Chapter 71
That move really took the proud Amy by surprise. Just you wait,” she muttered, not bothering to end the video call before picking up the landline to contact her boss.
After Quinlyn’s name was mentioned, Warren’s relaxed tone patised for a second before he said seriously. Tell me the phone number. I’ll contact her directly.
Amy was briefly stunned, quickly told him the number, and then noticed that both calls had been cut off
Meanwhile, the professor’s phone Quinly had used rang again. When Warren’s face appeared on the screen, the professors were still prepared to greet him respectfully, saying, “Hello, Mr. Sullivan-”
But before they could speak further, Quinlyn cut in, “Hand over the calculation system, or you can’t bear the consequences of losing everyone in the high school section”
Her voice was calm, and her face showed no extra expression, yet the words she spoke sent chills down everyone’s spines,
“How…” Warren wanted to ask how she hacked the surveillance footage but realized it wasn’t the right time. After giving her a deep look, he said. The calculation system runs independently. The USB drive is with me.”
Hearing that. Quinlyn pressed her lips together, started gathering her things, and walked out, leaving just one sentence. “Take the stuff to the site. Hurry.” With that, she disappeared through the door.
Everyone in the office exchanged glances, staring at the phone that had just been hung up hastily. Both Felix and the professors felt a growing fear deep inside. They wondered if something was really going wrong.
Quinlyn quickly got a ride with the Wilson family’s car to the camping trip spot. In the car, Joseph confirmed that Stanley had indeed entered that mountain. “Besides him, there are over three hundred students, including Larry. Quinlyn, are you sure they’re in danger?”
His last sentence was spoken with serious intent. As an elite school, Manldon International School had students from affluent and influential backgrounds. With so many people involved, any mistake would be hard to handle.
But Quinlyn didn’t hesitate. “Yes, I’m sure. I’ve already contacted Curtis and asked him to go over.”
Upon hearing that, Joseph felt a mix of emotions but could only say, “Okay, I’ll head over with people now too.”
He could never be as decisive as Quinlyn. Now, he could only hope that things wouldn’t escalate.
At the base of a lush green mountain, chaos had broken out where Manldon International School had camped with DigitalKey Group’s people.
Quinlyn arrived just in time to hear the person in charge shouting. “What do you mean there’s no signal? Didn’t all the tests go well before! Now you’re saying the images are fake? Where are the students? Where are they?”
Someone from Manldon yelled, “Shouldn’t that question be directed at your DigitalKey Group? You claimed it was a top- notch monitoring system, yet there’s another blunder right after the elementary school section incident.
“I mentioned before that it was strange no students complained, but you told me it was nothing. Now look, we can’t get in touch with anybody”
Tensions at Manldon International School were high, almost leading to a fight. In the midst of the chaos. Quinlyn na through the crowd toward the monitors and hooked up her tablet to the main system
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“Hey, kid, don’t mess with our equipment. It’s expensive, The DigitalKey Group representative spotted her from the corner of his eye and rushed over to stop her, but suddenly his wrist was grabbed
When he turned around, he saw a group of soldiers in camouflage, glaring at him coldly.
“This area is now officially under the jurisdiction of the 901 Military Base: I’m Ivan Chavez, the captain, and she is our commander. Please do not interfere with our work,” Ivan said, his muscular arms making it clear he meant business.
He easily removed the representative and signaled his team to clear the area.
Digitalkey’s technicians were quickly removed from their spots. The person in charge looked at the child alone at the computer in the center, thinking it was absurd that a child was the commander. But with real weapons around, he didn’t dare make fun of her.
Soon, Felix and a group of college professors arrived, strongly insisting on helping. “We have some knowledge of geology too. Let us participate,” one of the professors said.
Since everyone there was fairly intellectual, Ivan glanced back at them, then turned to Quinlyn and whispered. “Hey, can those people be of any use?”
Quinlyn was checking the data. rming that the signal was completely interfered with by the magnetic field, making it impossible to figure out what was happening in the woods, she pondered for a moment and said, “Yeah, let’s have them join
Ten minutes later, a group of intellectuals dressed in demagnetization suits paired up, tied together with ropes around their waists. One stood at the entrance of the mountain path while the other shouted through a megaphone as they entered.
“Attention, Grade 12 students of Manldon International School, the camping trip is canceled. All students are required to come over immediately”
Ivan listened to the voices echoing around, secretly gave Quinlyn a thumbs–up, and said. “You really know how to make use of everything, don’t you?”
He then playfully bundled the DigitalKey Group representative and the high school principal together and sent them off to do the grunt work.
With the equipment not working well, they had to rely on manpower. As long as the regular folks wore demagnetization suits and didn’t go deep into the forest, searching within a couple of hundred feet wouldn’t be dangerous.
Even if something unexpected happened, each pair of people was connected by a rope to pull them out.
With that method, the students who got lost at the forest’s edge quickly heard the calls and were guided by Team 901. gradually being led back.
The camping trip had only been going for two days, yet the students emerged pale, with sunken eyes, and collectively suffering from dizziness, nausea, and weak limbs.
According to most students, they lost their way shortly after entering the forest. Soon after, they began to feel unwell and had trouble sleeping at night..
“Our communicators stopped working three hours after the trip started. No matter how we called for help, there was no response. We all thought we were going to die in there,” one of the rescued students cried, leaving the school and DigitalKey Group feeling uneasy.
At that moment, only a third of the students had been rescued. Just then, Warren hurried over with his team.
He had already received the news while on the way and was almost forcibly brought there by a military veluce in front of Quinlyn, he felt as if everything had changed drastically.
stood
When they met previously, Quinlyn was still a child unloved by her parents, seemingly weak and easy to push around.
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Now, she stood among a group of strong soldiers carrying guns, her small figure calm and collected, exuding an aura that was not outshone. Meanwhile, he had become a suspect.
Curtis stepped out from the crowd and faced Quinlyn, placing his hand on her shoulder as he asked. “What’s the situation.
now?”
“Not good at all, Quinlyn shook her head and said honestly. “The criminals hacked into DigitalKey Group’s system, deliberately choosing this mountain and messing with the machines used for early testing to ensure the magnetic field was suitable.”
Curtis’s expression darkened, and his tone was hard to interpret as he said, “Still, we can’t rule out the possibility of an inside job.”
“You’re right.” Quinlyn nodded, pointing out the issue, “DigitalKey Group’s people went in the day before and tested it without any problems. Either they were lying or they were lazy.”
Warren, standing nearby, was completely speechless. He thought to himself, ‘Either way, it feels like I’m going to take the blame‘
