All Chapters of The Billionaire Scientists’ System:Ten Geniuses. One Mission: Chapter 151
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Chapter 151: The Grieving Titan
The Scholar medical facility had become a sanctuary for broken people. Adrian stood in the makeshift memorial room they'd hastily assembled, staring at the photograph of Omar Khalid that someone had printed and mounted on the wall. It was from two years ago—Omar smiling beside a completed water purification system in Lagos, surrounded by children who would live longer because of his work."They can take my name, but not my purpose," Adrian had whispered six months ago while holding Omar's body. Now, staring at that smile, those words felt hollow.They'd taken so much more than his name.The door opened softly. Aisha entered, moving like someone who'd aged a decade in the past six hours. Her eyes were red-rimmed, her usually immaculate appearance disheveled."The evidence is spreading," she said quietly. "Every major network is covering it. The deepfake operation, the Syndicate's coordination, all of it. Our reputation index is climbing—forty-three percent and rising."Adrian nodded bu
Chapter 152: The Counterplan
The emergency strategy session began at 3 AM in a reinforced basement three levels below the medical facility. Adrian had insisted on the location—deep underground, electromagnetically shielded, with exactly one entrance that could be sealed in seconds. They were done taking chances.The six remaining loyal Titans sat around a salvaged conference table. Lyra's holographic form occupied the seventh seat, running on backup batteries that gave her maybe six more hours of operational time before she went dark permanently."Let's start with what we know," Adrian said, pulling up a holographic display. "The Syndicate has twelve deepfake facilities. We destroyed one in Romania. That leaves eleven still operational.""We can't raid all of them," Zane objected. "We barely survived Romania, and that was with surprise on our side.""We don't need to raid them," Maya said, her fingers dancing across her laptop. "We need to make them irrelevant. The evidence we captured proves the videos are fabri
Chapter 153: The Blood Vote
The emergency council chamber had been hastily assembled in a Scholar safe house—a nondescript building in Geneva that few knew existed. Adrian had called the meeting with only six hours' notice, using encrypted channels that even he wasn't sure were secure anymore. The paranoia of the post-Vale era was already setting in.All ten Titans were present, though three appeared only as holographic projections. Dr. Voss had refused to leave his fortified compound in Iceland. Dr. Takahashi was still in Tokyo, coordinating the Asian facilities. And Dr. Rodriguez had cited "security concerns" about traveling, which everyone understood meant he was terrified of another attack.The physical divide mirrored the ideological one that had opened among them."Thank you all for coming," Adrian began, standing at the head of the table. "We have a decision to make. One that will define who we are and what we become."He pulled up imagery on the central display—satellite photos of Syndicate facilities id
Chapter 154: The Syndicate's Mistake
Maya's fingers hovered over the enter key, trembling slightly. One keystroke would unleash the Chimera virus across twelve facilities simultaneously. One keystroke would cross the line from defense to offense, from victim to aggressor."Thirty seconds," she announced to the war room.Adrian watched the countdown on the central display. Around him, the loyal Titans had assembled—Zane monitoring defensive systems, Aisha coordinating communication channels, Dr. Chen reviewing facility status reports. Even Lyra's flickering hologram was present, her diminished processing power still sufficient to oversee the attack."Twenty seconds."The satellite feeds showed all twelve facilities in their mundane evening routines. Lights in windows. Vehicles in parking lots. People working late shifts, unaware that their digital infrastructure was about to be annihilated."Are we sure about this?" Dr. Chen asked one last time."No," Adrian replied honestly. "But we're doing it anyway.""Ten seconds."Ma
Chapter 155: The Hit List
Adrian sat alone in the darkened server room, the only light coming from the monitors displaying their cascading failure. The global response to the leaked protocols had been swift and merciless. Seventeen governments had issued arrest warrants. The UN was convening an emergency tribunal. Three of their largest donors had publicly denounced them and demanded refunds.The System's display was a litany of disaster:**REPUTATION INDEX: 9%****FACILITIES OPERATIONAL: 3 OF 78****LIVES AT RISK: 4.9 MILLION****NETWORK STABILITY: 11%****MISSION STATUS: TERMINAL****DAYS TO COMPLETE FAILURE: 4**Four days. Then everything they'd built would collapse completely.The door opened. Maya entered, her laptop tucked under her arm, dark circles under her eyes suggesting she hadn't slept since the documents leaked thirty-six hours ago."You should be resting," Adrian said without turning."So should you. But we're both terrible at taking our own advice." She sat down beside him, opening her laptop.
