The evening skyline blurred through the reinforced glass windows of Apex Holdings' sub-level operations center. Down here, beneath the layers of polished prestige and curated calm, was the unfiltered core—screens lit with predictive analytics, behavior tracking feeds, and emergent threat mappings. Lin Feng stood with arms crossed behind his back, watching the visualization of cross-network tensions pulsing like veins on a vast map.
Red. Yellow. Blue.
Each color indicated a different level of uncertainty. The red clusters had grown.
"Cluster Delta-11—Changping node. Another spike in outbound dissent signals," muttered Lu Ming, Apex's chief of behavioral telemetry.
Lin's eyes didn't waver. "Cross-reference it with Zhao Yinuo's sector reports and Jiang Mei's audit overlays."
Lu Ming hesitated. "That'll overlap with three tiers of internal clearance. You want to breach the silos?"
