***** Vol.5 Chap.17 Occupant in Room A *****

When Frank got to his room and opened the door, he saw that there was a bed on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, there was a table and a chair. On the table was a fruit basket.

He was not that hungry, but the events of the day had got him totally distracted. He was completely baffled. Last week, he was an outcast from his own institute and now today, he was asked to be the savior of the entire world?

Lying down on the bed to rest for a while was tempting. The bed looked soft and inviting, but the sense of responsibility haunted him. Pacing back and forth around the room thinking about the Sphinx, the cubicle, and the biological warfare Lab, he was restless. He walked over to the table and picked up a pomegranate, sat down, broke open the pomegranate and started to eat each red seed one by one.

While he was eating, he tried to consider different possible solutions to the present crisis. He immediately thought of the Weapons Inspectors. The most diplomatic solution was to convince the United Nations to send Weapons Inspectors into Glybiana. But then he wondered if time would permit such an endeavor.

This would be a long and arduous task just to pressure Glybiana to consent for an inspection. Even if the inspection discovered the truth about Glybiana working on biological warfare, so what would happen?

If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

He thought of mysteriously launching a missile to flatten the compound, but that idea did not appeal to him either. First, there was no guarantee that a missile could penetrate that deep into the mountain. Second, he did not want to start a new world war. Third, launching a missile was gross violence.

Eventually, no diplomatic solutions were possible.

Any action must be clandestine. For that, he needed more information of the compound. He called for a map on the Lab surroundings and studied the terrain carefully. Then to his surprise, he could also call up the layout of the Lab. So, he spent significant amount of time studying the layout of the Lab.

He noticed that the compound had three levels. The top level was occupied mostly by utilities and storage rooms. The main level held the sleeping quarters and the lab itself. The lower level housed mainly the turbines for generating electricity. He noticed that the airshaft leads straight to the utility room at the top level. There was a utility control room nearby.

He also noticed that on the lower level, an underground stream flowed in from one side of the compound to power the turbines and the exhaust water was discharged at the edge of the compound.

It was clear from the start that entering from the front was totally out of the picture. So that left two other possibilities: the airshaft or the underground stream. Neither option sounded appealing to him at all.

Frank paced back and forth in his room trying to come up with a viable solution. Then he realized that even if they could enter the compound, they would not be able to move around much as each corridor since each room were equipped with security locks and cameras. The only way to foil the system was to get access to the security system and inject a virus program to disable the entire security system.

Immediately, Frank sat down and began to design a virus program specifically for that task.