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Chapter 47 Part 3
"The system has been compromised. Someone is manipulating the security network to turn us against each other. Lower your weapons now."The guards hesitated. Then the entire system shut down. Screens went black. Lights died. The security network collapsed completely, proving that whatever was controlling it had no interest in protecting anyone inside the building.Adrian ran for the core server room. The door was already open, the lock bypassed. He plugged directly into Aegis through a hardwired terminal and began running diagnostics."Someone entered the deepest layer using my original authorization code." His fingers moved across the keyboard. "Not the credentials I use now. The original code from the research I created before prison.""That code was never uploaded into Skyward's current system." Sarah leaned over his shoulder. "How could anyone have it?""Only someone connected to my forgotten past."The screen flickered. An encrypted video activated on its own. The distortion was h
Chapter 47 Part 2
Chloe was crouched behind an overturned table near the fifth row. She had grabbed an emergency communication device from a broken security station and was scanning for a signal. Through the chaos, she saw Adrian moving through the attackers, taking them down with a speed and focus that made the armed professionals look clumsy.She stared at him. This was not the Adrian she remembered. The man she had sent to prison could barely raise his voice during an argument. The man in front of her was dismantling trained fighters like he had been doing it his entire life.The thought irritated her more than it impressed her. In her mind, he was still just a chief engineer who had gotten too confident after exposing Julian. He was playing hero because the audience was watching, nothing more."Everyone move toward the service exit behind the stage!" Adrian's voice cut through the noise.Chloe stood up and headed in the opposite direction. She had spotted a side corridor that looked like it led to
Chapter 47 Part 1
The lights died like someone had pulled the plug on the entire building. One second the auditorium was bright and buzzing with a thousand conversations, and the next it was black. Complete, suffocating darkness that swallowed every face and every sound except the immediate screaming that followed.Emergency doors slammed shut on every side. The heavy metallic bangs came one after another like gunshots, sealing the exits in a sequence so precise it could only have been automated. The giant screen behind the stage glitched, flickered, and then displayed a countdown. White numbers against a black background, ticking down from ten minutes.Chris grabbed Adrian's arm in the darkness. "This is it. The breach I warned you about. They waited until you were on stage with every camera in the country pointed at your face.""Sarah, can you regain control of the building?"Sarah's voice came through the earpiece, tight and urgent. "The system is rejecting my access. Someone has overridden the mast
Chapter 46 Part 3
Julian looked around the auditorium. Every face was turned toward him. Reporters were shouting questions. Photographers were firing their cameras. Investors who had shaken his hand at parties were looking at him like he was something stuck to their shoes.He moved toward the nearest exit. Three steps, four, his pace quickening. He reached the door and pushed.Locked.He pushed harder. Nothing."Open this door!" He slammed his palm against the metal. "You can't keep me here! This is illegal!"Two security officers appeared at the end of the aisle. Behind them, three men in dark suits with badges visible on their belts. Law enforcement. They walked toward Julian with the calm, measured pace of people who had been waiting outside for a very specific signal."You can't judge me!" Julian turned back toward the stage, his voice tearing at the edges. "You think you've won? There are people behind me who are more powerful than anything in this room! People who will never let you get away with
Chapter 46 Part 2
Julian looked at the screen. His eyes moved across the text, and his lips pressed together so tight they went white."Those are legitimate business transactions. Greyline Holdings is a consulting firm I work with. There is nothing illegal about transferring money to a business partner.""Greyline Holdings was registered four months before your transfer and dissolved three months after. It had no employees, no office, no website, and no clients except you." Adrian tilted his head slightly. "Would you like me to show the registration documents, or would you prefer to keep calling it a consulting firm?"The crowd was leaning forward now. The uncertainty that had flickered through the room moments ago was gone, replaced by the sharp, hungry attention of people who could smell blood.Adrian pressed another key. The hospital evidence appeared. First, the statements from the three nurses who had been fired. Written confessions, each one describing how Julian had contacted them, offered them
Chapter 46 Part 1
Julian's name burned on the screen behind Adrian like a brand. Every camera in the auditorium had swung toward the back rows, and the red recording lights looked like a hundred angry eyes all staring at the same man.Julian stood up. His chair scraped against the floor, and the sound cut through the silence like a nail across glass. He straightened his jacket, lifted his chin, and walked toward the center aisle with the deliberate confidence of a man who still believed his own voice could fix anything."This is a setup." His words carried across the auditorium, loud and smooth, aimed at the cameras more than the crowd. "Adrian Cole has spent years plotting this moment. Every piece of evidence on that screen was manufactured by a man with access to one of the most powerful AI systems on the planet. He built a machine that can forge anything, fabricate anything, and make it look real enough to fool the entire world."Several reporters turned their microphones toward him. The crowd shift
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