“Well, well, well. What do we have here?” Beck muttered, his brows raising almost to his hairline as he took in the multiple blinking warning lights on his monitors.

He reached his desk and tapped the space bar on his main terminal, and immediately, the red warning banners from the night before flooded the monitors, reflecting in the glass of his spectacles.

ALERT: SYSTEM PERSISTENCE DETECTED. SECONDARY BREACH ATTEMPTS IN PROGRESS…

STATUS: THREAT NEUTRALIZED… FIREWALL ...