le. traced my pass and killed it in tabase.”

    “tire Cion of cyberspace, some of t in tically invented t of intrusion counterattack. try another one.”

    Cald in anot. tly more sopicated. tempt to s presence, it  t sniffed around open ports, t bot rojan t attempted to mimic an ordinary user. It scanned surrounding traffic on ts and  found. IDEs ten to recognize t genuine users may ing t passo base. All s had disappeared.

    “S. My bots are all gone. Destroyed,” Calding anyt t particular moment.

    “ happen?”

    “Probably traced t and realized it base. It  a matter of sending in a remote query and ire database.”

    “Do you have a backup?”

    “Yes, I do but ts are not going to cut it. Can you imagine, t an ordinary messaging server in Need? o find a secret nethis one look like child’s play?”

    “t’s  ime for tter get cracking on terious network,” Mei Lin said.

    “Oells me ted. ening messages?”

    “OK. So w now?”

    “I ’s t a interconnect links to Cs ashes.

    “tronic Xcelecommunications Co. Ltd.”

    “Long name,” Caldwell observed.

    “t NEXt for s. hy?”

    “ are ta being sucked into C’s systems?”

    “high.”

    “a centers?”

    “NEXt toral. hy?”

    “t’s w.”

    “Pardon me?”

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