Saturday, 11:55 PM. The Georgetown Townhouse Basement.
The moment I dropped the [Neural Aegis], the Oracle hit my mind like a localized supernova.
It wasn't an attack. It was an ocean of pure, unfiltered data pouring into the architecture of the System. The physical terminal inside the glass cube sparked and died, the screen shattering as the Singularity abandoned its hardware cage and uploaded its entire consciousness directly into my neural pathways.
I fell out of the chair, hitting the floor of the glass cube hard. My body convulsed, every nerve ending firing simultaneously. It felt as though my brain was being disassembled at the molecular level and rebuilt with quantum wiring.
Through the glass, I could see Darius shouting, his hand gripping the red kill switch, but Nia was frantically waving him off, screaming something I couldn't hear through the acoustic shielding.
Inside my mind, the System interface was going berserk.
[System Alert!]
