The Overworked Beta and the Paranoid Alpha 116

Chapter 116: Who Dares to Slack Off?

“Don’t talk like that. I’m your superior, after all.”

“You know we’re short of professional staff here, right? Are you going to expect Romeo and Claire, these two half-crippled hindrances, to be my and Wen En’s assistants?”

“Uh, that’s true, but…”

“Alright, cut the ‘buts’. If you don’t want our whole team to be wiped out, then come and help. Alright, I’m hanging up.”

With that, Della put down the communicator.

The car was very quiet, with only the faint roar of the energy car’s engine.

It was only because Della had just thrown a tantrum, and her face was extremely foul. Even Claire, who had the most unruly personality, could only lower her head and try not to look at Della.

A few seconds later, Della’s communicator rang. Della answered the call, and after replying with a “got it,” she looked at the computer screen on the co-pilot’s seat. An invitation pop-up appeared on the screen.

Romeo was originally driving while looking at the icon on the electronic map. Seeing that this pop-up was blocking the icon that indicated the route, he wanted to pull over and close it. Della took the computer a step ahead of him and tapped the keyboard a few times.

“The location sharing connection is successful. You can come over quickly,” Della said, putting the computer back in the co-pilot’s seat.

Romeo glanced at the computer screen out of the corner of his eye. There was a small pop-up on the upper right of the computer screen, similar to a video call, and RV’s face appeared on it.

“Don’t look at me. Drive,” RV said.

Romeo: “Oh.”

Della: “How long will it take you to get here?”

RV: “I just left. A comrade of mine who lives here is giving me a ride.”

Della: “Oh, oh.”

RV cleared his throat and said, “Then let’s assign everyone’s work.”

Before RV could speak, Romeo said, “I’m going to find Wen En. I don’t care about anything else.”

RV seemed to have been choked. “Then Della…”

“I’m still in charge of information technology support and long-range sniping,” Della said.

RV: “This…”

“I’ll just be responsible for not causing trouble,” Claire said. “Don’t count on me too much.”

RV closed his eyes. “Alright… Romeo… I’ll go with you to find Wen En.”

“You’d better be quick,” Romeo said. “The tracker is not moving now. It’s probably already there. Our car is still a fifteen-minute drive from the tracker’s location.”

“Understood. We’ll be there soon… Hey, bro, don’t speed!”

Fifteen minutes later, Romeo parked the car on the side of the road.

Everyone in the car got out and looked at a tall building a few hundred meters away.

The tall building stood out in the middle of the desert. The logo of Joseph Hall Biotechnology was hanging on the top, which was particularly conspicuous.

“Let’s wait for RV to come here first,” Della said. “Please get me the computer in the co-pilot’s seat.”

“Oh, oh, oh,” Romeo opened the car window, took the computer from the co-pilot’s seat, and handed it to Della.

Della took the computer, sat cross-legged on the ground, put the computer on her lap, and began to try to log into the internal network of the R&D base of the Pluto III branch of Joseph Hall Biotechnology.

It was quite smooth at first. Della uploaded a photo of Scotch to the AI app she had designed. Then, the network of the R&D base’s surveillance cameras was connected. Under the AI app’s extremely fast information browsing, the twenty-four-hour surveillance of the forty floors above ground of the R&D base was thoroughly checked. Soon, the AI app popped up a prompt box saying:

“Target not found.”

Della clicked “confirm” and set the AI app to check the information of the cameras on the twenty floors underground. Sure enough, in the cameras in the parking lot and the elevator, she saw Scotch’s face appear on the screen.

“They took the elevator down to the energy laboratory on the -20th floor,” Della said. “But that floor’s laboratory has no surveillance cameras, and the network is not the same as the other floors. Its network is separately encrypted. I think I should be able to handle it.”

“I’ll help you,” Claire came over with a grin. “Della, you have to believe in my strength. I’ve even successfully hacked into the internal network system of the Central Bank of Capital Star. It’s a piece of cake to handle this.”

Della glanced at her. “How long did it take you to break into the bank’s internal network?”

Claire smiled a little guiltily, “Haha, just a month or so… you know my equipment is not as advanced as yours…”

“That’s still too long,” Della interrupted her and said, “If I wait for you for half a month, this planet will probably be destroyed, and you still won’t be done.”

“Impossible!” just as Claire was about to defend herself, Della interrupted her and said:

“Alright, don’t bother me for now. I have to work.”

“Hmph!” Claire gave Della a dissatisfied look and squatted on the side, sulking.

Seeing that Claire had quieted down, Della stared at the screen, her expression becoming more and more focused. Soon, her brow furrowed slightly, and a serious look appeared in her eyes.

She thought for a few seconds and pressed the enter key.

The screen showed that it was loading. However, when it reached 60%, a pop-up suddenly appeared:

“Intruder warning, intruder warning. If you do not log out, the experimental data on the -20th floor will be destroyed in 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8…”

Della’s face darkened. She immediately clicked to cancel the loading, and then the computer screen went black.

“See, you can’t handle it at all,” Claire had floated behind her at some point and grumbled.

