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"No prelude, no probing. Immediately go all in on shorting."
As soon as Hawke finished speaking, Andy and Emilia both paused for a moment and carefully looked at the information.
After looking for a while, apart from some financial issues, Andy couldn't find anything unusual about TCI. He cautiously asked, "Hawk, do you have some inside information?"
Emilia also looked at Hawke and said, "TRIM is a well-known unicorn with a market value of four billion US dollars, and its momentum is still very strong."
Frankly speaking, from their perspective, shorting TCIR at this time is definitely not a good choice.
Hawke took a sip and laughed, “Just assume I have inside information. This will be a perfect… ‘hostile takeover’! Just do as I say.”
Andy and Emilia exchanged a glance and nodded: "Don't worry, the company will provide Emilia with all the assistance she needs."
Emilia nodded: "Then thank you very much, Mr. Andy."
Subsequently, at Hawke's instruction, Lane Capital created hundreds of overseas companies and thousands of overseas accounts, and then began shorting TCIR.
To this end, Emilia prepared $50 million in funding for the first wave, leveraging it five times.
It leveraged $2.5 billion in funding.
This enormous sum of money, though far less than TCI's market capitalization, still represented a 6.25% return, and was used to create a cash position through extremely covert operations.
In the afternoon, in a completely dark safe room in the Lane Group building.
The lights were off, only the faint blue glow emanating from the dozens of screens on the control panel illuminated Hawke's calm and focused face.
On the huge main screen were the coordinates of the underground secret laboratory marked "Titan's Crucible" on the list provided by Cipher—located deep in an abandoned mine in Nevada.
Several split screens next to it display real-time satellite thermal images, images from a limited number of ground monitoring probes around the laboratory, and complex building structure blueprints.
Hawke's fingers danced across the virtual keyboard, leaving afterimages.
He is writing a highly customized viral worm, targeting the isolated, physically isolated industrial control systems and security networks within the laboratory.
Location: Abandoned mine site in Nevada, outside the "Titan's Crucible"
Gu Ziyun and Eunbi, dressed in lightweight black tactical suits with optical camouflage, lurked in the shadows at the edge of the mine.
The lightweight tactical goggles in front of them clearly displayed Hawke's shared laboratory structural blueprints and real-time path guidance.
“Ziyun, Enfei, target confirmed, ‘Titan's Crucible.’ Coordinates and structural diagrams have been synchronized to your tactical eyepieces.” Hawke’s voice came clearly into the ears of the two executors through the encrypted channel. “Ziyun, main ventilation shaft as backup access point, target: physically destroy the main power switch group on the east side. Enfei, target: the backup diesel generator cluster on the western perimeter, disable its control core with the ‘buzzer.’ Then, follow my instructions and simultaneously sever the physical connection.”
"Received." Gu Ziyun replied succinctly, his figure blending into the night like a cheetah, silently stealthily moving towards the huge ventilation shaft marked by Hawke.
"Understood," Eunfi replied softly, her figure drifting like a ghost toward the west, where several inconspicuous reinforced concrete buildings stood—the location of the backup generators.
Inside the safe house, Hawke's fingers danced across the control panel, as if playing a silent prelude to destruction.
He retrieved a carefully prepared malware package and targeted the satellite relay node for the laboratory's external communications and the core gateway for its internal control system.
"Network intrusion initiated... 5 seconds countdown." Hawke's voice was completely calm.
On the screen, the light bar representing the progress of the network intrusion began to advance.
4…Gu Ziyun had already pried open the reinforced grille of the ventilation shaft and slid into the depths of the dark passage like a lynx.
3…Eunfi evaded two careless patrol guards and precisely attached a coin-sized, ultra-miniature electromagnetic pulse device, or buzzer, to the core of the generator's main control board.
2… Hawke’s software successfully bypassed the last logical firewall.
1…“Execute a power outage! Disconnect the network!” Hawke commanded.
boom!
Gu Ziyun made a lightning-fast move in front of a red-marked node deep inside the ventilation shaft!
With a powerful chop of her hand, she precisely severed the crucial connection point, sparks flying!
The main power line on the east side was instantly physically severed!
It's sizzling!
Eun-fi pressed the start button, and a burst of electric sparks instantly erupted from the generator cluster control panel in front of her. All the indicator lights went out, and the backup power supply was completely paralyzed!
Buzz... The network node icons in the lab changed from green to red in large patches on the main screen, and finally went completely gray!
The virus released by Hawke was like a greedy piranha, instantly devouring all data streams from the internal monitoring, access control, and alarm systems, and completely locking them down!
"Power and network cutoff complete. Monitoring system is down. Action window: 28 minutes 30 seconds."
Hawke's voice remained calm. He quickly switched screens, retrieving the physical location and access protocol of the lab's core database server. "Ziyun, target area A7, server array room. Enfei, responsible for clearing the path and guarding. I will remotely execute the data copy task; you ensure the interface devices are connected."
"Understood!" The two executors, like blades drawn from their sheaths, quickly entered the underground world, silent due to the power outage and illuminated only by the faint green glow of emergency lights, guided by the navigation in their goggles.
The cameras they wore transmitted live footage back to the command center.
48. Is Schreid going to call the police? [Requesting flowers]
The interior of the Titan's Crucible was shrouded in deathly darkness, with only the emergency escape signs emitting a faint green light.
The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant, blood, and some indescribable putrid odor of a biological experiment.
