The subterranean basement beneath Carter Global headquarters did not exist on any public architectural blueprint.
Tucked two stories below the underground parking garage behind a reinforced steel door requiring dual biometric authentication, the server vault was a sterile, brightly lit chamber kept at a constant forty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. The rhythmic, low-frequency hum of liquid-cooled processor racks filled the cold air, flickering with thousands of synchronized blue and green status LEDs.
It was three o'clock in the morning.
Evelyn sat at a curved workstation in the center of the vault, her face illuminated by the cool glow of four ultra-high-definition monitors. Her fingers flew across her mechanical keyboard with blinding speed, generating line after line of intricate, highly
