Conan: The Mechanic

The night is getting dark, but Chiba's studio is still brightly lit

"Do you need a gun?" Chiba listened to her hand typing the list on the word document, and turned her armchair to Ai Haibara who was sitting on the sofa. "Although you can't carry a gun when you travel, you can still use it if you are at home to guard against intruders."

"Yes, a gun will indeed be effective against ordinary intruders," Haibara Ai nodded. "But... can you buy me another body armor?"

"Bulletproof vest?" Qianyu frowned. "Who is your imaginary enemy?"

The bulletproof vest for Haihara Ai must be soft, otherwise it will be too heavy for a child. But soft body armor is generally made of Kevlar. Although this material is good for gunshots, it is not good at dealing with punctures... She expected to be shot? Organised inspectors?

"..." Haibara Ai was silent for a moment. "Forget it, there's no need for body armor."

"It's okay, I'll think of a way for you if you want." Qian Yu sighed. "But there is no body armor for children on the market, I have to think of a way."

When it comes to body armor, Qianyu knows how to build top-quality products in a way that burns money - but it's really a way of burning money.

Some time ago, he saw on the dark web a new type of body armor released on an expert's account - not so much a new type of body armor, but rather a creation of God.

By applying high heat and pressure to a material, you can end up with a very strong material. Its density is only half that of water, but it is much stronger than steel. If such a strong material really existed, it would be the best material for body armor.

However, the offer and the claimed quality are equally astounding...

Qianyu has seen the bulletproof vests sold by the piece, and the bulletproof vests sold by the film, but I have never seen the bulletproof vests sold by Lunke!

$5,000 for 1 gram of new material for body armor, which is the price quoted on the dark web. A child's body armor can cost millions of dollars...

However, even if the price is so high, after considering its low density and high effect, Chiba can still consider purchasing body armor made of this material - after all, "only" a few million dollars, right?

. . .

Just as the orange mansion reflected a ray of light in the night, on the other side of the earth, inside a building in Washington, DC.

A middle-aged man in a black suit and the old man who followed him walked into an office - a young man with yellow skin and long hair was sitting leisurely in the guest seat of the office, but his pupils were very small. The color indicates his biracial identity.

"!" After seeing the middle-aged man, a surprised expression flashed across the young man's face, and his sitting posture immediately became formal. "Sir, why are you here too?" (There is no honorific in the second person in English, so it's you and not you)

"Because this task is very important," the middle-aged man sat in the office armchair, while the old man sat in another guest seat beside the young man. "Otherwise it would have been James calling you (the old man nodded slightly when he said this) instead of calling you back to D.C. for an assignment."

"Did something happen?" The young man frowned slightly, realizing the special nature of this mission.

"James," the middle-aged man gestured to the old man. "You tell him."

"Our network has been hacked," said the old man-James. "Just two days ago."

"What network?" The young man grasped the point keenly. If only the general network was hacked, it would be impossible for him to come back.

"It's our nuclear command network," James said. "Connecting the command network of nuclear weapons across the United States."

"You mean that those hackers have controlled our nuclear weapons?" The surprised expression on the young man's face was even greater.

"It's not there yet. After all, the nuclear strike code was not put on that network, but in the president's suitcase." James shook his head. "But even if they don't get the code for a nuclear strike, they already know the distribution of nuclear weapons in the United States, in other words..."

"Russia or other countries can arrange special agents to work in a targeted manner and destroy our nuclear counterattack force..." After the old man paused for a moment, obviously when the young man was letting the young man speak for himself, the young man did not disappoint the old man. "So, do you have any clues?"

"After we were hacked into the nuclear command network, we immediately counteracted. Through a provocation, they were connected to the command network again through the same initial IP address, and we successfully tracked them down," James said. "Finally, we locked the big guy, and successfully burned the copy-out part of its cpu through a virus that destroyed the hardware by making the computer continue to operate. Now the big guy is a dumb who can only input but not output."

"Big guy?" The young man raised his eyebrows. "Is that a supercomputer controlled by a certain country?"

"No no no, if that was the case we would have taken countermeasures long ago, the big guy is just a large central computer for a business ~www.NovelMTL.com~ James handed him a document." It was Tokiwa The consortium placed the central computer in the twin skyscrapers of Nishitama. "

"What do you think?" The young man seemed to have guessed the task.

"Destroy this computer to avoid future troubles!" James said solemnly. "If this information is leaked, the loss of the United States will exceed hundreds of billions!"

"What if they have already extracted the distribution locations by transcribing?" the young man asked again.

"Uh..." James was at a loss for words.

"They downloaded the encryption package at the distribution location, and 99.7% chance of brute force cracking the password will take more than 7 days. (99.7% is under the normal distribution and the expected value is 3 times the standard deviation, 99.7% This data basically means that it will definitely be happened said the middle-aged man. "It's Sunday, and as long as the central computer is destroyed by next Sunday, there will be little leakage of data."

"I understand," the young man nodded. "Give me an action team and I'll get this done in time."

"In addition, there is one more point," the middle-aged man said suddenly. "Those hackers likely belonged to the 'organization.'"

The young man's composure was instantly broken, and there was an undisguised hatred in his eyes.

"..." James was silent - at the beginning of last month, the young man's most beloved woman had just died at the hands of the organization, and the young man never smiled again after that.

"That's why I chose you," the middle-aged man continued. "I believe that you can complete the task, and I also hope that you can give me a perfect answer."

"I want another action team," Akai Shuichi raised his head and said decisively. "I promise I will do my best!"