A process cannot be understood by stopping it

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Deep inside Lloyd hoped that they will ask fore something easier, not only inside, though, it was almost written on his face and every part of him whispered of that and every hair on his body trembled in unison. When one of those goons liberated his hands, Tweedledee put a small touchscreen on his knees and stepped back to pick up a gun from one of the crates and aim it at Lloyd.

"Now listen to me, cur", she hissed, "this console is pretty much connected to neural net. Leeds Planetform office is connected to it as well. Understood?"

Information terrorism. Lloyd knew what it is and how an innocent information pretext could be turned into a massive scandal like the last year when they, luckily, found out that all the threats of publication of "top-secret government report" about Harris appeared to be a bluff, or at least seemed to be a bluff. Now there were three actors on scene: him, the touchscreen and that girl that could push the trigger with no doubts.

Lloyd was slowly typing adress of the server. What was he doing? Apparently, he followed the common sense, like any other human will do. It took a second for server to process the request, but that second was the longest one in Lloyd's life. In addition to common beliefs that one can see whole his life before death, Lloyd saw all his life as a top-manager of a Sirius-wide corporation, all the banquets and balances, cars and girls, remembered how he was sure that while he does everything right it will be happily ever after.

Login, his name and surname; password, the name of his first girlfriend he met almost twenty years ago. Here it were, folders referring to respective databanks, multi-level security and dozens of access levels. Lloyd Patterson hadn't got in any way high one, but it was enough to cause massive damage to his reputation and whatever else to the company. Will someone care about him? That was the question Lloyd hadn't answered. He just handled the touchpad to that Tweedledum in front of him and said,

"That's all I have access to", then he caughed with a rather doomed tone and added, "Enjoy".

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