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Chapter 13 - Chapter 13 – The Phone That Should Never Be Touched

She hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Sir… we cannot hack their phones."

The superior nodded impatiently.

"That much is already clear."

The young officer took a breath.

"But…"

The superior's eyes narrowed slightly.

"But what?"

She pointed toward the large screen showing the waiting room.

"Suriya's phone is lying on the sofa beside her."

Several officers immediately looked at the screen again.

The phone was clearly visible next to her.

The officer continued.

"If we cannot hack the devices remotely…"

"…perhaps we can physically examine one."

The superior stared at the screen for several seconds.

The room remained silent while he thought.

Finally he spoke.

"Take it."

The officer nodded quickly.

"Yes, sir."

Inside the waiting room, the door quietly opened.

Another officer stepped inside.

The ten young men were still sleeping peacefully across the sofas.

Their breathing was slow and steady.

Suriya remained seated in meditation,

completely still.

The officer moved slowly toward the sofa where her phone rested.

The young officer who had suggested the idea stood near the doorway, watching carefully.

Within a few seconds, the officer picked up the phone.

Suriya did not move.

Her breathing remained calm.

Her posture did not change.

The officer quickly walked out of the room.

The door closed again.

Inside the twins control room, Baby's voice spoke immediately.

"See?"

"I told you earlier."

Long Jinmei leaned slightly forward.

"Who is the unlucky one?"

Jinhai watched the screen quietly.

The officer who had taken the phone had already returned to the observation hall.

He placed the device on the cyber team's desk.

"Sir, we have the phone."

The cyber team immediately surrounded the table.

They began connecting cables.

Scanning the device.

Trying to force the system open.

But something else had already begun.

Inside the phone's security system, a silent protocol activated the moment the officer touched it.

Without anyone noticing, the system started collecting data.

The officer who had picked up the phone.

The cyber team standing around the desk.

Every nearby connected device.

Within seconds, the system quietly accessed their phones, tablets, and computers.

Private images.

Personal videos.

Confidential government files.

Hidden communications.

Everything.

The phone's security system analyzed the intrusion attempt.

When the cyber team tried forcing the device open, the system escalated its response.

Now it moved aggressively.

All the extracted data began uploading automatically.

First to the original owners' personal accounts.

Then to the public networks connected to those devices.

Inside the observation hall, several cyber officers suddenly looked down at their own screens.

One of them frowned.

"Why is my system opening files?"

Another officer looked at his phone.

"What…?"

His face suddenly turned pale.

"Why are my personal photos uploading?"

Across the room, more devices began reacting.

Screens lit up.

Files opened.

Data transferred automatically.

The cyber team quickly realized something was terribly wrong.

"Disconnect everything!"

But it was already too late.

The phone's defense system had already completed its response.

Across dozens of devices in the room, private information was already spreading beyond their control.

Inside the twins control room, Baby calmly announced the result.

"The defense system has activated."

Long Jinmei shook her head slowly.

"They should have listened."

Jinhai looked at the screens showing the chaos beginning inside the government hall.

And quietly said,

"They just triggered the wrong phone."

Inside the government observation hall,

confusion turned into panic within seconds.

Multiple screens suddenly lit up.

Files began opening automatically.

Personal folders.

Private media.

Encrypted government documents.

Several officers grabbed their devices in shock.

"What is happening?"

"My system is uploading files!"

"Who triggered this?"

One cyber officer hurriedly tried disconnecting the cable attached to Suriya's phone.

But it was already too late.

The phone's security system had entered aggressive defense mode.

The moment the forced access attempt was detected, the system expanded its response.

It no longer focused only on the cyber team.

It began scanning the entire internal network connected inside the building.

Every device.

Every terminal.

Every logged account.

Everything.

Hidden records.

Personal communications.

Old confidential documents.

Even files related to questionable internal dealings by some government officials.

All of it began appearing across multiple screens.

Several officers stared in horror as files they had believed buried forever suddenly opened on their monitors.

"Stop this!"

"Disconnect the network!"

"Shut everything down!"

The room filled with overlapping voices.

But the system continued its work silently.

Data kept spreading.

New files kept uploading.

One cyber officer suddenly shouted.

"We need to put the phone back!"

Everyone turned toward him.

"If the trigger device returns to its original location, the system may deactivate!"

Without wasting another second, the officer who had taken the phone grabbed it from the table and rushed toward the waiting room.

The door opened.

Inside the room, nothing had changed.

The ten young men were still asleep on the sofas.

Suriya remained sitting peacefully in meditation.

The officer carefully placed the phone back on the sofa beside her.

Then he hurried out again.

Back in the observation hall, chaos was still unfolding.

Some officers had already started shutting down local systems.

Others were desperately trying to disconnect external networks.

Finally, a senior official made a drastic decision.

"Cut the internet."

The command spread immediately.

Within minutes, the entire country's public network connection was temporarily shut down.

Data transfer stopped.

Screens froze.

Uploads paused.

The observation hall finally became quiet again.

But the silence was heavy.

Because everyone knew something terrible had just happened.

Far away inside the twins control room,

Baby's calm voice spoke again.

"Once her phone's system activates…"

"…it cannot be stopped."

Long Jinhai and Long Jinmei watched the frozen screens quietly.

Baby continued explaining.

"The system has already created multiple data clones."

Jinmei narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Meaning?"

"When the internet connection returns," Baby said calmly,

"the system will resume uploading automatically."

Jinhai leaned back slowly.

"From the clones."

"Yes."

"Even if the original phone is no longer touched."

The massive screens showed the government building now running in emergency mode.

Officers rushing.

Cyber teams trying to isolate systems.

Meanwhile, inside the waiting room, the scene remained strangely peaceful.

Ten young men sleeping comfortably.

One young woman meditating quietly.

None of them had moved.

None of them even knew the storm that had just begun.

Baby's final statement echoed softly in the control room.

"The process has already begun."

"When the network returns…"

"…the uploads will continue."

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