Chapter 17 - Infiltrating the Lion's DenMidnight had fallen over the city by the time an unmarked black tactical van rolled quietly into the subterranean loading dock of the Vanguard Financial skyscraper.
The rear doors opened silently. David, Clara, and a heavily armed strike team of four elite whistleblowers stepped out into the chilly, concrete-walled bay. Lily and Tommy had been safely secured at a secure underground safehouse miles away under the protection of trusted operatives, freeing David and Clara to wage their final war.
"Biometric scanner ahead," whispered one of the strike team members, pointing to a reinforced steel security gate blocking the executive elevator lobby.
David stepped forward without hesitation. He pressed his palm against the glass scanner pad and stared directly into the retinal recognition lens.
BZZZZT—GREEN.
"ACCESS GRANTED: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAVID VANCE."
The heavy steel gate slid smoothly into the wall.
"It worked," Clara whispered, gripping her suppressed sidearm tightly as she stepped past the threshold into the pristine, marble-tiled elevator lobby.
They stepped into the private executive elevator car. The doors closed with a soft, pneumatic hiss, and the car began to descend smoothly—not upward to the executive suites, but deep downward into the forbidden subterranean levels where no ordinary employee had ever set foot.
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The digital floor indicator ticked downward into the negatives: -1, -2, -3... down to -7.
With a soft chime, the elevator car came to a complete stop. The doors slid open to reveal a scene straight out of a science fiction nightmare.
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