Extreme Almightiest Young Master

Chapter 379 The Cloud Management System Has a Problem

"What the hell are you doing, what exactly is happening?" Max Dorrell cursed when he heard Jia Ren’s words, flabbergasted. How could hundreds of millions of US Dollars just vanish? It was impossible.

And this Jia Ren, he was the former financial director of Cloud Fund. At the time, it was only by threatening his entire family that Max Dorrell had coerced him into betraying Chu Meng and defect to his side. So even if Jia Ren had a hundred guts, he wouldn’t dare lie to him, especially with his family still in Max Dorrell’s clutches.

"President, we really have no idea what happened either, the situation just arose suddenly. The Cloud Management System is supposed to be the safest system, it’s not supposed to have issues, but now..." When Jia Ren heard Max Dorrell lash out, he too was at a loss for words. Everyone was watching; there was no way it could have been him, and with his own family still in Max Dorrell’s hands, he wouldn’t dare do anything!

"Have you notified the System Engineering Department to send someone to check?" Hearing Jia Ren say this, Max Dorrell knew something uncontrollable must have happened; otherwise, Jia Ren wouldn’t be talking like this. Given these circumstances, it was imperative to have the relevant departments check what the issue was and find the root cause.

"We did, people from the System Engineering Department just came by, and they said everything was fine. Also, it’s a well-known fact that the Cloud Management System couldn’t possibly have a problem. But everyone here at finance watched as it happened right before our eyes. We genuinely don’t know what’s going on. President, what should we do?"

Jia Ren hastily replied to Max Dorrell, insisting that the situation wasn’t his fault. Everyone in finance had no idea how such a problem had suddenly emerged, and special personnel in charge of managing the Cloud Management System had come over and found no issues. So what on earth was going on?

"Investigate! Start from scratch! Have the System Engineering Department conduct a thorough investigation; I want to know exactly what happened." Max Dorrell was utterly baffled now. If what Jia Ren said was true, then it was a complete mystery what had occurred. The security of the Cloud Management System was beyond doubt, and when an impossible event like this occurred, it was truly bizarre.

If they didn’t investigate and ascertain the actual situation, the loss of a hundred million US Dollars would be the least of his worries. He would never be able to use the Cloud Management System with peace of mind again, and such a terrifying incident could impact the overall plan. Not to mention, other families would likely take notice if there were no surprises...

"Bang!"

"Damn it, this hundred million US Dollars isn’t a small sum." Max Dorrell was furious now, slamming his fist onto the desk to vent his rage. The way the hundred million US Dollars disappeared made no sense, and he would not rest until he found out why.

"Alright, President, I’ll do as you’ve instructed," Jia Ren agreed with Max Dorrell’s orders. In the current situation, this was the best course of action—it would clear his name and ascertain what really happened.

"Go on." Max Dorrell ended the call, then lit up another cigar and began pondering the recent developments. No matter how he thought about it, it seemed impossible because he had hired several top-notch hackers of international repute who had all certified that the Cloud Management System was infallible.

What, then, was the cause of today’s issue with the Cloud Management System? Could it be that Chu Meng still had some backdoor access to the system, that she had never completely given up on Cloud Fund? It was possible, indeed it was!

The more Max Dorrell thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Considering Chu Meng’s usual careful and prudent way of doing things, it was likely she had left herself an out, though he didn’t know where...

While Max Dorrell was deeply lost in thought about Chu Meng, the phone on his desk rang again, causing his heart to pound violently. What was going on today, with one thing after another.

"Hello, President, something big has happened, the Cloud Management System has collapsed, and it’s completely beyond repair." Jia Ren had called Max Dorrell again, reporting the situation to him as soon as the call connected.

After Jia Ren had just finished his call with Max Dorrell, he followed Dorrell’s instructions to summon the technical staff from the System Engineering Department. However, just as the staff arrived and were about to start diagnosing the Cloud Management System, something unexpected happened—every computer’s Cloud Management System suddenly began to malfunction. Firstly, the system’s response time rapidly decreased, and within tens of seconds, it became as slow as a snail, and then, to everyone’s astonishment, the entire management system completely crashed!