Gu Ziyun walked ahead, violently breaking open a thick alloy door, revealing a huge experimental field—a bone-armored monster that had broken free of some restraints and was extremely ferocious was letting out a deafening roar!
"roar--!".
It turned out that what was behind the door was not a passageway, but a huge enclosed experimental field!
A massive, muscular monster with skin covered in irregular bone armor is bound in a huge restraint device.
The power outage has clearly disrupted the restraint field, and the monster is struggling to break free of its last shackles.
Sensing the intruder, it abruptly turned its head, its compound eyes flashing with ferocious killing intent, and corrosive sap dripping from its mouth.
"Ziyun!" Hawke's voice came through the earpiece.
Gu Ziyun reacted instantly, rushing towards the core terminal array deep inside the laboratory at lightning speed, and roughly inserting a specially made "key" device with a physical interface and data transmission module into the server's main port.
"Interface connected... Permissions being granted... Remote copying initiated."
After doing all this, Gu Ziyun turned to look at the giant beast that was rushing towards her, revealing a bloodthirsty glint in her eyes, and her figure shot out like a cannonball!
With lightning speed, just before the bone-armored monster's claws were about to strike, she made an incredible turn to dodge, and her slender fist, accompanied by a shrill whistling sound that tore through the air, precisely struck the most vulnerable bone joint where the monster's joints were connected!
Click!
A teeth-grinding sound of bones cracking was heard!
The monster let out a painful roar, and its attack faltered.
Gu Ziyun's figure had already clung to the monster like a leech, unleashing pure physical strength and fighting skills to the extreme, each attack precisely striking the monster's nerve nodes or weak points in its defense.
At the same time, a heart-pounding energy fluctuation came from the other side.
Enfei clenched her fists, and an invisible, powerful psychic field slammed down like a giant hammer, crushing an arthropod bio-beast that had leaped out of the shadows with astonishing speed onto the floor, causing green fluid to splatter everywhere!
Hawke remained oblivious to the intense battle unfolding on the screen.
Inside the safe house, his hands moved like a blur on the control panel.
On the screen, blue light bands representing data streams cascaded down like a waterfall, flowing into a virtual memory flashing with encrypted symbols.
Hawke's eyes were exposed to TCRI's most core and darkest biotechnology data, space distortion experiment data, unregistered biomodification sequence maps, reports of unethical human experiments, astonishing research results on the theory of space distortion and unstable wormholes, laboratory personnel lists, and shady accounts of funding sources.
boom!
On the other side, Gu Ziyun seized the opening exposed by the monster's injury and delivered a fierce knee strike to its jaw, the immense force almost ripping its entire head off!
The monster's massive body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then remained still.
Enfi also dealt with the last few small guardian beasts, using his psychic field to isolate the splashing corrosive liquid.
"Copy complete! Physical erasure program initiated!" Hawke issued the command immediately after confirming that the data transfer was correct.
Ziyun and Enfei exchanged a glance and quickly left the server room.
Following the coordinates sent by Hawke, Gu Ziyun placed several high-energy thermobaric bombs on the key support structure and energy core nodes of the laboratory.
Enfi used his telekinesis to precisely throw several deadly biological sample containers near the bomb site.
"withdraw!"
The two figures sped away.
Rumble, rumble—! ! !
The violent explosion came from deep underground, and the strong tremors could be felt even on the surface.
Flames and thick smoke billowed from the gaps in the camouflage, announcing the complete destruction of the "Titan's Crucible".
All the illegal evidence, the dangerous experimental subjects, and this expensive den of evil were physically erased.
Inside the safe house, Hawke watched as the last signal representing the laboratory on the screen completely disappeared, and the window displaying the structural diagram of the "Prism Dome" laboratory on the main screen opened—that was the next target.
"Target 'Titan's Crucible' cleared, data acquired completely. Mission accomplished."
Hawke confirmed with the two executors, then looked toward the coordinates of the Prism Dome. “Four hours of rest, next stop: Montana.”
Twelve hours later, the Prism Dome laboratory met the same fate.
Power outage and network disruption, real-time vulnerability command, Koo Ja-yoon and Eun-bi's powerful surprise attack and cleanup, Hawke's precise remote data theft, and finally, physical destruction.
Although there were some twists and turns in the process, and the spatial blinking experiment caused Eunbi some trouble, Gu Ziyun's powerful psychic power suppressed and destroyed it, and the result was still perfect.
Inside the TCRI's high-level meeting room, Schreid's expression was gloomy on the screen, and the atmosphere was terrifyingly tense.
Two top-tier, high-cost, and top-secret laboratories were silently destroyed in succession, and their core data was wiped out. Who was the enemy? How did they manage to do it?
They couldn't even find any decent traces of the attack; the scene was nothing but complete explosion ruins and electronic footprints that had been completely erased.
Call the police?
They say we were conducting illegal human experiments and space weapons research in the middle of nowhere, and then our hideout was raided by an unknown force?
This is undoubtedly digging one's own grave.
They could only suppress their overwhelming anger and boundless fear, confining the investigation to their most trusted inner circle while frantically reinforcing the security of other facilities. Like wounded beasts licking their wounds, they wondered when the next destruction would strike.
49. High-level business battles often employ the simplest methods. [Requesting flowers]
Lane Group Building, Safe House
On the main screen, the image of the satellite remnants after the destruction of the "Prism Dome" has just faded, and new coordinates are being marked.