The biggest concern that Linus had was searching for the person who altered the program for the dog walking route.
Although it was not rocket science, all that was needed for several parameters to be reset. However, in order to do that, basic technical skills for running computer programs were still needed as the person would need to login and search for the correct program to do so—something that a child who struggled to add and subtract complex numbers could do.
Moreover, not everyone had access to Nicholas’ controls. One needed to log in with his administrator password to adjust the functions and moreover, the perpetrator even deleted all the logs recording the changes made.
Nobody knew how Nicholas’ dog walking route had been tampered with.
They shot a glance at the three children playing in the mud and broke out in cold sweat.
When Stanley heard about the news, he completely lost his composure. “This is the third time! The third f*cking time! What has my kid done to deserve your treatment? You are all animals—no, worse than that!”
His furkid had been merely minding its own business, but both Faye and the Mitchells manipulated the dog to hurt others. Not only did Carmen have the nerve to frame Judge for attacking children, Sophia even made the husky model at her shop to boost the sales of her dog collars and chains. Only God knew how much revenue Judge brought in for her and all he received for his hard work was a pat on his head—and nothing else. This is too much!
To quell Stanley’s incessant rant, the children’s fathers conducted a search for the black money from the little mob’s underground business and redistributed it—Judge took half the share as he was rightly deserving of it while the other half was evenly shared by the three musketeers.
Carmen, who was feeling unjustified, whipped out her little book where she had recorded the dog’s performance. The husky was duly paid with pets that he received on his head and the occurrence of his tail wagging. She raised her fingers and counted his payout—each of them as per the pay ratio and precise to the decimal point. The salary she paid Judge was fair—no more, no less!
After that, Judge was fired from her company and he was not allowed to mingle with them anymore.
Stanley left with his dog’s pay and brought him to his beach villa. I’m angry! I’m not coming back!
With a cold case being solved, it meant that her dog petting empire was ruined and her secret base was exposed. She was furious and even declined to drink her milk until Cooper dug up about 200 in loose change and told her that Stan had returned it out of guilt. She counted the amount and only fell asleep after she was satisfied.
After seeing that Carmen had fallen asleep, Sophia gently exited the room and saw that Linus was still studying Nicholas and Shae.
It had perplexed him to learn that all of the logs had been eradicated and the robots’ dog walking routes were changed. Even after much observation, he failed to discover the perpetrator.
Cooper also took the matter seriously and personally investigated it.
Linus had hacked Nicholas using a backdoor method to monitor Sophia at her residence many years ago, but Cooper had since blocked that access.
However, as Cooper still held the passcode to it, the access was not temporarily removed. It was only inactive and served as a folder for memory backups.
He had almost forgotten about the backup folder and now that he did, he immediately retrieved the files from there and discovered the log change. Indeed, someone had logged in with Linus’ account and password to alter the parameters of the dog walking route before completely removing their trace. It was such a pity that the perpetrator was unaware of the backup function.
The backup had a video recording of the perpetrator—it was Carmen with her lollipop dangling from the corner of her mouth, wearing the expression of a seasoned operator as she adeptly changed Nicholas’ parameters.
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