Hero Born: Project Solaris by Fox Chris

Author:Fox, Chris [Fox, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19- Decisions

Kali was gracious enough to let me use her laptop, a sleek, silver netbook that complemented her college student look. She'd gone for coffee and I'd spent nearly an hour browsing, but wasn't really sure what I was looking for.

Mohn Corp was funding excavations all over the world. Hateya had said there were glyphs showing the grey men in the hills above Tuolumne. Those glyphs suggested the grey men had been here for centuries, maybe longer. There was a connection there, but damned if I saw what it was. Then there was the pyramid from my vision. Was that what Mohn Corp was looking for? If so, why?

"Any luck?" Jillian asked, leaning against my back as she stared over my shoulder at the screen. The sudden intimacy was distracting, but in a very good way.

"Nothing yet. I'm going to try something stupid." I glanced up at her, but her expression was neutral.

"Something stupid, and probably desperate. Sounds right up our alley. What do you have in mind?" Jillian asked.

"I'm going to hack into Mohn Corp," I said, turning back to the laptop. "I'm beginning to understand how my powers work, and the internet is basically one giant extra appendage. I can parse data packets in my head, and that makes gliding past security insanely easy."

"What if they track the fact that you're hacking them?" Jillian asked, tone dubious. "If you do this, then we should move hotels right after."

"We can do that, though I'll take precautions. It's easy enough to spoof an IP address. I can make them think we're in Singapore, or Madrid, or anywhere, really." I wasn't much of a hacker, so there were probably a dozen things I wasn't thinking of. "Your concern is legitimate, though. Kali should be back soon. We'll leave when I'm finished."

"Go for it," Jillian said, giving my shoulder a squeeze. She returned to the bed, pulling a pillow to her chest. "I'm here if you need me, but I don't want to bother you while you're doing this. I'll keep watch I guess."

I nodded absently, already focused on the computer. I rested both hands on the keyboard, staring intently at the machine. I could feel the signals leaving the machine. They drifted downstairs to the router, where they joined the little pulses of light broadcasting through CAT-5 cable all over the world.

I browsed to the Mohn website, and forced my way into the server running it. A little snooping revealed an intranet, but getting inside required a VPN connection. Virtual Private Networks are very, very difficult to spoof, which is why most corporations use them to transfer sensitive data.

Having the ability to write code in my head on the fly gave me a totally unfair advantage. I spoofed Mohn's VPN, then walked right into their network with full permissions. That gave me access to all the data they had online, which proved to be considerable.

I dumped the most promising folders onto Kali's machine, but paused mid-search when I saw a reference to Object 3.

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