ERROR. ERROR. ERROR.
The firewalls buckled. Then collapsed like a house of cards.
Not just breached—the control they had been in the process of pulling back had slipped entirely out of their hands. Engineers scrambled, their keyboards clicking frantically. The IT team moved fast and came back with one result: a single message burned across every screen in the facility, searing into the retinas of everyone watching.
They had been too slow.
{ I WILL KILL YOU CRUXIUS BLAC }
"Which one?" Cruxius asked, his voice eerily calm. His eyes moved to Darithi.
He had already known some of the subsidiaries would be hit—Lulu's capability wasn't something even a full lockdown could outrun if the window stayed open even a second too long. Beyond her, there were others. Women who had possibly regained their memories and were holding their timing, waiting for the right pressure point.
