Crime Investigation Bureau
Elysium Central Building
25F
After parting with Moineau on the rooftop, Teddy returns to her office.
She faces the broken parts on her desk: visual modules from the rioting machines.
Her custom programs strain, running multiple decryption methods at once to restore the video files.
She needs to know what happened in that alley.
The image of Moineau wielding her light blade flickers through Teddy's mind, constantly teasing her thoughts like a fish that nibbles bait without taking the hook.
Why am I seeing this? Did her virus program create a temporary link between our visual receptors?
If she did this, what's her endgame...?
Suddenly, she remembers her own words to Moineau from earlier.
There are too many loose ends. It feels like we're missing a layer, something deeper we haven't even scratched.
Something deeper...
Teddy inserts the storage chip retrieved from Christina's warehouse, projecting a series of blue data interfaces across the room, just like the night before last.
Let's see what you've got.
Her fingers dance across the keyboard, lines of code materializing in rapid succession.
Show me what you're hiding.
Yet the expected battle never comes.
Her seven prepared decryption methods prove useless. The system's security dissolves at her touch, parting like a curtain to grant immediate access.
The core data yields without a fight, as readily as her own personal files.
This is...
Below the surface lies a labyrinth of heavy encryption.
Data that requires a secret key to unlock...
