LOGINEveryone turned toward Samuel after his statement. Olivia asked, “You saw the black box when you were a child?” Samuel explained that he remembered seeing it in a house where he spent part of his childhood. He never knew what was inside. He remembered being warned not to touch it. He also remembered an older man telling him, “That box doesn’t belong to you.” Samuel insisted he never understood what the man meant. Richard immediately reassured everyone that Samuel was not being accused of anything. Olivia agreed. She wanted answers, not another false accusation. Samuel described the room. A wooden desk. A red curtain. An old bookshelf. And a small locked cabinet. Olivia realized the description matched the room from her own childhood memory. This meant Samuel may have been inside the same location. Samuel became confused. “How would you know what that room looked like?” Olivia answered, “Because I remember being there too.” The connection between their childhoods be
The room remained silent after the message. Lucien already knows the answer.Everyone turned toward him. Olivia asked, “What do you remember?” Lucien struggled. He explained that the memory was extremely old. He remembered being inside Jonathan’s study when he was a child. Jonathan showed him a photograph the same photograph Olivia described. Two babies. One was Olivia. The other was a baby boy. Lucien remembered asking Jonathan, “Who is he?” Jonathan refused to answer. Instead he said, “One day, you may have to protect both of them.” Lucien never understood what Jonathan meant. Olivia asked whether Lucien remembered anything else. He said he remembered the back of the photograph. There was handwriting on it a date, two initials, and a strange symbol. Michael immediately asked what the initials were. Lucien said, “O.C.” Olivia assumed the initials belonged to her. Lucien shook his head. The initials were written beneath the second baby, not Olivia. This meant t
The timer continued. 00:57 00:56 00:55 Everyone froze. Richard told Olivia not to touch the envelope. Michael immediately examined the device. He discovered that the timer was not connected to explosives. It was connected to the archive’s security system. If the timer reached zero, the archive would automatically lock itself and permanently destroy the digital records. Olivia realized the mastermind was not threatening to kill them. They were threatening to destroy the truth. “They don’t want us dead,” she said. “They want us to lose what we found.” The timer continued. Olivia decided they had no choice. She opened the envelope. Inside was a single sheet of paper. There was no name. Only three instructions: Do not trust the recording. Do not trust the photograph.Trust the memory.Everyone was confused. Jonathan’s recording was supposed to be their most reliable evidence. Why would the mastermind tell them not to trust it? Lucien immediately asked who placed
The words remained visible on the wall. STOP LOOKING.Nobody spoke for several seconds. Olivia stared at the message. Instead of frightening her, it made her more determined. “If they wanted me to stop,” she said, “they shouldn’t have shown me the door.” Lucien agreed. Michael immediately checked whether the message was triggered remotely. Adrian examined the wall. They discovered the message was not painted or projected. It was created by an old mechanism hidden inside the archive. That meant Jonathan himself had installed it. Olivia realized the warning may not have come from the enemy. It may have been part of Jonathan’s design. Michael discovered another hidden panel beneath the desk. It contained an old recording system. The system activated when Olivia placed the photograph on the desk. Jonathan’s voice began playing. “If you’ve reached this room, then someone has already tried to stop you.” Olivia listened carefully. Jonathan explained that the final archive was
The underground room was completely dark. Olivia looked at her mother. Her mother was still staring at the photograph. “Who is it?” Olivia asked. Her mother finally whispered, “Eleanor.” Olivia froze. Lucien immediately reacted. He could not believe his mother was connected to the photograph. “My mother?” Olivia’s mother nodded. She explained that Eleanor was present during one of the secret meetings Jonathan held before the Carter–Ashford feud exploded. But she insisted, “She wasn’t the person who betrayed us.” Olivia was confused. If Eleanor was there, why was she never mentioned? “Because she was trying to stop it,” her mother answered. The hidden door remained locked. Michael tried to force it open. Adrian examined the mechanism. Samuel, still weak from his injury, realized the door was not designed to keep people out. It was designed to keep people inside until the correct sequence was completed. Olivia searched the room. She noticed three symbols carved int
Olivia stood outside the Carter family estate. She had not returned since the investigation began. The house looked exactly as she remembered it, yet now she saw it differently. Every room could contain a secret. Every hallway could hide something Jonathan never told them. Lucien stayed beside her. He reminded her that they did not have to do this alone. “I grew up in this house,” Olivia said. “How did I never know what was underneath it?” Samuel, still weak from the gunshot, answered, “Because Jonathan didn’t want you to know until you were ready.” Before they entered, Olivia received a call from Richard. He asked where she was. She told him the truth: they were at the Carter estate. Richard immediately became concerned. He told her that Jonathan once specifically instructed him never to search beneath the house. Olivia asked why. “Because Jonathan told me the day would come when you would need to find it yourself.” Olivia realized Jonathan never trusted anyone ev







