Chapter 45 - The invisible snare
The Aegis hackers greedily continued their digital assault, completely unaware they were being brilliantly outmaneuvered. As they bypassed Elena's intentionally weakened secondary firewall, the rogue algorithm flooded into a highly contained, isolated server mimicking the conglomerate's primary offshore bank accounts. The Council thought they had finally won the war. Instead, the trap snapped shut with devastating, catastrophic finality. The viral counter-code didn't just lock the Aegis virus out; it violently surged back through its own connection, systematically overloading and destroying the incredibly expensive hardware of the Council's global network. The hacker announced with absolute, triumphant authority that they had found the physical location. The central authentication server wasn't in Rome. It was located in a heavily fortified, abandoned subterranean military bunker hidden deep in the snowy mountains of Switzerland. The heirs' jaws locked into unyielding stone. The cyber-war was officially over, and the physical, bloody reckoning was about to begin. They checked the magazines of their tactical weapons, their eyes radiating pure, unadulterated fury.
👉 Can the heirs infiltrate the impenetrable alpine fortress?
