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"It could only have been after the attack," Muldoon said "The kid must have been in this car, after the attack And the radio was broken, so he left it behind, too He&039;s a bright kid, and he knew they weren&039;t useful"
"If he&039;s so bright," Gennaro said, "where&039;d he go? Because I&039;d stay right here and wait to be picked up"
"Yes," Muldoon said "But perhaps he couldn&039;t stay here May the tyrannosaur ca made him leave"
"Then where&039;d he go?" Gennaro said,
"Let&039;s see if we can determine that," Muldoon said, and he strode off toward the main road
Gennaro watched Muldoon peering at the ground with his flashlight His face was just inches from the mud, intent on his search Muldoon really believed he was on to so, that at least one of the kids was still alive Gennaro re had left hirim determination to close the park, and destroy it No matter what Muldoon said, Gennaro suspected him of unwarranted enthusiasm, and hopefulness, and-
"You notice these prints?" Muldoon asked, still looking at the ground "What prints?" Gennaro said
"These footprints-see the toward us from up the road?-and they&039;re adult-size prints Some kind of rubber-sole sboe Notice the distinctive tread pattern
Gennaro saw only hts
"You can see," Muldoon continued, "the adult prints come to here, where they&039;re joined by other prints S around in circles, overlappingalBut now here they are, they see He pointed off "There Into the park"
Gennaro shook his head "You can see whatever you want in this ot to his feet and stepped back He looked down at the ground and sighed "Say what you like, I&039;ll wager one of the kids survived Andprints belong to soot to search the park"
"Tonight?" Gennaro said
But Muldoon wasn&039;t listening He had walked away, toward an embankain "What was that little girl wearing?"
"Christ," Gennaro said "I don&039;t know"
Proceeding slowly, Muldoon moved farther toward the side of the road And then they heard a wheezing sound It was definitely an animal sound
"Listen," Gennaro said, feeling panic, "I think we better-"
"Shhh," Muldoon said
He paused, listening
"It&039;s just the wind," Gennaro said
They heard the wheezing again, distinctly this tie directly ahead of him, by the side of the road It didn&039;t sound like an aniht and shouted, but the wheezing did not change character Muldoon pushed aside the fronds of a palm
"What is it?" Gennaro said,
"It&039;s Malcolm," Muldoon said
Ian Malcolray-white, asps Muldoon handed the flashlight to Gennaro, and then bent to examine the body "I can&039;t find the injury," he said "Head okay, chest, arms"
Then Gennaro shone the light on the legs "He put a tourniquet on" Malcolh Gennaro ht ankle was bent outward at an aard angle fro, the trousers flattened, soaked in blood Muldoon touched the ankle gently, and Malcolroaned
Muldoon stepped back and tried to decide what to do next Malcolht kill him to move him But if they left him here, he would die of shock It was only because he had had the presence of mind to put a tourniquet on that he hadn&039;t already bled to death And probably he was dooht as well move him
Gennaro helped Muldoon pick thehim aardly over their shoulders Malcolasps "Lex," he said "LexwentLex"
"Who&039;s Lex?" Muldoon said
"The little girl," Gennaro said They carried Malcolm back to the Jeep, and wrested hihtened the tourniquet around his leg Malcolain Muldoon slid the trouser cuff up and saw the pulpy flesh beneath, the dull white splinters of protruding bone
"We&039;ve got to get him back," Muldoon said
"You going to leave here without the kids?" Gennaro said
"If they went into the park, it&039;s twenty squarehis head "The only e can find anything out there is with thearound, the ht to the theht now, he&039;ll die"
"Then we have to go back," Gennaro said
"Yes, I think so"
They cli to tell Ha?"
"No," Muldoon said "You are"
Control
Donald Gennaro stared at Ha ice crea it "So Muldoon believes the children are somewhere in the park?"
