Super God-Level Top Student
Chapter 910 - 344: Time to Increase the Difficulty

For any hacker, no, it should be said for any serious programmer, installing a mysterious software on their work computer without knowing its functionality is something they resist from the bottom of their heart.

Especially when the software doesn't even present a user agreement upon launch, offering no I Agree or Decline options.

But at this moment, Ethan Williams has no choice.

An hour sounds like plenty of time, but honestly, even if he immediately abandoned everything and fled with cash, he wouldn't even make it to the airport...

Fortunately, Ethan Williams does not feel so loyal to this unusual company.

Or rather, when the company's interests conflict with his own, he even hopes that the opposite side is targeting Google and not him personally. So if merely installing the program on a work computer could prevent him from losing everything, this project manager quickly made his choice.

Yes, with only 30 minutes left until the email deadline and a countdown suddenly appearing on his computer, Ethan Williams clicked the button labeled Run without hesitation.

The next moment, the countdown popup disappeared, and the software finished its installation quickly before disappearing as well.

The world swiftly returned to tranquility, as if nothing had happened at all.

Ethan Williams frowned, then opened his email...

A miraculous thing happened, even the emails from before were gone.

Whether the ones he received or sent.

It was as if everything that happened within the past half hour was just a nightmare.

Yet Ethan Williams was very certain he wasn't dreaming, so there was only one possibility, he was seeing ghosts. Or perhaps the servers Google provided for them had turned into a sieve, leaking everywhere...

But regardless of the possibility, Ethan Williams was very sure that he couldn't stay another day at this damned company. He now needed a reasonable excuse to leave quickly.

...

United States, Washington D.C., Langley. This place not only houses numerous field personnel but also a variety of internal technical staff.

In an ordinary office, a staff on duty is lazily sitting in front of their work computer watching a newly downloaded movie.

Yes, like many workers, George Garcia is slacking off during work hours, after all, working night shifts is quite exhausting.

Moreover, only when slacking off does he feel like he's truly earning his salary.

Of course, he is already considered quite dedicated. After all, he's still on his post, whereas another colleague has sneaked out for a date with his girlfriend.

Quite envious, after all, he doesn't have a girlfriend right now. So he can only watch a thriller to relieve his emotions.

When, in the movie, the young girl covered in blood, with a bloated body, suddenly appeared beside the protagonist at the key moment in the haunted hotel, the computer suddenly emitted a sharp alarm.

"Fuck!" George Garcia cursed in shock, then paused the movie and switched to the alarm software's interface.

Alright, it was just a simple network anomaly alarm...

Damn software.

George Garcia glanced at the data, once again it was just less than a 10% increase over the normal value.

There are many reasons for such situations, but with his years of experience in this position, 97% of the time it is a false alarm by the system.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the engineers who designed the system, mainly on those officials who understand neither technology nor people, thus, while setting security rules, they're overly stringent. The security detection program they designed is too complex...

So George Garcia just gave it a glance, didn't follow the standard protocol, and instead, simply picked up the notebook beside him, recorded the anomaly, and skillfully fabricated a processing record, considering the task complete.

If it weren't for each alarm having a corresponding record in the software, and his authorization was unable to delete or alter them, he wouldn't even bother spending a few minutes fabricating these processing records. Speaking of which, even fabricating such records feels quite satisfying.

Following the cumbersome regulations and examining the entire network would take over an hour at the very least.

Yes, this world truly is like a delicate circle.

Everywhere, in every position, there is no shortage of workers who've long lost their passion and ambition to reality, who just want to make their salary comfortably. Although this is Langley.

Once, George Garcia was also a passionate young man. He was honest, trustworthy, dreaming of realizing his life's value here.

But when he found out after working hard for a year, his salary was not even as much as the watch on his boss's wrist, his mood became somewhat uncomfortable.

Added to this the skyrocketing prices, with wage increases from $13 per hour to $15, which can't even catch up with inflation, while being tightly watched by the IRS, he felt all his efforts were nothing but a joke.

The most disheartening thing is that for a bottom-level technical staff like him, there is basically no path for advancement. The security and control position isn't noticed normally, and only when a problem arises will they be pushed out as scapegoats.

So, theoretically, the mentor who guided him when he joined is his future. No matter how well he performs, high probability is that he'll retire as a lower-level federal employee on this damned position, which is enough to erode all of a young man's zeal for progress.

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