The night in Hulmatu is dry and cold.
Song Heping leaned against the cold metal chair back, eyes closed, but his mind was racing at full speed.
On the screen, the progress bar for data interfacing with Simon had long disappeared.
The encrypted data package that integrated Colonel Kote's many "small moves" behind the scenes of the Pentagon and sensitive information on the brink of war crimes was now, like a virus's spore, being fragmented, re-encrypted, and silently infiltrating the law-fortress-like servers in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands through anonymous nodes around the world.
This was his "dead man's switch."
If a fully armed B-2 or Predator drone bombed the soil of Hulmatu, this switch would be activated.
Pandora's box would explode open in the cyberspace; though it might not shake the foundation of the United States, it would definitely bring disgrace to Kote and his group, leaving the Pentagon in a mess and notorious in international opinion.
