Chapter 494 - 396 I Happen to Be an Engineer Too

The Olympics for ordinary people are glorious, splendid, and dazzling.

But their Olympics, just like the path next to the VIP channel, was the foundational structure leading to the inner core of the Olympics. The more resplendent on the outside, the hotter and heavier on the inside.

After a series of twists and turns, upon arriving at the security monitoring room, there was a chorus of cursing and swearing.

"Hey, I’m asking you if this thing is stable or not! Don’t need to pretend to be posh with false pretenses, why bother with remote access? I say we switch to a wired connection!"

"This isn’t remote access! Camera to my computer, then to your computer, that would be remote! Now it’s the WiFi having issues, WiFi! Do you understand? WiFi! You bumpkin! With so many computers here, do you think we can use network cables?"

Fang Huai was startled by what he heard outside.

I haven’t even gotten to use a smartphone yet, and you all are on WiFi already.

"Report!"

The lieutenant said and directly pushed the door open and entered.

Inside, seven or eight people were huddled around a glass cabinet; a lieutenant colonel was holding a cell phone, loudly shouting on speakerphone.

"Hurry up and call someone, tell Luo Gong to bring the password! Did he change the password? Let me log in again to see what’s going on!"

Apart from the lieutenant colonel, the others were dressed just like them in black, their faces anxious as if they had no time to deal with him.

One of the people in black said, "Tsk, I said we should have brought Luo Gong along. Yang Can, if it doesn’t work, let’s take it back and have Luo Gong fix it!"

However, the lieutenant colonel shook his head with his hands behind his back, "I reckon it’s a password issue, he definitely changed the password!"

The lieutenant that had brought them, seeing he was being ignored, felt a bit awkward and said again, "Yang Can, Wu Can, our guests have arrived."

The people huddled around the mysterious box finally turned their heads and said,

"Please, take a seat, sit down."

They then sat down and looked at the massive screens covering the walls in the control room, linking to dozens of security cameras that practically covered the entire venue, looking quite impressive.

Fang Huai, having heard their earlier conversation, walked directly to the desk beside them. He casually picked up the mouse from a laptop on the table, shook it, clicked on the network link, and looked at it.

The lieutenant who brought them in was a bit panicked: "Hey? Hey? Don’t touch that!"

Upon hearing this, the lieutenant colonel and others immediately turned around.

"Hey! What are you doing?" he called out as he approached Fang Huai.

Fang Huai checked the connection prompt and said,

"It says here you’re connected, so why do you need a password? Give me the manual, let’s find out what the gateway of the router is, check the backend to see if they’ve set a speed limit."

The group was momentarily stunned.

"You... know how to do this?"

Inside, Fang Huai felt like laughing.

A router being treated as high-tech, requiring a specialist like "Luo Gong" to handle it?

In later times, even a young socialite who bunkered in an internet cafe and subsisted on instant noodles could have handled this with ease.

The four individuals behind were also astonished.

He knows how to do this too?

Being constantly overwhelmed by Fang Huai’s knowledge had made them aware that when Fang Huai was about to show off, it was precisely this relaxed demeanor that signaled it.

Even just looking at his back, they knew.

If Fang Huai knew their thoughts, he’d probably owe them an apology.

Along the way, he had acquired knowledge of ropes and chemicals by exchanging points with the System. The aerial coordination he had memorized thanks to his outstanding memory, and diving was something he had trained in a previous life, similarly retrieving the knowledge from memory.

But this thing today, he truly understood.

Without speaking, Fang Huai checked the computer’s connection status again and confidently made his way to the front, pushing several people aside.

Then, he paused and pointed to a clutter of devices inside the cabinet, asking a question,

"...Where’s the router?"

The lieutenant colonel was dumbfounded.

You don’t even recognize which one is the router, and you’re trying to act smart with me?

Fang Huai also felt a bit dumbfounded.

The cabinet was full of machines; it was really hard to tell which one was the router.

