The discovery of the monitoring device changed the mood inside the terminal.
Until now, everything they had found belonged to the past.
Old records.
Old warnings.
Old secrets.
But the device was different.
Someone had been here recently.
Someone had continued watching long after the network collapsed.
Long after the founder died.
Long after the government files disappeared.
The cover-up wasn't history.
It was still happening.
The four of them returned to the security office near midnight.
The room had become their temporary headquarters.
Files covered every table.
Boxes lined the walls.
Maps sat open across the desks.
The deeper they dug, the larger the mystery became.
Julian immediately began examining the monitoring unit they had removed.
Alexander reviewed the letters from the vault again.
Mateo sorted inspection records.
Elena sat alone with the founder's correspondence.
She needed to understand one thing.
Why.
