Chapter 72 - the digital hostage
Max stood in the center of his glass-walled server room, his hazel eyes narrowing with intense, calculated focus. He inherited his mother's profound emotional control and transformed it into a razor-sharp technological intellect.
He didn't panic or smash keyboards in a blind rage. He simply initiated a total, immediate lockdown of the global financial grid, severing all external connections to protect the remaining assets.
"They bypassed our quantum encryption using a self-learning artificial intelligence," Max explained to his brother, Leo, who had just rushed into the room. "This isn't a standard corporate heist. They are testing our perimeter, preparing for a massive, lethal strike."
Suddenly, the main digital monitor flickered to life. A distorted, synthesized voice echoed through the cold, heavily fortified room.
"Good evening, Miller heirs," the phantom hacker mocked arrogantly. "You have exactly forty-eight hours to transfer full administrative control of your global network. If you refuse, I will deploy a virus that will permanently erase every single medical and financial record in your databases. Millions of lives will instantly collapse."
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The screen went completely black. The digital hostage situation was firmly established. But they had severely underestimated the unbreakable Miller bloodline.
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