Just as Lu Zhou had already returned to the hotel, Minister Novak was standing in the computer room of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Unified Power Company, staring at the group of technicians who were sweating profusely in front of the computers.

Standing next to Minister Novak was the manager of the St. Petersburg branch of Unified Power, whose name was Olig. This middle-aged man with a fair complexion has a thick beard and a somewhat fat figure, and an Armani suit actually wears the feeling of an inflated balloon.

Since two hours ago, he has been chattering non-stop.

"Mr. Minister, I can swear to you that our power grid has been operating perfectly and there are absolutely no problems! Since this morning, the engineers in our establishment department have been preparing for the power of the Helios Fusion Power Station at their respective stations, but we have not been able to detect the voltage change from the energy connection of the Helios Fusion Power Station—"

Unaffected by this rhetoric at all, Minister Novak said with a blank face.

"I'll confirm if there's a problem."

"I'm deeply sorry for your decision, it's a distrust of our work."

"Shut up."

"Yes, Mr. Minister." Seeing that Minister Novak's face was already showing impatience, Olig quickly closed his mouth after muttering something in a low voice.

In fact, it was not only Rosatom and the Russian Ministry of Energy that did not expect such a thing, but also the Russian Unified Power Company, which operates the European power grid, did not expect such a situation to happen.

At the time of the acceptance of the project, it was not only BEA Power that signed the letter of responsibility, but also the people of their unified power company who went to the site to inspect it, and only after approving that there were no safety problems, they approved the request for grid-connected power generation of the Helios project.

When he heard the news that the core of the Helios fusion power station was not starting properly, Olig's right eyelid kept jumping, and sure enough, in the afternoon, Minister Novak came to the door with someone.

It's just that he didn't expect that the Minister Novak would suspect that the problem was not on the side of the nuclear power plant, but on the power grid system.

It's incredible!

As the minutes ticked by, and so far nothing had been detected, and just as Olig wondered if he should remind Minister Novak to stop, a technician sitting not far from him suddenly stopped tapping on the keyboard, stared at a line of strings on the screen, and pushed his glasses

“…… Mr. Manager. ”

Disturbed by this voice, Olig immediately looked over to him and asked subconsciously.

"What's wrong?"

Feeling a huge pressure from the eyes staring at him, the technician swallowed his saliva, and finally stubbornly said, "It seems that something is wrong with our EMS system-"

As soon as he heard this, Olig instantly realized that he might be thinking too simply, and quickly stopped the technician's words, pulling him and planning to go out.

"Wait a minute, you come with me first......"

Seeing that Olig was about to take the technician out of the house, Minister Novak immediately stopped the two men.

"Stop!"

Looking at the two people who had stopped, Minister Novak stared at the technician and said in a serious tone.

"What the hell is going on? I ask you to report your findings immediately and truthfully! If you have any concealment in the report, you will be held responsible for it! ”

As soon as he heard the minister say that he was going to take responsibility, the technician immediately coaxed, ignored the big-bellied manager next to him, and frantically threw him a look, pretending not to see it and said quickly.

"When we checked the EMS memory, we found several abnormal response records, and the system did not process the relevant request when it received the output request from Helios, but sent back a signal to approve the request......"

To put it in layman's terms, it is equivalent to the information that there is a large flood from the upstream, and the dam downstream receives the message and reports that it is opening the flood gates, but in fact it does not open the gates, and even records the report of opening the gates in the log.

Academician Vasily frowned and said: "Is it a system bug?" ”

"It's not a bit like a bug...... the engineer said in a difficult tone, "and I found that a few of the lines of code that were changed didn't look like bugs, but were manually typed." ”

A cold sweat broke out, and Olig said hurriedly.

"How is that possible? Are you mistaken?! ”

Thinking that he probably offended the manager to death anyway, the technician simply gave up the treatment and offended to the end, pretending not to hear his hint at all, and said firmly: "I can be more than ninety percent sure not!" If you don't believe it, let our security director take a look, I'm sure he'll be the same as I did. ”

Not only did Olig break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, but Minister Novak, Academician Sivari, and a group of officials from the Ministry of Energy standing next to him were all soaked in cold sweat behind their backs.

The operation is man-made!

Someone locked the energy input port on the side of the nuclear power plant from the EMS system!

If the core is successfully ignited, the huge amount of electricity generated by nuclear fusion will not only paralyze the entire transmission line and impact all the connected transformer stations in the vicinity, but also cause a series of chain damage from the ferrofluid generator set to the core itself, and even serious core overheating meltdown!

If it weren't for the fact that Helios' core actively triggered the protection mechanism, the reactor was forced to shut down......

Thinking of Lu Zhou and the hundreds of millions of degrees of plasma he described, as well as the fusion reaction that occurred in the core, Minister Novak only felt like he had slipped through Satan's door.

Trembling all over, he jumped up like a polar bear that had been trampled on his toes, and roared angrily.

"Check it out! Who the hell is doing it on our grid system! And those who are responsible for the maintenance of the grid system...... Damn, are they all-eaters?! ”

Looking at the thunderous Minister Novak, Olig said tremblingly.

"Mr. Minister, maybe it's just a system bug, we don't need to bother so much-"

"Mr. Olig," said Minister Novak, staring at the fat man standing beside him, word for word, "I advise you to cooperate with the investigation, for this is the only way to clear your suspicions." ”

Hearing this, Olig's eyes widened in disbelief and he pointed his index finger at himself.

"Are you doubting me? God, how could I do such a thing! ”

"It's not my right to doubt who it is, and it's not up to God to decide," Minister Novak retracted, staring at the already chaotic computer room, and continued with a gloomy face, "This is a well-planned and long-planned sabotage, even murder!" There is no doubt that there are some traitors in our ranks. ”

"It's no longer an energy issue, it's a national security issue."

Looking at the pale Olig, the breath-holding Academician Vasily, and the head of Rosatom, Lermontov, who was standing on the side without saying a word, Minister Novak said in a cold tone.

"I'll report this to the FBI, and their people will take care of it."

"I believe that the truth will soon come out."

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