"He thinks so, yes"
"Then I&039;m sure we&039;ll find them"
"I hope so," Gennaro said He watched the old , and he felt a chill
"Oh, I a everyone, this park is made for kids"
Gennaro said, "Just so you understand that they&039;re ?" he snapped "Of course I know they&039;re ain "Look, Donald," Haet carried away We&039;ve had a little breakdown from the storrettable, unfortunate accident And that&039;s all that&039;s happened We&039;re dealing with it Arnold will get the computers cleaned up Muldoon will pick up the kids, and I have no doubt he&039;ll be back with them by the time we finish this ice cream So let&039;s just wait and see what develops, shall we?"
"Whatever you say, sir," Gennaro said
"Why?" Henry Wu said, looking at the console screen
"Because I think Nedry did so to the code," Arnold said "That&039;s why I&039;ht," Wu said "But have you tried your options?"
"Like what?" Arnold said
"I don&039;t know Aren&039;t the safety syste?" Wu said "Keychecks? All that?"
"Jesus," Arnold said, snapping his fingers "They must be Safety systems can&039;t be turned off except at the main panel"
"Well," Wu said, "if Keycheeks is active, you can trace what he did"
"I sure as hell can," Arnold said He started to press buttons Why hadn&039;t he thought of it before? It was so obvious The computer system at Jurassic Park had several tiers of safety systeram, which monitored all the keystrokes entered by operators with access to the syste device, but it was retained for its security value
In a moment, all the keystrokes that Nedry had entered into the computer earlier in the day were listed in aon the screen:
13,42,121,32,88,77,19,13,122,13,44,52,77,90,13,99,13,100,13,109,55,103
144,13,99,87,60,13,44,12,09,13,43,63,13,46,57,89,103,122,13,44,52,88,9
31,13,21,13,57,98,100,102,103,13,112,13,146,13,13,13,77,67,88,23,13,13
system
nedry
goto command level
nedry
040/xy/67&
oodbytes
security
keycheck off
safety off
sl off
security
whte_rbtobj
"That&039;s it?" Arnold said "He was screwing around here for hours, it seemed like"
"Probably just killing tiet down to it"
The initial list of numbers represented the ASCI keyboard codes for the keys Nedry had pushed at his console Those numbers meant he was still within the standard user interface, like any ordinary user of the co around, which you wouldn&039;t have expected of the prograned the syste to see if there were changes, before he went in," Wu said
"Maybe," Arnold said Arnold was now looking at the list of coression through the system, line by line "At least we can see what he did"
system was Nedry&039;s request to leave the ordinary user interface and access the code itself The computer asked for his name, and he replied: nedry
That name was authorized to access the code, so the cooto cohest level of control The command level required extra security, and asked Nedry for his name, access number 7 and password
nedry
040/ xy/67&
oodbytes
Those entries got Nedry into the command level From there he wanted security And since he was authorized, the coo there Once at the security level, Nedry tried three variations:
keycheck off
safety off
sl off
"He&039;s trying to turn off the safety systems," Wu said "He doesn&039;t want anybody to see what he&039;s about to do"
"Exactly," Arnold said "And apparently he doesn&039;t know it&039;s no longer possible to turn the syste switches on the main board"
After three failed coan to worry about Nedry But since he had gotten in with proper authorization, the co to do so he couldn&039;t accoain where he wanted to be, and Nedry said:
security And he was allowed to remain there
"Finally," Wu said, "here&039;s the kicker" He pointed to the last of the commands Nedry had entered
Whte_rbtobj
"What the hell is that?" Arnold said "White rabbit? Is that supposed to be his private joke?"
"It&039;s y, an "object" was a block of code that could be ht ht be a set of commands to draw a picture, or to refresh the screen, or to perform a certain calculation
"Let&039;s see where it is in the code," Arnold said "Maybe we can figure out what it does" He went to the program utilities and typed:
FIND WHTE-RBTOBJ
The computer flashed back:
OBJECT NOT FOUND IN LIBRARIES
"It doesn&039;t exist," Arnold said
"Then search the code listing," Wu said
Arnold typed:
FIND/LISTINGS: WHTE-RBTOBJ
The screen scrolled rapidly, the lines of code blurring as they swept past It continued this way for almost a minute, and then abruptly stopped
"There it is," Wu said "It&039;s not an object, it&039;s a cole line of code:
curv = GetHandl {ssn {itmdd2}