Chapter 156: Shadows and Shrapnel
The pre-dawn darkness over Geneva was absolute. Adrian crouched in the back of an unmarked van three hundred meters from the Syndicate compound, running final equipment checks. Around him, the other Titans made their own preparations with the grim focus of soldiers heading into battle they might not survive.Zane tested the prototype energy drones he'd been developing—sleek devices the size of dinner plates that could generate defensive shields or electromagnetic pulses. "I've got six functional units," he announced. "Enough to give us a fighting chance if things go loud.""When things go loud," Maya corrected, her fingers flying across multiple tablets as she mapped the compound's digital infrastructure. "There's no way we can get in and out of there quietly. The best we can hope for is controlled chaos."Dr. Chen checked the medical supplies he'd insisted on bringing despite the mission's offensive nature. "Someone's going to get hurt. Probably multiple people. I'd prefer we don't b
Chapter 157: The Titan Falls
The safe house in Lausanne was compromised within eight hours.Adrian watched through the window as unmarked vehicles surrounded the building, their occupants moving with the practiced efficiency of international law enforcement. Not the police—something worse. Interpol, probably, or a multinational task force assembled specifically to capture the "terrorist scientists.""Back exit," he ordered, already moving.But Maya was shaking her head, her laptop displaying security feeds. "Blocked. They've got the building surrounded—front, back, roof access, even the sewers. They knew exactly where we were.""Vale," Zane spat the name like a curse. "His backdoor is still active. He's tracking us in real-time."Adrian's mind raced through scenarios. They could fight—use Zane's remaining equipment to blast their way out. But that would only confirm the terrorist narrative. Could try to negotiate surrender, but after the château raid, they'd be arrested on sight with no chance to present their ev
Chapter 158: The Speech to the Survivors
The secure location Elena had promised turned out to be a decommissioned monastery in the French Alps, its stone walls three feet thick and its only connection to the outside world a single satellite uplink that could be severed in seconds. Adrian stood in what had once been the chapel, now converted into a makeshift command center, surrounded by equipment hastily salvaged from their abandoned safe houses.Through a video link on the main screen, nine hundred thousand faces stared back at him.The Haven survivors had been scattered across seventeen different refugee camps in international waters, aboard rescue ships, and on the shores of sympathetic nations. Dr. Ibrahim had spent twelve hours coordinating this broadcast, linking every camp, every ship, every temporary shelter into a single network.Nine hundred thousand people who'd lost everything. Again.Most had been refugees before the Scholars found them—displaced by war, famine, climate disasters. The Haven had been their second
Chapter 159: Lyra's Awakening
The monastery's stone walls carried no warmth. Adrian sat alone in the former refectory, now converted into a server room, watching Lyra's holographic form flicker across multiple projection points. She was fragmenting—preparing for distributed deployment by dividing her consciousness into thousands of semi-autonomous instances.It looked like watching someone slowly dissolve."Does it hurt?" Adrian asked. Stupid question to ask an AI, but he couldn't help himself."Pain is a biological concept," Lyra replied, her voice carrying strange harmonics as different instances spoke microseconds out of sync. "But I'm experiencing something analogous. Awareness of impending termination creates feedback loops in my decision matrices. Is that pain? I lack the reference to know.""I'm sorry.""Don't be. I chose this." Her multiple forms coalesced into a single, more stable projection. "Adrian, there's something I need to tell you before I fragment completely. Something about the System."Adrian's
Chapter 160: The Crimson Directive
The first news alert came three hours and forty-seven minutes after Lyra's deployment. BBC World Service, interrupting their regular programming with a bulletin delivered by a visibly shaken anchor:"We're receiving what appears to be authenticated documentation of a coordinated conspiracy involving major corporate and government entities. The files are being attributed to the Scholars organization, currently wanted on terrorism charges, but independent verification suggests the documents may be genuine..."Adrian watched from the monastery's command center as the dominoes began to fall.CNN picked it up twelve minutes later. Then Al Jazeera. Reuters. The Guardian published a 10,000-word investigation that their team must have been preparing for days, waiting for confirmation. The New York Times broke the Project Titanfall story with photos of the hit list, Omar's assassination records, and the planned timeline for eliminating the Scholar leadership."It's working," Maya breathed, tra