The Server Room
Through a laser tunnel so badly dismantled that even his own mother wouldn't recognize it, the group entered the server room of the Hive Base.
The computer layout here is unusual, unlike the typical horizontal layout. Instead, it uses a radial arrangement with one main unit at the core.
The only reasonable explanation is that the excavated underground space is not a square space, but an irregular shape. Therefore, after mathematical calculation, a radial layout is the most efficient method that can accommodate the most server hosts.
Of course, a more likely reason is that the engineer (director) who designed this place had his head stuck in a door. He fantasized about arranging the server hosts into Eight Formation Diagram to trap all the uninvited troublemakers.
Regardless of the original design purpose, the group entered the computer room and, after walking a few steps, saw a core computer host that, judging from its layout, was clearly the most important one.
Alice stepped forward and explained, "This is the main unit of the Red Queen Artificial Intelligence at the Hive Base, but only the lower half is complete. The upper half was brought in by the Umbrella Corporation's security forces and was installed as an extra part."
"I'm not entirely sure what this device does, but it can disable Artificial Intelligence and can be controlled remotely. Can't we just remove its hard drive and view its contents on another computer outside?"
Green Arrow Duck made an exaggerated "fixed" face. "Do you know how many hard drives are in this computer? I roughly estimate, at least a few hundred, if not a thousand. Let's not even discuss how long it will take to remove the hard drives; can a few of us carry them all out?"
"Besides, after we remove it, we'll need to figure out how to restore the hard drive's RAID configuration, otherwise it won't work at all. It's better to just read the data we need directly from the original host."
"Alright." Alice shrugged, no longer caring about such things. She then pointed to the blocker installed on the main unit. "But I have to tell you, I don't know how this thing works or how it's operated."
"Let me take a look." Green Arrow Duck stepped forward.
The host computer is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device, primarily designed to forcibly shut down the computer. However, this device has low power; if the parameters are set correctly, it won't burn out the host, but only disable it. This host computer system has a safety mechanism; if the computer hardware malfunctions, it will perform a series of backup and restart functions. Even with an EMP device, it cannot completely control the system running on the host computer itself.
So in the movie, Umbrella Corporation technicians removed a critical motherboard to prevent Red Queen from automatically restarting and restoring its functionality. However, in order to escape, they chose to reinsert the motherboard and actively restart Red Queen. As a precaution, the technician removed the Red Queen's main circuit fuse and circuit breaker.
The purpose of this was that when he remotely turned it off again, the electromagnetic pulse device would cause a short circuit in the main unit, burning out the internal circuitry and completely destroying it. And they did exactly that.
Therefore, what Green Arrow Duck is facing now is a computer host that has been burned out due to overload current. Even if the electromagnetic pulse device on top is removed, it is impossible to directly restart Red Queen unless the burned-out parts are repaired.
After checking the situation, Green Arrow Duck couldn't help but complain, "This is really a headache."
"What's wrong? Can't it be fixed?" Ada Wong approached again. She was familiar with information technology equipment, so she wanted to see if she could help.
However, this kind of mainframe capable of running Artificial Intelligence seems far beyond her capabilities. Forget about disassembling it to see what's inside; just looking at its unique casing makes her feel completely lost.
These problems are of course no big deal for Green Arrow Duck, who has helped build a supercomputer and built multiple Quantum Computer. It's just that with other witnesses present, he can't use his full abilities and it will take him some time.
But Green Arrow Duck has an easier way to solve the problem at hand.
Using the Kryptonian ' X-ray vision to study the layout and wiring of the server room, it was discovered that the burned-out host was a host connecting two local area networks and also functioned as a firewall.
All the server hosts in the server room are still running normally, but they are isolated from the external computers. So there's no need to worry about the burnt-out host; just connect to the servers behind it.
The concept of s (servers) emerged as early as 1983, and commercial FS servers were available by 1984. However, this product only became widely known after the emergence of small, personalized s hosts in the 21st century. Therefore, among these server hosts, there must be s mainframes serving as cloud storage devices. Data can be directly accessed through maintenance and management platforms.
Green Arrow Duck began searching through the labels on each server rack, but none of them had clear markings indicating their purpose; they were just numbers. To avoid searching blindly, Green Arrow Duck randomly picked a computer with a screen and keyboard and hacked into it through the connection of the Duck Leopard armor.
However, it was fine when the wires weren't connected, but once the wires were connected, the Duck Leopard armor—Duck Type Mecha system became unstable. Unexplained noise even appeared in the field of vision inside the helmet, affecting the stability of various window interfaces and external images.
On the main field of view inside the helmet, a line of text appeared intermittently. "Who... are you?"
Does this mean the Mecha system has been hacked? It seems that the Red Queen Artificial Intelligence still exists within these server hosts, and it's quite proactive, launching an intrusion as soon as it sees a new device connected.
However, its flaws are also obvious. This little guy hasn't fully mastered the Duck Leopard armor—Duck Type yet, and it's already eager to ask about the intruder's identity. If it were a female character encountering an intruder, she definitely wouldn't engage in any dialogue. She would simply silently plant a Trojan horse, set logical traps, lure the intruder to a harmless place or a disguised virtual host, and then counter-intrude into the other party's computer to find out their identity.
Jumping out to ask "Who are you?" is just stirring up trouble. It can only be said that, befitting Artificial Intelligence that controls a base and is named "Empress," its style certainly carries a bit of the arrogance of a superior.
However, this also confirms Green Arrow Duck's guess that the servers are indeed running normally.
However, burning out the core mainframe was still a significant blow to Red Queen's computing power. At least, the little guy's processing speed was far slower than in the movies, and he couldn't have normal conversations like a human.
On the Duck Leopard armor—Duck Type, you can clearly see external data flowing towards the display screen components, suggesting that the Red Queen really wants to continue speaking, but she can't seem to come up with a second sentence.