At 3:17 a.m., the laboratory’s quantum clock let out a shrill alarm. Lin Mo’s fingertips hovered three millimeters above his keyboard as the defensive matrix on the projection screen was torn into spiderweb-like cracks by an unknown force.
"The seventh time," he murmured, licking his parched lips. The data streams dancing across his retinas mirrored the streaks of torrential rain outside the window. The attack code contained a familiar nested structure—a unique programming quirk of his late mother-in-law, Professor Chu, much like how she would always stir her tea exactly three times clockwise.
Su Yuqing’s nano-cells suddenly shifted in unison within their petri dish. She pressed a hand to her temple. "It’s happening again... this time, it’s two centimeters behind my left ear." The bio-chip at the base of her neck glowed with a faint blue light, pulsing in sync with the alarm lights on the server racks.
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