Page 75 of Wild Fever
"You want the pin?”
"Yes."
He gave me the number.
"Okay. Yes, everything seems to be working fine on our end.”
I signaled to the others that we needed to go. We hustled out of the lab and hurried down the hallway.
"That's weird,” Brad said. “We’re not getting updates from the network. I tried to remote in, but I can't get access. From my end, it looks like the network is completely offline.”
"That's really strange," I said. “Everything looks fine here. Can you hang on just a second?"
"Sure.”
I muted the call.
Piper had pressed the call button to the elevator. A moment later, the bell chimed, and the door slid open. We stepped aboard, and I hoped the call didn’t get disconnected.
We plunged down to the lobby.
The door slid open, and we scurried out of the elevator.
“Are you still there?” I asked after unmuting the call.
“Yeah.”
“Hang on just another moment,” I said, then muted the call again.
“Sure thing,” Brad replied.
We moved to the front desk.
Haskins looked at us with hopeful eyes. “Did you figure anything out?”
“Yep,” Piper said. “I just need to do one more thing.”
She rounded the front desk, took a seat at the computer, and tapped a few keys. The ransom screen cleared, and a diagnostic app appeared to run. It was all for show. “You’re good to go. I got rid of the malicious code and beefed up the firewall. The hackers won’t be getting back in. It’s going to take a minute for the system to restart. The cameras should be back online in a few minutes.” Piper smiled.
Haskins breathed a relieved breath. “Thank you!”
“Just don’t browse questionable sites,” I said.
He nodded. In a concerned voice, he asked, “Are you guys going to log this or anything?”
“I see no point. Everything’s functional. It’s like it never happened.”
“You guys are the best.”
I smiled.
“Well, we’ve got another emergency,” I said. “Good luck. Call us if you have any more concerns.”
“Will do.” Haskins took a seat behind the desk as we hurried out of the lobby and plunged down the steps.
We crammed into the van, and Jack put it into gear. He pulled out of the space and rolled across the lot. “How’d it go?”
I smiled.
