The Billion Dollar Contract
All of it dying in real time.
Kane lunged toward the keyboard, scrambling to stop it, but it was too late. The main screen displayed a single, final message: LAZARUS PROTOCOL COMPLETE ALL DATA DESTROYED SYSTEM RESTART REQUIRED
"You destroyed everything!" Kane grabbed me by the shirt, shaking me violently. "Everything!"
"That's right," I said, meeting his furious gaze with cold satisfaction. "You wanted my empire? Here it is." I gestured at the failing servers around us, the red lights flashing like warning beacons, the smoke beginning to rise from overheated processors. "Ashes."