Devi-NT's analysis led him to the parking lot of OniTech, the police had already taken off for the night. All he had to look at was the leftover blood from the victim and media from his phone. He didn't want to risk staying longer in case the police came back, so he quickly reviewed the area.
The remaining scraps of the victim made the young hacker nauseous, and he soon regretted the decision of looking for clues. He examined the cameras around the building to look for alternate angles of the murder scene. Fortunately, he knew how to gain access to the security feed with his phone. Nothing else looked suspicious besides the blood stain on the concrete and the broken window.
Devi-NT searched for a port behind the building that led to the cameras and managed to connect his phone to it. The screen of his phone loaded up the current feed and used it to find the camera that caught the homicide.
"Now to locate the footage from earlier." Devi-NT scanned the archives from a few hours before to where he saw the supervisor alive. He located the file and played it to his discretion.
The footage revealed the supervisor clutching his bleeding arm, and escaping from someone. He looked desperate, and ill-prepared against his attacker. Devi-NT clenched his teeth in anticipation since he knew what was going to happen in the end of the video. The culprit slowly revealed itself to be a maintenance drone. If that machination had an expression it would be a sinister stare with a blood-thirsty grin.
The drone charged terrifying speed and force that it looked bone-crushing whenever it contacted with its victim. The supervisor struggled to get back on his feet, but was met with another devastating blow.
"The poor guy didn't stand a chance." Devi-NT said to himself.
The maintenance robot charged the knelt down man towards the window crushing his head and allowing him to fall to the concrete below.
The footage allowed the hacker to figure out the cause of death, but didn't bring up how it happened. He searched his files again to locate the "Humpty Dumpty" source code. The camera showed the drone doing the murder, but the source code was hacked using what he now possessed in his phone. The cameras showed the storage facility was located close by the entrance of OniTech.
He quickly hacked the lock to the storage facility and made his way to the drones. He tried to search for the one used in the murder, but the police had already snatched it as evidence. If they successfully find that the source code has been altered with the only owner being Devi-NT, then he will be the prime suspect of a murder he didn't even commit.
His only option was to open up another drone to see its update log and figure out who could've installed it. He plugged in his phone to one of the ports of the drone to open up the programming file. As expected, the code looked almost identical to the one he had in his phone, but all instances referring to cleaning or maintaining objects were changed to human. The drone's tools were built for industrial cleaning, so it violently "cleaned" the victim due to its new malicious coding.
The new discovery was that it was automated to target any human, not the supervisor specifically. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now with all the new knowledge of the crime scene, he can now begin to search for the person setting him up.
The update log opened to reveal who were the last people to visit the facility. The easy part was following the pattern of names to the most recent one which seemed different from the others along with a different schedule. The encryption to reveal the IP address was a simple task for the young hacker, but it exposed his own IP.
He used all his skills to overcome the additional security measures to locate the actual IP address which seemed to be a wild goose chase until he noticed something off from its properties. The folder name of the original code matched an online game he played at home. The user file name showed a name "Eustace".
Devi-NT decided to head home and get on the game to locate the person named Eustace. He hoped the police had already been thrown off by the IP address change from earlier, so heading home wouldn't be mistake. He clenched his teeth during the walk home in fear to the fact that he'll be confronting a murderer, maybe even a serial killer.
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