I waited for death.However, the pain and fire I expected never came.Instead, there was a thunderous boom.Boom!The entire base plunged into total darkness.The ground beneath my feet shook violently. A blast wave threw me to the floor, and my ruined right hand slammed into the wall. Pain exploded behind my eyes, turning everything black for a moment.A few seconds later, the emergency lights snapped on.From the direction of the server room, thick smoke poured out.Gilbert lay stiff on the ground, his body charred black, faint arcs of electricity still dancing across him. He was unconscious.The core server, the result of decades of national effort, was now nothing more than a heap of smoking scrap metal.It had been completely destroyed.Carl's face under the emergency lights was so dark that it could kill. He stared at the wreckage, every word forced out through clenched teeth."The data, decades of national work… All gone."The air froze. It was dead silent.Everyon
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