"Isolate the server nodes right now!" I shouted, my fingers flying across my primary keyboard as the federal warning system blared red across our monitors.
The countdown on my terminal was dropping fast, secondary algorithms rapidly tracing our internal IP address back to Rhys’s master console. If those federal tracking protocols locked onto his machine before I severed the physical links, every piece of encrypted shadow data would pin the blame squarely on him.
"I can't override the master lockout!" Marcus yelled over the wailing emergency sirens, his hands slamming against his secondary interface as the security doors automatically began to seal. "The localized cyber-strike bypassed my administrative clearances! The security system is routing directly to federal servers!"
"It isn't a