Seeing the lieutenant colonel didn’t respond, Fang Huai had to go behind the glass cabinet to take a look, and then pointed to one of the devices with the most network ports, tentatively asking,

"Is it this one?"

The lieutenant colonel’s face darkened,

"That’s a switch!"

Then, others started to chime in, "Comrade, which unit are you from?"

Fang Huai, focusing on the machines at the back, replied, "From the Southwest Comprehensive Rescue Training Class. If it’s not that one, it must be this one, right?" he said, pointing to another device with quite a few network ports, feeling somewhat puzzled.

Is this the wireless router? How come... it’s so big?

He leaned in to read the small characters on the back of the device.

MP7500.

There was also a default account and password.

The lieutenant colonel didn’t feel like speaking but knew that these people came for support and they weren’t from the same unit, so he was slightly more polite,

"Comrade, please take a seat over there and wait for us. We’ll take you to familiarize yourself with the venue in a bit."

The others stood up when they saw this, looking at Fang Huai with some concern.

They didn’t know what a router was.

But it seemed like the man was quite dismissive of him. Could it be that he had failed to impress right out of the gate?

Was Fang Huai’s bravado only effective in-house?

Fang Huai saw that they didn’t explain, and although he didn’t want to waste military merit points on this matter, he just nodded and went back to the computer he had been at before.

"I won’t touch your equipment; just let me check the gateway, okay?" he said, while tentatively opening a web page and entering a common gateway address.

192.168.1.1.

The management interface came up.

The lieutenant colonel, seeing him use the computer again, was becoming quite agitated, dropping pretenses and confronted the lieutenant who brought them,

"Can you not touch the computer? Zhang Xiaoliang, who did you bring here? Has their cadre arrived yet?"

The lieutenant seemed somewhat embarrassed.

When Hu Peizhou selected the people to be sent to the Bird’s Nest, he had mentioned that those sent over were the elite from the training class. It was not expected that upon arrival, they’d start meddling around.

At that moment, Fang Huai realized the device operated just like any regular router and calmly turned the laptop around.

"The backend management password is incorrect; it’s not the original password, it has been changed. What’s the password?"

At this, a group of people looking at the notebook’s gateway interface were stunned again.

"Wasn’t there no internet? How could you log onto the webpage now? Is it fixed?"

The lieutenant colonel looked somewhat familiar with this interface.

Luo Gong seemed to have operated from here when he used this machine.

He said, somewhat skeptically,

"You... really know how?"

As soon as he said this, the lieutenant behind him really wanted to recall the text message he had just sent to Hu Peizhou.

Fang Huai couldn’t be bothered to explain and asked again with a frown, "The password, do you know it or not? If not, go ask."

Everyone standing around the machine looked at each other blankly.

The lieutenant colonel’s face became much humbler, "This... the password is with one of our engineers, and his phone is unreachable! Otherwise, would we be in such a predicament?"

But Fang Huai snorted, "Bullshit, this is not a WiFi password issue at all. The backend has been restricted; either the settings have been made to limit your data flow, or without the password, I’ll just change it myself!"

Saying this, he got up again, pushed several people aside, opened the glass cabinet, and stuck his head in.

Few people stopped him now; many ran to the side to watch.

Fang Huai quickly found the reset button and pressed it.

The lieutenant colonel’s expression instantly turned to panic.

"Hey, hey! Luo Gong said not to press that!"

Now, everyone at the side was nervous again, with someone immediately going to pull him back.

"Making a fuss over nothing."

Fang Huai held the reset button for a few seconds and saw the indicator light blinking. Then he pushed away the hand tugging at his clothes and moved back in front of the computer to operate it.

...

Ten minutes later.

A bunch of people crowded around the computer.

Fang Huai pointed to the Chinese version of the software that had just been downloaded from the router’s backend and said,

"This router is quite complex. It has a proprietary MyPower-R software to control the backend.

