Phoenix

08.

Twenty-seven minutes later, both Arya and Jin were in the agency.

Arya was on fire when she entered her office but her facial expression changed drastically when she saw what was happening on her monitor.

"What is going on?" Jin asked Jong-il.

"I can't tell exactly," replied an equally confused Jong-il, "I was just checking up on the last minute's updates on the mission reports and all the alarms just went off. All the computers started to cry out loud. I tried to stop them, but she..." Jong-il eyed Arya who was frowning hard seeing something on the screen, "she did something to the system. It just denied all of my access to it."

"Arya?" Jin looked at Arya.

"It was just an experiment." Arya frowned and replied, "I made a program so that if it identifies any pattern on the signal, it will start the emergency alarms!"

"Which signal?" Jin frowned, "still NASA?"

"Hmm." Arya was deep in her thoughts, "but...it is an alien signal. Our computer system shouldn't find any pattern in it." And suddenly her eyes widened, "unless...!"

"Unless?" Jin was curious.

Arya didn't answer, rather she sat on the chair in front of the monitor she was looking into and her fingers got into work in full concentration.

"We should go," Jong-il murmured, "she won't listen to anything right now."

Jin nodded a little and turned around. They should give her some space to work.

Both of them even couldn't walk past the door. Before they go out, Arya's puzzle shout came, "Oh my God!"

Jin paused and looked back. Arya was again on her feet. Her eyes were wide in disbelief.

"What happened?" Jin came back

"Come here quickly! Something impossible happened!" Arya's voice was shaking a little with excitement.

"What?"

But it seemed that Arya didn't hear what he asked. She was muttering, "how is this possible? Am I tripping?"

"Arya!" Jin shook her shoulder a bit, "what did you find?"

Arya looked back at Jin, her eyes were all excited and almost maniacal at the same time if that is even possible.
She moved and touched a part of the screen, "this part...I can read this part! And this time I can understand the meaning too!"

Jin immediately caught the anomaly, "you said it is not possible to read and understand the visual transformation of an audio signal!"

"Exactly!" Arya was frowning, "I am in dark too!"

"What is written here? What do you understand?"

"I don't know that too. There is something hidden in this message in a very complex code. I can just read a few digits in it."

"What type of digits?"

"Date and time. There is a time-delayed command in this code. But I can't tell what is it."

"What date? When?"

"Four days later," Arya looked at the time, "something will happen more or less 90 hours later."

"Is there any way to know what will happen at that time?" Jin's voice was low this time.

"I have to break the code. That is the only way." Arya replied without hesitation.

"How much time will you need?"

"Sorry, Jin." Arya shook her head, "I won't give you hope- I can't break this code. It is way out of my league."