Chapter 15 - the extraction
The remaining hacker sat completely paralyzed, his hands raised in surrender as he stared at the two unconscious men on the floor. I walked slowly toward him, my breathing perfectly steady, radiating absolute, suffocating authority.
"Who hired you to attack the Sterling network?" I asked, my voice a low, lethal whisper that echoed off the glass walls.
"I... I don't know his real name!" the hacker stammered, sweating profusely. "We only communicate through an encrypted dark-web portal! He pays us in untraceable cryptocurrency! I swear to God!"
I didn't yell or threaten him. I calmly pulled a specialized, military-grade extraction drive from my tactical vest and slammed it directly into his primary server terminal. In less than sixty seconds, I downloaded every single byte of data, communication log, and financial transaction they possessed.
"If you ever touch a keyboard again," I stated coldly, pulling the drive out, "I won't be as gentle."
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I left the luxury penthouse exactly as silently as I had entered, vanishing back into the shadows of the city. The physical confrontation was over, but the digital war had just provided me with the ultimate, devastating weapon.
👉 read part 16 to see the true enemy revealed.
