Château À Tout Prix

Chapter 15. Tomber Comme un Château de Cartes

Chapter 15. Tomber Comme un Château de Cartes

I was nervous beyond belief, on one hand I had to help Parker, on the other I had to help Vasili, after all he was right, he had been my teacher, we had met a long time ago, when I was thirteen and surfing the deep web, it hadn't been easy to get there, but somehow I had managed, I guess I always had some sort of talent with technology, it all started while pirating some movies without paying, one website took me to another and soon I was in chat rooms with other people who I soon found out where deep web pirates and hackers, then I met PY2302, a hacker who was in his early twenties when I was only fifteen, he soon became my teacher and put a lot of effort into making me the hacker I am today, but when I decided to stop that illegal life I had to say goodbye to him, he was angry when I informed him of my decision, after all he had put a lot into my hacking education.

I sent a message to Parker as Venom: "I need to be inside your server, I have to be there, physically, would you let me in?"

But the answer would never arrive, because at 9 a.m. as we were all taking our breakfasts together the news exploded in the house on CNN, and all hell broke loose, Black Bride had been hacked, the entire world now knew what we had been trying to hide, and not only that, inside intel had been leaked out by the hacker, and one of the biggest news was an important tax evasion that the authorities had not realized, I knew that wasn't possible because I had checked everything, well one of my programs did, and they were clean as a recently packaged kleenex.

The boys went directly to Parker's room, I roamed in the kitchen for a while so no one else would suspect, eventually running into my own bathroom with my Mac book, I did't have enough time to go directly into their physical server, but I had to do my best, the bug was still asleep, so I guessed the tax rumor must've been invented, their numbers had not been actually altered, I had no idea of what to do inside or where to look so I opened the chat with PY2302.

"I need your help."

"What is the past?"

"Where all the things come to die."

"What happened?" I was thankful my teacher was there, I had not done this in years and I was a bit rusty, my hacking instinct was almost dead.

"There's a bunch of lies spreading about Black Bride, what do I do?" I was desperate.

"Calm down, there isn't much you can do, for now they'll have to prove whatever lies are that they are fake."

"I need to expose the hacker!"

"I told you, you need to connect to their server."

"Isn't there another easier way?"

"Wait." And so I did, for around two hours I walked inside my bathroom waiting for PY2302's responses, it wasn't coming fast enough.

"I have a clue."

"What is it?"

"I did some research on that type of bug, is asleep like you said, impossible to awake, but since it was built inside the system the traces of its activity are still registered, it's a bit difficult, but they are there, clear as the sea in the Caribbean." How could that escape my sight, Vasili was right!