At two in the morning, Isabella Clark woke up and couldn't fall back asleep. "Ah, without the Phoenix System, it feels so lonely. I'm not used to this kind of silence," she muttered softly, staring at the ceiling of her apartment in The Imperial Residences Complex. The cold air from the air conditioner made her skin shiver, but her mind was too noisy to fall back asleep.
Remembering the message Alesio Xander had sent her earlier that afternoon, Isabella immediately got up, grabbed the laptop on her desk, and turned it on. Her slender fingers began to dance quickly across the keyboard, while her eyes focused on the rows of numbers and codes that appeared one after another. She was trying to penetrate the dark web's security system.
"As I thought, these codes aren't random... they're ciphers. They're the identities of their members. They use quite complex, layered encryption," she muttered as she continued typing rapidly.
