章節 231: 2 Coincidental Culprit

The network security officer was called Singleton, he was the last one to enter to Zhang Jue's room. At the moment, it seemed that Zhang Jue had guessed correctly that he was the one who was responsible for the Site-15 blackout.

Seeing him crying, he threw his arms around Simmons' thigh and shouted, "Please, don't. Don't kill me, I'll tell you everything."

There it is. Simmons glanced back at Zhang Jue, but Zhang Jue was unmoved, instead waving his hand in disgust.

"What are you talking about? No! you'll only delay your death! Simmons, within ten seconds. If he doesn't give me any useful information, shot him a few times. But don't let him die, I want to play with him for a while!"

"No, no, no!" Singleton shouted, "I did it, I did it all! I was the one who took the opportunity to plant a virus program to lurk in the server during the security system upgrade!"

"Bullshit!" Zhang Jue slammed the table and shouted, "Even if you planted the virus, how could the others not find traces of it? You're obviously lying. Simmons, shot him."

"No, sir!" Singleton was so scared that he pissed his pants and hurriedly said, "I took the logs, and I led the security analysis regarding the virus intrusion, and I ended up tampering with it."

Singleton confessed what he had done in a few words, but Zhang Jue still did not relent, "I don't believe you! You're the one who did it? Do you have any proof?"

"Yes, I do." Singleton was busy nodding, "I made a backup of the virus, it's in the compartment of my office drawer and there's a flash drive."

"Okay, we'll notify someone to look for it. If we can't find it," Zhang Jue hummed for a moment, "Singleton, right? I might as well tell you, there were many interesting punishments in ancient China, such as lynching and cannon branding."

Singleton never heard any of those stuff, but looking at Zhang Jue's eyes, he knew that it was something unpleasant. Site Director Walnut and Owens in the monitoring room were both a little surprised to see that the mole was actually Singleton.

He had been at Site-15 for some years and had been dedicated to his work, otherwise Owens would not have given him such an important task as parsing the logs. They couldn't understand why Singleton would do such a thing.

On the other hand, they also sighed that Zhang Jue's tactics were really good. In fact, the first few security officers had faked their death, the bullets in Simmons' pistol are blanks, and they had been put under anesthesia in order to scare the people being interrogated behind them.

They didn't expect to let Zhang Jue do that. But now is not the time to dwell on these things.

Hearing that there was evidence, Site Director Walnut and Owens immediately came to Singleton's office personally. After a search, they finally found the flash drive in the plywood under the third drawer.

Owens found a computer that was not connected to the site's network, plugged the flash drive in, and checked it out. It was finally confirmed that he was the culprit that brought the Site-15 network down.

Singleton's technology was good, and the virus was quite cleverly designed. The virus will keep copying itself to achieve the purpose of spreading. It also does the opposite, taking effect for only ten minutes, and then the extra copies will destroy themselves, leaving almost no trace.

Even the two computer geeks could only marvel at the extraordinary ingenuity of its structure, only to be useless in the right way.

When Owens and Site Director Walnut returned to the conference room where Zhang Jue was, they saw him crouched on the floor. Having a cordial and friendly exchange with Singleton, who was huddled in the corner.

"So what about this next punishment I'm going to do to you? it's called carving. Don't be afraid, in fact, it's fun. The human head and limbs are tied to five cars, set them into a different direction respectively, and pulled in different directions. So that the body would stretch and tear into five pieces. Sometimes, instead of using a car, five oxen or five horses were directly used to pull this punishment. That was the reason the Chinese has an idiom called five horses to divide the body, isn't that interesting?"

"Ahem." Site Director Walnut coughed for a few times.

Seeing Site Director and Owens here, Zhang Jue knew that they had found the evidence. But the expression on his face seemed to be somewhat regretful and unfulfilled.

"Hey, you guys are quick." He sighed.

In the corner, Singleton shouted, "Site Director! Supervisor Owens! Please, please help me! Don't kill me! I'll be a D-Class personnel if you don't want me to be here, please…"

His face was full of despair, he feared death, and he didn't know how much fun Zhang Jue had been playing with him during this time. Site Director Walnut waved his hand, the two security officers following behind him pulled Singleton up and dragged him away.

A damp patch was revealed where he had been. Site Director Walnut sighed. Although the traitor was found, but he was not the least bit happy. It was his incompetent leadership that was largely responsible for such a big incident.

However, he still expressed his gratitude to Zhang Jue. "Advisor Zhang, you've only been at the station for one day and you've found the traitor. I thank you on behalf of the entire staff of Site-15. If you continue to let him lurk, there's no telling how many things will happen in the future."

Site Director Walnut was right, Singleton's skills were good since he was the backbone of the site. He might be appointed to an official position in the future, in case he released something extraordinary, he was a bit scared just thinking about it.

Zhang Jue waved his hand, "No need to be polite Site Director Walnut, there are specialties in the field. I'm excels at interrogating and you're excels at coding. We can work together with that, hahahaha.

Owens was a bit embarrassed. Because Zhang Jue was sent by the headquarters and at their first meeting, Owens was a bit rude to him. But Zhang Jue had only been at the site for a few hours, and he had indeed shown some ability by finding out what the problem was in three just a moment.

However, Zhang Jue was good at making people angry, but making good relationships was also his specialty.

Zhang Jue looked at him and smiled, "Supervisor Owens, I've thought about it, and I'm afraid there are two things I have to inform you about."

"What?" Owens asked.

