The next night, Adrian decided to spend his entire night in his office once again. Finding out about the Ghost Surgeon made him reconsider all the protocols he had already created.If it was the Ghost Surgeon he had heard about, then the current security systems he had placed would work at all.In front of him sat scattered blueprints laid across his desk and multiple screens, glowing around him and illuminating the dark room. Each of the screens displayed multiple internal security frameworks he had drafted.Adrian's pen scratched across one of the papers with sharp, decisive strokes. Each motion was efficient as he tore apart MMG's existing security structure and reassembled it from the ground up.He kept on erasing entire systems with the casual precision of someone drawing and erasing basic shapes. In their place, he designed new frameworks that were tighter and faster. Frameworks he felt could at least restrict the Ghost Surgeon's access to some things in MMGHe didn't need rest

For the first time in what had been weeks, Lillian Monroe stepped through the main glass doors of MMG.Her heels struck the marble floors with a sharp and steady rhythm. It was a sound that once blended in effortlessly with the chaos of the hospital, but now, it just echoed in the building.MMG used to feel familiar. She had grown used to the chaos and drama that it brought due to research crisis or overflowing schedules.But now, it just felt completely different.It was calm, and quiet.Security guards were stationed at nearly every intersection, their expressions taut and watchful. New scanning devices hummed near the turnstiles.The front desk was manned by not one staff, but three instead. There were also robotic surveillance units that glided silently on the ceiling tracks.She stood still with a shocked expression. 'I was gone for just two weeks. How did he change everything in such a short amount of time.'Before long, one or two staffs noticed her arrival, and the news instan

The Post-Op Recovery Ward was unusually calm for a Wednesday afternoon.Machines hummed softly and the overhead lights casted a bright glow. Nurses moved with the quiet routine of a day that promised usual checks and charting.A patient who had undergone a simple minimally invasive procedure rested peacefully beneath warm blankets, his chest rising and falling in a steady and slow rhythm.His vitals had been stable for about three hours straight.Everything about the ward today was normal. It almost felt like it was staged.Lily had walked past earlier, noting how serene everything looked. Even some of the senior nurses had joked."If everyday was like this, MMG would be like a holiday resort.""Yeah! If only—"Then all of a sudden, without warning. A piercing alarm exploded through the ward.Nurses jerked around and heads snapped towards the monitor showing the crashed vitals. Oxygen saturation had plummeted and blood pressure had completely flatlined.The patient's heart rhythm spas

Later that night, Vivian sat inside the cyber forensics room. All the lights were turned off leaving the room dim.The rest of the departments had already turned of their lights, leaving the entire floor buried in darkness. Yet, in Vivian's office, four monitors that were turned on shone a bright blue light that washed over the room, reflecting of her glasses.Her hair was tied into a messy ponytail with multiple strands falling from what could be hours of frustration. On her table sat her keyboard, and beside it a half-finished cup of coffee that was already cold.It had already been nineteen whole hours, and Vivian still hadn't gotten the time to get some rest.Her reason was very simple. Adrian had given her something to work on. She wasn't going to rest until it was completed.She wrote up another line of code that scrolled across the terminal. Multiple characters began flooding the system and streaming faster than even the human eye could track.Her eyes fluttered continually as

Lily sat behind her desk in her quiet office, her gaze stuck on an open patient file, even though she wasn't even reading anything. The letters in the report were just blurry as the only thing that was on her mind was the confrontation she had with Adrian.She could still remember the way he spoke after she had shown him the file. The way he showed gratitude, his facial expressions. It was as if a large burden had finally been removed from his mind.Her fingers clenched around the page slightly.Then suddenly, the door of her office opened. She didn't even hear a knock. The sound of her door opening instantly brought her back to the present.All the thoughts she had of Adrian instantly left her head as she heard the footsteps drawing closer to her.She looked up slowly, and there she saw him— William Monroe, her father, standing in her doorway and looking at her with a cold gaze.Then behind him was Robert, who stood with his arms crossed and his jaw clenched tightly. It looked as if