'No, this has to be reported!'
Without another moment's hesitation, he pulled up an encrypted communication channel. He bundled everything that had just occurred—the erased trace of the intrusion and the alert log he'd captured for the keyword "Yan Shu"—and sent it off.
He was just a "watchdog," responsible for maintaining order in this data sector. Handling an anomaly of this magnitude was beyond his authority and capabilities.
...
In a minimalist—one might even say empty—office at the Alliance Network Security Command Center.
Unlike the chaotic cyberpunk style of the outside world, here there was only a pure white floating workstation and a figure sitting behind it.
It was a woman.
