**11:58 PM**
The old station clock continued to tick.
Tick...
Tick...
Tick...
Each second echoed through the underground chamber like a heartbeat buried beneath twenty years of silence.
No one dared touch the envelope.
Its cream-colored paper had yellowed with age, but Daniel's handwriting remained beautifully clear.
**OPEN ONLY AFTER MIDNIGHT.**
Lily stood beside the table, unable to take her eyes off it.
"So he knew..."
she whispered.
"He knew exactly when we'd be here."
Samuel smiled sadly.
"Daniel believed that truth had its own time."
"He never forced it."
"He waited for people to be ready."
Jonathan slowly sat down in one of the old wooden chairs.
His face looked older than it had only an hour before.
Finding out that Daniel had never betrayed Project Phoenix had l
