The facility in Antarctica was buried two thousand feet beneath the ice sheet, accessible only through a single tunnel that required advanced technology to navigate. Barry's team had obtained the location from defectors within the organization, people who had decided that the survival of humanity mattered more than their allegiance to Thomas Chen.
The descent through the tunnel took nearly an hour. Barry watched through the window of the specialized vehicle as the ice gradually gave way to rock, and the rock eventually opened into a vast underground cavern that had been carved out and converted into a research facility.
The facility was unlike anything Barry had ever seen. It contained servers running sophisticated data analysis systems. It contained living quarters, medical facilities,