The finance department staff were all dumbfounded on the spot; the Cloud Management System was personally developed by Chu Meng and had endured the test of time for its security and stability, which was beyond anyone’s imagination. When we first started using this system, Chu Meng had told everyone that this system was the soul of Cloud Fund. To verify the system’s security and stability, Chu Meng had even spent billions of US Dollars to challenge hackers around the world to breach it, but all hackers had failed, which was shockingly unprecedented at that time.

Yet, such a formidable Cloud Management System had inexplicably crashed today—how could this be possible...

As everyone was still in shock, Jia Ren was the first to react. He immediately picked up the phone and instructed the main computer room to forcibly cut the power, in an attempt to sever the server connection between the Cloud Management System and other computers, because such a crash was extremely dangerous and could lead to serious issues.

But what stunned everyone even more was that, after the power outage and the reboot of all computers and servers, every computer and server had completely failed. In other words, the once incomparably powerful Cloud Management System was utterly destroyed, with no possibility of recovery!

Seeing the situation unfold, Jia Ren could no longer sit still and had called Max Dorrell to explain what had happened.

"What, what are you talking about? How could the Cloud Management System possibly have a problem, let alone crash beyond repair—how is that even possible? Are you joking?" Max Dorrell couldn’t believe what Jia Ren was saying, as the world’s top hackers hadn’t even brought it down. How could such a secure system suddenly have issues? It was just impossible.

"President, I’m not joking at all. All the data in the Cloud Management System’s server has been completely wiped clean. Not just that—all the computers that were connected to the server for work have completely failed as well. You can try it in your office," Jia Ren knew why Max Dorrell wouldn’t believe him—even he himself couldn’t believe that such a secure and stable Cloud Management program would just suddenly fail and vanish completely...

"Wait there!" Upon hearing Jia Ren’s words, Max Dorrell rushed back to his desk to check his work computer. As expected, the computer that had just been connected to the Cloud Management System had also crashed. He froze as the reality set in—the Cloud System really had collapsed! But such an impossible scenario had occurred, which was truly unbelievable... What on earth had happened?

Others might not be aware, but Max Dorrell knew all too well how vital the Cloud Management System was to the current Doer Fund. If this system had a problem, then the management of the enterprises worldwide in which Cloud Fund had invested would face significant issues, potentially even leading to a complete blackout in management. This was because Chu Meng, relying on the Cloud Management System, had invested in over three hundred subsidiaries in different domains across the world, and the management of these companies was entirely dependent on the Cloud Management System.

When Max Dorrell took over Cloud Fund, he was also startled, as he hadn’t expected the fund to have grown so massive unnoticeably. He had greatly admired Chu Meng for daring to do such a thing, managing the operations of over three hundred subsidiaries almost solely based on the Cloud Fund Management System—it was a courage not common at all. But in fact, in the years Chu Meng had led the development of Cloud Fund, the Cloud Management System had delivered a satisfactory answer sheet to everyone regarding its security and stability.

However, now that the Cloud Management System had encountered such a problem, it meant that those three hundred companies were in a state of management blackout. If this continued for a day or two, it wouldn’t cause too serious a concern. But as time passed, it would definitely lead to big trouble. No one could handle the overwhelming amount of management issues of over three hundred companies in a short period. What were they to do now? The more Max Dorrell thought about it, the more of a headache he got, becoming increasingly anxious to the point of desperation.

"Jia Ren, do you know the exact cause of the Cloud Management System’s failure?" Since the problem had occurred, panicking was useless, and they had to figure out what had gone wrong. With that in mind, Max Dorrell suppressed his boiling anger and asked Jia Ren.

"President, the people from the System Engineering Department were right here with me, investigating the matter I told you about this morning. The computers malfunctioned right under their watch. According to them, the situation just now was very much like a hacker attack. They say the Cloud System couldn’t possibly fail on its own. This kind of collapse can almost certainly be attributed to a master-class hacker who exploited some unknown vulnerabilities in the Cloud Management System and utterly destroyed it, turning the Cloud Management System into a thing of the past."