A soft chime echoed through the silent lab. The automatic doors slid open with a pneumatic hiss.
Aris kept his eyes locked on the X-ray on his screen. The glowing core in the center of the subject's chest seemed to pulse in perfect sync with the heavy footsteps approaching his chair. He realized too late that the v0.4.2.2.0 update hadn't just revealed the truth to him—it had awakened the subject. A soft chime echoed through the silent lab
The fluorescent lights of Sector 4 hummed with a low, agonizing frequency as Dr. Aris Thorne pulled up file DD 4.1.2 on his terminal. The system version, v0.4.2.2.0, flickered on the edge of the screen like a warning. A soft chime echoed through the silent lab