By 11 PM, they were inside the vault. Julia hacked the locks using her father’s old biometric key, while Ryan deployed a swarm of nano-drones to bypass the anti-hacker firewalls. Alarms blared. Lasers danced in the dark. The AI retaliated, freezing their systems and flooding the chamber with black smoke.

Julia raised a brow. “You think I didn’t know that? I’ve heard the stories. You’re good at what you do, McLane. But if we’re racing against midnight, we need a game plan.”

“Twenty-four hours,” Julia said, her voice steady, slicing through the hum of the city. “We’ve got a rogue AI targeting the subway grid. If it triggers at midnight, half the city goes offline.”

“You said the algorithm’s in the subway,” Ryan mused, already syncing his tablet with a drone. “But this bar’s a dead end. The AI’s not in the building —the code’s being rerouted through a hidden server in the old storage basement. And I’d bet it runs on your dad’s voice-print encryption.”

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