But it’s also very feature-rich. See? Right here, you can restrict access. The router will automatically limit data flow once you switch the internet cable. So you must disable this restriction to use it after bringing it over. Didn’t you clarify these things before taking it?"

Fang Huai scolded them irritably, and a bunch of them nodded like schoolchildren.

"Alright, I’ve changed the password. Aoyun2008, the A is capitalized! It’s ready to use!"

With that, Fang Huai opened Tudou.com in the browser and played a random video, which streamed smoothly.

This backend manual stated it was launched in ’07, used for provincial core convergence and provincial core uplink, as well as for a super-large scale internet access platform—no wonder it was different from ordinary routers. The device was bulky, and you had to download special software to manage it. It’s complex, but the effect is indeed awesome.

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

"Hey, it’s working! It’s really working! Quick, set up remote access and transfer the camera feed!"

The few people behind were dumbfounded.

Damnit, this guy is flawless!

Lin Chong was also reassessing Fang Huai.

Even in firefighting technical skills, he could still compete with Fang Huai.

But the computer field was his blind spot. Seeing Fang Huai lecturing these people, he felt he had completely lost.

At that moment, Hu Peizhou entered the control room in a hurry, led by a staff member, and immediately frowned, "What’s going on? Fang Huai, what are you touching other people’s machines for?"

Olympic security involved many confidential matters; you just can’t touch things recklessly.

The lieutenant holding the cell phone while calling Hu Peizhou saw him come in and felt embarrassed once more.

Fang Huai stood up and said with a sneer, "They said it’s high-tech! Only an engineer can figure it out! And I happen to be an engineer too, just helping them out!"

When the lieutenant colonel saw Hu Peizhou enter, he quickly smiled sheepishly,

"Sorry, sorry, this comrade has just helped us a lot! It was a misunderstanding! Your colleague is a talent!"

Hu Peizhou’s expression relaxed and he pointed at the computer, looking at Fang Huai and asking,

"You know how to do this... too?"

Fang Huai smirked, "Didn’t I just say? I’m an engineer, specialize in WiFi management! What, leader, were you afraid I would embarrass you, coming all the way over here to scold me?"

The lieutenant colonel nearby heard this and quickly stepped forward to shake hands with Hu Peizhou,

"Ah, my attitude was poor just now, we were presumptuous, it’s our fault! Come, let me take you for a tour inside the venue!"

Hu Peizhou extended his hand and shook with the lieutenant colonel.

Turning back to Fang Huai’s displeased face, he coughed lightly, "I just came to see! I trust our comrade’s abilities! Fang Huai, you did well! When we go back... I’ll add points for you!"

Fang Huai turned around slowly, somewhat baffled, looking at him.

"...Leader, you’re here, and you’re giving me points? Are we still eating instant noodles?!"

"Tsch, overall score evaluation, third-class merit, second-class merit, is still valid, you know! You don’t want it?"

Fang Huai paused for a second.

That’s right, this guy still has merits in hand!

First Class Merit can’t be intensified for now, but the third-class merit, second-class merit, may be useful for empowering his core strength!

"Leader... about this merit... surely I have third-class merit, right? When will it be awarded?"

Now, it was Hu Peizhou who was caught off guard.

"Depends on how you perform."

Fang Huai immediately switched expressions, the demeanor of a high-minded individual vanishing in an instant as he turned to the lieutenant colonel with a broad grin,

"No big deal! All trivial matters! My name’s Little Fang, and aside from WiFi, I’m also good with computers!"

The lieutenant colonel didn’t know how to respond to such a keen eagerness for recognition.

"Uh... actually, for our security work here... there are also some awards and commendations available. Little Fang, as long as you do your job well in the venue..."

Fang Huai’s smile became somewhat sycophantic.

"Leader! Actually, even cleaning, I’m quite the expert! Whatever you need, just give me a shout!"

The several people from the training class all closed their eyes.

Ugh! Good grief, such a bootlicker!