Chapter 14 - the counter strike
Alistair and his rogue hackers greedily took the bait. As they bypassed Grace's intentionally weakened firewall, they flooded into a highly contained server mimicking the conglomerate's primary offshore bank accounts.
The arrogant rival mogul smiled, thinking he had just successfully extorted billions while ruining Grace's pristine design record. Instead, the trap snapped shut with devastating, catastrophic finality. Grace’s viral code locked them out.
The virus systematically destroyed Alistair's expensive hardware, melting the rogue servers from the inside out in a matter of seconds. "We have their physical location," Grace announced, her voice ringing with absolute, triumphant authority.
"They aren't in Europe," she continued, pulling up a high-resolution satellite map on the main screen. "They are operating out of an abandoned commercial warehouse in the downtown garment district. They are right across the river from us."
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Nathan’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, and they were ready to strike the enemy.
👉 read part 15 to see the apex predator hunt.
