Chapter 990
This tournament was the only chance for the scholarship students to turn their lives around.
If they lost.
If they didn’t even survive the first round.
She wouldn’t just be letting down the Captain-she’d be letting down herself and everyone who had fought so hard to get here.
“It’s fine,” Serena said, her voice entirely undisturbed. “Even without us, Caleb and the others can secure a victory in the first round. You need to trust them p>
Lydia clenched her fists. “You’re right! Even without us, Caleb, Vanessa, and Jasper are brilliant. They definitely won’t lose p>
Lydia scrambled toward the back of the motorcycle. “Captain, let’s go! We need to rush to the stadium! We might still make it in time to help out p>
But Serena didn’t make a move to get on the bike.
Instead, she checked her watch. “Three minutes left p>
“Huh?” Lydia looked at her in confusion.
Three minutes for what?
Was the Captain waiting for someone?
Serena didn’t explain. She simply gestured for Lydia to stand by the bike. “Wait here p>
Without another word, she turned and walked back toward the abandoned factory.
But she didn’t head for the main entrance.
Instead, she slipped around the side of the building.
The area was choked with towering weeds, entirely ignored by whoever maintained the cover operation.
But hidden beneath the overgrowth was a row of rusted electrical boxes.
They looked completely ordinary.
Serena waded through the weeds and brushed the dirt off the nearest box.
The lock showed clear signs of being picked—something she had done casually when she first arrived.
This electrical box was the main power and network relay for the Subterranean Bio- Lab operating beneath their feet.
It was the central hub for all their hidden data exchanges.
The Doyle family foolishly believed that burying their lab underground made it impenetrable.
They didn’t realize that where there was a network, there were no absolute secrets. Mainly p>
Sebastian was far too arrogant.
He was too confident in himself and his family’s power.
He genuinely believed that capturing Lydia was enough to control her,
I che was a reckless for ne
for
coming alone.
He hadn’t even bothered trying to hide his trail.
Bringing her straight to his primary base of operations gave Serena the perfect opportunity.
On her way over, she had hacked through their external firewalls using her phone and infiltrated their intranet.
However, the most critical files-the
human experimentation logs, the victim registries, and the financial trails were locked behind.an Air-Gamping Protocolon an isolated Server.
She needed a physical connection to extract that core data.
So p>
Upon arrival.
Before confronting Sebastian, she had slipped around the factory undetected, found the rusted box, and plugged her custom Specter Logie Probe straight into the underground server’s mainline.
Bypassing the protocol just took a little time.
Her violent brawl with Sebastian had provided the perfect distraction.
Serena popped open the electrical box.
The small device attached to the wires blinked, transitioning from red to a steady green.
Perfect timing.
Serena unplugged the device and popped out a thumbnail-sized chip from its casing.
This was her true objective today.