This interference signal was all too familiar to Curtis. He'd run into it several times before, and failing to crack it had cost his team—especially James—a lot, leaving them still hunting for the mastermind behind it all.
Now, as the signal flared up again, Curtis couldn't shake the feeling it might be linked to Mirabella. His fingers hovered over the keyboard, frozen. He tried to tell himself it was a coincidence, that this interference signal had nothing to do with Ms. Mirabella. But he couldn't ignore the thought of her top-notch hacking skills flashing through his mind. For a hacker of her caliber, whipping up an interference device like this would be a walk in the park.
The more Curtis dwelled on it, the more his mind spun. A nearby colleague, seeing him lost in thought, called out, “Jules?”
Curtis snapped out of it. “Hmm?”
“Are you stuck on this interference device too?” the colleague asked, clearly exasperated.
Curtis sighed inwardly and gave a wry smile. “No luck.”
If it were someone else behind this, he might have had a shot. After a pause, he admitted the skill gap between him and the hacker. “I'm afraid only whoever created this interference device can crack it.”
His colleague wasn’t buying it. As one of the top techs in the base, he wasn't about to let this slide. “You’re giving them too much credit. We'll crack it; it's just a matter of time.”


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