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Chapter 10: Into the Storm

The sudden arrival of federal agents on the 40th floor turned the orderly corporate boardroom into a scene of controlled chaos. Special agents in suits flooded the room, securing documents, laptops, and hard drives.

In the confusion, Victor backed out toward his private executive office adjacent to the boardroom. Spotting the movement, Julian signaled to Captain Vance, who was waiting near the elevator bank.

"He's trying to access his private safe," Julian warned. "He has offshore authorization codes stored on an offline satellite link."

Julian and Clara followed Evelyn and the agents down the private corridor toward Victor’s corner office. But as they reached the double frosted glass doors, the electronic lock clicked shut, locking them out.

"He’s locked the magnetic deadbolts," Evelyn said, tapping frantically on the keypad. "He’s overriding the security code from the inside!"

Inside the office, through the semi-opaque glass, Victor could be seen hastily pulling a heavy metallic case from behind a hidden wall panel. He was preparing to execute an emergency financial burn command—a destructive script designed to overwrite every server in the building and wipe all evidence of the offshore accounts simultaneously.

"If he triggers that command," Julian yelled, "the encrypted drive we have won't match any live corporate database! The legal chain of evidence will be severely damaged!"

Clara stepped forward, looking closely at the electronic lock interface. "The keypad override... it's using the old legacy network protocol! My father wrote about this in his personal journal!"

"Can you bypass it?" Julian asked.

"I need your phone, Julian!" she said urgently.

Julian handed her his smartphone. Clara quickly brought up a specialized network utility app, connecting to the lock's Bluetooth maintenance signal. Her fingers flew across the screen, entering an archaic default admin override string her father had meticulously noted twenty years earlier: