Chapter 10: Breakpoint
They didn’t run.
Not this time.
After the bunker fell, Jax and the crew crossed the border into Zambia under a fading moon and a sky full of stars that didn’t care what names they carried. They found a safehouse buried beneath what used to be a telecom relay station — a relic of an older war, now repurposed for a new one.
Sienna crashed hard. Pierce slept with one eye open and a pistol in hand.
Jax?
Jax stared at the ceiling.
He was waiting for the ripple.
He didn’t have to wait long.
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The Leak
At 07:14 UTC, three major servers across Europe, Asia, and the US received a data dump:
- Neural maps from Black Root.
- Facial scans of Echo-01 and 02.
- A single voiceprint labeled "MERCER / COMPROMISED."
It wasn’t from them.
It was triggered by Valya’s
