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before."

"We could rip out the wires leading to the punchdown blocks, cut his connection."

"That would fry the system. And if we just shut everything down, we'll never know who this guy is, or
what harm he's done. Besides, if he wants to, he'll come back."

"I'm launching the agents," Jose said, touching the computer screen. The agents appeared, jiggling
animations of bugs, real cute, but—

"Worthless," Judy said.

"Nothing else to do, not that I can think of." Jose touched the execute icon. The agents jiggled and the
directory structure scrolled down the screen. The agents, artificially intelligent digital creatures mainly
used for Net searches, were scouring Jose's Net files, seeking clues about the intruder.

System clean

Nothing.

"Waste of time," Judy said. Lack of sleep combined with tension had her head pounding. She stretched
her back, raised her arms, tried to unknot her muscles.
The agents jiggled again. Then in metallic blue letters:

System compromised

Judy froze, arms still above her head. "What the—" But, as her arms came down, the status changed:

System clean

Jose was quiet. He was staring at System clean, his eyes narrowed, his hair damp with sweat.

"Look."

The screen displayed all running computer processes. The hacker was back on the server. He was
sending a terminate signal to the operating system:

powerman>kill -TERM 1

"He's shutting us down," Jose whispered. "He's deadlocking all programs, running in s mode."

"He's operating as the system console," Judy said. "He's taking over."

She stared at the screen, her heart racing, half from excitement, half from fear. In all her years of hacking,
she'd never encountered anyone this bold and this well hidden. There was no way to trace him, no way
to stop him.

The system knocked down to single-user mode, the single user being the hacker from Helraze.

"He'll destroy system memory." Jose's voice was thick with fright. "He'll destroy the operating system."