"Baby, can I see your body?" James sent a message, his tone full of desire.
Elliot smiled.
He sent a video over.
James couldn't wait to open the video.
In the video, a hot-bodied beauty, wearing a sexy bikini, was doing a hot dance for the camera, every look, every move, full of temptation.
"Gulp..." James couldn't help but swallow, his eyes fixed on the screen.
Alas... The video played for a few seconds, then started to lag.
"Damn it! Why is the internet speed so bad?" James complained.
He looked up at the surveillance camera in the corner of the office wall, then lowered his phone slightly, blocking the camera's view with his desk.
There was no one else in the office.
He connected his phone to the office network.
Now, the video played smoothly.
James watched mesmerized, completely unaware that the Trojan horse program hidden in the video had quietly infiltrated Bell Company's internal network.
"Yeah! Success!"
Elliot excitedly pumped his fist.
He deliberately made the video sent to James lag, just to entice him to connect his phone to the office network.
Hacking into James's phone was easy for Elliot, but stealthily entering Bell Company's internal network was difficult.
As a globally renowned arms manufacturer, Bell Company's network security level was very high.
Their internal network was not connected to the external network, and there were various firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
Ordinary
However, sometimes, intrusion doesn't entirely rely on technology.
In contrast, human weakness is the biggest security vulnerability.
Elliot's hands rapidly tapped on the keyboard.
The next second, a desktop identical to James's appeared on his laptop screen.
He successfully entered Bell Company's global database center.
Continuing, he searched the database for information on the "Venom" helicopter.
Soon, Elliot found the target — Model UH-1Y helicopter, belonging to the Yamato Maritime Mobile Group Marines, which was one of the two helicopters Yamato planned to use for the island landing during the April 18th exercise.
At this point, Elliot could exploit the "ALIS vulnerability" to hack into this helicopter at any time.
But it wasn't time yet.
He decided to wait and bide his time, waiting for the best opportunity.
Next, Elliot quietly exited Bell Company's network, cleared all intrusion traces, and then disconnected from the compromised machine.
Meanwhile, James was still immersed in the "beauty" video, completely unaware of everything that had happened.
"Drip!"
Just then, the office door was pushed open.
James quickly put away his phone, looked up, and saw a curly-haired female colleague walk in.
"Hi, Marylin." James greeted with a smile.
Marylin asked as she took off her anti-static suit, "James, are the morning routine checks done?"
"Checks are done, everything is normal," James replied.
Marylin walked to the desk to organize documents.
James's gaze involuntarily lingered on Marylin's sexy perky butt.
...
Time flew by, and the calendar turned to April 18th.
Six o'clock in the morning.
By the stone stool under a large tree in the residential area, an old man was sitting with an old-fashioned tape recorder next to him, playing the news:
"According to news from this station, Yamato, disregarding our country's opposition, insists on holding maritime exercises at nine o'clock this morning..."
The old man listened intently.
Footsteps approached.
Elliot ran over during his morning jog, pausing for a moment as he passed the old man listening to the radio broadcast.
After a dozen seconds, Elliot continued running forward.
When he reached the entrance of the residential area, he saw a breakfast shop, so he walked in and ordered a breakfast.
As soon as he sat down, he heard a voice from a table behind him: "For this exercise, the Yamato Coast Guard has dispatched four warships..."
Elliot looked back and saw a student wearing glasses, who was watching a news video on his phone.
Elliot also took out his phone and opened TrendTok.
At the same time, in the exercise area, four warships, one supply ship, and one hospital ship were scattered across the azure sea.
The Yamato Coast Guard's exercise fleet had arrived at the designated exercise area.
On the deck of one of the "Murasame" class destroyers, more than a dozen reporters had gathered.
They were from well-known media outlets such as BBC, CNN, The New York Times, and Asahi Shimbun.
To create public opinion momentum, Yamato specially invited an international press delegation.
"This is BBC News, I'm reporter Kelly..." A blonde, blue-eyed female reporter stood on the deck, speaking fluently to the camera.
Behind her, a cameraman was filming the sea surface with a camera on his shoulder.
"Look over there!" The cameraman suddenly pointed towards the sea to the left and said loudly.
Kelly followed the direction of the cameraman's finger and saw a gray-painted warship appear on the sea surface about two kilometers away.
"That is the Federation's 815 electronic reconnaissance ship." Kelly recognized the model of the warship in the distance at a glance.
Further out on the sea, an even larger gray giant ship appeared, which was the Federation's latest Type 055 10,000-ton class destroyer.
"Quick! Film it!" Kelly quickly reminded the cameraman.
The cameraman aimed his lens at the two Federation warships in the distance.
Especially the Type 055 destroyer, with its massive hull and 112 vertical launch cells, fully demonstrated its powerful military deterrence.
Its firepower was enough to destroy an aircraft carrier fleet.
The Yamato Coast Guard's four warships looked tiny like toys in front of it, not even enough to fill a gap between teeth.
This was the gap in strength.
...
After eating breakfast, Elliot returned to his dormitory.
It was already seven o'clock in the morning.
He logged into the Crimson Hacker Base chat group.
"Brothers, we're going to start in an hour."
"I was so excited I couldn't sleep all night."
"Yamato's four warships, 'Murasame', 'Harusame', 'Amagiri', and 'Ikazuchi', are all old, outdated warships that have been in service for over 20 years. Let alone the Type 055, we could send any Type 052D destroyer and take them all out."
"Everyone, quickly go look at CCTV News website, our 815 electronic reconnaissance ship and a Type 055 destroyer have appeared near Yamato's exercise area."
"Those who offend our Federation shall be punished, no matter how far away!"
"Yamato really doesn't know its own limits, daring to provoke us right at our doorstep!"
"Let's do it, I can't wait."
...
The atmosphere in the group was heated, and everyone was eager to act, waiting for the operation.
Elliot was also waiting, his big saber was already sharpened.
(End of this chapter)
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Translator and Editor - Husband
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