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Chapter 29 Security Vulnerabilities
When Baron Strucker gradually recovered from the numbness spreading all over his body, he realized that the armor on his body seemed to have been completely paralyzed.The screen of the monitor has been blacked out, and the relevant wiring on the back may have been damaged in the impact just now.

He felt that his hands and feet were completely unable to move as if they weighed several tons. It must be that the dynamic structure of the imitation muscle fibers was damaged.But it's less likely that it was destroyed in the impact, more likely it was precisely destroyed by someone scanning the structure of his armor.

But the armor system is still functioning.Sterak issued an ejection command, and the mechanical parts that were still in good condition "cracked" and separated, and the thick armor was opened from the middle like a gray iron shell.

The baron crawled out of the devastated armor in disgrace, only the "Satan's Claw" on the right hand part of the armor was still on his hand.This blood-red claw is a weapon that is completely independent of the armor system. Even if it is used alone, it is a powerful weapon that cannot be underestimated.

He turned his head and saw that Ivan Vanke's armor was deeply embedded in a wall not far away. The reactor in his chest was blown up from the outside, and the armor function was completely paralyzed.

Compared with his condition, it is considered good.

Strack staggered to his feet, and as soon as he raised his head to look in the direction of the exit, he found in despair that the black armor had already blocked him, and the blue light in the V-shaped mirror was harsh.

The baron gritted his teeth and decided to make a last-ditch effort.With a low growl, he flew forward.The Satanic claw mechanism was activated, and the filamentous energy screamed and rushed towards the icy body.

Michael lightly slapped away the energy attack.The baron strode close to his face, and clawed down fiercely with blood-red claws attached to high temperature.Michael diverted his attack with one hand, then turned his palm and grabbed the wrist of the "Satan's Claw".The system in his gauntlet was running, and the power was transmitted to the palm of his hand. The suddenly increased grip easily crushed the shell of the delicate "Satan's Claw", and a large number of sparks flew out.

He stretched out his hand and gently pushed Baron Strucker's shoulder, and the baron, who had lost his equipment and leaned on him, immediately fell on his back and fell into a mess.

Seeing that the last chance had passed away, Baron Sterak finally gave up completely.He raised his hands. "Well, I lost, Dr. Norton. We all lost, through and through."

He lay on his back on a bulge inserted with steel bars in the cracked floor, slowly calming down his chaotic and rapid panting.

"You've hit us hard, no one has ever done it before," he said, "and none of us have figured it out to this day. How did you do it? How did you know everything? We thought about all the possibilities. Sexuality, and checked all possible channels for information leakage”

"I'm pretty sure you've checked it, and more than once." Michael interrupted in a flat tone, "but in fact my source of information is not a hidden loophole. If I have to say, your security loopholes exist in It's everywhere in your entire network system."

"You want to say that you hacked Hydra's internal network." Strack sneered, "That's impossible. No one in this world can hack into our network. Its complexity is even higher than its builder himself. It is prohibitive. The network systems of Hydra’s branches each store a set of security protocols, and at the same time they are all connected to each other. An attack from any branch will arouse the vigilance of the worldwide network.”

"From the outside, maybe. I have to admit that maybe I can't do it."

Baron Sterak frowned: "Are you trying to say that you started hacking into our network when you were still inside the organization? That's even more impossible. That was more than three years ago, And Hydra’s network is cleaned several times a year, and the security protocol is constantly updated.”

"But what I'm telling you is the truth." Michael interrupted again.He squatted down and approached Strack, "To be precise, I didn't take any aggressive offensive measures at the time, but just used the authority I had at the time to create a A back door ready for today's moment.

To be honest, it was indeed a long and huge project, and it took me one year, three months and five days to finally finish it.It feels like a prisoner who wants to escape and digs the wall of the cell persistently every night with a spoon, but the difference is that I am digging the firewall. "

"But after you betrayed, everything related to you has been thoroughly reviewed." Strack said, "Even if your back door was not discovered by chance, our network will upgrade and self-check every month. You said There's no way a vulnerability of that kind has gone undiscovered."

"Generally speaking, indeed." Michael said lightly, "But what if the loophole I mentioned can cover itself?"

Strucker was taken aback: "What?"

Michael continued: "What if it can think for itself, learn by itself, and it will update with every system update, and it will transfer itself every time it performs a self-test?"

"You mean...artificial intelligence?" Strack was so startled that he couldn't control his expression, "You mean all this time. You have hidden an artificial intelligence in our network?"

"That's pretty much what it means."

In fact, this was not Michael's original intention.According to the original idea, he just wanted to dig a one-time back door in Hydra's network. The purpose was to use this loophole to hack the security system of his base and help him escape from the organization's control.

But later, as he began to come into contact with the knowledge of the field of artificial intelligence in this world, even he himself was frightened by his amazing learning speed.As I said before, the process of crossing planes somehow greatly strengthened his thinking ability in the field of electronic information, and he created the first in his life in Hydra without even expecting it. An artificial intelligence program—that is the embryonic form of Shirley.

Since then, that artificial intelligence program has been rooted inside the Hydra network by him.With each promotion in the organization he gained greater security clearance, his AI roots grew a little deeper.Later, after it learns to a certain extent, it doesn't even need help anymore, and has the ability to continue to dig deeper by itself.It has learned to evade security checks in the data world by itself, marching towards the independent network of one Hydra branch after another, until it is lurking in the entire Hydra network system without anyone noticing.

When breaking away from Hydra, Michael copied the core code of this original artificial intelligence and used it as the basic framework to create the current Shirley.Today it has become a part of Shirley, and its system has established a one-way channel with Shirley. Over the years, it has been lurking in Hydra's internal network to obtain all kinds of intelligence and secrets. Through Shirley Feedback these messages to Michael.

That's why he can always be one step ahead.

"You only need to know this much, I hope this can help you understand my next question." Michael said, "The data about the abilities of the twins with superpowers and the experiments you have done on them, this information I couldn't find it on the Hydra network, so I'm guessing you're hiding somewhere on a local server. Maybe because you don't want to share this information with the rest of Hydra?"

Baron Strucker snorted heavily.

"There is still the matter of the scepter, sir." Shirley reminded in time, "You asked me to write it down in the memo."

"Yes, and the scepter." Michael added, "The scepter that gave the twins superpowers, I believe that should also be in your hands."

"You want the scepter?" Strack frowned, "Then you must be disappointed. The scepter is not in my hands, it has been transferred long ago, but I don't know exactly where it went."

Michael stared at him for a while, until the armor's polygraph module integrated a series of monitoring such as heartbeat, pupils and micro-expressions, and popped a "truth" prompt into the monitor in front of him.

"Well, it looks like you didn't lie about this part. But it doesn't matter, it will show up again sooner or later." Michael said, "But at least you still have the experimental data, right? Tell me where it is."

"I don't know." Strack replied coldly.

This time the word "lie" jumped out of the monitor.

"Lying is not a good habit."

"Then maybe you could just blow my head off."

"That's not necessary. You see, I have been in Hydra, and I know that you have some special knacks for making people talk. But I have never admired those methods, in comparison."

With one swoop of Michael's right palm, dark green magic power fluctuations accumulated in his palm.

".I'm still more inclined to my own way."

(End of this chapter)