from shutting down the server!" ”
"Do you know how to stop it?" The colonel asked, he couldn't help with technical problems, and could only rely on middle-aged people.
"I don't know, but the princess does! What we're going to do...... It's to release the princess! ”
When the two arrived at the ground floor of the main building, the middle-aged man turned his head to look at the colonel, staggered to give up his position, and the colonel didn't know where to pull out a crowbar and slammed it on the iron door in front of the passage!