Blood on the Asphalt biker
I ripped my interface cables from my rig, but my hands were shaking so badly from the heat I dropped them.
"Focus, Mia," I gritted my teeth, falling to my knees and snatching the cables from the grate.
I jammed the jacks into the terminal.
The Origin-Code in my blood screamed as I connected directly to the beating heart of the Genesis Protocol. The Founder architecture was ancient, heavily encrypted, and fiercely aggressive. It immediately launched a localized counter-hack, trying to burn out my data-deck and fry my cerebral cortex.
< WARNING: NEURAL FEEDBACK IMMINENT. SYSTEM PURGE INITIATED. >