LOGIN"...Adrian?"The weak voice drifted through the dimly lit room once again."...My son."Adrian stopped walking.For a brief moment...Everything else disappeared.Charles.The gunfire outside.The mission.The island.All of it faded into silence.His eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness.The room was illuminated only by a small oil lamp sitting beside an old wooden bed.The yellow light barely reached the corners, leaving most of the room swallowed by shadows.An old man struggled to sit upright against the headboard.His once broad shoulders had become frail.His hair had turned almost completely gray.Wrinkles carved deeply into his tired face.This...This couldn't possibly be the same man Adrian remembered."...Dad?"The word never left his mouth.Instead, two voices battled inside him.Leave.Charles could be using him as a distraction.Stay.He's still your father.Adrian remained rooted to the spot.The old man tried to sit up but immediately broke into a violent coughing fit.
By the time dusk settled over the island, the last rays of sunlight disappeared behind the towering cliffs, casting long shadows across the dense forest.The island felt... wrong.An eerie silence blanketed everything.No birds.No insects.Not even the rustling of leaves.Only the occasional whisper of the cold wind weaving through the towering trees.Adrian signaled for his men to stop.The Shadow Claws immediately melted into the darkness, taking defensive positions with practiced precision.Ahead stood the Black Circuit's headquarters.It resembled an abandoned military compound more than an ordinary hideout.Weathered concrete walls.Watchtowers scarred by years of neglect.Bullet holes decorating every surface.The smell of gunpowder lingered heavily in the evening air.Adrian slowly surveyed the courtyard.His sharp eyes searched every rooftop.Every window.Every shadow.Something wasn't right."Tiger's team should've reached this place hours ago."Bruce frowned."I don't like
"What... what's wrong?"Evelyn rushed to Ethan's side, her heartbeat quickening the instant she saw the color drain from his face.Ethan didn't answer immediately.His fingers flew across the keyboard with frightening speed. The satellite image zoomed in, layer after layer peeling away until the terrain beneath the dense forest became visible.Then...The screen exploded with blinking crimson dots.Hundreds of them.No...Thousands.His breathing became uneven.For a long moment, the room fell completely silent except for the constant electronic beeping coming from the monitor.Finally..."The whole island..." Ethan whispered.His voice sounded distant."...is rigged with explosives.""What?"Evelyn stared at the screen without understanding."What do you mean explosives?"Ethan swallowed hard."Charles never planned to survive."He enlarged another section.More red markers appeared."They're everywhere... beneath the roads... under abandoned cabins... hidden inside the cliffs... eve
The command room had descended into complete chaos.Sirens blared from every corner of the underground fortress as men sprinted through the corridors, shouting conflicting reports over one another. Computer monitors flashed endless warnings while security cameras flickered on and off, many already rendered useless by Ethan's virus.Yet amidst the panic...Charles remained seated.Calm.Almost amused.His cigarette burned lazily between his fingers as smoke curled toward the concrete ceiling.Across the room, Andy paced back and forth like a trapped animal, dragging both hands through his hair."Gone..."His voice trembled."Everything is gone."He stopped and looked at Charles in utter disbelief."Everything Father spent his entire life building...""...reduced to nothing overnight."His fists clenched."Our businesses...""Our accounts...""Our influence...""Our empire...""Destroyed."He shook his head bitterly."You never listen."His voice cracked with frustration."Even now..."
The small apartment was eerily quiet.The curtains swayed gently as the cold morning breeze slipped through the slightly opened window. Empty coffee cups littered the table beside several laptops, while cables stretched across the floor like tangled vines.Ethan had unknowingly fallen asleep.His head rested on folded arms beside the computer he had personally assembled over the past few hours. Dark circles hung beneath his eyes, evidence of countless sleepless nights spent preparing for this exact moment.Then—Beep!A sharp electronic sound pierced the silence.Ethan's eyes snapped open instantly.For a split second, confusion clouded his face.Then another notification rang.Beep!His sleepy expression vanished.He shot upright."Bingo..."A slow grin spread across his face."It worked."His fingers immediately danced across the keyboard.Within seconds...Streams of encrypted data flooded across every monitor.Thousands...No...Millions of files began transferring into his privat
A heavy silence hung over the abandoned estate deep within the forests of Moldova.The ancient stone fortress stood hidden beneath towering pine trees, its weathered walls scarred by decades of rain, bullets, and bloodshed. Thick fog slithered across the cracked courtyard like restless spirits searching for their next victim.No birds sang.No insects chirped.Only the distant howl of the wind echoed through the mountains, carrying with it an unsettling promise...Death had made this place its home.Inside the fortress, dim yellow lights flickered against damp concrete walls.Armed men patrolled every corridor with military precision, their rifles hanging casually over their shoulders as though violence had become second nature.The headquarters of the Black Circuit...A place the world believed didn't exist.A place intelligence agencies had searched for over a decade......and failed to find.Inside the command room, Charles slowly rotated the flash drive between his fingers.His ex
Evelyn sat on the edge of the hospital bed, carefully peeling an apple for Eli. The thin blade slid slowly over the fruit, curling the skin into long, fragile strips that fell softly onto the tray. Her movements were deliberate—too deliberate—like someone afraid that if she moved too fast, everythi
“I don’t know what happened, sir. The systems suddenly stopped working. It doesn’t look like a hack—and even the server room lights keep flickering,” John said the moment Adrian stepped into the office, his voice tight with panic.Adrian stood at the center of the main control room, hands tucked ne
That evening, the next attack came—brief, precise, and gone before his team could even register the breach.Adrian had barely sat down at his desk when his personal computer froze. The cursor stopped mid-blink. The screen dimmed, then brightened again, as though someone had reached through the syst
“I intend to visit my family today,” Evelyn said softly, watching his expression carefully. Adrian, who had just lifted his cup of coffee, paused midair. His eyes flickered toward her—cold, unreadable—as if deciding how much her words should matter to him. Then, without a word, he set the cup dow







