Under-Toronto by Winfield Adam

Author:Winfield, Adam [Winfield, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

IX.

White’s earbud beeped, new audio message. “Speak, play message,” he said, hearing the request bounce off the white porcelain and echo around the high ceiling bathroom.

“Alexavier, join me in the executive room A-S-A-P,” said the voice of Trenton Taverick.

“Speak,” White said, “enter room KMnet Executives.”

“Alexavier, are you alone?”

“Yes.”

“Good. Melissa and Shanice are here too.”

“What can I do for you?” White asked.

“Did you happen to see the anonymous diatribe that found its way into the Leadership mailbox a couple of weeks ago?” White sat up in the warm water and clenched his teeth in nervous excitement. At last the email had been acknowledged. He’d begun to wonder if the Coalition’s top people had elected to sweep it under the rug. He composed himself and let the foamy bathwater settle before responding.

“I read most of it, it was redacted before I could finish.”

“Good. Well, there have been some developments. The man who sent the message has been detained by Coalition Security. They were able to follow a trail of data back to his unit in Under-Chicago. His name is John Glick, a middle-aged Caucasian, a brilliant man, needless to say, but a man with total disregard for Coalition law.” Taverick gave White a moment to process the news. “What Security found in Glick’s unit was almost beyond comprehension. Old hardware, thousands of pre-Wipe files, dozens of hacking applications, stacks of homemade electronics. They’re still trying to figure out what much of the software and hardware does, how it works, and indeed how he acquired the means to build them. I’ve been informed that one of the items found in his unit may be a prototype for a device that interferes with the speech sensors. It would, of course, be catastrophic for the Coalition and our underground citizens if such a device was created and distributed.” Taverick paused again. “What we know for sure is that Glick found a way to encrypt comms across our infrastructure, hence his ability to send the email. The nature of the encryption technology means progress in decoding it is slow and arduous. The key evidence in what’s been decoded so far is ties to some kind of mutinous organization in Under-Toronto, but nothing concrete has been found. We don’t yet know how much truth there was in Glick’s claims in the email, but due to their seriousness, as well as the materials recovered in his unit, we are treating this threat with the utmost urgency.”

“OK, that’s-” White said. He bit his tongue and submerged his body back into the water when he heard the euphoria in his voice betraying him. “Where do I fit in?”

“We fear that Glick’s communications were so well scrambled that the time it will take to uncover more leads leaves the Coalition in significant danger. Therefore, we have made the decision to put out an appeal for information across the underground cities. We believe it’s worth the risk of alerting more, let’s say, odious elements to the existence of a possible criminal uprising.

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