"The first thing is, my current administrative position is the Deputy Site Director of Site-14. To be exact, I'm just a general manager from the other site, not someone from headquarters. As for the second thing, I think you're right. It's not that we're targeting anyone, the people from headquarters, while not all of them, but most of them are garbage. "

Owens froze, then realized that Zhang Jue was giving him a step, and then laughed out loud as well. They seemed to have the same mind and Owens was no longer treat him as an outsider.

"Advisor Zhang, I still have some questions. You deliberately put Singleton at the end, I think it has been determined that he is the most suspicious, how so?"

"In fact, I just read too many detective novels, so I'm just guessing wildly." Zhang Jue said, "He's the one with suspicious behavior when we're about to conduct the examination. Then his suspicion greater than others, and he found out what happened to that enemy. He will fall into the trap."

Zhang Jue said casually, but Owens knew that this Advisor Zhang while he could not write a program, but his mind was delicate and his methods were expendable. He was definitely a ruthless character, and it was better for him not to cross paths with him. By such a number of people on the spot, it is likely to die without knowing how to die.

A few more people expressed their views on the matter. Simmons returned from the toilet and found that Singleton had been taken away, so naturally he knew that the matter had been sat down. He began to feel some sympathy for the other personnel.

Earlier, Advisor Zhang described in great detail the scenes of various types of punishment, even he was sweating by just hearing it. If he was being serious, then it really was a worse fate than death.

When Zhang Jue saw Simmons return, he called him to his side. "Site Director Walnut, we actually have another mission when we come here this time."

"Oh?" Station Chief walnut raised an eyebrow, "What other mission? Just say it, Advisor Zhang. As long as it's within the rules of the Foundation, I'll definitely cooperate fully." Said Director Walnut in righteousness following their orders.

Which could also mean if he was really going to make a mess, that's fine. But leave him from the mess.

Zhang Jue huffed, "Naturally, this should be an approval from the headquarters, and this colleague of mine wanted to talk to SCP-079."

"SCP-079?" Owens was a bit taken aback, "Why do you even want to talk to him? it's just an uneducated computer."

Simmons said, "Nothing really, just want to talk to him."

Since there was an approval from the headquarters, Site Director Walnut had no reason to refuse, but he did not immediately agree.

"I know you guys are colleagues to us, such a simple thing like this is certainly no problem. But you must know that SCP-079 is a very dangerous SCP. In Foundation's eyes, it is possible to build a K-class scenario. We need a little time to prepare."

"That's okay." Simmons said, "I am not in a hurry. When you guys are ready, just call me."

"Good." Site Director Walnut nodded, "Then let's set the time for three days later."

...

Zhang Jue and Simmons helped Site-15 solve a big problem and the two of them were naturally served with good food and drink. However, they soon discovered that this place really felt like a prison.

There was no internet, no TV, even the circuitry was laid inside the site was truly isolated from the world. Even if you want to watch the news you have to walk several kilometers away.

This is where people live. However, they found that the programmers are willing to sympathize. After all, this kind of place is most suitable for these bored people, they can exclude all their distractions, will be all the thoughts on the job.

Without distractions, it was natural to get twice as much done with half the effort. Thinking of this, Zhang Jue couldn't help but have an idea.

If possible, he wanted to throw the unscrupulous authors of the novels he was looking in here as well, and let them live for a few months to ensure that they would never encounter such problems as stuck and dried up inspiration again.

However, this was only a thought. He and Simmons needed to stay in this hellhole for three more days. On the second day, Zhang Jue took the initiative to ask for that Singleton's information, saying that he wanted to help Site Director to see what was missing. But in fact, he was just bored.

For Zhang Jue, Site Director Walnut wouldn't refuse his request. This site was only built for programmers. It was really a wishful thinking. Zhang Jue saw something wrong and was about to call Singleton to ask him about it, when he learned that he had died in the confinement room.

He had grabbed the ground with his head and splattered his blood. When he learned of this incident, Zhang Jue sighed. It wasn't that he gave up on his life. He just sighed that his methods might have been a bit extreme and scared Singleton out of his wits. He should probably be gentle in the future, no more lynching and cannon branding, but at most something like pulling out nails and cracking bones.

Zhang Jue gave himself a compliment, it seems he is still very merciful well. In the future, whoever says he is cruel by nature, he will have a good talk with the enemy.

Seeing that Zhang Jue had been holding Singelton's file all day, Simmons asked, "Isn't that man dead? What are you doing with his stuff?"

"There's just something about it that feels a little strange." Zhang Jue pinched his brow and took out another piece of information.

"This is the traitor found in Site-118, her name is Valerie., she is also a cadre. These people don't work in the site and wait for promotion, why are they doing all these harmful things?"

"People have their own will, right?" Simmons said.

However, Zhang Jue shook his head. "Apart from that, there's one more thing that doesn't make sense. Although the seniority of these two is old, they are not both working on the front line of research. The secrecy level of SCP-1139 and SCP-2105 is very high, except for the Site Director and the Head of Experiment. Almost no one knows about it, to say that this information leakage happens in two site, that's really hard to believe."

Simmons looked at Zhang Jue and knew that Zhang Jue was never asking questions. In most cases, he had already come up with a reasonable explanation himself. So far, everything that had happened proved that his conclusions were correct.

Simmons did his due diligence as a listener and asked, "Advisor Zhang, what exactly do you want to say?"

Zhang Jue held two copies of the information in his hand and crossed them together. "I carefully studied both of their resumes and found that they have one thing in common."

"What is it?"

Zhang Jue pointed to one of the profiles. "Both of them, they both had contact with this man."

Simmons glanced toward the paper, only to see a name circled in red circles where Zhang Jue's finger had been. A name that was known to most people in the Foundation.

Dr. Gears, Charles Gears.