“No.”
My stomach drops.
“There’s no remote shutdown.”
Russ steps closer fast.
“Then what’s the option?”
Gabriel looks directly at me.
Then at the lower map.
Finally:
“We manually overload the core reactor powering the transit tunnels.”
Silence.
I stare at him.
Because I already know what he’s about to say next.
And when he says it…every ounce of air leaves my lungs.
“It’s directly beneath Wu’s command center.”
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Clay
Of course it is.
Because psychopaths like Wu always build their throne rooms closest to the fire.
The checkpoint falls silent while the bunker alarms continue pulsing red overhead.
Gabriel pulls the facility schematics onto the terminal screen.
Levels upon levels beneath Bucharest.
Research wings.
Containment sectors.
Transit tunnels.
Medical labs.
Enough infrastructure to hide a war underground.
And buried at the very bottom—
Ascension Core.
Directly beneath Director Wu’s command center.
Russ studies the map hard.
