HA2 15.1 – Setting the Network Terminal
If you looked at it from above, The Jazz had a U-shaped. In total, this mid-class lodging house had 27 floors, 20 rooms each. The next day after the shopping, Hide, Takeo, and Shizuka skipped their morning exercise and gathered at The Jazz’ rooftop. The three were meticulously setting up a portable net-centric tower as sun slowly arose in the east.
The portable tower had cylinder shape, as big as adult thigh, one and half meter long, and pitched black in color. So, with ease the three camouflaged it as a chimney and planted it in a spot that was hard to reach. They did it with a help of a few kg of cement and sand, a few liters of water, plastic bucket, steel spatula, steel-frame, along with portable concentrate drill to make a hole.
After that, they placed decoy in the ceiling of empty room in each floor, along with micro-camera in each corridor. The job required lot of effort, but they managed to complete it swiftly and silently.
Then, as the three returned to Room 2101 Shizuka asked, “Hide, why do we put decoy in each floor and micro-camera in each corridor?”
“If when carrying network infiltration we unintentionally offend wrong dude, and this dude has correct people with correct equipment, it will be just a matter of time before they locate our network terminal,” Hide calmly explained. “And that’s when the decoy comes to handy. It will force them to sweep the whole building, floor by floor, and give us some warning.”
Shizuka nodded and concluded, “Do you mean someone can locate our base through our network?”
“Yeah,” Hide replied briefly.
Big question mark instantly appeared in Shizuka’s forehead. “Isn’t our network is encrypted and untraceable?”
“There is no such thing as untraceable network,” Hide calmly replied.
“Is that why we don’t establish our network terminal in the workshop?”
“Sort of,” Hide paused for a moment before continuing, “Losing this base and the network terminal is acceptable, but losing the workshop and the shooting range before we complete Knosses job is fatal.”
Shizuka nodded and said, “I see.”
A moment later, the three arrived in Room 2101. This morning was Shizuka’s turn to prepare food so she immediately went to kitchen. Meanwhile, Hide and Takeo put together the router, hard drives, and other devices they took from Villa Tigera and connected it to portable tower in the rooftop. After making sure the newly established network terminal worked properly, the two then sat in dining table.
Coincidently, Shizuka had finished preparing the breakfast. As she arranged it on the table she asked, “So, how does our network terminal operate?”
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“It’s long and complicated, but I will make it as simple as possible,” Takeo took a sip of his tea before continuing, “Including but not limited to radio spectrum and cable network with open terminal or server. Including but not limited to hacking, jamming, isolating, intercepting, relaying, and long-range drone operation.”
After pouting her left cheek Shizuka said, “It’s simple, but I still don’t get it.”
“Let me give you an example of relaying,” Hide casually said. “Our Mottolola walkie-talkie has operating radius only 2 km, but if we integrate it to the network terminal, its operating radius will expand up to 200 km to all direction from this place.”
“How about the individual radio we got from Villa Tigera?”
“AN/PRC-126V1 can operate up to radius of 200 km without relay tower. We integrated it to net-centric terminal mainly is to increase its capability in dealing with jamming, man-made obscureness, or natural disturbance.”
“I see,” Shizuka happily replied.
Without further ado the three then ate their breakfast, and took morning bath in turn afterward.
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Before the three went to school, Hide decided to carry a small meeting. As he looked at Takeo, Hide opened the meeting.
“One encrypted-laptop for network terminal, stay in this base permanently. Another one for public network and our own network, stay with you all the time.”
“Yeah,” Takeo firmly replied. “We also won’t put our network terminal on the air for 24/7. We will use it only for the most important task that needs absolute secrecy.”
“Correct.” Hide nodded before continuing, “How is the intel gathering going?”
“Smoothly enough,” Takeo calmly replied. “CCTV in Kamui’s office is connected to an online storage service and their boss’ smartphone. The rest also connected their smartphone to Wi-Fi network in Kamui every time they are staying over there.
And those connections have no security protocol or precaution. It’s very easy to fish out information from them.”
“Then, we will have no problem to build mock-up of corridor at 7th floor, along with Kamui’s office internal lay out.”
“Generally, yes, we have the blueprint and visual image,” Takeo firmly replied. “But there is one room in Kamui’s office that doesn’t have CCTV, so we have no idea about its layout.”
“One blind room is not a big problem. A toss of flashbang will give us lot of advantage in case we have to clear it hard way.”
After a moment of pause Hide asked another question, “What else?”
“The blind room is the boss room where the safe is located. Based on their monthly financial report, I estimate they keep 25-30 million Ren in their safe each day, along with debt notes worth a few billion Ren.”
After nodding his head a few times Hide said, “Other than Shizuka’s debt note, the rest is useless for us, but 25-30 million Ren is still a good harvest.”
“Yeah,” Takeo happily expressed his agreement. “But how will we open the safe?”
“Get me the brand, model, and specification. It will give me necessary info on how much explosive I need and how I should plant it.”
“Got it.” After a paused Takeo continued, “I have found the rest of their sex training video. I checked some of it and like the one we found before, each girl was humiliated to the lowest esteem possible.
I don’t know what kind of people enjoying such sickening video, but they must be lower than animal.”
“They are indeed lower than animal,” Hide calmly said.
“If we wipe out Kamui to the last man, it will stop the production such video, won’t it?” Shizuka asked in a drop dead serious tone.
It was clearly visible that Shizuka had deep concern regarding the sex training tape, but Hide had no intention to hide the hard and ugly truth from her.
“It will stop only for temporary.”
“Only for temporary, really?” Shizuka dejectedly said.
Hide instantly nodded. “As long as there is a demand, other group will replace Kamui in satisfying it.”
“I see.”
“Well…” After a deep breath Hide decided to change the topic. “What about the mountaineering and rock climbing kits?”
Shizuka instantly woke up from her pondering and turned her gaze to Hide, “Everything already arrived in the delivery company, and the manager agrees to deliver it to the address you gave me tonight.”
“Good.” After taking a deep breath Hide expression suddenly became serious. “As Shizuka already showed an interest to enter adult entertainment industry, based on Katayama’s MO, in three weeks he will forcefully set Shizuka into her debut, and then put her to the nasty sex training under his watch.
We have to complete the job before that or Shizuka is fucked. Got it?”
““Got it,”” Takeo and Shizuka replied almost at the same time, while steel determination flashed in their eyes.
A few minutes later, the three went to school in separate routes. Hide took a bus while Takeo and Shizuka took subway.
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