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Chapter 183
**Chapter [Next Number]**The shuttle to Prometheus Station departed from a private orbital platform above the Java Sea just after dawn. No fanfare, no visible Genesis markings—only a sleek, matte-black craft registered to an Indonesian medical logistics firm. Inside, the cabin smelled faintly of new polymers and ozone from active air recyclers. James and Elena sat across from Dr. Cross and Viktor Kruger; Dr. Sato had returned to the station the previous night to prepare for their arrival.No one spoke much during ascent. The silence wasn’t hostile, but it carried weight. Every glance, every small movement felt catalogued. James could feel Kruger’s eyes—those faintly luminous irises—mapping micro-expressions, pupil dilation, pulse visible at the carotid. The man wasn’t just watching; he was parsing.Elena’s hand rested lightly on James’s knee, thumb moving in the small, deliberate circle they’d long used as code for *I’m here. Stay sharp.* He returned the pressure once. Message receiv
The Surrender
James composed the message carefully, knowing Genesis monitored specific channels through compromised networks Chen had identified. He broadcast on frequency guaranteed to reach Dr. Cross within hours:Dr. Cross, I know what you’re building on Prometheus Station. I’ve seen intelligence, understand your Synthesis Protocol objectives. I’m willing to discuss collaboration rather than opposition. Meet me—neutral ground, no violence, genuine conversation about medical future. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe forced democratization isn’t only option. Let’s talk. —James ThorneThe bait was irresistible. James Thorne, destroyer of Consortium and Genesis Singapore, offering collaboration after months of opposition. Genesis would suspect trap but couldn’t resist opportunity for conversation that might lead to his voluntary participation.Response came within six hours:Dr. Thorne, your message is unexpected and welcome. Jakarta safehouse, coordinates attached. Tomorrow 3 PM. Bring medical advisor if de
Island of Shadows
Satellite imagery arrived from Marcus's military contacts—high-resolution surveillance of Genesis's Indonesian island facility. Chen displayed it across command center screens, and everyone went silent."Codename 'Prometheus Station,'" Chen reported. "Forty square kilometers of fortified compound. Main research facility, underground bunkers, what appears to be medical wing housing two hundred plus individuals. Military-grade security—armed patrols, sensor networks, anti-aircraft defenses."Thermal scans showed massive energy consumption—power signatures exceeding normal research facility by factor of ten. Whatever Genesis was building required resources that dwarfed their Singapore operation."Facial recognition caught these arrivals over past week," Chen continued, pulling up airport surveillance from nearby Java. Dr. Nathan Cross, Dr. Keiko Sato—apparently released on bail pending trial—and dozen other Genesis executives who'd escaped Singapore raid. "They're rebuilding with everyon
The Countermove
The Alliance Council convened via secure video conference—leaders from one hundred fifty countries, representing seven thousand healers, facing a question that divided them ideologically: how to respond to Genesis’s survival and rebranding.Li Mei advocated direct action. “We destroy their AI platforms. Delete the stolen knowledge, cripple their infrastructure, make their extractive methodology worthless. Ghost’s team can execute a cyber-assault that erases everything Genesis archived.”“That punishes innocent patients,” Dr. Wei countered from Tokyo. “Genesis’s diagnostic AI is already deployed in hospitals worldwide. Doctors rely on it. Patients receive treatment based on its recommendations. Destroying it harms people who had no involvement in Genesis’s crimes.”“Those people are receiving treatment based on stolen knowledge,” Li Mei argued. “Knowledge extracted from healers who were destroyed in the process. Using that is complicity.”“Or it’s pragmatism,” Marcus said careful
Fallback Plan
The raid was successful by tactical metrics—forty-seven Heritage Fellows rescued before severe cognitive damage, thirty Archive victims evacuated alive, Genesis Institute Singapore secured. But victory tasted bitter as aftermath revealed scope of failure.Genesis leadership escaped via underground tunnel network Chen's surveillance hadn't detected. Dr. Nathan Cross, senior researchers, key executives—all vanished during the chaos, leaving only mid-level staff to face arrest. Singapore authorities detained twenty-three Genesis employees, but the architects of systematic mind-harvesting were gone.Chen recovered sixty percent of research data before upload completed—destroying servers, cutting connections, corrupting files. But forty percent reached unknown cloud servers, distributed across jurisdictions that would require years of legal action to access. Stolen knowledge from two hundred one healers, archived beyond retrieval, property of Genesis or whoever inherited their digital infr
The Raid
The facility lockdown triggered instantly—Chen’s cyber-attack detected by Genesis’s redundant security systems. Alarms shrieked through darkness, emergency lighting casting red shadows, researchers abandoning stations in panic. Dr. Sato stared at James through the chaos, understanding flooding her face.“You’re not here to share knowledge,” she said, voice carrying betrayal and rage. “You’re sabotaging years of research. Years of preservation work!”She lunged for emergency console, initiating protocol James hadn’t anticipated. “Emergency data upload—transferring all extracted memories to off-site cloud servers. You can destroy our facility but you can’t stop the preservation. The knowledge survives!”Progress bars appeared on screens still functioning on backup power—terabytes of stolen memories uploading to Genesis’s distributed network. Everything extracted from two hundred one healers, including what they’d just pulled from James, being archived beyond physical reach.James broke
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