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“Heads up!” Rick leaned over the edge of the roof and let the coil of cable drop while keeping a tight grip on one end It hit the ground with a gentle smack before Oles scooped it up and hurried over to the police car Rick watched as Dr Evans and Oles connected the cable to the syste atop the hood of the police car Once Dr Evans raised his good aresture, Rick took the end of the cable he was still holding and turned his attention to the array of antennas mounted next to him
Froe portion of the city laid out below, but unlike the previous ti he had not a second to spare After securing the cable to a nearby support pole with a length of rope he cla for the best way to connect the cable to the multi-spectrum transmitter
Around the size of a shoebox, the LKN Series VI had a protective panel on the side that Rick removed to expose a small touchscreen control panel next to several data ports Rick reed into the device and attached the new cable before leaning back over the edge of the roof
“Good to go!” Rick shouted down at Oles and Dr Evans They both waved at him and Dr Evans slid behind the driver’s seat of the car and started up the engine Oles then connected the power strip to the power inverter and turned on the server and monitor Rick turned back and watched the transmitter’s control panel, and after a few seconds his patience was rewarded The screen flickered to life, displaying the LKN coo and Rick pressed down on two of the buttons next to the screen Aboot screen appeared and Rick rubbed his hands together to try and get rid of some of the chill
“We’re in business,” he whispered to himself as he read over the information displayed on the screen It had been a few years since he had put his hands on an LKN transht Unix/Linux variant, so to a full b
ootup of the transmitter, Rick tapped out a few commands and popped open another access panel on the other side of the device He ain, satisfied to see a“Receiver Offline Check Connections”
With the receiver’s wiring pulled, the device was physically incapable of receiving inco those from any potentially infected systems Rick tapped out a few more commands and the device continued its nor on, Rick began tapping through ns that Damocles had infected the system While early infections were nearly ie of being subtle, and infections were pronounced and obvious
“Rick!” A shout drifted up and he leaned over the side to see Dr Evans with a hand cupped around the side of his mouth “How’s it look?”
Rick glanced back at the screen and raised a thu to the transmitter He powered it off, replaced the pulled connections and powered it back on into debug ain, Rick stood up and waved to Dr Evans and Oles “I’ down!”
A few moments later, the trio stood clustered around theatop the police car With Oles and Dr Evans injured, Rick had taken the lead on the keyboard, though he was iven to hi deep into the transh
“All right, that’s it,” Rick snapped as he exited frolanced at each other before Oles spoke
“What do you mean? We need to check all the files, to ensure that it’s not—”
“It’s not Okay? It’s not infected I checked it, we’ve been in the syste’s popped up If Damocles had a tendril in here it would have infected the server and we’d know for sure”
“We can’t be sure, Rick, unti—”
“Doc” Rick turned and glared at Dr Evans with a stare that unquestionably co concerns, like finding out exactly how e and starting the distribution of the shutdown coet those all keyed in and hey, even if Damocles is on the systeone anyway”