Vernon had seen the message and given it a great deal of thought before coming. There was a very high chance that it could be a trap.
Vernon didn’t breach the facility through the front entrance.
That would have been suicide.
He used the one vulnerability every modern medical complex shared: its maintenance network.
Two hours earlier, Vernon had intercepted a hospital supply truck three blocks away. He deployed a compact signal-cloning device, copying the truck’s digital manifest and employee credentials in under thirty seconds.
Dressed as a medical gas technician, he arrived at the loading dock pushing a pressurized oxygen cylinder on a transport trolley.
To the guards monitoring security feeds, he was invisible.
Just another worker performing another routine delivery.
Inside the
