Inside the command center, the air seemed to have been vacuumed.Alia Roland's fingers left afterimages on the holographic keyboard, her breathing rapid and almost spasmodic. Sweat soaked the stray hairs on her forehead, clinging to her skin, yet she seemed oblivious. Her pupils were pinpoints from extreme focus, fixed on the ever-evolving, writhing torrent of data."Countdown: 9 minutes 58 seconds!" Her voice trembled with tears, the breakdown of a genius facing the incomprehensible. "No! Jack! I can't penetrate it! This 'Lullaby' network… it's not an electronic signal! It has no routers, no nodes, it's like… it's like a web woven from bioelectric waves!"She jerked her head up, her eyes bloodshot, a fear from the depths of her soul: "It's encrypting with the principles of quantum entanglement! I touch it, it changes! I can't even touch its edge!"Jack Sterling didn't look at her.He stood before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window,
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