Chapter 34 - the counter strike
Victor Thorne and his rogue hackers greedily took the bait. As they bypassed Olivia's intentionally weakened firewall, they flooded into a highly contained server mimicking the conglomerate's primary offshore bank accounts.
The arrogant rival CEO smiled, thinking he had just successfully extorted billions while ruining Olivia's pristine safety record. Instead, the trap snapped shut with devastating, catastrophic finality. Olivia’s viral code locked them out.
The virus systematically destroyed Thorne's expensive hardware, melting the rogue servers from the inside out in a matter of seconds. "We have their physical location," Olivia announced, her voice ringing with absolute, triumphant authority.
"They aren't in Europe," she continued, pulling up a high-resolution satellite map. "They are operating out of an abandoned commercial high-rise in the downtown financial district. They are right across the river from us."
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Her security chief’s jaw locked into unyielding stone. The cyber-war was officially over. The physical, bloody reckoning was about to begin. The hunt had officially begun tonight.
👉 read part 35 to see the apex predator hunt.
