Reboot: Mechanic

As Shi Tian and Vanessa enjoyed a retro game style, dodging the cybersecurity bots' attack while damaging them, the other party was alerted.

"Sir, our channel has been infiltrated and cybersecurity bots were deployed already." A person rushing in through a somewhat dim room panickingly said. 

The person who seemed to be in charge of the dimly lit room was dumbfounded. 

"What the hell? Aren't our cyber networks secured? How did people manage to infiltrate it?" The person, dressed in a suit asked in disbelief. He was the manager and in charge of the specific channel, Brad. 

Brad's face seemed to have turned pale as he quickly urged the person who had rushed here to explain everything. 

The specific channel was created for the current monster wave and was the hottest topic. If any mishaps were to occur under his management, then it was obvious what kind of punishment he would receive. 

All blame and losses would be imposed upon him. 

His fate would turn 180 degrees, going from enjoying a high privilege to enjoying a life worse than the slum. 

A few minutes later, the person finished explaining everything to Brad, starting from how they noticed a sudden breach of security.

"Just why would anyone want to infiltrate the channel?" Brad clenched his teeth and asked in disbelief. 

The channel wasn't even a profit channel that earned money. It was merely a channel filled with current news, informative articles, and discussions of users regarding the monster wave that was ravaging the District C area. 

Who in their right mind would want to infiltrate such a channel?

No- the question would be, how did they even manage to infiltrate the channel that was highly secured? 

'Is this another hacker from another city that wants to cause chaos? But that wouldn't make sense.' Brad exclaimed inwardly, pacing back and forth. 

"Sir, what should we do?" As Brad was pacing back and forth, the person couldn't help but ask, clearly waiting for an order. He was just a messenger whereas Brad was the manager and held the highest authority here. 

Brad took a deep breath to compose himself. Panicking would not help him at all, and only serve to distract and ruin his thought process. 

"Get the cyber security team to fix the damaged firewalls and deploy more cybersecurity bots. We spent so much on cyber network security and yet hackers still infiltrated it. If this news gets out, then both you and I can kiss the job goodbye." Brad commanded, able to maintain rationality and come up with a solution. 

"Yes sir!" The person dared not idle any longer and did as commanded, unwilling to waste even a single second. 

Despite making the command, Brad didn't place much hope on the cyber security team. 

Had they been competent, then the hackers wouldn't have already infiltrated their software and wreaked havoc. 

"I need to cover this incident and minimize the damage as much as possible." Brad rubbed his chin and muttered. 

Since the hackers were able to brute force their firewalls, it goes to show that the hackers were skilled and possibly above them in terms of cyber networks.

Thus, Brad could only pray the hackers did not damage much or mess with the channel. 

As for shutting down the channel and attempting to restart the network, Brad had never considered such an option. 

Even now, there is massive traffic among users entering and leaving comments on the channel. Meaning, that if he decided to shut down the channel, it was equivalent to announcing to everyone that they had encountered troubles. 

And that was the very thing he was avoiding, so why would he shoot himself in the foot? 

'Why am I so unlucky?' Brad complained silently, feeling like the world was playing a joke on him. He had struck misfortune when he was put in charge of this channel that didn't have much traffic, but after the monster wave, it went viral.

At that time, Brad thought his luck was finally turning for the better, with the boss even looking at him in high regard, wanting to promote him if he did well.

However, now all might be for naught because of one incident. 

'Please let it be covered. I'll even remain abstinent for five years if you let me get through this obstacle.' Brad pleaded inwardly. 

While Brad was praying and hoping for the best, back at the Iron Sentinel, three people could be seen sweating profusely.

"Vanessa, move more to the right side. You're getting too close to my clone." Shi Tian, who was controlling the WASD key bind, warned Vanessa to control her clone more decently.

Her clone labeled in "V" was getting too close to him, which would result in all the cybersecurity bots regrouping and being able to focus fire on them simultaneously compared to having to split up to chase them.

"I'm trying, but the right side is now blocked by new firewalls that the other party had set up. If I move to the right side more, then I might be stuck and get caught." Vanessa responded, seemingly trying her best.

"As if I'm not in the same situation, Vanessa." Shi Tian rolled his eyes and said exhaustedly. It was because his situation was no different than hers that he requested her to move back to her original position.

However, he still kept his position and maintained the clone on the left side, narrowly dodging the swarm of codes flying at him.

There were times when he was nearly struck, but luckily he was able to anticipate it and react in time to avoid the attack. 

Yet, Vanessa seemed to not care about her surroundings and gradually kept moving her clone closer to him, almost as if she was trying to pincer his clone down.

If it wasn't for the fact that they knew she was on the same team and had no reason to betray them, then they would have believed she was an imposter.

"Vanessa, we're playing a dodging spaceship type of game, not an imposter game where you are trying to get us killed." Shi Tian clicked his tongue and said, realizing that her clone was getting even closer to his.