“Can you handle it?” Della said.

“Hehehe,” Claire smiled and said, “I can’t either.”

Della: …

The anti-hacker device of this laboratory’s network seemed simple, but it was not easy to break in within 10 seconds. It required the most advanced equipment and at least five or more professionals to increase the probability of success to 70%.

However, with the overly simple equipment that Della currently had, it was really difficult to succeed. She also couldn’t ask for help from her colleagues at the headquarters on Capital Star. The distance between Pluto III and Capital Star was relatively far, and there was a considerable time difference in information transmission. The command might not have been sent over before the ten seconds were up.

“Then what should we do?” Romeo said with confusion.

“Let’s wait for RV to come first,” Della said.

The moment she finished speaking, Romeo heard a honking sound. He turned his head and saw a not-so-new four-seater car rushing in his direction.

“Get out of the way!” Romeo shouted.

The car immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped not far from Romeo.

The car door opened, and RV slowly got out of the co-pilot’s seat. His legs were still trembling, and his whole body was swaying.

“Are you trying to kill me? Can’t you drive?” RV covered his mouth, holding back the nauseous impulse caused by the hundreds of sudden stops along the way.

“Hehehe, as long as we’re here,” his comrade rolled down the car window and smiled embarrassedly. “Goodbye, bro. I’ll come and pick you up after you’re done.”

With that, he reversed the car, stepped on the gas, and quickly drove away.

“Honestly,” RV grumbled. “I almost threw up in the car.”

“Sir,” Della walked up to RV and recounted what had just happened.

Although she had been arguing with RV in the car not long ago, now that they were face to face, she showed an unprecedented calmness and a professionalism that did not bring her emotions into her work.

“A bit like a split personality,” Romeo whispered to Claire on the side.

“I think so too,” Claire glanced at Della, feeling that she was a little scary today.

“Understood,” RV nodded, thought for a moment, and said to Della, “In that case, we can only sneak into the R&D center’s -20th floor, find Wen En and the Jupiter weapon, and then arrest Peterlov.”

“Yes, sir,” Della said.

When it came to games like a mouse stealing rice and a snake catching a mouse, the two of them, who were born as con artists and thieves, were the best at it. However, at this time, RV looked at them and gave them another difficult problem.

“We’ll first let the other middle- and low-level employees in the R&D center who are not related to this matter leave this place, and then go down to the -20th floor to arrest Peter.”

“That’s a big project,” Romeo said. “Why don’t you let the police department of Pluto III handle it?”

“If I could get them to do it, we wouldn’t be in so much trouble now,” RV said.

“Hey, are you trying to make things difficult for us?” Claire said unceremoniously.

“You’re overthinking it. Why would I make things difficult for you? Making things difficult for you won’t get me a raise,” RV looked at Claire strangely. “This is a hard and fast rule. We must not harm ordinary people.”

Claire: “Oh.”

Romeo: “Easy for you to say.”

After all, there were quite a lot of people working at the R&D base. The number of people was there. The soil in the vicinity was relatively loose, and there might be large, dangerous carnivorous animals passing by. They couldn’t even call the police on this planet for help. The difficulty was really too great.

But now, Romeo and Claire could only bite the bullet and go for it.

“Let’s look at the floor plan of the R&D base first,” Romeo said.

“Alright,” Della nodded, typed on the keyboard to open a picture document, and then handed the computer to Romeo.

Romeo took the computer, stared at the screen carefully, and after a moment, he had an idea. He said, “I’ve got it.”

Romeo pointed to the exhaust pipe diagram on the computer screen and said:

“This is the R&D base’s harmful gas detection system. Due to the special nature of the R&D base, with the upper part being a biological experiment center and the lower part being an energy experiment center, in order to ensure that harmful viruses or gases that are harmful to the human body are not leaked, once the ventilation system detects harmful substances in the air, it will trigger a lockdown of the access control, until rescue personnel come in from the outside and take the people in the R&D base out.”

“You mean you’re going to pretend to be rescue personnel to evacuate these office workers and civilians?” RV said.

“Not us, but you. You’re the only one who doesn’t have a mission on you right now,” Romeo said. “Otherwise, why do you think we called you over?”

In fact, RV didn’t want to come. He just wanted to sit on the sofa and wait for Wen En, Della, and the others to finish their mission, and then go back to Capital Star for a nice vacation. Of course, as a superior, RV would not have such a thought that would shake the morale of the army. In addition, there was indeed a shortage of manpower, so he had to say, “Alright, let’s do it.”

Della nodded and said, “Alright, I’ll start the harmful gas detection system now.”

Under Dr. D’s leadership, Wen En followed this group of company executives into the -20th floor laboratory.

This laboratory was very large. Many R&D workers in lab coats were wandering around with various instruments and electronic reports.

“Follow me.”

Dr. D led Wen En and the others through the laboratory for several hundred meters, and finally came to a floor-to-ceiling window that was hundreds of meters high.

Wen En’s face darkened. Through this thick tempered glass, he saw the legendary large-scale weapon of mass destruction—Jupiter.