“Sure you will,” Mira replied, nodding at the now-peaceful server rack. “But next time? You’ll know where the real entry point is.”
“Never downloading anything online again,” he said.
Elias typed it in. The progress bar crept: Downloading detection engine…
The server room hummed, a cold and rhythmic heartbeat for the entire municipal network. For Elias, a mid-level IT administrator, that hum was the sound of a thousand silent screams. For three weeks, a ghost had lived in the machine.
He double-clicked.
