Chapter 35 - Blood and Silicon The carbine in Dante’s hands didn't bark; it roared, sending a high-velocity round grazing past the Director’s shoulder to shatter the concrete wall behind him.
"Drop it," Dante commanded, stepping fully into the white light of the vault, his posture rigid, his eyes fixed on the man with the chemical burn.
The Director froze, his hand hovering inches from his weapon. A cold, dangerous smile spread across his scarred face. "You think shooting me stops the protocol, Dante? The Genesis archive is already syncing with orbital servers over the Atlantic. Within three minutes, every government intelligence agency and rival syndicate on the planet will receive the complete DNA mapping of your son."
Leo slipped out from the secret tunnel entrance behind his father, moving with absolute silence. His small hands gripped the compact rifle, his dark eyes locked not on the Director, but on the override terminal glowing on the vault console.
"It's not syncing," Leo said quietly.
The Director frowned, glancing toward the boy. "What are you talking about, kid?"
"You're routing through an open satellite relay stationed off the coast of Nova Scotia," Leo continued, his voice unnervingly calm as his fingers danced across a pocket diagnostic tool he had pulled from his tactical vest. "Which means your uplink is vulnerable to a bidirectional feedback loop."
Before the Director could react, Leo slammed a physical override cable into the console’s auxiliary port and hit the execution macro.
A high-pitched, deafening whine filled the vault as the master console began to spark violently, smoke pouring from the server racks as a massive surge of electrical feedback traveled backward through the satellite relay, frying the mobile command van parked outside the estate gates.
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"No!" the Director screamed, lunging toward the console—but Dante moved with blinding speed.
The butt of Dante’s carbine struck the Director squarely across the jaw, sending him crashing hard onto the concrete floor, unconscious before he even hit the ground.
