Phantom Wheel by Tracy Deebs

Author:Tracy Deebs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

18

Owen

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It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

I know, I know, I should be appalled, considering what Jacento is doing with all this, and I am. But come on. It’s gorgeous, so freaking gorgeous I can barely wait to get my hands on it.

“They’ve got a Cray XK7,” Harper whispers as she walks deeper into the room, and it sounds a little like she’s considering genuflecting.

Not that I blame her. Just the thought of being in the room with one of these babies is enough to bring me to my knees. The fact that it’s right in front of me… I lock my knees just to be on the safe side.

“Why do they need a supercomputer?” Ezra wonders as he follows her, but there’s reverence in his voice too.

“And who the hell has one of these and keeps it offline?” Issa sounds outraged.

“Is it pretty?” Seth whispers. “Tell me it’s pretty.”

“It’s soooo pretty,” Harper says, and she’s actually petting the thing. Well, part of it, since the XK7 is usually housed in anywhere from four hundred to five hundred cabinets.

“Are you going to kiss it?” Ezra asks her, obviously amused by the way she keeps running her hand back and forth over the cabinet.

“I might,” I say, moving forward to get my first in-person look.

“Well, this is going to make it faster to download what we’re after,” Alika says. “But you should still probably get started.”

It’s the wake-up call we all need, but still. “Always the party pooper, aren’t you, girl?” I ask as I pull what I need out of my backpack.

“I prefer the voice of reason,” she tosses back. “It’s not my fault you people tend to leap before you look.”

“Sometimes it’s better not to know where you’re going to land,” Ezra tells her as he prowls to the other side of the room. “The servers are over here, guys.”

“Awesome. Let me hook into this baby, see what we can do,” I tell him as I connect manually. Seconds later, I’m in, running a brute-force attack at the password.

“Want some help?” Harper asks, crouching beside me.

“Why don’t you go see what you can do with another one of the servers? Whoever gets in first wins.”

These computers aren’t uplinked, but they do form their own LAN. Which means once we’re in one of them, we’re in all of them. And if my hunch is right, they’ve got the data for all of Jacento—not just North America—on them.

Otherwise, why the hell would they have a Cray XK7 sitting pretty over here? It’s got to be the only one. At a cost of tens of millions of dollars, it’s not like they’ve got half a dozen of these babies just lying around.

“How’s it going?” Issa asks. “You’ve been inside more than forty-five minutes now. The entertainment’s set to end in half an hour. If you aren’t out by then, it’s going to get a lot harder to pull this off.”

“We’re trying,” Ezra answers, and he sounds a little testy. Not that I blame him—it’s not like we’re standing around twiddling our thumbs.

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