Entering the Main Network

"I think you guys have grasped the situation, haven't you?" said Dharma, and all heads nodded. "If you guys still have someone out there," Dharma activated the gadget on his left wrist, fiddling with the virtual screen. "Tell them to wait at the same point with my wife. I will send the coordinates to each of your gadgets."

Beep!

"And one more thing," Dharma continued after sending the coordinates of his residence location to his comrades. "It would be great if more people followed our plan."

Well, of course. To find and invite several other people who think like the captain. And if they meet a licker of the ruler's ass, it seems they already know what they will take to anticipate it.

Fraya and Guntur had left the cockpit first, neither of them had other interests there. There was no one they had outside. So, it's better to invite some of the ship's fellow technicians for the sake of Captain Dharma's plan. Both Fraya and Guntur grinned with confidence within themselves. They know some like-minded comrades.

"Looks like it's a little easier."

Guntur chuckled, "Yeah, a lot of them think like us."

At the end of the forked hall, Guntur glanced at Fraya for a moment before signaling with his head and chose the corridor ahead—the corridor that would lead him to the engine room in the hull of the spacecraft. Meanwhile, Fraya took the left-side aisle, then climbed the stairs to the top floor.

Fraya is in the upper engine room, backside. Several colleagues who met her gaze immediately followed her because she invited them with a signal of her head to avoid the surveillance robots.

The same thing happened in the engine room below. Several people followed Guntur, the chief mechanic to the turbine room. There, the atmosphere is quite noisy with the sound of the engine rumbling. Guntur acted alert, after he felt safe, he told about the captain's plan. Luckily, half a dozen mechanics who were with Thunder were willing to follow the plan.

Meanwhile, Indra invited two of his colleagues. The two women were equally astonished to hear the information from Indra. It was only a moment before the two nodded. The three of them now returned to the logistics control room—it was on the middle floor, between the top engine room and the main engine room below. There, Jennie was waiting with her three female colleagues.

Following Indra's instructions—while three supervisory robots went back and forth in the same room—six people from the logistics department carried out their respective tasks. Checking each of their safety needs later, ensuring the supply of food and drink, through the large monitor in front of each. They are waiting for a signal from the captain himself for further action.

In the cockpit room, Dharma and Hyker are waiting for a signal from Ryan and his friends, and Kamal is instructing his wife and two children—who are not far from the Pangandaran area—to immediately go to Captain Dharma's house in the Sidamulih area via the gadget in his left hand.

"I hope we won't regret this."

There was no reaction on Dharma's face to Kamal's words directed at him. Although in his mind he perfectly understood the doctor's anxiety. Dharma turned her gaze to Hyker, the young man just chuckled in response. Maybe to Hyker, this coup plot is nothing more than a game, so he looks so very relaxed.

"I'll have a look in the infirmary room," Kamal stepped to the exit. "Maybe there's something I can do there."

Dharma took a lookout, behind the thick bulletproof glass, he watched every worker even every robot that was there. This unusual calm will soon be ignited by a fierce fire. Dharma took a deep breath.

***

Ryan rushed down from the top of the chameleon to follow Yuan Xi who was opening the front door of her house. Xian also came down accompanied by Naomi. Meanwhile, Boris, Yuma, and Cinnong stood guard outside with active weapons in their hands.

"Please, Mr. Ryan!" Yuan Xi pointed to a computer device on the table, in the right corner of the living room.

Xian approached and immediately hugged her mother. Yuan Xi could sense that Xian's fear had not dissipated. The actions of the thugs ordered by the Pangandaran Lord a moment ago left a certain trauma for Xian and seemed to take a long time to disappear from her mind.

Ryan stepped into the corner. The LED lights above the ceiling, and in front of Ryan lit up, illuminating the previously dimly lit living room. "Thank You. But, just Ryan," he said with a smile, then activated the C-Pad in his hand.

He also turned on the 32-inch computer monitor in front of him. After that, Ryan connected the C-Pad in hand to the computer, wirelessly. Next, he uploads his designed ghost file to the computer.

For a moment, Ryan took a deep breath. It's a gamble, even though he's a little anxious, he can still smile. His adrenaline was challenged to conquer anxiety as well as to conquer the guard system and the main computer of the spacecraft in Pangandaran.

"Here it goes!"

Beep!

"Ryan?" said Dharma from the cockpit of the spacecraft.

"Are you ready, sir?"

"Anytime!" Dharma glanced at Hyker who lowered his feet from the screen board. In his eyes, the young man seemed to be getting serious.

Hyker nodded in response to the captain's eye signal.

"Activate your gadget!" the captain ordered.

Hyker touched the earphone on his left ear. Dharma activates the virtual screen of the gadget on his wrist, then parallels his communication to Hyker's gadget. Thus, he did not need to repeat Ryan's instructions to the young man.

"Yan, please get started!"

"Okay, sir. We will be starting now. First, activate FMGC, and connect your gadget—"

Hyker nimbly fiddled with the large screen board in front of him. He glanced at Dharma, waiting for the captain to connect his gadget to the main computer of the plane.

In a moment, doubts return to haunt Dharma. In less than ten seconds, Hyker would activate FMGC—which meant activating Aios as well—and if that happened, the guard system would be taken over by the Artificial Intelligence.

Herein lies a bit of the problem.

Aios itself was able to detect suspicious things inside the spaceship itself, no matter how small it was. The only way is to activate manual piloting and leave the rest to Ryan in the middle of nowhere.

But that's the difficulty.

Until the ruler handed over absolute leadership to the captain, this plane would forever be in Aios's watchful eye. So, all actions related to the spacecraft software mechanism must be with the permission of the Artificial Intelligence itself.

TO BE CONTINUED ...