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He could see through my excuse, but he didn't stop me. "It’s easy. Use the pulse-masks I taught you. Big firms like Steele Industries have 'Sentinels'—programmers who guard the gates. If they catch your scent, they’ll trace your IP. Use the 'Sittle Island' firewall I built for you. They won’t find a trace." "Thanks, Miles." "Save it. Ping me if you get trapped."

After seven minutes I made it to the stream and begin looking around. After a while I finally found an area that shows signs of someone being there. There was a small trace of blood on the ground. My body tenses knowing she’s hurt as I look around for more clues. I found a set of foot prints that lead back into the woods. I follow them but they turned around leading back towards the stream. She must have taken off the tracer and attached it to something. Then perhaps tossed it into the stream causing it to float down stream. That’s my guess anyway. As long as the tracer is locked around an object it will activate no matter if it’s living or not.

He leaned in further, scanning through the layers. Tracing the origin. Nothing. No external breach. No internal error. It resolved itself before he could dig deeper. Gone. Elliot frowned slightly. That shouldn’t happen. Systems like this didn’t correct themselves without leaving something behind. A trace. A footprint. A whisper of where it came from. This left nothing. His fingers hovered over the keys again. Then moved. Deeper this time. The system responded smoothly, opening pathways, granting access without resistance. Of course it did.

Any open move would draw attention to Talon’s presence here. The hours stretched thin. Each update trimmed the chaos slightly, but not enough. Roe’s voice broke the silence again. “Trace confirms outbound ping. He’s moving data to a secure relay.” Damon replied, “Then we mirror his movement. Track and clone every outgoing file.” I opened a fresh dashboard and saw the data streams duplicate perfectly. “We’ve got everything,” I said. “Full capture.” Damon glanced up, eyes sharp. “Good. Keep it running until he cuts the connection.”

A call came in. I checked the screen with no particular interest and picked up when I saw it was Jeff. "Talk," I said. "I've been digging further into the routing chain on that email." He didn't bother with preamble, which was one of the things that made him useful. "I told you before that the sender was untraceable through the standard channels. That's still true. But I kept pulling at the geographic ghost data — the residual timing signatures left in the relay nodes — and I was able to narrow it down."

The interface locked up tight. ​Slowly, the green terminal text dissolved. The code didn't clear it melted, the green letters bleeding downward into distorted vertical lines like rain sliding down a windowpane, until the entire screen went stark, blinding white. ​A single, red text window opened in the very center of the white canvas. ​It didn't contain an error code. It didn't say Connection Timed Out. ​PROXY TRACE REVERSED. INBOUND TARGET IDENTIFIED: OSTROWSKA_W ​My blood ran instantly cold, an ice-sharp spike of panic stabbing straight through my chest.

Dan clears his throat, pulls his t-shirt collar from his neck, as if it’s choking him, and starts sweating as if we are sitting in the Mohave. “There is a way to trace using the number… but it has to be with the help of the carrier. I don’t think we will get that. I shouldn’t have said anything to give you false hope.” I nod and start pacing behind my desk. “What’s the number?” “Here just take my phone.” I tell him, then continue my pacing rubbing my face with my hands. “Uhhh, Alpha…” I look up at him. “What?” “It’s an unknown number. I can’t trace anything without a number.”

My thumbs hovered over my phone before I finally caved, sending a message. Me: Hi. I need to trace an unknown number. It's Urgent. I waited about five minutes before I got a response. TraceRunner: Who gave you this contact? Me: I saw it on a forum. Someone said you do this type of thing. Can you help? TraceRunner: Yes but the price varies. I rolled my eyes mentally. Of course, he wanted to haggle. Me: Whatever it is, I'll pay. Can you do it or not?

Once that happened, suspicion would skyrocket. Cyrus showed no reaction. He lowered his head and continued drinking his soup. Zoey noticed the change in mood and hurried to explain. "I didn't mean it like that. And honestly, there probably aren't many people left in Volaris anyway. Even fewer understand IP tracing. So your approach is still really effective." Cyrus took another sip, then casually picked up the lid and gnawed at the chicken beneath it. He chewed and spoke evenly. "Unless the world fully reverts to a primitive society and we live like cavemen, it's impossible to erase your trail completely.

"Can you track her?" Nick immediately nodded and took his cellphone. He had put a tracker in her cellphone so he could easily track her. He showed it to him and he pulled in another way. They trace a quicker way to catch them. "Aren't you going to inform them?" Nick asked him. "Who?" he asked and he aggressively drove. "Fasten your seatbelt," he spoke and their speed was multiplied into tenth. "The police officers," he answered and he seemed didn't notice the speed, he was only looking at the road.