Faced with The Raven's murderous rage, no one dared to utter a single word of protest.
The only sound left in the room was the rhythmic, digital ticking of the self-destruct timer.
Standing in the crimson glare of the emergency lights, The Raven stared unflinchingly at Serena on the monitor.
His dark, predatory eyes burned with toxic hatred.
The Panacea would pay for today's humiliation. He would make sure she suffered a hundred times over!
Meanwhile, down in The Logistics Spine.
The chaotic blur of code scrolling frantically across the terminal finally sputtered to a halt.
Serena's slender fingers tapped the glass screen a few final times.
She compressed every byte of data she had just ripped from Obsidian's network and downloaded it straight into her micro-terminal.
This included the remote command protocols, the experimental logs, and an endless array of pharmaceutical records.
She even captured the digital footprint left behind by the remote destruct command.
But most importantly...
She got the origin IP address that launched the remote signal.
It was all safely stored in her encrypted drive.
Even though Obsidian hadn't been slow to react, pulling the plug and torching their own data at the very last second, it didn't matter.
As long as they left a digital trace on the network, no one could hide from her. Nobody could ever wipe their slate completely clean.
She had exactly what she came for.
Serena lowered her gaze, glancing at the prompt on her terminal, and a slow, wicked smile curved her red lips.
An impossibly arrogant smirk lit up her striking, pale features. "Sixty seconds. More than enough time to steal a specimen."
Her tone was maddeningly casual, as if she were talking about stealing candy rather than hijacking a multi-million dollar bioweapon.
But to the Obsidian commander currently pinned beneath Julian's boot, her words felt like a knife twisting in his gut.
All his arrogance, all his unshakable confidence...
And the ultimate failsafe Obsidian had painstakingly installed inside Specimen Fourteen...
Had just been completely obliterated by this woman in under a minute!
Specimen Fourteen hadn't been destroyed.
Its complete operational clearance had been stolen by The Panacea.
And Lord Raven's remote command terminal had been violently reverse-hacked.
They had lost every single trump card.
Venomous resentment and utter despair tangled in the commander's eyes.
He refused to accept that Fourteen-a masterpiece Obsidian had poured endless
fortunes into perfecting-was simply taken!
And he especially refused to accept that Obsidian's proudest technological achievements were nothing but child's play to The Panacea!
"Don't get cocky, Panacea!"
His throat was dry and raspy as he glared up at Serena. "So what if you temporarily cut off the remote program?"
"I'm telling you right now, Fourteen is nothing like Asset 07! Even if you hijacked the controls, you can't keep it contained forever!"
"The mutated genes inside of it
could spiral out of control at any second! We threw millions of dollars and entire teams of scientists at it, and we couldnt even domesticate it!
Who the hell do you think you are to
Before he could finish his hysterical rant, Serena effortlessly cut him off.
She arched a brow, glancing down at his ashen, defeated face with a lazy hall smile The fact that you couldn't control it just proves that you're a bunch of incompetent losers."
Her cool tone dripped with unfiltered mockery.
The commander was speechless.
He looked like he was about to choke on his own fury.
He wanted to scream back, but the words died in his throat.
She wasn't wrong.
Specimen Fourteen was the closest thing to a flawless Obsidian Augment they had ever created bought with staggering amounts of money and a mountain of human lives.
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