Frederick felt the ground shift beneath him as the implications of Robert's revelation became clear. The Syndicate had created a biological weapon as a insurance policy, as a way to ensure that if the organization was ever threatened with exposure and dismantling, the organization could still exercise power over the world through the threat of mass death.
"Where is the weapon stored?" Frederick asked urgently.
"We are still trying to determine its location," Robert said. "According to the intelligence we have gathered, the weapon is being held at a secret facility somewhere in Eastern Europe. But we do not have exact coordinates yet. And according to the failsafe mechanism that we have discovered, someone within the Syndicate has the ability to remotely trigger the weapon's release. That
