It was the first time Justin and Benny had been invited inside Alec Blackwood’s inner sanctum—a place few were allowed to enter, and even fewer left unaffected by. Alec’s five-thousand-acre office compound was a kingdom carved out of steel, glass, and innovation. Every hallway whispered wealth. Every surface reflected power. And the laboratory, the crown jewel of it all, looked like something plucked from the pages of a science fiction dream.
As the heavy security doors slid open with a quiet hiss, Justin and Benny stepped inside the heart of Alec’s empire.
For a moment, neither of them spoke.
Their eyes swept across the expanse of the lab. It stretched out like a cathedral of technology—high ceilings glittering with embedded LED lights, transparent data screens suspended in mid-air, ro
