**00:10**The alarms screamed a chaotic, deafening symphony of impending doom. Crimson emergency lights bathed the subterranean control room in a thick, rhythmic, bloody glow, painting the concrete walls with a terrifying urgency.Lorrie stared at the fractured glass of the central display, her breath completely caught in her throat. "No... please, no. There has to be another way to force the system down. There has to be a physical override loop!"Matteo was already moving like a man possessed, his tactical knife slicing away the fiberglass trim beneath the pedestal as he searched every hidden panel, every fiber-optic wire, and every reinforced silicon compartment. "There isn't, Lorrie," he ground out, his voice thick with a raw, unfamiliar emotion.The words tasted like absolute, unadulterated defeat.Seventy floors above them, back in the ruined executive suite...Lorenzo’s hand clamped down around Amelia’s wrist like a pneumatic vice, catching her at the exact microsecond the shatt
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